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Trinity Jolley's PD Topic: Peer Coaching Models for Teachers

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Trinity Jolley's PD Topic: Peer Coaching Models for Teachers

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The "Peer Coaching Models for Teachers" professional development topic focuses on establishing peer coaching systems within schools to encourage collaborative learning and professional growth among educators. This approach leverages the expertise within the teaching staff, promoting a supportive environment where teachers can share practices, offer constructive feedback, and work together to refine their teaching strategies. This model aims to enhance instructional effectiveness and foster a culture of continuous improvement in educational settings.

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Donielle Davis Topic: Choosing Appropriate Digital Tools for Pre-K and K-5 Literacy-Based Curriculums. 

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Donielle Davis Topic: Choosing Appropriate Digital Tools for Pre-K and K-5 Literacy-Based Curriculums. 

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Audience: Pre-K & K-5 Professional Developers and Curriculum Developers.

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Luke McManus Topic: Increasing Knowledge of Classroom Technology in Order to Provide Higher Quality Lessons

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Luke McManus Topic: Increasing Knowledge of Classroom Technology in Order to Provide Higher Quality Lessons

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My professional development topic will focus on improving the knowledge and uses of technology that is available in classrooms, specifically at the higher education level. My intended audience for this topic will be the professors of these higher ed classes. The goal is to be able to encourage the professors to use all technology at their disposal in order to elevate their lessons.

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Hailee Rose PD Topic: How Educational Technology Tools Can Be Applied For Classroom Activities

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Hailee Rose PD Topic: How Educational Technology Tools Can Be Applied For Classroom Activities

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This professional development session will show educators in higher education programs that educational technology tools can be applied within classroom lessons and activities to successfully promote higher-order thinking. The goal of this professional development is to show higher education educators it doesn't always have to be a lecture and discussion!

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Beverly Holliday PD Topic: How to use Eduphoria and Track Student Data

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Beverly Holliday PD Topic: How to use Eduphoria and Track Student Data

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This professional development will be to show teachers how to use the platform Eduphoria to post weekly exit tickets and track student data. Based off of help request done by teachers, help is still needed on how to use Eduphoria effectively. Eduphoria is a site that us used district wide for assessments, but teachers have not been required to use the site in classrooms.

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Greg Renoud PD Topic: Creating effective lesson videos

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Greg Renoud PD Topic: Creating effective lesson videos

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This professional development session will show teachers how to create effective lesson videos for students. Topics covered will include the appropriate usage of text and graphics to make the video most effective, the length of the video, and how to organize information within the video. The session will conclude with uploading the video into our LMS to be interactive with embedded questions for students to answer as a formative assessment.

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Mark Hanan: Ethical use of AI for Resumes and Cover Letters

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Mark Hanan: Ethical use of AI for Resumes and Cover Letters

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The goal of my project focuses on CTE educators. By teaching CTE educators how to use AI ethically in resume writing, they can teach this skill to students who are about to enter the workforce and need a proper resume and cover letter.

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Skylar Simoneaux PD Topic: Using Nearpod to increase student interaction during the lesson. 

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Skylar Simoneaux PD Topic: Using Nearpod to increase student interaction during the lesson. 

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This PD topic will be about preparing teachers to transition from Powerpoints to interactive lessons in which teachers present with Nearpod (or Peardeck) and students are actively engaged in their own device (ICT). This increases student engagement and provides teacher with instantaneous formative assessment.

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Anthony P. Hollins PD Topic: Integrating AI into the Music Classroom.

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Anthony P. Hollins PD Topic: Integrating AI into the Music Classroom.

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Audience: 6th-12th Music Educators

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Chance Davis PD Topic: Using AI to effect the voice of your writing.

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Chance Davis PD Topic: Using AI to effect the voice of your writing.

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This professional development topic will explore the different ways people can go about making use of AI to help them communicate certain moods and styles in their writing. Whether its creative writing or otherwise, it can be difficult for some to communicate just how they want their writing to sound whether more creative or more eloquent and there are strategies to make use of to help with this in AI. The focused audience of this topic would be teenagers, young adults, and teachers.

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Morgan Keller PD Topic: Integrating Self-Assessment and Technology in Elementary Classrooms

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Morgan Keller PD Topic: Integrating Self-Assessment and Technology in Elementary Classrooms

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This professional development helps elementary teachers integrate self-assessment and technology in their classrooms. Educators will learn to use tools like Seesaw, Google Forms, Kahoot, Flipgrid, and Padlet to promote student ownership, critical thinking, and goal-setting. Practical strategies include creating rubrics and giving constructive feedback. The training focuses on adjusting teaching based on assessment data and student feedback, fostering a supportive classroom culture that encourages self-assessment, collaboration, and celebrates growth.

