A Unique Professional Development Event That Will Change How You Think about Leading and Learning in the Digital Age! Fourteen non-profit educational organizations have planned a HUGE professional development event and you are invited! Over 200 sessions with outstanding presenters with strategic topics will Wow you with High Impact challenges for leaders and educators! Over 100 Exhibitors and Sponsors will Amaze you with new tools for the 21st Century global education community. Over 3,000 of your colleagues, friends, business associates, and leaders will Be There in the same place at the same time. Share real face time.
Attendees will become familiar with Rtl recommendations and methods shared with the mathematics practice guides and learn about effecive strategies for screening and differentiated instruction.
Student & Educator Awards will be shared.
Catherine Poling, Session Coordinator
Jennifer Pleszkoch, Educator & Leader Awards Chair
Ben Hurley, Student and Teacher Contests Chair
“Standards are not curriculum.” Educators must use the standards as a basis for designing high-quality curricula and assessments to support impactful teaching for effective learning. In this session, we’ll examine a practical framework for transforming the Common Core and other “next generation” Standards into a curriculum that emphasizes understanding and long-term transfer.
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Looking for fun and motivating ideas for your middle level classroom? This session is a hands-on session that provides real quality strategies in the areas of reading, writing, spelling, grammar, listening and speaking skills. No philosophy here just creative ideas to motivate the middle level learner.
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There are so many new technology gadgets, apps, and websites, that it is nearly impossible to keep up. In this fast-paced session, Tammy will share her favorite newly-discovered tips, tricks, and tools for teachers and students.
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School leaders are on the go, and don't usually have a lot of desk time during the day. However, we are expected to have information at our fingertips, stay in communication, collect documentation, and not miss a thing. Learn how to use your iPad to be a truly mobile leader!
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Co-presenter Toni Carr
Co-presenter Stephanie Kelly
Participants will gain an understanding of how iPads can be integrated into English/Language Arts instructionl aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Attend this session and gain information about apps and instructional strategies applied at Sunset Elemenetary to enable students to produce and publish writing according to the MD Common Core Curriculum Frameworks.
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Learn tips, tricks, and guidelines for providing iPad PD at the district and-school-based level. Mobile devices welcomed!
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As our students progress into an incresing digital word, the need for engaging and iteractive classroom media is greater than ever. Join us for first-hand expertise on the tools offered by Discovery Education's program at St. Louis School.
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This presentation is geared towards novice teachers who wish to explore some easy and simple ways you can incorporate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) into your classroom. Software to be discussed include Google Earth, Trimble Sketch-Up and ESRI’s ArcGIS Online. GIS technology is not solely limited to STEM disciplines nor is it limited to high school students. Applications for this technology to subjects such English and History will be also be discussed. Washington College has developed a suite of free online curriculum materials that teachers can use to train themselves and then turn-around and use these same materials in the classroom.
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Schools have quickly become the forefront for the "all wireless access layer" with the influx of wireless devices though BYOD and 1-1 educational initiatives. As a result, mobile devices and applications have become more prominent in the classroom; making high-speed wireless networking fundamental to learning and communication experiences. In this session, you’ll learn about the diversity and explosion of mobile devices and applications in education, the dilemma they pose on your campus’ network, and how you can prepare for them in terms of scalability, service survivability, integration, application control, and Simpli-Fi-cation with Aerohive’s distributed Wi-Fi and routing solutions.
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Educators are expected to be on top of the latest technology that will inform and enhance their classroom teaching. Come see how Baltimore City Schools is using SMART Bridgit software to create a Technology Learning Network that will help address this need.
Maryland school district instructional leaders discuss the planning, implementation, and lessons learned from their pilot of the Teachscape Focus Observation Training and Assessment System and the Teachscape Reflect Observation and Evaluation System.
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Do you think it is possible to increase engagement, reduce discipline problems, enhance a student's attention span and at the same time increase your energy levels at the end of the day? The answer is YES, and the magic of it all, is that we have different sound solutions to meet YOUR different teaching styles. Come to our session to see our new technology for full classroom sound as well as our New FlexCAT – specifically designed for Differentiated Instruction. We will also show you how, through a few simple steps, you can record your entire lesson and post it wherever you would like for later
listening by your students. Imagine, your students having your lessons on their iPods, or the web, with little extra effort on your end.
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Discover how SAFARI Montage offers a superior Learning Object Repository from which educators can manage all digital learning resources, including video, curriculum documents, IWB files, iBooks and more. Attendees will explore key features like digital rights management, mobile device integration and interoperability with other ed-tech solutions, including LMS’s and classroom technology. Learn how it integrates with our Digital Learning Platform (DCP) which offers curriculum development, presentation and formative assessment tools.
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According to the Partnership For 21st Century Skills website, “There is a profound gap between the knowledge and skills most students learn in school and the knowledge and skills they need in typical 21st century communities and workplaces.” Research shows that more and more people primarily think and learn through experiences they have had. This is 21st century learning and providing children with opportunities to experiment with their surroundings as a form of problem solving or systematic creativity, which is the ability to think creatively and reason systematically, will help fill this gap. With exposure to dynamic and active learning experiences, students are inspired to become the next generation of problem solvers, creating active, collaborative and inventive solutions-seekers. This is changing the way educators and childcare
professionals view their roles. Join LEGO Education North America Sales Director George Yaghmour to learn more how hands-on experiences are driving future innovators with 21st century skills.
Now it’s easier than ever to unleash the full potential of iPad in your classroom by creating your own courses for iPad. You get to share your ideas in a powerful new way, and your students get a rich, immersive learning experience using the iTunes U app for iPad. iTunes U is available no matter where you teach — at any college, university, or K-12 school.
Co-presenter Laurie Andes
This session will explore using the Common Core Standards to design instructional practices that infuse rigor into daily classroom routines through the use of rubrics. Identifying specific strategies and examples, participants will examine potential models of rubric design and school-wide classroom use.
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Come and explore ways to utiliize digital media to enhance literacy practice in your classroom. Let's empower students to think critically and make informed choices about how they can access text, produce, and communicate with others in the 24/7 digital world.
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This session will explore how we can use technology in order to encourage and foster the 21st century skills of creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaboration...all while still holding the students accountable for their own learning. We will look at examples of project-based units as well as strategies for teachers.
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What? A session on Hurricane Sandy? No! As the State Curriculum for Personal Financial Literacy Education takes hold across Maryland, teachers are faced with deciding on what technology is good and what simply is trendy or worse. Come and see examples of strong content and good pedagogy available via technology for teaching Financial Literacy in Grades 3-12.
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Participants will gain new instructional strategies while exploring a variety of digital tools that can be used to improve persuasive writing of students.
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Binders, notebooks, and folders can be a pain! They take up space, gather dust, and are difficult to quickly find information The solution is the application Evernote. Whether online, on your iPhone, your iPad, or Android device, you have information at your fingertips.
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Co-presenter - Saralee Bernstein
This session offers educators of all levels the ability to enhance their curriculum with current Internet and Web 2.0 resources that connect lessons with educational standards. This session will assist teachers with improving academic skills, planning, instructional strategies, and collaborating with others.
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Learn how one elementary sciecne education professor from Stevenson University uses a new audio-viosual format to move pre-service teachers from theory to practice. Come and see sample lessoncasts from the pre-service teachers!
