Presenter: Jon Smith

Description: This session will guide you through the basics of Book Creator, including: signing in, creating your first library, inviting students to join, creating, reading, and publishing books, and managing your libraries.  We will explore strategies for getting the most out of Book Creator for the specific grade level you will be teaching.

Audience: PreK-5 Teachers, Specialists

Room: 60

Presenter: Corissa Freeman

Description: ClassFlow makes it easy to create interactive activities and lessons that capture students’ attention and help them learn and succeed. 

Convenient: Have your students join your classroom simply by using a unique link—no need to go to your IT administrator to sync with your roster and no accounts required. 

Connected: Connect with students using any type of device, including laptops, Chromebooks, tablets, smartphones, and learner response clickers. 

Integrated: Import content from various sources and integrate with your current accounts, including Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and Dropbox.

Audience: All K-12 teachers

Room: 67

Presentation: LINK

Presenter: Kristen Jaros

Description: Using a hyperdoc or choice board can add to your class lessons and help promote collaboration in the class. I use them as part of my project-based class model. They can also be used as a form of assessment.

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

Room: 104

Presenter: Marlayne Tabor

Description: NWEA MAP Growth assessments provide teachers with data to help them target instruction for their students, and IXL makes it easy to get the most out of this data with NWEA Map Growth plans. The plans, combined with specific IXL skills, can help students grow and close learning gaps so that each student can achieve their full academic potential. For those students that are in AP Literature and Language Composition classes, this can also work with AP Progress Checks. 

Audience: 9-12 ELA & Math teachers

Room: 118

Presenter: Mary Ramhoff & Ron Walcott

Description: Come learn how to find materials to help prepare your scholars for the Ohio State Tests. Also, learn how to use Edulastic data to inform your teaching.

Audience: 3-12 teachers

Room: 107

Presenter: Matt Garcher

Description: Explore your MacBook and unleash it's potential with shockingly simple, yet powerful tips and tricks to enhance your user experience. In this session we will focus on productivity tips and shortcuts that will enhance your workflow in apps like Calendar, Notes, Finder and many more.

Materials: A charged MacBook and iPad (some features will highlight the connectivity between the two devices)

Audience: Administrators who have MacBooks

Room: 61

Presenter: Scott Buell

Description: Come learn about the Drone Legends curriculum and get ready for this year! 

Audience: Middle School STEAM teachers (REQUIRED)

Room: CHOIR ROOM 026

Virtual: LINK

Presenter: Andrea Lewinsky

Description: With Canva for Education, you can create the most engaging lessons and run activities for students in class. You and your students can create and personalize your own designs from scratch, or choose from thousands of high-quality, educational templates for any subject, grade, or topic, and enjoy all of Canva's premium features for free. Come learn how to create something that will wow your intended audience!

Audience: All PreK-12 teachers, SPED, EL, Specialists, Admins

Room: 110

Presenter: Madonna Barwick 

Description: Come learn about the new process to create IPDPs, document PD, and renew your license.

Audience: PreK-12 teachers, Administrators

Room: 109

Presenter: Austin Cadle

Description: Looking to bridge the language gap and ensure content is accessible for all scholars in your classroom? ELLevation is your one-stop shop for assisting English Learners across all content areas. Learn how to easily access and understand the language levels of your English Learners, and also what strategies are most effective for assisting them in learning content in their second language. 

Audience: All 6-8 teachers & staff members

Room: 102

Presenter: Devin Alexander

Description: The Returning to Paper Pep Rally is a session that takes a deeper dive into Paper’s features and resources to add Paper to classroom routines. This session will highlight the ways teachers can implement Paper into classroom routines and instructional activities and review Paper’s resources with activities and lesson plans to incorporate Paper’s features into the classroom. By the end of the session, attendees will be able to develop a plan of action to implement Paper effectively in their classrooms. 

Audience: 6-12 Teachers, Counselors, Department Leads, & Instructional Coaches 

Room: 128

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, Admins

Room: 69

Presenter: Christina Jandrokovic, Diane Herdman, & Terri Jennings

Description: Come learn how to navigate and use the Savvas Science program in your class this year. 

Audience: NEW K-5 Science Teachers

Room: 65

Presenter: Stephanie Blose

Description: Come learn how to navigate and use the Savvas MyPerspectives ELA program in your class this year. 

Audience: NEW 6-12 ELA Teachers

Room: 124

Presenter: Greg Kibler & Mark Assion

Description: DRF's can come at you fast and furious.  During this training for DEANS, we will explore the proper way to document DRFs, ways to document your discipline progression, and verifying DRF completion.  Additionally, we will discuss how you can be an advocate for your building and use the data available in Tableau.

Audience: ALL Deans

Room: 57

Presenter:  Joanne Carney-Smith

Description: Webinar: This portion of the training will be offered as an online session. 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. 

Audience:

Room: 125

Presenter: Patricia Wahlsten with IT facilitator

Description: This workshop is designed to prepare teachers to use Gizmos immediately in their classrooms. The course introduces the major features and functions of the ExploreLearning website and shows teachers how Gizmos can look in their classrooms. In the workshop, an experienced ExploreLearning instructor models a math and science lesson with Gizmos so that participants can identify and deconstruct best teaching practices. Teachers use this information to begin planning exemplary lessons with Gizmos for their students.

Audience: NEW 3-12 Math & Science Teachers

Room: 106

Virtual: LINK

Presenter: Cheryl Rowley

Description: This workshop will help teachers investigate ways to effectively infuse literacy into science lessons with Gizmos. Participants explore the use of the Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning Framework to construct scientific explanations through experimentation, data analysis, and argumentation. The instructor demonstrates lessons that use argumentation to support scientific investigations.

Audience: 3-12 Science Teachers

Room: 123

Presenter: Lindsay Cameron

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

Audience: K-5 Art, Gym, & Music teachers (REQUIRED)

Room: 121