Summer Sessions

Here you will have the opportunity to learn about a specific practice and tool to support teaching and learning. These are short sessions in a generally guided environment. A learning stipend will be available upon completion of each session.

  • Sessions only need 1 person registered to be run.
  • Participants may join either on-site or via Google Meet (click on event in the above calendar --> More Details to view Meet link).
  • Stipends will be submitted for payment at the end of each month.
  • While many topics are offered more than once throughout the summer, participants may only register for each session one time.

Student Video to Demonstrate Learning

August 8 (12:30pm-3:30pm)

  • This session will explore how teachers can encourage deeper thinking about any topic by asking students to explain explain their ideas an share their learning in a variety of ways. Students can share their reflections with classmates and their teacher. They can also review their own reflections for review in the future.
  • Record and share a screencast.
  • Record and share video reflections with the Camera app
  • Post and share with classmates or only the teacher
  • Create ePorfolios using tools such as Google Slides or Google Sites.
  • Create classroom reflection walls with Padlet, Flipgrid, Jamboard and more...

PD in your PJs - Edpuzzle

Self-paced - Must be completed before workshop week.


    • Grow your Edpuzzle skills through this self-paced course.
    • Complete Edpuzzle Level 1 training, Level 2 training, and coach training.
    • Please remember to sign up for this session as you would for all others via the Google Form at the bottom of this page.

Critical Thinking - Leverage Technology to Navigate Acquisition, Application, Assimilation, and Adaptation

August 1 (8:30am-11:30am)

This session will take a deep dive into fostering critical thinking in the classroom. We will explore each of the four phases of critical thinking and the requisite thinking skills present at each phase.

  • Acquisition - Classroom examples utilizing Socrative, Flipgrid, Padlet, and Jamboard.
  • Application - Components of an argument to inspire academic conversations. Classroom examples utilizing Popplet Lite.
  • Assimilation - Socrative seminar (Around the Horn Style)
  • Adaption - Performance Assessment - Slides, Keynote, iMovie, and Clips

Tailor-made for Elementary - Seesaw, Apple Classroom, and Book Creator Refreshers

August 7 (8:30am-11:30am)

  • This session will explore how teachers can effectively administer iPads in their classroom in a virtual environment. Teachers can support student learning by sharing resources directly to the student iPad, manage what apps and links students are accessing, and support the focused use of devices. Teachers should be on-site for this training in order to simulate utilization in the classroom.
  • Pushing apps and links to students with the option of locking them to that resource
  • Easily monitoring student devices including a screen view
  • Creating small groups to encourage student collaboration




Calling HS Math Teachers - Desmos Session - HS Math

TBD

In this session, we will take a deep dive into Desmos.

  • This will be much more collaborative than sit-and-get professional development.
  • We will provide sandbox time for you to integrate them into an existing lesson.

Tech PD for the IS - Creating a Digital Learning Environment with Google Classroom - Nuts and Bolts

June 18 and August 5 (8:30am-11:30am)

This session will explore the various pieces of Google Classroom and how they can be used to support a digital learning environment. By the time this session is complete, you will be able to:

  • Set up your class and enroll your students
  • Post class information and assignments while also collecting student work
  • Check for student understanding with short, formative assessments.
  • Create an overall work flow for you and your students
  • Providing parents with the means to keep track of how their child is doing in any class with weekly updates

Google Expeditions

Create an Immersive Learning Environment with Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

June 18 (8:30am-11:30am) and August 6 (12:30pm-3:30pm)

This session will explore how teachers can effectively engage students through AR and VR. Google Expeditions is an immersive education app that allows teachers and students the ability to explore the world through over 800 virtual-reality (VR) and 100 augmented-reality (AR) tours. You can swim with sharks, visit outer space, turn the classroom into a museum, and more without leaving the classroom. We will also explore merge cube and other AR and VR tools. The content we explore in this session will be personalized to your content area. Please sign-up early for this session.

  • Set up a tour for your students
  • Students will be able to explore an art gallery or museum, swim underwater, or navigate outer space, without leaving the classroom
  • Students will be able to bring virtual objects into their classroom so students can see and virtually walk around 3D objects as if it were physically in the classroom
  • Allow students to show their own learning by video demonstrations

Take Creating a Digital Learning Environment to the Next Level with Google Classroom Integrations

August 5 (12:30pm-3:30pm)

This session will explore three great tools that work seamlessly with Google Classroom. If you have been utilizing Google Classroom as your hub and you want to take it to the next level, this is the session for you. We will be looking at EdPuzzle for video delivery and formative assessment, PearDeck for vocabulary and live formative assessment, and Flipgrid for video-based discussions.

  • How to pull the data from EdPuzzle to determine what students know and inform future instruction
  • How to setup and utilize EdPuzzle for video delivery and formative assessment
  • How to use data from Peardeck to determine what students know and inform future instruction
  • Record and share a screencast
  • How to setup and utilize Flipgrid to engage students in video-based discussions

You Call It - Technology PD

June 25, August 9, and August 19 (8:30am-11:30am)

This session will explore topics that you would like to learn more about. This session is 100% participant-driven. Please sign-up early and provide the topic you would like to focus on. I will add the topics to this page as participants sign-up.