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Saturday, February 23
 

8:00am PST

Registration / Breakfast & Coffee / Sponsor Exhibits
Join us in the cafeteria for light breakfast and coffee! 
Saturday February 23, 2019 8:00am - 8:45am PST
  Opening

8:45am PST

Keynote Address: Mary Jo Madda
Saturday February 23, 2019 8:45am - 9:45am PST
TBA Room 201
  Keynote

10:00am PST

Modeling the Growth Mindset in your Classroom, School or District
Are you a teacher, principal or district leader feeling challenged with how to ensure your students develop the kew 21st century skills necessary to thrive in college and career ? Come and learn how modeling a growth mindset at your school or department can help you achieve these goals. We will also focus on how you can leverage the use of technology to accelerate the progress towards embracing a growth mindset culture in your classroom, school or district.
Speakers
MB

Saturday February 23, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am PST
TBA Room 201

10:00am PST

Don't drown in data! Swim with CODAP
Introduce data science with this free tool. Students use CODAP to organize, explore, and find meaning in data. We will do examples ranging from data we collect ourselves to a BART dataset with millions of records. How many people took BART to the last Giants game? We’ll see.
Speakers
TE

Saturday February 23, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 1

10:00am PST

Google Forms for Writer's Workshop
Attendees will learn how to use Google Forms, Screencastify, and Docappender to help organize their writer workshop in their upper grade classes. We will show how to model with a video, collect writing samples from notebooks with Google Forms, and then to respond to students work with rubrics using docappender.
Speakers
XP

Saturday February 23, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 1

10:00am PST

Hip Hop in the Science Classroom
Harness the power of student culture in your science classroom with student-generated freestyles, verses, rhyming quizzes, and music videos. Every student is a rock star!
Speakers
TM

Saturday February 23, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 1

10:00am PST

Let's Go on a Treasure Hunt- Learning to Geocache- a Walking Adventure Workshop
In this walking adventure workshop, we’ll take our learning to the streets in a treasure hunt. Join us for a walk as we show you how to play the game of geocaching along the way. Afterwards, you'll be prepared to teach your students how to use a compass, think outside the box, collaborate and that technology can facilitate & encourage exercise! Before we start, download the app at geocaching.com/mobile that will help us navigate our adventures together!
Speakers
JF

Saturday February 23, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 1

10:00am PST

Screencast your mini-lesson with Screencastify, Classroom and Forms
Not sure how to get started with blended learning? Screencasting mini-lessons during balanced literacy and other contexts will free you up to conference with students AND will support your ELLs. In this session, you'll create a screencast, post it to Classroom, add a check for comprehension using Forms.
Speakers
SK

Saturday February 23, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 1

10:00am PST

Using Technology to Enhance Culturally Relevant Teaching
In this session, participants will lean more about how Newsela.com to bring Culturally Relevant Teaching practices into their classroom in all subject areas. We will review current research on the topic, share strategies that are working, and dig deeper into the Newsela instructional platform to identify instructional material that reflects student's experiences. This sessions will be equal parts theoretical and hands-on.
Speakers
MB

Saturday February 23, 2019 10:00am - 10:50am PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 1

11:00am PST

Effective Pedagogy with Movies and Television
Popular media can improve student engagement and retention, but how can you leverage it? In this session, we’ll explore popular television shows and movies as an educational tool. We’ll also discuss some research supporting its use in the classroom and walk through useful resources for finding this type of content.
Speakers
AD

Saturday February 23, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 2

11:00am PST

Get Online with Social Literacy: Offline Strategies Exchange
Are you struggling to balance personalized screen learning with collaborative work in your K-2 literacy classroom? Join like-minded educators to exchange ways to strengthen collaboration in your literacy practice--with and without screens. You will leave this interactive, participant-driven workshop with lots of new strategies to implement in your classroom.
Speakers
TC

