VASCD2024

Spark student career exploration! This session explores Frederick County's Charting Pathways Summer Academy, where rising 8th & 9th graders dive into CTE programs like nursing, carpentry, and more. Learn how to design, collaborate, and run a similar academy to ignite your students' futures!

Explore the evolution of observation feedback from a divisin that incorporates Point-Prove-Explain (PPE). Discover how to align feedback with instructional look focus and gain actionable feedback for emproving student outcomes ad teacher growth. Identify ways to streamline observation feedback while making the feedback more impactful for teachers resulting in improved student outcomes.

Explore how a CS peer coaching model can revolutionize integration in your school! Discover how teacher-led coaching teams enhance professional skills, foster collaboration among colleagues, and integrate computer science across disciplines. Learn effective strategies to empower teachers, share best practices, and prepare students for success in a technology-driven world. Don't miss out on this opportunity to transform CS education and elevate integration practices at your school!

Feeling like you're lost on exile island trying to survive the whirlwind influx of so many AI apps, tools and teaching techniques? With the explosion of A.I., teachers are in the eye of a raging storm of change. Keeping up with all of these new technologies can feel overwhelming - so don't get blindsided! In “A.I. Classroom Survivor,” you’ll have the opportunity to rescue all sorts of new and time-tested classroom strategies from the rising tides of Artificial Intelligence.

From kindergarten through twelfth grade students are expected to be building oral language skills. Teachers, however, are rarely supported in how to help students develop these skills. Learn about how to help students grow as listeners and co-constructors of their own learning through academic conversation, no matter how young or old they may be.