K-12 Teaching Academy
We established our free K-12 Teaching Academy in Summer 2020 to support current teachers, teacher candidates, and community partners in transitioning to online teaching as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, our webinar recordings have been viewed nearly 30,000 times and our series has been highlighted on ABC7 News, EdSource, and the COVID-19 CA website.
Our Summer 2021 series focuses on returning to a “new normal” in classrooms in Fall 2021 with topics such as:
- (Re)building classroom community
- Establishing restorative routines
- Anti-racist teaching
- Student voice and choice
- Recognizing new learning priorities
- And more!
Watch the Webinar Recordings
Summer 2021
- Mon., Jun. 28 | Week(s) of Welcome: Intentional, Inclusive Relationships Start Here
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Presenters
- Rafael Rodriguez | Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Specialist | Santa Clara County Office of Education | Twitter: @SCCOE
- Jessica Simpson | Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Specialist | Santa Clara County Office of Education | Twitter: @SCCOE
Description
We are at a unique point along the pathway towards rebuilding educational culture. The past year has repeatedly demonstrated that individual educators are pivotal in both the physical and the social-behavioral health and wellbeing of our students and families - what if we could intentionally design activities and strategies that each educator could adapt in order to create more inclusive environments for all students?
Participants will have the opportunity to learn how (and why) to incorporate social-behavioral instruction and practice into the initial weeks of school. Participants will also explore how to incorporate identity building, precorrection (both social-behaviorally and academically) and relationship skills with the Positive Greetings at the Door intervention (Cooke, et. al).
Resources
- Access the Google Slides from this webinar
- Superhero persona activity
- High performing teams graphic
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- Mon., Jun. 28 | The Discussion-based Classroom
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Presenter
- Marisa Thompson | Educator, Coach, Speaker | Carlsbad Unified School District, unlimitedteacher.com | Twitter: @MarisaEThompson
Description
Teachers can assign and students can submit, but the real learning comes from the discussions we have in a classroom. It's in those talks that the mix of content and life skills come alive and not only show students' true understanding but pushes them to consider other perspectives. Classroom discussions are the perfect foundation for the society we hope to see in our future and we'll all need to practice how to speak to one another after a year of distance and change.
Resources
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- Tue., Jun. 29 | Talk as Transformation: Building Equity, Agency and Joy in the Elementary
Classroom
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Presenter
- Maria Nichols | Author and Literacy Consultant | Twitter: @marianichols45
Description
Talk has the potential to transform classroom culture, literacy learning, and children’s identity - both individually and collectively. Building a culture of talk creates joyful, engaging space for students to think and construct together. This session will create a vision of classrooms alive with talk, and offer strategies for launching talk, and developing the kind of thoughtful, authentic facilitation that honors student’s intellect, teaches into meaning making as a process, honors unique understandings, and helps each student realize the power of their own voice.
Resources
- Access the PDF slides from this webinar
- Teaching About and Through Purposeful Talk [pdf]
- Who Owns the Learning? The Importance of Adopting a Facilitative Stance
- Building Bigger Ideas Through Purposeful Talk
- "What 'learning loss' really means"
- TC Reading and Writing Project - Students Tracing Theme in Small Group Conversation
- "Windows and Mirrors: Children's Books and Parallel Cultures"
- The Book Boat podcast
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- Tue., Jun. 29 | Reimagining K-16 (Science) Teaching and Learning During a Time of
Crisis: Transforming Learning Environments Through Justice-Centered Instructional
and Pedagogical Design
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Presenter
- Tammie Visintainer, PhD | Assistant Professor Science/Teacher Education | SJSU Lurie College of Education | Twitter: @tavisint
Description
The intersecting COVID-19 and racial injustice crises have re-exposed the interwoven social, racial, political, and economic dimensions of educational opportunity and the injustices laid bare are many. This workshop will empower educators across disciplines from kindergarten to college as designers and leaders, who have the opportunity to transform inequitably designed education systems by radically reimagining and building learning environments from a foundation of human dignity and respect.
