Canton Public Schools Presents · The Art of Teaching With Digital Literacies PK-6 Kristy Johnson...

Canton Public Schools

Presents

“Enriching the Present…..Shaping the Future”

Engaging students more deeply in their learning by leveraging technology and

personalizing their learning into the classroom.

Canton Public Schools Professional Development Day November 3, 2015

Canton Intermediate School 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

“Learning Today . . . Innovation Tomorrow”

7:00 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. Breakfast*/Party: Gymnasium 7:50 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Professional Development Committee Remarks (Cafeteria) 8:00 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Marialice B.F.X. Curran (Cafeteria) 9:25 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Session 1 10:55 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Session 2 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. Lunch*/Party: Gymnasium 1:20 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Session 3 2:50 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Slam: Cafeteria *Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

Keynote Speaker Information

Marialice B.F.X. Curran, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of the School of Education at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, CT. Her teaching, scholarship and service focus on digital citizenship and social media in K-12 teacher education. A former middle school teacher and principal, Curran focuses on the developmental needs of children and teens with an emphasis on teaching empathy. Named one of the Top 10 Digital Citizenship bloggers to follow in 2014 by Common Sense Media, Curran co-founded (2011) and moderates the digital citizenship #digcit chat. Curran has presented her digital citizenship research at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), National Bullying Conference, the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS), Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies, Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE), New England League of Middle Schools (NELMS), Connecticut Educators Computer Association (CECA), as well as other local conferences.

Professional Development Day Schedule

Session 1 9:25 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.

Each teacher should choose 1 course per session. Below you will find a coding system of how often each course is being offered.

Course listed in color black – Course is running in all 3 sessions Course listed in color green – Course is running in 2 sessions Course listed in color dark red – Course is running in 1 session Title Audience Presenter Room

Exploration of the Smarter Balanced Digital Library PK-12 Lisa Deltano 209

Equity and Cultural Proficiency PK-12 Kara Gavin 105

Screen-Casting PK-12 Andy Buckle 207

Assessing Done Quickly PK-6 Linda Caraher 206

Introduction to Google Classroom PK-12 Becky Truscio/Kama Cawley 215

The Art of Teaching With Digital Literacies PK-6 Kristy Johnson 100

Using Destiny, the library catalog, to support student instruction PK-12 Kelly Conway/Joanna Eickenhorst Library

“Keep Calm and Tech On” PK-12 Jen Gembala 103

Beginner Google PK-12 Jen Peterson/Tracey Reichen 205

The In’s and Out’s of Gmail PK-12 Sarah Foster 201

Chromed Classroom PK-12 Jon Bishop 101

Digital and Non-Digital Tools for Differentiated Discourse PK-12 Ruth Kidwell 203

Citizen Scientist Projects Using Apps PK-12 Marsha Jorgensen 106

Google Drive and Use of Google Apps K-12 Robin Nardini 204

Coding for Beginners PK-6 Denise Dauria 102

Embedding Student Voice into the Curriculum PK-12 Marialice Curran 208

Session 2 10:55 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.







Introduction to Google Classroom PK-12 Robin Nardini 204






Get Organized and Productive With the Cloud PK-12 Brett Gottheimer 104

Google Drive and Use of Google Apps K-12 Tara Smith 215

Scratching the Surface of SCRATCH PK-12 Jon Bishop 101

Talk Twitter to Me PK-12 Ruth Kidwell/Marsha Jorgensen 203

Increasing mathematical discourse in the classroom through the incorporation of problems, games and videos

4-12 Gabrielle Aitchison 106

Digital Citizenship Needs to be a Verb PK-12 Marialice Curran 208

Keep reading…Session 3 information on the next page…

Session 3 1:20 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.







Introduction to Google Classroom PK-12 Robin Nardini 204






Chromed Classroom PK-12 Jon Bishop 101

Get Organized and Productive With the Cloud PK-12 Brett Gottheimer 104

Digital and Non-Digital Tools for Differentiated Discourse PK-12 Ruth Kidwell 203

Citizen Scientist Projects Using Apps PK-12 Marsha Jorgensen 106

FLIP 101: Flip it! It's easier than you think! PK-12 Betty Hagymasi/Michelle Ott 215

Did You Know? PK-12 Mia Tuccillo (student) 102

Building Your PLC into a PLN PK-12 Marialice Curran 208

Keep reading…Course descriptions start on next page…

Course Offerings

Exploration of the Smarter Balanced Digital Library

This workshop will introduce and allow teachers to explore the Smarter Balanced Digital Library. The Digital Library provides teachers with resources to build their formative assessment practice to support student growth and success.

