ENGAGE 2024 Professional Learning Conference

Opening a new school has a specific set of challenges and blessings.  It can feel like "you're not in Kansas anymore".  As we share our experiences opening Wilson MS, Adams MS, and Worthington MS, participants will gain insights into adapting instructional strategies, building culture in a new place, and embracing innovation.  While this will be from a fine arts perspective (we teach orchestra and choir), the content can be applied to any teacher or support staff interested or curious about what opening a new campus can really involve, and how you can make your new school feel like home for you and your students quickly, without getting losing your mind in the process.

Elevate learning, engagement, and creativity with WeVideo! In this workshop, you will learn video editing fundamentals as you run through the flow of creating, editing, and publishing a video. You’ll learn how to uses classes and access pre-made assignments in WeVideo’s assignment library to make student multimedia-creation a regular part of your teaching practice. Watch your students come alive with WeVideo!

By the end of this session, educators will be able to:
--Understand the benefits of student creativity and multimedia creation!
--Edit and publish a video and create video-based instructional content.
--Begin implementing multimedia projects and activities that enhance learning!

From science and history documentaries to personal narratives, student media projects are a great way to increase engagement and enhance learning outcomes across content areas. In this session, teachers will design a media project to implement with students! We’ll share curricular resources and best practices for facilitating each stage of a media project from generating a topic to showcasing student work! By the end of this session, you’ll be ready to implement a student media project that builds academic vocabulary, content knowledge, and literacy while enhancing learning with 21st century skills!

By the end of this session, educators will be able to:
--Leverage best practices to design and implement a media project with students
--Enhance content knowledge, literacy, and disciplinary skills with 21st century learning
--Utilize WeVideo for Schools and the assignment ideas library!

Are you a person that has owned planners from Erin Condren, Plum Paper, or Happy Planner because you like the feel of paper, flair pens, and stickers? But now you want to find a more flexible and compact means of tracking everything? Bring your iPad and canva design skills to this session and I will show you how to design your own CUSTOM planner or journals without the giant price tag from the pretty planner companies. Not a design nut? I have several templates pre-made to get you started!

Twice Exceptional Students face a vairiety of challenges in life and education. GT students already face the challenge of cognitive dissonance, which is magnified when students are Gifted and have a learning disability. Come learn tools and strategies to help students succeed in your class.