SkyCon 2024: Full Schedule

We are excited to welcome you to our 34th annual IL Skyward® User Group Conference at the Tinley Park Convention Center! Using our app will keep you up-to-date with sessions and news as they happen. #ExpandingHorizons at #ILSkyCon2024!

Frequently Asked Questions

9:15am CST

Qmlativ - Bank Reconciliation Setup/Overview

Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:15am - 10:15am CST

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Bank Reconciliation is a great tool to streamline your cash reconciliation when you have multiple bank accounts. Learn how to navigate the menus, streamline your processes and learn some tips/tricks associated. There will be a brief touch on Activity Recon (time permitting)

Presenters

Tera Wagner

Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:15am - 10:15am CST
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Qmlativ-Business, Finance, User-Led

10:30am CST

User Experience - Business Reporting Roundtable

Wednesday November 13, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am CST

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You are welcome to provide feedback on any improvements that you think could be made to the user interface and setup to make features in the Business suite more user friendly.

Presenters

Ashley Prinsen

Skyward

Jordan Steltenpohl

Skyward

Wednesday November 13, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am CST
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User Experience, UE

1:00pm CST

Qmlativ - PBIS: The Big 5 on Skyward Q

Wednesday November 13, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST

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How can you have visuals for your PBIS team directly on your dashboard to view when you want to talk about discipline data? We can show you how to create live chart tiles to your dashboard to help answer the big 5 questions with your PBIS team. What are the most frequent problem behaviors/referrals? Which students have repeat problem behavior? Where do problem behaviors occur? What actions are taken for the referrals? What grade level are most referrals coming from?

Presenters

Amy Downs

Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Sterling Public Schools

Skyward Presentation The Big 5 pdf

Wednesday November 13, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
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Qmlativ-Student, User-Led

2:15pm CST

User Experience - Back to School Roundtable: Addressing Your Needs

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:15pm - 3:15pm CST

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What challenges do you face as the new school year begins and how can we help? Join the student product team and come ready to share your experiences to help us understand where we can intervene to ensure a successful and smooth start of the school year.

Presenters

Nick Page

Skyward

Ali DeGeorge

Skyward

Wednesday November 13, 2024 2:15pm - 3:15pm CST
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User Experience, UE

3:30pm CST

Progress - OpenEdge Pro2 - Your Skyward SMS 2.0 Reporting Secret Weapon

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm CST

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Reporting plays a critical role in today’s data-driven world, providing deep insight into every facet of business operations. It’s important to leverage that data for your organization. Business Intelligence (BI) tools give you that ability! In this session, we discuss how Pro2 can allow BI tools access to your Skyward data, increasing efficiency and improving productivity for reporting and analysis.

Presenters

David Best

Sr. Account Executive - Services, Progress

Working with Progress based applications since 1993, David is an Enterprise Sales Executive for Progress Professional Services.Connect with him to discuss a multitude of things including:* Server migrations, Progress Upgrades* Database Tuning* Disaster Recovery* Mobile App Development... Read More →

Jeremy Wilson

Sr. Partner Manager, Progress

Karen Ury

Data Analyst, Oak Park and River Forest High School - District 200

Vendors

Progress

Progress is an experienced, trusted provider of products designed with you in mind, so you can develop the applications you need, deploy where and how you want, empower your customers and manage it all safely and securely.

2024 Pro2 IL Skyward Oak Park pdf

Wednesday November 13, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm CST
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Vendor

8:00am CST

SMS 2.0 - Standards-Based Gradebooks at Secondary Level

Thursday November 14, 2024 8:00am - 9:00am CST

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This session will demonstrate how a standards-based gradebook is being used for Bush Alternative Center in East St. Louis. Courses have shifted to a focus on competency-based education and teachers now record events based on the standards of courses. The gradebook setups and calculations will be demonstrated during this session.

Presenters

Rebecca Bowen

Director of Student Information Systems, East St. Louis District 189

STANDARDS BASED GRADEBOOKS and CBE 11.2024 compressed pdf

Thursday November 14, 2024 8:00am - 9:00am CST
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SMS-Student, User-Led

9:15am CST

Branching Minds - Responding to Red Flags: Attendance, Behavior, and Course Failures. A seamless integration with Skyward Q

Thursday November 14, 2024 9:15am - 10:15am CST

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Siloed data systems, strained resources, and inconsistent expectations make it a challenge to recognize the warning signs of school failure and intervene early. Don’t “wait to fail”—a TRUE Early Warning System within a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) can help at all levels, K-12!

Presenters

Beneen Prendiville

Branching Minds

Trisha Senne

Academic Assessment Director, Community Consolidated School District 59

Vendors

Branching Minds

Branching Minds is an MTSS software platform built from the ground up to help educators plan and implement effective academic and behavioral interventions. We centralize the data, research-based intervention resources, progress monitoring, collaboration, and communication tools you... Read More →

Thursday November 14, 2024 9:15am - 10:15am CST
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Vendor