This workshop focuses on the design of equitable, inclusive, and justice-centered learning environments through the creation of design principles. Design principles serve as tenets for pedagogy and practice and as guidelines for the design of future learning experiences. To support this, I will draw from my experience as a science teacher educator and learning scientist exploring race, identity, and learning in science education; a professional pathway built from Black brilliance, generous mentorship, and the wisdom of scholars of color. As such, the workshop will engage in reimagining efforts that center the transformative and sustaining practices of Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other scholars of color who inspire the education community to approach teaching and learning from new ethical and pedagogical imaginations.
Workshop attendees will be introduced to design principles and guided through the construction process through an example from my secondary science methods course where teacher candidate’s construct Design Principles for Teaching (Science) for Equity and Inclusion. While science is the focal example, educators from any discipline are encouraged and welcome as this practice is widely applicable. Educators will leave the workshop with an expanded understanding of how to design learning environments that affirm and sustain the identities of minoritized students in/outside of science. This workshop offers hope and possibility for learning communities during the present crises and a reimagining of what they can become moving forward.Resources
- Access the PDF slides from this webinar
- Cal Academy - NGSS Demystified
- STEM Teaching Tools
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- Wed., Jun. 30 | Centering Humanity Through Identity-Informed Collaborative Notebook
Activities
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Presenter
- Betina Hsieh, PhD | Associate Professor of Teacher Education | California State University Long Beach | Twitter: @ProfHsieh
Description
How can we stay connected with our own humanity and that of our students after a year of distance learning? In this interactive presentation, educators will gain a sense of how humanizing pedagogies can be at the core of disciplinary learning and how we can invite students to share their identities, cultures, and experiences using digital tools and multiple modalities to support inclusive, community-grounded instruction in classrooms.
Resources
- Access the Google Slides from this webinar
- Collaborative Notebook template
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- Thu., Jul. 1 | Better Together: Partnering with Families and the Community for Student
Success
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Presenter
- Chassidy Olainu-Alade | Coordinator of Community and Civic Engagement | Fort Bend Independent School District | Twitter: @ChasAlade
Description
Parent engagement has always been a top ranking tenant of successful K-12 education systems. Effective parent engagement practices benefit students as school-to-home connections promote positive reinforcement of knowledge and skills, allow for extension of learning, and develop mutual support around discipline and expectations. Additionally, the broader community provides schools and teachers with the resources, expertise, and volunteerism to achieve their goals. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, common methods of parent and community engagement included a variety of face-to-face events, in-person opportunities, and one-way communications. Since the pandemic, the ways in which teachers engage parents, families, and the community has shifted to practices that are more inclusive, flexible, and creative in nature.
This session will allow participants to walk away with a deep understanding of the role that parent, family, and community engagement plays on the classroom environment and school culture. Participants will understand methods of engaging parents in a post-pandemic school setting and be provided with some best practices for developing two-way communications and collaborations with parents, all the while navigating new modes of 21st century learning, anti-racist curriculum implementation, and meeting the needs of diverse learners.Resources
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- Thu., Jul. 1 | Considering Community and Trauma
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Presenter
- Lara Ervin-Kassab, EdD | Assistant Professor | SJSU Lurie College of Education | Twitter: @drlarakassab
Description
As we return to both face to face and blended classrooms, we need to explore how we are (re)building learning communities, relationships, and safety in our classrooms. This presentation will be an interactive exploration of digital and analog approaches and tools for building relationships with and between students. We will explore the need to critically analyze our own practices and schooling norms so that school becomes a place of healing, rather than perpetuating and compounding the traumas all of us have experienced over the past year and a half.
Resources
- Access the Google Slides from this webinar
- American Institute of Stress - "Signs of Childhood Stress from COVID-19 and What to Do"
- Cult of Pedagogy - "Why It's So Hard for Teachers to Take Care of Themselves (and 4 Ways to Start)"
- Edutopia - "How to Build Emotional Supports for Teachers"
- Edutopia - "What's the Right Amount of Homework?"
- Medium - "Disrupting the Teacher Hero Narrative with This Story Instead"
- Medium - "Identifying and Disrupting Deficit Thinking"
- National Association of School Psychologists - "Returning to School Following COVID-19 Related School Closures: The COVID-19 School Adjustment Risk Matrix (C-SARM)"
- National Education Association - "Author's Advice to White Teachers in Urban Schools: Drop the 'Savior Complex' and Learn from Students"
- Psychology Today - "Is COVID-19 Killing Kindness?"
