Sessions Day 1 

Audience - Grades 6-12

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Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are powerful tools for analyzing student data. This session provides an overview of the basic functionality to make disaggregating and presenting your data painless. 

Audience - Grades 6-8

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Digital reading platforms have expanded the possibilities of engagement with written content. Interactive features, such as digital games, videos, images, and voice recording enhance the reading experience by providing additional context, definitions, and multimedia content. In this training participant will use instructional guides to create differentiation activities with Lumio as its platform.

Audience - Grades PK-12

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Join us for tips on how to CAPTIVATE your students and parents with engaging Canvas modules to showcase your instruction.  

Audience - Grades 6-12, Administrators, Parents, and Counselors

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A dive into the Naviance and the benefits of student college and career exploration to connect student goals, plans, and schedules with their postsecondary plans. 

Audience - Grades 3-5

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The session is designed for classroom Teachers who want to revamp the way the assess their sutdents to prepare them for STAAR 2.0. Teachers will learn how to create formative assessments on Eduphoria using STAAR 2.0 new question types. This process allows teachers and students to receive immediate feedback. 

Audience - PK-12, Librarians, Administrators, Parents, Special Ed Teachers, Counselors, Fine Arts, Athletics PE Coaches, Bilingual ESL Educators

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Dive into the world of technology in our enriching professional development session. We'll illuminate the current disctrict technology standards empowering educators and administrators to leverage technology in fostering an equitable, inclusive and engaging learning experience.

Audience - Grades K-12, Librarians, Administrators, Tech Apps

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This hands-on training covers the basics so that educators can confidently begin using EasyTech with their students. This includes the Teacher Center, locating and assigning curriculum, and Learning.com gradebook. 

Audience - Grades 1-12, Administrators, Special Ed. Teachers

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In this session, we will discuss what steps teachers need to take before administering an online test, how teachers navigate the platform, and how teachers can view the data from the administration. 

Audience - Grades PK-5

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Are you an educator seeking to create a blended learning environment that seamlessly integrates technology and enhances student engagement? Join us for an immersive session where you will learn the ins and outs of Lumio, a powerful tool that can transform your classroom into a dynamic and interactive learning space.

In this session, we will dive deep into Lumio, exploring its features, functionalities, and best practices for utilizing it to its fullest capacity. You will discover how Lumio can facilitate blended learning, combining the best of face-to-face instruction and online resources to create a rich and personalized learning experience for your students.

Audience - Grades 2-5

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Looking to paint mathematical wonders in Canvas? Join us for an exhilarating session where we explore innovative ways to leverage Canvas LTI and the Sharon Wells Math Curriculum to enhance student engagement and foster a personalized math learning experience. 

Audience - Grades PK-12

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Are you a beginner looking to explore the exciting possibilities of Lumio by SMART in your teaching practice? Join us for an engaging awareness session where you will learn how to effectively use Lumio and discover innovative ways to incorporate it into your lessons.

Lumio is a versatile and powerful educational tool that promotes interactive learning experiences, collaboration, and student engagement. In this session, we will introduce you to Lumio and provide you with practical tips and strategies to maximize its potential. 

Audience - Grades K-12

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Discover and experiment with some free AI tools that can help foster learning and engagement in your classroom and save you time. 

Audience - Grades PK-12

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Providing student learning accommodations is vital to their ability to comprehend and interact with the learning material. Using some truly amazing Chrome tools and extensions, teachers can learn to provide these accommodations and other learning support using audio, interactivity and more.

Audience - Grades PK-12

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Come learn about Discovery Education Studio - a creation and structured collaboration space where students can demonstrate knowledge in creative ways. Teachers can also use it to develop and share lesson content with students. 

Audience - Special Ed. Teachers, Dyslexia Teachers

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Dyslexia teachers will learn how to seamlessly blend the components of their MTA lessons into a Lumio presentation that is engaging and hands-on for dyslexia students. 

Audience - Grades PK-12

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In this hands-on session, you will experience how Adobe Express can be used to drive teaching and learning. Adobe Express is an intuitive yet powerful tool that works on any device. You will learn how to enable your students to create graphics like posters, infographics, and more as demonstrations of learning, high-quality videos and webpages, and portfolios in minutes. *By completing this session, you will earn your Level 1 Adobe Creative Educator Badge and a certificate documenting three hours of professional development.

