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Jon Corippo will deliver his Keynote and then have EduProtocols sessions in the morning.
Featured Speakers Jake Miller and Erica White will have ongoing sessions throughout the day.
🎆Encouraging Technology through Instructional Coaching Abigail Dutcher-Langley, Instructional Coach Come learn ways to coach and encourage teachers to use technology in their classrooms effectively. We will explore some of the following questions: How can we set up classrooms that effectively integrate technology? How can we create online products that align to standards and use higher-order thinking skills? How can we guide teachers to decide which technology platform is best for their unit? How can we use technology in our role as instructional coaches to organize and streamline our work?
🎡Kami-fy Your Assignments on Schoology Amanda Woollacott 3rd Grade Teacher What is Kami? Kami (kami.app) is a program that can be used to write on pdf documents for students assignments. It is a great replacement for making so many paper copies!
🔥Schoology Learning: What's New and What's Coming Soon Adam Larson, Schoology This virtual session will show you the latest and greatest from Schoology.
🤗Optimize Your Workflow and Make Better Decisions Annalysa Malaise High School Special Ed Teacher This session will help Special Education teachers keep track of information for case confrences using Google workspace.
💻Story Telling with Scratch, and Other Coding Tools Austin Van STEAM Teacher This session will be an interactive opportunity to learn about and try specific S.T.E.A.M tools for your literacy lessons. (Bee Bot, Dash, Scratch, and Scratch Jr.)
📅Developing a Daily Slide Show Caroline Rosado 5th Grade Teacher A daily slideshow that helps to keep you organized and your students on track? Yes, please! In this session you will learn how to construct a Google Slide Daily-To-Do template that you can easily modify with each weeks’ learning plans, targets, and schedules. You will see how setting this visual routine supports both yourself as an educator and your students as learners. This session will teach you how to set a weekly planner, morning messages, instructional guides, learning resources, and class community tidbits all in 1 easy to access slideshow.
🥼Do You Want Instant Science Engagement? Come Try The Amazing Pocket Lab Voyager! Chris Grinstead Middle School Science Teacher Teachers will engage in an interactive presentation showing how to connect and use the Pocket Lab Voyager. They will utilize the Voyager in different ways to show its possiblities in measuring things like motion, temperature, and air pressure during different experiments. We will do an experiment involving whehter or not there in evidence a chemical reaction takes place when certain things are mixed together. As far as the outcome, I want teachers who wish to use the Pocket Lab Voyager to see its many capabilitites. This way, they gain the confidence to use this technology in their lessons.
🤖Free Robots! Chris Low, Instructional Coach Robotics programs offer high engagement ways to develop our 6 C’s at all age levels, no experience required! This session will offer K-12 robotics grants and provide comprehensive support options.
🛠Señor Wooly: Students Engaging with Spanish Content Crystal Bunn and Silvia Perera Mora, Middle School ELL Teachers Attendees will learn the basic nuts and bolts of using the Señor Wooly platform and get practical ideas of how to use this resource to help students develop communication and comprehension skills. Teachers will have an opportunity to explore the site and to collaborate with other Spanish teachers around utilizing this resource in different ways to support language learning at various levels and for multiple purposes.
🎖Scrum: Run Your Classroom Like a Startup! Eric Toy, New Tech Teacher Reignite student ownership and drive in your projects by adopting the world's most popular project framework, SCRUM! Run your classroom like a "Tech Startup" and adapt Scrum's roles, rules and model for doing task-oriented, and team-focused work! Ramp up your PBL design and authenticity by using the same framework industries all over are using, from Disney to IBM to Toyota and beyond! All levels welcome, and you don't have to be a techie either! We'll discuss how to implement low tech and high tech ways of doing Sprint Boards, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Retrospectives and more!
💡The Engagement Hero: SPHERO! Eric Toy, New Tech Teacher Don't think Robots have a place in your classroom? THINK AGAIN! Our district's Spheros robot kits have the potential to challenge students in all content areas and elevate your classroom's engagement level thrice fold! Although a great tool for demystifying the weird world of "coding", robots like Spheros are just an educational tool and can enhance math, ELA, Social Studies and Science lessons in any level and area! Don't believe me - come to the session, challenge me!
🚔Drones in Education Fort Wayne Police Department
➕Using Demos in the Math Classroom Gabriela Morales, Middle School Math Teacher Scaffold grade-level content for all your students through the use of Desmos!! Guide students to complete rigorous tasks by building their confidence in the math classroom. Desmos has the opportunity for interactive activities that engage all students. Teachers can provide meaningful feedback that will move students to that next level.
