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Engaging Students with Purposeful, Flexible Grouping
Learn powerful research demonstrating how effective flexible, purposeful grouping can be. Participants are flexibly grouped over five different ways throughout the workshop.
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Differentiated Instruction
Providing students with effective, engaging, and varied teaching materials and approaches is key in making sure each student is actively engaged, regardless of their individual learning styles.
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Differentiated Classrooms: Building Success Daily
The session places teachers in the students’ shoes so they can experience how important differentiation is for success. Teachers will also explore and learn the most important ways to differentiate content, process, and product based on students’ readiness, learning profiles, and learning preferences.
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CONNECTED! The New Science of Better Collaboration, Team Learning, and Improved Student Achievement
This session focuses on using tactical, research-based strategies to unleash the untapped individual and team brain power available in every school. Attendees will get connected, creative, and innovate.
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Choking the Weeds With Wheat: How to Create a Better, Healthier, and Safer Digital Environment for Children (and Adults)
This session identifies and examines the major challenges faced by children living in a digital world, plus those faced by educators teaching them. Though none of these challenges have simple answers, an informed, proactive approach can improve behavior and reduce dangerous situations for students and schools.
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Blended Learning: Tools, Techniques, and Resources
The goal of this workshop is to empower traditional classroom teachers with the tools and techniques needed to effectively blend active learning online with dynamic learning in the classroom. In this three-session workshop, attendees will gain the skills needed to cultivate a community of inquiry online to complement and enhance the work done in the physical classroom.
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Argument Writing with Secondary Students
Argument writing requires advanced reading, analyzing, synthesizing, and organizing skills as well as other traditional writing skills. In this session, participants receive and practice using scaffolding templates and other resources to help secondary students write arguments on a variety of topics.
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Aligning Instructional Strategies to Teacher Unit Maps
This session engages participants in several activities in the alignment process and demonstrates how to rethink units to align the “best” instructional strategies.
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12 Principles of Brain-Based Education
How can we possibly learn about brain-based education in a short time? This forward-thinking session explores the cutting edge principles that have “real world implications.”
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