Reminder: AASE Registration Is Open

8:15 – 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast/ Pre- Conference Check-in

Pre-Conference Workshop 

9:00 – 11: 00 a.m.

Academic Support Essentials for the New Professional 

Various Presenters

Will include basic topics such as learning theory, course

design and teaching methods, as well

as an introduction to the key scholarship and literature in

our field.

11:00 — 12:00 p.m.

General Conference Check-in

12:00  – 1:00 p.m.

Lunch & Welcome by Dean Michelle Anderson

Plenary 1 

1:00 – 2:15 p.m.

Expert Learning for Law Students 2.0

Michael Hunter Schwartz & Paula Manning

2:15 – 2:30 p.m.

Transition

Breakout Session 1

2:30 –3:00 p.m.

Taking a Socratic Timeout: Approaches to Motivating Underperforming, Upper Level Students  &  Using Counseling to Help Foster a Supportive Learning Environment

Eurilynne Anise Williams

It Takes a Village:       Incorporating Doctrinal Faculty into Academic Support Programing to Meet the Needs of the

New Normal

in Law Students

Danielle Kocal

The Seven Deadly Sins of Bar Prep Behavior

Shane Dizon & Carly Sassi

Bar Exam Business Plans: Strategic Planning for Success on the Bar Exam

Sara Berman

3:00 – 3:15 p.m.

Transition

Break/ Coffee Talks

3:15 – 4:00 p.m.

Putting Highly Effective Learning Techniques to Work: Convincing Your Administration and Faculty

James McGrath

Should academically underperforming law students be encouraged—rather than prohibited—from participating in legal externships?

Kirsha Weyandt Trychta

A Discussion About the New York State Bar Skills Requirement

Kris Franklin

4:00 – 4:15 p.m.

Transition

Speed Rounds

4:15 — 5:00 p.m.

Free to Be You and Me: Helping Law Students Identify and Embrace

Their Personal

Learning Styles for Success in Law School and On the Bar Exam

Antonia Miceli

What Your Students Want You to Know About Preparing Them for the Bar Exam

Kerriann Stout

Tracking for the MBE: How to Help Students Identify

Problem Areas and Improve

Melissa A. Gill

An Exercise Illustrating Use of Facts and Themes

Phillip Kaplan

Increasing the Effectiveness of Law School Pedagogy by

Incorporating  Mandatory

Sustained Professional Development Seminars

Marla L. Dickerson

  5:00 p.m.

First Day Conference Close

5:15 p.m.

Themis Bar Review Reception

8:45  – 9:30 a.m.

Breakfast

Breakout Session #1 (Diversity)

9:30  – 10:15 a.m.

Academic Support: Barriers and Pathways to Advising

Twinette Johnson, J.D. and Goldie Pritchard, J.D., M.Ed.

Experiences of Academically Dismissed Minority Law Students: Stereotype Threat, Fight or Flight Coping Mechanism, Isolation and Feelings of Systemic Betrayal

Erin Lain

Understanding Implicit Bias

Jack Manhire

Growing National Problem—Diversity and Inclusivity at our Law Schools: What Can We Do to Help Foster a Supportive Learning Environment for ALL of Our Students?

O.J. Salinas

10:15 – 10:30 a.m.

Transition

Breakout Session #2 (Diversity)

10:30 –11:00 a.m.

Mike is Right, It’s Andragogy! — How Restorative Andragogy Can Enhance Equity and Inclusion in the Law School Classroom

Emily Scivoletto and

Tony Tolbert 

Undergraduate Academic Support’s Focus on Diversity: Learning from our Heritage

David Nadvorney

Less is More, But Doing Nothing is Worse: Including Faculty in the Diversity Dialogue

Betsy Brand Six

Discussion for Increased Diversity in the Bar Through Bar Passage Mentorship

Kandace Kukas

11:00 – 11:15 a.m.

Transition

11:15 – 11:45 a.m.

