Teachers will learn about strategies that are most effective for students who are on beginning to intermediate level of English- how to accommodate for newcomer EL students.
We all know Google does a little bit of everything right? And, we use Google as a district pretty heavily. Check out this training to get an idea of what some of those are -- especially in education. We promise, these "hacks" WILL make your life a little bit easier.
SMART Learning Suite Online lets teachers open SMART Notebook lessons anywhere, and share them to any student device. With lessons on any device, students can complete interactive assignments – and learn at their own pace.
Learn how to use cognitive vocabulary and academic discussion to help students think and write critically. Creating a Thinking Map is just the beginning, what students do with the information afterwards is what matters most!
Participants will learn ways to have a language rich, interactive classroom to develop academic language for all students, especially focused on long-term ELs - listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Come learn a new tool for your toolbox! One-Pagers are a summary activity that can help you students demonstrate mastery of your content. They will write, draw and show creativity for any unit.
We will explore how to engage your students in active math word walls investigations. We will create a make and take based on your grade level standards.
Unleash contagious, creative energy in your classroom and your district! Develop students’ 21st century learning skills with digital PBL. Geared to support collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and more, those attending will leave with the tools to implement PBL with a digital flare.
Learn how to use this amazing tool for creating interactive content that makes your audience fall in love. Communicate, educate, and attract by bringing your content to life.
Flipgrid is a social learning platform that allows educators to ask a question, then the students respond in a video. Students are then able to respond to one another, creating a “web” of discussion. Come to find out how to use Flipgrid in a variety of ways to engage your students.
Come learn a new tool for your toolbox! One-Pagers are a summary activity that can help you students demonstrate mastery of your content. They will write, draw and show creativity for any unit.
What role does technology play in your classroom and how can you use it to become digitally organized? With technology rapidly changing and the digital age coming at full force, teachers will leave with a variety of customized Google Forms and Google Form templates for checking for understanding, exit tickets, formative assessments, progress monitoring, behavior documentation, classroom observations, and classroom specific data organization. Teachers will also leave with a variety of tips and tricks on how to integrate SeeSaw in their reading and math workshops, as well as create their own activity within the SeeSaw program.
PlayPosit is a web based interactive video and assessment tool that allows teachers to add interactive elements such as questions and pauses, to streaming video content from YouTube. This integrates within Canvas so teachers can have student assignments graded and pushed to Skyward.
This course takes a look at differentiation for all learners. Teachers will learn strategies on how to meet the needs of your struggling students, on level students and enrichment/extension students. They will experience what differentiation looks like, sounds like, and how easily you can incorporate differentiation into your everyday lessons. Teachers will also be exposed to techniques that scaffold their questions to enhance their teaching practices.
The Classroom Environment Checklist (CEC) focuses on the presence and quality level of instructional planning tools (e.g. lesson plans, progress monitoring tools), meaningful literacy and print centers and materials (e.g. letter wall, availability of books), and the overall design and management of the classroom and individual centers for the Prekindergarten and PPCD classroom. This session is designed to showcase elements for setting up an engaging, high quality classroom environment and a way of evaluating those elements.
Are you ready to make our 2nd year of Push In the best year yet? Come learn strategies to help your Push In students be successful no matter what content you teach!
Deck.toys is the latest formative assessment tool that engages students through interactive grid boards. Think "treasure maps" for the classroom that are easy to create and easily accessible to your 1:1 device students. Please bring your laptop with you.
This session provides strategies specific to core content to enhance student understanding. Learn new ideas for differentiated Frame of Reference and thinking in the content area , as well as how Thinking Maps can be used to encourage academic discussion to justify methods and solutions.
Our district scope and sequence documents for Word Study are organized in a way that build a student's proficiency with decoding and encoding through syllables. In this course, we will explore the various syllable types and the rules and patterns associated with each so we can provide explicit instruction to our students in word study.
