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Friday, June 25, 2021
11:00 AM - 2:30 EST PM Virtual via Zoom |
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Grab a cup of coffee and sign in for the event. Use this time to network and connect with colleagues.
11:00-11:10 Welcome!
We will have a welcome ice breaker activity so we can get to know all of you a bit better.
- Welcome and what to expect
- About ISTE TEN
- Why I teach
- Connect with others
- Get ready to learn!
Breakout sessions
We have five virtual sessions all full of information to help you be an educator of excellence. Check out presenters and session descriptions below!
Session 1: 11:15 – 11:45
This presentation will focus on co-teaching with general education and special education in the virtual environment. Participants will hear from personal experiences of the presenters examples and strategies how to collaborate, manage, and modify the learning space to have accessibility for all students. Examples will include scheduling, transforming modifications and accommodations for virtual learning, and working with general ed, special ed, ESL and ESL bilingual students.
This fall, I faced a new challenge: how to build relationships and recreate the magic in a totally remote classroom. Through collaboration with colleagues across the nation and a lot of trial and error, I came up with ways to build and strengthen relationships through a virtual platform. Come learn ways to engage your students who you may only see through a computer screen; and have a little fun along the way!
Building on glocal (global<-->local) collaborations between universities, this presentation's aim is to enhance a ZOOM and social media network that convenes class meetings and small groups to discuss the UN's 17 sustainable development goals. Participants’ similar experiences and measuring change using the AAC&U Intercultural VALUE rubric will be overviewed.
During this session, you will learn a few quick tips, strategies, and ideas. A choice board of learning topics will be displayed and you will vote on your favorite topic. The majority of the choices can be implemented immediately for any grade level or subject level.
Many lessons have been learned from the past year of remote learning. This presentation will focus on the takeaways such as choice boards as assessments using Flipgrid, Adobe Spark and Eduprotocols in the history classroom.
Session 2: 11:50 – 12:20
2020's sudden shift to distance learning and 2021's shifts in learning post-pandemic pose a serious question: how can instructional coaches best support educators? Participants will learn new instructional coaching strategies and innovative ways to build and cultivate relationships, so that they can implement these practices in their own roles.
In this session, attendees will learn and discuss various effective ways of communicating with families both in-person and in virtual settings. Examples are hosting parent-teacher conferences, weekly communication systems, making schedules, best practices, fostering positive relationships with families, and more. Specific evidence and resources will be shared.
What's more fun than getting to play Minecraft in school with your friends?! Talk about engagement. But, how can you make it fit into your standards while driving creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking? Come to this session and learn how to jump start Minecraft in YOUR classroom. Note: This is a basic intro to Minecraft in Elementary. I'm still learning, too!
Learn with a panel of Einstein Fellows as they share lessons, applications, and innovative ideas in STEM the federal government has available.
Ponder, problem solve, and engage in higher order thinking as you explore tech integrations and free resources whose purpose is to elevate critical creative thinking in all curricular areas. These integrations create rigorous engaging environments and facilitate student leaning through understanding with sticking power!
Session 3: 12:25-12:55
Today’s technology offers many opportunities to learn and grow. First, learn about the “TRANSFORM TOP TOOLS” that offer students innovative learning opportunities. Next, discover ways to use these tools to focus on creation and promote student agency. Last, empower yourself with tech tools that make your learning sticky as well.
The Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach (SOFLA®) is a distance learning model with structured, interactive, multimodal activities, leveraging flipped learning in online contexts and consisting of an 8-step learning cycle. The presenter describes each step: Pre-Work; Sign-In; Whole Group Application; Breakouts; Share-Out; Preview/Discovery; Assignment; and Reflection. Follow-up resources provided.
My presentation will speak on the importance of connection as educators in response to proper self care and mental health and closing the social gaps between not only educators, but between educators and the community. I will make connections between how serving the community and one another supports our students and how we can be our own advocates for support and connection.
Students are online now more than ever before, often on their own devices without supervision. They need to understand the dangers inherent in the online world, including multi-player games. Participants will have access to resources in three languages to empower children and help keep them safe online.
Explore tech integrations you can use to inspire critical thinking and creativity. Infusing higher order thinking questioning strategies into curricular integrations inspires purposeful, meaningful products and elevates activities into more rigorous learning experiences. Move student thinking about their writing and application of learning to the highest levels of Blooms.
Session 4: 1:00 – 1:30
I know we are all Zoom'd, Team'd, and Meet'd out after the last...how many years? But the reality, even before the pandemic, video has become a means for learning in many professions. We even use it on a day to day basis for our own personal learning. When was the last time you watched a video on YouTube or Pinterest? Our students and families do the same thing! So let's take what we've learned about making videos and move forward to ensure that we continue to use them in useful ways for everyone.
