Presentations

The theme is learning how to create animations and augmented reality---leave the session knowing how it's done

The traditional role of library shelving and furniture has changed.

Learn about what makes Midland unique: place-based courses, experiential learning opportunities, the jobs program, outdoor leadership, our 10-acre organic farm, and our natural horsemanship program set on a working cattle ranch. Midland combines all this with rigorous college preparation AND students getting sufficient rest and leisure time. What systems do we have in place to make this work? Find out by joining this session!

Short keynote reviewing importance of teaching real data skills to students

This presentation is "Bottom UP" and will review 3 examples of shareable (FREE) gamification "superstructures" all designed and used in my classroom. Attendance gains you access to the entire Gamification Schoolhouse portfolio including Dragon Genetics for free.

This workshop will involve a deeper look into the issues surrounding the assessment, identification and diagnosis of Dyscalculia.

Project Lit Community began as an American based grassroots reading initiative that gets diverse books in the hands of students. The selected Project Lit titles tackle current social issues and ignite meaningful discussions with students. Project Lit can be used as a model for developing relationships with our students and promoting diversity and empathy within our school communities and beyond.

According to NCTM and Cobb at all, meaningful learning in mathematics is characterized by connections, conceptual understanding, problem-solving, multiple representation, communication and reasoning, reflection and metacognition, transfer of learning, and social interaction.

Over the past few years I have been re-considering and reflecting on my own use of reward systems.

This engaging hands-on workshop will explore simple yet effective ways in which educators can leverage the Apple creative apps on a Mac to design and deliver engaging and inspiring learning experiences for their students.