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Isabel Matus Topic: Empowering Language Learning with Collaborative Tech Tools 

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Isabel Matus Topic: Empowering Language Learning with Collaborative Tech Tools 

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This professional development session will explore collaborative technical tools and their transformative potential in language classrooms. We'll explore how these tools, designed to facilitate real-time interaction and knowledge sharing, can enhance language acquisition, foster cultural exchange, and promote deeper learning. The PD is designed for foreign language instructors teaching Integrative Learning college classes, who are seeking innovative ways to engage their students in a collaborative and technology-rich learning environment. We will discuss various tools like Padlet, Microsoft SharePoint, Moodle Board,Google Docs, and Flipgrid, examining their features and functionalities, as well as practical strategies for incorporating them into lesson plans. Participants will leave with a clear understanding of how these tools can support their pedagogical goals and create a more dynamic and interactive learning experience for their students.

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Cliora J. Newbold PD Topic: Embracing Institutional Agility through Institutional Unlearn-Educational Technology 

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Cliora J. Newbold PD Topic: Embracing Institutional Agility through Institutional Unlearn-Educational Technology 

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This Professional Development course is focused on Faculty and Adjunct Faculty.

Strengthening organizational agility in the context of educational technology and AI involves integrating innovative practices while unlearning outdated methods and mindsets. I live in a country where Faculty/Teachers are apprehensive towards technology and e-learning.

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Ideally, this professional development topic would be covered at the beginning of the school year and ongoing throughout. It will provide teachers with the knowledge and resources to ensure students can thrive in a digital world while remaining safe and empowered. Too often we take technology for granted and just assume young people understand it's power and functions. This topic aims to alter those assumptions in ways that help both teacher and student.

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Kim Hotaling: Using AI to develop create student writing prompts.

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Kim Hotaling: Using AI to develop create student writing prompts.

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My topic will be to use AI to develop writing prompts for students. My audience will be reading language arts teachers at the intermediate level. This topic was selected based on the survey results and the lack of technology training in this district, especially at the classroom level.

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Vicki Bell PD Topic: Using AI to improve student writing

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Vicki Bell PD Topic: Using AI to improve student writing

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My professional development topic is designed to help ELA teachers in grades 4-12 improve their students writing. The focus is for ELA teachers to understand that using AI to illustrate their student's writing will help students understand the concept of adding more descriptive language to their writing. Teachers will be trained with the ideogram AI platform so that they will be able to share the training with their students. Teachers will also have an opportunity during the training to place themselves in their students places by using AI to illustrate personal creative writing. This activity will allow them to see how their descriptions must have some aspects of accuracy to achieve the desired results in the illustration, thus adding more description to their writing.

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Maria Forero PD Topic: Classroom Technology use via Personal Commentary Forums. 

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Maria Forero PD Topic: Classroom Technology use via Personal Commentary Forums. 

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My professional development topic will focus on operating visual media aids as teacher tools to facilitate classroom development. The goal is to create media content, related to specific classroom criteria. Teachers can utilize this information to better structure their lessons. It will be useful for instructors who are more visual learners, and for creative students.

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Misty Poole PD Topic: Using digital learning platforms to provide small group and personalized math instruction.

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Misty Poole PD Topic: Using digital learning platforms to provide small group and personalized math instruction.

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This professional development session will focus on teaching math teachers how to use Eureka Math Squared pretest data to create small groups and drive RTI instruction.

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Kendra Mooney PD Topic: Tech Tools for Providing Effective Feedback

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Kendra Mooney PD Topic: Tech Tools for Providing Effective Feedback

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My professional development will be on technology tools that facilitate effective feedback for online classrooms. My target audience will be middle school and high school online teachers.

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Mary White PD Topic: Using AI for Differentiation

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Mary White PD Topic: Using AI for Differentiation

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My professional development topic will focus on empowering elementary and middle school teachers at my school with the skills and knowledge to effectively use artificial intelligence (AI) to differentiate reading materials for their students.

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Stewart Felkel PD Topic: Using Technology for Cross Curricular Collaboration.

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Stewart Felkel PD Topic: Using Technology for Cross Curricular Collaboration.

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In this Professional Development we will look at the importance of Cross Curricular Collaboration between educators and how technology can be used to facilitate this. We will explore several examples of collaboration as well as various platforms that can be used. The target audience will be middle school teachers at my school.

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Rachel Peak PD Topic: AI Productivity Tools for Teachers

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Rachel Peak PD Topic: AI Productivity Tools for Teachers

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My Professional Development topic will cover the use of AI-based tools to improve teacher productivity, both inside and outside of the classroom. The target audience is secondary teachers at my school.

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My Professional Development topic will be Classroom Management: Using Interactive Tools to Teach and Model Classroom Rules and Procedures.

This idea was based on teacher and AP feedback asking for a more dynamic, interactive PD to help teachers who struggle with classroom management.

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Natalie Soto PD Topic: AI Training for Students and Staff

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Natalie Soto PD Topic: AI Training for Students and Staff

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The goal of my project will to provide staff with necessary training to successfully and responsibly utilize AI technologies in planning and preparation of course materials and to instruct their students in how to use AI ethically and appropriately to enhance learning.