Presenters: Karla Virgil, EduLeaders of Color RI, Emily Abedon, Equity Institute
Session Learning Outcomes:

• Describe how students' cultural characteristics can help develop strong relationships with diverse students in order to effectively personalize instruction.
• Engage in critical discourse on how equity in a classroom supports the academic success of all students.
• Understand how equity pedagogy drives instruction to meet the needs of students.

Discussions: What is a culturally responsive educator?

• Equity and culturally responsive education: What does this mean? How does this look? Does this currently exist in the public school system? [equity institute]
• Identity development: [images in chronological order: the power of storytelling]
  • showing connections to students through your story [True Story]
  • being involved in the community; contributing back to your community; i.e. racial justice, multiracial justice, vulnerability, equity, cultural responsiveness and relevancy
  • It is important to understand your own identities, use your vulnerability to find commonalities
  • incremental changes happen [Who is your David in your life?]
• Identity activity: Who are you as an individual? as a person? as a human being? [Molecule Bonds Activity]
  • identity bonds: name in the center [bigger] circle
  • how did it feel sharing your identity with others? how does it feel to listen to each other people's identities
• Social identifiers: [Self-identify activity]; chart tablets, 
  • race
  • socio-economic class
  • gender
  • age
  • ethnicity
  • religion
  • ability
  • sexual orientation
• Culturally Responsive Walkthrough Tool (CRT): Framework Discussion
  • Activity Questions:
    • How does this domain the framework acknowledge student identity?
    • How might it support the curriculum you use in your classroom?
    • How might it be used to create an inclusive classroom?
  • CRT1: Classroom culture/environment: How do I create an inclusive environment?
  • CRT2: Student relationship building: How do I build trust and respect with my students?
  • CRT3: Instructional strategies: How do I ensure that I'm being culturally responsive with my instruction strategies?
• Culture [what is seen vs. what is unseen]; Iceberg image
  • everyone has culture, characteristics of every life of a group of people; plays a role in communicating and receiving information
  • Surface: dance, dress, food, language, crafts, celebrations, language
  • Deep: crafts, facial expressions, body language, eye contact, personal space, concept of beauty, music, concept of cleanliness, patterns of handling emotions, non verbal communications
  • Hidden: concept of beauty, concept of past and future, tone of voice, problem solving, concept of "self", nature of friendships, attitude towards elders
• Socialization: [Social & Cultural Lens]
  • ​beliefs about intelligence, learning, school and schooling
  • What is culturally responsive teaching?
    • including students' cultural references in all aspects of learning (Ladson-Billings, 1994)
    • Culturally Responsive Personalization: Where to Begin
    • Students' cultural characteristics in daily teaching practices
    • Better connect and build solid relationships with students
    • Acknowledging students' multiple identities and supporting the development of students' attitudes toward learning and the habits necessary to succeed in life
  • What are our beliefs and where do they come from?
  • socialization and identity are linked
  • Beliefs that frame our thinking
    • ​people are both individuals and our members of social group
    • social groups are valued unequally in society
    • valued more highly have greater access to resources of a society
    • schools and teachers actively share students learning
  • activity: frames and lenses - what does it mean? what does it represent? using the lenses as a metaphor
    • think. talk. create: talk with people at your table, write on the glasses to express your thinking about the possible metaphors, share your reflections
    • bridging culture, cant' see reality, only what lens allows, cultural norms
  • culture changes through generations

Presenter:
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Overview:

Visual Engagement Activity
https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/
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​Edutopia Vide: The Powerful Effects of Drawing on Learning
https://youtu.be/hntHGr8JR7o

Paper: Icons, Emojis, Diagrams Activity

• ​Agriculture and Fisheries Vocabulary Activity - Goal: Create visual representations of essential agricultural activity
• Tell Your Teehaven or Not at Teehaven Story - #1 Tell Your Story: Explore, Collect, Create & Share Your Learning Experiences; Creative Expression - photostory, photo sharing, Padlet (post your photos that are part of your photostory, collage)

Adobe Spark & Visual Design

• ​creative expression for your photostory

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Pear Deck & Visual Design

• ​making Google Slides interactive
• Flascard factory

Inforgraphics & Visual Design

• ​Piktochart
  
• easelly
  
• used as a presentation tool
  

Grow Your Professional Learning Network
@TechTerraEd

Innovative learning spaces can be in a classroom, a cart going from room to room
No matter how much space an innovative learning space has, there are 3 things that should be included in and for every space:

• ​Vision
• Mission
• Goals

why have these spaces and tools found a fit in today’s schools?