💻Coding Project to Solve the Greek Computer Puzzle Jack Byrd, Chief Systems Operator This session will show a project-based lesson for solving the Greek Computer Puzzle. The session will overview the different phases of systems design - analysis, design, coding, and testing - the results in creating a program that solves the puzzle.
👔Introduction to Naviance Jahmel Wagener, Naviance Come explore our new College Career and Readiness program! Naviance boasts this is their sampler course to their site.
🛒All Sorts of Sorts Jamie Shenk, Curriculum Coordinator This session will show a number of ways to use sorts in an elementary classroom.
➕Math Fluency: Beyond Memorization Jamie Shenk, Curriculum Coordinator This session will give teachers best practices on teaching math facts without using timed tests.
⚙No Opting Out - Technology For Engagement Jessica Farlow, 5th Grade Teacher As students came back to school after the pandemic, we saw that they are really struggling with staying engaged and participating during whole group minilessons/lessons. They often simply wanted to wait for someone to do the work/activity for them. The resources presented in this session guarantee that students MUST participate - privately or publicly - and engage with the material.
🙌🏻Schoology and Google: Redesigning the Non Classroom Work Space Jordan Fiedler, Instructional Coach and Sussane Tieman, Building Principal See how to utilize Schoology and Google from the administration and instructional coach perspective . Areas of concentration will be courses and groups in Schoology utilizing it as a hub “one stop shop” for staff (ie. staff handbook, a platform for professional development, dismissal procedures) We will model how to use Google for grade level collaboration and individual teachers as well as for data, notes, plans and forms. We will end the session by showing examples of how to use Google for staff morale and contests throughout the year.
🥼Rethink Professional Learning with the Indiana Learning Lab Jenna Langel, PD Specialist for Five Star Technology Solutions Ready to rethink your professional learning? The Indiana Learning Lab, funded by the IDOE, is a central hub for resources, live and on-demand workshops, and all growth hours completed in this micro-learning platform. Brainstorm with a digital learning expert, access Collections of resources curated to maximize your learning, or join a Community to collaborate with other Hoosiers. Find everything needed to elevate instructional practices and improve student learning!
🃏Card Sorts are for EVERYONE (Desmos) Joesph Bittner, High School Math Teacher When most educators and students hear about desmos, they think it is related to mathematics. Card sorts can be used in all subject material and content. It is a tool that educators can use to test students response quickly and get feedback immediately.
🎮esports! Joesph Wilhelm, High School Math Teacher Scholastic Esports is an exploding trend in high schools and colleges across the country. While some hear esports and can only see the stigma of video games, Indiana has a growing scholastic esports environment of schools who are embracing esports as a valuable extracurricular activity, reaching a demographic of students not normally reached via traditional sports. In this session we will cover the basics of scholastic esports, the steps for starting a program, and how an esports program can be the best vehicle you have for increasing student engagement among your most difficult-to-reach student populations.
🚀National Geographic - Impact, Perspectives, World English National Geographic Publishing Do you need to learn the basic nuts and bolts of utilizing National Geographic Secondary resources? Do you need ideas on how to use the digital platform to engage students in whole group, small group, and individual settings? This session will give you practical ideas on how to best utilize National Geographic digital resources to engage students and accelerate language acquisition.
✈National Geographic - Reach Higher National Geographic Publishing Do you need to learn the basic nuts and bolts of utilizing National Geographic Secondary resources? Do you need ideas on how to use the digital platform to engage students in whole group, small group, and individual settings? This session will give you practical ideas on how to best utilize National Geographic digital resources to engage students and accelerate language acquisition.
🧨Comprehension Intervention that WORKS! Kara Guiff K-12 Special Education Teacher Discover why I WILL NOT teach reading without Read Theory, the absolute best comprehension intervention tool I’ve used with students in over 30 years of teaching. The best part - the free version is all you need! I’ll walk you through exactly how I use the free version of this tool to empower students to increase their comprehension skills in a way that easily transfers to anything they are reading. You will have plenty of time to explore Read Theory for yourself and start setting up how you will use it. PS: I am not affiliated with Read Theory, and get no compensation from them. I simply LOVE sharing things that work!
