Presenter(s): Amy Lance

Presenter Bio: My name is Amy Lance and I teach 5th Grade Odyssey at Sunrise Elementary. I graduated with my B.Ed. from the University of Hawaii in 2010. After teaching on the island of Oahu for six years, I moved to back to my home state, Washington. I started teaching in Kent in 2016 and have loved working with students receiving HiCap services at Sunrise Elementary. I received my M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction, with an emphasis on elementary math and science in 2018. My passions are STEM instruction and implementing technology into the classroom.

Session Description: Empower students to take ownership of their learning using OneNote Class Notebooks to create digital student portfolios. This course will show you how to use the organizational features of OneNote to help students reflect on their learning and assess how they are meeting their goals throughout the year. Whether you want a central location for parents to view academic progress, or you are wanting to implement student-led conferences, this course will help you make student learning visible.

Target Audience: 3-6 Teachers; HiCap

Presenter(s): Nyssa Brown

Presenter Bio: Nyssa Brown is an international music education consultant specializing in standards-based teaching and learning, backwards design and concept-based curriculum. Ms. Brown empowers music teachers around the globe to build innovative, differentiated, community-specific music curriculum that puts students at the center of the learning. With more than twenty years of teaching experience with both students and adults, Nyssa empowers learners of all ages to build on their current knowledge and envision new possibilities. Nyssa has experience in both the elementary and secondary music classrooms, as well as teaching and leadership experience at the team, school, district, state, and national levels.

Session Description: Heard of backward design and all the language that gets thrown around? Wondered how it meaningfully applies to music? Want some concrete examples of how the steps in backward design look in a music classroom? In this session, we'll take a look at the complete process of backward design - breaking each step into "why" and "what" in music education. Examples for both elementary and secondary will be given. Empower yourself to learn the language that your curriculum leaders and admin use; but no one took the time to break it down for you, as a music teacher. This powerful framework will affirm your current practice and encourage you to grow your perspective. Come get inspired by new possibilities!

Target Audience: K-12Arts and PE Teachers; Principals; Central Office Admin

Presenter(s): Curriculum Associates

Co-Presenter(s): Marcie Baril

Presenter Bio: The Curriculum Associates Professional Development Team is made up of former educators with direct experience using the Ready Classroom Math program with students. Our PD team, led by Katie Randall, are experts at current best practices in math education. Each facilitator has expertise in both the core RCM program and i-Ready tools.

Session Description: In this session, educators review the language routines and other RCL resources to determine how they can be incorporated within a session to support English learners, as they develop understanding of grade-level mathematics.

Target Audience: K-5 Teachers; Paraeducators; Elementary Principals

Presenter(s): i2e

Co-Presenter(s): Melissa Cook, DLC

Session Description: In this session, learn how tools built right into Office 365 from Word to OneNote to PowerPoint to Excel create an accessible experience for students with differing needs.

Target Audience: K-12 Teachers; HiCap; Paraeducators

Presenter(s): Allison Foisset

Presenter Bio: Allison is a seasoned educator, spending thirty-one years in the classroom. After ending her teaching career, she desired to make a difference in the instruction of students by impacting the use of technology in the classroom. Today, she works to help teachers use their Promethean ActivPanel and the Promethean software to help teachers use their skills to enhance their teaching by engaging students using technology.

Session Description: All students deserve to have a voice and to share their learning or feelings. Formative assessment is a fantastic way for teachers to gage student feelings as well as their understanding of content. ClassFlow from Promethean, allows teachers to create and deliver dynamic lessons and gain formative assessment through the administering of polls.

Target Audience: K-12 Teachers; HiCap; Paraeducators

Presenter(s): Kristy Glover

Presenter Bio: Kristy Glover is a Teacher Librarian and Technology Integration Specialist and is also a National Board Certified Teacher. She has been teaching for twelve years, the last three of which have been in the library. Kristy is passionate about using technology to increase student engagement and choice in demonstrating their learning.

Session Description: Come learn about Microsoft MakeCode using Arcade which can be used in any classroom setting to code basic video games. Participants will engage in a model lesson, in which they will code one level of a basic video game and will be introduced to the various free resources and sample lessons available online.

