Grand Schools Fall Institute 2024: Full Schedule

Welcome to the 3rd Annual Grand Schools Fall Institute!

8:00am MDT

Breakfast and Coffee

Friday November 1, 2024 8:00am - 8:30am MDT

MLHMS Commons Area

Friday November 1, 2024 8:00am - 8:30am MDT
MLHMS Commons Area 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

8:30am MDT

Escaping the Monotony: Digital Breakouts in Canvas as a Vehicle for Student Engagement

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am MDT

Room 123 Lecture Hall

Digital breakouts allow students to problem-solve, think critically, and review important content in an exciting, game-based environment. In this session, participants will learn how to transform their classrooms into mystery escape rooms through digital breakout activities. Participants will learn how to leverage Canvasʼs modules and quiz features to design engaging breakout activities and hear ideas for implementing them effectively.

Speakers

Braxton Thornley

Senior Technology Trainer, UEN

Prior to joining UEN's professional development team, Braxton worked as a high school language arts teacher in Jordan School District. He is passionate about engaging students throughout the learning process, and he is a believer in the power of technology to individualize education... Read More →

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am MDT
Room 123 Lecture Hall 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532, USA

EdTech, Secondary

8:30am MDT

Unleash Creativity and Innovation with the New Adobe Express

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am MDT

Room 134

Adobe Express has recently undergone a complete redesign and now features character animation, artificial intelligence tools, collaborative editing, and even more new features. It still also features tried and true tools for creating narrated videos, beautiful web pages, and graphics. Even those classic tools have been juiced up with artificial intelligence, more animation options, and other great features. You'll come away from this session understanding how to use the new features and apply them in your classroom.Slides for this session are found here.

Speakers

Rob Bentley

Instructor and Adobe Product Manager, UEN - Utah Education Network

Rob taught Spanish and Language Arts for 6 years. For the last 16 years, he's been teaching teachers how to integrate technology effectively into their curriculum. During his time at UEN, he's presented at URSA, UELMA, UCET, ISTE, FETC, UFLA, and the CTE conferences many times.

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am MDT
Room 134 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532, USA

EdTech, Secondary

8:30am MDT

Blind Mule - The Science and Process of Differentiating K-12 Tier I Instruction

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am MDT

Room 223

Join Blind Mule in an informative learning session regarding differentiated instruction across all grades. Differentiation is crucial because learners come with varying abilities, backgrounds and learning styles.This session will support educators to develop strategies, lesson planning and concepts of differentiation. And guess what- these kinds of diverse learners will always be in your classroom.

Speakers

Tony Done and Glenn Dyke

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am MDT
Room 223 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Engagement and Differentiation, All Grades

8:30am MDT

Partnering with Teachers

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am MDT

Room 227

Speakers

Michelle Searle

HMK Principal, Grand County School District

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am MDT
Room 227 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Paras Track, All Grades

8:30am MDT

Powerschool PD

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am MDT

Room 228

Speakers

Kari Barnard

MLHMS Principal, MLHMS

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am MDT
Room 228 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Secretaries Track, Secretaries Only

8:30am MDT

USBE Presentation on IEP Best Practices

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am MDT

Room 136

The IEP professional development is designed for all Special Education teachers and paras PK-12. It will involve creating meaningful and measurable goals, ensuring that the correct procedures are implemented, and ensuring that the IEP follows all special education rules and laws. This PD will be interactive; bring a current student file as you go through this class for guidance as you work with the instructor and your peers.

Moderators

Jill Tatton

Director of Student Services, Grand County School District

Speakers

Janet Hanson

UPIPS SpecialistProgram Support in Special EducationUtah State Board of Education

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am MDT
Room 136 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Special Education, All Grades

8:30am MDT

Cultivating Excellence - Strategies for Engagement & Collaboration with Newcomer Families

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am MDT

Room 133

All families come with strengths, skills, and special knowledge that can be used to support at-home learning. In this session we will discuss asset-based strategies to engage newcomer families and students. Cultivating excellence requires an all-hands-on-deck approach, so lets work together to build stronger communities.

Speakers

Susie Estrada

Student Support Parent and Family Engagement Specialist, USBE

Susie Estrada is a dynamic, humorous, and charismatic professional with over 17 years of experience in education and youth development. Susie currently works with the Utah State Board of Education as the Family and Community Engagement Specialist and has had many other roles through... Read More →

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am MDT
Room 133 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Supporting Multi-Language Learners, All Grades

8:30am MDT

Ally Training from Trevor Project

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:30am MDT

Room 226

The nationally renowned Trevor Project is coming to Moab! This culturally competent training is designed to create dialogue around being an adult ally for LGBTQ+ youth by informing participants about common terminology, the "coming out" process, and challenges at home, in the community and at school. It will provide district staff with the same language and knowledge base to support one of our most at-risk populations. Please join us!

