Guided Math can be a lot of moving parts! Come learn how to simplify the planning and teaching of spiral review, games, assessments, manipulatives, and new material in your math block. You'll wonder how you ever taught without it!
In this session new librarians will be walked through different tools to help them be successful in their first year in Greenville County Schools. We will make our way through library programming, technology, and collaborations. This will be a hands on session that you will walk away with things to implement your first day in your new library.
I will illustrate how PLCs can create collaborative social studies unit plans following district pacing and standards. Following a less is more approach, backwards design and unpacking standards will be focus of this session. Teachers will be provided with some time to lesson plan.
Pronouncing student names correctly shows respect for their identify and fosters a positive learning environment by creating a sense of inclusion. This session will offer tips and tricks for how to correctly pronounce your students' names.
Participants will learn alternatives to suspension and re-entry tools for students exhibiting difficult behaviors and repeat offenses in the school setting.
Guided Math can be a lot of moving parts! Come learn how to simplify the planning and teaching of spiral review, games, assessments, manipulatives, and new material in your math block. You'll wonder how you ever taught without it!
Fed up with daily behavior battles that zap your energy and leave students discouraged? Break free from the traditional discipline hamster wheel and discover a revolutionary approach that prioritizes taking care of YOU first! Join us for an interactive introduction to Conscious Discipline, a brain-based framework designed to empower educators with self-regulation and well-being tools, build solid connections with students, transform conflict into collaborative problem-solving, and set up academics to soar in safe and thriving learning environments. Beyond classroom management, Conscious Discipline is a game-changer for educators who crave less stress and more joy as they support engaged learners in a classroom that feels like a community, not a battlefield.
Pronouncing student names correctly shows respect for their identify and fosters a positive learning environment by creating a sense of inclusion. This session will offer tips and tricks for how to correctly pronounce your students' names.
Explore various strategies to engage students in academic discourse and deepen their understanding of course content. We will define academic discourse, identify its characteristics, and experience engaging strategies that foster purposeful talk. Leave with confidence and ideas to use immediately!
Having trouble with student engagement? Learn about visual thinking routines and how to implement them to maximize student engagement. You will be able to leave the session experiencing some of the routines in the session as well and leave with access to 83 thinking routines.
Participants will recognize brain states, understand the cycle of escalation, utilzing preventative strategies, and common language to use with all students.
Fed up with daily behavior battles that zap your energy and leave students discouraged? Break free from the traditional discipline hamster wheel and discover a revolutionary approach that prioritizes taking care of YOU first! Join us for an interactive introduction to Conscious Discipline, a brain-based framework designed to empower educators with self-regulation and well-being tools, build solid connections with students, transform conflict into collaborative problem-solving, and set up academics to soar in safe and thriving learning environments. Beyond classroom management, Conscious Discipline is a game-changer for educators who crave less stress and more joy as they support engaged learners in a classroom that feels like a community, not a battlefield.
Participants will walk away with a plan for scheduling so that co-teacher teams survive and thrive.Creating a professional development plan to enhance the co-teaching model. Using co-teaching models with fidelity increases student achievement for students with disabilities.
Looking for a way to motivate your students to review previously-taught skills and content? Learn how we increased student engagement and knowledge retention with a spiral review choice board and reward-based incentives in our classes.
Explore various strategies to engage students in academic discourse and deepen their understanding of course content. We will define academic discourse, identify its characteristics, and experience engaging strategies that foster purposeful talk. Leave with confidence and ideas to use immediately!
In this session, participants will learn how to apply Universal Design of Learning principles while utilizing and integrating Canva and Google Apps that increase student engagement. Lessons will focus on modifying teachers' current UDL practices through the use of Canva activities and Google Apps such as Google Drawings, Slides, and YouTube.
Participants will recognize brain states, understand the cycle of escalation, utilzing preventative strategies, and common language to use with all students.
Effective engagement with students during the initial and concluding 15 minutes of each class/session has a significant impact on the teaching and learning process. This session will explore a variety of strategies to maximize class time, promote student ownership, and improve student success.
In this session, participants will learn how to apply Universal Design of Learning principles while utilizing and integrating Canva and Google Apps that increase student engagement. Lessons will focus on modifying teachers' current UDL practices through the use of Canva activities and Google Apps such as Google Drawings, Slides, and YouTube.
