Schools United Professional Development Day 2020

Learn how to connect with Gen Z by better understanding their beliefs and the culture they are living in.

Audience: All Staff

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Learn how to maximize computer programs like Nearpod to create highly interactive lessons that will keep your students engaged in learning.

Audience: All Teachers

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Learn how to build up passionate, mission-minded students through these 10 outreach and evangalism techniques.

Audience: Outreach

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Learn how taking time out of your busy teaching schedule for moments of reflection can improve future instruction.

Audience: All Teachers

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Learn how Scripture is relevant to every subject matter and how that reality can be reinforced in your lessons.

Audience: Teachers and administrators

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Learn how to guide discussions related to sexuality, identitiy, and gender by using Christ's love and grace as a framework for healing and discipleship.

Audience: All Staff

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Learn how to help students cope with challenges by using the Bible as a lens to encourage Social Emotional Learning skill development.

Audience: All Teachers, Support Staff and Administrators

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Learn how to practically leverage the power of relationship building to better connect with young people.

Audience: Teachers, Administrators, Support Staff

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Learn how to incorporate emotional intelligence into your leadership style for greater effectiveness.

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Learn how to use social media as a marketing tool that showcases your school and what it has to offer families.

Audience: School administrators and communications directors

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Learn how to support your leadership team with excellence while juggling multiple priorities with these best practices for administrative assistants.

Audience: Admin Assts/TA’s/Support staff

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Learn what good sportsmanship should look like biblically not just as it relates to athletics, but to academics and the arts as well.

Audience: Athletic Directors / Coaches / Anyone who enjoys sports

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Learn how to inspire early learners to grow academically, socially, and spiritually with practical methods for Circle Time and Learning Centers.

Audience: K3 & K4

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Learn how to make efficient use of your time with tips and tools that will keep you organized this school year and beyond.

Audience: Preschool and Elementary teachers

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Learn how you can use art and creativity to foster meaningful connections between students in a socially distant world.

Audience: Preschool, elementary, and middle school

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Learn how to implement current reading group research into your classroom at this interactive workshop.

Audience: Elementary grades 1-6

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Learn how to use Google's time-saving tools that will encourage increased student engagement both in person and virtually. In order to get the most out of this session, all attendees are strongly encouraged to bring your own device (BYOD) to follow along and participate.

Audience: Elementary Teachers with access to Google Suite

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Learn the key elements that go into planning a chapel that will resonate with students and create a greater sense of school community.

Audience: PK-5th Grade Teachers, Administrators

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Learn how to use Google Forms and Quizlet to create formative assessments that can gauge and correct student understanding.

Audience: Secondary educators

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Learn how to challenge students academically and spiritually by teaching higher order thinking skills.

Audience: Secondary Teachers

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Learn how to engage students in ongoing discussions about race, social injustice, and diversity that will in turn strengthen school culture.

Audience: Secondary Teachers and Administrators

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Learn how to connect with Gen Z by better understanding their beliefs and the culture they are living in.

Audience: All Staff

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Learn how cultural factors impact learning and receptivity to learning in a classroom with diverse student populations.

Audience: All Teachers

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Learn how tools like HyperDocs and Choice Boards help students take ownership of their learning and allow for differentiated instruction in the classroom.

Audience: Elementary Teachers, Secondary Teachers

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Learn how to boost teacher, student, and family morale in your school community that is still feeling the impact of COVID-19.

Audience: All Staff

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Learn how Jesus is woven through all of Scripture by exploring Old Testament prophecy, symbolism, and foreshadowing.

Audience: All Staff

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Learn how to create a curriculum that equally emphasizes the importance of biblical worldview and academic rigor.

Audience: All Teachers and administrators

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Learn 10 simple ways your school can consistently engage current families and attract new ones on platforms like Instagram and Facebook.

Audience: marketing/communications, admissions, and positions of leadership

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Learn how to generate buy-in for embracing change among decision-makers at your school.

Audience: School Leadership, General

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Learn how to create a long-term budget hat can help your school's leadership team make short and long-range financial decisions.

Audience: Finance Department

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Learn various ways the great outdoors can be used as an inspiring classroom environment for young learners.

Audience: PK 2-3-4, Early Childhood

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Learn how to develop student potential by encouraging critical and forward thinking in the preschool classroom.

Audience: Preschool Teachers & Parents of Preschoolers

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Learn how incorporating puppets and music in the classroom can help early learners create, explore, and flourish.

Audience: K3-2nd Grade

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Learn how to affirm each child and culture represented in your classroom with these practical tips.

Audience: Early Childhood & Early Elementary

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Learn strategies that will bring grammar and writing to life for your students, keeping them excited, engaged, and loving the language arts.

Audience: Elementary grades 1-6

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Learn how to empower beginning and struggling readers through phonological awareness.

Audience: Elementary Teachers

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Learn how to encourage creativity to your in-person and online classroom with the Book Creator tool. In order to get the most out of this session, all attendees are strongly encouraged to bring your own device (BYOD) to follow along and participate.

Audience: Elementary Teachers

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Learn how to tactfully and biblically address topics related to our current culture that early elementary students will likely be exposed to in the near future. (Roy's presentation would be virtual)

Audience: Elementary teachers and administrators

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Learn how to accomodate ESE students' learning differences by studying the All Kinds of Minds neurodevelopmental framework.

Audience: ESE teachers and coaches, All teachers

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Learn how to promote restoration in your classroom by looking at areas such as discipline, peer relationships, and academic rigor.

Audience: Secondary Teachers, School Guidance, School Staff

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Learn how to make your videos and pictures look cinematic and professional with just a few easy tools and tips.

Audience: Secondary educators

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Learn how to foster a comfortable classroom space where cultural issues affecting teens can be discussed in an empathetic and God-honoring way.

Audience: Secondary Teachers

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Roundtable for Aftercare/Cafeteria

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Roundtable for Heads of School

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