Booth #1

FACTS Management Exhibit

Jim Owens

FACTS Management

FACTS Management serves over 2,700 schools nationwide offering low cost automated payment plans for families, as well as state of the art information technology. Instafacts on-line reporting, electronic re-enrollment, MyFACTSAccount, and tuition insurance are many of the value added services offered by FACTS.

Booth #2

William H. Sadlier Company Exhibit

Ben Creed

William H. Sadlier, Inc.

William H. Sadlier, Inc. publishes Language Arts and Mathematics programs and resources for private and public schools.

Booth #3

Internet Projects As An Application of Curriculum and Standards

Patricia Martin

Cary Academy

Examples of web-based projects as a resource to enhance curriculum, promote critical thinking, and reinforce the NCTM standards will be shown to teachers.

Booth #4

The Old College Try: The Current State of Athletic and College Admissions

William Pruden

Ravenscroft School

Building upon two previous NCAIS workshops on counseling prospective collegiate student athletes, this booth will share the latest information of interest to coaches, counselors, and teachers including NCAA rule changes, school policy revisions, etc, on the ever changing world of athletics and college admissions.

Booth #5

Software Express Exhibit

Candace Finch

Software Express

Software Express for all of your software needs. Over 10,000 titles all academically priced. Volume discounts and site licenses to save your school money!

Booth #6

The Earth in 3-D

Andrew Gatt

Ravenscroft School

Earth Science students are often asked to understand landforms, which they have never seen in person. Three-dimensional images can help them to visualize these features.

Booth #7

Reading Promotion with the Battle of the Books

Betty Stone

Providence Day School

Battle of the Books is a statewide program promoting reading through competition between schools. The speakers, mostly librarians, have experience as coaches. The list of 27 titles for 2002-2003 will be available as we share activities we have used to prepare our teams and promote reading throughout the middle school.

Booth #8

Fiction as History? Using Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle in the US History Classroom

Michael Weiss

Charlotte Latin School

This workshop will present ideas for using Upton Sinclair's famous 1906 novel about immigrant workers in meatpacking plants as the basis for teaching about the Progressive Era in United States history. The workshop will present ideas for a writing and primary-source based research project designed to assess the validity of Sinclair's indictment of American capitalism and democracy.

Booth #9

Modeling Physics: Let Nature Be Your Classroom

Matt Greene

Cary Academy

With modeling physics, students learn to construct and apply models of the physical world from their own experimental results. This approach integrates over 30 years of research in physics education with discovery and discourse in the computerized laboratory to replace instruction by lecture, example problem, and textbook.

Booth #10

A Set of “Online Textbooks” Created at Cary Academy for the French Curriculum

Fabienne Gerard

Cary Academy

In this session we will be sharing our experience in developing collaboratively a set of online textbooks for the French curriculum as well as the integration of this material into the classroom.

Booth #11

Fun and Games: Just Don’t Tell them It’s Educational

Debra Wilhoit

Providence Day School

Using games you can evaluate comprehension, knowledge of content, order of events, etc. This workshop will examine the use of games in all types of classrooms, how to make them and reusing games boards for a variety of topics. Come grab a game and let's play!

Booth #12

Fischer Science Education Exhibit

Fred Beyer

Fischer Science Education

Fisher Science Education offers a complete line of science equipment and supplies. Our North Carolina state contract provides catalog discounts and free shipping for all North Carolina schools.

Booth #13

The Hill Center

Jane Brasier

The Hill Center

The mission of The Hill Center is to provide specialized multi-sensory instruction in a caring environment, enabling students with learning disabilities or attention deficit disorder to achieve their full potential. As a comprehensive resource center, we also support families, offer professional development opportunities, collaborate in clinical research and promote community outreach in order to help students become successful independent learners.

Booth #14

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards: What is it All About?

Denise Colpitts

Ravenscroft School

Information about the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards process will be shared. Learn what you can do as a pre-candidate or candidate to help make the process easier.

Booth #15

4Front Systems Exhibit

Shannon Mills

4Front Systems

4Front Systems: computer systems integration specializing in IP Telephony, security, content filtering and more.

Booth #16

The Summer Technology Institute at Cary Academy

Gray Rushin

Cary Academy

We have designed summer courses that provide classroom teachers with instruction in the use of computer technologies. We offer a small classroom setting with an experienced classroom teacher as your guide. This will be our fifth summer and we have served over four hundred teachers, staff, and administrators.

Booth #17

Camcor Inc. Camera Corner Exhibit

Hugh Cashion

Camcor Inc.

Camcor, Inc. is a supplier of audio-visual and photographic products. Data/video projectors, digital cameras, boom boxes, A/V lamps, overhead projectors, and video products are all types of products we provide. Camcor Inc./Camera Corner has provided quality products and customer service since 1949.

Booth #18

Southern Coach Company/ Coach USA Exhibit

Louis Wade, Jr.

Southern Coach Company

Charter and tour motor coaches. Visit our location - learn the difference. In business since 1942.

Booth #19

NCwin: Online Training for Technology Credits

Jim Hanlin

TE21, Inc.

In North Carolina, more than 3000 educators are earning technology credits needed for license renewal using the North Carolina web instruction network (NCwin). TE21 will demonstrate NCwin courses and Learning Management System and discuss how NCAIS members can use NCwin to enhance teaching and learning in NC independent schools.