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- Tue., Jul. 6 | The Next Normal: Reimagining Next Year's Classroom
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Presenter
- Eric Cross | 7th Grade Science Teacher | Albert Einstein Academies | Twitter: @sdteaching
Description
In The Next Normal we will reflect on lessons learned from the prepandemic era of teaching and provide practical strategies to restore an equitable classroom community while supporting teacher wellness.
Resources
- Access the Google Slides from this webinar
- Access the Jamboard from this webinar
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- Tue., Jul. 6 | Bringing Our Humanity to the TK-5 Classroom Through an Ethnic Studies
Stance
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Presenters
- Leah Aguilera | 2nd grade teacher | Oakland USD
- Katy Felsinger | TK teacher | San Leandro USD
- Hannah Swernoff | 5th grade teacher | Piedmont USD
- Wanda Watson, EdD | Associate Professor | SJSU Lurie College of Education | Twitter: @wawatty
Description
This session explores how TK-5th grade teachers launch the school year with three main interrelated goals at the forefront:
- Building a classroom community that humanizes students and values their intersectional racialized identities, particularly those from Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian backgrounds;
- Learning about students’ strengths, interests, experiences, and barriers to learning;
- Integrating students’ funds of knowledge and community cultural wealth into Ethnic Studies and Anti-racist curricular and pedagogical practices to facilitate liberatory student learning.
Resources
- Access the PDF slides from this webinar
- Access the Padlet from this webinar
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- Wed., Jul. 7 | Queering the Classroom to Foster a Safe and Inclusive Environment:
Lessons from Research and Practice
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Presenter
- Robert Marx, PhD | Assistant Professor | SJSU Lurie College of Education | Twitter: @RbrtMrx
Description
For some trans and genderqueer students, returning to in-person school may bring anxiety, fear, and expectations of victimization. For others, though, school may be the sole safe haven from an unsupportive home environment. This webinar, therefore, will provide the knowledge and skills needed to establish or enhance affirming and supportive classroom and extracurricular spaces, with a specific focus on practical steps to foster gender equity and inclusion.
The presenters bring their experience teaching high school English, serving as a GSA advisor, providing direct community support to teachers and LGBTQ+ youth in the Bay Area, and conducting research with trans and genderqueer adolescents about their families, schools, and communities.
Resources
- View the Google Slides from this webinar
- View the Google Doc toolkit from this webinar
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- Wed., Jul. 7 | Freedom Dreaming: Ethnic Studies Teaching in the Secondary Grades
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Presenters
- Julia Duggs | Ethnic Studies teaching candidate | SJSU Lurie College of Education
- Victoria Durán, PhD | Social Science teacher | Overfelt High School
- Marcos Pizarro, PhD | Associate Dean | SJSU Lurie College of Education | Twitter: @sjsulurie
- Luis Poza, PhD | Assistant Professor, Teacher Education | SJSU Lurie College of Education | Twitter: @luisepoza
Description
This presentation brings together SJSU faculty and practicing Ethnic Studies teachers to deepen participants' understandings of the purposes and core principles of Ethnic Studies teaching alongside examples from classroom practice. Webinar participants will have the opportunity to learn about the documented benefits of Ethnic Studies for students (regardless of racial and ethnic background) as well as specific culturally responsive curriculum activities that afford student agency, community engagement, and meaningful social analysis as part of students' academic and personal development. Such activities include Youth Participatory Action Research, student counterstories and testimonios, and an in-depth look at a multi-faceted unit of instruction implemented in the 2020-21 academic year that fostered healing, home and community connections, and students' "freedom dreaming" — collective envisioning of a more just society.
Resources
- View the Google Slides from this webinar
- View the Google Doc resources from this webinar
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- Thu., Jul. 8 | Bring it Back to the Classroom: What did we learn from a year of COVID?
