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Gallery Walk PD: High-Yield Engagement Strategies For Teachers (September 2025)
Gallery Walk PD: High-Yield Engagement Strategies For Teachers (September 2025)
Needing help getting started with High-Yield Engagement Strategies in the classroom? This professional development focuses on the following engagement strategies, with concrete exemplars and templates to help you get started in your instruction & curriculum design:
Active Learning Strategies (Slides 8-26)
Think Pair Share
Jigsaw Activities
Collaborative Problem Solving
Table Stations/Rotations
Gallery Walks
Relevance & Real-World Connections (Slides 27-46)
Project Based Learning (PBL’s)
TED Talks
Virtual Field Trips
Student Choice & Voice (Slides 47-61)
Choice Boards
Here are the resources if you would like to check out the Gallery Walk Professional Development focusing on high-yield engagement strategies for teachers to prepare for the upcoming October PD.
Gallery Walk Google Slide Deck (Links to all resources can be found in the notes section of each slide)
Created By: Jess Haun
PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour
Backward Design, Part 3: Learning Activities & Instruction
Backward Design, Part 3: Learning Activities & Instruction
Needing help getting started with Backward Design, Part 3? This PD offers direction and time to use the summative assessment you created in Backwards Planning Part 2 PD, and the learning goals/objectives, CA Content Standard(s), and your SMART goal you set in our Backward Design, Part 1 PD to create learning activities and instruction for the unit you chose to focus on.
Backward Design Planning Worksheet
Backward Design Google Slides Presentation
Created By: Katy Sepulveda
PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour
Backward Design, Part 2: Assessments
Backward Design, Part 2: Assessments
Needing help getting started with Backward Design, Part 2? This PD offers direction and time to use the learning goals/objectives, CA Content Standard(s), and your SMART goal you set in our Backward Design, Part 1 PD to create a summative assessment for the unit you chose to focus on.
Backward Design Planning Worksheet
Backward Design Google Slides Presentation
Created By: Jess Haun
PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour
Backward Design, Part 1: Learning Goals & Objectives
Backward Design, Part 1: Learning Goals & Objectives
Needing help getting started with Backward Design, Part 1? This PD offers direction and time to select your unit, align it to learning goals/objectives, align it to CA Content Standard(s), write a SMART goal for student learning, and parcel out what content, skills, and big ideas students need to take away from the unit.
Backward Design Planning Worksheet
Backward Design Google Slides Presentation
Created By: Jess Haun
PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour
Power Query Tracker
Power Query Tracker
Learn to use Power Query to combine data from multiple sources and update regularly with a single click.
Peer Consolidated Learning Using Engageli Tables, Part II
Peer Consolidated Learning Using Engageli Tables, Part II
Needing help getting started with Engageli Tables? Check out our Peer Consolidated Learning Using Engageli Tables, Part II. We review the 4 steps to creating effective tables: 1) Chunking Learning & Setting Norms, 2) Strategic Mixed-Ability Groups, 3) High-Level Questions, and 4) Variety of Activities. We focus on setting up Engageli Norms, Table Group Roles, and how to use Poll Tags & Quick Polls to split learners into groups by common or diverse answers. This recording also includes a crash course on Engageli Tables, how to create randomized tables, lock tables, create google documents, make student editors or create a forced copy, and how to upload google documents into Engageli.
Created By: Jess Haun
PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour
Peer Consolidated Learning Using Engageli Tables, Part I
Peer Consolidated Learning Using Engageli Tables, Part I
Needing help getting started with Engageli Tables? Check out our Peer Consolidated Learning Using Tables, Part I, which covers the 4 steps to creating effective tables prior to implementations: 1) Chunking Learning & Setting Norms, 2) Strategic Mixed-Ability Groups, 3) High-Level Questions, and 4) Variety of Activities. See how you can use Magic School and Diffit to help you create these group activities.
Created By: Jess Haun
PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour
Learn To Excel SY24-25
Learn To Excel SY24-25
We covered a wide range of topics - the theme was doing things faster. Discover the wonders of Flash Fill. Skim the surface of Power Query to quickly add/pull data from other sources and learn how to use the Analyze Data tool in Excel for quick tables & graphs.
Formative Assessments
Formative Assessments
Are you short on time and need help with Formative Assessments? Check out our Formative Assessment Professional Development, which covers 56+ different formative assessment options. We also discuss using the following 3 AI tools to help you create formative assessments in the classroom: Question Well, Magic School & Diffit.
Created By: Rachel Harrison and Jess Haun
PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour
High-Level DOK Questions
High-Level DOK Questions
Are you short on time and need some help coming up with high-level DOK questions and increasing your CFU's (Checks For Understanding) relevant to content? Check out our High-Level DOK Questions Professional Development, which offers sentence frames to help you create your own DOK questions. We also discuss how to use Magic School & Diffit to help you create high-level DOK questions for the classroom.
