The integration of AI into education is reshaping the classroom experience for both teachers and students. While opinions on its use vary, it’s essential to recognize that AI is a tool—its implementation remains a choice tailored to each teacher’s style and goals. Whether you choose to incorporate AI or not, its presence in education is undeniable—and understanding its potential can empower both teachers and students. This session is not designed to pressure you to do anything with AI, but to look at some options that you have at your disposal when it comes to either reducing its presence in your classroom, or promoting its presence--- on your terms.
Do you teach math and want to have assignments that actually help you teach your students? That give immediate feedback and won't let your students practice the problems incorrectly? DeltaMath is the way to go! Come explore this resource with me.
Have you wanted to teach students to visualize a peaceful area to allow students to relax and maybe even get them in to a better mood. This session will give students techinques to relax their body to refocus and to reset.
I'm going to pass on some knowledge I've picked up about social contracts and how to use them in terms of behavior management for classes. I have found them to be useful and to work pretty well when it comes to student interactions and behavior.
In this session, I will share research-backed techniques for enhancing classroom engagement and management, drawn from Doug Lemov's classic and internationally acclaimed book, Teach Like a Champion. While especially valuable for new teachers, this session offers practical tools and strategies that any educator can use to strengthen their teaching repertoire.
Strong relationships are the foundation of every successful classroom, and SCARF: The Five Social Needs of the Brain offers a powerful framework to nurture them. By understanding how Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness drive human connection, you'll gain practical tools to build trust, foster collaboration, and create a sense of belonging for both students and colleagues. This session will help you unlock relationships that inspire engagement and mutual respect, transforming the way you teach and connect.
Where are we ever going to use this? - a question many teachers are all to familiar with in the classroom. But what if logic and deduction could be made fun? In this session, we will introduce a board game, Turing Machine, where players use logical reasoning and deduction to crack a code by asking a paper computer a series of simple quesitons. The goal is to solve the code using as few questions as possible. How well can you do? Come join us to explore an easy way to incorporate logic into the classroom, or just to have a little fun in solving a few puzzles.
Everyone knows that music is magic when it comes to memorizing new information. This is why you can still remember the jingle to a commercial you watched 20 years ago. What if you could transform your teaching content to stick in your students minds too? The focus of this session is to give you the skills to turn any content into a memorable song for instructional purposes, even if you don't know how to play an instrument yet. This session will focus on writing original songs, writing parodies, and using AI to create helpful, singable content. Additionally, the session will explore a handful of apps useful for creating video content to share with your students and families to extend learning outside of the classroom.
Walk away from this session with a better understanding of the different types of learning media (the student's own body, an object, more than one object, pictures, people etc.) and ways to support students with severe and multiple disabilities in the classroom throughout your daily schedule. There will be hands on examples for you to explore!
Presentation Outcomes
Understand the definition of literacy and why literacy instruction is important for students of all ability levels
Outline the difference between physical, compensatory, and cognitive access to literacy experiences including gaining a working knowledge of the hierarchy of learning media
Have ideas to construct their own adapted literacy experiences that focus on multi-sensory learning
Outline
Introduction
Definition of Literacy and Learning Media
Why should ALL learners have access to it?
How does AAC make this possible? (high and low tech)
Ways to Access Literacy with Respect to…
Physical Access (positioning of the body)
Compensatory Access (taking into account vision, language, hearing, etc. needs)
Cognitive Access (maintaining engagement, checking for understanding)
Hierarchy of Learning Media
Own Body, Objects/People/Actions Touching the Body, Objects/People/Actions Beyond the Body, Clusters of objects, people, actions, and places that are part of events beyond the body, and Symbols for objects, people, actions, places, and events
Adapted Literacy Experiences
Adding sounds, light, texture, etc. to make books more engaging.
Education:
Master’s of Science in Education with Emphasis in Orientation and Mobility with Certification in Blind and Low Vision Education (birth -21) from Missouri State University
Bachelor’s in Special Education (k-12) and General Education (1-6) from Missouri Southern State... Read More →
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In this session, I will share research-backed techniques for enhancing classroom engagement and management, drawn from Doug Lemov's classic and internationally acclaimed book, Teach Like a Champion. While especially valuable for new teachers, this session offers practical tools and strategies that any educator can use to strengthen their teaching repertoire.
Strong relationships are the foundation of every successful classroom, and SCARF: The Five Social Needs of the Brain offers a powerful framework to nurture them. By understanding how Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness drive human connection, you'll gain practical tools to build trust, foster collaboration, and create a sense of belonging for both students and colleagues. This session will help you unlock relationships that inspire engagement and mutual respect, transforming the way you teach and connect.
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Education:
Master’s of Science in Education with Emphasis in Orientation and Mobility with Certification in Blind and Low Vision Education (birth -21) from Missouri State University
Bachelor’s in Special Education (k-12) and General Education (1-6) from Missouri Southern State... Read More →
Ditch the boring worksheets and have your kids BEGGING for more work! Utilizing Heather Hart's quick and easy to implement engagement strategies you can increase student understanding and perseveriance while easing your disciplinary issues.
