Briarcliff Instructional Summit 2019 · No coding experience necessary. Starting on iPad with Swift Playgrounds, we will learn AR code foundations in a fun and game like way. From

Briarcliff Instructional Summit

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Summit Information

Schedule 7 - 8: Arrival - Coffee & Tea - HS Cafeteria 8 - 9: Welcome and Keynote Speaker: Jon Landis, Apple- District Auditorium 9:15 - 10:15: Session 1 - Middle School Classrooms 10:30 - 11:30: Session 2 - Middle School Classrooms 11:35 - 12:35: Lunch (On your own) 12:45 - 1:45: Session 3 - Middle School Classrooms 2:00 - 3:00: Session 4 - Middle School Classroom

Briarcliff's Instructional Summit is open to all educators in our area, free of charge!

Please join us for our second annual knowledge sharing professional development day. Our colleagues have offered to teach tools they are using in their classrooms to enhance everyday instruction.

Our conference offers 4 sessions throughout the day. Frontline requires 4 sessions to be selected, so please select "Not Attending Session#." for any of the 4 sessions you are not attending, or if you are teaching that session.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words! Presented by: Jessica Dubin, Briarcliff Manor UFSD Room: MS 94

This workshop seeks to explore the connections between visual art and writing. Using observation and reflection as a starting point, participants will examine a variety of ways in which works of art (paintings, sculpture, craft objects, historic artifacts) can inspire students and stimulate the writing process. After completing a few group exercises, participants will be encouraged to develop lesson ideas for use in their own classroom—regardless of subject area. The atmosphere will foster the creative exchange of ideas and culminate in a round-robin journal project. Open to all staff at any grade level.

Accessibility on the iPad Presented by: Jody Wexler, Apple Room: MS 308

Apple embraces Accessibility as a fundamental human right. This session will primarily focus on built in accessibility features on iOS and MacOS devices with additional conversation around teaching and reaching all learners.

Apple Classroom Presented by: Tom Homer, Apple Room: MS 208

Classroom is a powerful app for iPad and Mac that helps you guide learning, share work, and manage student devices. You can launch an app, a website, or a textbook page on any iPad in the class, share documents with your students, or display student work on a TV, monitor, or projector using Apple TV. You can even see which apps students are working in, mute student devices, assign a shared iPad to each student, and reset a student’s password. And when class ends, you can see a summary of your students’ activities.This session will take you through an overview of Classroom. You’ll learn how to get started using the app and discover how to integrate it into daily classroom workflows.

Session 1: 9:15 - 10:15

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Assess for Success! Presented by: Anthony Stirpe, New Rochelle Public Schools Room: 311

Assessment Tools for K-12 Creative Projects. Creativity is the premier skill innovative companies are looking for. Rethinking our assessments may help prepare students for their future. Learn how creative assessments can engage, motivate, empower and challenge your students and maximize active, deep learning. Many student examples, assessment tools and easy, free creation tools will be shared.

BrainPOP Gets Everyone Coding! Chris Cook, BrainPOP! Room: MS 302

Come learn how to make the most of your BrainPop subscription! Developed in partnership with Scratch and Vidcode, BrainPOP Creative Coding pairs block- and text-based projects with BrainPOP's vast cross-curricular content. They'll code memes, games, newscasts, comics, and more while learning about the benefits of coding and its associated skills offer. Scaffolded and delivered at the topic level, we'll discuss how these projects make it easy to introduce coding - no matter what educators are covering in class and regardless of prior experience.

Clips in the Classroom Presented by: Erin Kassas & Jessica Kelsey, Briarcliff Manor UFSD Room: MS 312

Teachers and students can use Clips to create expressive videos using video clips, photos, music, stickers and more. As an easy-to-use free app on an iPhone or iPad, Clips can be utilized as a learning tool to teach content, give tutorials, and demonstrate learning. Come explore how to use Clips and start your creations! *We encourage all teachers to join even if their students use Macbooks. The application works just the same on an iPhone!

Creating with Photos, Videos, & Green Screens Presented by: John Gonsalves & the BHS STAT Crew, Briarcliff Manor UFSD Room: HS Library

In this hands on presentation, you will learn how to use the photos app, green screens, and iMovie and have some fun putting it all together.

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Engaging Websites to Enhance Student Learning Presented by: Maria Angarola & Jennifer Case, Briarcliff Manor UFSD Room: MS 211

Learn how to use Flipgrid, Voki, Padlet, Poll Everywhere, and Quizlet to enhance student learning. Set up a free account for each site and brainstorm ways to utilize them in your classroom.

