Presenter: Jon Smith

Description: Book Creator offers a creative space to collaborate and foster a positive attitude. In this session, we'll explore practical ways for students to use Book Creator to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, show empathy, maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions.

Audience: K-12 Teachers, SPED Teachers, EL teachers

Room: 60

Presenter: Ken Shelton

Description: In this dynamic problem-based learning session, participants will be actively engaging in a type of design-thinking process to collaboratively create tangible solutions within a specific thematic area. This session highlights genuine civic involvement, and cultural and community context, and empowers learners through active participation. This highly interactive session prioritizes experiential learning, emphasizing the journey rather than just the end result. The versatile protocols can be tailored to suit various curricular areas and content, while also addressing broader focus areas such as Equity, Social-Emotional Learning, Learning Culture, and more.

Audience: K-12 Teachers, SPED Teachers, EL teachers, Specialists, Counselors, Social Workers, Administrators

Room: Library

Presenter: Tiffaney Trella

Description: Come learn how to use your Promethean Panel. We will be covering a couple of models learning how to screen share and use the built-in features. 

Audience: ALL New PreK-12 Teachers who have a Promethean Panel

Room: Choir

Presenter: Andrea Lewinsky

Description: Get a refresher on Remind, Clever, and GoGuardian before the school year starts. Also, learn about your new phone. This session is not intended for new teachers, but rather for seasoned teachers who want a quick refresher.

Audience: All K-12 teachers, SPED, EL, Specialists

Room: 128

Presenter: Nancy Lewonchuk

Description: Presented by a teacher, for teachers! In this session, you will learn to use easy and fun technology tools that will enhance your students' learning experiences and make data collection easier for you. You will get to experience the technology firsthand from both the teacher and student point of view. Anyone can use this technology whether you are new to teaching or have been in the classroom 20 years! I can't wait to show you this free technology that will make your teaching life easier!

Audience: ALL K-5 teachers

Room: 67

Presenter: Crystal Riddle

Description: Achieve 3000 training for Middle School and High School teachers. 

Audience: 6-12 MATH teachers

Room: 57

Presenter: Matt Garcher

Description: This session is designed to be an introduction to Edulastic.  Edulastic is an online assessment tool that is supported by Clever, the single sign-on platform our district utilizes.  In this session, attendees will begin by exploring ways to put Edulastic to use and learn how to construct their own assessments using a deep library of pre-constructed questions as well as learning how to construct their own questions.  Lastly, we will dive into assessment insights to track student data.

Audience: 9-12 teachers

Room: 107

Presenter: Sharon Ragan

Description: This session will focus on classroom strategies that will help differentiate the classroom learning environment while having students stay engaged in learning.

Audience: 5-12 teachers

Room: 118

Presenter: Amanda Whitmore

Description: Check out some apps to use to integrate more technology in your classroom. 

Audience: K-1 teachers

Room: 64

Presenter: Tracy Palmer and Melissa Forde

Description: This session will offer exploration and benefits to students using the digital books for Panorama versus the hard copies.  

Audience: K-5 ELA

Room: 102

Presenter: Kristen Jaros

Description: BrainPOP hosts over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K–12, together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, math, engineering and technology, health, arts and music. Come learn how I use it in my classroom.

Audience: All 3-8 teachers, SPED, EL, Specialists

Room: 65

Presenter: Tricia Moore

Description: PDPlus is personalized professional development and coaching available when and where it's convenient for you. In this session, you'll learn about this professional learning opportunity provided by Youngstown City Schools, how to access it and the benefits for you. Not your typical online learning, PDPlus features real, human experts as course facilitators, job-embedded course assignments and graduate credit opportunities. Join us to find out more!

Audience: PreK-12 teachers, SPED, EL, Specialists, Counselors, Social Workers, Instructional Coaches, Administrators

Room: 69

Presenter: Austin Cadle

Description: Looking to bridge the language gap and ensure content is accessible for all scholars in your building? ELLevation is your one stop shop for English Learner data, PD, and teaching strategies. Learn how to access and understand the language levels of your English Learners, how to better prepare your staff to meet EL needs, and also what strategies are most effective for assisting them in learning classroom level content in their second langauge. 

Audience: Administrators

Room: 61

Presenter: Rachel Carter

Description: Come see how you can use Google Workspace in your work as an Intervention Specialist.

Audience: SPED teachers

Room: 109

Presenter: Rachael Ayers

Description: Not a GoGuardian newbie? Come learn advanced GoGuardian features.

Audience: 2-12 teachers 

Room: 110

Presenter: Lindsay Cameron

Description: Come learn about the new Creative Curriculum to be implemented by K-5 Specialists this year.

Audience: K-5 Administrators

Room: 121