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Monday 5
Digital Tools to Reinforce ELA Skills
Are you looking for ideas to engage students in your ELA Class? Join us for a session where we will look at tools to boost your ELA lessons in all grade bands. We'll go over resources that can help you differentiate your lessons with tools like Kami, Padlet, and more! We will also provide resour
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Wednesday 7
Creating Holiday Ornaments with 3D Design
It's the most wonderful time of year...for your students to get creative and design holiday ornaments! In this session, we will show you how your students can get creative for the holidays by incorportation 3D design technology as well as 3D printers to create unique and personalized ornaments f
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Monday 12
Using Microsoft PowerPoint for Digital Passport Creation
Are you looking for a unique and engaging activity for your students? In this session, we will explore ideas for using Microsoft PowerPoint to send students on a digital passport trip! We will discuss best practices for teaching about a variety of holidays in a culturally reponsive way. This activit
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Wednesday 14
Festive STEAM Challenges for Elementary Classrooms
The holiday season is upon us! This time of year is the perfect opportunity to incorporate some festive fun into the classroom. Join us for our session where we will explore winter and holiday themed STEAM projects and challenges that elementary students can collaborate on. We will dive into the ben
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Monday 23
Using Google Workspace in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom
Students at the secondary level (grades 9-12) are expected to be able to combine and utilize the many skills that they have acquired throughout their schooling years to work independently or collaboratively on projects such as writing research papers, engaging in current events, giving presentations
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Tuesday 24
Inspiring Equitable and Empowering Assessment
Leading change in assessment and grading practices is not for the faint of heart. In fact, advocating for change can leave someone feeling isolated and demoralized amidst the status quo. In this session, learn how to become an inspiring mentor that starts a movement towards equitable and empowering
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Wednesday 25
Tools to Support ENL Family Involvement
Are you looking for strategies to connect with the families of your ELLs? In this session, we will dive into the importance of bridging the gap between school and home life, and how to work with families to make sure that students are reaching their full potential. We will discuss tools for translat
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Wednesday 8
Creating Cross-Curricular Super Bowl Activities
Are you looking to tackle the topic of Super Bowl across the different content areas? In this session, we will look at how you can create cross-curricular activities to teach students about tradition, competition and other defining characteristics of the Super Bowl celebration. We will also explore
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Thursday 9
Google Drive Hacks You Didn't Know Were Possible
Unlock the full potential of Google Drive with Google Workspace expert Alice Keeler! In this course, you'll discover powerful tips and tricks to help you streamline your workflow, organize your files and folders, and collaborate more effectively. Whether you're a teacher struggling to keep y
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Friday 10
Gamifying Civics
Michelle Blanchet, author of Preventing Polarization: 50 Strategies to Teach Kids about Empathy, Politics, and Civic Responsibility, will join us to discuss how we might use games to bridge the gap between SEL and civic engagement. We'll discuss gamification in the classroom as well as some acti
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Monday 13
Transforming 2D Design Using 3Doodler
3Doodler is a 3D pen that allows students to bring their 2D ideas to life! Join us for this session where we will explore opportunities to engineer their own unique designs using the 3Doodler pen. With 3Doodler, students can take their 2D designs and assemble them together to create 3
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Wednesday 15
Raising Heart Health Awareness in Physical Education
February is National Heart Health Month, and it is the perfect time to teach students about the importance of heart-healthy activities and living an overall healthy lifestyle. In this session, we will explore strategies for teaching students about Heart Health Month and showcase specific activities
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Wednesday 1
Celebrating Read Across America Month in the Secondary Classroom
Are you looking for ways to connect with the spirit of Read Across America for your secondary students? In this session, we will discuss a variety of ways you can explore the deeper meaning behind some of the texts of Theodor Seuss Geisel, otherwise known as Dr. Seuss, whose birthday inspired Read A
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Thursday 2
Bring STEM into Every Classroom
Preparing students with the essential skills for the future requires all educators to create a culture for learning that sparks curiosity and innovation. Bringing STEM into every classroom is essential. Explore methods and tools that will empower educators to provide students with opportunities in S
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Monday 13
Adobe Express in the Classroom
Reimagine what students can create using Adobe Express, the free content creation platform by Adobe. We'll explore pre-made templates, collaboration tools, general creation features, and activity ideas. Get ready to take your lessons to new heights!