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Seven years ago a vision became a reality when Talbot County Public Schools started their 1-to-1 program. Learn about how it began, what was needed to sustain the program in the early years, the independent evaluations by JHU CTE, and where we are today.
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In this session, Tammy will provide an overview of the fabulous, free Evernote tool and then will share features, tips, and tricks, that will help you to organize your life both in and out of the classroom! You won’t believe all of the things you can do with this one amazing tool!
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Geospatial technology can be a valuable tool to enhance Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) related courses. Washington College, through a MSDE Race to the Top grant, has developed a 15 week online course for elementary, middle school, and high school teachers. The course focuses on problem based learning approaches to incorporating geospatial technology into your classroom by deploying easy to use software in the classroom. This presentation will discuss the course and give participants an idea of what they may learn if they enroll. All course materials are freely available
online and may be used immediately to learn.
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In this interactive workshop, teachers will be transformed into 21st Century students and discover how Personal Learning tools can be integrated into any classroom. One of City Schools’ own teachers will demonstrate how she uses personal learning spaces in her classroom.
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Do you want to increase STEM participation in a fun and engaging way? The presentation will share how a diverse student population that includes different abilities, races, and genders works in teams to solve real problems using creativity and critical thinking skills.
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Participants will discover how to use Google Applications as a vehicle to drive student collaboration, engagement, and learning. We will explore Google Docs, Google Plus, Google Images, YouTube, the Chrome Web Store, and more. This is one Google trip you don't want to miss.
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Graphic Novels are widely popular among readers at all grade levels. Presenters will share outstanding titles and series of students in grades K-6. The session will conclude with an announcement of the nominees of the 2013-2014 Black-Eyed Susan Graphic Novel Award (Grades 4-6).
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Come learn about all the important issues to consider as you think about implementing a one-to-one program –even some you may not have thought of yet. For example, how to remotely distribute not only apps, but also curriculum content to student devices. How will you filter web content for CIPA compliancy – not just through device Internet browsers, but also apps? How will students use the devices if they don’t have Internet access at home? We’ll discuss these and many other topics that often get overlooked prior to investments in one-to-one technology.
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Pixie has gone to the CLOUD! Wixie, the cloud-based or ‘W’eb-based version of Pixie allows students to utilize many of the tools and features of the popular computer-installed version, but is more suited to extend learning beyond the walls of the classroom. Bring your laptop, Android tablet, iPad, Kindle Fire, or other device to paint, add art, record your voice, and edit text in your own multimedia creation with Wixie. Aligned to the Common Core and includes and easy-to-use digital portfolio component.
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Are you using your SMART Board to support implementation of Common Core State Standards? If not, this session will show you how by utilizing the templates in SMART Notebook. You will be provided with examples of how these can be used to create interactive lessons.
Mobile apps, 3D games, video content, websites and whiteboard resources -- and PBS KIDS LAB has it all for free. Join us and discover a range of digital media tools to help children ages 2-8 learn math and literacy skills as they engage with their favorite PBS characters.
Maryland resource teachers share strategies for integrating hands-on activities and teacher self-reflection features of the Teachscape Reflect Observation and Evaluation System across their district.
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Pearson’s Inspire Literacy (iLit) intervention reading program for struggling readers is designed to meet the national crisis of students who simply cannot read at the appropriate grade level and who, by the time they reach high school, are in danger of dropping out. iLit engages students like no other reading program. The first and only complete instructional solution built and delivered on the iPad, iLit can offer each student
personalized learning support based on their own instructional needs, engaging interactivities, and built-in reward systems that motivate students and track their progress. Please join us to learn more.
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According to the Partnership For 21st Century Skills website, “There is a profound gap between the knowledge and skills most students learn in school and the knowledge and skills they need in typical 21st century communities and workplaces.” Research shows that more and more people primarily think and learn through experiences they have had. This is 21st century learning and providing children with opportunities to experiment with their surroundings as a form of problem solving or systematic creativity, which is the ability to think creatively and reason systematically, will help fill this gap. With exposure to dynamic and active learning experiences, students are inspired to become the next generation of problem solvers, creating active, collaborative and inventive solutions-seekers. This is changing the way educators and childcare Professionals view their roles. Join LEGO Education North America Sales Director George Yaghmour to learn more how hands-on experiences are driving future innovators with 21st century skills.
Whether you are delivering for print mobile, tablets, or desktop, your content needs to be readable and deliverable. Adobe has set the standard for creating and repurposing your content. This presentation will provide and overview of how Adobe’s collection of tools make it possible to create, assemble, and deliver your content to the ever-changing landscape of devices and screens. Whether you are a coder or an aspiring designer, with Adobe’s new tools anyone can easily create interactive content and design web sites that can be used anywhere.
Not sure how to do all this? You’ll learn about Adobe’s new Education resource portal and training materials to make integration and adoption in the curriculum more effective. This is a presentation you won’t want to miss!
The session addresses elements that are necessary for successful writing instruction in the context of building a caring classroom community. Participants will discuss the challenges in helping students become strong writers and experience a lesson that incorporates best practices in writing instruction as well as a framework for creating a caring community in the classroom.
PARCC will require technology-based interactive tools to produce responses. Learn how Learning.com will support students and teachers for success! Don't wait to measure success of digital literacy skills.
Chrissy will provide resources to incorporate interactive lessons for effective instruction to students at
varying levels, and who require different learning methods to achieve their objectives.
Harness the power of social media and encourage your students and colleagues to join the world of collaboration using the popular social media tool, Pinterest. Bring your electronic device and join in as we set up our own Pinterest board and connect as a community, and find out how Lockerman Middle School is using Pinterest as a resource for research, learning, and sharing.
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The Research Process for the Common Core Classroom provides adaptable templates to guide teachers and students through the research process. A live web-based session will illustrate the stages of research using templates created to engage digital natives. The hyper-linked templates will reveal an easy-to-use method for teaching essential research skills that the 21st century student must master.
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This session will incorporate three FREE web tools (Thinklink, Mentormob, and Sound Cloud) and how they work together to create dynamic lessons that integrate necessary 21st century skills related to the shift to Common Core. Teachers, and or students, may embed images, sounds, videos, text, questions, and URLs to create lessons and/or student driven projects.
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Dave Volrath Project Lead
Ben Feldman Field test Specialist
Linda Burgee Student Learning Objective Specialist
Laura Motel Communications Specialist
Ilene Swirnow Professional Development Specialist
Joe Freed
Frank Stetson
Members of the MSDE’s Teacher and Principal Evaluation Team will provide up to date feedback on the status of Maryland’s Principal Evaluation Project. A look at local evaluation model variations along with the initial results of the statewide field tests will be shared. Particular attention will be given to the
positioning of LEAs as they move into full implementation for SY 2103-2014 and the role of the principal in the evaluation process.
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Participants will gain an understanding of how iPads can be seamlessly integrated into differentiated math instruction aligned with Common Core Standards. Attendees will also gain information about math apps and instructional strategies applied at Sunset Elementary to engage and prepare students to access the new Maryland Common Core Curriculum Frameworks.
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Co-Presenter: Catherine Poling
In this three part session, WCPS Superintendent, Principal of Emma K Doub Elementary, Library Media Specialist, and 2nd grade classroom teacher will share the vision, challenges, and success of going 1:1 with iPads/iPod Touches. Part 1 of 3 – WCPS Superintendent, Dr. Clayton Wilcox will share a vision of 21st century teaching and learning. Participants will learn from an elementary principal how Emma K Doub Elementary developed and implemented a Common Core aligned instructional plan, infused technology into
student centered instruction, created online learning communities for staff and students, and focused on digital literacy and collaborative writing.