✨Trauma Informed, easy to implement self-regulation strategies Kara Guiff K-12 Special Education Teacher Let’s face it - we all have trauma in our lives. And with the collective trauma we have all faced with the Covid-19 Pandemic, we all need easy to implement self-regulation strategies. You will walk away from this session with 10 research based and classroom tested ideas that work. You will find something for everyone, possibly even yourself! I’ve done the work - you just need to show up and gain knowledge!
🎀Getting Started with Kami Katrina Stafford, Kami Representative In this session, representative Katrina Stafford from Kami will introduce learners to the document markup tool that has helped to transform instruction and meet the needs of our students through the digital age. Participants will discover the tools available in Kami, and learn what it means to adapt their already amazing lessons.
🎫Kami Beyond the Basics Katrina Stafford, Kami Representative Kami is so much more than a simple PDF tool. In this session, we’ll go beyond the basics and cover Kami’s incredible hidden gems and advanced applications for your classroom. Representative Katrina Stafford from Kami will show you how to enhance the tools you’ve been using in Kami and we’ll cover the latest Kami features you may not know.
🌐The Tech Edit Kelly Monasa, Instructional Coach Ever feel a bit overwhelmed when you need to find a file in a hurry? Do you spend time trying to find things on your computer when that time could be better served working with your students? Do you feel calmer when things have a place? Do you want to find a system that will help you Edit the files you don't need, Organize the files you do, and make your life easier? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this session may just be for you. This is a working session, so bring your computer!
🌎Meeting Real-World Needs Using Free Online Lessons Kaley Esselborn, EVERFI Supporting social and emotional health can lead to fewer classroom disruptions and better academic outcomes. Join us to discuss easy, turnkey strategies for implementing SEL in any classroom.
🔐Cyber Security and Awareness Training Kevin Gr, Technology Manager Cyber Security and Awareness Training is essential to reduce the risk of being tricked by sophisticated phishing, spear phishing, social engineering, or hackers into unknowingly giving your personal or business credentials, information, and/or data over to hackers.
📅Microsoft Office 365 Training Kevin Gr, Technology Manager Office 365 is the nucleus to communication within FWCS. Whether you are emailing another staff member, a student, or an administrator; scheduling a meeting with someone; or even accessing the FWCS curriculum material, you are using Office 365. Come and get a better understanding as to what Office 365 really is. FREE Office software is available for most all FWCS employees!
💻Too Much Tech... Not Enough Time! Navigating the Tech World on a Time Budget Kiera Edwards, 4th Grade Teacher Tech is cool! Tech is fun! But it can be overwhelming to everyone! As a teacher in a technology driven world, how do we create meaningful opportunities for our students without it consuming all of our time? As a lover of technology, but also a teacher-mom on a time budget join me as I share a few ways to enrich student learning while saving time for family!
🤩Using Google Slides to Enhance Stations Morgan Underwood, 3rd Grade Teacher We will look at ways to organize stations for kinder and beyond using Google Slides. How to easily differentiate stations. We will also look at station options that use a mix of technology and non-technology ideas and activities.
📖Using Google Slides For Learning Pacing and Tacking Morgan Underwood, 3rd Grade Teacher We will look at ways to pace student learning for kinder and beyond using Google Slides. We will look at easy ways to track work completion for students and teachers. Morgan Underwood, 3rd Grade Teacher We will look at ways to organize stations for kinder and beyond using Google Slides. We will look at easy ways to track work completion for students and teachers.
📱Tech Abilities for Struggling Readers Nadine Gilkison District Technology Integration Specialist Learn how to develop an effective blended learning approach to intervention targeting those who need layers of support. Apps, extensions and add-ons are great, but integrating teachers and research based pedagogy creates the perfect package. This session is designed to show teachers how to use technology as an extension of small group instruction. Applicable to any type of device in the classroom (iPad/Chromebook). Participants will leave the session rooted in strategies to implement the following day in the classroom.
💪🏻Empowering Teachers with Blended Learning Instructional Strategies Bob Jackson, Rose Hulman During the session, I will present some blended learning instructional strategies based on some research-based principles including the Constructivist Learning Theory, the 5E Learning Cycle and UDL / QM standards and guidelines.
🎤Lift Every Voice: Using Podcasts in the Classroom Reba Ervin, High School Teacher and Rhea Ervin, Instructional Coach Worksheets and Essays and Fill-in-the blank--oh my! These common forms of assessments are helpful, but monotonous and lack what we really need-- student voice. Through the use of listening to and creating podcasts, you can take your assessments to a new engaging level. Join us to learn how to lift every voice in your classroom!