Audience PK-12 Presenter Lisa Deltano

Equity and Cultural Proficiency Cultural Proficiency leadership topics will include:

What is Cultural Proficiency? Essential Elements of Cultural Proficiency Cultural Norms Cultural Proficiency related to Standards and Teaching

Audience PK-12 Presenter Kara Gavin (CREC)

Screen-Casting The purpose of this workshop is to explore the benefits of screen-casting as an educational tool. We will discuss utilizing this technology in the classroom with students, for review and revision, and discuss its application within the Flipped Classroom model. We will also explore the uses of screen-casting within professional development, and team or department trainings.

Audience PK-12 Presenter Andy Buckle

Assessing Done Quickly Participants will learn how to use Kahoot (a game-based digital learning program) in the classroom to ask critical questions and receive immediate feedback. Kahoot will:

Stimulate collaboration and social learning.

Engage the heart, hand and mind for deeper pedagogical impact. We call this connected learning. Zero setup time, no player accounts required and simple one-click gameplay. Create your own Kahoots in minutes or choose from millions of public ones made by our global community. Works on any device with an Internet connection.

Audience PK-6 Presenter Linda Caraher

Introduction to Google Classroom

This session will introduce and provide teachers with the basics of Google Classroom.

Audience PK-12 Presenter Sessions 1: Becky Truscio and Kama Cawley

Sessions 2 & 3: Robin Nardini

The Art of Teaching with Digital Literacies Last April, Teachers College Reading and Writing Project held its first ever international institute focused on digital and media literacy. This institute focused on ways digital devices and applications can lift the level of reading and writing workshop teaching. Educators from six continents investigated how digital literacies can not only transform our classrooms but transform our teaching and our students’ learning. On this day, join us as we share some of the important insights around the work of this institute. Learn about tools that make the most impact and ways to support digital literacy skills by bringing digital texts into mini-lessons, read/video alouds, conferring, small group instruction, and more. We’ll note how digital literacies can help make your assessment easier and more efficient and how to get these literacies into the hands of your students so that the digital literacies in your classroom can be more student-run and led. Join us as we continue this powerful conversation around such an important topic in education today.

Audience PK-6 Presenter Kristy Johnson

Using Destiny, the library catalog, to support student instruction Teachers will explore the various features to the new system which can support their instruction. There will be demonstrations of how to write book reviews, access e-book collection for whole group instruction, find specific levels for book clubs, etc.

Audience PK-12 Presenter Kelly Conway and Joanna Eickenhorst

"Keep Calm and Tech On" Technology in the classroom – whether it's using Google Docs, Plickers, or Flipping the Classroom -- can be a daunting task. At this workshop, we'll go through a number of really interesting and engaging pieces of technology that teachers may or may not already know about. The goal will be to explore the technology and develop a plan of how to USE the technology IMMEDIATELY in their classroom. Enough time will be spent "playing" with the technology, so teachers are encouraged to attend this workshop with a colleague or a co-teacher as well.

Audience PK-12 Presenter Jen Gembala

Beginner Google This workshop will do a quick overview of helpful ways to use Google Apps in your classroom. Be prepared to leave with a few tidbits of each App that will help you make your classroom a bit more paperless. If you are new to Google or worried about trying things in your classroom, sign up! It will help relieve the stress and worry!

Audience PK-12 Presenter Jen Peterson/Tracey Reichen

The In’s and Out’s of Gmail

This session will focus on everything you wanted to know about how to operate Gmail.

Audience PK-12 Presenter Sarah Foster

Workshops below are held for only certain sessions

Chromed Classroom (Sessions 1 and 3 only) In this workshop we will explore a series of web-based resources which provide your students with the opportunity to communicate, collaborate, and create. You will walk away with several excellent resources you can use right away in your classroom and will help to crowd source a list of resources for your fellow teachers to use. Bring a willingness to try new things in this "sand box" time and, if you have them, a few resources to share.

