Session Descriptions

Designing Differentiated Digital Activity Lists

Build student responsibility for learning; have students determine “how” they will learn content. Choices take into account cognitive levels and learning styles (think UDL), with links to online activities. Explore this remote-learning tool and learn about the nuances of design.

Setting Up Remote Structures to Support Remote Learners

In the classroom, you have structures that keep the flow of learning going. You might have a Resource Table or a Help Board. What kinds of structures will support the flow of learning remotely? How can you provide your students with new norms that fit this new way of learning?

Formative Assessment Tools for Remote Learning

How will you know what your students are learning, when you’re not in the room with them? Formative assessment is more important than ever when your learners are remote. Explore several tech tools for assessing student success with the resources you’re providing to them.

Leading Synchronous Instruction: What Does the Teacher Do?

Experience the four steps to facilitating impactful live instruction: trigger awareness, engage in activity, reflect and share, and establish next steps. Engage in a simulated live "lesson" to experience this as a learner, followed by a debrief to help you plan your own lesson.

Building Relationships in Remote Learning Environments

How do you keep everyone involved and working together in a remote learning environment? Developing and maintaining student relationships to promote learning opportunities is significant to student learning growth. Providing varied group experiences and interactions that address both extroverted and introverted personalities will help to build communication skills and teamwork skills among students.

Building Executive Function at Home

How many cause-and-effect chains can you find in events occurring at home, on television, in a book, etc. Categorization? Generating possible solutions? Reflecting on goals? Design learning activities that build executive function while addressing curricular content at home.

Culturally Responsive Teaching

How does culturally responsive teaching look in a remote environment? Learn strategies for supporting students’ social and emotional health and fostering a positive mindset. Gain insights into how to cultivate a community of remote learners that engage students in instructional activities that build their higher-order thinking skills.

Providing Feedback to Students in an Online Environment

How do you continue to support students with quality feedback in a distance learning experience? Provide both in-person online feedback as well as feedback on the activities they are engaging in. Challenge students with higher-order questions as well as direct specific feedback for next steps.

Supporting Special Education Students in a Remote Learning Environment

How can you ensure that each of your students with special needs are able to access learning and succeed in the remote environment? Explore strategies to help students navigate their physical environment to optimize learning at home, address behavioral challenges, and support executive function and social and emotional learning.

Maintaining Academic Rigor in Remote Learning

While packets, videos, and websites can get you through a week or two, students deserve high impact instruction and academically rigorous tasks. Explore strategies and resources to ensure student engagement in higher-order thinking and application of content.

Supporting ELL Students in Remote Learning

It's important to set ELL students up for success in the remote learning environment! ELL students have unique challenges, and the shift to remote learning can be eased by structures that provide access to technology & information, offer cultural considerations, support the different language domains, and open the doors to communication.

Building Social and Emotional Learning at Home

How can you build the competencies of SEL into remote learning activities? Reflections, journals, mindfulness activities, targeted assignments, structures, and more! Design remote learning activities that help students build social and emotional learning competencies at home.

Facilitating Live Discussions Online

How do you transfer the experience of facilitating a physical classroom to a digital one? Develop digital discussion protocols utilizing norms and establishing expectations. Establish avenues for students to meet in partners, groups, and as a whole class. Gain insights and tips for ensuring all voices are “heard.”

Hyperlinked Rubrics

Do you use rubrics with your students to lay out clearly articulated expectations? Convert to remote learning by hyperlinking rubric criteria to learning activities available on the Web. This allows students to use the rubric to drive their learning activities.

Designing Graphic Organizers to Scaffold Learning

Retention is essential to learning to ensure students can access knowledge when they need it. When students make connections to the content and among content areas, while organizing the information they are learning, retention happens more readily. Explore various graphic organizers and examples of how these thinking tools can be used at various grade levels and within various content areas.