Ed Campos, Jr

Pernille Ripp

Ed Campos, Jr

Music makes everything better. It can change our mood, it can give us energy, and get us moving. In this session, we’ll discuss practical ideas on incorporating music into your classroom. From music cues that send signals to your students for transitions, theme songed activities,…to using a playlist of student walk up songs as your randomized student selector (Bye, Bye Popsicle Sticks!), to using some apps (mostly free) to get your students creating their own music and vibe! Music is healing and we need as much of it in our lives and classrooms as possible..now more than ever. Attendees will leave with tons of resources plus a few Spotify playlists you can use tomorrow to start injecting some fun and you might even get your students dancing while they learn.

Jackie Heinzelmann

Session attendees will learn how Seesaw works, all of the applicable features available in the free version, and have time to create their own account to use in the classroom the following day! We will collaborate on how to create activities, where to find activities already created, and how to use this tool to communicate with parents and guardians. This tool will help save teachers time and paper!

Alicia Williams

In this workshop participants will deepen their knowledge of the history and definition of race and racism, enhance their understanding of how race and racism manifests in classrooms, schools, and organizations, practice applying a racial equity lens to scenarios related to race and racism, and gain strategies for creating racial equity in classrooms, school, and organizations

Ed Campos, Jr

The pandemic seems like it’s never ending and it’s taken a toll. Make Sure you “Practice Self Care” is most definitely easier said than done. Let’s acknowledge how crappy this has been for everyone, but especially teachers. If we collectively acknowledge it, we can collectively try and address it. There’s not enough time in the day to get everything done so let’s huddle together and share some of our best time saving techniques (using tech and non-tech), efficient and quick self care routines, and then some easy, practical, and fun ways to implement SEL every day in our classrooms.

Andy Flaherty

Teachers will be engaged in the reflective journal framework first developed by Progoff and then employed by my mentor B.J. Wagner, at the Chicago Area Writing Project were we co-taught. Teachers will experience writing in action and begin to see the parallels between their social emotional learning at that of their students.

Matthew Winters

Adding technology to a class can be a difficult process for many teachers. Due to time, extra duties, and the amount of work teachers do on a daily basis adding new technology can be difficult for many teachers. By applying discovery and creativity to the process, many teachers are able to apply technology in ways that expand their classroom and engage students more thoroughly in course curriculum.

This session will explore three examples of creative exploration of technology including Ghost Photography, Digital Button Making, and Curating a Digital Time Capsule. Come explore how to creatively explore technology with your students!

Regina Armour

How do we, as educators, serve our students at the highest levels, and also prepare them for inequities and tough situations they will face as they move and grow away from us. We all know the world can be hard to negotiate, and we know our students may be some of the most vulnerable. Part of our students’ success is to have skills, tools and strategies to make that journey into adulthood as confident as possible and to be able to advocate for oneself. So: What skills do they already have? What skills do they now need? How can we as educators support them the best we can within and across our schools? What skills are non-negotiable today….post COVID? We know the world has changed. That is why we need to make OUR students globally competent ones who: experience the world; understand perspectives; communicate ideas; and advocate for all the services, supports and access they deserve! This workshop would be especially relevant to High School Teachers and School College Counseling staff.

Rosalyn Washington

Are you ready to learn about digital tools to guide your students while striking a needed balance between allowing the productive struggle and needed supports? If you need a toolkit to provide scaffolding, and extra supports to struggling learners, and students reading complex texts, come join this session. Get ready to explore best practices for teaching essential literacy skills with engaging digital tools.

Ayhan Caputlu

In this session, along with getting more familiar to different types of feedback, various ways to provide effective feedback such as timing, manner, referencing a skill, culturally responsiveness will be discussed

Andy Flaherty

Using the poem “Ego Tripping” by Nikki Giovanni, teacher will explore the relationship between voice and improved writing to communicate ideas. As some of the greatest educators have acknowledged we must mimic the greats to become great. “Borrowing” ideas and structures/forms actually helps students co-author their own writing before writing originally. From Don Murray to B.J Wagoner mimetic writing has been used for those reluctant writers. Do not be afraid of poetry. You need not be a poet or writer to gain useful knowledge.

Tonya Kelly

E.P.I.C means Engage Positive Imaginative Creative Kids. Implement EPIC kids in your classroom by teaching real-world practice in a safe learning environment where young people can explore their own ideas, develop skills and build confidence in themselves.

Ms. Idil Hassan Ed.S

Participants will learn about one the largest immigrant populations across the Midwest. They will learn about cultural considerations as it pertains to the school system. Parent expectation about schools and ways to bridge the gap between home and school will also be explored. Suggested preparation: be ready to learn with an open mind!

Kimber Coté

We’ll begin with student created rubrics and self-assessment on those rubrics, then progress to SEL and academic goals setting and student self-assessment of their progress toward those goals.

Dr. Krista Welz

This informative session will provide hacks for administrators when using Google Apps, such as Gmail, Docs, and Sheets. District school leaders will use these tips to work smarter, not harder. The tips will help ease their workload and provide a faster, efficient way of completing administrative tasks. From learning about Gmail hacks, Google Sheet queries and apps script codes, Google Doc workflow tips – participants will surely leave the session with a wealth of information that can be turnkeyed to other administrators.

Elisa Salazar

Participants will walk through a reflection exercise to become more.

