Welcome to the scheduling platform for the 2024 Professional Development Summit, hosted by the Oregon Trail Regional Educator Network and Intermountain ESD in cooperation with Pendleton School District. * Click on sessions to create your schedule for October 11th, 2024. * Please note that some sessions are 2 hours in length. Session times are specified in the session description. * All sessions are IN-PERSON at Pendleton High School: 1800 NW Carden Avenue Pendleton, OR
*All participants must park in the student parking lot (located on the east side of the school) OR the main parking lot. All participants will enter the cafeteria next to the east side student parking lot. Registration & breakfast will occur in the cafeteria.
Attendees will review the five core components of IXL: Comprehensive pre-K through 12 curriculum; instructional tools and classroom engagement resources; first-of-its-kind assessment suite; actionable analytics; and implementation supports. We will take a deep dive into IXL Analytics, including strategies for supporting day-to-day instruction, and leverage IXL's comprehensive curriculum and skill plans to create custom Quizzes to be shared with other teachers in your district.
The Patterns High School Science Sequence is a FREE, open-source three year course pathway and curriculum aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Each course utilizes common instructional strategies, real world phenomena, and design challenges to engage students and support their learning. The curriculum is a combination of teacher-generated and curated open-content materials. Come learn about the curriculum and how it could be used in your classroom!
*Presenter will be streamed in Join us for an in-depth session on how to successfully implement YouScience in your school or district. This session will guide you through the process of getting students started with the platform, including a walkthrough of their results. We’ll explore practical implementation ideas that can help integrate YouScience into your curriculum seamlessly.
Discover how the Education and Career Plan tool aligns with Oregon's Education Plan and Profile requirements and the ODE standards, providing a structured approach for students to plan their academic and career paths. Additionally, we’ll demonstrate how to leverage YouScience reports to build classes that cater to students' unique aptitudes and interests, ensuring a personalized and effective educational experience.
By the end of this session, you'll have the tools and knowledge needed to make the most of YouScience, from initial setup to advanced usage, empowering your students to explore their strengths and navigate their futures with confidence.
This session will present foundational ideas to help create inquiry based activities that target specific math learning outcomes. You will be given examples of activities you can implement, and guidance on how to engage your students in meaningful math discoveries.
We will dive into the senate bill and discuss the requirements of school districts to implement the Tribal history lesson plans within the available grade levels. We will also discuss the Tribal place-based lessons that compliment the state generated lessons.
Participants will explore sound and how the composition of certain materials affects the vibrations they produce. They will make a table and record information describing the different materials investigated and the variation in pitch. This session relates to the NGSS - Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
Join us for an interactive session discussing helpful tools when working with dysregulated students, tips on identifying secondary trauma in yourself and others, and ways to build healthy connections to reduce childhood adversity.
**NOTE: This is a 2-hour session (10-11:50 am) We will share resources and teaching strategies for integrating mock trial skills and cases into classrooms. Most subject areas are compatible with this creative and engaging approach.
Learn about electrical circuits by messing around with batteries and bulbs! Explore how to connect the wires to the battery to make the bulb light up and how to use a folded strip of aluminum foil as wire. Experiment with different materials to determine which conduct electricity and which are insulators. The session culminates with participants making an electrical card or electrical sculpture.
IMESD VLA staff will be on hand to help with program access, log in support, platform data processes, Synergy Support and more. Are you a district staff member that needs help viewing student data? Liaisons wanting access to connect and communicate with students through Rooms? Come on by! We will have our staff on hand to help with all of your Access points, and needs with the VLA! (Rooms, Schools PLP, Google Classroom, ParentVue Access, General program information and more!)
In this session, participants will gain a clear understanding of Oregon Black Pioneers and explore the range of resources available to teachers on our website. Educators will leave with practical tools, lesson ideas, and materials that can be immediately integrated into their classrooms. This session will focus on providing tangible takeaways to enhance their teaching with relevant historical content.