Fed up with daily behavior battles that zap your energy and leave students discouraged? Break free from the traditional discipline hamster wheel and discover a revolutionary approach that prioritizes taking care of YOU first! Join us for an interactive introduction to Conscious Discipline, a brain-based framework designed to empower educators with self-regulation and well-being tools, build solid connections with students, transform conflict into collaborative problem-solving, and set up academics to soar in safe and thriving learning environments. Beyond classroom management, Conscious Discipline is a game-changer for educators who crave less stress and more joy as they support engaged learners in a classroom that feels like a community, not a battlefield.
Participants will walk away with a plan for scheduling so that co-teacher teams survive and thrive.Creating a professional development plan to enhance the co-teaching model. Using co-teaching models with fidelity increases student achievement for students with disabilities.
Looking for a way to motivate your students to review previously-taught skills and content? Learn how we increased student engagement and knowledge retention with a spiral review choice board and reward-based incentives in our classes.
Come experience the learning pit first hand! We will explore how we scaffold, the words we use with students, and the support we embed into classroom assignments. We will then analyze the impact and effect they have on the learning outcomes and student performance.
"Unit plans? How can I implement unit plans when I'm working day to day on one lesson at a time?!?" How many times have you heard this conversation in your building? This course will show that effective, strategic planning can help teachers guide the sequence and pace of skills to ensure greater student learning outcomes. Participants will learn the value of unit plans, how to create their own unit plan, and walk away with several unit plan templates!
Although public education has recently faced monumental challenges that, at times, have threatened even its very existence, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is our lifeline back to rich educational experiences and increased student achievement! Learn to triage your instructional practices and use the principles of UDL to ensure all students ENGAGE, REPRESENT, and take ACTION in their learning. Together we will save education by empowering students to be motivated, knowledgeable, and strategic through the UDL framework!
Our Disability Sensitivity & Etiquette Training is designed to foster understanding, connection, and respectful interactions with individuals with disabilities. This interactive and informative workshop aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to create inclusive environments and engage with people of all abilities with confidence and sensitivity.
Participants will recognize brain states, understand the cycle of escalation, utilzing preventative strategies, and common language to use with all students.
Fed up with daily behavior battles that zap your energy and leave students discouraged? Break free from the traditional discipline hamster wheel and discover a revolutionary approach that prioritizes taking care of YOU first! Join us for an interactive introduction to Conscious Discipline, a brain-based framework designed to empower educators with self-regulation and well-being tools, build solid connections with students, transform conflict into collaborative problem-solving, and set up academics to soar in safe and thriving learning environments. Beyond classroom management, Conscious Discipline is a game-changer for educators who crave less stress and more joy as they support engaged learners in a classroom that feels like a community, not a battlefield.
Effective engagement with students during the initial and concluding 15 minutes of each class/session has a significant impact on the teaching and learning process. This session will explore a variety of strategies to maximize class time, promote student ownership, and improve student success.
This session teaches about the prevalence and impact of childhood adversity. Participants will leave with trauma-informed strategies to implement in the classroom.
Review updates of expulsion process to include due process, legalities, the investigation process. Emphasize the importance of notification and adherence to policy. Also want to provide time for discussion on decision making and handling sensitive cases involving attorneys. A Q&A time period will be offered as well.
I will discuss how Social Media is affecting our Schools, covering the negative effects teacher and staff face. I will discuss threats, suicide, and cyberbullying and what we are seeing students do on their Chromebooks.
This session provides newer teachers with the opportunity to discuss problematic recurring behaviors and offers new ways to frame and support interventions that satisfy both student and educator needs in the general educational classroom.
This session teaches about the prevalence and impact of childhood adversity. Participants will leave with trauma-informed strategies to implement in the classroom.
This course will focus on classroom and professional routines that promote behavior management and student success. Through new ideas and the reminder of some we've probably forgotten, routines will be illustrated through examples and practical strategies.
I will discuss how Social Media is affecting our Schools, covering the negative effects teacher and staff face. I will discuss threats, suicide, and cyberbullying and what we are seeing students do on their Chromebooks.
This session teaches about the prevalence and impact of childhood adversity. Participants will leave with trauma-informed strategies to implement in the classroom.
Review updates of expulsion process to include due process, legalities, the investigation process. Emphasize the importance of notification and adherence to policy. Also want to provide time for discussion on decision making and handling sensitive cases involving attorneys. A Q&A time period will be offered as well.