School leaders play a critical role in preparing students for success beyond high school, yet many workforce-bound graduates lack clear pathways. This session explores how high schools can build equitable workforce pipelines by leveraging local employer partnerships to ensure that all students have access to meaningful careers.
Learn actionable strategies to connect students with high-demand industries in their communities, leading to sustainable employment while addressing barriers that often limit career readiness for underserved populations. Through real-world examples and practical frameworks, attendees will leave equipped with a replicable model for integrating career-focused DEI initiatives into their schools.
Join us to discover how Specialized Career Guidance empowers school leaders to bridge the gap between education and industry, ensuring that every student, regardless of background, has a clear path to economic independence and professional success.
Is your school going cell phone free in the fall or is your school considering doing this? You're not in it alone! Don't spend your summer recreating the wheel!
Hampshire Regional High School went cell phone free in the fall of 2024 using Yondr pouches and we have seen great success for our students (grades 7-12). This workshop will provide all of the logistics that middle and high school leaders are looking for. In this workshop, we will share the resources that we created for our own school so that you don't have to start from scratch. We will review our timeline, budget considerations, staffing considerations, surveys to the community (students, staff, and families), and the shifts that we made in real-time to make this work for us.
This workshop is designed to be as practical as possible so that participants walk away with the logistics, resources, and confidence to implement their own cell phone procedures in the fall.
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Discover 20 revolutionary ways to facilitate grade 6 - 12 learning. Research proven strategies show session participants how to increase engagement, accelerate skills, raise test scores ((P)SAT, EOC, ACT, HSE, WorkKeys), energize staff and ace College Career Readiness resulting in sustainable, measurable gains in math and reading proficiency. Middle and High School leadership will benefit from systemic models that harness the power of teacher and student agency, intrinsic belief, adaptive skills, consistent structure, college and career rigor, and mentoring and support. Session attendees receive a $50,000 Grant Award to help disadvantaged students get to their next best level.
Learn how a new era of innovation in education is here, transforming what leaders, educators, and students can do with Apple products - and what Apple products can do for them. This session is designed to help school leaders and educators navigate how Apple Intelligence fits into their school and learning environments privately and securely. Explore how Apple Intelligence seamlessly integrates into system experiences and apps used every day, and how new tools such as Writing Tools, Image Playground, and Transcripts use personal context to deliver intelligence that's useful and relevant, enhancing productivity and creativity.
It's undeniable that headlines about major world events and political division affect all of our every-day lives. And it's inevitable that these tensions show up in our communities and schools. This reality has many school leaders seeking tools and support to help them navigate crucial conversations with teachers, students, and other stakeholders. This conversation will share insights from Facing History & Ourselves' expertise in helping school leaders and educators adopt approaches that emphasize ways to build bridges across difference and practice the skills of civil dialogue, fact-based learning, inquiry, and self-reflection in classrooms, schools, and beyond.
Data the MCAS suggests that some students know more than they show in their open response answers. For other students, open response questions can reveal a lack of deep understanding - an inability to go further up Bloom's taxonomy of thinking or show their thinking. This engaging and fast-paced workshop focuses on helping teachers to help students develop comprehensive and thorough answers to open response questions in mathematics. Participants will learn techniques to get every student involved in thinking and taking responsibility for math learning. There will be a special emphasis on techniques from the amazing book, Building a Thinking Classroom. Also, ideas to help teachers to design and score quick assessments, help teachers review and preview material that help with pacing and ideas to build both number and vocabulary fluency.