Audience - Grades PK-12, Librarians, Administrators, Technology Applications, Parents, Special Ed. Teachers, Counselors, Fine Arts, Bilingual ESL Educators

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This overview of Learn360 will give you a good look at the thousands of resources available for all grade levels and all curriculum areas. There's so many resources from Science Experiments, Maps and Facts Sheets for Middle School and High School students to Audio Books, Fun Learning Songs and Videos for Early Elementary students.

Audience - Grades PK-12, Technology Applications, Parents

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This hands-on workshop focuses on collaborating with Instructional Delivery, Engagement, and Assessment strategies of intermediate and advanced users among the K-12 and higher education communities. Give one of your IDEAs away to acquire many more! Opportunities for collaborative research and development will also be presented. 

Audience - Grades 1-5

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Teachers will gain knowledge of how to make projects on MyOn in accordance with the TEKS they are instructing during this session. Books covering the material being studied will be available to students at various literacy levels. 

Audience - Grades PK-5, Athletics PE Coaches

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Are you a physical education (PE) instructor looking to infuse creativity, music, and technology into your PE classes? Join us for an interactive session where you will learn how to best utilize Quaver, a comprehensive music education platform, to enhance your PE curriculum and engage your students like never before. 

Audience - Grades PK-12

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Explore advanced uses of the Nearpod Platform to make student thinking visible. Learn how to increase rigor by adding Reference Media to Nearpod Activities and offer students personalized learning pathways through choice boards.

Audience - Grades PK-12, Librarians, Administrators, Parents, Special Ed. Teachers, Counselors, Fine Arts, Bilingual ESL Educators

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Participants will learn about career and technical education (CTE) programs and how to integrate career preparedness activities into the standard curriculum. 

Audience - Grades K-5

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The Savvas platform has been given a facelift! Let's explore the new features and how to best utilize them instructionally.  

Audience - Grades 6-12, Athletics PE Coaches, Health Teachers

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This session includes a demonstration of how to best utilize the new Health online resource. Teachers will be able to start planning lessons for the upcoming school year using the online textbook resources. 

Audience - Grades PK-12

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Take the learning further than ever before by creating structured learning activities students can move through on their own path and pace. Choice-based learning offers students multiple pathways to mastery while also capturing their attention. Craft a learning experience for your students you can start using tomorrow!

Audience - K-12

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Collaboration, reflection, skills practice, peer feedback, formative assessment: all of these can be accomplished using the free tool Jamboard. Discover ways to ramp up learning with its tools, as well as a wealth of pre-made, ready-to-go templates for all grade levels and subject areas.

Audience - Parents

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Parents, come learn more about our learning management system Canvas, the virtual backpack, home access center, and the after-school program BellxCell. This will help you stay informed and connected to your child's education experience. You will impress the other parents with all your newfound knowledge! 

Audience - Grades 3-12

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Learn how to use Canvas Outcomes to track your students performance on different TEKS automatically and make creating reports easy. 

Audience - Grades 1-5

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Are you an educator searching for effective strategies to help your students excel in reading? Join us for an engaging session where you will learn the process of teaching syllable division using an interactive Lumio presentation. Discover how this approach can empower students to unlock their true potential in reading and develop strong decoding skills.

In this session, we will guide you through a step-by-step process for teaching syllable division, utilizing Lumio's interactive features to enhance student engagement and understanding. You will gain practical insights and strategies to implement in your classroom, enabling your students to navigate complex words with confidence. 

Audience - Grades PK-12, Special Ed. Teachers, Bilingual ESL Educators

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Many students require visual supports to navigate their instructional day. Canva is a District supported mecca of opportunity to make our classroom a visually enriched location. Canva allows instructional leaders to create all visual supports needed to enable students to effectively communicate and express their educational needs. 

Audience - Grades PK-12, Librarians, Administrators, Technology Applications, Counselors, Fine Arts, Athletics PE Coaches

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Crafting Captivating Visuals: A new approach to graphic design to captivate your audience.  

Audience - Grades PK-12

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So you think you've conquered the basics of Google Docs, eh? Take your Docs game to the next level with built-in tools like Table of Contents, customer formatting, and hyperlinks. Find new ways to utilize building blocks and drop-downs. Don't spend another day wondering what you're missing!