Heads up that this will be capped at 30.

Moderators

Kelly Vagts

School-based Therapist, HMK

Speakers

Trevor Project Presenters

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 10:30am MDT
Room 226 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Social Emotional Learning, All Grades

8:30am MDT

CKLA Training 3-5 - Enhancing Practice (Mandatory for Teachers)

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 11:30am MDT

Room 130

Practice implementing key lesson routines to strengthen your Amplify CKLA instruction. Leave with guidelines for routines you can implement in your classroom tomorrow.

Mandatory for 3-5 HMK Teachers

Speakers

CKLA Presenter

PDP1243 Amplify CKLA 2nd Ed G3–5 Enhancing practice for teachers PN pdf

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 11:30am MDT
Room 130 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Science of Reading, Elementary

8:30am MDT

CKLA Training K-2 - Enhancing Practice (Mandatory for Teachers)

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 11:30am MDT

Room 221

Practice implementing key lesson routines to strengthen your Amplify CKLA instruction. Leave with guidelines for routines you can implement in your classroom tomorrow.

Mandatory for K-2 HMK Teachers

Speakers

Elisabeth Isaak

Professional Learning Specialist, Amplify

PDP1242 Amplify CKLA 2nd Ed GK–2 Enhancing practice for teachers PN pdf

Friday November 1, 2024 8:30am - 11:30am MDT
Room 221 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Science of Reading, Elementary

10:00am MDT

Team Work Time & Follow-up with Instructors

Friday November 1, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am MDT

Choose Meeting Space on MLHMS Campus

Get with your grade level or role-alike teams to plan how to implement strategies from your sessions.

Friday November 1, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am MDT
Choose Meeting Space on MLHMS Campus 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Collaboration Time

10:30am MDT

Differentiating Instruction with Nearpod

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT

Room 123 Lecture Hall

This session is meant for seasoned Nearpod users aiming to build differentiated, self-paced, and/or choice-based lessons. Teachers will learn how to leverage Nearpodʼs features with other technology tools (Canvas LMS, Google Workspace, etc.) to create lessons built around the learner. When selecting this session, please provide an additional comment in the space below stating whether most teachers in the session use Canvas or Google Classroom.

Speakers

Braxton Thornley

Senior Technology Trainer, UEN

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT
Room 123 Lecture Hall 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532, USA

10:30am MDT

Classroom A.I. Magic with Adobe

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT

Room 134

Adobe has fully embraced Artificial Intelligence and embedded it into many of its most popular creative tools. Come learn how the A.I. tools in Adobe Firefly, Photoshop, and Express can empower you and your students to be even more creative. Even though these A.I tools can be engaging, the benefits go way beyond entertainment. Come learn how Adobe A.I. can open up new possibilities for teachers to teach and students to learn creatively and effectively. All three of these Adobe tools have web-based versions, so they work well on Chromebooks as well as other computers. Public school teachers of grades K-12 and public school students in grades 7-12 have been provided access to each of these powerful tools. Slides for this session are found here.

Speakers

Rob Bentley

Instructor and Adobe Product Manager, UEN - Utah Education Network

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT
Room 134 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532, USA

EdTech, All Grades

10:30am MDT

I "4C" your Future: Transformational Student Learning with Google Tools

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT

Room 225

Corny session title.... I get it. :) That said, in collaboration with the GEG Utah folks, we'll dive into checking out Google tools and applications to better personalize student learning, increase engagement, and differentiate instruction for individual students. The tools demonstrated will focus on the 4 C's: Collaboration, Creativity, Communication, and Critical Thinking.
A variety of educational technology tools and applications will be shared in this session, including, but not limited to: Updates to Chrome and Google Workspace features, NotebookLM, Gemini, and Sites. As these tools are demonstrated, we'll discuss ways you can create inquiry-based projects, facilitate greater collaboration, and how to intentionally design creative student learning experiences.

