Presentations

Grab the Rope... The Science of Reading Instruction

During our session, we will share practical tips and strategies for incorporating these elements into your daily reading instruction. You will leave with valuable tools to help your students become successful readers.

ESL/Language Education/Translanguaging

Upcoming Live Session
Transformative Education Spaces: Wycombe Abbey International School Hong Kong’s unconventional journey from shopping mall to dynamic learning environment

An exploration of Wycombe Abbey International School’s Journey taking a disused shopping mall and transforming the space into a modern engaging learning space.

Recording
A picture is worth a thousand equations. Teaching kids to make and interpret data visualizations

A key first step in data analysis, whether in middle school or in grad school, is data visualization. Seeing data allows students to intuit the math involved with data analysis and builds the platform for learning statistics.

Recording
From Lab to Classroom: Practical Applications of Educational Neuroscience

This session explores current findings in educational neuroscience and discusses how these findings translate into meaningful practice in "real-world" classrooms.

Recording
Introduction to virtual making with Tinkercad

This session is a virtual hands on session where participants will be shown the basics of how to create a model in Tinkercad. The models can then be exported to a 3D printer or as a VR or AR element.

Recording
Leading Learning in an Uncertain World: The Case for a Global Restructuring of School

The session will focus explicitly on the student experience of school and the changes that occur in deeper learning classrooms.

Learning Spaces Innovation in Education Leadership

Past Session
Adobe Express: Every Student, Every teacher can Create!

This session will highlight the graphic design and video creation tools for student and teacher video content creation. Participants are encouraged to open a free Adobe Express account and activate YouTube prior to the session, though this is not required. Browser | Tablet / iPad | Smartphone apps are available.

Education Technology
Recording
Effective Foundational Literacy Instruction for Multilingual Learners

Come explore how the science of reading can support emergent bilinguals in their journey to become readers and writers. An EAL teacher and a Grade 1 teacher will guide you through how we use UFLI, an explicit and systematic approach to teaching foundational literacy skills, to support the development of every reader in our classroom.

Innovation in Education ESL/Language Education/Translanguaging

Past Session
Navigating the Sands of Tradition to Build an Oasis of Innovation: ACS Abu Dhabi's Premier New Learning Space

In this session, we'll explore the obstacles we faced, the north star that guided us, and the grains of wisdom we gained.

Learning Spaces Innovation in Education

Past Session
Innovations in Curriculum Design

We will be discussing innovations in curriculum development and why they matter.

Innovation in Education

Past Session