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

Resources: Link & Toolkit

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

Presentation: LINK

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

Presentation: LINK

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

Presentation: Link

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

Presentation: 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

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Madonna Barwick 

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

Audience: PreK-12 teachers, Administrators

Presentation: Link

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

Presentation: Link & Scope

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

Presentation: Link

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

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Robin Waldorf

Description: Turn your worksheets or ideas for classwork into fun interactive drag and drop slides for your students.  In this session you will learn how to create a drag and drop slide that sets the background so students can only manipulate the answers and not your graphics.  I will use examples for Social Studies, Math, Science, and ELA.  

Audience: ALL 2-12 Teachers, Specialists, SPED

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Traci Cain & Chris Paloski

Description: CK-12 offers customizable, digital textbooks with interactive content for scholars and teachers (flexbooks). Master math & science concepts through regular, personalized practice questions (adaptive practice). Discover new ways of learning Physics and Chemistry with real-world lab simulations. Play, Learn, Interact & eXplore math & science concepts (PLIX). Quickly review concepts with key information (study guides). Organize your scholars in a digital classroom and access an intelligent gradebook that easily displays patterns (automatic grading & reporting). Easily integrates with Google Classroom and Clever.

Audience: ALL PreK-12 Teachers, SPED, EL, Specialists

Presentation: Link

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 sho you this free technology that will make your teaching life easier!

Audience: ALL K-5 teachers

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Tiffaney Trella

Description: Come learn how to create your own website quickly and easily with Google Sites.

Audience: All PreK-12 Teachers, SPED, EL, Specialists

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Rachel Carter

Description: Learn how to use accessibility features on Chromebooks to meet your scholars' needs.

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

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Cathy Cammack, Paula Cipriano, Linda Blama, Karen Woods, Sukanya Batchelor, & Michael J Schubert 

Description: Come get an intro to SameGoal and learn how to use the various parts of the platform.

Audience: New Intervention Specialists

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Joshua Harris

Description: Do you need a quick way to collect formative and summative data instantly? Do you want to make grading assessments easier? Wanted to learn how to get the most out of Google Forms? In this session, we will go over what Google forms are good for, and how to make them. By the end, you will be able to and will make your own.

Audience: ALL 3-12 Teachers

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Andrea Lewinsky

Description: Discover how to curate engaging collections with a range of multimedia types - these can be links from the web, articles, images, PDFs, Tweets, videos, and much more. You can invite people to your collection to collaborate and work together as well as share your collection for others to view. You can also use Wakelet with your students. Discover the world of Wakelet and how to use it! 

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

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Jess Wallach

Description: "Come learn about eSpark and how you will use it this year.

pre-PD survey

Materials: New K-5 teachers

Room: 57

Virtual: LINK

Getting Started with eSpark: Here is the recording of your PD, the slide deck, and your PD guide.

Presenter: Greg Kibler

Description: Learn about updates to Tableau, our data visualization platform, including 2 Factor Authentication.  Find out how to find State Assessment results and released items.

Audience: All K-12 teachers

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Melissa Sternberg

Description: Come and learn how to set up your grade book and how to share it with your co-teachers. 

Materials: NEW 4-12 teachers

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Malorie Figley

Description: "Blooket is a new take on trivia and review games! (Think Kahoot with a spin) This session you will learn the features of Blooket that will make teaching feel effortless and why it is so motivating to students. Not only will you learn the how and why to use Blooket, you will also get to play the game yourself.  If you are looking for a fun new way to check students understanding, then look no further!"

Audience: K-5 teachers, SPED, EL, Specialists

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Heather Smith

Description: Did you know students are 30x more engaged in classes when schools commit to building on students strengths? Get to know your students in about 30 minutes! You can with Thrively! While Thrively offers an awesome strength assessment so students can get to know their inner genius, it helps teachers learn about the kids in their class. This tool is what we have been waiting for. It's not another program. It makes all our programs (PBIS, MTSS, UDL) more effective. While providing educators with helpful information about their classes, it also helps each child thrive! Come check it out! 

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

Presentation: Link

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

Presentation: Link

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

Presentation: Link

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

Presentation: Link

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

Presentation: Link

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

Presentation: Link

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

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Rachel Carter

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

Audience: SPED teachers

Presentation: Link

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

Presentation: Link

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

Presentation: Link

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

Presentation: Link

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

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Amanda Whitmore

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

Audience: K-1 teachers

Presentation: Link

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

Presentation: Digital Resources

Presenter: Corissa Freeman

Description: This class will help you navigate through the homepage, then we will walk you through setting up your course, creating assignments and exams, retrieving lesson plans, assigning lessons, digital resources, and so much more. 

Audience: NEW 6-12 MATH Teachers

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Amanda Whitmore

Description: See how you can use STEM techniques to teach your curriculum.

Audience: PreK-5 teachers

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Jess Wallach

Description: Come review the data tools, learn about updates for this year, and share new tips and tools for elevating eSpark. 

pre-PD survey

Audience: K-5 teachers

Room: 57

Virtual: LINK

Elevate eSpark: Here is the recording of your PD, the slide deck, and your PD Guide.

Presenter: Tracy Palmer & Melissa Forde

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

Audience: NEW K-5 ELA teachers

Presentation: Digital Resources

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 6-12 Science Teachers

Presentation: Link & Scope

Presenter: Anne Rogerson

Description: This session will introduce how a hydroponic Flex Farm works, the fun of growing and benefits to the whole community, learning opportunities for the scholars, the Farmative platform, and an overview of the curriculum and badging program. 

Audience: All Elementary & MS STEAM teachers (REQUIRED)

Presentation: Link

Presenter: Greg Kibler

Description: This session is designed to help Administrators have Google Sheets make their life easier. Often there is data  or other items that need tracked and you need to know how to find it easily.  You will review some of the basics and be exposed to some of the tips and tricks in google sheets.

Audience: Administrators

Presentation: Link