Speakers

JoLynn Torgerson

Technology Integration Specialist, SESC - Southeast Service Center

JoLynn has been involved in public education for 18 years, with experience as a classroom teacher, site technology resource, behavior management paraprofessional, Title One paraprofessional, and coach. Her current role is a Technology Integration Specialist with SESC- Southeast Education... Read More →

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT
Room 225 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

EdTech, All Grades

10:30am MDT

Blind Mule - Engagement Strategies to Support 90-Minute K-12 Tier I Learning Blocks

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT

Room 223

Teaching any content area K-12 for nine minutes had unique challenges. Join this session to increase engagement of students, meet standard and content expectations and learn strategies that will help your 90 minute block fly by.

Speakers

Tony Done and Glenn Dyke

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT
Room 223 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Engagement and Differentiation, All Grades

10:30am MDT

Classroom Management with Active Participation

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT

Room 227

Speakers

Libby Bailey

HMK Assistant Principal, HMK

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT
Room 227 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Paras Track, All Grades

10:30am MDT

De-Escalation Strategies

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT

Room 228

Speakers

Officer Pratt

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT
Room 228 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Secretaries Track, Secretaries Only

10:30am MDT

Restorative Practices for Teacher Burnout

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT

Room 226

Burnout is on the rise... join us for a relaxing workshop to learn evidence-based, simple practices to incorporate into your every day to help combat increasing stressors and to treat and prevent burnout. This session will be an experiential, fill your cup moment. Hope to see you there!

Speakers

Ashli Murdock

Christie Van Kanegan

School-based Therapist, HMK

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT
Room 226 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Social Emotional Learning, All Grades

10:30am MDT

Transitioning - Secondary SpEd

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT

Room 136

This IEP professional development will involve creating transition plans and outside resources available for students with disabilities as they enter life after high school. This workshop is focused on grades 7-12, but others are invited to attend. It would be beneficial for general education teachers to join to see how transitions are helpful for students on an IEP.

Moderators

Jill Tatton

Director of Student Services, Grand County School District

Speakers

Deanna Taylor

Postsecondary Transition Specialist, USBE - Utah State Board of Education

Deanna Taylor is a Postsecondary Transition Specialist at the Utah State Board of Education. Her public education career has spanned 40 years as a music teacher, special education teacher, special education director and college instructor in three states. Deanna holds masters degrees... Read More →

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT
Room 136 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Special Education, Secondary

10:30am MDT

Cultivating Excellence - Strategies for Engagement & Collaboration with Newcomer Families

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT

Room 133

Speakers

Susie Estrada

Student Support Parent and Family Engagement Specialist, USBE

Friday November 1, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am MDT
Room 133 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Supporting Multi-Language Learners, All Grades

12:00pm MDT

Lunch (on your own) and Tabling

Friday November 1, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT

On Your Own

Friday November 1, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
On Your Own 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

1:00pm MDT

Acadience Progress Monitoring/Setting Pathways to Progress (Mandatory HMK Teachers)

Friday November 1, 2024 1:00pm - 2:15pm MDT

Room 225

We will be going over the new Acadience practices for progress monitoring in reading.

We will also be adjusting pathways of progress. And have them set by the end of the work session.

Mandatory for HMK classroom teachers.

Speakers

RayeLyne Roberston

Title 1, HMK

Friday November 1, 2024 1:00pm - 2:15pm MDT
Room 225 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532

Assessment, Elementary

1:00pm MDT

Advanced Canvas Skills: Unlocking Students’ Potential: Personalized Learning in Canvas

Friday November 1, 2024 1:00pm - 2:15pm MDT

Room 123 Lecture Hall

Canvas contains a wealth of tools for differentiating and personalizing learning. In this session, participants will learn how to create item banks, offer flexible due dates, and provide quiz accommodations in Canvas. Participants will also learn advanced module features, including requirements and prerequisites, and how to create Mastery Paths in Canvas to facilitate self-paced, individualized, and scaffolded instruction.

Speakers

Braxton Thornley

Senior Technology Trainer, UEN

Friday November 1, 2024 1:00pm - 2:15pm MDT
Room 123 Lecture Hall 439 S 100 E, Moab, UT 84532, USA

EdTech, Secondary

1:00pm MDT

Effective Formative Assessment with Digital Games and Contests

Friday November 1, 2024 1:00pm - 2:15pm MDT

Room 134

Formative assessment is a powerful part of the teaching and learning process. Come learn how you can use the following formative evaluation tools to inject more excitement and fun into your classroom and at the same time gain insight into what your students really know and understand: Gimkit‚ Quizlet Live‚ Quizizz‚ and Nearpod.

Speakers