Booth #20

Visual Surveys for Editing and Revising

Maria Klein

Charlotte Latin School

The visual survey teaches students to break their paragraphs down into a list of sentences and then to search for specific areas of style, usage, or grammar. By recognizing their own habits of expression and patterns of errors, students improve their editing skills and learn to anticipate their own writing needs.

Booth #21

Brain Sparks Ignite PowerPoint Presentations

Thomas Mueller

Saint Mary’s High School

Constructivist philosophy and brain research applied to project work in the classroom. Students produce formal written reports on Word, and then highlight main ideas of their report in PowerPoint presentation. Each component assesses separate aspects of the student work in the format of a single long-term project with weekly checkpoints.

Booth #22a

Teaching For Change

Juliet Jensen

Duke School for Children

Teaching for Change provides media resources for educators who seek to transform schools. Going beyond the traditional “heroes and holidays” approach, these resources help educators integrate the experiences of peoples who have been often left on the margins of the curriculum.

Booth #22b

The Scrap Exchange

Faye Miller

The Scrap Exchange

The Scrap Exchange is a creative re-use center offering workshops and a supply store where educators can get materials, develop art activities, and facilitate curriculum connections for all students.

Booth #23

Hey Sunshine, What’s Your Sine?

Diane DePriest

Cannon School

Fairbanks, Alaska: June 21, twenty-one hours of daylight. December 21, four hours. The amount of sunshine different cities receive over the year can be modeled with a sine curve. We'll see how geography influences the amplitude of the curve, and then we'll combine curves of various cities to learn basic astronomical principles.

Booth #24

ERB Testing

Susan Norwood

ERB Testing

This workshop is designed to help schools turn educational data into instructional information. Participants will improve their skills for understanding, interpreting and making use of CTP test results. ERB member schools and other interested schools are encouraged to send teachers, advisors, counselors, directors of testing, directors of curriculum, division heads, school heads.

Booth #25

A Humanities Approach to Colonial America

Sally Humble

SAS inSchools

English and Social Studies specialists from SAS in School present a thematic unit, "Truth and Diction About Colonial America, " that integrates their academic disciplines, technology, writing, and higher order thinking skills. Through primary source documents, multimedia, and the internet, participants do hands-on exploration of the early settlements, the Salem witch trials, colonial minorities, and the Revolutionary War.

Booth #26

Lessons, Web Inquiries, Internet Resources, and Web-Based Tools for Mathematics

Cheryl Keeton

SAS in Schools

Integrate math concepts and technology through lessons and hands-on-activities that includes demonstrations, practice, and assessment. Extensions and enrichments include applets, web links, and connections to standards. Algebra, Geometry, and Statistics topics are included. Handouts will have you ready for Monday morning.

Booth #27

Trouble in the Valley: Teaching Tolerance Through Simulation

Lyn Fairchild

Cary Academy

Welcome to Ada Valley, where three diverse cultural groups struggle to “get along.” Become a citizen who argues, mediates, empathizes, challenges and reflects. Learn how to integrate this rewarding simulation within your humanities curriculum so that you can teach the skills needed for navigating an increasingly complex society.

Booth #28

The FutureWorks Program

Jason Franklin

Cary Academy

Our mission is to train high school students who have limited technology resources with the appropriate skills to flourish in a technology driven environment. Participants are provided with technical training in web page design, and networking during Saturday sessions for one school year, and placed into an internship position based in the Research Triangle Park Area.

Booth #29

Pathways: Saint Mary’s Senior Project Program

Vickie Posey

Saint Mary’s High School

Saint Mary's created the Pathways in order to give seniors the opportunity to work on an intensive project of their own choosing focusing on one or a combination of four areas- academic, creative, service, and career. Since the fall of 2000, Saint Mary's seniors have earned academic credit through Pathways.

Booth #30

Carolina Biological Supply Company Exhibit

Joe Kimmel

Carolina Biological Supply Company

Science and Technology for Children, Science and Technology Concepts for Middle School, My Health, My World, and Brainlink series are published and distributed exclusively by Carolina Biological Supply Company. For 75 years, Carolina has demonstrated its commitment to excellence in science education by providing quality science supplies.

Booth #31

Southern Teachers Agency Exhibit

Robert C. Goodman

Southern Teachers Agency

Southern Teachers Agency has placed teachers in Southern Schools since 1902.

Booth #32

Science Olympiad

Lauren Brown

Cary Academy

Science Olympiad is an international competition involving all areas of science.  The competition encourages students with an interest in science to explore topics in new and different ways than traditional curriculums allow.  Last year the physics events were assigned to physics students as a project in the physics courses at Cary Academy.  The results were amazing!

Booth #33

The H.W. Wilson Company Exhibit

Daisy Gray

Sales Representative

Leading reference publisher for 104 years. Over 50 popular databases on the web and CD, and a wide range of monographs.

Booth #34

Heroes4Us

Dr. Dennis Denenberg

Conference Keynote

Meet Dr. Denenberg, co-author of 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet! Our Friday afternoon keynote speaker, Dr. Dennis Denenberg has taken his heroes message to teachers and parents in 28 states- from Alaska to Florida! His latest book has been acclaimed by numerous scholars (Dr. William Bennett, Dr. Diane Ravitch, authors Joy Hakim, Russell Freedman, and Dr. E.D. Hirsch, Jr.). The Cox News Service and IRA have endorsed the book, which starting this fall will be available to all U.S. newspapers for serialization.

Booth #35

NextBaseConnect, LLC Exhibit

Larry Duffy

CEO

Academic and administrative database for schools through a web-based, interactive technology at no-cost!