Leadership
Donors Choose 101: Welcome to Treasure Island
Let us help you find a treasure for your classroom! Join us as we provide introductory information as well as helpful tips about DonorsChoose.org. With all the budget cuts, teachers need an avenue to obtain classroom materials without paying out of pocket! We are here to help guide you to the X that marks the spot when it comes to finding donors who WANT to spend money to help you help your students!
Digital Breakout: Can Your Knowledge Help You Escape?
So everyone knows that the latest craze is to be trapped in a room with your friends for an hour while searching for clues to help you escape. Well, you can apply those same principles to any area of content and create fun and exciting Digital Breakout Games for your students. Come find out how and experience the fun for yourself!! We can't wait to see who has what it takes to accept the challenge!
Changing the Game: The Impact of Teaching Through Stations
We will be sharing how our classroom environment and teaching style have changed and how this change has impacted student growth. We will model our best practices by having participants rotating through modified stations.
This session focuses on the foundations of block-based coding and ideas of how to infuse coding into ANY classroom.
Different apps and strategies to construct and master both (content & vocabulary) in the different areas: 1) Use of SeeSaw to master vocabulary comprehension, 2) Peardeck with Flashcard Factory, and 3) Categorization of words. RESOURCES
Participants rotate through stations and get a hands-on experience of what coding is and how it can be applied to their classrooms. RESOURCES
Blast Off with Project-Based Learning
Does project-based learning scare you? Are you afraid to let your students take the lead in their learning? Be like Elsa and "Let it go!" Join us to learn about our journey in project-based learning and experience a project for yourself! RESOURCES
This digital breakout will allow teachers in grades 6-12 to get a hands-on approach as to what a digital breakout really looks like. They will experience the excitement for themselves. It will also provide a time for questions and an opportunity to receive resources to better help them to plan their own digital breakout.