Archive: Professional Development

Administrator Academy #3697 – STEAMing It Up! Integrate Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)

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

Early Learning Summit

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

What’s New With Google Meet?!

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

Building Student Collaboration in Distance Learning

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

Finding your Distance Learning Path: Establishing Goals for Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning POSTPONED

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