Tech in the YO 2022 Conference
Spotlight

YCSD Teachers made all the difference at Tech in the YO 2022. On August 4, 2022, fifteen of our fantastic YCSD teachers presented one or more sessions at Tech in the YO 2022. Their sessions were extremely popular! For instance, when asked what attendees enjoyed most about the conference, they said: 

• "Having colleagues and teachers from our district present to staff"
• "Being able to see the strengths of our staff and their enthusiasm with sharing"
• "I enjoy the sessions where it is other teachers showing a skill or a piece of technology that they have found and use"

In case you missed seeing their awesome sessions, they are linked below.

Session Title	Presenter	Description	Recording	Materials	Info
How to get the most out of a Google Form!	Joshua Harris	In my session I would offer an away for the attendees to scaffold their exit slip data by using adaptive google forms. Where the exit slip will change based on how well the students are doing on the exit slip. This allows the exit slip data to not just show the teachers if the scholars have mastered a skill or not, but to what degree they have and what scaffolds a scholar will need to be successful.	RECORDING	Presentation	TEMPLATES
McGraw Hill Online Platform	Corissa Freeman	For this session we will dive into the online McGraw hill platform resources, power points, lesson plan materials and ready made assessments.	RECORDING	Materials
McGraw Hill Learn Smart	Corissa Freeman	During this session we will delve into the learn smart program for asynchronous learning, chapter correlation and reports.	RECORDING	Materials
McGraw Hill Digital Assessment Creator	Corissa Freeman	In this session we will delve into creating digital assessments for students using the McGraw Hill Platform.	NO RECORDING	Materials
Virtual Tours with Google Earth	Tina Felger	With Google Earth's Project tool you can make a 3D geographic tour of a story, historical event, interesting locations or any concept you are exploring in class, including text, images, videos, links and more. Learn how you and your students can create, collaborate and share virtual educational tours!	RECORDING	Agenda	RESOURCES
The PEARFECT Pair: Pairing PEAR DECK in Your Digital Instruction	Tracy Pinter	This session will show you how to use Pear Deck in your digital instruction to increase student engagement and gather useful formative data.	RECORDING	Presentation
Going (More) Paperless in the Math Classroom: Utilizing and Creating Digital Tools and Activities	Tracy Pinter	Learn how to go paperless in your Math class by using digital tools and creating digital activities.	RECORDING	Presentation
Creating an Activity Form to Track Your PD	Madonna Barwick & Tracy Pinter	The YCSD LPDC presents the newest and simplest format to maintain your participation in professional development courses, workshops, webinars and college/university courses.	RECORDING	RESOURCES
LPDC- "Do You have an IPDP? Are You Ready to Renew Your License?"	Madonna Barwick & Tracy Pinter	The YCSD LPDC- Local Professional Development Committee- will review the license renewal process with anyone whose Educational License will be expiring in June 2023, along with writing a new IPDP- Individual Professional Development Plan- using the District's PDExpress Program.	RECORDING	Presentation
Free Reading Resources	Kimberly Griffiths	Do you need some supplemental reading resources with comprehension that can also meet a variety of needs? In this session, you will learn about EPIC! and Readworks.org and how you can use their texts in your class.	RECORDING	Presentation
Interactive Lessons Using Google Slides	Kimberly Griffiths	Tired of printing and copying papers for classwork? Want to make interactive lessons and activities? In this session, you will learn how to take your paper activity and turn it into a digital activity using Google Slides.	NO RECORDING	Presentation
Extensions and Sites for an Easier Teaching Life	Kimberly Griffiths	In this session, you will learn about some extensions and sites that can help make teaching easier. Some include how to make your own poster, small pdf, Insert Learning, Classroomscreen, and more!	RECORDING	Presentation
EduProtocols: Thin Slides and Smart Frayers for Vocabulary Development	Mary Ramhoff	I will be demonstrating how to use the EduProtocol This Slides to introduce new vocabulary. Attendees will learn how to assign the vocabulary and slides and will practice creating a Thin Slide to introduce a vocabulary word including the word and image on the slide. Speaker's notes will be used to give more information during the class presentation. I will also present the Smart Frayer EduProtocol model for vocabulary development. Attendees will participate in creating a Smart Frayer to develop new vocabulary terms. Templates will be shared as well as the slide deck from the participants.	RECORDING	Thin Slides Smart Frayer Resources
Navigating SameGoal (formerly IEP Anywhere)	Delilah Williams & Nicole Cusick	Have you been informed that it's your responsibility to use SameGoal (formerly IEP Anywhere) to find important documents for students with an IEP but aren't sure how? Well, join this overview session where we will assist you with logging on, locating your students' information, deciphering which forms provide the information you seek, learning how to sign documents during a meeting, and much more.	RECORDING	Presentation
CK-12 Interactive Digital Notebooks	Traci Cain & Chris Paloski	CK-12 offers customizable, digital textbooks with interactive content for scholars and teachers (flexbooks). Master math & science concepts through regular, personalized practice questions (adaptive practice). Discover new ways of learning Physics and Chemistry with real-world lab simulations. Play, Learn, Interact & eXplore math & science concepts (PLIX). Quickly review concepts with key information (study guides). Organize your scholars in a digital classroom and access an intelligent gradebook that easily displays patterns (automatic grading & reporting). Easily integrates with Google Classroom and Clever.	RECORDING	Presentation
Video Collage: 21st Century Communication Skills	Anna Ragghanti- Crowe	The participants will learn how to create a video collage with students. Participants will be given an assignment format. The concept of the lesson will be explained because Bloom's Taxonomy and Gardner's Multiple Intelligences as well as 21st Century communication skills are embedded in the assignment. Next, participants will learn how to create a video collage. This can be done on one's phone or an iPad. One of the issues with the assignment is that one needs access to video clips. I have found a way around this by downloading specific clips to Google classroom from Pexels (stock pictures and video clips). Finally, participants will share their results. The whole demonstration will be interactive.	RECORDING	Presentation
Simplify Your Life with Rubrics in Google Classroom	Rachael Ayers	Learn how to create and use rubrics to simplify grading in Google Classroom	RECORDING	Presentation
Choice Boards & HyperDocs	Kristen Jaros	What are Choice Boards? Why should you use them? How can you incorporate them into your lessons? What are some things that you can do using technology? Students getting a choice in their education is part of the OTES rubric. Choice Boards/HyperDocs give you some flexibility and help to give the students a choice as to what they want to do. We will explore what Choice Boards are. We will also go over how to incorporate them into your lessons as classwork or assessments. In addition, I will also give websites about premade Choice Boards/HyperDocs and show you how to make your own. Finally, I will then go over how they can be used for a student’s ownership of their education and choice.	RECORDING	Presentation
YCSD Esports for Middle and High Schools	Chuck Stark	In our session we will give intro info about Esports to staff that would like to learn more about it. Then we will discuss how our first season went and highlight many of the positive things that took place. Finally, we will talk about the plan moving forward and how others can get involved.	RECORDING	Presentation

