This year the district has purchased Brisk AI for staff to support planning and lessons. Come to this one hour introductory session to see how you can get started with Brisk AI. There will be additional sessions this year to support more advanced learning with Brisk.
IXL is a new comprehensive K12 online curriculum utilized throughout the district as a supplemental intervention tool. The platform provides individualized guidance & real-time analytics in grade-level and subject specific modules including math, language arts, social studies and science. IXL’s real-time diagnostics and actionable analytics, help drive a personalized learning experience for each student aligned to state, Common Core, and NGSS standards. This session provides an introduction to essential IXL tools for daily instruction and takes a deeper dive into the utilization of IXL’s diagnostics for monitoring student progress.
We will review different ways to collect data, make data sheets, and present data that is visually pleasing and easily understood. This session is specifically for Intervention Staff.
Voice can be an important part of what makes you, you. See how the UACS commitment to student voice, leadership, engagement and self-advocacy lives through a new policy and can come to life through children's literature, and a classroom activity that will literally speak to persons of all abilities.
This professional development session for will focus on understanding and addressing perfectionism in students, with an emphasis on fostering healthy self-esteem and well-being. Participants will explore the foundations of perfectionism, its impact on both academic performance and emotional health, and learn strategies/interventions to support students to have a more balanced approach to success and personal growth.
"Kids today have no creativity!" "Curiosity is dead!" "My classes just want me to tell them the answers. They don't want to think!"
If this sounds familiar, and you would like some simple, low investment strategies to help grow creative thinking in your classes while covering your class content, join us as we browse the Thinking Routines Toolbox from Harvard University's Project Zero. We will hit some highlights in several sections using a range of subject and grade-level content, then you will have a chance to come up with a few lessons of your own that would fit with your content area.