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Co-presenter - Kyra Kreinbrook
Research documents how assessing information literacy skills promotes student reaching achievement. Explore strategies for utilizing these performance measures to increase the rigor of library media program reviews and specialist evaluations, and learn how Montgomery County Public Schools library media programs promotes school improvement district-wide.
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Parents and other primary caregivers are often under-utilized but instrumental resoures in fostering language, reading, and literacy skills essential for school success. The provision of a literacy-rich home environment, paired with frequent discussions with children, predicts language and literacy gains in the early years and in early grades.
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This session examines how and why teachers adapt their pedagogy to utilize Web 2.0 tools in instruction. Join us for a deep look at the relationship between technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge, and how they impact instruction.
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Are you looking for ideas to help deal with classroom disruptions? Are you tired of constant interruptions? This session will provide some practical ideas that you can use to help with classroom behavioral issues.
Find out how your room structure can make a difference, discover ways to deal with power play issues and explore strategies that relate to attention and humor. This session is based on the book Managing the Madness. The presenter provides ideas in a humorous and motivating manner that is perfect for all educators.
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Co-Presenter: Catherine Poling
In this three part session, WCPS Superintendent, Principal of Emma K Doub Elementary, Library Media Specialist, and 2nd grade classroom teacher will share the vision, challenges, and success of going 1:1 with iPads/iPod Touches. Part 2 of 3 - Library Media Specialist and Technology Coordinator Christine Hurley will share the behind-the-scenes work of implementing a 1:1 initiative. Participants will receive information on set-up, management, organization, deployment, and storage of iDevices for over 280 students and staff members.
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Pearson’s Inspire Literacy (iLit) intervention reading program for struggling readers is designed to meet the national crisis of students who simply cannot read at the appropriate grade level and who, by the time they reach high school, are in danger of dropping out. iLit engages students like no other reading program. The first and only complete instructional solution built and delivered on the iPad, iLit can offer each student
personalized learning support based on their own instructional needs, engaging interactivities, and built-in reward systems that motivate students and track their progress. Please join us to learn more.
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When you have a big project to plan, it can help to harness your visual thinking powers to get the job done better and faster. In this hands-on session, Jonny will teach you some simple but powerful visual frameworks and have you pick up a marker and draw your way to a more powerful project plan. All comfort levels with drawing are welcome. If you can draw a circle, square, and triangle you have what it takes to participate. We will be using whiteboards or paper, depending on what we can assemble logistically. But the process is the same: thinking, drawing, and sharing. More info on Jonny Goldstein can be found at envizualize.com.
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Pads are transforming classrooms! In this session, Tammy will demonstrate her favorite apps and will provide strategies for using the iPad as a teaching and learning tool. Whether you have one iPad or a classroom set, this session is for you!
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Turn those boring faculty meetings into an opportunity to show your staff that you can truly walk the walk. This session will provide a handful of technology tools and ideas you can use to demonstrate genuine technology use as a school leader.
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In this session, participants will explore two free websites that will help students develop vocabulary words of various complexities in any K-12 subject areas. Whatever devices that participants may have (interactive board, desktop, laptop, iPad, smart phones) in any place and at any time as long as there is internet connection, learning vocabulary would be fun!
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Participants will understand an overview for Student Learning Objectives and how they are used in Maryland’s Teacher and Principal Evaluation model to measure student growth.
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The goal of this technical presentation is to explore some the issues related to the development of the world’s we have built in St Michaels , Chestertown, Easton, Queen Anne’s County (Maryland), the Revolutionary era Pluckemin Artillery Cantonment (New Jersey), and worlds we are envisioning building. Middle/high school students, college students and staff at Washington College have been working on and exploring software tools to create community visualizations for the past four years. Starting with the utilization of Google Sketch-up and ESRI’s ArcScene, work in this arena has progressed to using different software tools such as Google Earth, GeoWeb3D, exploration of tools such as Autodesk 3DS Max, Blender, Maya, Photoshop, and the investigation of unique virtual world and gaming platforms such as Second Life, Open Sim Metaverse and Unity to fully engage the target audience. Other tools such as Camtasia Studio, Adobe After Effects, and Vegas Platinum Studio used to make animations will also be discussed. Along this road of discovery many obstacles have been encountered, and some overcome.
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Robotics, engineering, and programming are becoming common terms in a world that is excelling in the technology forefront. The MD 4-H program is expanding these horizons by teaching concepts to incorporate the robotics program into community and school settings. In this workshop you will learn to build a LEGO WeDo robot out of LEGOs and program it to come alive by using drag and drop programming. The WeDo robotics platform is suggested for children between the ages of 7-11. Concepts in language, writing, mathematics, science, engineering, technology, communication, teamwork and independence are
incorporated into teaching materials that will be shared.
Match your evidence collection and scoring skills against those of Danielson Group master scorers in this interactive session featuring the Teachscape Focus Observation Training and Assessment System developed by Teachscape in partnership with Charlotte Danielson and ETS.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) gives children multiple ways to learn and multiple ways to show what they’ve learned. But what does UDL really look like…? Come to this session to see UDL come alive through cutting-edge resources on Maryland Learning Links including an interactive game that lets teachers practice UDL thinking with students; a virtual tour of a UDL classroom; case studies at all age levels to help you plan,conduct and assess using a UDL mindset; and video examples of both teachers and families.
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This program is aimed at an audience of education leaders. Leaders at all levels – teacher leaders, school leaders, principal leaders, curriculum and assessment leaders, district leaders, state leaders, etc. It is not for the average educator wanting in-depth professional development on specific software or devices. Windows in the Classroom contextualizes the software and device offerings for the 21st Century Education environment. The goal is to explain how Windows can improve teaching and learning experience in the classroom.
Learn how a media specialist and technology education teacher planned and produced a unit on copyright and technology that successfully helped students learn how to ethically use information and technology. Recorded student performances will highlight how current issues about various copyright violations can stimulate student creativty and enliven a lesson.
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Announcing the Picture Book and Grades 4-6 Chapter Book nominations for 2013-2014! The Black-Eyed Susan Book Awards Program, sponsored by the Maryland Association of School Librarians (MASL), is a children's choice award. Next school year's book nominations will be introduced, along with curricular connections and lesson activity ideas.
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Utilizing the Elementary Math Common Core Curriculum, a wikispace, seven different school libraries, a union catalog, incredibly creative school librarians, a tagging feature in the OPAC, the talents of some grade level teachers and the help of some Math Specialists, come see what the buzz is about in Frederick County and see how our elementary librarians have partnered with classroom teachers to integrate literature into math! Hands on opportunity to review current titles.
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Content area multimedia projects that enhance reading comprehension? Yes! This session explores the embedded standards for multimedia within the Common Core, provides how-to's and examples for designing tasks that meet Common Core content, AND reading standards.
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Learn how online Professional Learning Communities haave brought together teachers from across the Eastern Shore for research, inquiry, and professional development. Examine challenges and advantages of creating online PLSs and plan for how you can effectively use online spaces to grow in your profesional knowledge.