Everyone Can Create Presented by: Paul Vassak, Apple Room: MS 205

Ignite Creativity with iPad. Join us to learn about Everyone Can Create, a new program from Apple designed to help unleash the creative potential in every student through photography, video, music, and drawing. In this session, you’ll get hands-on with some of the music and drawing lessons. To succeed in today’s world and to shape tomorrow’s, students need to tap into their creative potential and learn to express themselves in new and innovative ways. Join us to learn about Everyone Can Create, a new program from Apple designed to help unleash the creative potential in every student through photography, video, music, and drawing. In this session, you’ll experience engaging lessons that introduce fundamental skills and techniques in music and drawing using free apps available on iPad.

Explain Everything Presented by: Explain Everything Room: MS 304

Visit the Explain Everything website to learn more about this collaborative whiteboard and screen-sharing app. See how the Explain Everything collaborative whiteboard and screen-sharing app can replace traditional whiteboards, enable classroom interaction, and inspire students to reflect and share work.

Fun with Drones! Presented by: Anthony Mitchell, John Paul & the BHS STAT Crew, Briarcliff Manor UFSD Room: MS Lobby

How tall is that tree? Find out what’s on the roof! Create distance-time graphs in math, analyze sports movements from above. Come see our Drone and action and brainstorm ideas on how you can use it in your curriculum! We will be going outside, so please dress appropriately for this session.

https://explaineverything.com/


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Introduction to Schoolwork Presented by: Fredy Padovan, Mosyle Room: MS 201

“Schoolwork is an app for teachers and students that makes it easy to share and receive content, collaborate, and integrate app activities into class instruction and homework assignments. Schoolwork provides simple, integrated workflows for teachers and students to share and collaborate. Teachers can share content with students, even when students are out of the classroom. Teachers can assign students anything from PDFs, links, documents, and even activities within an app. Teachers can easily view class and student progress data, and use the data to better understand how students are doing and individualize instruction based on student needs. For students, messages and assignments automatically appear on their iPad, organized by class and due date. Students have a single place to find content and instruction, to submit work, and to view their progress.” https://support.apple.com/guide/schoolwork-teacher/intro-to-schoolwork-phxe0979e998/ios

iXL Presented by iXL Room: MS 305

Find out more about IXL, an integrated personalized learning platform that offers a comprehensive K-12 curriculum, individualized guidance, and real-time analytics. Learn how IXL offers educators what they need to personalize instruction, find comprehensive curriculum, find out what students know through continuous diagnostics, and get insight into students' working grade levels through analytics.

Movement Education in the Classroom: Introduction to Action Based Learning Presented by: Michelle Hiltsley, Jamie Tranchida, Rob Higle, Audrey Curley , Leslie Newman , Katie Godleski, Andrea Jacoby , Alisa Turner-Carlson, Briarcliff Manor UFSD Room: MS 203

The concepts of action based learning are based upon brain research that supports the link of movement and physical activity to increased academic performance. Come learn what action based learning is, find out movement activities that you can implement in your own classroom and the 12 foundations of learning readiness that help fill developmental gaps of our students. Join us to learn about the future of kinesthetic learning in the classroom.

https://support.apple.com/guide/schoolwork-teacher/intro-to-schoolwork-phxe0979e998/ios

https://support.apple.com/guide/schoolwork-teacher/intro-to-schoolwork-phxe0979e998/ios

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Nearpod Presented by: Nearpod Room: MS 310

Find out more about ready-to-run K-12 lessons from Nearpod that are delivered through an interactive student engagement platform. Learn how Nearpod transforms digital learning through an interactive platform that improves classroom workflow, offers access to a large digital content library, and provides tools for formative assessment.

The Seamless Integration of Technology into Literacy Instruction—K-5 Presented by: Catherine Graybosch & Alison Porceli, Katonah-Lewisboro School District Room: MS 210

Participants will look at ways to infuse technology into the writing process and into students’ daily reading habits as a way to provide more access, choice and high levels of engagement for students.



Augmented Reality & Coding Presented by: Victor LaBozzetta Room: MS 211

This session explores the creative side of coding with Augmented Reality. AR has become one of the hottest topics in education today. Until now, AR coding has been relegated to the few. Not any more! Using Swift, Apple powerful coding language, we will explore creating an AR environment that can be done by anyone. No coding experience necessary. Starting on iPad with Swift Playgrounds, we will learn AR code foundations in a fun and game like way. From there we will explore Reality Composer, a new Free app from Apple that allows you to easily create your AR education experience. Finally we move on to XCode to take your AR project and make it into an app. We hope you will join us on this AR journey to bring AR into any classroom and subject.

