Presentations

This session will focus on the principals of Tidy Data which are quickly becoming the industry standard for science and industry. In this active workshop participants will work with messy, real-world datasets and learn shortcuts that their students can take to tidy them up for easy visualization and deep insights.

The Open School is the only self-directed democratic K-12 school in Southern California. Modeled closely after Sudbury Valley School, The Open School began operating in 2015 with just a handful of students. The school is committed to supporting the human rights of children, centering on the right to autonomy. Children at the school decide how to spend their time, as long as they are not infringing on the rights of others.

In this presentation, I will share a curation of resources which will empower you to launch or enhance a Digital Citizenship program at your school.

The great outdoors provides endless opportunities for student growth and discovery, including improving academic performance, fostering personal and social development as well as the improvement of physical and mental health and wellbeing.

In this presentation, teachers will develop their understanding of a small set of scaffolding strategies.

In this presentation, you will see how we can set up ideas for the classroom, re-imagine ALL media resources including the ones originally made for much older audiences and make it accessible to the lower age ranges, you can see how it can argue on your behalf and turn the arguments into societal or historical reasoning, create plans, assessments, rubrics, translate into any language (very accurately) and for any age range and finally, as a professional educator, you will see how we can combine other web tools and platforms to not only make our curriculum resources easier to produces by saving us hours or time, but it can assess us as teachers.

Join Rebecca as she walks you through the interdisciplinary body of research about reading and issues related to reading and writing.

In this interactive presentation, participants will learn when it is appropriate to delegate, what to delegate, to whom to delegate, and how to delegate. This training will review 5 steps for proper delegation and discuss some of the problems that result in not delegating correctly.

This presentation talks of the trans-disciplinary nature of Design through an example of a MYP Design Unit, a Pin-Hole Camera.