Target Audience: 3-6 Teachers

Presenter(s): Elaine Klein

Co-Presenter(s): Adrienne Dickinson

Presenter Bio: Dr. Elaine Klein is the STEM Education Team Manager at Educurious, a Seattle-based organization focused on Project-Based Learning. With a focus on secondary science classrooms and a content background in Evolutionary Biology, her work and research centers on supporting teachers, students, and scientists in equitable, practice-focused science instruction. She has over 10 years of experience working in science classrooms, teacher coaching, and curriculum development.

Session Description: As we prepare to return to in-person teaching, many in the education community and media are hyper-focused on “learning recovery” and “getting students caught up.” In this session, we reframe these ideas of recovery to focus on students’ socio-emotional experiences and how classrooms in the fall of 2021 can be equity-minded spaces that value students’ identities and cultural assets and provide opportunities to share their expertise and interests, in relation to the curriculum and content. At the heart of the session, participants will share their experiences and ideas to engage students in effective and meaningful ways that connect to core curriculum, as well as acknowledge students’ out-of-school challenges and experiences in the past year. Come away with evidence-based strategies to elicit and leverage students’ interests and expertise throughout the upcoming school year and beyond, with concrete ideas about how you will use and adapt the strategies in your particular classroom context.Target

Audience: 7-12 Teachers

Presenter(s): Nyssa Brown

Presenter Bio: Nyssa Brown is an international music education consultant specializing in standards-based teaching and learning, backwards design and concept-based curriculum. Ms. Brown empowers music teachers around the globe to build innovative, differentiated, community-specific music curriculum that puts students at the center of the learning. With more than twenty years of teaching experience with both students and adults, Nyssa empowers learners of all ages to build on their current knowledge and envision new possibilities.

Session Description: What does music mean to you? Your students? Your community? How does meaning impact the learning in your classroom? Most music teachers were taught how to teach knowledge and skills, not understanding or meaning. Conceptual learning offers meaningful ways to use knowledge and skills, as well as understand why music matters. This session will focus on the promise of conceptual learning, as well as some specific examples of how to help students take their learning to the next level. Subtle shifts can bring big transformation. Come find out how.

Target Audience: Art and Physical Education Teachers;Principals; Central Office Admin

Presenter(s): i2e

Co-Presenter(s): Melissa Cook, DLC

Session Description: In this session, learn how tools built into Windows 10 will create an accessible learning experience. Tools used will be: Outlook, Lists, To Do, Planner, Sway, Flipgrid, Windows 10 features- Ease of Access Center & Clocks for Timers.

Target Audience: All

Presenter(s): Hannah Robinson

Co-Presenter(s): Mia RobertsPresenter Bio: Mia is a Teacher-L ibrarian and Hannah is a Language Arts Teacher at Mattson Middle School. They are both members of the Digital Learning Ambassador cohort.

Session Description: Engage students with a virtual escape room through OneNote. Using OneNote to create accessible digital escape rooms allows students to think critically while interacting with different puzzles to escape the OneNote. Turn your class content into challenging puzzles that students can compete to complete in pairs or small groups to solve to unlock the next challenge. This session will provide a OneNote escape room example from Language Arts, an overview of useful OneNote tools, and resources for teachers to create their own OneNote escape room.

Target Audience: 7-12 Teachers

Presenter(s): Allison Foisset

Presenter Bio: Allison is a seasoned educator, spending thirty-one years in the classroom. After ending her teaching career, she desired to make a difference in the instruction of students by impacting the use of technology in the classroom. Today, she works to help teachers use their Promethean ActivPanel and the Promethean software to help teachers use their skills to enhance their teaching by engaging students using technology.

Session Description: Use your already created instructional materials created in Canvas and the Office 365 Suite to enhance student engagement and voice in learning. You have already created content that you use effectively with your students, many of those lessons are able to be used with your panel to increase student engagement.

Target Audience: K-12 Teachers; HiCap; Paraeducators

Presenter(s): Kristy Glover

Presenter Bio: Kristy Glover is a Teacher Librarian and Technology Integration Specialist and is also a National Board Certified Teacher. She has been teaching for twelve years, the last three of which have been in the library. She is passionate about about utilizing technology to increase student engagement and choice in demonstrating their learning.

