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Live Zoom with Vib Gonzalez

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Grade Band: K - 12

Location: Library

All Trans: TGNB Inclusion for the New Mexico classroom will be a presentation aimed at introducing gender-affirming concepts to folks creating, developing, and supporting learning environments for LGBTQ+ students in New Mexico. Gender-affirming terminology will be introduced as the first of three basic concepts for folks to explore. Second, we’ll provide some data and stories from students throughout New Mexico to connect the affirming language to our stories.

Next, we’ll introduce learners to prominent LGBTQ+ activists, groups, and communities from New Mexico and our Indigenous communities. Folks will see the connection of language to our community of learners and be better prepared to foster resilience and community to provide a safer and more affirming learning experience.

• Name influential New Mexican trans folks (at least one)

• Define the terms transgender, non-binary, cisgender, sex assigned at birth and sexuality.

• Identify 2 practices for improving gender affirmation in their classroom/learning environment.

Presenter

Alyssa Navarette

Grade Band: K - 12

Location: Room # 118

Come discover the magic of teaching and learning with Nearpod, the tech platform that supports high levels of student engagement and inspires innovative instruction! Learn how you can package all your Social Studies resources into interactive lessons that facilitate student discussions and provide formative assessment data for teachers.

You will experience a live lesson that will introduce you to the standards-aligned lesson library, and you will leave with ideas for creating and editing your own standards-aligned lessons to launch with your students with Nearpod’s amazing interactive technology.

After this presentation, participants will be able to:

• Log into and navigate the Nearpod homepage

• Search for social studies lessons in the Nearpod library

• Consider how to create and edit interactive lessons with Nearpod

Presenter

Live Zoom with Kristen Rafferty

AGENDA

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Grade Band: K - 12

Location: Library

Dive into Newsela content, tools, and strategies to help you design and leverage inquiry learning experiences to facilitate questioning, student-driven exploration of content, synthesis, and informed action. Explore strategies to embed inquiry across the curriculum. Learn how to leverage Newsela content and features to guide students through the inquiry process. Plan learning experiences that invite students to develop questions, evaluate sources for evidence, and communicate conclusions.

Presenter

Juan Cabrera

Grade Band: K-5

Location: Room # 132

How can the social studies curriculum move beyond a textbook model to engage all students' lived and historical experiences? Discover a new model for social studies curriculum design.

• Participants will be able to identify culturally responsive resources to utilize in the classroom.

• Participants will be able to integrate culturally responsive practices to ensure all students feel included and that all student experiences are being heard and valued.

Presenter

Amanda Goebel

Grade Band: 3-5

Location: Room # 135

A little prep goes a long way. Create an interactive CLUE style mystery game, that will review and contain you want to and will have your student begging for more.

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Leah Pearson

Grade Band: 3-5

Location: Room # 218

It is important for your students to think like geographers and develop explorers’ mindsets (attitudes, skills, and content knowledge pertaining to the subject you teach). Students at this level are just beginning their independent academic journey. They need a structure that facilitates inquiry and all of the skills involved. Students are curious. They need to be engaged and find out more about their surrounding community and identify important structures and areas that ‘tell’ a story.

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Live Zoom with Bren Vitter

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Grade Band: K - 12

Location: Library

This presentation examines the intersectionality of visible and invisible identities in order to deconstruct the barriers that might prevent hard conversations in our classrooms and schools.

After this presentation, participants will be able to "unpack" power systems in classrooms and schools using an intersectional cultural lens. In response, educators will be able to use self-reflection to improve community and relationships with students, colleagues, and families.

Presenter

Alyssa Navarette

Grade Band: K - 12

Location: Room # 118

Sometimes the best way to use Nearpod is with a single interactive feature. In this intermediate session, come learn how to use the top 5 interactive activities in impactful ways whether they stand alone or are part of a larger lesson. This session will focus on Open-Ended Questions, Drag & Drop, Draw It, Time to Climb, and Collaborate Boards.

Discover the power of these Nearpod activities to keep learners engaged, make student thinking visible, and encourage exploration, communication, and problem-solving.

After this presentation, participants will be able to:

• Discover strategies to create engaging lesson activities with Nearpod

• Build lessons that give all students a voice and make student thinking visible

Presenter

Joel Hutchinson

Grade Band: K - 12

Location: Room # 133

This session will be interactive. Participants will become familiar with Virtual Reality equipment as well as several educational apps that support VR.