Augmented Reality: Cutting edge becomes the new normal Presented by: Fredy Padovan, Mosyle Room: MS 201

Here we explore the powerful tool that is augmented reality on iPad and the role it plays in differentiation while meeting the various learning styles in the room across the curriculum. Go hands on with various apps across the curriculum from digital storytelling to science to social studies and beyond.

Session 2: 10:30 - 11:30

S E S S I O N 2

BrainPOP gets everyone coding! Chris Cook, BrainPOP! Room: MS 302


Challenge Based Learning: Take Action and Make a Difference Presented by: Paul Vassak, Apple Room: MS 205

Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is an engaging multidisciplinary approach that encourages learners to leverage the technology they use in their daily lives to solve real-world problems. CBL is collaborative and hands on, asking students to work with peers, teachers, and experts in their communities and around the world to ask great questions, develop deeper subject area knowledge, accept and solve challenges, take action, and share their experiences. Learn how to create and implement a challenge, and explore ways to integrate CBL into the classroom.







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GarageBand for iOS Presented by: Jody Wexler, Apple Room: MS 308

GarageBand for iOS makes it incredibly simple to play, record and share your music, no matter where you are. Tap into a wider range of instruments from around the world. With Sound Library, you can choose and download more free instrument and loop packs when new sounds are released to help you easily craft songs in your favorite styles - all right from your iPad.

Innovative & Engaged Learners Presented by: Megan Coker and Matt Hull, Lake George CSD Room: MS 202

Experience what it feels like to be an actively engaged learner as your EXPLORE the Lake George School District's Innovative and Engaged Learning indicators, APPLY new understandings of the "Empower Learner" indicators to design a prototype lesson, and SHARE and REFLECT on learning through FlipGrid. Walk away with shared resources in hand and lesson ideas that can be implemented tomorrow.

iPads, Virtual Reality and Google Expeditions…Oh My! Presented by: Lisa Jamin, Monticello Central Schools Room: MS 203

Traveling the world isn't easy or fiscally possible but using an iPad to guide students through worlds or volcanoes or to dive underwater to the Great Barrier Reef, immerses them into these places. Students who, especially learn visually, find themselves visiting the moon and sea creatures up closes when viewing it through theses expedition kits, while being guided by a teacher. It becomes a way of learning differently in the classroom.

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Leveraging Technology and Creativity for Social Change Presented by: Anthony Stirpe, New Rochelle Public Schools Room: 311

Everyone can create change. As educators, we have the ability to leverage technology so students are not only learning, they are creating a social impact. This session will not only provide ideas for creative learning, teachers will explore ways that existing lessons can be modified for maximum social impact.



QR codes and Plickers Presented by: Pam Doran Room: MS 312

Come learn about how to create and use QR codes in your classroom. After exploring QR codes, we will explore Plickers, a free, quick formative assessment tool that students love!

Seesaw Presented by: Christine Elliott, Briarcliff Manor UFSD Room: MS 210

Come learn about how to use Seesaw with your classes! In this session we will explore tools and seesaw icons, browse and explore the Seesaw community library and activities, assign activities to class class.

Session 3: 12:45 - 1:45

Accessibility on the MacBook Presented by: Jody Wexler, Apple Room: MS 308

Apple embraces Accessibility as a fundamental human right. This session will primarily focus on built in accessibility features on iOS and MacOS devices with additional conversation around teaching and reaching all learners.





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Augmented Reality: Cutting edge becomes the new normal Presented by: Fredy Padovan, Mosyle Room: MS 201

Here we explore the powerful tool that is augmented reality on iPad and the role it plays in differentiation while meeting the various learning styles in the room across the curriculum. Go hands on with various apps across the curriculum from digital storytelling to science to social studies and beyond.

BrainPOP gets everyone coding! Chris Cook, BrainPOP! Room: MS 302


Bring in a Project... Let's Add the Tech… Presented by: Lisa Jamin, Monticello Central Schools Room: MS 203

Do you have a project that you want to add technology to that would enhance it? It can be challenging finding the right technology for your project, but with the technology available, it's just a matter of finding the right one or couple of tactics. In this session, the purpose would be to gather a technology tool kit for projects and project based learning.

Challenge Based Learning: Take Action and Make a Difference Presented by: Paul Vassak, Apple Room: MS 205

Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is an engaging multidisciplinary approach that encourages learners to leverage the technology they use in their daily lives to solve real-world problems. CBL is collaborative and hands on, asking students to work with peers, teachers, and experts in their communities and around the world to ask great questions, develop deeper subject area knowledge, accept and solve challenges, take action, and share their experiences. Learn how to create and implement a challenge, and explore ways to integrate CBL into the classroom.

