This course will clarify the responsibilities of the K-12 general education teacher and paraprofessional, ensuring that both parties understand how they contribute to the educational experience of exceptional education students. Explore how these professionals can work together to develop individualized support strategies, differentiate instruction, and create inclusive learning environments. Discuss strategies for creating a positive, respectful partnership.
Now that student ACT scores have been shared with IXL, use this session to learn more about what students can do with their personalized pathway, how you can monitor growth and proficiency and motivate students to stay engaged with IXL practice.
Now that student ACT scores have been shared with IXL, use this session to learn more about what students can do with their personalized pathway, how you can monitor growth and proficiency and motivate students to stay engaged with IXL practice.
Explore how to address varied skill gaps and readiness levels with ease and automation with Apex Tutorials. Whether used for all or a sub-set of students, you will learn how to leverage this adaptive skills instructional tool to invigorate lesson plans, engage your learners, while leveraging technology to meet the varied needs of your students.
In this interactive workshop, secondary educators will explore how social-emotional learning (SEL) can serve as a powerful tool to strengthen student relationships and build a more inclusive, connected classroom environment. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how SEL competencies—such as self-awareness, empathy, and relationship skills—impact student interactions and overall well-being. Through hands-on activities, practical strategies, and collaborative discussions, educators will learn how to use CharacterStrong to integrate SEL into their daily teaching practices, fostering trust, empathy, and positive communication among students.
This session provides 6-12 grade social studies teachers with an opportunity to collaboratively plan. Participants will work together to analyze the district instructional guidelines, develop aligned lesson and unit plans, and foster cross-district collaboration.
Come learn about and work with the different tools available on Desmos. I'll share some of my techniques that I use (especially relating to geometry). There will be time to play around and create something of your own as well.
This presentation discusses what is really in vaping devices and the vapor they produce, and the possible long-term health consequences of vaping. The course content also includes reviews of advertising messages and the audience they are targeting: youth and young adults.
The focus of our session will be on exploring student engagement strategies through the lens of congruency. We will engage in activities that develop accuracy with vocabulary, promote student voice and collaboration, and encourage visible student thinking. Participants will leave the session with ideas for the development of their own student centered lesson plans.
This hands-on, immersive experience is designed to help educators deepen their understanding of an effective and practical strategy to support students with the Science and Engineering Practice of Asking Questions called the Question Formulation Technique (QFT), a method that teaches students to generate and refine their own questions, fostering critical thinking and enhancing phenomena-based learning. Participants will observe a phenomenon from a OpenSciEd High School Lesson, collaborate in a small group utilizing intentional discourse structures, to revise and develop testable questions for the causes of the phenomenon. Resources include an OpenSciEd Lesson, a structured, collaborative questioning form for engaging students with the QFT, guidance and question stems for helping students revise questions, student discourse table structures, and sentence stems for support with developing a whole class Driving Question Board (DQB).
Create dynamic, interdisciplinary learning experiences for your students by integrating economics into your U.S. history course. Attendees will experience exercises from two lessons and access a practical teaching guide that explains key economic concepts, maps them to each period in American history, and provides over 20 classroom-ready lesson plans.
Agrivoltaics is an exciting method of land use in which the same land is used for both growing food and producing solar energy. Agrivoltaics has the potential to mitigate some of the challenges with current food production, including water availability and energy needs, while increasing crop yields. In this session, you will become familiar with agrivoltiacs and learn ways to explore this science with your students through hands-on investigations. Students’ experiential learning with agrivoltaics kits provides a rich opportunity for teaching across the curriculum and for tapping into diverse funds of knowledge. You will leave with ideas for three-dimensional learning activities that are standards-aligned and adaptable for grades 6-12.
Participants will engage with the five phases of focused note-taking to understand the critical connection between the learning intention, the proposed Essential Question, and the content being delivered.
Pick up some pre-developed and ready to implement systems and protocols for your science classrooms here! The programs covered are available today and aim to protect liability, increase lab awareness, and act as a resource for science teachers at all schools. Curious about chemicals? We will cover how to access the district Hazcom program and training; including SDS protocols, Chemical Disposal, fume hoods, and general housekeeping. Eager for Emergency preparedness? Learn about the importance of emergency equipment inspections, fire extinguishers, spill kits and fire blankets. We will also go over how to correct and prevent Fire Marshall violations in your classroom. Striving for Safety? Come learn about Risks' Health and Safety Program and leave with a pre-made lab safety checklist for use in your classroom. Have questions? Members of the Risk team will be present and happy to help! We look forward to seeing you in our session!
Pick up some pre-developed and ready to implement systems and protocols for your science classrooms here! The programs covered are available today and aim to protect liability, increase lab awareness, and act as a resource for science teachers at all schools. Curious about chemicals? We will cover how to access the district Hazcom program and training; including SDS protocols, Chemical Disposal, fume hoods, and general housekeeping. Eager for Emergency preparedness? Learn about the importance of emergency equipment inspections, fire extinguishers, spill kits and fire blankets. We will also go over how to correct and prevent Fire Marshall violations in your classroom. Striving for Safety? Come learn about Risks' Health and Safety Program and leave with a pre-made lab safety checklist for use in your classroom. Have questions? Members of the Risk team will be present and happy to help! We look forward to seeing you in our session!
The course will provide professional development from McGraw to instruct and support teachers in using the new health adoption for online curriculum and resources.
Our students are still significantly changed by the disruptions to learning that they encountered. Teaching has had to change as a result. This session will provide practical strategies that dovetail with CPM beautifully in order to support learners as they overcome these challenges.
