MESD Grow Summit 2021

In this session, I will give an overview of what is structured literacy, using it in a general education classroom setting, and aligning structured literary routines to MLSS (SAT) goals and learning objectives. Educators will leave the session with links and resources to get them started in the classroom. This session will be a practical jumping board for teachers that are just beginning to learn about structured literacy, and trying to wrap their brains around how it looks in a classroom setting when focusing on MLSS (SAT) goals.

Have you been interested in incorporating Augmented Reality into your elementary classes, but aren't sure where to start? In this interactive session, we will explore free and easy-to-use tools to introduce Augmented Reality to your students for reinforcing math, science, social studies, and language arts.

We like to call our students "Digital Natives" but they are really "Tech Comfy", not "Tech Savvy". In this session I'll quickly share with you a digital citizenship course created for students that when completed gave them access to a class "Chat Room" utilizing Schoology Groups. Then you will have work time to create your own course and group using tips and tricks from my experience. This works best with 4th and 5th grade students.

Do you need more strategies and supports for your ELs? This session will provide strategies to use within the classroom to support your ELs in the areas of Listening and Speaking. The first half of the session will focus on in classroom activities to engage your students by providing them many opportunities to practice their listening and speaking skills. The second half of the session will look at different apps and websites that are available to you to help with communication when you have monolingual students and families.

This session will provide strategies to use within the classroom to support your ELs in the areas of Reading and Writing. This session will follow the same format as the Listening and Speaking session. The first half of the session will focus on in classroom activities to engage your students by providing them many opportunities to practice their reading and writing skills. The second half of the session will look at different apps and websites that are available to you to help with communication when you have monolingual students and families.