With education changing every year, strategies improving every semester, and students changing every day, how do you juggle and balance what is important in the classroom?? Jump into an in depth discussion on exploring and challenging balance within your classroom
Walk through planning with your PLC Team using the 15-Day Challenge! Practice letting your most essential skills drive your instruction to allow for more depth and mastery for all students. Crafting units with backward planning and intervention/remediation in mind allows for every skill level to really reach their potential. Presenters are math teachers, but these skills are great for any content area. Examples for different subjects and grade levels will be available at the sessions.
This session will highlight the strategies and benefits of assessing using one-pagers. These artistic and creative assessments meet many standards at once, while allowing students to feel a sense of expression & voice. This session will go over all the steps to achieving one-pager success: assignment sheet, materials, rubrics, and variations of the project.
This presentation explores how ClassDojo can transform your classroom by fostering engagement, positive behavior, and strong communication between teachers, students, and parents. Attendees will discover best practices for using ClassDojo’s features, including behavior tracking, messaging, student portfolios, and Class Story to create a supportive and connected learning environment. Practical strategies, success stories, and hands-on demonstrations will empower educators to seamlessly integrate ClassDojo into their daily routines, boosting student motivation and family involvement. Whether you're new to ClassDojo or looking to maximize its potential, this session will provide valuable insights to enhance classroom culture.
If you struggle with finding productive activities for your high achievers and gifted students, then this workshop is for you! Learn strategies and ideas to challenge your students through meaningful activities that will result in higher test scores. Also, develop a menu of inventive work to engage students who finish quickly, so they do not become distractions.
Tired of teaching in a silo? This session will show you how to build meaningful cross-curricular connections that engage students and reinforce key skills across all content areas. Whether you're in math, science, CTE, ELA, social studies, or the arts, you’ll explore easy ways to collaborate, design relevant lessons, and bring real-world learning into your classroom. From using parables in math, to novel circles with STEAM, to workplace readiness through technical writing and soft skills—this session offers practical, tested examples that can inspire your next unit and energize your instruction.
Administrators will learn how to access and read student plans, make intentional decisions about implementing appropriate accommodations, and how to ensure 504 meetings meet all procedural requirements.
a training designed to equip educators with practical, easy-to-implement assistive technology and strategies for supporting students with mild disabilities. From text-to-speech tools to adaptive learning platforms, this session will help you create a space where every student can thrive.
Struggling to get students to write with clarity, depth, and purpose? Whether you teach kindergarten or high school, math or social studies, The Writing Revolution (Hochman Approach) provides simple yet powerful strategies to seamlessly integrate writing into your instruction—without adding to your workload!
Join this engaging session to discover how structured, explicit writing instruction can transform student learning, boost comprehension, and improve performance across disciplines. Walk away with ready-to-use strategies that will revolutionize the way you teach writing—no matter your grade level or content area!
Let’s empower students to think, express, and succeed—one sentence at a time!
The 6 Principals are for any teacher who works with students who are learning English. This session is applicable for K-12 educators who wish to support English learning for their students. This session will be interactive to provide modeling of best practices. Attendees will also receive The 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners K-12 book and Quick Reference Guide (published by TESOL press).
This lesson for Secondary educators will explore the opportunities Canva holds for assessing higher-order thinking tasks at the culmination of a learning unit. Canva features allow students to demonstrate learning through creative projects, infographics, animated presentations and more. By understanding and implementing the educational tools available through Canva, teachers can assess synthesis of taught standards and facilitate peer evaluation in ways that engage students and close knowledge gaps masked in traditional projects. This presentation will have an overview of available features, suggestions for planning assessments, and provide a framework for the appropriate time to incorporate this technology.
Imagine cutting hours off your planning time while delivering more engaging, personalized lessons—sounds like magic, right? Magic School AI is the ultimate AI-powered tool designed for all teachers, in all subjects, at all grade levels! From generating lesson plans and assessments to providing instant differentiation and feedback, this platform does the heavy lifting so you can focus on what truly matters—your students.
Join this session to see how AI can streamline your workload, spark creativity, and supercharge student learning. Whether you're a tech newbie or an AI enthusiast, you'll walk away with practical strategies to make AI your most powerful teaching assistant!
Let’s work smarter, not harder—because teaching should be magical!
The small group presentation, "Driven by Data: The Spanish Fort High School ACT Improvement Plan," will explore a strategic, data-driven approach to enhancing student performance on the ACT. The presentation will outline the current ACT performance trends at Spanish Fort High School, identify key areas for improvement based on data analysis, and introduce targeted instructional strategies designed to address student needs. It will highlight research-based methods, including differentiated instruction, test-taking strategies, and academic interventions, to support student growth. Additionally, the presentation will incorporate a small group activity where participants analyze sample data sets to propose actionable steps for improvement. By the end of the session, attendees will gain a clearer understanding of how data can be leveraged to drive meaningful academic progress.
I am currently an assistant principal at Spanish Fort High School. I have over ten years of experience in education. My background is in data management and analysis. I am currently working on my doctorate in educational leadership.
This is an introductory course geared towards Year 1 and Year 2 school administrators and 504 Coordinators. Participants will learn the foundations of 504 law , BCBE procedural compliance expectations, and how to make data driven decisions when conducting 504 evaluations.
This session will showcase the use of hyperdocs as a pre-reading and pre-viewing strategy. Teachers will walk away with valuable, relevant information on how to curate resources and small tasks so that students can build their own background knowledge before reading or viewing a text.
Participants will learn how to effectively create a referral, a re-evaluation, Snapshot and so much more utilizing Frontline Eduction for Section 504. Participants will engage in hands- on 504 procedural activities utilizing Frontline and Powerschool Special Programs.
Teaching strategies that help your English Learners can also support all students in your class. The ELLevation platform provides over 100 teaching strategies that can be easily incorporated into daily lesson plans. Find out how easy it is to access great teaching strategies!
Want to boost student engagement and make learning more fun? In this session, you'll discover how to gamify any lesson, review, or worksheet! Learn how to design effective review games, create lesson-length interactive experiences, and turn ordinary worksheets into exciting challenges. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced educator, you'll walk away with ready-to-use strategies and tools to make learning more dynamic and enjoyable for your students. Get ready to level up your teaching!