Session Description: Engage your students in and out of the classroom using virtual scavenger hunts on FlipGrid and Discovery, both as a way of learning new information and as a way of demonstrating mastery of content.

Target Audience: 3-6 Teachers

Presenter(s): Curriculum Associates

Co-Presenter(s): Marcie Baril Presenter Bio: The Curriculum Associates Professional Development Team is made up of former educators with direct experience using the Ready Classroom Math program with students. Our PD team, led by Katie Randall, are experts at current best practices in math education. Each facilitator has expertise in both the core RCM program and i-Ready tools.

Session Description: In this session, educators review the language routines and other RCL resources to determine how they can be incorporated within a session to support English learners, as they develop understanding of grade-level mathematics.

Target Audience: K-5 Teachers; Paraeducators; Elementary Principal

Presenter(s): Christy Kehr

Presenter Bio: Christy Kehr M.Ed. has twenty-two years of classroom teaching experience (grades 4-8). She is currently serving the Kent School District as an MTSS-B Coach. She has a BA in Education from Central Washington University, and MA in Education from Lesley University, her Administrative Certification from City University. She is currently working to obtain her doctorate in Educational Leadership from City University.

Session Description: This course is designed for staff who have experience with the Second Step curriculum. Second Step has many resources above and beyond the weekly lessons. We will explore family connection, brain builders, follow through, assessments and Second Step skills integrated in content areas. The two hour session will be conducted in the flipped classroom model comprised of asynchronous (independent/instructor directed) and synchronous (collaboration) activities. We will utilize the Padlet platform for exploration, questions, collaboration, and resources.

Target Audience: PK-6 Teachers; Paraeducators

Presenter(s): Curriculum Associates

Co-Presenter(s): Marcie Baril

Presenter Bio: The Curriculum Associates Professional Development Team is made up of former educators with direct experience using the Ready Classroom Math program with students. Our PD team, led by Katie Randall, are experts at current best practices in math education. Each facilitator has expertise in both the core RCM program and i-Ready tools.

Session Description: Educators consider “relaunching” Ready Classroom Math after a year of unfinished learning. In Promoting Strong Mathematical Conversations, educators consider strategies to develop their mathematics community where students justify their own thinking and respond to the reasoning of their peers, building increased student understanding and ownership. Educators jumpstart their year by actively participating in the Try–Discuss–Connect routine to observe how productive talk can deepen student reasoning and understanding. They engage in unpacking mathematical content, establish students’ learning goals, and understand the mathematical learning progression of Unit 1 and beyond.

Target Audience: K-5 Teachers

Presenter(s): Alex Chopyak, Heather Contreras

Co-Presenter(s): Jennifer MazukelliPresenter Bio: Alex Chopyak: Alex Chopyak has been a Math Teacher at Kentlake High School for the last five years teaching Algebra 1-2, Geometry, Algebra 3-4, Math Applications, and AP Calculus BC. He has been worked to help implement Desmos into the remote classroom continuing to explore how to the tool into the classroom in the fall.

Session Description: This class is for more advanced Desmos users. You will learn about how to create Desmos classes, assign activities to those classes and do some editing of the activities. You will learn how to do some basic coding to create slides that are interactive; how to use Desmos as an assessment tool and monitor your students in real-time through the teacher dashboard. You will have a chance to explore the activities created by teachers around the globe that you can integrate into your classroom.

Target Audience: 7-12 Teachers

Presenter(s): Dr. Anu Taranath

Presenter Bio: As a long-term racial equity consultant and UW professor specializing in race, equity and social differences, Dr. Taranath has over 25 years of experience with this topic.

Session Description: In this session, Dr. Taranath will invite participants to delve into the challenges and complexities of talking about race. What makes conversations about race often fraught, unpredictable and uncomfortable? How might we develop small yet powerful ways of building our courage so we can actually talk together about the issues we care about deeply?

