Cool Tool Duel: Tools for Elementary Students

Tom and Dean are going to battle it out to share their favorite and best tools for elementary students. Each has 3 minutes to convince you, the audience which tool is better. As an audience, you'll be able to share your favorites as well. This session is designed to be fun and fast paced.

Buzzword Breakdown: Learner- Centered & Engagement

Learner-centered instruction allows students to take control of their learning by trying new strategies and reflecting on the process. Ideally, this leads to greater engagement. We’ll discuss what learner-centered instruction is and what it isn’t.

Worst Educational Ideas

In the days of Pinterest and Teacher Pay Teacher we have a lot of ideas floating around that profess to be the next best thing, but are they really? Let’s talk about what separates fad from fantastic.

Facilitating Elementary Professional Learning 90 min. Workshop

This 90 min. workshops is designed to model how you could facilitate professional learning with provided resources within your district. We will give grade band and content specific examples during this workshop,. However, this workshop is open to any educator in Idaho.

Setting up Google Classroom for Success

Google Classroom is your one stop for your digital workflow. In this session, learn to use Classroom for relationship and community building, for having fun, and handing out and collecting work.

What is learning that matters?

With a better understanding of learner-centered instruction, we’ll discuss creative strategies for implementation in order to engage all learners.

Holding on to all that we learned

The last year and a half have been tough but from very obstacle we get opportunities. Let’s talk about all we have learned and need to hold onto.

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