Handouts & Resources 2025

 

This site has been created for Confratute presenters to share handouts, presentations, and recommended resources with participants. Please note that handouts are posted with the permissions of the presenter. Not all handouts are available for download. If you are a Confratute presenter and wish to have materials posted here, email your files to confratute@uconn.edu .

Please note that starting 2024 all documents posted on UConn websites must be disability accessible. All handouts listed below that are not linked, have not met the “Accessibility at UConn” requirements. These files will instead be emailed to interested individuals upon request. Please email us the requested handout name and we will send it to you.

Strand Handouts
Keynote Handouts
Evening Forums & Mini-Keynote Handouts
Special Topics Handouts


Strand Handouts

No.
Strand/Presenter
Handouts
1B
Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM)—Middle/High
Carla Brigandi
•  Presentation Day 1
•  Making Enrichment Work Day 1
•  Presentation Day 2
•  Making Enrichment Work Day 2
1C
Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM)—Implementing the SEM for Administrators, Coordinators, and School Leaders
Cheryl Quatrano & Melinda Spataro
•  Confratute Contact Form
•  Curriculum Compactor Plan
•  Implementing SEM for Administrators, Coordinators and School Leaders: Day 1—Activity Worksheet
•  Implementing SEM for Administrators, Coordinators and School Leaders: Day 2—Total Talent Portfolio (TTP) Activity Worksheet
•  School SEM Implementation Plan
•  SEM Implementation Survey
•  Traditional School/Classroom vs. SEM School/Classroom
•  TTP Planning Template
•  TTP Share Reflection
4
Co-teaching Strategies to Enhance Differentiation & Engagement
Rebecca Eckert
Handout
7
Igniting, Delighting, and Cultivating Literacy Love Through Expository and Diverse Texts
Susannah Richards
Handout
12
Engaging Students in Enjoyable Reading with SEM-R
Rebecca Eckert
Handout
16
Moving Students Toward Deeper Thinking: Instructional Strategies for Promoting Inquiry and Critical Thinking
Jann Leppien
Handouts
18
Using AI and Other Technology in the Classroom
Susan Solomon
Please email us for copy of this handout.
21
Adventures in Science and Math
Glenn Dewell
•   Adventure in Math and Science
•  Dog Show Genetics
•  Weather or Not
 
 
 

 


Keynote Handouts

Date
Strand/Presenter
Handouts
July 15
Ignite the Light: Cultivate Lifelong Literacy
Susannah Richards
Handout
July 16
Sifting Through the Essentials of Gifted Education for Talent Cultivation: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
Del Siegle
Handout
 
 
 

 


Evening Forums & Mini-Keynote Handouts

Date
Strand/Presenter
Handouts
July 14
Empowering Strategic Thinkers: Problem-Solving Selection in 5th Grade STEAM
Katherine Rottjakob
Handout
July 15
Nurturing the Whole Gifted Child: Strategies for Developing Psychosocial Skills
Katherine Rottjakob
Handout
July 17
Infusing SEM and SEL Into the Entire School Community
Cheryl Quatrano & Melinda Spataro
SEM and SEL Worksheet
July 17
Putting Students in the Driver’s Seat: Strategies for Individual or Group Investigations
Jann Leppien
Handouts
 
 
 

 


Special Topics Handouts

Date
Strand/Presenter
Handouts
July 14
Feel Your Best Self: Bringing Joyful Exploration to Learning Emotion Coping Strategies
Sandy Chafouleas
•  Presentation
•  Handout
July 14
Improving Students’ Social- Emotional Development Through Creative Drawing
Mei Zheng
Handout
July 15
SEM Around the World: Italy
Lara Milan
Please email us for copy of this handout.
July 16
SEM Around the World
Silvia Greiten
Handout
July 16
Student StoryTELLing
Gail Herman
•  Laban’s Movement Energy Effort Actions
•  Gail N. Herman’s Storytelling Journey
•  SYLVESTER AND THE GRUMPS: How to Dump the Grumps
July 16
Books to Ignite, Delight, and Cultivate Lifelong Reading
Susannah Richards
Handout