 Sketch & Tell EduProtocol

Why?

• Helps scholars with concept development, information retention, and developing writing skills
• Quick, easy & impactful

How?

1. Scholars read, watch a video, and/or experience a concept- ANY subject, ANY topic, ANY grade level
2. Scholars create an original visual image of the concept- paper & pencil or digital sketch note (Works great in Pear Deck!)
3. Scholars Think-Pair-Share with a partner to explain the meaning of their image
4. Scholars write their own explanatory paragraph
5. Have a Gallery Walk (or review the collaborative slide deck) to let all scholars see each other's work to enhance their concept development

Templates & Resources

• EduProtocols Wakelet: scroll to the bottom, drag the gray bar at the bottom to the right until you see the Sketch & Tell column and the templates it contains
• Sketch & Tell Drive Folder: open the template you want to use then click File>Make a Copy
• How to Sketch on a Google Slide for Sketch & Tell: informative video by Melissa Hero, unblocked so scholars can view

 MathReps EduProtocol

What is a MathRep?

• Scholars take a number through a series of math concepts and standards at one time. The focus is on creating cohesion within a strand of algorithmic skills.
• MathReps are digital OR paper/pencil- whatever works best for the math concepts/standards & specific class needs. 

SOURCE: This is an example of a 6th grade MathRep.

How?

Where to get free K-12 MathRep templates?

• MathReps.com
• MathReps Facebook Page

Academic Goals:

• Scholars gain confidence with essential math skills and build towards more in-depth learning. 
• Spiral review of previously learned math concepts.

Teacher Tips:

• Mastery of math concepts is the main focus of MathReps.
• Build understanding of the math concept before introducing the MathRep.
• Build class culture by actively focusing on the class progress & percentage- as a teacher, you can still track individual progress- but we want to whole class to progress.
• Immediate feedback is essential. Check the MathRep together daily then spot-check a chosen area when you collect it. 

Four Easy Steps to use EduProtocol Cyber Sandwich!

Collaborate and Communicate with the

EduProtocol Cyber Sandwich! 

EduProtocols were created by Jon Corippo and Marlena Heburn to make a teacher's life easier! What is better than easy protocols with ready-made templates to use immediately? The best part is that there is no fear of failure because each time your students use them they will get better and better!  

The premise of Cyber Sandwich is that students will be able to deepen their comprehension, in any subject, with structured pair sharing with accountability. The example below was used in a math class that was reading about fractions. 

Step 1: Share your Google slide template with students.

*Options: Teacher shares slide deck to all students and one student will share with group or the Teacher shares template with each group

Step 2: Students work in pairs of 2 or 3 using the same text or different texts. They have 10 minutes to read the text(s) and make notes on their assigned slide. The teacher has time to work the room with questions. (K-2 complete notes together or 3-12 work independently to complete their slides) 

Step 3: Students have 10 minutes to work with their assigned group to compare their findings and complete the slide. (K-2 skip this step.) 

Step 4: Each student will use the data from the comparison slide to create their own summary slide of their findings. (K-2 write a summary from the collaborative notes) 

One of the most important things to remember when you are doing a protocol is that you need to stick to the time frame. Even if students don't finish the first few times, they will get better each time this protocol is used. Click the image below to get the how-to slides for Cyber Sandwich.

For more ideas from Jon and Marlena go to their website by CLICKING HERE!