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Presenter
- Emma Pass | Middle School Language Arts Teacher, PSD Global | Consultant, Empowered Edu | Twitter: @emmabpass
Description
As teachers prepare to return back to the classroom, we will return, not as the teachers who began remote learning last year, but as teachers fully changed. We have adopted new tools and technologies, rethought assessment and instructional strategies, and had a glimpse into student home lives and gained insight in the importance of social and emotional learning. In this session we will reflect on a year of teaching and learning through the COVID pandemic, and determine what to take back with us to the classroom to be better educators than before.
Resources
- Access the Google Slides from this webinar
- Access the Hybrid Teacher Survival Guide
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- Thu., Jul. 8 | Building Culture and Community One Story at a Time
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Presenter
- Abby Almerido | Coordinator, Workforce Development and Organizational Culture | Santa Clara County Office of Education | Twitter: @abbyinprogress
Description
Culture eats strategies for breakfast! Hold an SEL-compass toward stronger working relationships and collaboration by weaving in opportunities for your learners to learn and share about who they are. Leave with a toolkit of activities to try Monday and a deeper understanding of the power of seeing and being seen by others.
Resources
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Winter 2021
- Fri., Jan. 8 | "Decolonizing STEM with ABAR (Anti-Bias and Anti-Racist) themes" with
Eric Cross and Desiré Whitmore, PhD
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This session will equip teachers with strategies and curriculum that can be used in classrooms to engage students in STEM content through the lens of equity and community change making. After watching the recording, please complete the presenters' feedback form.
Desiré Whitmore, PhD - Twitter: @DarthScience - is a Sr. Science Educator and Staff Physicist at the Exploratorium.
Eric Cross - Twitter: @sdteaching - is a 7th grade science teacher at Albert Einstein Academy Middle School and an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego.
During our Summer 2020 series, Eric presented “Techquity – Culturally Responsive Teaching in the 21st Century”.
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- Fri., Jan. 15 | "Providing Students Choice: Engagement & Equity" with Emma Pass
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In this session hybrid teacher Emma Pass will discuss how to create and leverage choice based activities and choice boards, as well as their importance in giving students a sense of agency in their work, as well and providing equitable opportunities for learning. This session will be hands-on, so be prepared to start creating!
Emma Pass - Twitter: @emmabpass - is an English language arts teacher at Poudre School District Global Academy, which is a hybrid school where, pre-pandemic, students spent half the week at the school building and half the week learning remotely at home/online. Her sessions detail her experiences in remote learning both from the hybrid model, and going 100% online during the COVID-19 school closures.
During our Summer 2020 series, Emma presented “Rethinking Assessment for the Google Generation” as well as “Fun and Fantastic Ways to Engage Students During Remote Learning”.
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- Fri., Jan. 22 | "Writing Instruction and Feedback for Digital Equity" with Jen Roberts
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What we know about teaching writing well has not changed, but the tools we have available for teaching writing have expanded. We will work through the writing process learning about new methods and tools to keep our students moving forward in their writing development. You will gain practical and accessible strategies you can apply to your writing instruction immediately, no matter where your students are in their writing. Classroom tested, teacher approved, I promise these are the tools and strategies worth learning. They will save you dozens of hours over the rest of this school year, and your students will like them too.
Jen Roberts - Twitter: @JenRoberts1 - is a National Board Certified high school English teacher with 24 years of experience teaching Social Science and English Language Arts in grades 7-11, as well as adjunct faculty at the University of San Diego, where she teaches pre-service teachers about learning and technology. Her co-authored book, Power Up: Making the Shift to 1:1 Teaching and Learning (2015), offers pedagogy support to teachers new to teaching with technology.
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- Fri., Feb. 5 | "Creating From the Inside Out" with George Barcenas
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When we design a lesson we take on the responsibility of telling the story. Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie TedTalk about the "Danger of a single story" opened my eyes to the responsibility we have as educators. Developing lessons that allow our students to experience the moment isn't the driving force behind book companies. In this session we will look at creating those experiences by using Google Forms, Slides and Video.
George Barcenas - Twitter: @mvsgbarcenas - is a technology coordinator at Bellevue Union School District.
During our Summer 2020 series, George presented “Leveraging YouTube for Distance Learning” as well as “Changing the way we Lecture”.
