As the number of emergent bilingual students, or English language learners, continues to increase in your school each year, you need culturally responsive solutions designed to support not only language learning, but also academic achievement.
Lexia English® for grades K–6 is an adaptive blended learning program that supports students’ English language development through academic conversations. The program integrates speaking, listening, and grammar in the subjects of math, science, social studies, general knowledge, and biographies.

Engage with Research Quest, free, online, NGSS-focused, phenomenon-based investigations using digital lab spaces with authentic museum objects and research to build students' literacy, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills.

Wait, did that really happen? Fake news, clickbait, misinformation, disinformation, and even deep-fake technology are everywhere and their spread can have devastating effects. In a country where almost half of its citizens get their news from social media, individuals regularly diagnose themselves using google, but only 9% of Americans trust the media “a great deal,” we need to arm our students with the tools they need to navigate the media they encounter on a day-to-day basis. Students share stories within 15 seconds, often before reading it completely, so they need a simple, effective way to check whether something is legitimate or not before passing it on. Come and learn some quick and easy ways to teach this important skill to your students, and maybe even yourself.

Come learn about some of the newer and more exciting educational games that you can customize and use with your students. Game-based learning can be an effective and engaging way to help students study the curriculum, but it can be next to impossible to find educational games that perfectly match what you teach. Online educational games like Blooket, Gimkit, Baamboozle, and Educandy, can be customized to exactly match the material you want your students to review.

Are you a beginner to Google Sheets? Do you know a few functions but want to learn some skills to get better? This is the Sheets training you have been waiting for! We will be talking about the power of the online environment, formatting considerations behind a good spreadsheet, and more! We will specifically speak to spreadsheet vocabulary, formatting, and functions such as SUM, AVERAGE(IF), COUNT(IF), SPARKLINE, VLOOKUP, and more! If you attended in past years, this is an updated training with a few similar topics and several new tricks.

This is an advanced Google Sheets training that will prepare you to wow and amaze your peers, superiors, and students with your understanding of Google Sheets formatting and functions. We will be talking about how to use various functions to create dashboards, reports, filters, and more! We will focus on functions such as FILTER, SORT, IMPORTRANGE, QUERY, and more! We’ll also take a look at how Pivot Tables might level up your Sheets skills.

This 20 minute over the shoulder PD session will focus on using data driven instruction while also creating with social emotional learning in mind.
Purpose: To demonstrate the data collecting capabilities of Lumio by SMART

This 20 minute over the shoulder PD session will focus on using data driven instruction while also creating with social emotional learning in mind.
Purpose: To demonstrate the data collecting capabilities of Lumio by SMART

Discover how you can use IXL's Skill Plans for the Utah Major Works to find the right skills to reinforce your daily instruction and support students' individual needs.

Discover how you can use IXL's Skill Plans for the Utah Major Works to find the right skills to reinforce your daily instruction and support students' individual needs.

Lexia PowerUp Literacy, Grades 6+, is designed to enhance core English Language Arts instruction for non-proficient readers. Blending online student-driven instruction with offline educator-delivered lessons and independent skill-based activities, PowerUp Literacy accelerates the development of both fundamental literacy skills and higher order thinking skills through personalized learning paths. PowerUp Literacy addresses the instructional needs of a wide range of students, from struggling to nearly proficient readers, by identifying skill gaps and providing personalized, systematic instruction in Word Study, Grammar, and Comprehension. This explicit instruction prepares students to comprehend and engage with complex texts across a range of genres. Embedded progress monitoring, actionable data, and scripted lessons empower teachers to deliver the exact instruction each student needs.

Lexia PowerUp Literacy, Grades 6+, is designed to enhance core English Language Arts instruction for non-proficient readers. Blending online student-driven instruction with offline educator-delivered lessons and independent skill-based activities, PowerUp Literacy accelerates the development of both fundamental literacy skills and higher order thinking skills through personalized learning paths. PowerUp Literacy addresses the instructional needs of a wide range of students, from struggling to nearly proficient readers, by identifying skill gaps and providing personalized, systematic instruction in Word Study, Grammar, and Comprehension. This explicit instruction prepares students to comprehend and engage with complex texts across a range of genres. Embedded progress monitoring, actionable data, and scripted lessons empower teachers to deliver the exact instruction each student needs.

How do you ensure that technology is being used in the classroom in a way that prevents false engagement and tech burn-out? Using the Triple E Framework we will discuss ways to engage, enhance, and extend student learning through the effective use of technology.

Brief Description: Join this interactive session where you'll dig into a suite of standards-aligned lessons for your teachers to use in the classroom. The topics stem from district initiatives like: college/career readiness, digital citizenship, STEM, school community building, financial literacy, substance safety, etc. EVERFI partners with local business and industry who pay for the programs, so they are no cost for your schools! Outside of being free, easy to use, and super relevant to critical life skills, they are also self-graded - providing real-time data for you as an educator

Brief Description: Join this interactive session where you'll dig into a suite of standards-aligned lessons for your teachers to use in the classroom. The topics stem from district initiatives like: college/career readiness, digital citizenship, STEM, school community building, financial literacy, substance safety, etc. EVERFI partners with local business and industry who pay for the programs, so they are no cost for your schools! Outside of being free, easy to use, and super relevant to critical life skills, they are also self-graded - providing real-time data for you as an educator

Kayla Towner - “Genius Hour + UOSL = Magic in the classroom!” Are you new to using Genius Hour? Are you new to doing research with Utah’s Online School Library? Well, this is the session for you! Using Utah's Online School Library, learn how to implement Genius Hour into your classroom. Students can personalize their learning by choosing their topic. Then students can choose what they want to learn about and what they want to become experts in. See the power of using UOSL, and your students will become top-notch researchers!

Innovation in education is reaching a tipping point where maintaining the status quo is no longer acceptable and you want to help lead the charge starting with your sphere of influence, whether that’s your classroom, your department, your school, or your district. Despite your tendency to innovate and improve, you want to make sure that if you are on the “leading edge” it doesn’t feel like you are on the “bleeding edge”. We will discuss how to lead such innovation, mistakes to avoid and lessons learned to prepare you for the journey ahead. Come prepared to discuss your aspirations and network with some dreamers and doers.

Ready to level up your video lessons with Edpuzzle and Canvas? In this hands-on session, teachers will learn why they should create engaging video lessons, embed assessment questions, navigate easy to read data in Edpuzzle, and connect to Canvas. This powerful platform is a must have for your EdTech toolkit, come find out why!

Preview is a Mac based app that is more versatile than it first appears. Learn how to annotate and edit photos, reconfigure pdf documents with preview. As a teacher and Innovative Learning Coach these have become some of my best go-to quick solutions to provide information.

QuickTime is a Mac based app that is more versatile than it first appears. Learn how to edit movies, screen cast from your phone/tablet, and create screen recordings with QuickTime. As a teacher and Innovative Learning Coach these have become some of my best go-to quick solutions to provide information.