Educators review Personalized Instruction data and identify students who need additional support. They create an action plan and identify resources for intervening with teacher-led instruction for students who need additional support with i-Ready lessons
Educators are introduced to Learning Games and the basic principles of their design. They also experience the Learning Games as students and discuss collaboratively with colleagues how they will use Learning Games with their students. Finally, they learn the recommendations for student usage and view reports that show how much time students are spending on gameplay and how they are doing.
Educators explore i-Ready data and resources to enrich and extend student learning, including i-Ready Personalized Instruction, Tools for Instruction, Tools for Scaffolding Comprehension, Learning Games,.
This session unpacks the myth of “Chinese” as a single language, exploring the country’s linguistic diversity and the geographical and historical formation of regional languages. We’ll trace the rise of Putonghua as a national standard and examine how shifting historical and political contexts have shaped the language, revealing the role of language standardization in broader political agendas.
Presenter: Xi (Lucy) Lin, UofA Center for East Asian Studies
This lesson focuses on the twin imperatives of a mining engineer: get as much copper out of the earth while spending the least amount of money and making the smallest impact on the environment as possible. This lesson flows most naturally from the previous one, “A Peek Below,” but the basic concepts from that lesson will be very briefly reviewed for teachers unable to attend both sessions. In this lesson, teachers will review mathematical formulas and principles for describing area, volume, mass, density, and concentration and apply these concepts to design a mine that maximizes profits for its investors while minimizing the impact on the environment. This lesson requires at least a 6th-grade proficiency in math but is adaptable all the way through calculus.
This professional development session is designed to equip teachers with the knowledge and skills necessary to teach media literacy effectively. Participants will learn how to help students critically analyze media messages, recognize bias, and develop informed opinions. This session will cover essential concepts, strategies, tools and resources to integrate media literacy into your lessons.
Objective: Identify Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) and other Culturally Relevant Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Teaching strategies, particularly scaffolding and CR strategies (SPARKS), for middle and high school teachers (6-12 graders).
Instructors will: 1. Provide two examples on how to apply Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) and SLA Teaching strategies, in the classroom. 2. Provide prompts, charts, a short story to read, construct a lesson (with scaffold and CR element), graphic organizers, discussion questions, jigsaw (butcher paper), simplify written instructions or texts.
Attendee Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify at least two examples of Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) and Second Language Acquisition SLA Teaching strategies, Teaching Practices, particularly how to apply scaffolding and CR strategies in the classroom. 2. Analyze teaching strategies to use in the classroom.
Target population: ELD, SLA, CRPI, EDI, Spanish, and ALE (DE/Honors/GATE) teachers and TAs.
Participants will learn and engage in self-care by learning about how compassion, sympathy, perspective and reflection play a major role in our work as educators utilizing strategies outlined in the Onward book and workbook written by Elena Aguilar.
Providing an in-depth, collaborative, and project-based learning experience to spark student interest in your middle level science classroom.
A powerful approach to fostering inquiry in the classroom and encouraging students to take ownership of their learning is by engaging them with module-level phenomena and lesson-level science probes. This process allows students to identify and challenge their preconceptions, laying the groundwork for breaking down complex concepts into smaller, actionable investigations. Through lesson-level activities such as Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER), students participate in meaningful exploration. The overarching goal is to make science engaging and relevant by integrating real-world connections, including lesson-level explorations of STEM careers, the nature of science, and other practical, application-based opportunities.
Synergizing AP Seminar: A Collective Journey - opportunity for AP Seminar teachers to collaborate and reflect on the past semester for teaching this course. College Board facilitator will host and support teachers on this journey.
Participants will explore the neurobiology of trauma and its impact on brain development, mood, and behavior, particularly in children. Through engaging in the Brain Architecture Game, they will gain hands-on experience to deepen their understanding of trauma's effects and identify strategies for fostering resilience and promoting healing.
Many students struggle to transition from procedural algebra to structural algebra and find it challenging to produce the “nth” term in a linear change pattern. Pattern blocks plant the seeds of growth patterns that encourage students to make conjectures about rates of change and y-intercepts in linear functions. By the end of this session, participants will be able to how to use pattern blocks to help students understand the relationships between concrete, visual, verbal, symbolic, and contextual representations of y=mx+b.
Educators learn how to use projected proficiency data at midyear to inform their planning that uses Diagnostic reports to plan instruction to accelerate growth.
Educators review resources and discuss strategies for increasing student engagement and promoting student ownership over their own learning through student data tracking. They reflect on the benefits of integrating data tracking with data chats and create an action plan for having students track their own data.
Educators reflect on the benefits of engaging students in discussions about their data. They explore resources to use for student data chats at different times in the school year and plan for a data chat using the Student Data Chats Pack.
Educators learn how to use projected proficiency data at midyear to inform their planning that uses Diagnostic reports to plan instruction to accelerate growth.
Educators review resources and discuss strategies for increasing student engagement and promoting student ownership over their own learning through student data tracking. They reflect on the benefits of integrating data tracking with data chats and create an action plan for having students track their own data.
Educators reflect on the benefits of engaging students in discussions about their data. They explore resources to use for student data chats at different times in the school year and plan for a data chat using the Student Data Chats Pack.
Educators access and analyze their Standards Performance report alongside the Diagnostic Results report to plan for whole class and small group instruction using iReady instructional resources. They review their Standards Performance Report using questioning strategies to conduct proactive instructional planning and use i-Ready data to create a plan for grade-level, whole class and small group instruction, considering scaffolds needed to help students access grade-level content, and whether some students would benefit from small group instruction focused on prerequisite skills, additional scaffolded support or practice of grade-level content, or areas for enrichment.
Educators use i-Ready Diagnostic data to plan for small group differentiated instruction using i-Ready resources.