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Wednesday 15
3D-Design Projects for the Art Classroom
Looking for ways to challenge your students in the art classroom? 3D design and printing has become a leading tool in education, especially when exploring STEAM and project-based learning. Join us as we share ideas for enhancing your pre-existing art lessons with 3D design. Plus, we'll go over a
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Thursday 16
MAD-learn Basics
Looking for an engaging, fun and educational expereience that can merge your classroom curriculum with the building of 21st cetury skills? Than look no further than MAD-learn, the web-based mobile app development program that gives students the opportunity to design, create, and laun
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Monday 20
Self-Reflection Activities for Elementary Parent-Teacher Conferences
Parent-teacher conference season is a great time to give students activities that encourage them to reflect on their work habits, social skills, and identify some of their strengths and weaknesses in the classroom. Whether students are filling out a basic skills form or writing freely about their st
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Tuesday 21
Create a Gamified Choice Board
In this session, join Alice Keeler to explore two popular topics in education: gamification and choice boards. Choice boards allow for increased student agency and amplify student voices by giving them different options for how to connect with the content. This is also a great way to differentiate l
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Wednesday 22
Addressing SEL Through Arts Instruction
Are you looking for unique strategies to promote social-emotional learning skills? Incorporating the arts enables students to express themselves creatively and tap into their social and emotional well-being. In this session, we will dive into the importance of connecting the arts to SEL and explore
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Monday 27
Exploring Advanced Features within Canva
You already learned the basics of Canva in our introductory course, now it's time to take it further and explore even more! We'll take a look at advanced features and dive into additional considerations like project collaboration and recent updates. Join us to explore how you can take y
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Wednesday 29
Creating PBL Activities for the CSDF Standards
With push for computer science concepts to find their way into every classroom and grade level, you might be looking for activities that address CSDF standards in your class. Project-based learning, especially projects that allow students to incorporate STEM technologies, can be a great starting poi
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Thursday 30
Crypto, NFTs, Metaverse, Blockchain... What Educators Should Know
As an educator, are you wondering what these terms are? Do these ideas have anything to do with education? There's an internet renaissance taking place across finance, politics, technology, and other industries, called web3. Similar to the rise of the internet, web3 is changing the way people op
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Monday 3
Digital Tools to Support Students with Autism
Did you know that April is Autism Acceptance Month? Join us for this session where we take a look at some great digital tools for working with students with autism spectrum disorder. We will discuss why digital tools can be so powerful when working with the autism community. We will also provide som
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Tuesday 4
Moving From Consumption to Creation
We often discuss engagement and students' active role in learning. If you looked at the classroom of the 50s, you would see desks in rows, a teacher in the front of the room doing most of the talking, books out on the desks, and students consuming the lesson. Should schools in 2023 follow this s
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Wednesday 5
Strategies to Prepare Students for Standardized Testing
Teachers and students alike may be feeling the pressure of having to properly prepare for spring testing. In this session, we will take a look at the different assessment types, plus test-taking strategies that will make students more comfortable in taking them. Let's grow our approach to testin
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Thursday 6
Domains of Digital Learning
Explore the three domains of digital learning: wellness, competency, and creativity as a framework to design instruction, demonstrate learning, and assess understanding. Create authentic opportunities to capture student voice, make thinking visible, build student agency, and reimagine what post-pand
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Monday 10
Stress Management in the Elementary Classroom
Did you know that April is National Stress Management Awareness Month? For young children, adolescents, and adults, stress can impact life on a daily basis. Join us for this session where we will focus on stress management strategies that are specifically targeted to our elementary students. We will
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Tuesday 11
Digital Safety and the Impact on Student Mental Health
As all schools had to pivot to an online learning environment in 2020, students have been spending even more time online. The increase in screen time by our young people has exacerbated an already existing mental health crisis. From helping students focus on what they can control to encouraging crea
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Wednesday 12
Getting Ready for Parent-Teacher Conferences
Parent teacher conferences can be a stressful time for parents, teachers, and even students, but, it doesn't have to be that way. In this course, we'll take a look at some things that everyone involved can do to get the most out of this critical event! Join us as we see how you can make conf
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Thursday 13
Beyond the Bulletin Board: Reimagining Student Publishing
