Breakout #3

 Jon Bassett 

Gary Shiffman

We often tell students that learning history helps them to understand the world today, but most of us rarely make that connection explicit in our classes. In this workshop, attendees will practice 4QM techniques for helping students to move from a specific historical story to creating more general hypotheses about how the world works, using the tools of social science to answer Question Three, explaining why things happen when and where they do.

Renee Blackmond

Nothing gives us a better window into the minds of other people than a skillful examination of the meaningful artifacts those people created. In this workshop, attendees will practice 4QM techniques to get their students to wrestle successfully with primary sources as they build and defend an answer to Question Two: What were they thinking?

Cynthia Martinez

Educators will explore the power of artificial intelligence and technology tools in preparing students for the STAAR and TELPAS assessments. Participants will gain insights into how these tools can personalize learning experiences and provide real-time feedback for both teachers and students.

Nashelly Gonzalez

In this session, participants will use sheltered instruction strategies to increase comprehensible input for emergent bilinguals and ALL students to increase reading comprehension through content area texts.   Participants will also examine the role vocabulary plays in content area texts to help further student comprehension and the importance of modeling think alouds using close reading strategies.

Martin Lopez

Danielle Brissette

This presentation will introduce you to the Magoffin Home which was established in 1873. We are El Paso’s only historic house museum. We will cover the multicultural history of the founding father of El Paso, Joseph Magoffin.  We offer school field trips and in-classroom virtual tours covering the stories of the Magoffin family’s involvement in historical events from 1850’s-1980’s. 

Julietta Rojas

Immerse yourself in history with immersionED’s gaming-centered curriculum! Step into the past and experience learning like never before. These games aren’t just fun—they’re designed to boost engagement and foster critical thinking skills like perspective analysis.

Dean Stansel

Taxes are everywhere, this unit analyses the reason why taxes occur and how the public treasury is financed by overt and hidden taxes. This unit also looks at the effect of taxes on entrepreneur’s decisions and how this has an effect in the economy.