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Summer 2020
- Mon., Jun. 15 | "Leveraging YouTube for Distance Learning"
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George Barcenas - Twitter: @mvsgbarcenas - Technology Coordinator at Bellevue Union School District, led this conversation:
In this session you will explore the vast collection of resources found on YouTube and start to curate your own playlists for your students. We will also look at how to deliver that content to our students in the best way possible. Video can be a powerful tool in the hands of teachers! Learn how we can do that with our students.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 6-12
The slides from this webinar are available at bit.ly/youtube2all
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- Tue., Jun. 16 | "Student Voice, Student Choice"
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Lisa Nowakowski - Twitter: @NowaTechie - 5th-Grade teacher at King City Arts Magnet School, and Nancy Minicozzi - Twitter: @CoffeeNancy - Instructional Technology Coach at Beverly Hills High School, led this conversation:
Students have a lot to say. Let’s give them options on what they want to say and platforms where they can say it. We will offer digital and analog solutions that will work for students and teachers at all grades and skill levels.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades K-12
The slides from this webinar are available via Google Slides
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- Wed., Jun. 17 | "Rethinking Assessment for the Google Generation"
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Emma B. Pass - Twitter: @emmabpass - English and Language Arts Teacher at PSD Global Academy, led this conversation:
Do you remember when our math teachers told us that we wouldn't be carrying calculators in our pockets when we grew up? Today, we not only carry around calculators, but access to limitless information via our smartphones and Google. When students can quickly and easily look up almost any information (especially when learning from home), how can we best assess their understanding of a topic? In this session we will discuss the tools, tips, and best practices for formative and summative assessment in a remote learning environment.Intended audience: Those who teach grades 6-12
The slides from this webinar are available via Google Slides
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- Thu., Jun. 18 | "Ed-Tech/UDL Mash-Up Online"
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Lisa Berghoff - Twitter: @LisaBerghoff - Director of Instructional Technology at Highland Park High School, led this conversation:
We all have students who struggle in our physical classrooms. How can we help them when we are online? Learn about Universal Design for Learning and how to apply the framework with online tools.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 9-12
The slides from this webinar are available via Google Slides
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- Fri., Jun. 19 | "Explore - Explain - Apply in Distance Learning"
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Lisa DeLapo - Twitter: @LisaTeachesTech - Director of Information & Instructional Technology in the Union School District, led this conversation:
No more glossy eyed stares back at you on your Zoom screen. Your students will have #FOMO when they learn from your Explore-Explain-Apply lessons. Blend synchronous and asynchronous mini lessons to build engagement and ultimately, long-lasting learning.Intended audience: Those who teach grades K-12
The slides from this webinar are available via Google Drive
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- Mon., Jun. 22 | "Using Desmos Activity Builder for Live or Asynchronous Instruction
and Assessment"
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David Goulette, Math Teacher at Latino College Prep Academy, led this conversation:
Attendees will be given a guided tour of Desmos Activity Builder with interactive math examples that teachers can use as examples in their classroom (both online and in person). Shown will be how to create an activity, host the activity, and navigate the platform. Teachers will learn how they can facilitate student discussions, do "on-the-fly" formative assessment, and deliver effective content by pairing Desmos with Google Meet or Zoom.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 9-12
Resources from this webinar are available on this Google Doc
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- Tue., Jun. 23 | "Synchronous & Asynchronous Tools for Distance Learning"
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Brian Briggs - @bribriggs - Director of Innovation and Instructional Technology at Plumas Lake Elementary School District, led this conversation:
Come learn some tools for the classroom for Synchronous & Asynchronous learning. The webinar will cover the differences and some practical ideas when to use these tools in the classroom.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades K-8
The slides from this webinar are available via Google Drive
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- Wed., Jun. 24 | "All Pears On Deck In The Zoom Zoom Room"
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Ed Campos - Twitter: @edcampOSjr - Consultant in Math/Educational Technology/Computer Science, led this conversation:
Tired of being sucked up in the Zoomnado each morning and then spit out as a Zoombie by the end of your day? Prevent from getting OZ'd (OverZoomed) by maximizing engagement, discourse, & collaboration using Peardeck, Zoom, and Google Slides. Welcome to the Zoom Zoom Room!