Saturday February 23, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 2

11:00am PST

iMovie - announcements videos for increased community information!
Remember when school announcements were played (out) over the PA system? Come learn how to use iMovie to increase home-school communication! Bring an iPad w iMovie and see how a middle school in SFUnified brings announcements to life Four times a week!
Speakers
PN

Saturday February 23, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 2

11:00am PST

Maker, Maker everywhere. Now's the time to make
Makerspaces are trendy right now but how do you know if it’s a good fit for your school? Why not start one in your library? We will explore how to incorporate a makerspace into any curriculum and show how easy it is to get one started at any budget.
Speakers
avatar for Julia Maynard

Julia Maynard

Hello. I have been teaching sixth grade for twelve years. For the first six years, I was in a self-contained class and then taught history, English, and many various iterations of a tech class. Currently, I am a founding teacher at Willie L. Brown Middle School in San Francisco and... Read More →

Saturday February 23, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 2

11:00am PST

Managing an Online Community like a PRO
The session will cover which best practices to follow when managing a community as big as 30,000. The most appropriate tools that should be used, how to best engage the students online, how to help them scale up their professional network, make them leverage the power of social media and much more!
Speakers
AJ

Saturday February 23, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 2

11:00am PST

Motion gaming for STEM education
Digital ArtForms has been exploring manually immersive (hands-only) elementary and middle school education in two projects with NIH. The first, Cure Fred, explored gamification of neuroscience topics. The second, The Virtual Science Lab, replaced the physical lab with a virtual one in a Toxicology lesson. The curricula proved effective in trials conducted by Wake Forest University.
Speakers
PM

Saturday February 23, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 2

11:00am PST

Sometimes You Gotta Be Wrong to Be Right: Learning From & Having Fun with Math Mistakes
Motivation and engagement first: by making math more accessible to all students, we can significantly increase algebra proficiency. Come participate in a math game show, get some new ideas for teaching math mistakes, and maybe even take home a prize!
Speakers
avatar for Sinclair Wu

Sinclair Wu

Co-Founder, RightOn Education
Fostering a positive culture of error, building proficiency through self-efficacy, co-designing edtech with STEAM educators

Saturday February 23, 2019 11:00am - 11:50am PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 2

12:00pm PST

Lunch
Saturday February 23, 2019 12:00pm - 12:50pm PST
TBA Room 201
  Lunch

1:00pm PST

Data-driven decision making: improving student outcomes with Google G Suite data
Unlock student data embedded in Google G Suite usage to gain weekly insight into student 21st century skills: creativity, collaboration and feedback. Use data to refine professional learning, improve student equity, and deliver automated, real, quantitative metrics on key initiatives for CFOs, boards and key stakeholders without any surveys.
Speakers
CB

Saturday February 23, 2019 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 3

1:00pm PST

Designing Equitable Technology - what educators and technologists can do
Technology tools can greatly improve student outcomes, but many tools leave the highest-need students behind. How can technologists and educators co-create equitable tools? We'll look at how companies like Literator, Talking Points, and CommonLit created equitable tools, and what you can do to help -- as an educator or a technologist.
Speakers
JJ

Saturday February 23, 2019 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 3

1:00pm PST

Digital Citizenship - Survival Kit
How can tooth paste, a packet of seeds & a piece of paper help students survive as digital citizens? How about a marker or toothbrush or magnifying glass? Learn more @ this hands on workshop.

Examine & discuss common digital citizenship issues for students.

Kit is quick, easy & inexpensive to assemble. Also review online resources for K-12 students.

