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Student Samples
Cornell Notes: Spanish
Cornell Notes: Chemistry
Cornell Notes: Math
Cornell Notes: How to take notes
Cornell Notes: College Notes
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SESSION #1
Explicit Vocabulary Instruction: A systematic, direct, engaging, and success-oriented program that has been shown to promote achievement for all students. This highly practical and accessible resource gives general and special education teachers the tools to implement explicit instruction in any grade level or content area.
ELD Strategies: Nicole Smith is coming from the district office to give teachers strategies they can implement today in order to best help students.
Weebly Website Creation: A do-it-yourself website builder. It's free and it's easy. Learning Currents is a Weebly site. Seriously, having a website makes your life easier.
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SESSION #2
ELD Strategies: Nicole Smith is coming from the district office to give teachers strategies they can implement today in order to best help their students.
Hour of Code: The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. The Focus teachers will be teaching doing this with their classes the first week of December. If you would like to join in, this session will introduce you to the Hour of Code and you can work with colleagues to plan what you will do to allow your students to participate. No coding knowledge or experience is needed - just a willingness to give 1 hour of class during the first week of December. Check it out.
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Screencast-O-Matic: Online screen recorder with one-click recording for free. Create informational videos to communicate with students and parents. Flip the classroom. Record a lesson to show absent students, etc. Check out our ridiculous sample below.
Exit Ticket: Learn how to use this online service, which was designed with the help of classroom teachers, to be able to gather formative assessment data live in class. You can use that data to reteach in the moment, plan future instruction or form intervention groups, among other things. If you attend this session, please bring your laptop and some material or questions you'd like to turn into a formative quiz.
Newsela: Nonfiction Literary & Current Events: Unlimited access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common Core–aligned quizzes, with new articles every day. Amazing! 5 different lexile levels for each article, plus some articles are also available in Spanish (at several different lexile levels).
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Exit Ticket: Learn how to use this online service, which was designed with the help of classroom teachers, to be able to gather formative assessment data live in class. You can use that data to reteach in the moment, plan future instruction or form intervention groups, among other things. If you attend this session, please bring your laptop and some material or questions you'd like to turn into a formative quiz.
Google Classroom: Classroom helps teachers save time, keep classes organized, and improve communication with students.
DonorsChoose: DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on our site, and you can give any amount to the project that most inspires you. Kelly Perry raised over $50,000 for her classroom last year.
Weebly Website Creation: A do-it-yourself website builder. It's free and it's easy. Learning Currents is a Weebly site. Seriously, having a website makes your life easier.
Newsela: Nonfiction Literary & Current Events: Unlimited access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common Core–aligned quizzes, with new articles every day. Amazing! 5 different lexile levels for each article, plus some articles are also available in Spanish (at several different lexile levels).
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