SEL
From Burnout to Bandwidth: Five Steps to the Student Led Classroom
professional development, tools
Author, Lead Coach SmallBites LLC
Uplift Education
In a world of options designed to make a teacher's life easier, teachers are experiencing more burnout than ever. Meanwhile, Yale reports that 70% of students are bored. In this session you'll 'learn by doing', and get tools and strategies to implement the 5 steps to a student-led classroom.
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Counseling in the Makerspace: Collaborating for Mindfulness and Wellness
mental health, collaboration
Associate Professor
Kutztown University
Associate Professor
Kutztown University
Maker therapy is a creative approach to counseling that leverages the makerspace as a potentially rich environment for activities that support learners' mental health. We will offer practical ideas for how teachers and coaches might try to integrate maker therapy into their schools through collaborations with counselors.
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Designing Education With Social Emotional Learning: Why & How
tools, achievement, goal setting
Director of School Counseling
Colgan HS, Prince William County Schools
Instructional Technology Coach
Charles J. Colgan High School
Social-emotional learning (SEL) is the tool to design and transform education. As the connecting thread, uniting and engaging stakeholders, SEL integrates vision and purpose, aligns values with systemic goals and fosters an inclusive community. Join us to workshop plans that integrate SEL and technology to improve well-being and academic achievement.
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Podcasting: A Platform for Empowerment, Communication and Social-Emotional Learning
tools, podcasting, agency, leadership
Director of School Counseling
Colgan HS, Prince William County Schools
Instructional Technology Coach
Gainesville High School, PWCS, VA
Instructional Technology Coach
Charles J. Colgan High School
Integrating podcasting into school cultures provides behind-the-scenes conversations that increase community, meaning and agency. We'll discuss how podcasting empowers students/staff, enhances connection, leverages the expertise/leadership of educators and incorporates SEL. We'll share our stories as well as practical ideas, and use our presentation as demonstration of use.
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Digitally Yours: Interactive and Engaging Strategies to Teach SEL Remotely
virtual learning, tools, engagement, creativity
Mental Health Counselor
Learn Play Heal
With the rapid increase in remote learning, it's essential that we teach our students vital social-emotional learning (SEL) skills in a fun and engaging manner. Learn how to remotely teach SEL skills that have shown to improve behavioral and mental health outcomes for students in a creative way.
Empowering Students through Makerspaces: Create a Space that Amplifies Student Voice
collaboration, self expression, tools, DEI, design process
Teacher Librarian
Tampa Preparatory School
Makerspaces can be spaces that empower our students and amplify student voice. Learn how to use strategies such as open exploration time, flexible design challenges and classroom collaborations to give students opportunities to express themselves and explore their interests in your library or classroom makerspace.
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Better Caring for Your People — Leaning into Female Leadership
leadership, collaboration, self care
Senior Program Manager - Exec Producer
Microsoft Corporation
Director, ITI
Los Angeles Unified School District
Education Consultant
ISTE Past President
SVP, Business Development
Stages Learning, ISTE Board alumni
Teachers and admin shortages, the great resignation, pandemic-fueled emotional fatigue ... As leaders, we are being asked to rethink how we retain and support our team. In this session, we’ll explore examples of elevating team care by tapping into female leadership to help our people feel safe, supported and empowered.
Defining and Designing Inclusion in Learning Spaces
DEI, tools
EdTech Consultant
TamiB Inc
Coordinator
Toronto District School Board
We will share our story and experiences to highlight the importance of inclusion and guide participants to define or redefine what inclusion looks like, sounds like and feels like in a digitally connected world. We'll also explore how we can begin to design learning by leveraging educational technology with everyone in mind.
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Listen to Your Brain
neuroscience, innovation, tools
Education Changemaker
AweFull Learning
Innovation Leader
Castleberry ISD
Consultant
eTwinz
Innovation Leader
Castleberry ISD
Neuroscience is among the most impactful of the research sciences, and we have tremendous information about how the brain learns and makes connections. We will explore ways students and teachers can leverage that research, and the practical application of it, to revolutionize learning and teaching, and inspire new perspectives on the future of education.