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9:00am CST

Amplify Success: The Impact of Instructional Audio on Education

Thursday March 6, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am CST

Did you know that hearing is the primary way students receive instruction? Creating an equitable and intelligible listening environment is essential for student success. In this session, discover how instructional audio enhances academic outcomes, improves classroom management, and supports teacher retention.

Speakers

Bonnie Meyer, LightSpeed Technologies

LightSpeed Technologies

Thursday March 6, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am CST
KSU Union Room 227

12:45pm CST

Building Thinking Classrooms

Thursday March 6, 2025 12:45pm - 1:30pm CST

KSU Union Room 227

Do you have students working at vertical white board space around your classroom rather than at their seats? While the basis of Building Thinking Classrooms (BTC) and the work of Peter Liljedahl is from math classrooms these ideas can be put in place in all content areas. During this session we will briefly discuss the pedagogy behind vertical collaboration, visibly random grouping, look at online options for pre-made resources, and then spend time collaborating and designing a lesson to take back to your classroom.

BTC Presentation

Speakers

Stacy Wall

9th Grade Math, Teacher, Seaman High School

My name is Stacy Wall. I currently teach Math 1 at Seaman High School in Topeka, KS; I have been at Seaman USD 345 since August of 2012. Prior to teaching at USD 345, I taught at Tonganoxie Middle School and Shawnee Heights High School. I graduated with my undergraduate from Emporia... Read More →

Thursday March 6, 2025 12:45pm - 1:30pm CST
KSU Union Room 227

Instructional Strategies

Audience All

1:45pm CST

Writing in an AI World

Thursday March 6, 2025 1:45pm - 2:30pm CST

KSU Union Room 227

Creating meaningful and authentic writing activities and assignments to encourage and engage students to not utilize AI alternatives.

Speakers

Wendi Terpstra

English/Language Arts Instructor, Garden City High School

I am in my 36th year of teaching, and I still passionately love my job! I continuously enjoy learning about new techniques, tips, and tools to make English more applicable for my students.

Thursday March 6, 2025 1:45pm - 2:30pm CST
KSU Union Room 227

Instructional Strategies

3:00pm CST

Extended Reality and AI: Social Skills Are Hard to Teach, But We’ve Made It Fun!

Thursday March 6, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm CST

KSU Union Room 227

Come play VOISS, an evidence-based, extended reality environment for students 5th grade and up for learning and practicing social skills. Explore VOISS Advisor, a free AI-enhanced website designed to support educators as they teach social skills. Advisor offers a social skill inventory, lesson plans, case studies, standards alignment, evidence-based practice, and data collection sheets, aligned with instruction and generalization of social skills. Walk away with practical, free, easy-to-use strategies for you and your students!

Speakers

Amber Rowland

Associate Research Professor, University of Kansas

My work at KU involves extended reality and artificial intelligence to support middle school students who struggle with social skills and their teachers. I also published a book on virtual coaching and specifically, the VECTOR model of virtual coaching, with my friends Suzy Myers... Read More →

Thursday March 6, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm CST
KSU Union Room 227

Instructional Tools, VOISS

Subject Social Skills

4:00pm CST

Adaptive Professional Learning Model and Online Platform: Free PD Support for Evidence-Based Practice

Thursday March 6, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm CST

KSU Union Room 227

“Professional learning” occurs during the structures and activities of professional development, coaching, and implementation. The success of professional learning depends greatly on the contexts in which the teaching will be applied. In this session, we will share the APLM Model and the APLM Online Dashboard which are designed to support PDers and coaches as they facilitate teacher professional learning and the implementation of evidence-based writing and reading instruction. Creators of the model and dashboard will share how our Infrastructure Survey, Systematic Goal Setting, and Coaching Log tools support PDers and educators as they implement data-driven decision-making using evidence-based writing and reading strategies. We would love to have you use our free tools!

Speakers

Amber Rowland

Associate Research Professor, University of Kansas

Thursday March 6, 2025 4:00pm - 4:45pm CST
KSU Union Room 227

Professional Development, APLM Online Dashboard

Audience All