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Innovative & Engaged Learners Presented by: Megan Coker and Matt Hull, Lake George CSD Room: MS 202

Experience what it feels like to be an actively engaged learner as your EXPLORE the Lake George School District's Innovative and Engaged Learning indicators, APPLY new understandings of the "Empower Learner" indicators to design a prototype lesson, and SHARE and REFLECT on learning through FlipGrid. Walk away with shared resources in hand and lesson ideas that can be implemented tomorrow.





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Leveraging Technology and Creativity for Social Change Presented by: Anthony Stirpe, New Rochelle Public Schools Room: 311

Everyone can create change. As educators, we have the ability to leverage technology so students are not only learning, they are creating a social impact. This session will not only provide ideas for creative learning, teachers will explore ways that existing lessons can be modified for maximum social impact.



Pages: A Creative Alternative to Word Presented by: Michele Bendlin and Diana Gavin, Briarcliff Manor UFSD Room: MS 210

If you are looking for a way to make projects and lessons more creative, come learn about Pages. This Mac application is a user-friendly word processor that has more enhanced templates than Microsoft Word and allows real-time collaboration. With this tool, you can easily use pre-made templates to create flyers, brochures, resumes, books, formal letters, certificates and more. We will showcase examples illustrating student work, help you navigate basic features, and provide plenty of time for participant exploration and creativity.

QR codes and Plickers Presented by: Pam Doran Room: MS 312

Come learn about how to create and use QR codes in your classroom. After exploring QR codes, we will explore Plickers, a free, quick formative assessment tool that students love!

Session 4: 2:00 - 3:00



Assess for Success! Presented by: Anthony Stirpe, New Rochelle Public Schools Room: 311

Assessment Tools for K-12 Creative Projects. Creativity is the premier skill innovative companies are looking for. Rethinking our assessments may help prepare students for their future. Learn how creative assessments can engage, motivate, empower and challenge your students and maximize active, deep learning. Many student examples, assessment tools and easy, free creation tools will be shared.



S E S S I O N 4

BrainPOP Gets Everyone Coding! Chris Cook, BrainPOP! Room: MS 302




Everyone Can Create Presented by: Paul Vassak, Apple Room: MS 205

Ignite Creativity with iPad. Join us to learn about Everyone Can Create, a new program from Apple designed to help unleash the creative potential in every student through photography, video, music, and drawing. In this session, you’ll get hands-on with some of the music and drawing lessons. To succeed in today’s world and to shape tomorrow’s, students need to tap into their creative potential and learn to express themselves in new and innovative ways. Join us to learn about Everyone Can Create, a new program from Apple designed to help unleash the creative potential in every student through photography, video, music, and drawing. In this session, you’ll experience engaging lessons that introduce fundamental skills and techniques in music and drawing using free apps available on iPad.





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iMovie Presented by: Jody Wexler, Apple Room: MS 308

Movie was originally released in 1999!! iMovie is available on Mac and iOS and has many movie making features including Video effects, creating trailers and so much more.

Innovations in Education Presented by: Fredy Padovan, Mosyle Room: MS 201

Augmented reality, virtual reality, drones, 3D printing, robotics, computer programming, and other STEAM related topics are becoming quite popular in education. With so many different tools available it can be overwhelming for a teacher to know where to begin. This session will showcase some exciting innovations in education within these areas and provide participants with a resource for each area to learn more or even begin to incorporate in the classroom. We will also explore why these skills are important for our students today, especially elementary students, as they will eventually face an ever changing landscape of career opportunities that will require STEAM skills.



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Nearpod for Formative Assessment Presented by: Robert Connolly, Briarcliff Manor UFSD Room: MS 312

Come learn how to use the Nearpod for formative assessment in both live and student-paced lessons.

Numbers for Mac Presented by: Gina Cotone & Austin Perry, Briarcliff Manor UFSD Room: MS 210

Numbers is a spread sheet program that can do so much more! Numbers opens with a blank canvas rather than an endless grid. This session is designed for all content areas. We will go through the basic functions and features of Numbers, show an example for each discipline area, and provide time to create.

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Briarcliff High School 1st Floor

HS Cafe

District Auditorium

HS Library

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Briarcliff Middle School 1st Floor

HS Gym

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Briarcliff Instructional Summit 2019 · No coding experience necessary. Starting on iPad with Swift Playgrounds, we will learn AR code foundations in a fun and game like way. From