day 2
Session 1
5 Strategies to Start Personalizing Instruction
Want to personalize but don't know where to start? Come learn about 5 strategies to promote ownership and metacognition from day 1.
Kayla Duncan
ALL
K-5
Room: 1220
"ASPIRE" From Day One: Activities to Build Relationships with All Students and Staff
First week of school activities for self-determination, social/emotional growth, and building a culture of success within the classroom and school environment.
Susan Darlington, Sarah Taylor, Kristin DeBonis, Ashley Millard, Pam Majerus
Social/Emotional Learning
K-12, Admin
Room: 1212
Be Brave, Be Bold...DIFFERENTIATE!
Teachers will learn how to differentiate through content, process or product using specific Social Studies standards. Examples of how you can differentiate within them will be shared. Teachers will need their laptops to access GA standards and itslearning.
Ann Hobbs and Sarah LeBlanc
Social Studies
3-5
Room: 1213
Building Blocks of Balanced Literacy
What will my day look like in a balanced literacy classroom? Is there really time for all that balanced literacy jazz? Those questions and many more will be addressed in this session created to support teachers in building the framework of a classroom focused on the balanced literacy model.
Steve Straughan and Danette Hasek
3-5
Room: 2310
Coming Soon: New Interactive Whiteboards
Want to check out the latest game changer in our classrooms? Come preview the new Clear Touch interactive displays that will be replacing our current interactive whiteboards. ​
Melissa Lodhi (Clear Touch Presenter)
K-12
Room: 1540
Crucial Collegial Conversations: Tools for Talking
Crucial Conversations Lesson 1 - Getting Unstuck: Do you share facts, ideas, feelings, and your opinions candidly and honestly with colleagues? If you struggle, participants in this session will learn to spot conversations that prevent you from getting what you want and to avoid moving from silence to "violence" during conflict.
Lynn Seay & Sherri Black
ALL
K-12
Room: 2315
Ever-changing Section 504 Obligations
Recommended for new 504 Administrators or current 504 Administrators who would like a refresher. This session will provide an overview of school system 504 obligations and how to appropriately consider eligibility and develop appropriate accommodations sing the RtI Desktop. Additional discussion/recommendations will be shared for student's who may meet eligibility consideration for 504 and IST/SST plans.
Paul West
Building 504 Coordinators
K-12
Room: 2212
Getting Flexible! Starting Flexible Seating
Are you ready to get flexible?! Don't be scared to take this step in your classroom; it's more manageable than you think! Come and learn about flexible seating and how you can make this work for your teaching style and your students. We will show you what we have learned over the years (including our new additions and advice from this year!), how we make it work in our rooms, and what our future goals are. Together, we can utilize flexible seating to maximize student engagement and learning!
Kristina Holmes and Kate Lighstone
ALL
K-5 focused (6-12)
Room: 1311
Getting Started with Read and Write for Google
This is an introduction to Read and Write for Google, a literacy tool to support accessibility to instruction for all types of learners.
Amy Scheifflee and Pam Majerus
ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, Accessibility
K-12
Room: 2311
Make your Math Engaging from Beginning to End
Learn to use mathematical discourse, mental math, higher level thinking strategies, rigor, and math manipulatives to ensure that students in grades 3-5 have mastery of mathematical content and can apply knowledge across various concepts. Get rid of those worksheets and make math fun and engaging for students!
Julie Auten and Carmen Weaver
Math
3-5
Room: 2213
Making Research Easy for Students
In this session, participants will learn how to guide students toward scholarly research tools and how to use them successfully. When researching becomes uncomplicated, it is easy to flip from the mindset that research is torture to the idea that research is really more like geeking out.
Kristen Deuschle
ALL
6-12
Room: 1319
myON Literacy Connections
What are best practices for creating projects that align with curriculum? Using Projects in myON can enhance literacy, as well as content area instruction. Projects allow educators to align curriculum topics directly with myON and students can work through assignments at their own pace while practicing underlying literacy skills. Teachers will create a project to support literacy across the curriculum. Please come with a standard or topic in mind from science or social studies.
Saralee Parker
ELA
K-5
Room: 1236
Nearpod Advanced Techniques
This workshop is designed for advanced users of Nearpod who want to discover additional techniques for teaching Nearpod lessons. Participants will uncover ideas for differentiation, combining interactive activities, and integrating favorite edtech tools with Nearpod..
Nearpod Trainer
ALL
K-12
Room: 2308
Screencasting & Video: Clone Yourself to Support Student Growth
Kim Lochbaum
ALL
K-12
Room: 2319
The Epic Guide to Student Engagement: Developing Student-Centered Activities with Choice and Inquiry
We all want to engage students at a higher level. But how do we do that? The key to engagement is high attention and high commitment from our students. However, in order to foster that attention and commitment we must allow students to motivate themselves and each other through choice-based work. In this workshop, A.J. Juliani will tackle these strategies that work to engage students at every grade level and inspire innovative work.
AJ Juliani
ALL
K-12
Room: 1232
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Brian Lack
Math
K-2
Room: 2217
The Progression of Word Problems
Your Students Can Do the Social Studies Fair!
Learn about the Social Studies Fair, which is open to students from 5th grade to 12 grade. This is a great opportunity for your students to really dive deep into a social studies topic and learn research and presentation skills.
Pam Hodge
Social Studies
5-12
Room: 1216
An Introduction to MyPerspectives
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ELA
6-12
Room: 1315