Do you consider yourself a Canva beginner? Maybe you’ve logged in and browsed around or you’ve opened a Canva design shared by a colleague but just viewed as is? Or maybe you’ve tried to edit a Canva template only to be overwhelmed by which options are essential and which as just the fun extras? If this sounds like you- join me to start learning Canva editing and navigating from the beginning. We will be utilizing Canva click and drag tutorials and mini how-to videos to learn the basics of editing with a guide by your side to answer all the questions as you work.
Dr. Watson will share her catchy tunes and tried-and-true tips for embedding music and play during whole-group instruction. Her interactive and engaging session will help early educators foster deep learning of targeted developmental skills by incorporating song, playful family involvement, motor movement, and FUN. Learn about the multiple benefits of rich musical experiences for the brains and hearts of young children.
Come learn new & favorite features in Book Creator - templates for all content/grade levels, access for ESOL students, authentic assessments & so much more!
This session will focus on aligning instruction and assessment with the full depth of the standards. Through collaborative exploration of relational knowledge and insights from learning sciences, participants will learn how to examine students' depth of knowledge of their standards.
As students progress through school, if they struggle with any areas of executive dysfunction, changes in educational demands increase the impact on all areas of academic performance. Fortunately, educators can structure the classroom environment in ways that support their learning needs. In this session, learn simple strategies you can implement today to support students with executive dysfunction.
How to provide language access to multilingual learners and their families inside of the classroom, at meetings, school events and through direct calls home to build trust and rapport.
We only have so much instructional time per day/week/month/year, and in this session we will work through a variety of ways we can maximize what time we do have to increase student impact.
Explore ways to support student motivation, interaction, and choice by leveraging both student-selected and teacher-directed tools, tasks, and texts as students read across diverse content to build literacy skills and subject-area knowledge.
This session will uncover systematic and explicit instructional strategies that empower students to master essential literacy skills, paving the way for their academic success across all subjects. Discover practical approaches, real-world examples, and actionable insights to elevate literacy instruction in your classroom!
This session will share and explain the vast array of curriculum resources that the National World War II Museum offers, as well as practical and engaging ways to utilize them in the classroom.
Wrap up your week with a Day Five planned for increased student achievement. The Connect4Learning early childhood curriculum allows preschool teachers to plan their day five around the needs of their students. In this session, we will discover how the formative assessment data taken through the week can inform our instruction on Day Five, creating lesson plans that will include both intervention and enrichment activities, addressing each student's instructional needs.
He never puts things back, he's always late, and he cuts in line...every time. So is the life of the bad seed. Sometimes when we have students in our classrooms with extreme challenging behaviors, we start to use definitive words like NEVER, ALWAYS, and EVERY TIME and may unconsciously develop reactive, rather than proactive, responses to behavior. This session will guide participants through the Prevent-Teach-Reinforce Young Child model of supporting challenging behaviors (PTR-YC). Participants will learn to think BEYOND the problematic behaviors to triggers, adult and child responses to behaviors, and the intentional teaching of replacement behaviors, so that even the worst of seeds can change his ways.
This presentation is intended to educate and raise awareness about the opioid drug crisis, particularly the dangers and risks associated with fentanyl, with district data and information on prevention programming included.
Attendees who have been identified as needing the initial KSDE dyslexia training will sign up for this session. These staff members would have received an email from Shannon Molt.
Attendees who have been identified as needing the initial KSDE dyslexia training will sign up for this session. These staff members would have received an email from Shannon Molt.
Our Implementation Essentials workshop empowers teachers, giving them the tools and resources they need to implement their new Savvas program with maximum fidelity and success. This session provides a deep understanding of the program components and weaves practical demonstration of the program pedagogy throughout the experience. With hands-on activities, observation of a modeled lesson, and a detailed program implementation plan, this engaging workshop energizes teachers, and ensures that they are ready to maximize their new resources in the classroom.
Digging for Meaning: Understanding Reading Comprehension, participants will reflect on the goal of reading comprehension instruction, understand what causes poor comprehension, prepare readers with pre-reading strategies, gain insight into the ways sentence structure and text structure affects comprehension.
The Speech Sounds of English - What the consonant and vowel phonemes of the English language to recognize and respond to errors of English Learners and dialect speakers.
Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations.
