How can schools purposefully support concurrent enrollment students? In this session, participants deepen their understanding of how to best support concurrent enrollment students by analyzing a playbook and collaborating on best practices. Next, participants listen to a panel consisting of educators... Read more »
In this interactive, collaborative session, participants will explore and experience student-centered instructional strategies appropriate for use across PK-5 elementary grade levels and content areas. These strategies are a vehicle to increase rigor, relevance, and student engagement through student-centered... Read more »
Participants will experience a workshop session that provides the fundamentals of Essential Questions. They will then discover how they can use Essential Questions as a focus when lesson planning by creating their own content-specific Essential Questions. Read more »
The Level Up for esports Professional Development Session will introduce the concept of esports clubs. Participants will explore resources and information on how esports clubs can promote college and career readiness, address potential challenges, and discover potential social/emotional benefits for... Read more »
This strategy actively engages readers in a text as they look for and annotate information that fits in predetermined categories of interest or importance. Read more »
This strategy can be used as an icebreaker or get to know you activity to establish community in a classroom, or can be used with content to incorporate physical movement into a formative assessment. For younger grades it can be used to teach simple vocabulary or topics. For older grades, it can be... Read more »
This professional development session focuses on instilling an understanding of the frameworks of authentic learning as well as the SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) model for technology. Participants will apply these practices to the authentic use of technology in their... Read more »