Audience PK-12 Presenter Jon Bishop

Get Organized and Productive with the Cloud (Sessions 2 and 3 only)

Learn to use various apps, synced across multiples devices to be reminded, have your files stay in sync and get rid of paperwork.

Audience PK-12 Presenter Brett Gottheimer

Digital and Non-Digital Tools for Differentiated Discourse (Session 1 and 3 only) This workshop is designed for teachers to explore a variety of ways to promote student-to-student discussion in their classrooms. We will look at a few specific strategies and tools including the use of Google Classroom, Todaysmeet.com, classroom Twitter hashtags, as well as the use of station rotations and discussion back-channeling. Teachers will have time to think about how these strategies can help to personalize student learning and engage all students in a discussion.

Audience PK-12 Presenter Ruth Kidwell

Citizen Scientist Projects Using Apps (Sessions 1 and 3 only) Participants will be provided the link to a Teacher/Student Resource web site that provides all the materials needed to launch a student or classroom project that involves collecting data for the more than 1,000 Citizen Science projects globally. During the workshop, participants will have time to use/explore Weebly (free web page builder), Padlet (free bulletin board-type app), Wonderopolis (free site exploring all sorts of things people wonder about) as they pertain to Citizen Scientists projects. The final outcome is to tap into personal curiosities and participate in authentic data collection in the scientific community.

Audience PK-12 Presenter Marsha Jorgensen

Google Drive and Use of Google Apps (Session 1 and 2 only)

Organizing shared folders (portfolios). Use of Other Google Apps for Education (Docs, Slides, etc.)

Audience K-12 Presenters Session 1: Robin Nardini

Session 2: Tara Smith

Coding for Beginners (Session 1 only)

Tutorial of coding lessons offered through Code.org

Audience PK-6 Presenter Denise Dauria

Embedding Student Voice into the Curriculum (Session 1 only)

This interactive session will focus on how to encourage more student voice and ownership into the curriculum.

Audience PK-12 Presenter Marialice Curran

Scratching the Surface of SCRATCH (Session 2 only) Scratch is an amazing web tool from MIT which is being used to teach students to code and so much more; it goes far beyond computer science and a technology lab! Come and learn how to use Scratch to develop stop animation videos, custom student or teacher presentations, music, voice-overs, math and science models, and so much more! You will learn, see, and create examples you can take straight back to your classroom to implement right away. Teachers, please be sure to bring your computers. You will be creating!

Audience PK-12 Presenter Jon Bishop

Talk Twitter to Me (Session 2 only)

Twitter is a powerful tool for professional networking and learning! In this session you will create an account, find 50 people to follow, analyze the structure of a well-formed "tweet," compose a tweet, and discuss the educational uses of Twitter for you professionally and in the classroom. Professional Warning: Twitter for PD is addictive!

Audience PK-12 Presenter Ruth Kidwell/Marsha Jorgensen

Increasing mathematical discourse in the classroom through the incorporation of problems, games and videos (Session 2 only)

Sources will be shared that can be used to get students talking about math. Bring your laptop as you will have time to play with different sites. If you have great sources, bring them to share with others as well. This will be a hands-on workshop, not a lecture style session.

Audience 4-12 Presenter Gabrielle Aitchison

Digital Citizenship Needs to be a Verb (Session 2 only)

This interactive session will focus on how to embed digital citizenship into the curriculum and provide our students opportunities to do digital citizenship – not just read or write about it.


FLIP 101: Flip it! It's easier than you think! (Session 3 only)

A great opportunity to learn about Educreations (bring an iPad if you have one), Edpuzzle, Hootsuite (for those of you on twitter), and a few other means of flipping that we are messing around with. This is also a great opportunity to mess around with the idea of a flipped classroom. Bring ideas, bring a lesson to flip, and participate!

Audience PK-12 Presenter Betty Hagymasi and Michelle Ott

Did You Know? (Session 3 only)

Canton High School senior, Mia Tuccillo, will speak to teachers about how students are using technology in their personal lives.

Audience PK-12 Presenter Mia Tuccillo (student)

Building Your PLC into a PLN (Session 3 only)

This interactive session will explore the importance of building professional relationship beyond our schools, districts and communities. This session will help you learn how to build a professional learning network of global educators.


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