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Education law expert Richard Verstegen will help you identify the legal issues regarding this important decision. You will learn how to set a policy that respects employees’ rights while keeping schools safe.
What You'll Learn
What are the constitutional implications to making vaccines mandatory for staff?
How should you consider disability issues, employee consent, and state laws?
Should the school district consider termination as a result of failure to comply?
What are the best practices to reduce liability in these instances?
Language learning and student engagement expert Dr. Benjamin Johnson will show you proven strategies and techniques you can use immediately. You will learn how to develop an ELL-friendly learning environment for your classroom or virtual space.
Participants will receive ready-made sentence stems to help ELL students comprehend and use new vocabulary.
What You'll Learn
What does “Comprehensible Input” really look like?
How can “Total Physical Response” transform your teaching?
What questioning strategies will help ELL students?
How can you employ universal non-linguistic representations?
What tactics develop vocabulary faster?
What easy English language learning techniques can you use every day?
How can you increase students’ reading fluency and understanding?
How does reading improve writing?
Why should you use learning teams instead of peer tutoring?
COVID-19 is not the same as last year, with the surging Delta variant, changing mask guidance, and increasing vaccine availability. The new school year brings new challenges, new safety protocols, and new hope. Showing this six-minute video will ensure your students receive consistent messages and help you launch the 2021-22 school year with a focus on safety.
Equity experts Precious Green Gunter and Brandon Washington will help you identify microaggressions and implicit bias. You will learn how to ensure everyone in your school is seen, respected, valued, and included.
What You'll Learn
What are microaggressions?
What is implicit bias?
What is intersectionality?
What impact do they have at school?
How do they affect students’ life experiences?
How can you recognize biases and take steps to adjust?
Education leader and equity expert Michael Lowe will explain the critical concept of intersectionality. You will discover the enormous burden piled on many members of your school community and learn how to help overcome it.
What You'll Learn
What is intersectionality?
What specific identities overlap to make people vulnerable?
How does social context influence your perceptions of race, class, and gender?
How does sexuality affect treatment?
What impact does intersectionality have on systemic injustice and inequality?
Scheduled for 60 minutes including question and answer period.
Experienced school leader Dr. Neil Gupta will share the definition and parameters in implementing a successful PLC. You will learn how to use these valuable tools to help your team grow while helping each student.
Key Takeaways
What are the benefits of professional learning communities?
How can you get educators interested and involved?
How should you structure PLCs for success?
What are the most effective timelines and formats?
Experienced school leader Dr. Neil Gupta will identify the challenges facing educators and share strategies to support their health and well-being. You will learn how to support teachers in their psychological, professional, emotional, and physical self-care.
What You'll Learn
How can you refill teachers’ energy cells?
Why is it essential to support educators at the end of the school year and when thinking about an uncertain new school year?
What are the most significant factors that contribute to teachers’ well-being?
What tactical steps can you take now to address concerns and relieve stress?
Scheduled for 60 minutes including question and answer period.
Veteran educator Dr. Robert Hill will share his insight and experiences on how full-time professors can thrive and sustain a long, satisfying career that has purpose. You will learn some of the things that he wished he knew when he first started his faculty career.
Covered Topics
How can you keep up with teaching, student assessment, and grading?
What is the best approach to formulating a research agenda?
How are effective professors both excellent researchers and teachers?
How can you manage the administrative paperwork and meetings?
When can you effectively get some writing done?
How should you build your CV while developing your faculty portfolio?
How can you maintain your passion and not succumb to burnout?
Equity experts Precious Green Gunter and Brandon Washington will share concrete tactics you can use immediately to make everyone feel comfortable in your environment. You will learn how to address the continuum of behaviors related to equity and inclusion.
What You'll Learn
What equity situations do colleges and universities encounter?
How can you respond to uncomfortable situations that do not rise to the level of discrimination or harassment?
What are the likely outcomes of reporting issues related to diversity?
How can you facilitate tough conversations around race, equity, and inclusion?
Data analyst and Excel master Miri Miller will guide you through these two fast-paced sessions. You will learn a massive amount in a short time and come away being able to apply these new skills to your spreadsheets immediately.
Experienced school leader Dr. Neil Gupta will reveal the challenges facing students academically. You will learn how to address learning loss and help students catch up.
What You'll Learn
How can you determine which students are falling behind?
What innovative practices will help mitigate student learning loss?
How can you use targeted interventions to help individual students?
What daily tactics can you use to help students catch up?
How can you keep students from falling farther behind?
Experienced school leader Dr. Neil Gupta will identify the challenges facing students in the pandemic. You will learn concrete strategies and actionable insights to create and revise plans to support each student’s mental health and well-being.
What You'll Learn
What are the most significant factors affecting students’ mental health now?
How should you adjust expectations during the pandemic?
What support systems can you provide to students?
How can you help students get through the end of this school year?
