Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
Annotating a text allows students to process information about an author’s purpose and point of view. In this lesson, students will learn techniques for analyzing a text to create an argumentative paragraph related to an author’s style. This lesson may be adapted to fit any text with a particular style... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 20th, 2024
Style and Syntax
This lesson is meant to be taught after WWI content and introduces your students to WWII. Students will learn how economic and political issues after WWI lit a fuse that exploded into WWII. Using hands-on activities and discussions, students will explore the vocabulary and multiple causes of WWII. Following... Read more »
Created by: Kim Press
Date Updated: June 27th, 2024
Causes of WWII
Be ready to move! Classroom practices that engage and maintain student interest while promoting student-centered learning and real-world connections are highlighted in this lesson. Students use video technology to gain opportunities to communicate in a new and exciting manner. Students experience a... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: October 14th, 2024
Building Relationships & Community in the Classroom
This lesson engages students in the concept of money and counting money. Students participate in hands-on activities that allow them to visualize and master the skill. Read more »
Created by: Maria Montano
Date Updated: May 23rd, 2022
Counting Money
Students will use Wacom tablets to make monochrome images, burn them to transparency paper, and make some shirts and/or bags with them. Students also will watch ICAP interviews with a screen-printing business that prints its own materials and will then reflect on this as a career option. Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: May 30th, 2023
Making Silk-Screen Prints Using Transparencies
This lesson focuses on events that led up to and occurred during the "Space Race" between the United States (U.S.) and the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic (U.S.S.R.). The lesson introduces students to the astronauts, cosmonauts, scientists, and politicians who played pivotal roles on both sides.... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: May 24th, 2023
The Space Race
Diamonds, Not Just a Girl's Best Friend
Students will watch an ICAP video of Plains tribe member Crystal Pewo Lightfoot who makes star quilts and start quilt based designs. They will learn the history of the quilts and the Plains tribes, examine quilts using modern principles of design, and make a design of their own. Students will share... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: May 20th, 2024
Diamonds, Not Just a Girl's Best Friend
The basics of envelopes and applying the concepts to musical performance
In this lesson for band classes, students will discuss what “attack” and “release” mean in a musical context. Students will participate in a “30-Second Expert” activity in pairs, in which one student reads about ADSR (attack, decay, sustain, and release) envelopes on synths and the other reads about... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: May 7th, 2024
The basics of envelopes and applying the concepts to musical performance
How do we keep the library organized? In this lesson, students reflect on their prior knowledge of libraries and librarians using a KWL chart. Then, students practice shelving virtually before jigsawing a reading about Melvil Dewey and the Dewey Decimal System. After watching some videos on shelving,... Read more »
Created by: Jessica Armstrong
Date Updated: November 15th, 2024
Library Training
This professional development session is the mathematics content-specific day of the Formative Assessment Institute. In this session, participants will learn what formative assessment looks like in a mathematics classroom and will create formative assessments to take back to their classrooms. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: June 5th, 2024
This professional learning session will focus on how to incorporate a love of reading and student choice into all classes. Participants will explore a variety of authentic strategies that support reading comprehension, substantive conversations, and student choice to gain a deeper understanding that... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: July 5th, 2024
Be ready to move! Classroom practices that engage and maintain student interest while promoting student-centered learning and real-world connections are highlighted in this presentation. Participants will use video technology to understand how students can communicate their learning in a new and exciting... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: September 18th, 2024
In this session, participants will investigate authenticity and e-learning and connect them to create meaningful experiences for their students. We know that authentic teaching engages students in real-world problems and situations. When teachers incorporate their knowledge of authentic learning with... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: May 1st, 2024
Teachers know the importance of discussion in the ELA and social studies classrooms, but engaging students in discussion can feel especially difficult. To help teachers increase student engagement, this session will introduce the following strategies: Chat Stations, Agreement Circles, Elevator Speech,... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: March 17th, 2023
When faculty or staff feel strongly connected to the vision and can clearly see how their role aligns with the strategic priorities, they feel valued and are motivated to do well. This professional learning session is part of a series that explores the eight aspects of organizational culture and climate... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: May 25th, 2023
Some leadership practices feel as if they add to work demands, while others become a resource that lightens the weight of those demands. When leaders are supportive and have built trust-filled relationships with their staff, performance effort and quality increase. This professional learning session... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: May 13th, 2024
This session dives into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential to revolutionize student success. It is designed to explore how various AI tools can extend educators' and counselors' reach beyond the classroom, providing personalized support and streamlining administrative tasks.... Read more »
Created by: Allie Bishop
Date Updated: September 13th, 2024
In this professional development, participants explore elements of student engagement and examples of positive classroom culture. Next, they participate in a variety of engaging instructional strategies as learners and gain experience modifying and/or scaffolding these strategies to support their own... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: August 13th, 2024