Join us for a quick morning welcome session to orient yourself to how the schedule works and to make sure you know where to go and what to do for each session you attend.
This session will introduce a free online platform called Formative that works for all subjects. This platform allows teachers create assessments or assignments (individually or collaboratively) where students can work on problems in multiple formats (multiple choice, fill in the blank, showing work, audio response, etc) or combination of these formats. Formative will also grade these assignments for you and will significantly reduce your grading time.
Learn how to communicate with parents using Blackboard, Remind and Talking Points. Learn about the pros and cons of each, so you can make an informed decision.
In this session we will look at using choiceboards in various aspects of your classroom and lesson design. These choiceboards can be ways that students engage in lessons, complete assessments, or extension activities. This can be used in both in person as well as in Distance Learning.
This session will address how complex trauma manifests in student behavior regulation and learning processes. We will also discuss how to activate resilience and support student success. Participants will not only learn theory, but will learn practical approaches to overcome the barriers to learning created by childhood trauma.
Adobe Express and Canva are websites that allow students to easily create posters, videos, presentations, and web pages. Students express their knowledge of a topic creatively through digital creations.
You will learn the ins and outs of Wakelet. How to use Wakelet in your class as well as for your personal use. A fun and simple way to curate, collaborate, app smash, and more. Learn new ways for students to do work, create profiles and for you to deliver lessons.
Teacher/Certificated Staff, Salinas Union High School District
I am the teacher-librarian at EAHS. I have worked in school libraries for over 16 years. I have my MSLIS from Syracuse University and one of my favorite courses was the Digital Forensic Class taught by the retired FBI Director of the Cyber Crime Team.I love collaborating with others... Read More →
This session will focus on how to integrate action civics into any classroom and any grade level. We will explore a multitude of resources from our partners at the Mikva Challenge to the Integrated Action Civics cohort at UC Berkeley and more! This workshop is right for anyone that wants to think and design through engaging young people in transforming the ir communities and world for better!
For All Subject Areas
Civic Education, Lesson Design, Student Engagement, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication
Teacher/Certificated Staff, Salinas Union High School District
Mark Gomez currently serves as the History & Social Science Curriculum Specialist for the Salinas Union High School District. Mark has taught both middle and high school history for the last 15 years. He has also taught within teacher education programs at UCLA, Antioch University... Read More →
Wednesday July 20, 2022 10:00am - 12:15pm PDT
Virtual
Chemix is a free, online experimental design tool that supports visual communication with tech. To teach how experiments actually work, students can engage with Chemix to create a visual representation of their design using an easy, drag-and-drop interface. All science, STEAM, and PBL classrooms can benefit, and NGS 1 teachers have multiple opportunities to employ Chemix in their classrooms this year.
Catherine Saldutti has over 29 years of experience in secondary education, and has served as a teacher, administrator, professional development provider, program evaluator, and instructional designer. She founded EduChange in 2000 to fundamentally reimagine and redesign the systems... Read More →
Update your syllabus by showcasing the district expectations of Innovation, Equity, and Achievement utilizing evidenced based practices. Rationale will be provided. If interested time will also be included to start your own draft.
Apps/Sites/Extensions used: Star Math, Star Reading, Freckle (MS Math only), Accelerated Reader, myON. All district licensed according to subject area usage.
· Identify and utilize myON’s key features to introduce platform to students · Introduce available content and embedded scaffolds to students · Define best practices for implementing myON in school · Access additional support resources that are available
**If this session is full, there is a duplicate session Friday morning.
Is your Google Drive a scary place to go? Do you get night terrors just thinking about trying to find a file or organize it? Fear not! The Drive Edit is here! While maybe not as cool as the TV show it's borrowing inspiration from, learning to get your drive under control may give you as much peace as a rainbow organized pantry!
An optional work & share hour is available for those who attend this session (see Sched at 2:30pm).