• ​Personalized learning experiences
• Authentic and meaningful learning experiences
• Connected to core curriculum

High Tech: Robotics
Low Tech: Circuitry, Chibitronics.com
No Tech: The Design Process, Sparkables, Idea Creation Cards
Tools: Choosing Innovative Learning Tools

• ​what will work with your devices
• tangible
• sturdy
• expansive, they do more than one thing
• levels of learning for curriculum connections

Coding Tools: What’s your learning objectives? How many do you want in a coding station? (2-3 students; maximum of 4)

• ScottieGo! EDU
  
• MatataLab
• Cubetto
  

Robotics

• ​Cubroid
  
• Makeblock
  
• Neuron Blocks
  

Connected Learning Tools

• ​Marbotic Smart Letters & Smart Numbers
• Osmo: Words, Numbers, Pizza Co, Tangrams, Coding Awbie, Coding Jam

Augmented Reality (AR)

• ​Space
  
• Dinosaurs
  
• Animals
• Humanoid

Curiscope

• ​Virtual-Tee & Heart
  

Drones

• ​DJI Tello EDU
  
• CoDrone by Robolink
  

Techterraeducation.com

• ​STEM Equity for All
  
• Julia Schonhar and Christine Bell
  
• TechTerra Education offers curriculum, professional development, tools and programs​

Bold Educators Activate Change
Presenters:

• ​Lisa Schmucki, Founder and CEO of @edwebnet, SIIA Education Technology Industry Network (ETIN)
• Rachel Langnhorst, Instructional Coach and Tech Integrationist, @rlangenhorst
• Dr. Rob Furman, Principal of Southpark Elementary School, @rfurman
• Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair at New Canaan High School, @mluhtala

Resource: tiny.com/freePD2019 (download slides)
Notes:

• Professional Learning Communities help educators move forward
• edWeb.net: Find webinars, communities of like-minded teachers and professionals in education
• You as a Learner, Field Experts, edWeb Communities, being able to share with like-minded educators
• WHY?: edWeb is free, one stop location, has a variety of tools, easy scheduling/calendar, something for everyone, Personalized PD
• CONSIDERATIONS: find your hub, most efficient delivery (in-house PD or something teachers can do on their own), accountability
• FAVORITE TECH TOOLS: wiser.me, google apps, pear deck, Nearpod, EDpuzzle, Socratic by MasteryConnect; always work with your content standards (TEKS)

Pajama PD Self-Paced PD Example

• ​Nearpod used for content delivery
  
• student-paced choice allows for remote use
  
• accountability report and built into the program
  
• freemium websites
• Google drive and edWeb integration within nearpod for accountability, collaboration and action plans (ex. SIOP Lesson Preparation Ideas and Activities)

How do you ensure usefulness and implementation

• ​implementation time has to be involved
  

edWeb

• ​you can create your own free community
  
• you can join other communities to share with other teachers
  
• Personalized Professional Development on edWeb
  
• Free tools: blog, discussions, wiki, file sharing, etc.

edWeb’s REsearch-Based practices for personalized professional learning

• ​bit.ly/rockvalleycasestudy
  

Principal Perspective on Personalized Professional Learning

• ​edWeb gives you a tool to make a very easy jump into personalized professional development
  
• as the PD creator and develop, be cognizant of the needs of your audience (teachers), it has to be a model as to what we want teachers to emulate in the classroom
• model it in the classroom

Webinator Michelle Luhtala

• ​MackinVIA
  
• Sustained conversation to keep going
  
• Power of the community is very important
  
• Have conversations with people all over the world
  
• Discus about a book that inspired you, a unique and interesting experience, etc. Being able to enrich each other’s experiences
  
• Growing Schools (Librarians as Professional Developers) by Debbie Ablock
  
• Bringing in guests in webinars; bringing in other people’s expertise
  
• The best way to learn is to teacher; involve the community in the presentation (ex. Chat or discussion threads — use as a resource for future webinars
  

What is important to you in a Teacher Professional Development?
How has edWeb impacted your teaching?
What type of PD helps you improve as a teacher?
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