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This workshop will delve deeply into how the effective use of action research by teachers and teacher
candidates can pull together The Common Core Standards, data driven instruction, professional development and teacher (as well as teacher candidate) evaluation, within a clear and effective model for teaching and learning. Participants will be engaged with the action research process, analyze action research product rubrics, and participate in activities that connect action research theory to teacher-as-researcher practice. Participants will learn how the action research process, applied in the school setting, is an excellent fit with Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching.
Students are expected to read and comprehend text with increasing complexity as they progress through school. Text complexity relies on a composite of quantitative and qualitative factors as well as the judgment of the teacher. Learn how to best assist teachers through this process.
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They’re hereeee! – Vendor Online Course Reviews. You and your district may have jumped into blended and online virtual instruction, but are you ready for online course reviews? Learn about one district’s approach to implementing a vendor course review process, MSDE’s course review policy and procedures guidelines, available course review training and professional development including how to design your own online course, and preliminary evaluation results of course review PD.
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WE have been making iPhone and Android apps with high school students for over a year now at Patapsco High School through the APPlied Club program. In this session, we will share the lessons we have learned over the last year, how the APPlied Club has changed, and the products the students have created.
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In this digital age, students who graduate from high school must be prepared to compete in a technological and global economy. The Common Core State Standards provide for rigorous, relevant, and robust learning. The PARCC assessment items are being developed in alignment with the Common Core State Standards in order to promote the rigorous and relevant instruction that will be necessary for our students to be competitive in our rapidly changing world.
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Co-presenter Michael Brooks
Without effective principals at the helm, the nation's failing urban public schools are unlikely to turn around and give children the education they deserve. This presentation will feature Prince George's County Public Schools leaders discussing the important of selective hiring and training for urban schools.
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The real work of the principal is to continuously improve the effectiveness of teachers and support staff. Broad-based, goal-oriented, and job-embedded, learn how Northern Middle School worked through CFIP, TIF, and other professional development sessions to transition to the Common Core.
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This session will share a design for workshops that was used in Queen Anne's County with more than 70 teachers districtwide in Fall 2012. This session will provide workshop materials, multimedia samples, student work, resources for lesson planning, teacher reflections on technology integration, and the implementation of UDL principals.
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2013 Research Paper winner, Dr. Doug Elmendorf will share findings from his research study.
This session will share the consensus among experts of what should be contained in a classroom observation tool that simultaneously facilitates the evaluation of pedagogy and technology integration in K-12 learning environments. The study resulted in a list of 30 indicators.
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Are you interested in game based learning but aren’t sure how to start? Tired of the mind numbing florescent lights and Power Point Poison of traditional Professional Development? Are you ready to take your learning to the next level? Then this session is for you! Join us for a lively discussion about an online learning community that employs key elements of game based learning to explore how gamification can change pedagogy and impact student learning.
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Do you have one iPad in your classroom? We will explore everything from training students to use it and how to implement one iPad in your daily lessons. You will leave with everything from how to create collaborative stories with your class to using it for classroom management. Make sure you bring your iPad.
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Building Collaborative School Culture with Data - we will walk through some easy data-informed activities for uplifting your school's climate through effective use of data.
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We all have tons to do on our plates, but as leaders in literacy, technology, and curriculum, school librarians can be at the center of providing professional development. In this session, we’ll take on the topic of PD and provide some models and ideas that you can take back to your own school to be a leader of PD.
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Attend this session presented by the 2013 MSET Technology Leader Award recipient to learn how Carroll County Public Schools planned and implemented a newly defined process for requesting and approving digital resources for use in curriculum and instruction. Irene and her team of instructional technology coordinators will take you through the planning process, the creation of an in-house Technology Request System, and the development of our CCPS Instructional Technology Website. This site has been called a ‘one stop shop’ that includes the tools that have been approved and as well as guidelines for use, best practices, and tips for getting started to name a few. Assisting with the presentation will be Kelly Hammond, Paula Sandridge and Terry Holechek.
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With funding support from the Maryland Higher Education Commission, the Maryland State Department of Education, the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention, and the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Utility Services, Washington College has developed a comprehensive series
of geospatial technology related training and curriculum materials housed in a Moodle virtual learning environment. Our technical education courses are currently being taught in high schools and the courses have been accredited for college level credit transfers. This presentation will review what materials we have available and how you can have free access to them for use in yourschools. How to use Moodle in a l ive classroom environment will also be discussed along with the challenge of trying to learn two technologies at the same time; Moodle and geospatial technology.
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SMCPS’ goal is that all students will graduate college and career ready. With the end in mind, SMCPS has set an additional goal that every student will graduate with a positive experience with digital learning. As a grant recipient, SMCPS was able to integrate Apex Learning digital curricula into student learning. Our high schools have reallocated its resources to ensure that our students have access to and interface with digital content. In order to personalize learning, our schools have instituted a program that incorporates a team of staff to create a customize program of learning all supported with ongoing professional development.
Digital learning occurs in a variety of modes. Classroom labs have been assigned for digital learning classrooms. Each school provides access before, during, and after school. The curricula are available for teachers to integrate into their classrooms as additional resource in a blended learning model. Students can recover grades by completing aligned units of study beyond the classroom. Students taking approved courses for original credit are assigned to the computer lab where a certificated content teacher is assigned to support and monitor student progression.
We will demonstrate interactive and creative activities that can be easily adapted for a range of diverse learners. The SMART Board is appealing to our students growing up in a digital and technological age. We will help you unlock the many tools that SMART Notebook has to offer so that you can provide an innovative and manageable classroom experience for your students. You will acquire knowledge and skills:*to enhance your Language Arts and Mathematics Lessons using various SMART Tools and SMART Response;*to embed online resources and activities into your SMART lessons. Come and touch our digital world!
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Common Core Curricuum and inquiry-based learning are essential in developiong college and career-ready students. Join us on our journey as we take children step-buy-step through the research process ending with an authentic presentation of information.
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In this session, participants will discover how to incorporate the "8 Standards of Mathematical Practice" into daily instruction, and gain access to my site which contains many resources and activities that can be used the very next day!
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This session provides a CCSS-based overview of the informational text, video and instructional resources offered by Infobase Learning, the parent company of top educational publishers World Almanac (R), Facts On File, Chelsea House, Ferguson's, Films On Demand, and Learn360. Resources are available for Grades 4-12.
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Robotics, engineering, and programming are becoming common terms in a world that is excelling in the technology forefront. The MD 4-H program is expanding these horizons by teaching concepts to incorporate the robotics program into community and school settings. In this workshop you will learn to build a LEGO WeDo robot out of LEGOs and program it to come alive by using drag and drop programming. The WeDo robotics platform is suggested for children between the ages of 7-11. Concepts in language, writing, mathematics, science, engineering, technology, communication, teamwork and independence are
incorporated into teaching materials that will be shared.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) gives children multiple ways to learn and multiple ways to show what they’ve learned. But what does UDL really look like…? Come to this session to see UDL come alive through cutting-edge resources on Maryland Learning Links including an interactive game that lets teachers practice UDL thinking with students; a virtual tour of a UDL classroom; case studies at all age levels to help you plan, conduct and assess using a UDL mindset; and video examples of both teachers and families.
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This program is aimed at an audience of education leaders. Leaders at all levels – teacher leaders, school leaders, principal leaders, curriculum and assessment leaders, district leaders, state leaders, etc. It is not for the average educator wanting in-depth professional development on specific software or devices. Windows in the Classroom contextualizes the software and device offerings for the 21st Century Education environment. The goal is to explain how Windows can improve teaching and learning experience in the classroom.
