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!