Target Audience: All

Presenter(s): Randie Gottlieb

Co-Presenter(s): Dr. Daudi Abe and Dawnée ValenciaPresenter Bio: Dr. Gottlieb is the founding C.O.O. of UnityWorks. She has served as a teacher, school principal, college professor, and diversity trainer; has authored 14 books; and holds degrees in education from Cal State, Boston University, and Harvard. Her work has taken her to 30+ countries, including 11 years in Puerto Rico.Dr. Abe is an author and professor at Seattle Central College. He also serves as the History of Race & Policing Curriculum Consultant at the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission. He holds a Master’s Degree in Human Development, and a Doctorate in Education from the University of WashingtonDawnée Valencia is a Financial Educator and Coach based in Los Angeles, CA. For almost two decades, she has worked with youth traveling the country speaking about Race Unity, Diversity and Inclusion through performance art: dance, poetry, song/rap, and dramatic presentations. She is currently a Facilitator for a weekly national online discussion on Race.

Session Description: What is race and its impact on education? Learn about the history of race in education, society, and law in order to develop an increasingly multicultural perspective. TOPICS INCLUDE: Race in science & religion; The eugenics movement & its impact; Skin color & color blindness; The “one drop” rule; Race amity: the other tradition; and share our personal stories about race

Target Audience: All

Presenter(s): Sherry Prindle

Presenter Bio: Sherry Prindle has an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies (Business and Linguistics) from the University of Texas at Arlington. She lived in Fukuoka, Japan for four years and Moscow, Russia for three years successfully working as a multilingual television and radio personality. She conducts energetic, interactive training programs that prompt discovery, motivation, and change.International speaker and corporate trainer, Sherry Prindle has delivered over 3,000 presentations in 8 countries and all 50 states in three languages. She founded the Professional Coach Academy where she has been instrumental in launching the careers of over 1,200 professional speakers and coaches through Life and Executive Coach Certification classes the biannual Star Marketing Summit.

Session Description: Re-awaken the natural ability you have to come up with great ideas. Move in to solution mode. See obstacles as challenges. Practice the art of the possible with dozens of activities.

• Re-Approaching Creativity as a Practical Skill
• Warming Up—Overcome Blocks and Open to Possibilities
• Building Confidence—It’s Not Just Hit and Miss
• Directing Ideas Toward Solutions
• From Solutions to Decisions—Action Plan Development
• Making it Happen—Applying Thoughts to Practical Application

Target Audience: ALL

Presenter(s): Steve Carney

Presenter Bio: Steven Carney, M.S. Educational Administration, is the co-founder of the IMPACT Learning and Leadership Group. He is a highly experienced implementation specialist, consultant, facilitator, and coach. His expertise is supporting large and small organizations to implement innovations effectively. He has a wealth of experience in building and delivering research-based professional development and implementation support systems in schools, districts, and organizations. Steven has spent the majority of his career successfully coaching organizational leaders in building effective collaborative cultures focused on implementation and results. In addition to serving as an elementary teacher, Steven has experience serving as an elementary principal, middle and high school principal, assistant superintendent of instruction, and coordinator of curriculum, instruction, and staff development for California County Offices of Education.

Session Description: This interactive session will introduce schools to the knowledge and skills required to implement evidence-informed approaches in line with their vision for school improvement. Schools will have a chance to work through:

• EXPLORE the issues they are looking to address and identify appropriate solutions.
• PREPARE fully, so that new programs and practices have the best chance of success.
• DELIVER changes so they become embedded across the school.
• SUSTAIN effective practices over time.

Target Audience: Principals, District office

Presenter(s): Cole Gilomen

Presenter Bio: Cole Gilomen – 4th grade teacher, Emerald Park; BAEd in Elementary Education and Teaching English as a Second Language, CWU; MEd in Literacy, Language, and Equity, SPU (in process).

Session Description: This session is designed to give you the tools and cultural understanding needed to be an ally to your LGBTQ+ students. Through exploring LGBTQ+ issues and identities, learning how to respond to homophobic behavior at school, and adapting instruction and management practices, participants will have the knowledge and skill set needed to create an inclusive school environment at all grade levels.

Target Audience: ALL