This interactive session allows participants to examine how key standards can be addressed through esson design that motivates students to become self-directed learners who can comprehend and evaluate increasingly complex texts.
This presentation supports teachers in implementing the Common Core Standards by highlighting specific ways of integrating of rigorous academic instruction with attention to social, emotional and ethical growth, which increases student participation and academic achievement. It also addresses ways to facilitate meaningful student talk around thoughtful literacy, leading to powerful learning experiences for every child.
Learn to let go and help your elementary students "throttle up" their technology kills through the integration of Google Earth. This presentation will focu on strategies and tips on using Google Earth with younger students. Load the free Google Earth App to your Smartphone or tablet prior to the session.
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In this thought-provoking presentation, former Chief of Schools for our nation’s third largest school system, and co-author of Teacher as Architect: Instructional Design and Delivery for the Modern Teacher
(Modern Teacher Press, 2012), Dr. Shawn K. Smith shares insights from his new work about instructional leadership in the Conceptual Age.
The presentation captures lessons learned from early digital pioneers outside of education...like Google, who in the midst of the retail industry “going digital”, is leading the on-trend idea that backwards is
forwards by announcing the opening of physical store locations. Smith and Chavez, authors of the forthcoming book from Modern Teacher Press® The Ask and the Architect: Customizing Learning in the Digital World, tackle the big questions about what it means to be a student, teacher, and leader in the
21st century. Here, they apply the lessons of the digital pioneers to education’s newest trends – architecting a digital curriculum in schools, designing an effective digital classroom, optimizing professional development, and finding the 21st century thinking skills our students will need to compete
in the Conceptual Age.
Available free on the Mac App Store, iBooks Author is an amazing app that allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks – and just about any other kind of book – for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, mathematical expressions, and more, these books bring content to life in ways the printed page never could.
Come see how free tools like Class Dojo, Class Badges, and a variety of other websites can benefit your school! Learn digital techniques for managing behavior with emphasis on the home-school connection and PBIS, as well as ideas for tracking learning goals, student skills, and more!
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Co-Presenter: Christine Hurley
In this three part session, WCPS Superintendent, Principal of Emma K Doub Elementary, Library Media Specialist, and 2nd grade classroom teacher will share the vision, challenges, and success of going 1:1 with iPads/iPod Touches. Part 3 of 3 - 2nd grade teacher Megan Nicholson and Library Media Specialist Christine Hurley share the most useful apps and instructional tips and tricks in a 1:1 environment. Participants will see demonstrations of free apps, student work samples, and professional development using the iDevices.
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Co-presenter Jason Huber
In this hands-on session, the presenters will provide an overview of how an iPad and iMovie can be used to create movie projects using video, photogrqphcs, and music from the iPad's media libraries. Paticipants will then create their own iMovie projects.
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Planning a mobile and/or BYOD/T pilot or implementation and doing research? If so, then this session is for you. The presenter will share mobile and BYOD/T success stories based on the people, projects, policies and apps that are shaping mobile and BYOD/T success.
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Transforming teaching and learning requires awakening the efficacy of all teachers. Examine a logical model for holdling productive feedback conversations. Leave with practical ideas that promote a sense of hope and possibility while focusing on results.
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Co-presenter Hillary Garner
This is the account of the journey of two principals in Prince George's County Public Schools' turnaround middle schools and the leadership moves they made to stabilize their schools on a trajectory of high expectations and achievement.
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This session will take a broader look at MOOCs as a paradigm of learning communities and open education. Participants are encouraged to share experiences, ideas, and challenges relating to large-scale, open, online learning experiences. Key topics include distributed vs. centralized approaches, instructional design perspectives, assessment, certification, and policy and legal issues.
In order for school communities to obtain results and growth for both teachers and students, they must function as professional learning communities of practice. Participants in this session will:
· Examine the links between standards-based professional learning and improved results for students;
· Explore a definition of professional learning and consider strategies for itsimplementation; and
· Review an innovation configuration map (rubric) that describes in behavioral terms what key stakeholders do in a learning school.
The seminal book, Becoming a Learning School, published by Learning Forward (formerly NSDC) will be used as a guide for this session.
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Spotlight on Evernote - the organizational app that just might save your sanity. This free app, works on all major platforms, and can truly help you organize your busy, info-packed life!
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Even our youngest students can begin to learn how to do research in the library. How do we begin to teach them the process? Can we provide them a consistent process to use throughout their elementary years? How do you get the entire building to support that model? How does the school librarian become part of the assessment of the project? It all may seem a bit daunting, but it’s not impossible. Come see the journey of one school through this process.
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Participants will learn how to create a Multimedia Toolbox that supports the framework that integrates the Common Core with the 4Cs of Critical thinking, Communiations, Creativty, and Collaboration. Learn how acquired and student-created digital media can be used to support the 4Cs and the Common Core Standards.
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Participants will reeive an overview of our successful Alternative Education Program. Strategies and data will be shared to demonstrate our success with transitioning students back to their home school, including graduation rates, as well as how students recover credits.
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This session will give educators specific strategies to incorporate into their classrooms that foster a positive learning environment to promote the success of all students. Through presenter modeling, particpants will gain knowledge of strategies that include technology, differentiated instruction, and community building activities that increase the rigor of instruction and engagement of each student.
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This session embraces the Socratic discussion model and adapts it for the elementary school student. Participants will actively experience and examine a student-led discussion model, learn how to faciliate that discussion in their own classrooms, and help students generate authentic written responses to text.
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The iPad has become the darling of instructional technology, but it is merely a vessel. The thing that makes handheld devices the celebrities of the 21st Century Learning is the software. See why software is the true diva of instructional technology.
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This session is designed to show how to differentiate mathematics instruction across the middle grades. Come learn about the research–based and pedagogical approach taken to develop a middle school mathematics program based on individualization and increasing student motivation using technology.
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Learn how to use various SMART products in order to promote collaboration in your classroom through 21st Century Learning. Activities to be discussed include Digital Storytelling, Concept Mapping, and Project Based Learning.
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Maryland school district instructional leaders discuss the planning, implementation, and lessons learned from their pilot of the Teachscape Focus Observation Training and Assessment System and the Teachscape Reflect Observation and Evaluation System.
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Robots are powerful tools for education that have matured over the last two decades but still have much untapped potential. In this talk we will provide some background about robotics and its future in society, show a couple of current uses of robotics in education, and highlight opportunities for teachers and students to learn and use this new technology.
The beauty of a BYOD programs is the flexibility that it provides your users. However, don't forget to take time to make the program fit your school culture. This session is designed to help you identify culture, design assessments and build your program to reach your goals while recognizing and playing to your strengths.
This condensed program is aimed at an audience of education leaders. Leaders at all levels – teacher leaders, school leaders, principal leaders, curriculum and assessment leaders, district leaders, state leaders, etc. It is not for the average educator wanting in-depth professional development on specific software or devices. Windows in the Classroom contextualizes the software and device offerings for the 21st Century Education environment. The goal is to explain how Windows can improve teaching and learning experience in the classroom.