We all know Google does a little bit of everything right? And, we use Google as a district pretty heavily. Check out this training to get an idea of what some of those are -- especially in education. We promise, these "hacks" WILL make your life a little bit easier.
Description: Oral language proficiency or "academic discussion" is coming to the forefront with the implementation of new ELAR TEKS in the 2019-20 school year. There are now specific standards from K-6 that focus on the development of oral language. Think about your students. Are your students giving you one worded answers? Are they nodding their head instead of verbalizing a thought? Are they COMPLETELY IGNORING YOU ALTOGETHER?!?!...I can help. This training will provide you with valuable resources, visuals, actual samples of students engaging in academic discussion, as well as a deeper look what "oracy" or oral language actually is.
SMART Learning Suite Online lets teachers open SMART Notebook lessons anywhere, and share them to any student device. With lessons on any device, students can complete interactive assignments – and learn at their own pace.
We will investigate the an understanding of what number sense is, why is it important, and what strategies you can use to help promote your students' number sense. We will explore ways to incorporate number talks and focus on number sense in your math classrooms.
Are you ready to make our 2nd year of Push In the best year yet? Come learn strategies to help your Push In students be successful no matter what content you teach.
Set-up your homepage, learn how to organize your materials using Modules, utilize your calendar & announcements, and use SpeedGrader and Grades to pass-back to Skyward.
Depth and Complexity Icons provide an effective way to easily differentiate learning for your students. This session will provide an overview of the icons and how to use them.
Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio. Teachers can empower students to create, reflect, share, and collaborate. Students “show what they know” using photos, videos, drawings, text, PDFs, and links. It’s simple to get student work in one place and share with families, and nothing is shared without teacher approval. Students are NOT required to have username and passwords! You will Love this!
SMART Learning Suite Online lets teachers open SMART Notebook lessons anywhere, and share them to any student device. With lessons on any device, students can complete interactive assignments – and learn at their own pace.
In this session, you will learn various ways to incorporate technology into all content areas. You will have the opportunity to use digital tools for student engagement. Some of the tools include Seesaw, Chatterpix, Kahoot, Gsuite, Quizzes and so much more! This will be a hands-on, interactive session. You will leave with tons of free resources. You will need your iPad for this session.
Learn best practices and tools to facilitate digital writing. Utilize Google Docs to facilitate the writing process, with special attention to feedback practices, and focus on how to best leverage Canvas to conduct critical thinking through writing. Geared towards grades (4-12) teachers, this session will include some Google Drive basics. Preferred device: laptop
The Canvas MasteryPaths feature allows instructors to customize learning experiences to students based on student performance. MasteryPaths is based on differentiated assignments, an existing Canvas feature. Instructors and course designers can identify activities for each student’s learning path and differentiate assignments for required learning, optional learning, or choosing their own content and assignments within a specific path. All assignments and pages should be created before publishing course content to students.
Living with limited resources can affect students in surprising ways. Let's explore how the traditional characteristics of gifted students can look very different for students living in poverty. This session counts as 1.5 hours in the domain of Nature and Needs for GT students.
Use Google templates to incorporate digital journaling and activities into your K-3 classroom with ease. Engage students and prepare them for other digitally focused lessons while maintaining focus on the content.
Good readers have a strong foundation in the understanding of decoding and encoding words. Come see how, despite being a very short piece of your Guided Reading, word study can be a powerful tool in helping your students build their strength as readers. By providing targeted instruction and practice at each child's level, we are ensuring our students the tools and skills they need to grow.
When developing good readers, it is important we are also focusing on developing good writers. Because reading and writing are so interdependent, we must ensure we are providing instruction and practice at each child's level with writing as well as reading. Come see how, despite being a very short piece of your Guided Reading, guided writing can be a powerful tool in helping your students build their strength as readers. By providing targeted instruction and practice at each child's level, we are ensuring our students the tools and skills they need to grow.