Hosted By: Nathan Bowling and Leisa Grace Wilson

This dialogue will include a talk about lessons we learned and also lessons we wish others would have learned from Covid, and how we can do better for students going forward

Hosted By: Shelley Reinhart

Teachers will leave this session with an understanding of their own personal cultural worldview. They will examine how this worldview shapes the way they teach, design lesson plans, and manage their classrooms. They will then consider their students’ cultural worldviews and examine whether their current teaching practices are culturally inclusive for all.

This workshop will include audience participation with Mentimeter, an engaging slideshow and talk, small group discussions, and handouts.

Hosted By: Shelley Reinhart

Administrators will leave this session with an understanding of their own personal cultural worldview using the practical Three Colors of Worldview tool. They will examine how this worldview impacts the culture they intentionally create in their school. They will consider the families and student’s that attend their school and examine whether their current school culture is culturally inclusive for all.

This workshop will include audience participation with Mentimeter, an engaging slideshow and talk, small group discussions, and handouts.

Hosted By: Ambreen Mohammad

This highly interactive session provides an overview of the talent management functions related to attracting, developing, motivating and retaining high performing teachers. The session utilizes case studies, rubrics, and videos to provide an engaging experience. Topics include analysis of learner ready teachers, the Widget Effect in teacher evaluation, components of an effective evaluation system, and strategies to develop high potential teachers.

Hosted By: Tara Frost

Harness your students’ knowledge of apps and Apple technologies by integrating app design into your elementary curriculum. This session will be a deep dive into Keynote on the iPad and will use the Apple App Design Journal as a resource. Attendees will leave with their own app prototype and enhanced knowledge of Keynote.

Hosted By: Rhonda Kotb and Dereck Lindquist

How do you create passionate, engaged, and risk-taking mathematicians inside of your classrooms?

Math has been portrayed as a subject that you either know or don’t. If you don’t, then you’re a lost cause! With the research and assistance of Jo Boaler’s Mathematical Mindsets, this session is going to show you how to change the narrative of creating the above type of students. In this session, you will investigate:

• A growth mindset and how it affects students’ ideologies of mathematical abilities.
• Strategies to promote flexible thinking, confidence, and risk-taking through exploration, teamwork, and visualizing our thinking.

Hosted By: Hope Teague – Bowling & Cristina Calera

Designed with middle and high school teachers in mind, this workshop will review the importance of engaging students in daily dialogue and critical conversations. We will explore a range of practical strategies to increase student voice and ownership of their learning, including ways to differentiate to reach all learners. Everyone is welcome–whether you consider yourself an expert or a novice in cultivating student discussions.

Hosted By: Casie Gaebler

Digital notebooks are powerful learning tools that can be utilized in any subject area and for most grade levels to support self-directed learning and differentiation. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to a variety of methods for designing their own digital notebooks that support students’ learning through the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Specifically, participants will learn how digital notebooks can facilitate the three UDL learning guidelines of multiple means of engagement, representation, and action and expression. In addition, participants will learn the basics of digital notebook design, how to incorporate tech tools for learning, and use exemplar digital notebooks from a range of subject areas to guide them in creating their own digital notebooks.

Hosted By: Maria Vitoratos

The workshop will begin by redefining careers guidance and introduce the key elements that careers research and industry leaders are advising for youth preparedness for future careers. Maria will bring her experience from over two decades of education and careers practice to demonstrate how easy it is to embed careers education into daily lessons.  The workshop experience will be interactive and the participants can expect to leave with concrete actions, new awareness that they can bring back to their institution to enrich the quality of the careers guidance for their students.

Hosted By: Sania Greens-Reynolds

Some children struggle to read, speak, write and compute not just simply because they lack the basic skills but more so because they lack the basic confidence required to be risk-takers, communicators, reflective thinkers, and inquirers.
The NEA asserts that confident students are more likely to speak in class, and ask for help when needed. They absorb material faster and are more excited to learn.

Developing students’ confidence should be every educator’s, parent’s, and people who work with children first and foremost priority. This session will equip you with innovative and seamless strategies that you can implement in your teaching learning context right away.

Hosted By: Ashley Green

Join Ashley to learn about creative wellbeing and character strengths and how they can both benefit staff and student wellbeing.

Hosted By: Mohamed Bamatraf

In this session, educators will be shown how you can use the technology to publish great resources and share them with whole world via Resourceya. Teachers will become publishers of their resources and able to access resources from other teachers around the globe.

Hosted By: Dima Yousef

Implementing various teaching approaches and exploring classroom practices are at the core of a teacher’s daily routine to influence learning, achieve intended outcomes, engage students, and ensure innovation in the learning process. Moreover, to help our students survive in today’s competitive world, they should become globally competent and have essential skills such as creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking. Through active learning strategies and use of technology, teachers can develop these skills, improve student engagement, and facilitate a student-centered learning environment.

The workshop will

•     Offer approaches for designing and planning activities that effectively engage students throughout their learning process.
•     Discuss a range of activities that will activate prior knowledge, trigger discussion, and encourage reflection.
•     Focus on how to maximize classroom space and transform it into a learning platform.

Hosted By: Kendria R. Johnson

We will explore the stress triggers that contribute to teacher burnout.

• Pain #1 Over working ourselves
• Pain #2 Over extending ourselves after work. Not setting boundaries or turning off your “teacher brain”
• Pain #3 Wanting to control every aspect of the classroom. Learning to delegate to save yourself, save your stress and save your time.
• Gain #1 How to say NO without guilt and mean it.
• Gain #2 How to renew your passion for the job you once loved.
• Gain #3 Are you teaching what you want, who you want, if not what will you do to get there.

Hosted By:

Dr. Jason Johnson

Dr. Evrim Erbilgin

Dr. Jennifer Robinson

Dr. Serigne Gningue

Dr. Adeeb Jarrah

In this learning session, participants will have the opportunity to develop an understanding for the importance of teacher leadership through Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK). The participants will also have the opportunity to explore and discuss the various strategies to promote teacher leadership, which can improve students’ achievement.

Hosted By:

Dr. Jason Johnson

Dr. Evrim Erbilgin

Dr. Jennifer Robinson

Dr. Serigne Gningue

Dr. Adeeb Jarrah

In this learning session, participants will have the opportunity to develop an understanding of metacognition, its strategies, and its importance to increase student learning. The participants will also have the opportunity to explore, discuss, practice, and implement various strategies and how these strategies could improve students’ achievement.

Hosted By: Catherine O’Connell

This session will look at research carried out in the UAE across 12 educational institutions. We will look at how, simple collaboration, facilitated in a structured way lead to improved outcomes in ALL campuses that participated in Inspection Reports.  Looking at how the CoP was formed and established and  the processes used to bring practitioners together and build connectivity and rapport.  We will delve into the structure of the community, roles, responsibilities and the key driving factors to its success.

Hosted By: 

Salma Soliman

Denis Arseniev

Myra Kirmani

Jay Leong

Sarah Al-Hajj

Our panel will centre around providing ideas that teachers can implement in their classrooms that from our perspective will improve students’ skills and experience in the classroom.

Hosted By:  Amine Hamdan & Shady Elkassas

Problem Based Learning, Project Based Learning and Performance Based learning (3 Ps) cultivate an effective learning environment. This session will interactively highlight the impact of the 3Ps through the lens of selected Inspections and Accreditation frameworks.