📚Easy Ways to Use Technology to Align Instruction with the Science of Reading Sarah Geller, Invervention Do you want to align instruction with the Science of Reading AND use technology to engage students and simplify planning? Join us as we review the Structured Literacy framework and share various sources of free digital resources!
📜"But I'm Not an English Teacher!" - Supporting Literacy Development in non-ELA Areas Scott Snyder, Curriculum Coordinator While teaching students how to read isn't your primary role, students need to read in order to be successful in your class. This session will focus on strategies, resources, and activities to help your students become better readers using your content area.
🧩Going Digital - Tools to Transition toward Paperless Planning/Organizing/Distributing/Grading Tim Lyne, 5th Grade Teacher Overwhelmed with your “paper monster” and desire to digitize lesson content to make teaching easier? In this session, learn a workflow that integrates Google Drive, Kami, and Schoology for easy posting and grading.
📱Sliding into the iPad with Google Slides Julie Hille, 2nd Grade Teacher This session will cover how to create a slide show using Google slides. You will learn how to change the layout, add and change text, add and edit photos, share the document with your teacher, and add it to Schoology. My students have been using this format to showcase their learning in all subject areas. It taps in to student creativity and choice as well as engagement and ownership of their learning.
➕Using Virtual Manipulatives to Engage Students in Deep Mathematical Exploration and Discovery Joesph Bittner, High School Math Teacher Manipulatives can transform how students make meaning of important ideas by making abstract relationships visible, by teaching creativity and problem solving, and by allowing students to explore and discover.
💻(re)Designing eLearning for ALL Learners Megan Tolin, Trine University Are we inadvertently putting up barriers for students? Join us as we explore concepts of UDL and share quick and easy ways to ensure we are working to meet accessibility guidelines.
💠Thinking Like an Instructional Designer: Tips & Tricks for Blended Learning Megan Tolin, Trine University As teachers we have an arsenal of tools for teaching in-person, but what about our digital space? What do we do? How do we do it? Join us as we explore tips & tricks for successful blended learning.
🔶 Many to One: The Art of Formative Instructional Practices Melissa Perlman, Formative Teachers, school and district leaders have so many resources at their fingertips. This session will give us an opportunity to talk about what is most important to educators when thinking through how they will organize instruction, differentiation and formative learning practices and set themselves up for success in the 2022/23 school year. Learn about how other districts and teachers across Indiana are using formative practice to help them 'move the instructional needle on a daily basis.
🎢What's the Hype about Hyperdocs? Nadine Gilkison District Technology Integration Specialist In this session, Nadine Gilkison will introduce you to hyperdocs and how they can level up your digital lesson design. Learn how to remix your current lessons in a format that provide student voice and choice. Leave with tons of hyperdocs you are free to utilize in your classroom tomorrow.
🧠BrainPOP Creative Coding - A Fun Way to Show What You Know Rachel Dickerhoof, AP; Michele Robinson, Jeffery Meyer, BrainPop Reps Building students’ computer science skills opens the door to new and creative ways for them to show what they know in your classroom. Let’s add coding to the mix! Come explore how to use BrainPOP’s Creative Coding to embed computer science skills throughout your curriculum. No teacher or student coding experience necessary!
⛺Tips and Tricks with BrainingCamp Sara Shipe and Matt Brandenberger, District Technology Coordinators The session will show you how to utilize BraningCamp's math manipultives in your classroom. We will also share the live version of this tool so you can see what your students are doing in real time.
🧪Bringing Science to Life with BrainPOP Science Rachel Dickerhoof, AP; Michele Robinson, Jeffery Meyer, BrainPop Reps Come see how crucial science practices come alive with simulations, 3D worlds, and data manipulatives! This interactive workshop will explore the scope of what’s possible with BrainPOP Science, from examining phenomena, to collecting evidence, to articulating claims and reasoning. Experience first-hand how BrainPOP Science provides phenomena-driven investigations anchored in essential questions!
✅Engaging Ways to Check for Understanding in Middle School Classrooms Rachel Dickerhoof, AP; Michele Robinson, Jeffery Meyer, BrainPop Reps Leverage the power of technology to provide your middle school students a fun, engaging way to show what they know about your content area. During this session, you will have the opportunity to choose your own learning path: ● Explore BrainPOP’s Make-a-Movie, using storyboards and dialogue to create short digital movies that communicate understanding of a topic. ● Explore BrainPOP’s Make-a-Map, creating visual representations of key ideas and understandings about a topic through digital concept maps.