All Subject Areas
Productivity, Technology Integration, Collaboration, Communication
Apps/Sites/Extensions used: Google Drive, Google Workspace
You may have heard of the SDGs (also known as the Global Goals), but do you know how to use them as a classroom framework for contextualized, interdisciplinary learning? Making connections and seeing the world through personal, local and global lenses are key ingredients for learner-centered classrooms. The SDGs may just be a framework that can support the more holistic learning you crave for your classroom. All subjects and levels welcome!
Catherine Saldutti has over 29 years of experience in secondary education, and has served as a teacher, administrator, professional development provider, program evaluator, and instructional designer. She founded EduChange in 2000 to fundamentally reimagine and redesign the systems... Read More →
Learn how to turn boring, teacher-centric Google Slideshows into fun, interactive, and safe learning environments with Nearpod. Learn how to set up your lesson, play with the features, how to push out lessons to the students, and how to assess learning both during class, and after through session reports. Bring your favorite Direct instruction slideshow or build something all new in our sandbox session!
Did you know that almost 1 in 6 adults in California and 1 in 3 in the Salinas area have not graduated high school? Join us as we learn from an award-winning high school equivalency instructor just what it takes to keep the most challenging and challenged students in our classrooms and on the road to success. In this two-hour course, we will explore the importance of applying social-emotional learning principles in the classroom and how connection impacts retention, graduation, and transition.
This session will look at different ways for paraprofessionals, behavior specialists, and other staff to support teachers during class time with keeping students engage and managing classroom behavior.
Target Audience: Paraprofessionals and Behavior Specialists - but all are welcome!
· Discuss the central role of literacy in learning both content and thinking skills · Introduce tips for specific content searches and create literacy activities that connect with standards and with curriculum · Access the Project Cloud by searching the myON community for existing projects shared by other educators · Identify best practices for using projects, such as adding objectives and tasks, to meet the needs of diverse learners
Quizizz will allow you to have student paced formative assessments in a competitive, engaging, and fun way. The teacher can provide immediate feedback to the students about their scores. The teacher will receive detailed reports for every quiz assigned, which can be downloaded as a spreadsheet.
Participants from the first hour of "TDE - The Drive Edit" will have an opportunity to use what they learned to organize their drive and showcase their successes.
Please only add this session if you are also attending the first hour TDE session at 1:15.
All Subject Areas
Productivity, Technology Integration, Collaboration, Communication
Apps/Sites/Extensions used: Google Drive, Google Workspace
· Plan how Accelerated Reader will work in the classroom · Introduce students to Accelerated Reader · Connect students to books/articles that are appropriate to their interests and abilities
Learn how to set up Synergy for the beginning of the school year. Teachers will learn were to access student information, create seating charts and get your gradebook set up for the year.
Join us and make a personalized signature for your email using Canva. Canva is a free-to-use online graphical tool that combines design, photo editing, and layout to help teachers and students create beautifully finished projects.
While most people believe Desmos is mostly used in math, this session will show how to create activities and games that can be used in any subject. The session will also include how to create engaging activities in different subjects. There are also math activities where students will be able to learn about math by self discovery. Desmos can be used in any math including calculus.
For some students and teachers, the classroom experience can be painful, draining, and often nothing more than a means to an end. How can we support one another as we change that dark narrative to one of healing, openness, and growth? Join Tim Amaral, an award-winning high school equivalency instructor, as he shares what his fantastic students taught him about educational trauma and what it takes to make the classroom a healing place for both the students and the teacher.
You may have heard of Assistive Technology tools, but may be unsure how to help students use them on their own devices. If your school issues Chromebooks, it's high time your learners get trained on the accessibility features that they may not know exist. This is a great step toward learner agency and personalization as they work with productivity tools. Come learn from an AT and UDL expert (learner)!