Aishling Dean

This session aims to identify and explain best practice in modifying social emotional learning to meet the needs of all learners, no matter the learning platform. We will discuss tips for virtual, hybrid and in person learning and have time for reflection of current practice. The end of the session will allow for open critical discussion. Please ensure you have access to an additional device, like a phone.

Melissa Mulert

This session shows how to break up a 90-minute teaching block into 45 minutes of mastery-based learning and 45 minutes of project-based learning every day. You will see an example of a scope & sequence for 5th grade math. Next you will see the flow of a mastery-based lesson (video, notes, practice, mastery check) and a project-based lesson. Finally you will use Flipgrid to practice explaining a topic.

Jessica Reed

This session will focus on tried and true different technology applications that enforces inclusion and collaboration. We will discuss some different ideas based on students with disabilities. This is a make and take type session.

Dr. Krista Welz

Participants will learn new technology tools that will enable students to dive into the writing process, receive immediate feedback, and practice their reading and writing skills. Participants will also be given a variety of free, interactive literacy and writing templates to use in Google Docs, Google Slides, and Jamboard. Participants will also engage in websites where they can create digital interactables for their students. Includes NJSLA-aligned question stems and digital notebooks.This will be a highly-interactive session.

Elisa Salazar, LMSW, MS, MA

Participants will learn practical skills for their work and life to communicate bravely, listen and give helpful feedback and use their wisdom.

Arlen Kimmelman

Save time and frustration by making tutorials that not only capture the steps as you do them but can also be used in 6 different modes: Try it, watch it, view it, do it, print it, and quiz it! iorad, the tutorial builder, is a free extension for an interactive tutorial maker. In this session I’ll show you how to use the iorad extension to create your own tutorials and to access it to find the HowTos you may need while you’re using Google products. The tutorials you create in iorad document the steps you capture and automatically create the accompanying text. You can also choose to add a voice to read the text, or you can record your own narration. Then use the tutorials with your students or your staff. That’s it; you’re done! AND… You have my word that this isn’t a sales pitch. Everything you’ll be shown is available for FREE. Suggested preparation: make a free iorad account and install the Chrome extension.

Brandilyn Stroup

Participants will learn how to initially get setup using Kami and how to deploy licenses to students. They will learn about the various tools Kami offers before delving into specific ways to integrate these tools into their classroom and content area. Participants will also learn how to use the tool to create digital whiteboards and digital anchor charts. Discussions on how to use the tools for collaboration will occur as well as how to use the program for real-time feedback. Suggested preparation: create your free Kami account and install the Kami Chrome extension.

Rosalyn Washington

Have you and your students created awesome digital artifacts that need a spot to live? Organize multi media in dynamic digital portfolios. Students and educators can organize, share, showcase and archive work with Digital Portfolios. These interactive and flexible tools allow for more than just storage, and can be a collection of valuable artifacts which can be easily shared. Need a portfolio for project based learning, thematic units, or end of year exhibitions? Come get hands on practice with tools that are easy to access, use and master by both teacher and student.

Kimber Coté

We will use “Shark Tank” as the jumping off place for student social entrepreneurship. We’ll explore a model that can be adapted for use as a single unit in a class, or expanded into a whole elective course of its own.

Kimber Coté

We will walk through the process of student-directed inquiry projects with attendees participating from the student perspective. We’ll look at how to adapt the process for different types and levels of inquiry.

Catherine Van Winkle

The invaluable voice of our students! Have you ever stopped to think how our young students are sometimes the best professors we’ve ever had? Do you remember how great it felt when you were a young student and the teacher used YOUR idea for something in the classroom? Do you remember when your teacher asked you to help another student because you knew how to explain the answers to others? In a format of collaborative workshops, discussions, breakout sessions, teachers will discuss and learn about strategies of incorporating students voices in our everyday teaching. Come prepared to discuss and share!

Dincer Coach

This session will focus on technology use in the middle/high school science classrooms. We will look at ways students can utilize tech to show and share their learning with others.

Stephanie L Stern

The NASA Behavior Model was designed after the best skills and talents of NASA’s engineers. Stephanie has reimagined the Model to work as a behavior rubric for students that works across subject and content, and includes all students, regardless of background.

The session focuses on authentic actionable behaviors expected across disciplines, and elevates the student’s confidence to meet the expectations, because they are not only expected in the classroom, but I’m solving real world problems.

Dr. James Beeghley

This session will demonstrate how combining primary and secondary historical resources with technology can engage students in “doing history” while getting them to act like historians. During the session, attendees will learn various strategies for cross curricular activities that encourage research, collaboration, and creativity.

Derek Hakes

One of the biggest struggles of any classroom teacher – new or otherwise – is classroom management. Designing a management structure upon which everyone can agree seems to be a magic elixir that takes years to perfect. Truly (and unfortunately) one size does not fit all. Yet what if it did? What if teachers could find that one missing ingredient that makes the potion work? In this class, participants will discover how using students’ culture can make for a powerful change in how their classroom is ran, and will further learn how to leverage student voices to create a classroom management structure that both forms meaningful relationships as well as addresses the gap between whose class it really is. Suggested preparation: bring your classroom management plan.

Heather Allison

Research has proven that students are more successful when they are engaged in class. This session will focus on implementing technology in physical and virtual classrooms to promote student engagement. We will practice using a variety of tools and technological resources to enhance the students’ learning experiences and increase engagement. Participants will leave with practical tools and strategies to increase student engagement in their class.