🎈Blitzing through Learning with Blooket Courtney Ruppert, 4th Grade Teacher Need an engaging and fun way to gauge student understanding? Blooket is a game-based activity that blends mini-games with quiz questions in a fast-paced and fun check for understanding.
👍 Work Smarter, Not Harder Google Slides will be your New Best Friend Jen Ehert PreK Teacher Needing to make your day to day in the classroom a breeze? Need less transition times to keep learning moving and students evolved? This is for you. All modalities of learning from a single plan that reach substitute teachers, e-learning days, school closings, and even ill students stuck at home. All grades, Pre-K and up. Yes, even great for Pre-K/Kindergarten students. If they can do it anyone can.
✍🏻Collaborative Tools in Naviance Jahmel Wagener, Naviance Discover ways to collaborate and improve communication with Naviance.
🧩Tech Tools to Enhance Your Math Classroom Evan Roberts, High School Math Teacher We will explore different technology tools to enhance mathematics classrooms. With a focus on Geometry and Trigonometry, we walk through activities involving Desmos Geometry Tool, VR.Vex Block Coding, and QR Codes.
🕸Google Sites, Early Web design for your students Ben Martone 4th Grade Teacher Get students interested in web design, early Google sites is an easy way for students to show off their learning by creating their own website. We will be showing how sites work but also how you can connect it to almost any subject for students.
💻Cultivating a Culture of Tech Users & Not Abusers Eric Toy, New Tech Teacher Since the pandemic started our profession's relationship with technology has shifted drastically. As we in education rush back to a normalcy that no longer exists we're faced with new and endless social and emotional obstacles created by a new dependency on technology. We'll discuss openly challenges and successes related to isolation, screen time, phone addiction, and more. We'll also explore the positive opportunities tech can create and how it can be used to strengthen a classroom community. How can we as a professional community, cultivate a culture of healthy tech relationships?
🎨STEAM Powered Projects with Art & Tech! Eric Toy, New Tech Teacher FULL STEAM AHEAD! Elevate your student products, regardless of level or content area by engaging your students with digital art! Consider how student deliverables and products could mimic real-world digital products such as infographics, animations, video games, websites, videos, photography, stop-motion, and more! Delivered by married high school teachers of art and Computer Science, we'll explore how art as a means of expression can be infused with the newest tools of technology in meaningful ways!
📚Transforming Vocabulary: Digital Patterns for Supporting Content Area Literacy Elizabeth-Marie Helms We’ve long acknowledged vocabulary building as the key to unlocking comprehension in the content areas and nonfiction reading in general. It’s then natural to expect that the routines of vocabulary instruction can serve doubly as a doorway to incorporating digital tools and strategies. We will consider how to scale levels of tech integration through the school year following the SAMR model, how to use technological modifications to promote writing with evidence, and we will conclude with thoughts on how digital technologies can redefine vocabulary instruction as a component of the inquiry cycle.
🧩💥App Smashing With Edpuzzle Caity Burnell, EdPuzzle Looking for ways to use your favorite apps in one cohesive learning activity? Learn how to app smash while using Edpuzzle! We will review the basics of using Edpuzzle during the beginning of this session then show you our favorite ways to app smash.
👨🏻🏫Career Planning and Assessments in Naviance Jahmel Wagener, Naviance What are your strengths and interests? How did you explore and decide on your career pathway? Discover Naviance assessments and career exploration tools to use with students.
🎉Fun Feedback, moving beyond KAHOOT! Erica Grove, Instructional Coach Want to try something new and engaging for your students to practice content? Come and find out more about Quizlet and Quizlet LIVE!
✨Thin Slides as a Class Guide Caroline Rosado 5th Grade Teacher How can you use and modify Thin Slides to fit your classroom instruction? Learn how to develop Thin Slides that will support your lesson sequence and increase engagement. This session will teach you how to incorporate an independent learning check, a small group response, and a creative reflection into your lesson flow. Thin Slides are super adaptable and diverse - learn how to let them help you!
🐢Skipping Through Seesaw Laura Ulsh, Kindergarten Teacher How can you utilize the jump to page feature in Seesaw? We will cover THREE ways: self checking, differentiation, and student presentations.
#Trendsetter: Teaching Students Responsible Online Presence Elizabeth Sutton , Middle School Teacher An in-depth look at when, why and how teens use social media, the consequences, and the power youth have within it.