Created By: Rachel Harrison and Jess Haun
PD Credit Hours: 1 Hour
Learn to Mail Merge
Learn to Mail Merge
Creator: Joe Hargrave
PD Credit Hours: 1
Time & Place: Tuesday, November 9th @ 3:00 PM in Zoom
Description: ever wanted to know what a mail merge is and how to do it? Now is your chance. Join me in Zoom for a live tutorial on how to use Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook to send a mass email to your roster/caseload, with personalized information for each recipient.
This PD will also be recorded for those who cannot attend live.
Breakout Rooms
Breakout Rooms
Creator: Rachel Harrison
PD Credit Hours: 30 min.
Description: Breakout rooms, how to use them and the updated features. Plus hear from teachers how they are used in their classrooms!
Excel Workshop #1
Excel Workshop #1
Let's work on conditional formulas with multiple conditions and outputs. Let's also work on some more advanced Pivot Tables and charts!
When: Thursday, Sept. 7th @ 3:00 PM
Where: Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/4815275090)
Companion Files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MkykhqjGMQNcw7M1BJgoFadD_BeapIuY?usp=drive_link
Requisite Knowledge: it would help if you have already completed both basic and intermediate trainings from the PD. Please see the "Past PDs" section of this site for a link to a file folder with slides & videos.
Motivating Students
Motivating Students
Creator: Rachel Harrison
PD Credit Hours: 1 hour
Description: Explore ways to grow intrinsic motivation in students.
Standards & Objectives Proficiency Report
Standards & Objectives Proficiency Report
We will cover an interesting report available in all Summit courses that estimates the proficiency of your students on state standards based upon their course performance on specific standards-aligned questions.
When: Thursday October 5th @ 3:00 PM.
Recording link: https://caliva-org.zoom.us/rec/share/Mja0kKsvK39iJxLphoN7GS170pLfDM3FsL2-2uMxhXsYYL6OArAoGIL94L4srP4S.rlAsGPVhsVsGFjUI
Making the most of Instructional Resources
Making the most of Instructional Resources
Creator: Rachel Harrison
PD Credit Hours: 1 hour
Description: With access to so many instructional resources that can be utilized in a live session, how can we ensure that the tools and resources are as effective as they can be?
OHS Unused Features
OHS Unused Features
Learn more about the Stride Learning Hub, the Lexile and Quantile Hub, and Big Universe Library. We will cover each of these features available in the OHS and practical ways you can use them in your daily classroom and activities in your courses. While some features are content specific: the Lexile and Quantile learning hub is a useful tool for all staff members to know more about.
Created By: Joe and Rachel
PD Credit Hours: 1 hour
CAASPP Resources and Tools for Teachers
CAASPP Resources and Tools for Teachers
Let's check out the resources available and the tools for teaches on the CAASPP website that will help prepare students for SBAC testing coming up!
Created By: Joe and Rachel
PD Credit Hours: 1 hour
Formative Assessments
Formative Assessments
Dive into what formative assessments are and what are they not. How can we create and use formative assessments in a virtual environment?
Created By: Rachel Harrison
PD Credit Hours: 1 hour
Power Query Part 1
Power Query Part 1
Intro to Power Query - Learn some next-level techniques for transforming your data and setting up automated updates. Open to everyone, but a familiarity with Excel basics is recommended.
Created by: Joe Hargrave
PD Credit Hours: 1 hour
Promoting Student Engagement
Promoting Student Engagement
Let's look at engagement! What is it? What are the different types of engagement? How do we get the outcomes we want? And some practical strategies that can help get the engagement outcomes we are looking for.
Created by: Rachel Harrison
PD Credit Hours: 1 hour
Slide Deck: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:va6c2:928f44e6-2696-439d-bdae-a95b4b50947c
Diffit
Diffit
Struggling To Find Time To Differentiate Your Lessons? From one-page resources to resource packets, Diffit streamlines lesson planning, offering teachers AI-Generated content differentiation. The program allows teachers to assign reading levels based on grade level, and adapt reading passages based on collective or individual needs. The program generates open ended prompts for discussions or critical thinking, multiple choice questions (questions DOK levels can be determined by instructor), it provides a text summary and vocabulary word bank (definitions and sentence example) for close readings, creates visuals and graphic organizers, and it creates up to 96 different types of student activities
Created by: Jess Haun
PD Credit Hours: 1 hour
IEP and 504 accommodations and modifications and how to implement them.
IEP and 504 accommodations and modifications and how to implement them.
We will be looking over some common IEP and 504 accommodations and modifications and strategies to implement them effectively within your live sessions and online classrooms.
Created by: Joe Hargrave, Rachel Harrison, and Jess Haun
PD Credit Hours: 1 hour
Magic School
Magic School
Join over a million teachers saving hours of time using magic school to help lesson planning linked to the CA State Content Standards, differentiate instruction and assignments (MATH INCLUDED!), write assessments (multiple choice questions, word problems, essay questions, etc.), write IEP's, communicate clearly, and more.
Created by: Rachel Harrison, and Jess Haun
PD Credit Hours: 1 hour
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