Previous Summits

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Strengthening Writers with Lisa Meyers http://bit.ly/WritingCorner

This session will show an intentional lesson sequence for EL and ELA writers (7th and 8th grade) who are below proficiency to support their thinking and writing skills.  I’ll share the student work and progress, resources and tech tools that can work with any grade level.

Blended Learning: The Station Rotation Model with Carolyn Fries (resource link)

This session will allow exploration and personalization of different resources to use with station rotation. Some resources will focus on Benchmark Advanced and some will be general resources.  You will also explore how to create and manage your groups as well as how to use station rotations for feedback and formative assessment. We will create, explore, and collaborate around differentiated learning that will engage all students!  

Customize the Text for Close Reading (4-6) with Audra Mesa & Aimee Burdette (resource link)

The outcomes for our session is for teachers to use tools in Benchmark to customize the Text for Close Reading to engage students during whole group and small group time.

The session will include tools to Customize Text, how to use Sticky Notes and Close Reading Notes as Formative Assessment and embed links to tech tools like Padlet, FlipGrid, YouTube and Google Drawing.

Intentional Room Design with Carrie Nichols (resource link)

How intentional classroom design aligns with intentional lesson design

Learn the research behind flexible seating, how I procured my flexible seating, and how I implement and manage my flexible seating classroom

Learn how a flexible seating classroom leads to intentional lesson design with increased student engagement and collaboration

Learn how flexible seating can change your teaching and student learning. 

Intentional Creativity to Spark Engagement (Blackout Poetry, #BookSnaps, Interactive Flipbook) with Jerady Loncono (resource link)

Giving students the opportunity to demonstrate creative thinking and learning not only instills excitement and interest in a class, but also helps students become more engaged. While poetry is often feared, blackout poetry provides students a fun and unique way to play with language. Blackout poetry does not have to be actual poetry, but instead is a way for students to delve deeper into critical thinking and reading in any content!

In this session, I will discuss various creative strategies to help engage your students -- Blackout Poetry, #BookSnaps, Interactive Flipbook (digital and paper versions). I will also share resources and examples of student created blackout poems (paper and digital examples).

Bits and Bytes:  Math, Scratch Coding, and Raspberry Pi with Allison Serceki & Kyle Wilke (Resource Link ) (Slideshow)

We will explore number bases other than base 10 in math and its correlation to technology and coding.

Understanding number bases other than base 10 often helps students understand place value better

Use binary concepts in Scratch coding and electronics (Raspberry Pi)

MTSS/First Best Instruction with Brad Lyall and Rebecca Harrison (resource link)

This session is designed to connect intentional lesson design with first best instruction by illustrating how choosing appropriate instructional strategies reflects a teacher’s philosophy and a school’s multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) for teaching and learning.

Chunk Your Direct Instruction so Students can Chew  with Katie Branley and Tiffany Bui (resource link)

The average attention span is one minute per a child’s age up until 10 minutes and then it doesn’t improve. For teachers that means that while direct instruction can be a valuable learning tool it loses effectiveness if students are not offered an opportunity to process the information they are receiving. This session will offer strategies (breakout edu, kagan, TPT, pear deck) to both fill your teacher tool box and plan in intentional opportunities for students to collaborate and make sense of the information being presented to them. Come laugh, discover and discuss with us how we can get kids to go deep and make sense of the learning you are presenting to them. 

NGSS 5E Lesson Design (elementary) with Erin Hansen (resource link)

Did you know that 5E means Erin Enjoys Enlightening Everyone with Engaging science resources?! … No? That’s not it? In this session you’ll experience 5E lesson design and leave with resources that can be implemented immediately to up your NGSS science game. We will use a hands-on approach to break down the 5E model in the science classroom (SPOILER: this strategy works in all curriculum areas) and dedicate time to exploring resources that fit the performance expectations you’d like to cover before we finish out the year. 

NGSS 5E Lesson Design (secondary/intermediate) with Aime Camey & Michelle Stafford (resource link)

Looking for ENGAGING ways to hook your students? How about getting them to EXPLORE on their own before you just EXPLAIN all the answers away?  We would love to ELABORATE on how you can develop 5E lesson sequences that are sure to have you EVALUATING how you currently set up your lessons for 7th and 8th graders! 

We will start out with an overview of NGSS Storyline approach to designing curriculum structured around phenomena.  Additionally, we will provide an in-depth look at the 5E lesson format and how it applies within the storyline model.  We will share our examples of middle school NGSS-aligned lesson sequences.

Feel free to contact us if you have questions/specific areas you’d like us to cover within these topics. 

NGSS 5E Lesson Design (secondary/high school) with Stacey Hamamura and Emily Tombleson (resource link)

Have you been wishing you could see a 5E lesson aligned to NGSS high school science? In this session, you’ll participate in a hands-on lesson that merges Earth Science with Physics to see how intentional lesson design works using the 5Es planning model.

Lesson resources for all high school core science content areas will be provided as well as how to integrate your 5E lessons with HyperDocs. We’d love to do what we can to tailor our resources to your needs, so if you would like to find out more about how to develop a 5E lesson with a particular NGSS topic, please contact us.

Intentional Lesson Design with Hyperdocs with Jen Anderson & Natasha Rios (resource link)

This session will provide a foundational understanding of HyperDocs for interactive, personalized, and student-directed learning in your classroom.  We will show and share about how it can strengthen your pedagogy. We will also provide guidelines for building and implementing lessons with the Hyperdoc models.

Designing Research-Based Math Lessons with Trish Carter-Anderson (resource link)

Are you looking for additional ways to promote math fluency?  In this session you will learn way to intentionally add math fluency practice in the elementary classroom.  These ideas have been compiled from Ron Carmi, Lindsey Gatefield, and other SVUSD teachers. Math fluency practice could be at the opening or other part of a math lesson,  or even while students are transitioning. Come to this session to learn new ways to promote math fluency.

Teaching with Video: Don’t Just Push Play with Kevin Fairchild (resource link)

Now that YouTube is available for all students K-12, let’s explore some strategies for effectively using video in classes. You’ll learn about some tools like ViewPure, EdPuzzle, and Video Notes that make the use of videos easier for teachers for teachers to include in an intentionally-designed lesson. We’ll share some best practices for using video in whole-group, small-group, or individual instruction. And we’ll give you some tips to get started creating your own instructional videos.

ELA Intentional Lesson Design with Seesaw with Catherine Scanlon (resource link)

This session will focus on going deeper with Seesaw Learning Journal in the 3rd-6th grade classroom with emphasis on designing ELA Benchmark Advance Activities to increase student reflection and independence.  We will be experiencing two types of activities and exploring resources for ready-made activities that can be used as-is or customized for your curriculum.