Session 1 (9:15 AM - 10:00 AM)
Using a Digital Classroom to Promote Education Equity
Robert Dillon, Director of Technology and Innovation, Afton School District, St. Louis, MO
The desire to change the future of our most vulnerable students drives the mission of most educators. For too long, structures, systems, and tradition have inhibited great educators from making the impact that they wish. Join us to discuss how we can use digital tools and pedagogy to facilitate the learning for all students especially our students that come to us with less resources for success.
Audience - Pre-K, Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School, College Level, Administrators
Room 2OneNote for Personalized Instruction with Support for Struggling Readers
Jill Sitnick During the session participants will be introduced to Microsoft’s OneNote Classroom Notebook. This O365 tool allows educators to organize instructional resources in order to deliver powerful lessons and create personalized, secure learning environments for students. In addition to reviewing the steps to create OneNote Classroom Notebooks in O365, OneNote’s newest features will be reviewed and participants are encouraged to bring their devices and play with the program.
Audience - Pre-K, Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School, College Level, Administrators
Room 3
Brand Yourself! Brand Your District!
Ross Cooper, Supervisor of Instructional Practice K-12, Salisbury Township SD
In this session, we will explore various ways for you to brand yourself and your district. Topics will include: what constitutes a brand, getting your work noticed, and leveraging social media to reach an audience.
Audience - Pre-K, Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School, College Level, Administrators
Room 9
Around the World in 180 Days
Brian Costello, Teacher, Weymouth Township
During this session, we will discuss how to leverage connections with your kids to develop authentic learning experiences. Through sharing my Connecting Communities project and through the use of tools like Google Tour Builder, Hangouts/Skype/Appear.in teachers will learn how to share a larger world with their students.
Audience - Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8
Room 10
I've Flipped the Lesson, Now What?
Carrie Sinone, Teacher, RM Bacon Elementary, Millville Public Schools
Congratulations! You've flipped your classroom! Now, what do you do when they show up for school? This session will focus on making data-driven decisions from flipped lessons to create a meaningful learning environment while they are physically in your class. (Hint hint this could work for flipped meetings too!)
Audience - Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, Administrators
Room 11
Managing Your Workflow with Google Classroom
Jon-Erik Stamatelos, Technology Teacher, Lawrence Middle School
This is an beginner/intermediate session designed for the teacher who has access to Google Classroom and would like to streamline their workflow. We will discuss different workflows (essays, Do Nows, Exit Tickets, Quizzes, Tests etc) and how we can use Google Classroom to streamline your workflow.
Audience - Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School
Room 12
First Engagement, Then Achievement
Rebecca Seery, Supervisor of Instruction, Manalapan-Englishtown Regional Schools
Student engagement is vital to increasing student achievement. Using technology to engage learners is a natural way to spark student interest and motivate your learners. Participants will build their "Digital Engagement ToolKits" by being introduced to various tech tools that not only engage, but also assess the learner. The resources showcased can be used in any type of instructional setting K-12. The presenter will showcase BlendSpace, Kahoot!, Padlet, EduCanon, and many, many, more! Participants should bring their own device to fully engage in the session.
Audience - Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School, Administrators
Room 13
Infusing Student Led EdCamp Periods to Everyday Schedules
Glenn Robbins, Lead Learner, Northfield Middle School
Are you looking to redesign your school culture, climate and most importantly impact the lives of all students and staff? Why doesn't your school create a daily EdCamp period for students? This session will discuss how students at the Northfield Connection Middle School have created an enhanced learning environment where student voice is truly heard each day! Join us, if you are ready to learn, collaborate and discuss how to create your own.
Audience - Middle School 6-8, High School, College Level, Administrators
Room 15
An LMS Is NOT Just For Students
Peter Leida, Director of Schools,
Sharing how as a district we leverage our LMS Schoology as a collaborative tool for teachers, a PD tool for all educators, a means for connecting educators, and much more from a systems perspective. Here is a link to a webinar that I recently did on the topic for Schoology: https://vimeo.com/143637893
Audience - Administrators, Aspiring Administrators
Room 16
Makerspaces - Learning by Doing
Meredith Martin, Technology Teacher, Mantua Public Schools
Stop by this session to play and learn about Makerspaces. There will be plenty of opportunities to make anything you can with the resources available.
Audience - Everyone
Room - Bacon Gym
Session 2 (10:10 AM - 10:55 AM)
Leading a Connected Classroom
Robert Dillon, Director of Technology and Innovation, Afton School District, St. Louis, MO
At no time in history have educators had a greater set of free and available to resources to change the way that learning happens. The key to this learning is being able to juggle the firehose of resources in order to get the perfect mix of opportunity to all kids in real time. Leading connected classrooms are about connecting all kids to the learning available contained in our people, places, and planet. Join this conversation about how to support all learners with the right ideas, resources, and opportunities.Audience - Pre-K, Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School, College Level, Administrators
Room 2
OneNote for Personalized Instruction with Support for Struggling Readers
Jill Sitnick During the session participants will be introduced to Microsoft’s OneNote Classroom Notebook. This O365 tool allows educators to organize instructional resources in order to deliver powerful lessons and create personalized, secure learning environments for students. In addition to reviewing the steps to create OneNote Classroom Notebooks in O365, OneNote’s newest features will be reviewed and participants are encouraged to bring their devices and play with the program.