Do you think it is possible to increase engagement, reduce discipline problems, enhance a student's attention span and at the same time increase your energy levels at the end of the day? The answer is YES, and the magic of it all, is that we have different sound solutions to meet YOUR different teaching styles. Come to our session to see our new technology for full classroom sound as well as our New FlexCAT – specifically designed for Differentiated Instruction. We will also show you how, through a few simple steps, you can record your entire lesson and post it wherever you would like for later
listening by your students. Imagine, your students having your lessons on their iPods, or the web, with little extra effort on your end.
Objectives:
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You have the power and the ability to create your own app that could serve the needs of your students, parents, colleagues, and the school community, without programming experience. This session will provide information about building websites, examples of resource apps, the basics of navigation and creation, and ideas for personal use.
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Teachers in three different schools, in one county, set up a research project for students in six classes. Edmodo was used to organize the project giving students an authentic audience for their writing. Tips about organizing the project and lessons learned will be shared. Bring your own laptop and participate in a sample online writing session.
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Session participants will become aware of examples of misinformation at work, and critical researrch findings when evaluating sources will be shared. Evernote and its ubiquitous structure, Evernote Web Clipper, and classroom application will be demonstrated.
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We will share tools that help you work more efficiently. Symbaloo, Delicious, Quia, Voobys, Quizlet, and Study Stack are sites we use regularly. Learn to work smarter, not harder, with us!
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When many first hear the term STEM, the inclination is to immediately link it with science. You hear things like, “STEM, oh, that’s just another term for science” or “STEM, just let the science teacher handle it.” In reality, STEM is not matter or teaching materials, it is a new lense through which we look at everyday problems and situations in every discipline. STEM is a way of thinking, approaching problems, and making decisions. This session will give you a new outlook on STEM, as well as real and relevant help for teachers and administrators trying to implement STEM education.
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Learn how PLCs create individualized, multimedia special education resources to meet the specific needs of teachers and their students. View and discuss teacher-created online professional learning resources and explore the process for using these learning artifacts to focus collaboration and support implementation of differentiated instructional practices, modifications, and accommodations.
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Co-presenter Deborah Montgomery
Although webinars are freuqnetly used in business settings, central office staff, and professional developers are seeing the power of engaging a larger audience without costs for travel or time. This session will give the fundamentals for planning and executing innovative "just in time learning" learning. Valuable tips to streamline the process and ensure success will be shared with participants so that any user can prepare a powerful, deep learning experience.
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The Queen Anne's County School System takes bullying prevention and intervention very seriously. This dynamic interactive multimedia presentation will highlight the steps that teachers, administrators, and local school systems can take to help all children feel emotionally and physically safe from bullying, harassment, and intimidation.
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The C3 Schools Award Program recognizes public and private schools that model best cyber management practices at the school, address community cyberawareness issues, and provide effective and sustainable C3 education in the curricula, which incorporates STEM, civic skills and cyber career pathways. Come learn how your school can be designated a C3 School of Excellence.
With the infusion of tablets into the classroom and the use of Pixie in almost seventy percent of all Maryland public elementary schools, it is only natural for this amazing productivity tool to be run on iPads (coming soon for Androids) especially as it applies to the Common Core. Participants will examine the Pixie Application, discuss curriculum specific integration options, and be dazzled by student samples.
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Maryland is resolute in offering an education that is equitable, efficient, and excellent – ensuring that all students graduate from Maryland high schools college- and career-ready; providing all students with
access to effective teaching and learning opportunities; and aligning the work of the Maryland State Department of Education in a cohesive, inclusive manner to ensuring the most beneficial technical assistance to internal and external constituents. While Maryland is ranked number one in the nation in education for the fifth consecutive year, the State continues to face similar challenges felt across the country. We still have achievement gaps among groups of students.
With the implementation of the ESEA Flexibility Waiver, the
new Student Progress Index (SPI) will now provide students, teachers, and
leaders with an accountability system that includes targeted areas of strength and needed improvement, or tangible benchmarks on which schools focus. To ensure continuous improvement, Maryland is revising its preK-12 State
curriculum, assessments, and accountability system; building a statewide
technology infrastructure; redesigning its educator evaluation model; as well
as, transforming low-achieving schools.
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Participants will engage in Common Core Disciplinary Literacy instruction which includes coherence between CCSS cognitive demand, text complexity, and text-dependent, discipline- specific questions. Disciplinary Literacy reading behaviors will be applied by participants, including their complexity analysis, to support Elementary and Secondary close analytic reading for science, history, and Career and Technical Educational texts.
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The beauty of a BYOD programs is the flexibility that it provides your users. However, don't forget to take time to make the program fit your school culture. This session is designed to help you identify culture, design assessments and build your program to reach your goals while recognizing and playing to your strengths.
Get Your Digital Life in Order - if you've got bookmarks all over, documents stored on multiple devices and out of sync, then you might need to take some time to get all this in order. Learn some apps, sites, and tips to streamline your digital life.
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Charlotte Danielson's Book Signing: Framework for Teaching Evaluation Instrument, 2013 Edition
Learn about gadgets that can enhance your teachinng, engage students, increase efficiency, and improve lerning! Physical devices, WEb 2.0 gadgets, and iPad gadgets will be demonstrated as the focus of this session. Patricipants will have fun learning about gadgets in this interactive session.
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Come learn tips, tricks, and apps for teaching and presenting from the iPad.
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Get ready for a toe-tappin' good time finding out what Reading, Writing, and STEM lessons could look like in elementary school music classes.
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In this interactive workshop, you’ll explore ways that in-school and online learning communities can help interdisciplinary teams of teachers infuse STEM at appropriate points in the curriculum. Collaboratively planning student-centered, inquiry-based integrated STEM lessons will help your students become creators of knowledge and promote the development of problem solving and critical thinking skills across the curriculum. Workshop facilitators will also share how learning communities are used to foster reflective teaching practices and collaboration as a component of a professional development program for secondary-level STEM teachers.
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Co-Presenter: Christy Rogers
Have you ever experienced a Student Centric Classroom? If not, this is the session for you! Come see and have hands on time the newest products from SMART. Learn how they can transform your classroom. In addition to the great hardware and software, find out about the wide-variety of resources and support available on the SMART website and the SMART Exchange to help maximize the effective student use of technology in your classrooms.
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Become a better elementary math teacher. Discover Mathlanding, a dynamic, free resource that supports the needs of teachers in building mathematical knowledge and practice. Mathlanding harnesses the best of the web for use as an effective technology-driven tool in both the classroom and for professional development. This session will showcase a robust digital library and a suite of tools to enable users to save, share and collaboration among fellow educators.
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As mobile learning and BYOD programs move closer to reality, the IT challenges are becoming clearer. Mobility solutions must provide both management of a broad array of user devices, content and apps (MDM) and control of access to critical network resources (NAC), whether the device is district-or student-owned.
Our session will explore the roll of MDM and NAC in a solution that provides full visibility and control of your network and mobile devices, including:
If you are responsible for your district’s mobility strategy, you won’t want to miss this info packed session including industry leading solutions and plenty of time to answer your questions.
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Match your evidence collection and scoring skills against those of Danielson Group master scorers in this interactive session featuring the Teachscape Focus Observation Training and Assessment System developed by Teachscape in partnership with Charlotte Danielson and ETS.
Pearson’s Inspire Literacy (iLit) intervention reading program for struggling readers is designed to meet the national crisis of students who simply cannot read at the appropriate grade level and who, by the time they reach high school, are in danger of dropping out. iLit engages students like no other reading program. The first and only complete instructional solution built and delivered on the iPad, iLit can offer each student
personalized learning support based on their own instructional needs, engaging interactivities, and built-in reward systems that motivate students and track their progress. Please join us to learn more.
