Brainstorm

Activities for small groups

Interview transcripts/ analysis

Used Flyntt AI

Cluade AI monitors student engagement

Coding

Think Tool not cheating Tool

Vibe Coding/ writing scripts for videos

Padlet, I can't Draw

ESL language support

Khanmigo for lexile changes

Notebook LM podcast from documents

notebooklm.google./

Climate change - mindful thinking - agriculture to foods to grow and eat to here vs rest of the nation to here vs rest of the world. Get kids to think how to applies to them.

notebooklm.google

make notes from selected resources

fake podcast.

Ask question of AI

Notion for websites recommended

Worksheet differentiation and review at home.

Deeper dive for search for questions.

Summative reporting to share.

Diffit.me

magicschool.ai/

1. Connecting Students Globally

• Padlet

  • Can be used as a platform to connect students across the globe.

  • Great for collaborative projects, cultural exchanges, and sharing classroom experiences in real-time.

2. Travel Opportunities for Educators

• GEEO (Global Exploration for Educators Organization) – https://geeo.org

  • A nonprofit organization that provides affordable travel programs for teachers.

  • Not free, but offers rich educational and cultural experiences.

  • In the last year, over 900 teachers traveled through GEEO.

  • Excellent way to bring firsthand global perspectives back to the classroom.

3. Grants & Fellowships

• NEA Foundation: Student Success Grants –

  • Application Guidance

  • Supports projects that enhance student learning and global understanding.

  • Can be aligned with global learning themes.

• Fund for Teachers – https://fundforteachers.org

  • Provides funding for self-designed professional learning experiences abroad.

  • Applications are typically due in February.

  • Teachers can apply individually or as a team.

  • Excellent funding source to cover travel and project-related costs.

• Display clocks from various time zones around the world.

• Connect each clock to a location students are learning about or have family connections to.

• Use clocks as an entry point for geography, time differences, and global awareness conversations.

• Encourage students to track news, weather, or cultural facts from these locations during morning meetings or social studies.

💬 SEL Integration – Morning CREW

• Begin each day with CREW, a morning homeroom community circle.

• CREW is not an acronym—it’s about building a team-like, inclusive classroom culture.

• Students discuss identity, current feelings, and share personal experiences or traditions from outside of school.

• Fosters empathy, belonging, and deeper peer connections.

• CREW builds a foundation for SEL by helping students name emotions, practice perspective-taking, and celebrate differences.

📚 Resource Highlight

• We Are CREW – A guiding text that outlines how schools and educators can foster meaningful, student-centered classroom communities through daily connection practices.

🏫 Middle School Practices

• At the start of the school year, middle school educators dedicate time to building strong, trusting relationships with students.

• These connections lay the groundwork for deeper academic and social-emotional engagement throughout the year.

• Students participate in conversations about the difference between impact and intent, especially when navigating sensitive topics or peer interactions.

• This approach helps cultivate empathy, emotional intelligence, and reflective communication skills among adolescents.

🌎 Introducing Climate Change Through Global Learning

• Climate change connects deeply with SDG 13: Climate Action and many other global goals (Zero Hunger, Clean Water, Life on Land).

• Use it as a real-world issue that allows students to explore interconnected systems, community identity, and global citizenship.

• Begin with student questions: “What have you noticed?” or “What do you love about the Earth that we should protect?”

• Focus on building understanding through local observations, age-appropriate vocabulary, and visual storytelling.

🧠 SEL + Climate Education

• Incorporate emotion-based conversations: What worries us? What gives us hope?

• Practice gratitude for nature: journals, breathing outside, nature walks.

• Empower students with small action steps: reducing waste, reusing, speaking up, creating art or messages.

• Discuss impact vs. intent when reflecting on how climate issues affect communities differently.

📺 Student-Friendly Climate Resources

• 🌐 NASA Climate Kids

• 🌐 World’s Largest Lesson – SDG 13 Toolkit

• 📺 CNN10 – 10-minute daily current events news video, often features climate/environmental topics

• 📚 Storybooks like One Earth, Our House is on Fire, The Tantrum That Saved the World

🧳 Virtual Field Trips to Expand Global Learning

• Engage students in immersive, real-time global experiences through virtual field trips.