Want to know how you can take your professional development and growth into your own hands? The answer is podcasting. This presentation will focus on creating a podcast around your passion, using your podcast platform to build your professional network, and how podcasting can translate into meaningful growth for you and your students.
Discover how removing the artificial chains around writing in school can empower your students to not only be engaged in the act of writing, but use it to reflect, wonder, learn, advocate, and create.
Thrust into online learning, many teachers struggled to create user-friendly interfaces to deliver content. The tool that stands out as easy, free, attractive and effective is Google Sites. Participants will learn to create a digital classroom that is useful in online, hybrid, and in-person teaching environments.
How are educators collecting data in your busy, hectic classrooms? Join mytaptrack for a conversation and overview around the status quo of data collection, the challenges, and ways to make it easier and more effective. We will explore how districts and schools are simplifying data collection, improving accuracy, accelerating learning, and saving a ton of time. You are sure to come away with a new view of how vital educational data can be captured in real time to make quick, actionable decisions to improve student outcomes.
Session 5: 1:35 – 2:05
Equity and social justice are two key items that are becoming prevalent within education circles. However, before these things can take root with fidelity, educators must hone in on their beliefs and biases to ensure they are operating in an equitable mindset. Matt will lead participants in this self-reflection technique.
In this presentation, I will be outlining the various spaces and platforms that are relevant for educators today. Using examples, I will be detailing out why they should be considered, and how they each play an integral part in building a quality professional profile inside and outside of the classroom.
This presentation gives pre-service and new teachers the tools they need to build the strongest possible foundation in the early years of their teaching career.
With so many conversations around race and ethnicity in our educational spaces, it is important to understand that some of the best intentions have unintended consequences. Join me as I share my story of being raised "white" despite a very obvious conflict … I'm not. I will discuss how this approach to equity and inclusion shaped my perceptions and experiences both in and out of school.
Session 1: 11:15 – 11:45
- The Virtual Special Education Classroom: Co-Teaching and Managing
This presentation will focus on co-teaching with general education and special education in the virtual environment. Participants will hear from personal experiences of the presenters examples and strategies how to collaborate, manage, and modify the learning space to have accessibility for all students. Examples will include scheduling, transforming modifications and accommodations for virtual learning, and working with general ed, special ed, ESL and ESL bilingual students.
- Strategies to Support Motivation, Joy, and Building Relationships During Remote Learning
This fall, I faced a new challenge: how to build relationships and recreate the magic in a totally remote classroom. Through collaboration with colleagues across the nation and a lot of trial and error, I came up with ways to build and strengthen relationships through a virtual platform. Come learn ways to engage your students who you may only see through a computer screen; and have a little fun along the way!
- University Glocal Collaborations to Tackle UN 17 Goals
Building on glocal (global<-->local) collaborations between universities, this presentation's aim is to enhance a ZOOM and social media network that convenes class meetings and small groups to discuss the UN's 17 sustainable development goals. Participants’ similar experiences and measuring change using the AAC&U Intercultural VALUE rubric will be overviewed.
- Bite-Sized PD
During this session, you will learn a few quick tips, strategies, and ideas. A choice board of learning topics will be displayed and you will vote on your favorite topic. The majority of the choices can be implemented immediately for any grade level or subject level.
- Moving On: Taking Pandemic Learning into the Future
Many lessons have been learned from the past year of remote learning. This presentation will focus on the takeaways such as choice boards as assessments using Flipgrid, Adobe Spark and Eduprotocols in the history classroom.
Session 2: 11:50 – 12:20
- How COVID Changed Instructional Coaching
2020's sudden shift to distance learning and 2021's shifts in learning post-pandemic pose a serious question: how can instructional coaches best support educators? Participants will learn new instructional coaching strategies and innovative ways to build and cultivate relationships, so that they can implement these practices in their own roles.
- Communication Keeps Us Connected: Family Communication in the Classroom
In this session, attendees will learn and discuss various effective ways of communicating with families both in-person and in virtual settings. Examples are hosting parent-teacher conferences, weekly communication systems, making schedules, best practices, fostering positive relationships with families, and more. Specific evidence and resources will be shared.
- Minecraft in the Elementary Classroom
What's more fun than getting to play Minecraft in school with your friends?! Talk about engagement. But, how can you make it fit into your standards while driving creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking? Come to this session and learn how to jump start Minecraft in YOUR classroom. Note: This is a basic intro to Minecraft in Elementary. I'm still learning, too!
- STEM 101: Federal Tools for Moving STEM Forward
Learn with a panel of Einstein Fellows as they share lessons, applications, and innovative ideas in STEM the federal government has available.
