Facilitator: Matt Rogers
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Unlock the full potential of Schoology Learning in your classroom. Schoology goes beyond assignments, messaging, and calendars to personalize your curriculum to the needs of each student. Explore its flexible learning spaces to support differentiation, tailored content, large variety of assessment tools, and mastery-based approach, empowering students to engage with resources that enhance their learning.
Facilitator: Apple Education
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Step into the world of augmented reality with iPad. Explore how AR transforms learning, making it easier to visualize complex concepts and bringing lessons to life. Discover powerful AR tools like JigSpace, WWR Forests and AR Makr, and leave with project ideas aligned with your curriculum.
Facilitator: Dr. Janine Twaddle
Room: B102
Discover how Canva can revolutionize your productivity and creativity in the classroom. In this introductory session, learn how to choose from thousands of ready-to-use educational templates for any subject, grade, or topic. Create engaging lessons and activities using images, fonts, videos, animations, and editing features.
Facilitator: Ashley Vanegas & Steph Cullen
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Discover innovative strategies to transform elementary classrooms into dynamic environments that foster deep thinking, creativity, and engagement. This session will delve into the principles and practices of "Building Thinking Classrooms," a framework developed by educational researcher Peter Liljedahl. Participants will learn how to shift from traditional teacher-centered instruction to a more student-centered approach that promotes active learning and critical thinking.
Facilitator: Dr. Andrea Kolb
This engaging session is designed to empower elementary classroom and content area teachers with effective strategies and practical tools to support multilingual learners. Participants will explore a variety of approaches to enhance language acquisition, academic achievement, and social integration for young learners. The session will cover culturally responsive teaching, differentiated instruction, and the use of technology to create an inclusive and supportive learning environment.
Facilitator: Apple Education
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Step into the world of augmented reality with iPad. Explore how AR transforms learning, making it easier to visualize complex concepts and bringing lessons to life. Discover powerful AR tools like JigSpace, WWR Forests and AR Makr, and leave with project ideas aligned with your curriculum.
Facilitator: Instructional Technology Coordinators
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Uncover how Seesaw's digital portfolios, interactive lessons, formative assessments, and two-way communication features provide continuous visibility into our K-5 students' learning journeys, ensuring alignment with standards and promoting deeper understanding. Join us to discover tried-and-true strategies for incorporating Seesaw into both whole group and small group instruction.
Facilitator: Instructional Technology Coordinators
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Discover how AI can revolutionize your productivity and save you valuable time. We'll explore powerful AI tools like ChatGPT, and designed specifically for educators. From generating lesson plans to providing personalized feedback, these AI assistants will streamline your workload and help you do more in less time.
Facilitator: Kristine Culp & Jordan Fleming
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Discover how Canva can help you prepare for the upcoming year and engage your students like never before. Explore a range of features designed to make your life easier, including suggested activity cards to ensure you have your best school year yet! Don't miss this opportunity to get ahead during this busy time of year.
Facilitator: Dr. Andrea Kolb
This session is designed to equip school administrators with a comprehensive understanding of the WIDA ACCESS for ELLs report. The WIDA ACCESS assessment measures English language proficiency and is a crucial tool for informing instruction and support for multilingual learners. Participants will learn how to interpret the data presented in the report, understand its implications for student placement and instructional planning, and explore strategies for using this data to drive school-wide improvements in language instruction.
Facilitator: Dr. Rebecca Eberly
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This session is tailored for elementary educators seeking to harness the power of project-based learning (PBL) to ignite curiosity and deepen learning experiences in their classrooms. Project-based learning offers a hands-on, inquiry-based approach that cultivates critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity among students. In this session, participants will explore the principles and best practices of PBL and discover practical strategies for integrating it into their teaching practice across various content areas.
Please join us in the Expo Hall to meet different vendors and explore their products.
