Storm into Summer 2025

In our session, we will walk you through the steps our school follows to implement the MTSS framework. You'll learn about the key components, such as setting SMART goals, creating interventions, monitoring progress, collecting data, and collaborating with teachers. This structured approach ensures that every student receives the necessary support to succeed at their individual level, with no student falling through the cracks. If you're dedicated to helping students reach their full academic potential and ensuring their success, this session is the ideal place to begin.

In our increasingly divided world, social studies class (or any class) can be a place of unity and opportunity. It's a Small World After All combines inquiry teaching of maps, edtech, authentic experience lesson planning, primary source analysis, and more to help teachers deal with sometimes scary content. We can teach hard things without putting ourselves in hard situations with stakeholders. This presentation will be interactive and hopefully fun! I have a favorite map! Do you?!

Traditional gym classes have long been centered around competitive sports, many of which students may never play again after high school. But as physical educators, we have the power to shift the focus toward lifelong movement, wellness, and fitness habits that students can carry into adulthood. In this interactive session, we will explore ways to reframe physical education as a foundation for lifelong activity, moving beyond traditional sports to include fitness, yoga, outdoor recreation, and functional movement skills. Participants will engage in discussions about their current PE curriculum, collaborate on new ideas, and leave with practical strategies to implement engaging, inclusive, and meaningful activities in their classes.

In a world where we are desperately attempting to make education equitable for everyone I devised a plan within my classroom that allows students to achieve success based on the learning objectives and standards of the program rather than completion / incompletion of assignments. This allows all students the autonomy of study as they desire without the stress of assignment deadlines but ensures that the students are focusinig on the learning objective.