Intended for any teachers looking for suggestions for their summer reading lists. Attendees will experience first hand the power of book talks and tastings and will be encouraged to partner with their school librarians to implement these activities to help kindle the joy of reading in our students.
This session is design to foster a deeper understanding of the critical importance of inclusion and the most effective strategies for successful implementation. The session is informed by real feedback from real teachers and addresses the real-life barriers to inclusion faced by educators in the classroom.
Participants will discover a variety of activities that integrate movement and music to improve focus, increase retention, support academic goals, foster social-emotional development, and address diverse learning styles to promote a positive classroom environment.
Transform student observations into meaningful action by leveraging local maps, history, and nature exploration. Learn strategies to guide students in analyzing their environment, making data-driven predictions, and connecting past to present. This cross-disciplinary approach empowers students to become curious investigators and innovative change-makers in their community
For all individuals that would like to learn new skills on how to communicate with parents/guardians that can be difficult in nature as well as having a difficult conversations with them.
Educators will enhance their behavior management and relationship building with students by becoming more knowledgeable about trauma and how it impacts students in school.
Join us for an engaging professional learning session designed exclusively for science teachers eager to enhance their students' grasp of science concepts and skills focused on graphing, A tools for differentiation, and gain more resources specific to Virginia Standards of Learning . In this session, we explore numerous online resources to seamlessly insert and align to your science curriculum and instruction to increase student engagement.
We often go through our day-to-day lives on autopilot, rarely reflecting on what habits we have formed, what truly makes us happy, who we are and who we want to be. To be the best teacher we can possibly be, we must form habits that allow us to be happy and healthy both in and out of the classroom. This session is designed to allow participants to reflect on where they are and to make small, and to some extent, necessary changes for a healthier and more balanced life.
Understanding the effect of trauma on a brain is a powerful step in teaching students who have experienced trauma. Discover areas that you may not have previously realized cause trauma, how the brain is effected, as well as actionable steps to reach and teach those students.
Do you ever wish that you could better communicate with your Spanish speaking students and families? This is the session for you! All Spanish knowledge and backgrounds are welcome!
Art Therapy though Paint and Sip, Sharp Top Mountin! Teachers will get to experience what it is like to be back in the middle school art classroom. Teachers will experience a guided, step by step, painting of our beloved Sharp Top mountin. The painting will feature several different painting techniques including a variety of brushes and tool to achieve them. Getting lost in a painting, and letting go of the work related stresses is Art Therapy at it's finest!
This session will discuss the problems associated with fast fashion and its effects on our environment. Attendees will develop a plan where, instead of a textile heading to the landfill, will be upcycled, and re-used. This session allows attendees to gain knowledge about this growing problem and pass the information and activity along to their students.
This course will satisfy the Virginia Department of Education requirement for teacher relicensure. Heartsaver First Aid CPR/AED is an instructor led course that will teach participants critical skills needed to respond to and manage a medical emergency until more advanced services arrive. Skills covered in this course include basic first aid for common emergencies, choking relief in adults, children and infants and what to do for sudden cardiac arrest in adults, children and infants.
This session will introduce a variety of innovative PE games that will include skills taught in your traditional physical education classes. These games are designed to build on previously taught skills in class. These games include modifications of traditional games with a variety of skill sets.
Special and General Education teachers wanting an overview of what Special Education is and effective strategies for working with students with IEPs that can be implemented in any setting.