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 6-12
The slides from this webinar are available via Google Drive
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- Thu., Jun. 25 | "Writing Instruction & Support During Distance Learning"
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Marisa Thompson - Twitter: @MarisaEThompson - Teacher, PD Instructor, Coach, Education Blogger and Speaker, will lead this conversation:
We all want our students to be effective communicators, especially in their writing. In our classrooms or teaching from home, we can strengthen students’ written communication using student-friendly materials and procedures.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 6-12
The slides from this webinar are available via Google Drive
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- Fri., Jun. 26 | "Lessons Learned From Math Intervention at a Distance"
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Jeremiah Ruesch - Twitter: @mathkaveli - Math Consultant in Kings County Office of Education, led this conversation:
The focus of the webinar will be the key points we learned in orchestrating a math intervention for K-8 students during the Covid-19 pandemic. From building a safe community at a distance to how to rustle kids together for a voluntary math intervention, this webinar will share our best practices from lessons learned.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades K-8
The slides from this webinar are available via this Google site
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- Mon., Jun. 29 | "Developing Classroom Community in Online Spaces through Humanizing
Practices"
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Betina Hsieh - Twitter: @ProfHsieh - Director and Professor of Teacher Education at University of La Verne La Fetra College of Education, led this conversation:
This webinar focuses on how various online tools can be used to create and support a community in secondary and post-secondary classrooms within a framework of humanizing pedagogies. Participants will see examples of how various prompts, strategies and tools can help students to connect with one another and teachers to connect with their students in the goal of building towards a collective learning space.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 6-12
The slides from this webinar are available via Google Drive
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- Tue., Jun. 30 | "Engaging Emerging Multilinguals In An Online Setting"
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Deedy Camarena - Twitter: @DeedyCamarena - Coordinator for English Language Development (ELD), Dual and World Languages in the Multilingual & Humanities Education Department at the Santa Clara County Office of Education, led this conversation:
Emerging Multilinguals have a set of needs that must be addressed when implementing distance learning in order to access to the curriculum. Purposeful and appropriate scaffolds and strategies will be presented along with a model lesson.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 6-12
The slides and resources from this webinar are available via Google Drive
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- Wed., Jul. 1 | "There's An EduProtocol For That (Featuring #MathReps)"
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Lisa Nowakowski - Twitter: @NowaTechie - 5th-Grade teacher at King City Arts Magnet School, led this conversation:
Participants will be introduced, and experience, the power of EduProtocols. EduProtocols are a powerful learning tool for all grades and subjects. In addition, participants will get a preview and experience with NEW Math Edition EduProtocols and MathReps.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 3-5
The slides from this webinar are available via Google Drive
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- Thu., Jul. 2, | "Engagement Tools for the K-8 classrooms"
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Shannon Tabaldo - Twitter: @TabaldoOnTech - Director of the Innovation in Digital Education & Leadership (iDEAL) Institute at Loyola Marymount University, led this conversation:
This interactive and dynamic session will highlight tools and best practices to increase engagement in the K-8 online classrooms. These tools will lend themselves nicely to the physical classroom upon our return to school campuses.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades K-8
The slides from this webinar are available on Google Drive
Additional resources are available on Google Drive
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- Fri., Jul. 3 | "Creating with Chrome"
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Martin Cisneros - Twitter: @TheTechProfe - Director of Technology Services in the Berryessa Union School District, led this conversation:
Need to enhance your distance learning game? Are your students tired of digital sit and get, consumption programs, and bored with just text activities? Then this learning experience if for you! This session involves teachers everywhere to use technology to engage learners and amplify the learning experience in classrooms. Learn to focus on pedagogy first, and then CREATE LEARNING EXPERIENCES on the purposeful and engaging use of technology!
Intended audience: Those who teach grades K-12
The slides from this webinar are available via Google Drive
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- Mon., Jul. 6 | "Collaborating to Create an Engaging Classroom Community through Distance
Learning.. With your Student Teacher!"