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Robots are powerful tools for education that have matured over the last two decades but still have much untapped potential. In this talk we will provide some background about robotics and its future in society, show a couple of current uses of robotics in education, and highlight opportunities for teachers and students to learn and use this new technology.
Do you think it is possible to increase engagement, reduce discipline problems, enhance a student's attention span and at the same time increase your energy levels at the end of the day? The answer is YES, and the magic of it all, is that we have different sound solutions to meet YOUR different teaching styles. Come to our session to see our new technology for full classroom sound as well as our New FlexCAT – specifically designed for Differentiated Instruction. We will also show you how, through a few simple steps, you can record your entire lesson and post it wherever you would like for later
listening by your students. Imagine, your students having your lessons on their iPods, or the web, with little extra effort on your end.
Objectives:
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Particpants will learn how to integrate the GAFE into all instructional areas. Use the GAFE promotes collaboration by allowing users to peer edit written work, create group projects simultaneously, comment on other users' work, share presenttions, gather data, and display growth. Examples and ideas from K-5 will be shared.
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It is essential for librarians to establish their value as indispensible partners in the process of implementing the Common Core. Come and see examples and approximations, learn about the presenter's approach and philosophy, share your insights, and participate in critical conversation.
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to conduct research projects with primary students. During our presentation, we will share examples of primary research with technology projects, in addition to online tools for planning and preparing your own research projects.
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Participants will be introduced to a variety of activities on the iPad to increase math fluency and practice new skills. The presenter will demonstrate xtramath.org, a website for fluency, how to use QR codes in the classroom, and several different apps for practicing basic operations, fractions, graphs, and solving equations.
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Participants will become familiar with the elements and techniques of effective digital storytelling, as well as ideas for implementing them in their classrooms. Learn how to use creativity tools, such as Frames, to original digital stories that include images, effects, background music, and narration.
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Replacing lectures with movies and screencasts can seem intimidating, but it doesn't have to be. In fact, with the right free programs, it can be easy! Here's how to turn your "but I need to lecture about this" moments into movies for your students to watch outside of the classroom.
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Learn how to teach from anywhere in your room. Walk around the class while presenting on the screen. Teach from the back of your classroom and add a new dimension to your teaching. Be right there with your students to help them.
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How are teachers expected to grow and increase student achievement if they don't have adequate time, resoures, and effective coaches? Presenters will faciliate discussions based on Charlotte Danielson's text, Implementing the Framework for Teaching in Enhancing Professional Practice. Presenters will share best coaching practices, and supplemental tools such as websites, checklists, and other resources.
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Social media, digital media, and online collaboration tools not only have changed the way we teach and learn, but how we approach our own professional development. This session will discuss the innovative Connected Learning concept and show participants how to leverage social and digital collaborative tools and platforms.
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The Academy is designed to create a nation-wide cohort of K-12 trained teachers. Selection is highly competitive and is based on teacher qualifications, administrator recommendation, skills assessment, and commitment to deliver a CyberSTEM after school program or extension unit, or integrate CyberSTEM concepts within their courses. This serves as the cohort kickoff event.
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Google offers a variety of applications that allow students to create, collaborate, and share. In this session, you’ll see some clever activities for students - ideas that are not only quick and easy, but also require creativity and higher-level thinking. Activities will be demonstrated from start to finish, using Google’s free suite of Web 2.0 tools.
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Pearson’s Inspire Literacy (iLit) intervention reading program for struggling readers is designed to meet the national crisis of students who simply cannot read at the appropriate grade level and who, by the time they reach high school, are in danger of dropping out. iLit engages students like no other reading program. The first and only complete instructional solution built and delivered on the iPad, iLit can offer each student
personalized learning support based on their own instructional needs, engaging interactivities, and built-in reward systems that motivate students and track their progress. Please join us to learn more.
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Participants will learn how planning with the UDL (Universal Design for Learning) Principles can assist all students in meeting the challenges of the Common Core State Standards. Connections with Race to the Top, PARCC ( Partnership for College and Career Readiness) Assessments, and the Common Core State Standards will be shared. Resources that motivate and engage students and teachers in leading and learning for the digital age will be highlighted.
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Gone are the days when students complete a paper worksheet and then turn it in in the wire box on the teachers desk. In today’s world, students are creating digital projects using a variety of tools on computers and mobile devices. In this session, Tammy will demonstrate her favorite apps and tools for students, and then will share a simple solution that will allow the teacher to collect and organize the students' creations.
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Learning Styles and Technology - information on learning styles and relevant web 2.0 technologies and activities to support an array in your classroom.
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Later this year, Learning Forward will release Becoming a Learning System, the follow-up text to the seminal book Becoming a Learning School. The volume will explore how school districts, charter management organizations, and networks of traditional and non-traditional schools can create environments that scale and sustain effective teaching and learning. Participants in this
session will:
· Explore the assumptions guiding this work and Learning Forward's vision for a learning system;
· Discuss the changing role of a district or charter management central office in order to support the
work of building leaders and their leadership teams; and
· Explore the links among a system's focus on standard-based professional learning, improved
practices of teachers and leaders, and increased student learning.
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Museums offer professional development, both online and onsite. Learn how museums in the Baltimore-Washington area use technology to bring museum's resources to teachers and students.
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Come and explpore the recently published digital storybook, Children's Lives at Colonial London Town, created bvy Anne Arundel County Teachers. Bring history to life with 21st century learning through this interactice eBook that allows instruction to entend beyond the classroom walls.
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Co-presenter Austin Ewachiw
Roy Lobdell is piloting innovative instruction in Algebra 1, using iBooks Authoring to supplement classroom teaching. Learn more about this pilot program that is designed to explore the feasibillity of increasing student achievement by giving students access to dynamic illustrations of mathematical concepts.
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Co-presenter Barb Matson
Using NASA's Cosmic Times educational product, technology, and project/problem-based learning, this multimedia unit offers step-by-step procedures to engage students in the big questions of the universe.
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Loch Raven Technical Academy has implemented a pilot Paperless Classroom with select classes. This session will explain how we planned and selected hardware and software for the pilot, as well as how our initial deployment has worked so far.
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The presentation will demonstrate how a diverse student population that includes different abilities, races, and gender, works in teams to strengthen literacy skills that are aligned with the Common Core Curriculum. Participants will discuss implementation strategies, funding, tips for growing and maintaining the program.
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Kindergarteners from a Baltimore County elementary school participated in a twitter-based virtual exchange with a school in Hamilton, Canada. Participants will explore how they might implement a Kindergarten Around the World program in their schools.
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This workshop examines what the digital classroom of the 21st Century should look like. It focuses on three major aspects: Digital Content – what does the content used in our classroom look like and what is available for digital use; Digital Tools – an overview of some of the digital tools available to teachers, students and schools; and Digital Best Practices – a look at some of the non-negotiable in the digital classroom. Participants will leave with tools and ideas they can immediately integrate into the classroom!
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PARCC will require technology-based interactive tools to produce responses. Learn how Learning.com will support students and teachers for success! Don't wait to measure success of digital literacy skills.
