Students can't be what they can't see. This session discusses the reasons students do not pursue STEM careers and provides strategies to foster career exploration. Using Learning Blade's classroom enrichment tools (funded for MA schools), students learn about CTE & STEM pathways while applying Math, Science, Social Studies, and ELA skills.
Environmental themes can build content knowledge and skills across the curriculum. In this hands-on session, engage in 3D modeling, simulations relevant to life sciences, geography, and real-world math. Help students explore timely topics including climate, biodiversity, land and water use, population trends, and paths to a sustainable future.
How do you make concepts relatable and relevant for students? Participants in this session will develop a living tool to use with students that breaks down units into interconnected ideas, reinforces their learning daily, and bridges the gap between classroom instruction and real-world applications.
Explore strategies to help all students experience motivation in your class. These strategies include speaking motivationally about academic work; incorporating reflection and goal-setting; supporting students to connect the academic work to their own experiences, interests and goals; and engaging in effective teacher-student coaching conversations.
James Simons loves school. Prior to co-founding cor creative partners, James Simons served as a high school principal and dean of students, an instructional coach, a middle and high school English teacher, a visual storyteller, and a writer. In his current role, James coaches school... Read More →
Join this interactive session and fill your toolbox with brain-based techniques to cultivate engagement, belonging, and empower student voice and ownership of learning. Build a connected and supportive community. Integrate academics with SEL. Take away creative inspiration and practical methods to enhance involvement and retention in academics, advisory, and groupwork.
Would you like to explore engaging and educational approaches to creating excursions outside of your classroom that will create lifelong memories for students? We can show you how! Walk away with exciting and interactive activities to bring more content and curricular connections to your field trips! Come join us!
Increasingly, educators share concerns regarding deficits in their students’ communication skills. In this session, we’ll explore a series of instructional practices designed to help students become critical consumers of media, quality producers of media, and savvy communicators.
Taunya has built unique itineraries for students throughout New England, the nation and Globe for more than 22 years. Students and teachers alike walk away with unforgettable experiences that last a lifetime. Wolfe Tours' full service approach allows teachers and chaperones to focus on students and not logistics.
Explore the intersection of ELA and Computer Science in middle school classrooms! This session showcases a project where students analyzed literary conflict and programed robots to depict key scenes. Attendees will have the chance to experiment with programming, discovering how coding can transform stories into dynamic, interactive experiences.
A pixel art project that meets FACS, Math, and other curriculum standards. Participants will create a sample during this session. Fun and interactive project, with phenomenal student “buy-in”/ positive response. Hint: math facts, FACS, graph paper, fuze beads, irons… piqued your interest?
Join this interactive workshop and take advantage of teachable moments with engaging student-centered reflection techniques. Enliven the traditional sharing circle with active, brain-based methods including movement, metaphor, art, and “warm-welcome” and “optimistic-closing” activities to increase emotional connection, relevancy, and depth-of-understanding. Create lasting lessons and help students become lifelong reflective learners.
All adolescents deserve the chance to learn to read and spell proficiently. Some struggle with foundational skills, but adolescence offers opportunities for growth. This session introduces a structured literacy approach, focusing on word study to improve decoding and spelling. The goal is to build independence and master grade-level standards.
In this session, teachers will participate in a series of hands-on activities to engage learners in the four areas of reading: phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Come ready to move and play as you practice ways to incorporate reading games in your classroom.
In the age of selfies, we constantly construct and reconstruct our images - how can educators tap into that so students think more deeply about our shared past and their place in the present? We created a cross-curricular unit on portraiture in colonial America and modern self-portraiture to explore this question.
Reading, writing, lectures…teaching History can feel redundant. “More than a Lecture…Bringing History to Life” focuses on providing practical ideas and resources for your classroom! The session includes an interactive presentation to provide audience members an opportunity to collaborate and put new ideas into practice for their own classroom. (This is a two-part session.)
What is the connection between fun and learning? It's brain science! This session will review the way our brains learn and how fun enhances that process. Participants will share, borrow, and steal brain-based strategies for having fun while learning that can be applied to classrooms and schools.
This interactive session will be a deeper dive from Molly's keynote to help you manage all of the things on your plate. You will have time to plan how you will apply those skills and strategies and feel empowered when you return to your students. It will be a relaxed, fun and meaningful work and social session.
Molly Kennedy has dedicated the past 26 years to empowering people to have more resilience, confidence and learning to leverage their adversity into results.Challenges and trauma followed Molly throughout her life. She grew up in a dysfunctional family with addiction, divorce, neglect... Read More →
This fast-paced presentation covers 30 instructional strategies designed to boost student engagement, support differentiation, encourage collaboration and communication, and foster an inclusive learning environment, ensuring all students are motivated, challenged, and actively involved in their educational journey.
Participants engage in collaborative group work with the goal of preparing to support students to do the same. Participants adopt group roles, co-construct a group contract, share about their experiences facilitating student collaboration, and then work together to strategize and make plans for successful student collaboration in their classrooms.
I love school. At cor creative partners, we provide joyful professional development to support integrating SEL + Academics, developing leadership, curriculum and pedagogy, and the Investigating History curriculum.
James Simons loves school. Prior to co-founding cor creative partners, James Simons served as a high school principal and dean of students, an instructional coach, a middle and high school English teacher, a visual storyteller, and a writer. In his current role, James coaches school... Read More →
We will learn about the most popular tools and applications for AI in the classroom environment, including tools for both teachers and students to use to enhance the learning experience and prepare for the Brave New World of artificial intelligence and large language models.
As Visions of the Graduate have taken root across CT, there’s been a greater emphasis on learning transferable skills over content standards, however assessing student progress with these skills remains challenging. Portland Middle is using a Middle School Capstone and Student Success Plans as student benchmarks along the VoG continuum.