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education (OJMCHE) now provides free Holocaust-related picture books, novels, and memoirs to K-5 classrooms. Each book was carefully selected to meet both Oregon's ELA and social studies standards across elementary grade levels as well as address SB664 Holocaust and Genocide learning concepts. In this workshop, teachers will collaboratively review books and accompanying teaching guides and learn how to order free books for their curriculum.
Head of Student Programs, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Andrew Duden is the Education Specialist fro Digital Learning at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. At the museum, Andrew has created digital curriculum for numerous core exhibitions, has written lesson plans, and facilitated professional development and... Read More →
Participants will learn about the STEM Hub network's goals and programming, information about GO STEM's current projects, as well as STEAM teaching ideas.
Attendees will review the five core components of IXL: Comprehensive pre-K through 12 curriculum; instructional tools and classroom engagement resources; first-of-its-kind assessment suite; actionable analytics; and implementation supports. We will take a deep dive into IXL Analytics, including strategies for supporting day-to-day instruction, and leverage IXL's comprehensive curriculum and skill plans to create custom Quizzes to be shared with other teachers in your district.
In this session, participants will gain a clear understanding of Oregon Black Pioneers and explore the range of resources available to teachers on our website. Educators will leave with practical tools, lesson ideas, and materials that can be immediately integrated into their classrooms. This session will focus on providing tangible takeaways to enhance their teaching with relevant historical content.
We will dive into the senate bill and discuss the requirements of school districts to implement the Tribal history lesson plans within the available grade levels. We will also discuss the Tribal place-based lessons that compliment the state generated lessons.
This interactive workshop is designed to empower educators with the knowledge and skills necessary to create, implement, and monitor effective learning and growth goals for their students. Whether you are a classroom teacher or school administrator, this workshop is suitable for anyone interested in fostering academic excellence and personal development in students.
In this workshop, the instructor and participants will share their strategies to create meaningful writing assignments that will help their students improve their written Spanish communication. Please, come prepared with your best examples of written assignments! The session will be in Spanish.
High school and middle school teachers participate in a hands-on workshop where they explore documents from the Ringleblum archive. Emmanuel Ringleblum, a Jewish historian, organized a secret society in the Warsaw Ghetto that recorded first-hand accounts of Nazi atrocities. The documents were hidden in the ground and unearthed after WWII. Andrew Duden, Head of Student Programs at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust (OJMCHE), will lead teachers in a workshop that draws upon actual documents now housed at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland. He also will provide curriculum materials so that teachers can replicate the workshop activities with students.
Head of Student Programs, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Andrew Duden is the Education Specialist fro Digital Learning at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. At the museum, Andrew has created digital curriculum for numerous core exhibitions, has written lesson plans, and facilitated professional development and... Read More →
Join us for an interactive session discussing helpful tools when working with dysregulated students, tips on identifying secondary trauma in yourself and others, and ways to build healthy connections to reduce childhood adversity.
**NOTE: This is a 2-hour session (1-2:50 pm) We will share resources and teaching strategies for integrating mock trial skills and cases into classrooms. Most subject areas are compatible with this creative and engaging approach.
This session will present foundational ideas to help create inquiry based activities that target specific math learning outcomes. You will be given examples of activities you can implement, and guidance on how to engage your students in meaningful math discoveries.
Hear the stories, as retold by the presenter, of the experiences of student teachers when placed in a school to get to know the school community BEFORE being placed in a classroom with a mentor teacher.
This session will dive into the tools and reports that teachers can utilize for effective implementation of Rosetta Stone in their classrooms to support world languages and/or English Language Learners. Educators will learn best practices for using the curriculum and teacher tools, including recommendations for supporting daily instruction, monitoring progress, and differentiating learning.
Attention Secondary Social Studies Teachers! Join Chris, Sunridge Middle School SS teacher, for a roundtable opportunity to connect with peers in your field. Participants will engage in a lightly facilitated discussion of problems of practice, best practices, successes, new ideas, and other hot topics elevated by the group.
Join us for a discussion of the importance of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial spirit to the future of agriculture and food production systems in the U.S.