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Re-energizing Student Learners After Technology Overload and Binge Watching
Most kids can play it, hack it, or are addicted to it, but can they utilize their technology for good? After almost two years of constant video gaming and binge-watching TV, educators have the arduous job of rebooting student learning within the classroom and finding balance between technology and learning.
GRADES:
K-3 and 4-8
Grow your Teacher ARMOR and Organize Your Mind
What can we learn from a mountain? Does it feel like your mind is constantly running or that your brain has too many tabs open at once? You’re not alone!
GRADES:
K-12
Mastery-Based Grading
How do we move beyond the exit ticket to discover new ways to formatively assess/student learning.
GRADES:
Maslow before Bloom: Using Culturally Responsive Pedagogy to Increase Student Motivation and Engagement
This session will describe culturally responsive pedagogy in the context of relationship building, and how to use these relationships to increase student engagement and motivation. During this interactive session, attendees will learn some best practices to implement within the classroom that could be applied in both in- person or in a remote classroom session that will strengthen students' motivation and eagerness to learn. Using research by Cornelius Minor and Zarretta Hammond participants will take away a plethora of resources and activities to implement immediately into the classroom setting.
GRADES:
K-8
Positive Education
Positive Education focuses on skills and practices that support students in increasing positive emotions, strengthening relationships, building resilience, promoting mindfulness, encouraging a healthy lifestyle and enhancing student learning and growth. This seminar is focused on introducing a positive approach to education and promoting well-being and happiness within the school environment for students’ teachers and the school community as a whole.
Participants will be introduced to key concepts of positive psychology as they relate to the positive education movement in making a significant difference in the school and classroom environment in supporting both fundamental social emotional competencies as well as academic achievement.
GRADES:
K-12
Feedback :“Giving and Receiving Feedback”
This workshop analyzes what it takes to provide good feedback while also being in a mindset to receive it. Using the strategies from the book “Thanks for the Feedback” (Stone & Heen) educators can fine tune their own feedback strategies to be more successful in the classroom.
GRADES:
K-12
Where are We Now? Meeting Students at Current Levels of Academic Performance
The pandemic changed our teaching and our students' learning. Instead of focusing on learning loss, focus on learning differences. Throughout the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years, our students learned valuable lessons and skills. During this workshop we will identify those lesson
and skills and determine how to use them as a catapult to accelerate learning in the current school year and beyond.
GRADES:
all grades
Engaging Every Student in Learning
Take the mystery out of student engagement. Practical, straightforward approaches to reaching those students who need something different than “read the chapter, answer the questions”. Discussion will also include the implications of virtual learning on engagement, with strategies to overcome these challenges.
GRADES:
K-8
Why are H.O.T.S so Hot for Teachers?
Higher Order Thinking/Questioning Skills
Shifting our thinking about the types of questions you want to ask your students will increase higher order thinking skills and make visible learning evident. In this workshop, learn how to model high quality questions, ask different types of questions (DOK Depths of Knowledge), that engages all learners, seek ways to foster questioning from your students, and practice developing high quality throughout your instruction
GRADES:
K-12
Visible Thinking Routines
Visible Thinking Routines teach students to make their ideas visible and accessible. They encourage students to use thinking skills and help promote a deeper understanding of how we think. They allow for deeper learning on the part of the students while engaging them in active learning strategies. By making thinking ‘visible’ students discover the ‘secret’ of learning by explaining their thinking and reasoning.
GRADES:
3-8
Ten Tools for Making Thinking Visible
Giving students opportunities to think by questioning, challenging, exploring, and solving problems is an essential life skill. It also helps students understand content more deeply and make connections. Visible Thinking Routines, developed by Harvard’s Project Zero researchers, give us ways we can teach our students how to make their thinking visible.
GRADES:
K-12