Assessing for Learning Connecting SEL and the Formative Assessment Process
Assessment is not the point at which we expect to support students in social-emotional learning and yet it can be. When we engage in assessment FOR learning, there are prime…
Connection Before Curriculum
Explore research-based programs that educators can use themselves or with their students to set the tone in our schools. The idea will roughly follow Maslow’s idea that we need to…
Culturally Responsive Literature in Action
Educators will engage in practical and immediate steps to assess the manner in which literature is providing equitable representation to all students. May be paired with “Curriculum Inclusivity in Action”…
Racing Up! Talking About Race in the Classroom
Talking about racial justice in public education—constructively, honestly, and openly—is difficult. We as educators must continually challenge and dismantle, piece by piece, the structures, policies and implicit biases we all…
Visual Journals & Sketchbooks
Research supports the increase in retention rates when utilizing a visual journal or sketchbook for notetaking. Utilizing a visual journal or sketchbook does not require any specific art training...all you…
Processing the pandemic experience with K-8 students
Engage in music-making while exploring new resources that may help K-8 students process their experiences during the pandemic. Participants will experience cross-curricular experiences in children’s literature, poetry, and art, and…
Integrating Design Thinking in the K 12 Classroom
Have you ever thought about how to integrate the five phases of design thinking into your curriculum? Join Jane Montero for an informational session on what the five phases are…
Untraditional Geology Field Trips
Michigan has an epic and fascinating geologic history. Some of the most amazing events in Earth’s past have left their evidence in the rock record and particular landforms of our…
Utilizing Student Identity and Agency to Foster a Love of Mathematics
Some students avoid Math like the plague, but we can do better at helping students foster a love of Math. Learn how to relate to children’s questions, interests, and lives,…
Teaching to Reduce Math Anxiety
For some students, Math is a subject to be avoided, however it doesn’t have to be that way. Learn how students experience anxiety in math classrooms and identify how teacher…