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.

The purpose of the Instructional Considerations to Activate Purposeful Planning (ICAPP) resource is to address potential gaps from unfinished learning in order to maximize current grade level learning and enhance the planning process. Participants will purposefully plan their upcoming unit using the ICAPP tool and the Unit Instructional Focus Document (IFD).

The Mathematics Teacher Manipulative Google Slide Decks are designed for teachers to manipulate and use when developing instruction and student activities.  Participants will learn how to modify the slide decks for their lessons and share them with their students using different platforms.

dents using different platforms.