SEctionals 2025

• Discover practical techniques to boost student participation and create an engaging learning environment. This session will explore evidence-based strategies to peak curiosity, collaboration, and critical thinking within the classroom. In this session, you’ll gain actionable tools to capture attention, encourage meaningful interaction, and sustain motivation throughout your lessons. The goal is for every student to feel inspired to engage and succeed.

• Do you find it challenging to select the right technology tools to enhance your math teaching? Do you wish for additional support in your classroom that understands the content you teach? In this session, you will explore the various online tools I use daily in my classroom. You will not only learn about them but also have the opportunity to try them out. Additionally, you will discover basic techniques for using AI to assist your students in reviewing and practicing various math concepts.

• Discover The Vine, a “Mommy & Me” style program designed to connect young families to God’s Word from the earliest stages of life. Rooted in the image of “climbing the vine” from cradle to grave, this sectional will walk through how the program works, what it takes to get started, and the costs involved. Attendees will also explore flexible variations that allow the program to fit congregations of different sizes and settings, making it an adaptable ministry resource for any church community.

• Standards-based learning. This is a trend in education, but not all standards lend themselves to showing what students have learned. This sectional will give some ideas about how to find standards that are skill-based instead of curriculum-based and show how to fit it into what you are already teaching to measure what students are learning—and hold yourself accountable.

• Let's get together & talk Early Childhood! We'll catch our breath, celebrate successes, discuss challenges, and learn from each other. And since we're talking EC, we'll more than likely share some laughs, too! The facilitator looks forward to meeting you all and learning how to best support you. She will give an early childhood update from across the synod, look to learn more about what early childhood ministry means in the Nebraska District, and share available resources. Come join the conversation! Be encouraged and help encourage!

• The goal of this "round table" sectional will be to allow athletic directors to support each other in their work by sharing useful resources, leaning on each other with questions and challenging situations, and offering helpful experience, wisdom, and advice. The facilitator will reach out to participants ahead of time to gather ideas and bring some structure to the conversation at conference.

• Introducing an "activity" model that utilizes evidence-based argumentation in order to form explanations of phenomena, laws, theories, etc. in order to answer a bigger question. Discussion of its role, differences from other classroom activities, its process, examples, and the possibilities of use in topics outside of math and science.

PRESENTATION

Through hands-on examples and videos you will be able to participate in activities associated with a motor lab.  In this sectional you will learn the goals of having your students participate in a motor lab on a consistent basis.  Some of the goals include: 

• Improve a child's ability to maneuver and function in their environment leading them to better performances in school tasks (handwriting, sitting still, paying attention, speaking and behavior)

• Stimulate the child's sensory systems

• Ability to better control themselves and accomplish tasks by making children aware of their environment and learning about the sensations of his/her own movement

• Create a base for the skill building of physical education

• Build a structure for the acquisition of academic skills

Gyms are handy to have at your school in order to conduct a motor lab, but NOT a necessity.  Modifications can be made in smaller areas and possibly even your classroom.

These guys live in a city of about 1.5 million people, and almost half of those people are Mormon. The Lutheran Church and School they serve is about 100 feet away from a Mormon church, and there are 13 more Mormon churches within 3 miles. This presentation is a behind-the-scenes look at how principal and pastors work closely together to live out a harvest strategy in the mission field of Salt Lake City, Utah. The importance of a relational ministry will resonate with school leaders regardless of their setting.