• Use platforms like Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants — this free resource connects classrooms with scientists, explorers, conservationists, and adventurers from around the world.

• These live and recorded sessions help students visualize global careers, cultures, ecosystems, and issues like climate change or ocean conservation.

• Great for connecting to the SDGs, sparking inquiry, and supporting SEL through empathy and reflection.

• Follow up with student journaling, discussion circles, or project-based learning tied to what they explored.

AI for Good

Getting more teachers to use it for good

Using it to Brainstorm

workshop ideas

automate tasks

writing scripts,

mail merge

place to start

asking for deep question from a text for students

Definite needed conversation about use of AI with students

A lot of changes meet students where they are Teach them how to use the tools

List of books for units, prompts for diversity, how to interact and edit. Not 100% accurate

Teach how to use AI

Micheal Jackson songs with image generators. Looking at AI discussion starters.

Personalized learning tool for teachers.

• Display clocks from various time zones around the world.

• Connect each clock to a location students are learning about or have family connections to.

• Use clocks as an entry point for geography, time differences, and global awareness conversations.

• Encourage students to track news, weather, or cultural facts from these locations during morning meetings or social studies.

💬 SEL Integration – Morning CREW

• Begin each day with CREW, a morning homeroom community circle.

• CREW is not an acronym—it’s about building a team-like, inclusive classroom culture.

• Students discuss identity, current feelings, and share personal experiences or traditions from outside of school.

• Fosters empathy, belonging, and deeper peer connections.

• CREW builds a foundation for SEL by helping students name emotions, practice perspective-taking, and celebrate differences.

📚 Resource Highlight

• We Are CREW – A guiding text that outlines how schools and educators can foster meaningful, student-centered classroom communities through daily connection practices.

🏫 Middle School Practices

• At the start of the school year, middle school educators dedicate time to building strong, trusting relationships with students.

• These connections lay the groundwork for deeper academic and social-emotional engagement throughout the year.

• Students participate in conversations about the difference between impact and intent, especially when navigating sensitive topics or peer interactions.

• This approach helps cultivate empathy, emotional intelligence, and reflective communication skills among adolescents.

🌎 Introducing Climate Change Through Global Learning

• Climate change connects deeply with SDG 13: Climate Action and many other global goals (Zero Hunger, Clean Water, Life on Land).

• Use it as a real-world issue that allows students to explore interconnected systems, community identity, and global citizenship.

• Begin with student questions: “What have you noticed?” or “What do you love about the Earth that we should protect?”

• Focus on building understanding through local observations, age-appropriate vocabulary, and visual storytelling.

🧠 SEL + Climate Education

• Incorporate emotion-based conversations: What worries us? What gives us hope?

• Practice gratitude for nature: journals, breathing outside, nature walks.

• Empower students with small action steps: reducing waste, reusing, speaking up, creating art or messages.

• Discuss impact vs. intent when reflecting on how climate issues affect communities differently.

📺 Student-Friendly Climate Resources

• 🌐 NASA Climate Kids

• 🌐 World’s Largest Lesson – SDG 13 Toolkit

• 📺 CNN10 – 10-minute daily current events news video, often features climate/environmental topics

• 📚 Storybooks like One Earth, Our House is on Fire, The Tantrum That Saved the World

🧳 Virtual Field Trips to Expand Global Learning

• Engage students in immersive, real-time global experiences through virtual field trips.

• Use platforms like Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants — this free resource connects classrooms with scientists, explorers, conservationists, and adventurers from around the world.

• These live and recorded sessions help students visualize global careers, cultures, ecosystems, and issues like climate change or ocean conservation.

• Great for connecting to the SDGs, sparking inquiry, and supporting SEL through empathy and reflection.

• Follow up with student journaling, discussion circles, or project-based learning tied to what they explored.