- Rigorous Tech Integrations to Elevate Critical Creative Thinking and Learning (Part 1)
Ponder, problem solve, and engage in higher order thinking as you explore tech integrations and free resources whose purpose is to elevate critical creative thinking in all curricular areas. These integrations create rigorous engaging environments and facilitate student leaning through understanding with sticking power!
Session 3: 12:25-12:55
- TRANSFORM- Techy Notes to Make Learning Sticky
Today’s technology offers many opportunities to learn and grow. First, learn about the “TRANSFORM TOP TOOLS” that offer students innovative learning opportunities. Next, discover ways to use these tools to focus on creation and promote student agency. Last, empower yourself with tech tools that make your learning sticky as well.
- The Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach – SOFLA
The Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach (SOFLA®) is a distance learning model with structured, interactive, multimodal activities, leveraging flipped learning in online contexts and consisting of an 8-step learning cycle. The presenter describes each step: Pre-Work; Sign-In; Whole Group Application; Breakouts; Share-Out; Preview/Discovery; Assignment; and Reflection. Follow-up resources provided.
- Serving Beyond the Classroom
My presentation will speak on the importance of connection as educators in response to proper self care and mental health and closing the social gaps between not only educators, but between educators and the community. I will make connections between how serving the community and one another supports our students and how we can be our own advocates for support and connection.
- Teaching Kids to Be Safe Online
Students are online now more than ever before, often on their own devices without supervision. They need to understand the dangers inherent in the online world, including multi-player games. Participants will have access to resources in three languages to empower children and help keep them safe online.
- Rigorous Tech Integrations to Elevate Critical Creative Thinking and Learning (Part 2)
Explore tech integrations you can use to inspire critical thinking and creativity. Infusing higher order thinking questioning strategies into curricular integrations inspires purposeful, meaningful products and elevates activities into more rigorous learning experiences. Move student thinking about their writing and application of learning to the highest levels of Blooms.
Session 4: 1:00 – 1:30
- Video and the Educator
I know we are all Zoom'd, Team'd, and Meet'd out after the last...how many years? But the reality, even before the pandemic, video has become a means for learning in many professions. We even use it on a day to day basis for our own personal learning. When was the last time you watched a video on YouTube or Pinterest? Our students and families do the same thing! So let's take what we've learned about making videos and move forward to ensure that we continue to use them in useful ways for everyone.
- Podcasts: Professional Development on Your Terms
Want to know how you can take your professional development and growth into your own hands? The answer is podcasting. This presentation will focus on creating a podcast around your passion, using your podcast platform to build your professional network, and how podcasting can translate into meaningful growth for you and your students.
- Write Fully Empowered
Discover how removing the artificial chains around writing in school can empower your students to not only be engaged in the act of writing, but use it to reflect, wonder, learn, advocate, and create.
- Google Sites as Virtual Classroom
Thrust into online learning, many teachers struggled to create user-friendly interfaces to deliver content. The tool that stands out as easy, free, attractive and effective is Google Sites. Participants will learn to create a digital classroom that is useful in online, hybrid, and in-person teaching environments.
- Simplifying Data Collection in our Classrooms
How are educators collecting data in your busy, hectic classrooms? Join mytaptrack for a conversation and overview around the status quo of data collection, the challenges, and ways to make it easier and more effective. We will explore how districts and schools are simplifying data collection, improving accuracy, accelerating learning, and saving a ton of time. You are sure to come away with a new view of how vital educational data can be captured in real time to make quick, actionable decisions to improve student outcomes.
Session 5: 1:35 – 2:05
- Belief Check
Equity and social justice are two key items that are becoming prevalent within education circles. However, before these things can take root with fidelity, educators must hone in on their beliefs and biases to ensure they are operating in an equitable mindset. Matt will lead participants in this self-reflection technique.
- Technology as an Engine for Building Global Influence
In this presentation, I will be outlining the various spaces and platforms that are relevant for educators today. Using examples, I will be detailing out why they should be considered, and how they each play an integral part in building a quality professional profile inside and outside of the classroom.
- How to THRIVE (not just Survive) as a New Teacher
This presentation gives pre-service and new teachers the tools they need to build the strongest possible foundation in the early years of their teaching career.
- The Problem With Color Blindness: Tales of a Black Man Raised White
With so many conversations around race and ethnicity in our educational spaces, it is important to understand that some of the best intentions have unintended consequences. Join me as I share my story of being raised "white" despite a very obvious conflict … I'm not. I will discuss how this approach to equity and inclusion shaped my perceptions and experiences both in and out of school.
2:10 – 2:30 Closing
Prize patrol! Get ready to win some prizes and share your learning during our closing event.
- Share big ideas and takeaway from the sessions
- What I KWL about teaching