Catherine Saldutti has over 29 years of experience in secondary education, and has served as a teacher, administrator, professional development provider, program evaluator, and instructional designer. She founded EduChange in 2000 to fundamentally reimagine and redesign the systems... Read More →
· What Star computer-adaptive assessments are, why they should be administered, and how they are different from other assessments · How the Star scale connects student test performance to learning progressions, resources, standards, and other scores · How to administer a Star computer-adaptive test with fidelity
Subject Areas: Math, ELA, ELD
Apps/Sites/Extensions used: Star Math, Star Reading (District-wide licenses)
If you are an NGS 1 teacher and interested in learning more about the competency-based assessment practices that are part of the EduChange program, this session is for you. Competency-based assessment assumes that all students can learn and develop over appropriate timeframes, as long as our assessment structures are designed to support diversity. The Headrush Learning platform will be demo-ed and a sandbox site will be available. NGS 1 teachers learn about next steps to launch Headrush with their classrooms.
Subject area: NGS 1 only
Apps/Sites/Extensions used: EduChange, Headrush (pilot access for NGS 1 teachers only who are piloting Headrush)
Catherine Saldutti has over 29 years of experience in secondary education, and has served as a teacher, administrator, professional development provider, program evaluator, and instructional designer. She founded EduChange in 2000 to fundamentally reimagine and redesign the systems... Read More →
Shane Krukowski is a heutagogy geek, former PBL advisor, and wannabe accordion player. He’s designed, launched, and helped many organizations implement various software platforms, including co-founding Headrush Learning. He was a catalyst for the edCamp movement and has been host... Read More →
Learn how to incorporate videos into your lesson or as a resource for students struggling in your class. You will start with looking at how it works and at the end you will be creating your own Edpuzzle.
· Understand how Star Spanish assessments relate to Star English assessments · Understand how Star Spanish assessments work · Use best practices to enable students to test with fidelity · Recognize benefits in using both assessments
Subject Areas: ELA, ELD, Math
ELL's, Accessibility, Assessment
Apps/Sites/Extensions used: Star Spanish (Math & Reading) (District-wide license)
Teacher/Certificated Staff, Salinas Union High School District
Hello, AME people, my name is James and I am here to learn from the best!I really enjoy teaching in the arts and have a classroom that is dedicated to the production and design aspects of the profession.Our classes focus on the basics of design and production in a commercial atmosphere... Read More →
Thursday July 21, 2022 1:15pm - 3:30pm PDT
Virtual
This session will cover recent research into the brain processes involved in language acquisition and the impact that childhood trauma has upon these processes. We will learn about the ways that trauma is known or believed to short circuit the neural networks related to language, and then learn about hopeful trends in the research.
· Navigate through key software functions as a teacher and as a student · Identify where to make assignments for students · Identify where to locate some level of performance data that will drive instructional decisions · Set up classes and make rostering edits as needed. · Identify their one or two next step
Update your syllabus by showcasing the district expectations of Innovation, Equity, and Achievement utilizing evidenced based practices. Rationale will be provided. If interested time will also be included to start your own draft.
Quizizz will allow you to have student paced formative assessments in a competitive, engaging, and fun way. The teacher can provide immediate feedback to the students about their scores. The teacher will receive detailed reports for every quiz assigned, which can be downloaded as a spreadsheet.
· How to use screening data to enhance a data culture · Options for using data to group students for instruction and intervention · Screening data and its implications for intervention and core instruction
Subject Areas: Math, ELA, ELD
Apps/Sites/Extensions used: Star Reading, Star Math (District-wide licenses)
Is your Google Drive a scary place to go? Do you get night terrors just thinking about trying to find a file or organize it? Fear not! The Drive Edit is here! While maybe not as cool as the TV show it's borrowing inspiration from, learning to get your drive under control may give you as much peace as a rainbow organized pantry!
An optional work & share hour is available for those who attend this session (see Sched at 11:15am).
All Subject Areas
Productivity, Technology Integration, Collaboration, Communication
Apps/Sites/Extensions used: Google Drive, Google Workspace
Learn how to turn boring, teacher-centric Google Slideshows into fun, interactive, and safe learning environments with Nearpod. Learn how to set up your lesson, play with the features, how to push out lessons to the students, and how to assess learning both during class, and after through session reports. Bring your favorite Direct instruction slideshow or build something all new in our sandbox session!
