Equip yourself with practical, relationship-centered strategies for preventing and responding to escalated behaviors. This session includes role-play, scripts, and reflection tools to create a safe and supportive classroom environment, helping students regulate their emotions and behavior.
Participants will walk away with a toolkit for de-escalating challenging behaviors, including specific techniques, scripts, and strategies to create a calm and supportive classroom environment.
Literacy skills are like our spine; they hold everything together. For students to retain knowledge, processing skills need to be implemented. This session will expand your instructional toolbox to include evidence-based literacy practices to get students cognitively engaged and accountable for their learning. Participants will leave with several practical, cross-disciplinary routines that can be integrated into any unit of instruction no matter the subject area.
Explore the real story behind the Millennial generation through the lens of Malcolm Harris’s Kids These Days. This engaging session challenges the common stereotypes and takes a deeper look at how economic pressure, rising expectations, and changing social systems have shaped today’s educators.Participants will walk away with a clearer understanding of the challenges Millennial educators face, along with practical ideas to support staff well-being, engagement, and resilience in today’s schools. This session is ideal for school leaders, coaches, and anyone working to build supportive, inclusive work environments.
This session merges The Writing Revolution (Hochman Method) with differentiation and scaffolding techniques, empowering educators to cultivate strong communicators and deepen understanding across all subjects and grade levels. Discover practical strategies to adjust instruction, improve student writing, build analytical skills, and provide tailored support to meet diverse learning needs.
This engaging and informative session focuses on understanding and supporting the four least recognized sensory systems: interoceptive, vestibular, neuroceptive, and proprioceptive. Participants will gain foundational knowledge of these sensory systems and their roles in daily functioning, learn practical strategies to support sensory regulation, and engage in hands-on exercises and demonstrations to experience the sensory systems firsthand.
Explore how you can use Gemini and SchoolAI to support your professional responsibilities. Learn how to build lesson plans, give you strategies for improving teaching, develop project based learning lessons, and uncover new ideas for differentiation. AI is not just for your professional role, but learn how to put AI in kids hands with our new district license to SchoolAI.
Participants will walk away with actionable and practical ways to integrate AI into their classroom planning and instruction. They will also be able to use AI with fundamental literacy and knowledge of potential concerns and biases.
The More Than Sad family of programs has taught over a million students, parents and educators how to be smart about mental health.Educators and other school personnel will learn how to recognize mental health conditions, the warning signs of suicide, and the steps they can take to get help for at-risk students.
This engaging and informative session focuses on understanding and supporting the four least recognized sensory systems: interoceptive, vestibular, neuroceptive, and proprioceptive. Participants will gain foundational knowledge of these sensory systems and their roles in daily functioning, learn practical strategies to support sensory regulation, and engage in hands-on exercises and demonstrations to experience the sensory systems firsthand.
This engaging and informative session focuses on understanding and supporting the four least recognized sensory systems: interoceptive, vestibular, neuroceptive, and proprioceptive. Participants will gain foundational knowledge of these sensory systems and their roles in daily functioning, learn practical strategies to support sensory regulation, and engage in hands-on exercises and demonstrations to experience the sensory systems firsthand.
What's next? You completed one or both of the study groups on Building Thinking Classrooms and Total Participation, now what? This session is for those colleagues who are ready to collaborate and extend their knowledge while embedding these strategies into their classroom.
Congratulations, you've completed your Amazing Race for professional growth! Now, it's time to gather at The Amazing Synthesis: Ideas for the Road Ahead. This isn't just a finish line; it's a launchpad. In this dynamic session, we'll synthesize the insights, innovations, and inspiration gained throughout our professional development day. You'll have the opportunity to share your key takeaways with colleagues, collaboratively brainstorm solutions, and map out concrete plans for applying your new knowledge and skills. Get ready to transform individual breakthroughs into collective progress as we chart our course for the exciting journey ahead.