Audience - Pre-K, Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School, College Level, Administrators
Room 3
Audience - Pre-K, Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School, College Level, Administrators
Room 3
Integrating Google Classroom at the Middle School
Stephanie Perretta, 8th Grade Algebra Teacher & Technology Integrator, Good Hope Middle School
Teachers will learn how Google Classroom can be integrated at different levels & subjects at the Middle School level. Teachers will set up classes, add announcements, assignments, discussion questions, and interact with students using posts. They can grade and provide feedback for student assignments. This will mainly be a "How To" on Google Classroom.
Audience - Middle School 6-8
Room 9
Are You Flipping of Flopping?
Bobby Barber, Math Teacher, Millville Senior High School, Millville Public Schools
As the flipped classroom has taken off in recent years, many teachers are taking it too literally: watch a video lecture at home and do practice problems in class. The flipped model needs to be used to change how we teach, not just the order of the things we do. This session will open with a discussion about how we can teach kids to learn from videos, not just watch them. From there, we will do and discuss at 3-5 activities that get the students moving and can be adapted to any class.
Audience - Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School, Administrators
Room 10
Incorporating Student Choice & Communication Tools to Increase Engagement
Joshua Zagorski, K-12 STEM Supervisor,
In this workshop, we will explore numerous ways to increase student, parents and community engagement in the classroom. Developing lessons where student choice is at the foundation can be crucial for the transfer of knowledge. Working backward, infusing leveled questioning and collaboration are other key components of a successful student exploration. Communication tools should be utilized daily to help keep all parents/guardians involved in student learning. Although the content used in this workshop will be taken from a middle school math (CCSS) classroom, the pedagogical strategies can be infused in various K-8 settings. Specific tools we will explore are Haiku Deck, Smores, Edmodo, and Google Forms.
Audience - Middle School 6-8, Administrators
Room 11
Using Classcraft to "Gamify" your Classroom Experience
Jon-Erik Stamatelos, Technology Teacher, Lawrence Middle School
This session is dedicated to the increasing student engagement through Gamification. Using Classcraft.com attendees will learn how to create an exciting classroom experience through the use of Classcraft - a behavior-based online game system driven by the behaviors and actions of your students. Students can create their own characters and join teams to work individually and together to make it through the journey of your classroom. We will focus on the creation of your own classes and rules that you would like to create based upon the way you already run your class. Turn your classroom experience into an Adventure.
Audience - Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School
Room 12
Leading Through Change: How to Implement an Effective Digital Conversion
Rebecca Seery and John Spalthoff, Supervisor of Instruction, Manalapan-Englishtown Regional Schools
In year three of a five-year digital conversion, MERS has set the bar for how to successfully implement a one to one digital conversion. Starting with a small pilot in 2013 of just 100 Chromebooks, to now deploying over 2400 Chromebooks to students in grades 5-8 using both a “day user” and take home model. Find out what strategies MERS leaders utilize day to day to be effective agents of change. Through continuous training and modeling, staff has learned to engage, educate, and empower their students.
Audience - Administrators, Aspiring Administrators
Room 13
Effective Project-Based Learning
Casey Cohen and Barbara Ledford, English and Math Teachers, String Theory School
Presenters will share how they write original curricula for secondary school courses grounded in projects that drive inquiry and learning. Participants will learn effective project design and assessment and view examples of projects and student work created in core secondary school subjects. Emphasis will be on the iPad and iOS apps, however, best practices will be applicable to all devices.
Audience - Middle School 6-8, High School, College Level, Administrators
Room 15
Generation Z -- It's Complicated
Randy Ziegenfuss, Ed.D., Superintendent, Salisbury School
Generation Z: Born after the late 90s. Today’s K-12 learners. Do we really know this generation and their learning needs and preferences? What are our adult assumptions regarding their identity, privacy, social media addiction, online danger, bullying, digital inequity and digital literacy? Let’s have a conversation about today’s generation.
Audience - Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School, College Level, Administrators
Room 16
Makerspaces - Learning by Doing
Meredith Martin, Technology Teacher, Mantua Public Schools
Stop by this session to play and learn about Makerspaces. There will be plenty of opportunities to make anything you can with the resources available.
Audience - Everyone
Room - Bacon Gym
Session 3 (11:05 AM - 11:55 AM)
Flipping the English Language Arts Classroom
Kate Baker, 9th Grade English Teacher
Getting tired of using the same ol’ grammar worksheets? Feeling frustrated with ineffective vocabulary lists? Try flipping your English Language Arts class with innovative teaching techniques that increase student engagement. From using videos for guided reading instruction to tech tools for writing, learn how ELA teachers across the country are energizing their classrooms through flipped learning.