Facilitator: Apple Education
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Discover the world of creativity with Apple's Everyone Can Create series, which offers comprehensive guides for music, art, and more, tailored to inspire students and educators alike. Dive into PopArt projects using Logitech crayons, combining traditional art techniques with modern technology to foster imaginative expression and skill development.
Facilitator: Kelly Nunan
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Discover the ways Apple Classroom and Schoolwork, two powerful apps embedded in iPad, can streamline your productivity and make iPad management a breeze! Learn how Classroom helps you guide learning, share work, and manage student devices effortlessly. With Schoolwork, you can easily distribute assignments, track student progress, and collaborate with students in real-time, from anywhere.
Facilitator: Instructional Technology Coordinators
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Discover how iPad's accessibility features can support students with diverse needs. From vision and mobility support to hearing, speech, and cognitive assistance, iPad offers a range of features to make learning more accessible for all. Join us and empower your students to learn without limits.
Facilitator: Instructional Technology Coordinator
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Are you ready to take your classroom projects to the next level? Join us for an exciting session where you'll discover Canva's multimedia tools. Learn how students can create engaging videos, easy green screen projects, podcasts, book trailers, digital stories, news broadcasts, and so much more! Don't miss this opportunity to unleash your students' creativity and make learning unforgettable.
Facilitator: Ian Kerr
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Explore the STEELS standards and phenomena-based instruction through the lens of Mystery Science, a supplemental resource that is available K-5 for the 24-25 school year.
Facilitator: Karen Alder
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Join us for an engaging and practical workshop designed specifically for elementary teachers. It will focus on implementing Structured Literacy. Together, we will examine past practices and compare them to present practices based on the Science of Reading. Are you ready to continue making the shift?
Facilitator: Dr. Andrea Kolb
We are in an era of great debate about the role of culture in school learning. Recognizing culture as a cognitive construct means that culturally responsive teaching is not an intervention or a specialized program but, rather, is directly rooted in learning theory. In this workshop, we will think about how culture is inherently tied to prior knowledge, building background, vocabulary acquisition, and sensemaking. This requires us to position culturally responsive teaching as truly student-centered pedagogy that affirms and leverages students’ diverse language practices and identities in order to teach them. This session is for Admin & Teachers.
Facilitator: Apple Education
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Discover the world of creativity with Apple's Everyone Can Create series, which offers comprehensive guides for music, art, and more, tailored to inspire students and educators alike. Dive into PopArt projects using Logitech crayons, combining traditional art techniques with modern technology to foster imaginative expression and skill development.
Facilitator: Lisa Replogle
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This professional development will target both general and special education teachers in grades K-12. The topic of ableism will be defined for the participants and discussion will occur regarding what it means to be ableist. Participants will learn about ableist microaggressions that may occur within the school community and discuss some of the most common demonstrations of ableist behavior. We will also focus on how participants can work towards shifting their own mindset and language to embrace students of all abilities.
Facilitator: Kristine Culp & Jordan Fleming
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Get ready to kickstart your creativity with Canva's Magic Studio. With Magic Write, quickly find the right words, while Magic Design helps you create custom content in seconds. Need to resize or switch up your design? Magic Studio's Resize & Magic Switch has you covered. Plus, generate eye-catching images and videos with AI-powered Magic Media.
Facilitator: Beth Gendron
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Transform your school library into a collaborative and adaptable learning hub through co-planned and co-taught flexible library instruction. This professional development session will empower educators and librarians to work together seamlessly, linking library standards and skills with content standards and curriculum to create meaningful and engaging learning experiences.
Facilitator: Ian Kerr
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This session will provide an interactive experience showcasing the concepts of Design Lab and how they will function as a hub for creativity and innovation.
Facilitator: Maureen Shrader, Professional Learning Manager - IXL
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Come explore the new additions and fan favorites from IXL, as well as specific ways to better integrate IXL into instructional practices.
Facilitator: Christine Sommer
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7-7-7! Participants will engage in an action-packed session featuring 7 instructional strategies for 7 minutes each with 7 additional resources & tools to explore after the session.
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