Dave Volrath Project Lead
Ben Feldman Field test Specialist
Linda Burgee Student Learning Objective Specialist
Laura Motel Communications Specialist
Ilene Swirnow Professional Development Specialist
Joe Freed
Frank Stetson
Members of the MSDE’s Teacher and Principal Evaluation Team will provide up to date feedback on the status of Maryland’s Teacher Evaluation Project. A look at local evaluation model variations along with the initial results of the statewide field tests will be shared. Particular attention will be given to the positioning of LEAs as they move into full implementation for SY 2103-2014 and the role of the teacher in the evaluation process.
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Explore new online presentation tools that are at the same time dynamic, eye-catching, and effective. Tools like Prezi, SlideRocket, PowToon, and Projegt. These Tools may make you wave "goodbye" to PowerPoint forever!
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Would your students love interactive internet based games? Will they do better with differentiated activities that help them move from where they are to where they should be? Would you love it if they loved it and you wouldn’t have to make all the activities? And if you wanted to make the games, you could, and use them forever or modify them when needed! Then Quia is for you. Quia is home to more than 3,000,000 interactive, internet-based, differentiated games and quizzes on every subject to be practiced anywhere. No copy machines:) Work easy!
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Unveiling History: Exploring America’s Past, A Teaching American History Project is a partnership between school systems and George Mason University designed to increase the use of primary sources for instruction and the development of student historical thinking skills through traditional and digital resources. The interactive Unveiling History site has resources, lessons, videos, primary source activities, and teacher discussions about teaching using these resources. Participants will see the web-site and how it works and take part in a primary source activity that they can use with their students.
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Learn how the Black-Eyed Susan books for grades 6-12 can fit into classrooms other than English. Members of the selection committee will introduce selected titles from next school year's book nominations, along with curricular connections, and lesson activity ideas.
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This session will focus on ways to create teacher "buy-in" and support for utilizing technology tools in the classroom. Administrators will view different levels of technology integration in a classroom, and then engage in meaningful discussio regarding ways they can support higher-level uses of technology in their schools.
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Are you struggling to provide quality online courses for your students that are not only engaging by instructionally sound? Learn how Quality Matters (QM), a nationally recognized program with a focus on continuous improvement and quality course design, can help. Become familiar with the QM research-based rubric, the course review process, and PD opportunities in the design and review of online courses.
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The Academy is designed to create a nation-wide cohort of K-12 trained teachers. Selection is highly competitive and is based on teacher qualifications, administrator recommendation, skills assessment, and commitment to deliver a CyberSTEM after school program or extension unit, or integrate CyberSTEM concepts within their courses. This serves as the cohort kickoff event.
Edmodo Code: 2yvv75
The first-level digital divide is all about having stuff, and school staff can claim success about the amount of stuff they have. But are we fooling outselves if we believe that we have achieved real equity across schools, across classrooms, and among students? Find out about the second-level digital divide.
Edmodo Code: l73wz7
Have you thought about implementing digital portfolios, but weren't sure what tools and procedures to use? In this session, you'll discover how a couple of simple "tricks" can turn a Google Blog into the perfect interface for a digital portfolio.
Edmodo Code:65hkrz
From 1 to 1 programs to BYOD (bring your own device), technology is present in all schools. In this session, we will look at all devices from cell phones and iPads, to tablets, to laptop computers. Leverage what you have, regardless of sophistication; any device can become a powerful learning tool.
Edmodo Code: w34q1k
Co-presenter Rob Covert
Find out how we harnessed the power of social media to create an advertising and SAT Prep BLITZ for our students, giving them 24/7 access to materials and vital SAT information. Come learn how we did it and get ideas for your own building!
Edmodo Code: dgtmt0
Explore new ways you can use Pixie 3 to unlock learning to build thinking skills within the framework of the Common Core Standards. Learn how to use the real-time "Share Projects" tool for collaboration to improve student learning and how video projects, interactive stories, and animations can motivate 21st century learners to produce their best work.
Edmodo Code: utz3m8
Dive into the hottest topic in the world of education today-eBooks. Yes, they're here to stay, so let's figure out how you can find the best ones for your school and get students to use them. Attendees will see and listen to examples of eBooks and online databases to understand what makes each publisher's content unique. Find out why these exciting new products are capturing the imaginations of even the most reluctant readers. We have the answers to your questions, so join us as we explore the world of eBooks!
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With twenty-first century schools turning to eBooks as a source for library and classroom materials, educators are looking for high impact ways to effectively integrate eBooks across the curriculum. During this session, we will focus on how using eBooks supports the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, with a special focus on informational text and text complexity. We will demonstrate and provide tools and strategies for independent reading, small and whole group instruction, and English language learners.
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This presentation showcasing Mathletics will explore how online math resources are shaping the way the Common Core State Standards for mathematics can being taught while engaging students through individualized and adaptive experiences.
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Another great Teachscape session!
This session will discuss different instructional solutions for your district's digital plan. Whatever your decide, whenever you need support, McGraw-Hill has the solution. Join us for a discussion that will make your Grandmother's dream a reality.
Edmodo Code: 4kk438
Can you think of 100+ ways to love the multitude of video, audio, image, text, and STEM resources from Discovery Education STREAMING? Come to this session to explore a cornucopia of creative integration strategies for using Discovery Education media to support Common Core implementation inside and outside of the classroom. Also, (Re?)introduce yourself to an amazing network of like-minded educators focused on transforming traditional teaching and learning practices!
Edmodo Code: kdm0rg
Chrissy will provide resources to incorporate interactive lessons for effective instruction to students at
varying levels, and who require different learning methods to achieve their objectives.
Teachers will learn how to incorporate GPS units, Geospatial Technology and inquiry methods and technology to conduct a stream study to enrich content in environmental literacy. Presenters will use GPS units and Google Earth to demonstrate effectiveness and supply visual aids of students works in progress. Presenters will share projects completed or in progress at schools in Cecil County and share their methods that have helped them to achieve success in increasing student engagement and relevance.
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This session will include how tablets and latops can be utlized in the secondary English classroom. Programs and apps such as Edmodo, Dilgo, Subtext, Voicethread, and others will be shared.
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Explore new online presentation tools that are at the same time dynamic, eye-catching, and effective. Tools like Prezi, SlideRocket, PowToon, and Projegt. These Tools may make you wave "goodbye" to PowerPoint forever!
Edmodo Code: 633n4a
Join us on a quacktastic adventure as we dive into Geography and more! Using the classic, Make Way for Ducklings, ducks will paddle their way through the year assisting students with Google Earth, Geo-caching, globe-trotting, and more! Yes, "Life is Ducky" with students!
Edmodo Code: 3zccfk
What is a Flipped Classroom? The session will focus on recording a lesson with MSART board technology and other screencasting programs (peanut butter) and attaching that recording to Safari Montage (jelly). Learn how to use the Safari Montage Creation Station to store recorded lessons that can be sent to students via email and Edmodo.
Edmodo Code: 2sbhrl
PARCC will require technology-based interactive tools to produce responses. Learn how Learning.com will support students and teachers for success! Don't wait to measure success of digital literacy skills.
Edmodo Code: 5qxowm
The Academy is designed to create a nation-wide cohort of K-12 trained teachers. Selection is highly competitive and is based on teacher qualifications, administrator recommendation, skills assessment, and commitment to deliver a CyberSTEM after school program or extension unit, or integrate CyberSTEM concepts within their courses. This serves as the cohort kickoff event.
Edmodo Code: 2yvv75