Presenter: Jon Smith
Description: Book Creator is serious about accessibility. Particularly if you're working in special education or ELL this will be a fantastically useful session to learn how Book Creator can support you in offering differentiated learning.
Audience: K-12 Teachers, SPED Teachers, EL teachers
Room: 60
Presenter: Ken Shelton
Description: Immerse yourself in an electrifying hands-on learning experience with "Maker Kitchen" - a dynamic workshop designed to stoke your creative flames and challenge the boundaries of innovation. Design and build a masterpiece with your team in just 30 exhilarating minutes using a mystery bag of “ingredients.” Adding to the fun and creativity is a pantry of items available for each team to utilize. Top it all off with a garnish of research skills, reflection, and admiration. This workshop will empower your collaboration, and critical thinking, and shift your idea of what a maker space can be. The only limitations are your imagination.
Audience: K-12 Teachers, SPED Teachers, EL teachers, Specialists, Counselors, Social Workers, Administrators
Room: Library
Presenter: Joshua Harris
Description: Do you want to take your Google Forms to the next level? Are you looking for ways to help students take charge of their learning? Do you wish you could scaffold questions for your students? In this class we are going to go through some of the fine details in google forms that you might not be aware of. If you have a solid understanding of Google Forms and want to further your skill, then this class is for you!
Audience: ALL 3-12 Teachers
Room: 102
Presenter: Melissa Sternberg
Description: Come and learn some things you can do in ProgressBook. Come with any ProgressBook questions you have.
Audience: 4-12 teachers
Room: 67
Facilitator: Amanda Whitmore
Demonstrators: Donald Hileman, Wade Warner, Zack Sefcik, & Tina Felger
Description: Come play with Labdiscs, Locorobo Drones, 3D Printers, & VR headsets.
Audience: ALL Teachers, Administrators & staff
Room: Cafeteria
Presenter: Matt Garcher
Description: Open the possibilities of using an iPad as your primary or secondary device in the classroom. This session will be a hands on demonstration of features designed at getting attendees comfortable with their device.
Materials: A charged iPad updated to iOS 16.
Audience: All PreK-12 teachers, EL, SPED, Specialists
Room: 107
Presenter: Jeanie Hayes
Description: Come get an overview of MindPlay and learn what you need to do to get ready for this year.
Audience: NEW K-5 teachers
Room: 69
Presenter: Devin Alexander
Description: Paper is an Educational Support System designed so students can experience confidence and success throughout their school journey and beyond. The New to Paper Pep Rally is an engaging session that will walk through both the Student and Teacher Experiences on the platform. Attendees will see a live tutoring session with a Paper tutor. Brainstorms and collaboration are embedded throughout the session. By the end of the session, attendees will be able to confidently navigate Paper’s features and functionalities, identify the benefits for teachers and students, and develop a plan of action to implement Paper effectively in their classrooms.
Audience: NEW 6-12 Teachers, Counselors, Department Leads, Instructional Coaches
Room: 128
Presenter: facilitated by Stacy Quinones
Description: Apptegy will lead the training sessions on using the Thrillshare platform to update department web pages. Expectations and district procedures will also be discussed.
Audience: Department Web Publishers
Room: 57
Presenter: Chip Lambert
Description: A student learning readiness tool. An easy way to provide your students a voice with a 30-second daily check-in that provides them in-the-moment tools with a tier 1 intervention video based on their responses. Learn how this tool will be implemented in your classroom with no lift on you as the teacher.
Audience: All K-12 teachers
Room: 118
Virtual: LINK
Presenter: Dr. Rebecca Prokopf
Description: In this interactive session, participants will know how to navigate Studies Weekly Online, create and manage online classes and publications.
Audience: New K - 6 Social Studies Teachers
Room: 64
Presenter: Jared Henshaw
Description: Learn everything you need to get started with Edpuzzle! Manage your students, classes, grades, and videos like a pro!
Audience: All K-12 teachers, EL, SPED, Specialists
Room: 65
Presenter: Kathryn Stanton
Description: Using art journaling as a teaching tool, a planning tool, and a mental health tool. Be introduced to some basic techniques and layouts that can be used by you and/or your students, both personally and professionally.
Audience: All K-12 teachers, EL, SPED, Specialists, Counselors, Social Workers
Room: 61
Presenter: facilitated by Greg Kibler & Tiffaney Trella
Description: An unconference is a participant-driven meeting please fill out the form so we know what topics to cover! https://forms.gle/PAhDPULS969QcJUVA
Audience: Administrators
Room: CHOIR 026
Presenter: Rachel Carter
Description: Come see how you can use Google Workspace in your work as an Intervention Specialist.
Audience: SPED teachers
Room: 110
Presenter: Cathy Cammack
Description: In person: The attendees will learn about Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NCI). This training will teach educators how to intervene in crisis situations, methods of verbal de-escalation, and nonrestrictive interventions. The session is approximately 3 hours long. Participants will complete the second part of this training in person within 7-10 days.
Room: 123
Presenter: TBD
Description: Come learn about QuaverEd for K-5 music teachers. This will be an intro for new teachers and an opportunity for Q&A for seasoned teachers.
Audience: K-5 MUSIC teachers (REQUIRED)
Room: 125
Virtual: LINK
Presenter: Evan Brus
Description: Come learn how to navigate the platform, learn about the lesson library from MyStemKits, and get prepared to roll out your robots!
Audience: STEAM Teachers (REQUIRED)
Room: 124
Virtual: LINK