2024 Innovative Practices Conference (IPC)

How do others perceive you? There are ways we communicate our thoughts, feelings, and needs to others. These communication styles differ depending on the situation and the person we are communicating with.
Good communication skills require a high level of self-awareness. Understanding your personal style of communicating will go a long way toward helping you to create good and lasting impressions on others. By becoming more aware of how others perceive you, you can adapt more readily to their styles of communicating.

Join me to explore how young students can design, test, and create digital and hands on models to help them conceptualize the digital footprint at an earlier age.  This session combines tech, ELA, and Science standards in a hands-on and engaging way!  We will explore digital citizenship in light of early childhood development with a fun project suitable for elementary learners.  Learn how young students use AR, VR, create in 3D, evaluate designs, and bring these to life with 3D printing. You’ve never seen 6-year-olds capable of so much, but you will leave convinced that they can do much more! Grounded in research and tech-smashes the best tools.  This session was first presented at ISTE 2022, 2023, and at our local PBS CET station.  Don't miss your chance to transform teaching and inspire future digital pioneers! #ARVR4Littles.

Join our session to earn your TRUST certificates and gain essential skills in drone operation for education. Learn safe navigation, regulations, and innovative ways to integrate drones into classroom activities. Suitable for all experience levels, this workshop ensures you're equipped to use drones responsibly and effectively in educational settings.

In this session, I will share how I created and curated content in visually appealing interactive digital slides. All participants will walk away with templates for morning meeting routines, and sample templates for grade 1 math and ELA interactive resource slides.

Learn about Zaner-Bloser’s new Kickstart: Number Sense Intervention. Kickstart is a Tier 2 ESSA resource that provides research-based, engaging, multi-sensory, fun, and effective hands-on learning support for students struggling to access their grade level core curriculum. Continue supporting their math journey to fluency with Graham Fletcher’s and Tracey Zager’s Building Fact Fluency Toolkits. Each amazing Toolkit, (Addition & Subtraction K-2 and Multiplication and Division 3-5) is research- based and standards -aligned. Each toolkit invites students to think strategically about mathematics through multiple , rich, real-world contexts! BFF supports ANY math core. Hope to see you there!

In this session you’ll learn all about Zaner-Bloser’s diverse bookbag of proven-effective reading solutions which use systematic and explicit instructional practices to improve reading outcomes for all students. Our solutions include a comprehensive reading program, as well as supplemental materials that support any core reading program; targeted instruction for foundational literacy skills, lessons for building phonological and phonemic awareness skills, and lessons designed to support fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. Come join us to build success, inspire students, and extend learning!



BONUS! You will also learn more about our new strengths-based SEL curriculum that teaches students to gain awareness for “how it feels when they learn”—and how to make that learning process both joyful and empowering.