AASE Meeting: Committee Meetings/ Sign Up

Advocacy Committee                                Assessment Committee

Bar Exam Advocacy Committee              Diversity Committee

Governance Committee                            Membership Committee

Mentoring and Continuity Committee    Online Presence Committee

Programming Committee                         Scholarship and Journal Committee

Note: You may sign up for a committee during this time, by attending the meeting and notifying the current chair of your interest.

11:45 am -12:00 p.m.

Transition

Breakout Session #3

12:00 — 12:30 p.m.

Filling the Gaping Hole: Reinforcing Academic Skills in the Second Year

Reichi Lee

Improving Summer Start and ASP Orientation Programming

Natt Gantt

Gloria Whittico

Building a Foundation Together: Integrating ASP into the 1L Curriculum

Kimberly Kass & Bethany Lesniewski

Using Social Media to Motivate and Monitor Students for the

Bar Exam

Alex Schimel

Teaching Bar Exam Study Skills to the Instant Gratification Generation

Cynara Hermes McQuillan

12:30 — 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

Plenary 2 

1:45 — 2:45 p.m.

A Discussion with the National Conference of Bar Examiners

Judith Gundersen, Director of Testing

Coffee Talk/ Break 

 3:00 — 3:45 p.m.

Partnering with Bar Prep Companies: A Valuable Resource or the Outsourcing of ASP Services

Herbert N. Ramy

TREATS affect performance: Six categories of intervention for at-risk law students

Chelsea M. Baldwin

Preventing Burnout in Academic Support Professionals

Katherine M. Bender & Charlotte D. Taylor

3:45 – 4:00 p.m.

Transition

Breakout Session #4

4:00 – 4:45 p.m.

The Mindful Path to Success

Courtney Lee

A Holistic and Integrated Approach to Bar Exam Success

Rena M. Lindevaldsen, Susan Patrick & Caleb Sweazey

Real and Perceived Differences Between the MBE and Practice Questions

Laura DellAntonio & Maryann Herman

What Matters Is What You Can Measure: ABA Learning Outcomes and Academic Competencies

Rebecca Flanagan & Dawn Kelleher

5:00 p.m.

Kaplan Reception

  7:00 p.m.

Dine Around and Sight-seeing

8:45 — 9:30 a.m.

Breakfast

9:30 – 9:45 a.m.

Transition

Breakout Session#1

9:45 — 10:30 am

Academic Success and Summary Judgment: Using Client-Based Strategies to Improve Analytical Skills

Alison M. Nissen and Nancy McCrea Iannone

Formative Assessment in a Box: Partnering with Doctrinal Faculty to Teach Substance and Skills

Elizabeth Bloom and Lisa Freudenheim,

Getting the Biggest Bang for the Buck: Formative Assessment through Live-Critique Conferences

Amanda L. Smith

Breaking It Down: Practicing Issue Spotting and Rule Application on Bar Exam Essays

Allie Robbins & Florence Kerner

Plenary 3

10:45 — 11:45 a.m.

Status of the Academy Panel Discussion

Pavel Wonsowicz

11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. p.m.

Transition

Breakout Session #2

12:00 – 12:45 p.m.

Bar Exam Boot Camp: Building Success on the Bar Exam

Jamie Kleppetsch

The 1L Project

Michael Flynn

Using a Choose-Your-Own Adventure Model in Workshops & Courses

Kathleen Bolus and Karen Harkins

Flip The Classroom, Flip The Curriculum

Chuck Splawn

12:45 –1:30 p.m.

 Lunch

Breakout Session #3

1:45 –2:30 p.m.

Using Cognitive Science to Convince Students of the Importance of Outlining

Louis Schulze

Integrating Assessments into the Curriculum using Bar Exam Question

Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus

Statistics 101, 201, and 301: Hard Data on Student Credentials and Bar Pass

Cassie Christopher

2:45 –3:45 p.m.

AASE Meeting: Business meeting/install new officers

4:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Closing of Conference