2010 Speakers

 

Key Note Speaker

 

STEPHEN GUFFANTI, MD

 As a medical doctor, teacher, tutor, author, and homeschooler, Dr. Guffanti brings a unique background and tremendous insight to his talks. He is also loved by his audiences for his warmth and sincerity. Born with a passion for education, Dr. Guffanti, dyslexic and a kinesthetic learner, has focused on creating education that meets the needs of all children. Dr. Guffanti has served as the medical director of a clinic specializing in learning disorders, where he discovered 70% of those children labeled ADD or ADHD were misdiagnosed. As a physician, he has treated in emergency rooms children who join gangs after failing in the education system.

 
Dr. Guffanti is the author of the Rocket Phonics reading program (www.rocketphonics.com) and the book Is it Really ADHD? This is the book about which parents say, "This saved our family." Rocket Phonics is a reading program so unique it has a patent pending. Rocket Phonics uses the strongest phonics system available in a revolutionary way, with revolutionary results: In a recent study of home school families using Rocket Phonics for three months, students using Rocket Phonics improved their reading skills by an average of 8.9 months.

Topics:

The Purpose of Passion

10:00 am - Main Hall

See your child blossom -- create an environment that supports your child's passion. Home schooling offers the unique opportunity to do just this, an opportunity that seldom exists in a classroom environment. Laugh as you learn how to work with your child's passion while avoiding the most common mistakes. You'll be inspired!

ADHD vs. Kinesthetic Learner: Which is it?

1:00 pm - Main Hall

Know someone who moves too much or doesn't seem to pay attention? This is the workshop for you. Dr. Guffanti will bring you into the heart and mind of the ADHD child. Learning styles filter the details people see and their interaction with others. You will experience the world as a kinesthetic learner does, discover how IQ and other tests don't effectively test kinesthetic learners, and why they are often misdiagnosed. You will experience both laughter and tears, but most of all, you will develop a deep understanding. Understand your child -- and possibly your spouse -- better!

 

 

Workshops

Workshops are smaller groups, up to 100, that focus in on specific topics or products. This is a great time to get some hands on time with authors and publishers.

 
Classical Conversations

9:00 am-10:00am - room C210/212

Classical Conversations, an education service company, that supports home schooling families, invites you to learn more about how Laura Ingalls Wilder and other one-room schoolhouse teachers used the classical method of learning to teach children of all different ages from the same material at the same time. We have three flagship programs: our Foundations Program for K-6th grade which focuses on the grammar stage method of learning; the Essentials Program, which is a language arts program geared towards 3rd through 6th graders who are moving into the dialectic stage; and our Challenge level programs, which are Christian classical, college-prep programs, for junior and high school aged children utilizing dialectic and rhetorical skills.
Gail Brubaker with Applied Grammar

11:00 am - 12:00pm - room C211

 Discover a new way to teach grammar. Developed by a 15-year veteran teacher, Mrs. Brubaker's Writing Program teaches students through categorization and problem-solving, not memorization.

* Students learn language patterns through the use of color (color-blind sensitive).
* Students learn the uses of different word types.
* Students utilize high-order thinking skills.
* Assessment of progress is easy.
* Gets students excited about learning English!
 
David Shormann, Ph.D with DIVE

12:00 pm - 1:00pm - room C210/212

Shaking the Foundation of Evolutionism. The Tree of Life. Molecular clocks. Uniformitarianism. Transitional forms. Genetic mutations. Natural Selection. All are pillars of the theory of evolution. However, with the help of current research, a little artwork, 8th grade math, common sense and the Holy Bible, Dr. Shormann will show you the speculative nature and flawed logic behind these foundational concepts

Kay Emerson with Zillio

2:00pm - 3:30pm - room C210/212

Zillio Math Games for Fun, Skill Development and Assessment

Learn how to use Zillio Games to energize, challenge, and delight children ages 4 - 12 all the while strengthening their computational, problem solving, reasoning and critical thinking skills necessary to prepare for success in math. In this hands on session using 3D Mountains and 2D Playgrounds, we play 4-5 games focusing on multiplication, division, factoring, and problem solving skills.