Use Canva to can access thousands of pre-made visuals and presentations to enhance learning. You can customize your own style/brand that allows you to keep your visual style consistent across all of your courses. This will allow you to make your canvas exciting and engaging for your students and yourself. We will teach you how to make your Canvas courses come alive with graphics, icons and images created in Canva.
I am a 6th grade Comm. Arts teacher at NMS. I have been teaching in the district for the last 12 years. I am our buildings Canvas person, try to stay up on all things Canvas.
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Don't let the title scare you! In this session, I will present pluralism as an effective set of ground rules for talking with students about difficult subjects, and will share some thoughts about using philosophical categories to foster understanding and communication. Before taking the JROTC position this year, I taught World Religions for eight years. Each semester, I began with these topics and created a classroom culture in which we were able to talk constructively about religion, politics, and moral controversies free from anger and arguing.
Learn how to identify several common geologic minerals by using ID techniques such as color, streak, hardness, luster, cleavage, and other special properties in this hands on, safety glasses required, interactive investigation.
Where are we ever going to use this? - a question many teachers are all to familiar with in the classroom. But what if logic and deduction could be made fun? In this session, we will introduce a board game, Turing Machine, where players use logical reasoning and deduction to crack a code by asking a paper computer a series of simple quesitons. The goal is to solve the code using as few questions as possible. How well can you do? Come join us to explore an easy way to incorporate logic into the classroom, or just to have a little fun in solving a few puzzles.
Have you ever needed a part, wanted to create something from scratch, or learn something new? This class will cover the essentials of 3D printing, including its principles, types, materials, and basic applications. Lets create something together!
If you have ever wanted to try drawing and painting digitally, now is your chance! In this session, you will get a crash course on the basics of creating art in the Procreate app on iPad Pro. Within minutes, you will be able to experiment with drawing and painting on a digital canvas with a variety of brushes and tools. Class iPads will be provided for use by all participants during the session.
Make your canvas exciting and engaing for your students and yourself. We will teach you how to make your Canvas courses come alive with buttons, pages and images created in Canva.
I am a 6th grade Comm. Arts teacher at NMS. I have been teaching in the district for the last 12 years. I am our buildings Canvas person, try to stay up on all things Canvas.
I'm going to pass on some knowledge I've picked up about social contracts and how to use them in terms of behavior management for classes. I have found them to be useful and to work pretty well when it comes to student interactions and behavior.
Everyone knows that music is magic when it comes to memorizing new information. This is why you can still remember the jingle to a commercial you watched 20 years ago. What if you could transform your teaching content to stick in your students minds too? The focus of this session is to give you the skills to turn any content into a memorable song for instructional purposes, even if you don't know how to play an instrument yet. This session will focus on writing original songs, writing parodies, and using AI to create helpful, singable content. Additionally, the session will explore a handful of apps useful for creating video content to share with your students and families to extend learning outside of the classroom.
Discover how to harness the power of AI tools like ChatGPT to streamline resource creation and take your classroom materials to the next level. In this session, we’ll explore how to use AI to generate content ideas, lesson plans, and templates, then integrate them into Canva’s design features, including bulk create, to produce visually engaging resources. Learn practical, time-saving strategies to elevate your teaching materials with AI and Canva synergy! This session is targeted
If you have ever wanted to try drawing and painting digitally, now is your chance! In this session, you will get a crash course on the basics of creating art in the Procreate app on iPad Pro. Within minutes, you will be able to experiment with drawing and painting on a digital canvas with a variety of brushes and tools. Class iPads will be provided for use by all participants during the session.
Do you teach math and want to have assignments that actually help you teach your students? That give immediate feedback and won't let your students practice the problems incorrectly? DeltaMath is the way to go! Come explore this resource with me.
Ditch the boring worksheets and have your kids BEGGING for more work! Utilizing Heather Hart's quick and easy to implement engagement strategies you can increase student understanding and perseveriance while easing your disciplinary issues.
Looking to be have more mental clarity and more self-disicplined? This session is for you! Developing daily routines to enhance your physical health is essential for all Educators, who often balance demanding schedules and high-intensity classrooms. Consistent movement, nutrition awareness, and proper rest not only improve your overall well-being but also boost energy levels, reduce stress, and increase mental clarity. By finding a moment to put your physical well-being first, you’ll be better equipped to serve your students and continue to positively influence all those around you. Small, intentional habits lead to lasting results, helping you feel stronger, more energized, and ready to take on each school day with purpose.
Do you want to be the match that ignites the flame of success in your students? Learn how to recognize their Brain States to prime the brain for optimal learning. Build effective relationships with them because connections on the outside build neural connections on the inside.
Utilzing a variety of Hands-ON activites to motivate, engage, and teach mathematical concepts. Utilizing students particiption to develop conceptual undertsanding of mathematical standards. This session will be interactive with participation in activites to build upon for your classroom.
