Google Slides can be used for much more than just presentations. In this interactive session, we’ll explore ways to use Slides to create graphics, design interactive activities, and to facilitate instructional strategies. Along the way, you’ll learn ways to refine the design of your slides so that they’re accessible and so that your ideas are clearly communicated.

This session is for all educators who are beginning → intermediate users of Google Slides. You will need a laptop or Chromebook to be able to fully participate in this hands-on session.

This session shows how focusing on learning (instead of teaching) can change everything about the way a school and all of its classrooms are run. You will learn how teams work collaboratively to shift your school culture to interdependence, commitment, and a culture of celebration that creates many winners. 

Design meaningful learning experiences that challenge students to shift from being content consumers to critically thinking creators. Explore relevant problem solving and design thinking using the Solve in Time! protocol, and delve deeper into meaningful project design using resources from Google Applied Digital Skills lessons and the Texas Performance Standards Project. Spend time in this session experiencing learning, exploring resources, and designing learning experiences for your own classroom. 

Be sure to bring a charged device and headphones to this session!

Do you strive to help students go beyond rote memorization and repetitive calculations? Many traditional classroom norms and habits actually enable “non-thinking” student behavior. In this session, we’ll examine specific teaching practices that will fine tune your thinking classroom.

Effective and consistent classroom management skills are essential for every teacher in order to maintain a quality learning environment for all students. This workshop will equip teachers with the necessary tools in order to establish classroom guidelines, procedures, and behavior management techniques.

s Participants will learn how to use the Mathematics Instructional Considerations to Activate Purposeful Planning (ICAPP) tool to know what to pre-assess before instruction. After determining what to pre-assess, they will use the NEW Checks for Understanding online assessment in TRS to create a pre-assessment. To determine what individual students know, participants will develop an understanding of how to implement Monitoring Aggressively during independent work to guide students in the right direction. Participants will learn how to use the Mathematics Instructional Considerations to Activate Purposeful Planning (ICAPP) tool to know what to pre-assess before instruction. After determining what to pre-assess, they will use the NEW Checks for Understanding online assessment in TRS to create a pre-assessment. To determine what individual students know, participants will develop an understanding of how to implement Monitoring Aggressively during independent work to guide students in the right direction. using different platforms.