Authors

Steve Boyle is a training associate with Hawker Brownlow Education. He works with leadership teams, whole-school communities and individual professional learning teams. Steve comes from a strong background in educational leadership at both an individual school and a systems level.

Educating students to traditional literacy standards is no longer enough. If students are to thrive in their academic and 21st-century careers, then independent and creative thinking hold the highest currency. The authors explain in detail how to add these new components of literacy: Solution Fluency, Information Fluency, Creativity Fluency, Collaboration Fluency. Students must master a completely different set of skills to succeed in a culture of technology-driven automation, abundance, and access to global labor markets. The authors present an effective framework for integrating comprehensive literacy or fluency into the traditional curriculum.

Remote instruction means that we are teaching and learning differently but never teaching and learning less. Whether services are given online or in schools, inclusion strategies and interventions are ongoing. This professional development session explores practical K–12 applications and online resources for educators who remotely instruct students with special needs. Focus is on the child, with collaborative, high-tech, low-tech, individualized, and distance learning accommodations and documentation.

Our students are experiencing stress, uncertainty, and emotional lows. How can we determine their needs during remote learning, and what can we do to support and nurture our students? This fast-paced session offers tools and best practice processes for social-emotional learning (SEL) that you can implement immediately in your virtual classroom.

Online or in person, learning never stops, and neither does the need to create powerful, trusting relationships with students. This virtual training will give you high-leverage, authentic strategies you can use immediately to build relationships with learners and create a classroom community where everyone feels safe, loved, and confident.

Feel that there’s so much to teach and so little time? Worried that you can’t cover everything that needs to be taught? Now more than ever, it’s crucial for educators to make careful decisions about how they make the most of instructional time. This session provides a framework for simplifying and clarifying learning priorities for and with students to ensure they acquire the knowledge and skills that are most essential.

Created for both administrators and teachers, this session outlines how to design a school day that fosters high levels of collaboration and promotes quality synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences. Participants will explore the importance of intentional master schedule design, review sample master schedules, and examine various ways to structure and deliver meaningful instruction in a remote setting, as well as in a socially distanced in-person setting.

Delivering high-quality online learning is possible—but first educators must develop a new set of skills. During this session, secondary teachers will learn how to plan and deliver outstanding lessons using synchronous, cyber-synchronous, and asynchronous learning strategies. Participants will also explore digitized formative assessment strategies and interventions, leaving prepared to teach with a blended approach or completely online.

Everything changed for classroom teachers when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools in the spring of 2020. For perhaps the first time in their careers, teachers had to figure out how to perform critically important work—structure meaningful learning experiences, differentiate instruction, assess mastery, and provide feedback to students—remotely. In this session, full-time classroom teacher Bill Ferriter offers practical tips and tricks that teachers can use to make learning more meaningful for students working in remote or hybrid classrooms.

With classrooms moving online, teaching strategies that promote student engagement are critical to keep our students on track. Learn how the research behind student engagement connects to strategies you can use in your remote and virtual classrooms. Students deserve a remote classroom that successfully creates a fun, relevant, and deep synchronous and asynchronous learning environment. Teachers will leave the session with a larger, research-based toolbox for student engagement in their remote classrooms.

Clarity precedes competence. Educators in a school with a focus on learning promote a strong sense of self-efficacy in their students. Studies show this may be one of the greatest factors for student motivation and engagement. In this session, participants examine essential characteristics for building student self-efficacy and what those elements mean for virtual and in-person practices. Tim Brown explores a variety of examples and strategies for how to use them.

We are all looking for ways to gather information about our learners, so we can make the very best decisions to meet their needs right away. Many of our predictable sources of information are either not available (standardized testing data, for example) or have shifted because of our current reality. This session explores assessment that can meet students where they are, so educators can determine intentional and thoughtful next steps. Participants discuss formative assessment—with a special focus on pre-assessment—that readies us to serve our students in the best ways possible.