Session 1
Session 1 (9:15 - 10:00)
Networking Lounge Sponsored by Click View
Room: 101
Facilitators: Mike Honiball and Emma Tlapek
Audience: Everyone
Description: The Networking Lounge can be used as a time to process information from sessions you have attended, connect with teachers from other districts, time to debrief with your colleagues, or time to create materials and/or lessons from the information presented at a session. This room is provided by our Platinum Sponsor, ClickView. If you want to explore what ClickView has to offer, they are available all day in the Networking Lounge.
What’s New from Apple Education
Room: 102
Presenter: Apple Education
Audience: K-6, Leadership/Administration
Description: Great teachers and powerful technology are a powerful combination. Apple is proud to make products that unleash the potential in every student. Learn about the newest Apple products, tools, and programs for education that will accelerate student success and spark creativity in every learner.
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How to Navigate the Double-Sided Sword of Technology
Room: 103
Presenter: Megan Hull-Burg, Donegal School District
Audience: K-12, Primary (K-3), Intermediate (4-6)
Description: Technology can either hurt or help your students, especially when it comes to fostering SEL. In this session, Megan Hull-Burg will share how teachers can best navigate the technology available to them, and transform it into a source of empowerment, skill building, and social-emotional development, while counteracting the negative effects and challenges it often presents in the classroom.
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IU13 STEM Lending Library Playground
Room: 104
Presenter: Kristina Fulton, Lancaster Lebanon IU13
Audience: K-12, Primary (K-3), Intermediate (4-6), Leadership/Administration
Description: Attend this session to receive an introduction to some of the new STEM and Computer Science equipment available through the new IU13 STEM Lending Library followed by time to play and experience them.
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Break The Walls Down VR/AR Integration
Room: 105
Presenter: Keith McCray, Waynesboro Area School District and Adam Geiman, Elanco School District
Audience: Primary (K-3), Intermediate (4-6)
Description: Overview of ExpeditionsPRO the platform that is poised to replace Google Expeditions. We will then provide real world examples for how teachers can incorporate this technology into their classrooms, giving teachers and students the ability to build their background knowledge with an authentic experience.
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Simply Smashing- Using Canva & Nearpod to Create Interactive Videos
Room: 106A
Presenter: Gidget DeJesus and Tara Morcom, School District of Lancaster
Audience: Primary (K-3), Intermediate (4-6)
Description: Personalize instruction and accelerate student learning by creating your own interactive instructional videos. Participants will practice using Canva to create instructional videos that can be uploaded into Nearpod to design and deliver interactive lessons.
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Kami 101
Room: 106B
Presenter: Oliver Tingling, Kami
Audience: Primary (K-3), Intermediate (4-6)
Description: In this session, the Kami team will introduce educators to the document markup tool that has helped to transform instruction and meet the needs of our students through the digital age. Participants will discover the tools available in Kami, and learn what it means to adapt their already amazing lessons.
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Engaging PK-2 students using Discovery Education
Room: 106C
Presenter: Patti Duncan, Discovery Education
Audience: Primary (K-3), Intermediate (4-6)
Description: Children enter our classrooms with an ever-deepening love of learning and an insatiable sense of wonder, and flourish when we take a whole-child approach. Discovery Education offers a wide array of resources for engaging young learners including songs, interactives, activities, videos and more from trusted partners such as Sesame Learning, Vooks and Schoolastic. New this year are ready-to-use lesson activities designed specifically to support both educator instruction and children's social-emotional growth. A wealth of ideas and resources will be shared!
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Flexible Math Games to Build Fact Fluency
Room: 106D
Presenter: Daniel Kaufmann, Wilson School District
Audience: Primary (K-3), Intermediate (4-6)
Description: During this session, attendees will explore a variety of math games to build towards fluency. The strategy-based games will have simple rules and are flexible enough to be used throughout the entire year. After exploring each game, we will discuss classroom implementation and best practices when developing fact fluency.
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Resources and Strategies to Support Student Learning Outcomes
Room: 106E
Presenter: Elizabeth Krebs, School District of Lancaster
Audience: Online/Cyber Learning (K-12 Cyber Educators), Primary (K-3), Intermediate (4-6)
Description: We will look at how to collaborate with Special Education and Related Services teams to inform and provide specially designed instruction, both asynchronously and synchronously. As well as, ways of incorporating accessibility technology and strategies with online platforms. Participants will work collaboratively to create a growing list of resources and strategies to support student learning outcomes and teacher resources for support with online learning.