October 1st, 2020
Illinois Open Education Resources (iOER) provide online libraries of curated resources for classroom teachers at no cost to users. Learning lists of lessons, activities and standards-aligned curricular resources are available for all. Teachers can create their own online libraries storing the resources they have curated for their classroom - sharing ...read more
October 1st, 2020
STEAMING It Up! inspires participants to integrate science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics (STEAM) throughout the school. If you are looking for a school engineering challenge, a family science festival, online games, inter-disciplinary lessons aligned to standards, artistic endeavors or STEAM activities that improve literacy skills - you've come ...read more
October 1st, 2020
Several key sets of skills and attitudes provide a strong foundation for achieving school and life success. Students begin developing these skills as social emotional learning competencies as described in the SEL standards and then transform them into the "soft skills" adults need in the workforce - Essential Employability Skills. ...read more
October 1st, 2020
Dual Credit and other Early College Options are increasing the College and Career Readiness of students across the state. Academy outcomes include knowing the impact of dual credit on students' secondary and postsecondary outcomes, examining the issue of equity with early college credit data on the Illinois Report Card, planning ...read more
September 2nd, 2020
The Early Learning Summit is a semi-annual opportunity for early childhood educators, child care providers, K teachers, and elementary principals to network and collaborate. This year will include an update from the DeKalb County ROE and DeKalb County Kindergarten Readiness Collaborative. We have invited Mimi Ojaghi to share some thoughts ...read more
September 2nd, 2020
With the transition of learning to a digital environment, teachers now have an ideal time to set up digital portfolios to document the progress of their student’s learning. While there are many ways to build these, this session will focus on how we can create these using Google Slides. By ...read more
September 2nd, 2020
In a time of remote learning, Google Meet has become a tool used by many districts to facilitate learning to students that are at home. Google has recognized this and rushed to innovate new updates that allow teachers to create an instructional environment that is conducive to learning. Join us ...read more
August 27th, 2020
Finding your distance learning pathway: Participants will explore strategies to build student collaboration in discussion and various task in synchronous and asynchronous sessions. We will explore their tools, tasks and different approaches to support collaboration.
Participants will engage with peers through discussion, professional reading and exploring tasks that build collaboration between ...read more
August 27th, 2020
In this session, we build awareness around different ways to approach the ‘cadence’, or timelines, of student’s needs and learning opportunities within a synchronous and asynchronous session. Using examples and scenarios to explore possibilities, we introduce the ideas of ‘synchronous’ and ‘asynchronous’ learning, and participants think about key ‘benchmarks’ of ...read more
August 27th, 2020
How do we prepare our students to be financially independent adults?
In this session, we will focus on using student agency and targeted instructional strategies to engage students in their own learning and convince them they are capable of learning at high levels.
Facilitated by Margo Sickele, DeKalb ROE