Presentations

Communicating in stories is a powerful way to convey a message, share ideas and practice creativity. Using presentation, geo and multimedia tools, we can add a modern twist to storytelling that enhances our students' voices.

Student engagement is the new frontier of student achievement. Of course, it’s always been possible to achieve without being really engaged. Grit, resilience and sheer perseverance can get the most driven students through their courses and exams, and can be useful for some students, some of the time. But these days, in a world rife with distractions, it’s hard to get students to succeed unless you can also get and keep their attention, fire up their passions, and connect with their lives and interests.

It's impossible to be agile enough for the current climate without quality leaders throughout the system. But for years we’ve neglected the development of our aspiring and middle leaders. 2020 showed that up.

Research has proven that games, and more importantly, Video-Games, are a great medium to inspire empathy in the players. In this presentation, the participants will get a playlist of empathic video-games they can safely promote to students, and they will learn ways to create an empathic game themselves.

How might we build relationships by valuing differences, exchanging ideas, and preparing students for global engagement? In this session, attendees will gain an understanding of the research, frameworks and terminology used when talking about global competencies.

This session will show you how Book Creator works and introduce you to the resources that Book Creator has aggregated to help teachers with ideas for learning.

Hear from the Founder of Bullis Charter school about how professional learning and development is at the center of what the school does in pursuit of excellence.

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

The muscle memory of school tells us as educators to be successful, complete the standards, don’t fail! The reality is FUN can bring a transformational design into a learning experience that can raise engagement and have the potential for better understanding and results.