Participants from the first hour of "TDE - The Drive Edit" will have an opportunity to use what they learned to organize their drive and showcase their successes.
Please only add this session if you are also attending the first hour TDE session at 1:15.
All Subject Areas
Productivity, Technology Integration, Collaboration, Communication
Apps/Sites/Extensions used: Google Drive, Google Workspace
** If this session is full, there is a duplicate session on Wednesday morning.
In this session we will look at using choiceboards in various aspects of your classroom and lesson design. These choiceboards can be ways that students engage in lessons, complete assessments, or extension activities. This can be used in both in person as well as in Distance Learning
· Describe the reading practice goals for quality, quantity, and difficulty · Demonstrate how to set motivating goals that are challenging, yet achievable
Ptable is a free, online tool that allows teachers and learners to customize views of the Periodic Table! While you can’t add a new element without extensive scientific peer review, you can determine which chemical properties are visible to students! Need a Periodic Table in Spanish? Want to explore diffeent properties for different levels of science students? No problem! All science, STEAM, and PBL classrooms can benefit, and NGS 1 teachers have the opportunity to download a PDF and use Ptable online this fall.
Catherine Saldutti has over 29 years of experience in secondary education, and has served as a teacher, administrator, professional development provider, program evaluator, and instructional designer. She founded EduChange in 2000 to fundamentally reimagine and redesign the systems... Read More →
"EVERFI empowers educators to bring real-world learning into the classroom and equip students with the skills they need for success–now and in the future. This free platform offering interactive, game-based lessons designed by experienced educators help you engage students at all grade levels and bring real-world skills to your classroom for all subjects from SEL to Financial Literacy to College and Career Readiness.
The intended outcome is to showcase EVERFI, set up teacher accounts and how it can be used in class. The lessons are aligned with state standards, offers for scholarships, and the knowledge student acquire will prepare them for the future. There will be engaging lessons and ideas and topics many have not thought of. The opportunity to connect with expect individuals.
All Subject Areas
Assessment, Digital Citizenship, English Language Learners, Productivity, Technology Integration, Teaching Strategies, Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking"
Teacher/Certificated Staff, Salinas Union High School District
I am the teacher-librarian at EAHS. I have worked in school libraries for over 16 years. I have my MSLIS from Syracuse University and one of my favorite courses was the Digital Forensic Class taught by the retired FBI Director of the Cyber Crime Team.I love collaborating with others... Read More →
Learn how to communicate with parents using Blackboard, Remind and Talking Points. Learn about the pros and cons of each, so you can make an informed decision.
· Why it’s useful to look at growth data · How to categorize growth as low, typical, or high using SGP · How to analyze growth and achievement data simultaneously to make instructional decisions
Subject Areas: Math, ELA, ELD
Assessment, Lesson Design, ELL's SWD
Apps/Sites/Extensions used: Star Reading, Star Math (District-wide licenses)
For some students and teachers, the classroom experience can be painful, draining, and often nothing more than a means to an end. How can we support one another as we change that dark narrative to one of healing, openness, and growth? Join Tim Amaral, an award-winning high school equivalency instructor, as he shares what his fantastic students taught him about educational trauma and what it takes to make the classroom a healing place for both the students and the teacher.
Educational research reveals that self efficacy is an essential element in fostering student learning. Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory cracks open new possibilities for teachers to create structures and instructional practices that foster, sustain, and leverage students' self efficacy for social, academic, and emotional health in the classroom.
· Navigate six key reports/data sources: Activity Feed, Math Levels, Math Report Card, Performance by Standard Report, Class Grouping Report, Assessments Report · Use reports identifying student strengths and areas for improvement · Take strategic actions related to student data, such as targeting assignments based on reports
Subject Areas: 7th & 8th Grade Math Only
Apps/Sites/Extensions used: Freckle (District licenses for 7th & 8th Grade Math only)
Learn how to set up Synergy for the beginning of the school year. Teachers will learn were to access student information, create seating charts and get your gradebook set up for the year.