Audience - Middle School 6-8, High School, College Level, Administrators
Room 1
The Dirty 30
Jay Eitner, Superintendent, Waterford School District
Did you know that over 700 apps are released each week? Who has the time to see what works in schools? Bring your own device and join us for 30 apps, extensions, and websites that are free and easy to use!
OneNote for Personalized Instruction with Support for Struggling Readers
Jill Sitnick During the session participants will be introduced to Microsoft’s OneNote Classroom Notebook. This O365 tool allows educators to organize instructional resources in order to deliver powerful lessons and create personalized, secure learning environments for students. In addition to reviewing the steps to create OneNote Classroom Notebooks in O365, OneNote’s newest features will be reviewed and participants are encouraged to bring their devices and play with the program.Jay Eitner, Superintendent, Waterford School District
Did you know that over 700 apps are released each week? Who has the time to see what works in schools? Bring your own device and join us for 30 apps, extensions, and websites that are free and easy to use!
Audience - Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School, College Level, Administrators
Room 2
Audience - Pre-K, Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School, College Level, Administrators
Room 3
Guarantee Student Engagement with Pear Deck
Lauren Daigle, Educational Technology Specialist
Want an interactive presentation and a formative assessment tool that engages every student in your room, every day? Pear Deck allows you to build interactive presentations right in your Google Drive. Students can join in on their own device as you display and control the session using your projector. Pear Deck integrates your content, drawing, free response and multiple choice questions and more! Don’t miss out on this new tool that’s fun, easy, and engaging! Participants should BYOD and have a Gmail account.
Audience-Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School
Room 4
Innovative Tech PD & Integration
Kathi Kersznowski, Wedgewood Elementary, Washington Township Public Schools
We'll explore some out-of-the-box ways to get staff excited - and fearless - about using technology! Topics will include: Tech Buddies, Digital Badges for Professional Development, Tech Playdates, Get-a-Room, and more!
Audience - Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School
Room 9
Making Space from Nothing
Brian Costello and Meghan Hooper,
Over the course of this year we have created a new makerspace in our school from nothing. In this presentation we will talk about the process of establishing a makerspace including gaining support from staff, administration, and the community. We will discuss the planning process, how we acquired the materials, and how the space has changed over the course of the year.
Audience - Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, Administrators
Room 10
Technology Tips and Tricks
Justin Schleider, Physical Educator,
Participants will learn how different technology hacks that will make their lives easier, save time, or engage students better. Some tricks will be the never fail google quiz, the reusable google assessment, apps that appear for entertainment only and so much more! This will be an interactive session where participants will be able to share their tricks as well.
Audience - Pre-K, Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School, College Level, Administrators
Room 11
Awesome Chrome Extensions
Jon-Erik Stamatelos, Technology Teacher, Lawrence Middle School
This is a run through of different extensions that can be extremely useful to teachers. We will cover extensions designed to help students read and write, teachers staying up to date and organized and some extensions that will change the way you use chrome.
Audience - Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School
Room 12
Student Tasks? How to improve them with technology and collaboration
Doug Timm, Principal, Carrie Downie School, Deleware
By leveraging connections with other people and using collaborative processes, I will show how you can look at the tasks students are being asked to accomplish and move this to a more cognitively challenge lesson plan while infusing technology.
Audience - Elementary K-5
Room 13
Idea Street: Empowering students and staff towards innovation
Glenn Robbins, Lead Learner, Northfield Middle School
Are you willing to ask yourself: When someone enters your building and/or classroom, what is the experience that I am trying to create? In this session we will discuss how revamping and designing space can create an environment that empowers staff and students to become creative! If your willing embrace design thinking in creating a new experience in your building, hallways, and/or classroom then this session is for you.
Audience - Pre-K, Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8, High School, College Level, Administrators
Room 15
25 Strategies, Websites, & Resources to Engage Your Students Tomorrow
Rich Czyz, Director of Curriculum and Instruction,
Rich Czyz, Director of Curriculum and Instruction,
Teachers will learn about 25 instructional strategies, websites, and resources they can use immediately in the classroom with students. Strategies will feature ideas for engaging students in collaborative, interactive lessons. Websites and resources will address multiple subject areas and grade levels.
Audience - Elementary K-5, Middle School 6-8
Room 16
Makerspaces - Learning by Doing
Meredith Martin, Technology Teacher, Mantua Public Schools
Stop by this session to play and learn about Makerspaces. There will be plenty of opportunities to make anything you can with the resources available.
Audience - Everyone
Room - Bacon Gym
Meredith Martin, Technology Teacher, Mantua Public Schools
Stop by this session to play and learn about Makerspaces. There will be plenty of opportunities to make anything you can with the resources available.
Audience - Everyone
Room - Bacon Gym
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