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…
Having Difficult Conversations
Now more than ever, it is difficult for educators to have concerned conversations with administrators, parents, and students, especially when you don’t have the authority of an administrative position. Learn…
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…
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…
Culturally Responsive Instruction with Music & Movement
What does the future hold for our nation’s youth? What do educators envision for students emerging from schools? We should see our students not only as readers, writers, authors, scientists,…