Redesign instructional objectives and outcomes to promote every student’s voice. Build beyond the bulletin board to capture & model processes, showcase & archive products, spotlight performance, and demonstrate practices. Reframe student publishing to showcase student-learning in a man
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Monday 17
Celebrating Biodiversity with Google Earth Activities
Let's explore the Earth's biodiversity through activities with Google Earth (whether online or downloaded)! These sample activities can show the diversity of climate and the diversity of the life that occupies different regions. We will even explore the human interaction with the environment
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Wednesday 19
Using Social Studies to Foster Effective Writing Skills
Writing happens in every classroom and in every area of life! Social studies is the perfect place for students to hone their writing skills as they craft evidence-based arguments, explanations, historical analyses, narratives, and more. In this session, we'll help you discover strategies and act
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Thursday 20
Innovative Teaching with ChatGPT: Empowering Teachers to Enhance Pedagogy, Not Just Efficiency
In this course, Alice Keeler will explore the ways in which ChatGPT can be used to empower teachers to enhance their pedagogy; encourage creativity and critical thinking; facilitate student-centered learning experiences; and integrate PBL activities. She will also discuss the importance of ethical u
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Monday 24
STEAM Challenges with Strawbees
Strawbees are the perfect tool to inspire students to be creators and inventors! In this session, we will explore Strawbees, a hands-on, easy-to-use kit filled with straws and connectors that students can use to build their own unique creations. We will dive into specific STEAM challenges that stude
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Tuesday 25
SMILE Learning
The SMILE (Shine, Motivate, Inspire, Learn, Elephants) model is not about using technology, it’s about leveraging educational technology as a tool for student success. Let’s explore the SMILE blueprint to look for ways to use edtech that supports learning, opens doors for exploration, an
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Wednesday 26
Introduction to Instructional Coaching
Even the world's most successful athletes, singers, and business people have coaches. Teachers and students alike can benefit greatly from the collaboration that is vital to a successful coaching model. Instructional coaching is a supportive model many districts are embracing. Join us for this s
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Thursday 27
Impact to Influence (Book Launch)
What does it take to create change that celebrates every student? Learn lessons from inspiring local and international figures who have created their own pathways to grow from impacting small amounts of students and teachers to influencing our field around the globe. Whether within or beyond classro
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Monday 1
Promoting Financial Literacy in the Secondary Classroom
Financial literacy (FL) should be an essential skill taught in the secondary education classroom. We will explore the concepts of FL and how to promote them within social science, economics, and mathematics settings. We will review tools and lesson ideas to teach the basics of money management, such
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Tuesday 2
Building Inquiry-Based Instruction
In the standardized testing era, students are too often asked to memorize facts and/or recall ideas without being expected to retain a deeper understanding of the information. Depth in learning comes from focusing on critical thinking, evaluating information, and tapping into students’ intrins
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Wednesday 3
Going MAD for Nutrition & Fitness
Today's students should take control of not only their daily nutrition and fitness regimens, but also their wellness in the digital world. In this session, we will look at technology in order to address both issues. Utilizing MAD-learn's app creation platform, we will demonstrate how student
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X-Factor EDU Wrap Up
Integrating technology into the classroom will help meet students' needs for variety, stimulation, and accessing information. Today's learners are always connected, and the strategies to maximize that connection of technology, pedagogy, and self-care are critical. Hear from X-Factor EDU'
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Tuesday 9
Maximizing Student Success Through Formative Assessment
Formative assessment is an essential component of effective teaching and learning. It helps educators identify areas of improvement, adapt instructional strategies, and monitor student progress. This session will provide participants with practical formative assessment techniques and strategies desi
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Wednesday 10
Supporting ELLs Through Technology
Technology can be a powerful tool to enhance student outcomes! Join us for this course as we will tackle various technologies that can be used to support your ELLs. Additionally, we will differentiate between physical and digital technology, and how your students can use these devices to complete ev
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Tuesday 16
Serve Your School Community with Sora
We will explore the many features and benefits of Sora by OverDrive, including how it can be used to support literacy and learning in the classroom and beyond. We will also demonstrate how to get started with Sora, including how to sign in, borrow books, and customize your reading experience. Whethe
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Creating Scavenger Hunts with Lumio
In honor of National Scavenger Hunt Day on May 24th, we'll show you some tips and tricks for creating and using scavenger hunts with Lumio. Even better, this is a great interdisciplinary activity that can be done throughout the whole school year to promote student engagement.
