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The First 6 Months: Pilot Lessons Learned
**Room: 102** **Presenter:** Jessica Garrigan and David Diokno, School District of Lancaster Transforming learning is an iterative process. There are essential elements to consider when embarking on true transformation. In this session, we will share our goals and objectives, and review progress to date. How have our classrooms and instruction changed? Are we on target to meet our initial goals? What has gone well and what do we need to revisit? This review will help us monitor and adjust, making mid-year corrections as necessary. This prototype will inform our future direction and assist others in the development of their transformative learning environments.
 * Audience: ** Intermediate 4-6, Leadership
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Instructional Technology Tools to Use in Special Education Classrooms
**Room: 103** **Presenter:** Lori Blantz, IU 13 How do special education teachers infuse technology into their already busy teaching schedules when trying to reach a variety of student needs? This presentation will provide you some online resources that are used in general education classrooms but are adapted for Special Education Classrooms. Participants will leave with a bank of current software programs to use with students with special needs. Several resources will be provided, with a demo math lesson using these tools.
 * Audience: ** Special Education, K-6
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Personalize Learning and Classroom Intervention
**Room: 104** **Presenter:** Kathleen Bendernagel, Edmentum Edmentum's new K–6 individualized learning program is designed to provide you and your students with targeted, assessment-driven practice, reinforcement, and support—personalized to meet your students’ needs. This elementary adaptive assessment includes motivational tools to engage students and guided data visualization and progress monitoring.
 * Audience: **K-6, Leadership
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Student Portfolios: Digital Options for the 21st Century Teacher
**Room: 106A** **Presenter:** Jamie Keenan and Laura Cropper, Manheim Central School District Remember the days of keeping all of your student’s work in a paper folder and calling it a portfolio? This portfolio would only be shared with parents at conferences and at the end of the school year. Gone are those days! Find new and creative ways to digitally save and share your students work with parents on a daily basis. We will explore several apps and web-based programs such as 3 Ring, Evernote, SeeSaw, and Class Dojo. These apps help keep your students’ work in chronological order that they can save from year to year. Digital portfolios help hold students accountable for their own work and parents can see what you are doing in the classroom. Digital portfolios make learning meaningful because students can post work, have a teacher review, and then reflect. Students can also present knowledge in a variety of ways (i.e. photo, video, take notes). Come and see how you can increase parent communication within your classroom!
 * Audience: **K-6
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Breakout EDU
**Room: 106B** **Presenter:** Nicole Pagan, Wilson School District In a race against time, participants must find clues, solve riddles, and complete tasks to “breakout”. Breakout EDU replicates the popular concept of breakout rooms. The concept is to bring a group together, present them with a challenge and clues to solve the challenge while encouraging teamwork, experiential learning, complex problem solving, and critical thinking. Come play an actual game of breakout and learn how to incorporate it into any classroom or professional development.
 * Audience: ** Intermediate 4 -6 and Primary (K-3)
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Augmented Reality: Engaging the Minecraft Generation
**Room: 106C** **Presenter:** Drew Minock, Keynote Presenter Why will kids sit for hours immersed in a Minecraft world, but have trouble staying engaged during class? As a group, we will discuss how new augmented reality (AR) tools give educators and students the power to: create meaningful learning experiences that combine the digital and physical worlds, build interactive experiences to show and share knowledge with a global audience, understand complex concepts, and retain information longer. Together will we address how we can take existing curriculums, and enhance them to appeal to the Minecraft Generation.
 * Audience: **K-6
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Using Google Tools to Address the Learning Needs of ALL Students
**Room: 106D** **Presenter:** Matt Bergman, Milton Hershey School Today’s classrooms are more diverse than ever before. Even homogenous populations contain learners with different abilities, interests, and backgrounds. How can educators embrace learner variability as the use of technology becomes increasingly more common in our classrooms? Google Tools offer free and powerful solutions for addressing the needs of ALL students. Learn 9 strategies for using Google Tools to address variability in the classroom.
 * Audience: ** Intermediate 4 -6
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Integrating Technology into the Daily 5
**Room: 106E** **Presenter:** Vicki Grenier, Lampeter-Strasburg School District The Daily 5 by Gaily Boushey and Joan Moser has been widely implemented in many classrooms. We can integrate technology into each of the Daily 5 activities to give more choices and to differentiate the experience for our students. From Read to Self to Work on Writing and all the Daily 5, we can use a variety of apps and websites to help expand the choices of activities for our students.
 * Audience: **2-6
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Microsoft Classroom: Managing Students, Classes and Assignments with One Tool
**Room: 110** **Presenter:** <span style="font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif;">Lindsey Troyanoski, Microsoft Education <span style="font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif;">Microsoft Classroom is your homepage for managing all of your classes. Organize multiple class sections, create and grade assignments, collaborate with other teachers in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), and provide feedback to students. Microsoft Classroom has a OneNote Class Notebook built into every class, allowing teachers to create assignments with due dates, complete with Outlook calendar events and reminders. School Data Sync saves teachers time by automatically creating groups and enabling single sign on to apps in Office 365.
 * Audience: ** Intermediate 4 -6
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** Room: ** 107
Edcamps are organic, participant-driven professional learning experiences. Our EdCamp sessions will follow the 'unconference' format where the agenda is created by the attendees at the beginning of each session. There will be some themes to start the conversations, but anyone is welcome to initiate a discussion on a specific topic for any of our four sessions. Participants who attend can initiate topic discussions or participate in discussions that have been initiated by others. The format and schedule will be extremely flexible to meet the needs of the participants.
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 * Audience: ** Everyone
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