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Laura Polden and Veronica Minor, Fourth-grade self-contained classroom teachers (Mentor Teacher and Teaching Candidate) in the Milpitas Unified School District, led this conversation:
We will be discussing how to pivot to an online classroom and work together as Mentor/Student teacher to provide an engaging platform for student learning. We will talk about how to best use each teacher's strengths to create personal connections with students.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 3-5
The slides from this webinar are available via Canva
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- Tue., Jul. 7 | "Fun & Fantastic Ways to Engage Students During Remote Learning"
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Emma B. Pass - Twitter: @emmabpass, English and Language Arts Teacher at PSD Global Academy, led this conversation:
One of the biggest hurdles in remote learning is simply getting your students online. The more fun and engaging your online lessons are, the more likely your students will do them! Whether meeting live over video conferencing, or asking students to complete work independently/asynchronously, this session will detail tools, tips, and best practices for creating engaging lessons and building your classroom community online.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades K-12
The slides for this webinar are available via Google Drive
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- Wed., Jul. 8 | "Assessment for learning to support student achievement: 7 high-leverage
moves to re-engage diverse learners in extraordinary times"
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Brent Duckor - Twitter: @BrentDuckor - associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at San Jose State University, and Carrie Holmberg - Twitter: @CarrieHolmberg - lecturer and preservice teacher educator at San Jose State University, led this conversation:
We blend research-based, high-leverage instructional and assessment strategies (the “7 Moves framework”) to energize, re-engage and foreground student voices in synchronous learning environments. Using Zoom, Google Docs, and other distance learning tools we demonstrate how to make it happen with you and your students. Join us to open up real conversations and explore new directions in online assessment for learning.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 6-12
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- Wed., Jul. 8 | "A Play Then Teach Approach to Computer Science in the Classroom"
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Abigail Joseph - Twitter: @drabigailjoseph - MS Director of Learning, Innovation, and Design at the Harker School, led this conversation:
Distance learning requires a flip in the way we engage students with Computer Science material. An alternate approach is to have students explore and question so that they are motivated to learn concepts when it is emergent for them. This webinar will discuss approaches to a play-first methodology for teaching computer science.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 6-8
The slides for this webinar are available via Google Drive
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- Thu., Jul. 9 | "Changing the Way we Lecture"
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George Barcenas - Twitter: @mvsgbarcenas - Technology Coordinator at Bellevue Union School District, led this conversation:
Death by PowerPoint is an example of technology being used in the wrong way. We stand in front of the classroom and talk about what is already on the slide. Students have to read, hear and understand all in one slide. What if our slides became our message and we the conductors. We can change the presentation from the lecture up front to group discussions, interactions and most importantly, an experience.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 6-12
The resources for this webinar are available on this Google Site
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- Fri., Jul. 10 | "Techquity - Culturally Responsive Teaching in the 21st Century Classroom"
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Eric Cross - Twitter: @sdteaching - 7th Grade Science Teacher at Albert Einstein Academy Middle School, led this conversation:
This session addresses how technology can be used effectively to increase engagement, build community during distance learning, and provides practical tools for upgrading your digital cultural competency.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades 6-8
The slides for this webinar are available via Google Drive
Additional resources are available via Google Drive
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- Mon., Jul. 13 | "Positive Behavioral Supports: Adaptations for Creating Community
for the Current Context (focus TK-8)"
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Stephanie Tague, Coordinator of Safe and Healthy Schools at the Santa Clara County Office of Education, led this conversation:
In this session, we will 1) Identify how adaptations of evidence-based strategies for classroom practices can be incorporated into virtual learning and 2) Explore examples of how California educators incorporated these practice into their distance learning during Shelter in Place.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades K-12
The slides for this webinar are available via Google Drive
Additional resources are available at pbis.org, casel.org, pbis.
sccoe.org , and pbisca.org/departments/ educationalservices/ prevention/cpc/pbis/Pages/ archivedevents
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- Tue., Jul. 14 | "Basic Literacy in Distance Learning: Lessons Learned"
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David Trautman - Twitter: @datraut - Principal at Oneonta Elementary School, and Pa Yang, 1st Grade Teacher at Oneonta Elementary School, led this conversation:
The transition to distance learning was abrupt and we had to adjust quickly. In this session, we'll share some best practices and lessons learned to support primary literacy using tools such as Seesaw and Google Hangouts.
Intended audience: Those who teach grades K-2
The slides for this webinar are available via Google Drive
Additional resources are available via Google Drive
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