Workshops

Intro to Zoom

This is a beginner’s course to get acquainted and comfortable using Zoom for lessons and meetings. There are many preferences and features that teachers can utilize on Zoom to have smooth sessions with their classes. Here you will learn how to set preferences for what you want, talk through common problems or questions you might have, share your screen, create a whiteboard, and learn how to schedule, invite, and organize your Zoom meetings.

Morning Meeting & Community Building on Zoom

This workshop is designed to support teachers in starting the year and building their classroom communities. You’ll learn ways to give students the opportunities to interact with one another in small groups, ideas for team-building activities online, how to create a morning message online, and games that incorporate movement, even virtually. You’ll also get ideas for how to create and set norms not only for your classroom for the year but also for engaging in online learning.

Assessments Online

Learn about ways to formatively and summatively assess students online. You’ll receive a sample template for a letter-sound assessment and practical strategies to transition your typical assessments to an online platform. We will explore typical assessments that you give at your school including F&P, DRA, Eureka Math, Engage New York and talk about how to adapt them to administer them online. You’ll also learn about tools on Zoom that you can use to formatively assess students during live lessons.

Managing an Online Classroom

Online, a whole host of new expectations and norms need to be set. In this session, you will learn how to set preferences that support the type of online classroom you want, suggestions for how to manage students and create engaging content that keeps them focused, and ways to incorporate movement and breaks into an online lesson.

Literacy Instruction Online

Are you missing your favorite read aloud books when teaching from home? Are you struggling to show the illustrations to your students when you do a live read aloud online? We have suggestions for effective read aloud strategies that engage students. Sample guided reading lessons that you can do over Zoom will be provided as templates for you. You will also learn about some websites that give students and teachers access to books they don’t have at home.

Math Manipulatives Alternatives and Games

So much of math instruction is reliant on manipulatives. In this session, you will learn virtual alternatives to math manipulatives, receive templates for homemade math manipulatives, and other ideas for what students can use at home to support them. You will also receive a list of games that students can play at home to build and strengthen their skills, accompanied with Seesaw activities and YouTube videos to support students and families in playing.

Live Lessons: Independent Work and Conferencing on Zoom

It is possible for you to replicate a mini-lesson, independent work, and small group / individual conferencing on Zoom, and we can help you make it happen. In this session, you'll learn how to create quick, engaging mini-lessons to share on Zoom, ways to support your students in working independently on the target skill, and ways to conference independently or in small groups to support and assess students as they work.

Manageable Feedback

In the classroom, there are so many ways teachers give feedback--a smile across the room, a small cheer or claps, a reference to a student's work during closings, a tap on the shoulder, a "You've been working hard," the list goes on. In online teaching, many families expect that teachers respond with a detailed comment to every single item students submit. In this session, you'll learn ways to maximize your time with templates and suggestions for meaningful feedback and you'll discuss ways to talk with families about what meaningful feedback looks like.

Supporting Families in Home Learning

In online teaching, it is difficult to find a balance with family involvement in student work. In this workshop, you’ll learn ways that you can talk with families about how to support their children to be successful online. This includes sample schedules for families, ways to structure time at home, and a list of prompts that families can use to effectively support their children.

Google Classroom

Google Classroom is a platform that can help both teachers and students organize their assignments for online teaching. In this workshop, you’ll learn helpful strategies to organize Google Classroom and how to incorporate other aspects of Google Suite (i.e. Slides, Forms, and Docs) to enhance classroom content, assessment, and feedback. This is a good course for those who are unfamiliar with this platform.

Seesaw

Seesaw is a platform that can facilitate online learning with students K-8. Here you’ll learn how to utilize features of Seesaw so that online learning can mirror what teachers typically do in their classrooms. You’ll learn about features that allow you to see your students’ work in real time, ways to modify existing activities, how to share assignments with your colleagues, and some tips and tricks to get the most out of this platform.

Screencastify

A helpful Google add-on, learn how to incorporate Screencastify to give students directions, show them how to navigate online platforms, model a math lesson, give a short lecture, or even do a read aloud. This useful, easy-to-use tool gives you the ability to create videos that will support your students' learning.

Nearpod Add-on for Slideshows

With Nearpod, you can create engaging and interactive slideshows for students. While you go through your slides both on and off Zoom, students can participate in polls, matching games, respond to open-ended questions, answer true/false questions, draw their responses, and even go on virtual field trips. Learn how to leverage this tool to give students the opportunity to engage directly with the content.

Building Relationships with Families

It's not only about building relationships with students but also about building relationships with families. Here you will get ideas about ways to engage families not only with you as a teacher but also with other families. Host "Office Hours" on Zoom, where families can come to ask questions about online learning. Facilitate a family share, so that they get to know other adults from the class. Schedule one-on-one sessions so that families can feel heard and understood as they support their children in this challenging time.

Making Engaging Teaching Videos

Do you want to learn how to make videos like a YouTube sensation? Kids are on YouTube constantly and teachers can leverage that and learn how to make videos that will engage students in a similar way. In this advanced video-making session, teachers will learn some jokes that students will enjoy, how to create and edit videos that model popular YouTube videos, and how to support their students in using YouTube as an educational resource.

Balancing Screen Time and Offline Assignments

Though technology is a helpful, powerful, and necessary tool, teachers don’t want their students in front of a screen all day. You will hear some concrete ideas for your students to learn and practice offline with limited materials at home. You will also get strategies for how to talk with families about other rich experiences that children can engage in at home offline.

Teaching about the Pandemic

Coming Soon.

Please see the tab labeled "Teach the Pandemic" to get free lessons to teach about coronavirus and the effects of COVID-19 in our world. You will find lessons that approach this topic from a Social Studies, Science, and Literacy lens. These lessons are created for grades 4-9.

Instructional Coaching for Online Teaching

In this offering, we can build a longer relationship with your teachers to plan, observe, and reflect on online lessons. This would be over multiple sessions with individual teams, departments, or grade levels, so that we can best support the needs of your teachers, students, and families.

Grade Level / Department Specific

We would love to build sessions that meet the exact needs of your teachers and your departments. Let us know what grade level or department is seeking support, and we will design workshops that support specific grade levels and content to transition to online learning. This will include looking through curriculum to see ways you can adapt your content for online learning, developmentally appropriate activity ideas, and assessments support that matches current assessment. Contact us for more information about how we can support your teachers with what they need most.

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