Speakers
KH

Saturday February 23, 2019 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 3

1:00pm PST

How do CS and STEAM related to EVERYTHING?
Participants will develop a deeper understanding of CS and STEAM education. They will have the opportunity share their struggles and learn new ways to integrate CS and STEAM framework in their daily lessons.
Speakers
LL

Saturday February 23, 2019 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 3

1:00pm PST

How e-Penpaling can transform your classroom.
Storypal helps students’ have meaningful global connections. These connections help students emotionally engaging in their learning, help them practice their social-emotional learning, and become more globally aware. We do this by helping educators organize international penpal exchanges. 3 exchanges we focus on our global friendship, citizenship, and leadership.
Our session will be divided into storytelling from the student first, then story telling from the teacher, and then explaining the impact pen paling can have on the classroom.
Speakers
SS

Saturday February 23, 2019 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 3

1:00pm PST

Strategies for Engaging Girls with Coding
Research from Accenture and Girls Who Code "suggests that universal access to computing in schools will not address the gender gap." However we can be agents to change that narrative by "tailoring courses to girls' specific needs." Attendees will learn the common myths around girls and coding. They'll leave with a list of strategies to engage more girls with code. Attendees will hear about lessons that can be taught in a chromebook environment. We'll end with a mini "hour of code" that will hopefully inspire you to give your computer science courses a mini-makeover.
Speakers
JG

Saturday February 23, 2019 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 3

1:00pm PST

The 5Es and Paper Circuitry- Make to Learn
Hands on learning is one of the most effective ways for people to make connections to concepts and to go through important skills like the 4C's. Science is a natural area where this occurs. Go through a portion of a 5E model that relates to Types of Energy. Participants will be the student. Session includes the Engage, Explore, Explain portions and use digital tools such as Hyperdocs, video, leds, coppertape and PHET. This lesson example is most applicable for 3-5th grade teachers.
Speakers
CN

Saturday February 23, 2019 1:00pm - 1:50pm PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 3

2:00pm PST

Building a Better Mouse Squad
Tech Talk-style presentation featuring experience and advice on how to set up, manage, and sustain a student tech team at a school currently leveraging 21st tech.
Speakers
TA

Saturday February 23, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 4

2:00pm PST

Creative coding in any discipline
We will discuss how to integrate JavaScript into any curriculum leveraging the power of digital media and Vidcode.
Speakers
AD

Saturday February 23, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 4

2:00pm PST

Fishbowl: Critical Friends with Students
Experience problem-solving with students and teachers using Critical Friends protocol. This process encourages reflective practice and collaborative learning. Join us!
Speakers
NK

Saturday February 23, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 4

2:00pm PST

Go Waaaay Beyond PowerPoint with Google Slides
If you think Slides is just an online version of PowerPoint, this session will blow your mind! Even beginners will learn how to leverage Slides to promote creativity, collaboration, reflection and engagement in lessons, PD, assessment, communications, and even school operations! For Gr K-12 teachers, administrators, and PD providers.
Speakers
SK

Saturday February 23, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 4

2:00pm PST

Microbits and Science Experiments Integrate Computer Science and Science
Students can be introduced to this world of coding and hardware innovation using the BBC’s Micro:bit and Microsoft’s MakeCode in a science classroom. The Microbit is a small low cost micro-controllers about one-half the size of a credit card with many built in sensors that can be programmed with Microsoft MakeCode. We will program Microbits for science experiments and use the sensors to collect data.
Speakers
SA

Saturday February 23, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 4

2:00pm PST

Project Invent: Inspiring Future Leaders with the Maker Movement
In this workshop, you will learn about how high school students across the country are inventing impactful products to build a better world. You will leave this session equipped with new tools for teaching students how to solve real-world problems and become our next generation of changemakers.
Speakers
CL

Saturday February 23, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 4

2:00pm PST

Student Leaders = Grant Writers
Guidelines for writing successful Student Led Grants with Donor’s Choose.
Learn easy steps to help students develop leadership & grant writing!
Your 6-12 grade students will learn to
1. create a project
2. work with the teacher to write the grant including requested materials
3. let potential funders know about their grant
Examine examples of successful grants; draft description of class & prepare template for your student leaders.

Speakers
KH

Saturday February 23, 2019 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
TBA Room 201
  Session 4

3:15pm PST

Closing and Raffle
Saturday February 23, 2019 3:15pm - 3:30pm PST
TBA Room 201
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