Events for Intentionally Integrated Schools

Drama-based instruction is an area of curriculum that is usually taught and experienced live. Students are able to connect and collaborate, express themselves, and draw deeper meaning to classroom content through various dramatic activities and tasks. During this time of virtual learning, students need increased opportunities to construct and demonstrate their understanding in creative ways within the constraints of a Zoom screen. This webinar will allow participants to learn tips and tools for developing fun, purposeful, and innovative ways to use drama-based teaching strategies in a virtual setting. Students can and will be more actively engaged when you bring on the drama!

Radically Imagine the future of charter school authorizing and public education at this year’s 2020 NACSA Virtual Leadership Conference. The 2020 NACSA Virtual Leadership Conference is the largest gathering of charter school authorizers in the country, and it’s celebrating its 20th anniversary and going virtual.

Join October 12 to 30, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12pm CT to 5 pm CT and Fridays at 12pm CT for Community Conversations, for virtual sessions specifically designed for authorizers.

Network with authorizing leaders across the country and gain practical skills and tools for your work. Learn from experts in the field, engage with your authorizing peers to help develop best practices, and gain resources to advance equity and access.

In this session, participants will review current research on how students not only learn, but take ownership of new words.  We will explore the different categories of words, how to select and prioritize word lists and ways to layer meaning within a virtual learning landscape.

As young children learn language, they are simultaneously building the foundation for higher order cognitive skills like problem-solving. By providing and facilitating multiple opportunities for students, the teacher can help young children learn to use language for both social and academic problem-solving. In this session, we will explore how the use of a regular problem-solving routine can be utilized to model language that students can then apply across social and academic contexts. Participants will leave with practical tips for using a problem-solving approach in their early grades classrooms.

Join the New York Charter Schools Association to discuss innovation and empowerment and what’s on the horizon for New York’s charter schools community.

Description: The 4 hour online workshop (including breaks) for School Leaders and Technology staff, is designed to help schools convert their school vision into meaningful online and hybrid learning experiences. Member schools are strongly encouraged to send 2-4 people representing the academic leadership team and the technology team as part of the program is designed to improve the common understanding between these groups.

Presenters: David Chen, Google & Alex Inman and Nic Finelli, Educational Collaborators

Audience: Senior academic leadership and technology leadership

Cost: Free for members of the Diverse Charter Schools Coalition

When: Wednesday, October 21st 12:00-4:00pm EST

Agenda:
12-12:30 pm Welcome and What’s New with Google EDU
12:30-1:30 Turning Your Online and Hybrid Learning Vision into Reality
1:30-1:40 Break
1:40-2:40 Increasing Learner Motivation in Online and Blended Learning
2:40-2:50 Break
2:50-3:50 Student Engagement During Distance Learning
3:50-4 pm Closing Comments

Want to transform the quality of work that students produce in your class? Teaching your students to critique both their peers and their own work is one of the most powerful ways to improve quality. This webinar will familiarize participants with the basics of critique and its impact in transforming student work. Participants will experience first hand how to run a critique session, as well as illuminate the ways critique can give you the most bang for your buck in improving student work quality. By the end of this session, participants will identify places in their own practice where critique could be an easy lift and best fit, and will begin planning for critique inclusion in their classes.

​In our current state of virtual classrooms, how we engage and build relationships with students has shifted. We no longer have the opportunity to meet with them in person, we don’t have the ability to read each other’s body language, or use a face to face interaction as a way to connect. This can make problem-solving with students even more difficult, than before. One way to help solve this issue and be more intentional with how we are building trust, and helping students problem solve, is to combine and align critical thinking routines with the collaborative problem solving (CPS). In this webinar, you will learn how to align and use the steps of CPS with three critical thinking routines to help you and your students implement effective plans that target behaviors which lead to more authentic relationships and overall student success.