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Monday 22
Classroom Management Tools for Keeping Students Engaged
No matter the time of year, it is necessary that we develop appropriate strategies for keeping our students engaged. If students are feeling distracted, excited, or even worried, it is essential that we provide them with tools and resources to stay on track during the school day. Join us for this se
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Tuesday 23
MAD-learn Design Thinking Process
This is our second session on MAD-learn where we will take a deeper dive into the 6 step Design Thinking Process. The team at MAD-learn has created this solution to make it easy for students and teachers alike to brainstorm an idea for an app. By following this step by step process, students wi
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Wednesday 24
Engaging Students in Citizen Science
There is so much to discover in our natural world — too much for scientists to handle alone! To maximize efforts, scientists often recruit citizen scientists to help. A citizen scientist is a member of the general public or an amateur scientist. While issues with data validity and collection s
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Thursday 25
Enhancing Your Favorite Classroom Tools with AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been growing in education at exponential rates. Join us in this session as we explore how AI has already been integrated into some of your favorite educational tools such as Bing and Canva. Explore ways to use ChatGPT and DALL-E to create differentiated lessons and c
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Monday 5
Using Schoology to Build an Effective Online Experience for K-2 Students
Are you currently using or looking to use Schoology with your K-2 students? Join us to learn some essential skills and best practices for helping to design an effective online experience for your students on the Schoology platform. We'll look in greater detail at the elementary experience, build
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Tuesday 6
Creative, Productive, and Personalized Classrooms
This session will focus on how and why you can engage students in learning and assessments. We will explore different types of assessments, methods of assessment, and tools that promote student choice and voice in learning. We'll also discuss how you can use assessments to provide students with
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Wednesday 7
Introduction to Cybersecurity
Are you interested in learning more about staying safe in the digital world? In this session, we’ll cover the basics of cybersecurity and strategies for teaching our students to stay protected while working on digital platforms. We will also explore the potential risks associated with working
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Thursday 8
Building Resilience in Students and Teachers
This session will focus on understanding the concept of resilience and its importance in maintaining mental well-being. Participants will learn about practical strategies to develop and strengthen resilience in both students and teachers, including coping with stress, fostering a growth mindset, and
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Monday 12
Celebrating Flag Day with 3D Design
This Flag Day 3D design session will show you how to use 3D design tools and techniques in the classroom for specific purposes. In this course, we will take a look at the brief history of Flag Day and then learn how you can incorporate computer-aided design elements from programs such as Canva and T
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Tuesday 13
Mindfulness and Meditation for Stress Reduction
This session will introduce mindfulness and meditation practices that can help reduce stress and anxiety in both students and teachers. Participants will learn about the science behind mindfulness, the benefits of regular practice, and simple techniques that can be easily integrated into daily routi
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Wednesday 14
Recognizing and Supporting Students with Anxiety
Join us for this session where we will equip teachers with the knowledge and skills to recognize signs of anxiety in students and provide appropriate support. Participants will learn about the different types of anxiety, how they can manifest in the classroom, and evidence-based interventions that c
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The Power of Positive Psychology in the Classroom
This course will explore the principles of positive psychology and how they can be applied in the classroom to enhance mental well-being. Educators will learn about techniques such as gratitude exercises and fostering positive relationships among students, which can contribute to a happier, more pro
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Wednesday 21
Getting Started with Google Drive & Docs
Are you new to Google Workspace? This session will walk you through the most basic functionality of Google Drive and Docs. We'll take you through your first sign in, creating your first folder, and the initial use of documents. We will also review how to use basic features and tools as well as s
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Thursday 22
Digital Wellbeing and Healthy Screen Time Management
With the increasing use of technology in education, it's essential to address the impact of screen time on mental well-being. This webinar will discuss the effects of excessive screen time on students and teachers, strategies for creating a healthy digital balance, and how to promote digital wel
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Monday 26
MAD-learn Design, Build &Test
In this third session of our re-introduction to the new and improved MAD-learn platform we will be taking a deeper dive into the Design, Build and Test phases. The MAD-learn app creation platform allows students to focus on the creative aspect of app creation first, allowing the students
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Tuesday 27
Introduction to Instructional Coaching
Note, this course was previously aired but because of its popularity we are running a recording of this session live at this time. The presenter will not be able to address your questions, but our Professional Development team members will be in the chat box to answer any questions you hav
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Wednesday 28
Empowering Diverse Learners with Student-Paced Lessons
In the era of increasing diversity in classrooms, educators must find innovative ways to meet the needs of all learners. This session will explore how student-paced lesson planning can be used in conjunction with MTSS and UDL frameworks to create inclusive, engaging, and differentiated learning expe
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Thursday 29
Building Independence with Google Classroom Activities
Note, this course was previously aired but because of its popularity we are running a recording of this session live at this time. The presenter will not be able to address your questions, but our Professional Development team members will be in the chat box to answer any questions you hav
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Literacy Apps for Early Education