Increasing Choice using Student Response Systems
Crafting Community and Building an Ecosystem of Connectedness
This professional development was given to urge the importance of building community within a school, classroom, etc. It focuses on the importance of story-telling in order to personalize student learning.
Close Reading Through SubText
Take your Close Reading routine to the next level using Subtext, a digital platform for students to analyze a text collaboratively. Students can annotate, comment, and create text-dependent questions within the text that can then be discussed in a forum.
Zondle: Gaming in the Classroom
As teachers were looking for unique formative and summative assessment ideas, I stumbled across Zondle. The following is the PD that was given to staff members to introduce this resource.
Introductory Technology PD
This professional development was given to teachers K-4 to discuss digital citizenship, the importance of the Google ecosystem, and how 21st century skills have transference across grade-levels.
How to Tackle Tecnology
This was a brief overview of how our building planned to tackle technology for the school year.
We Have These Chromebooks, Now What?
After an overwhelmingly fast 1:1 roll-out, teachers were provided with a quick overview on what the first "to-do's" might be in order to implement technology in their classrooms.