Elementary Ed Tech Summer Learning Opportunities
Join us this summer for an online Zoom Ed Tech series! July 18: 9-11am: Creation Tools Deep Dive and/or 1-3pm: Advanced Book Creator July 19: 9-11am: Exploring Databases July 20: 9-11am: Microsoft Teams Register on True North Logic (Course #11757). Not able to attend these live sessions? There are many other online learning ...
Seesaw’s Elementary Summer Resources
The end of the school year will be here before we know it, and you may be getting questions about student access to online resources over the summer. Clever and all connected apps will be available to students until August 3rd, when rostering begins for the next year. Seesaw has put together a great ...
Technology and SEL
As a district, we have focused on socioemotional learning (SEL) for quite some time, and there are several new tools that can support this! Technology is a great way to facilitate emotional check-ins and teach students to track their own emotional regulation. For primary grades, Kahoot has partnered with Microsoft Reflect to create SEL lessons. ...
Seesaw PD Pathways
Did you know that Seesaw has many on-demand training opportunities? As one of our core tools, there are many opportunities to leverage Seesaw in your instruction. Live Events Interested in attending a live webinar? There are a few coming up next month! The Power of Making Thinking Visible (April 5th) The Aerodynamics ...
Leveraging Book Creator: Universal Design for Learning
As part of Universal Design for Learning, we want to highlight the many ways that students can engage with reading and writing. After all, reading also includes text, audio, images, and video (not just printed text) and we want students to have exposure interacting with all of these digital tools. For students where writing is ...
New K-2 Lessons from Common Sense Education!
Common Sense Education just launched new K-2 lessons on digital citizenship! Each of these lessons introduces one of the digital citizenship characters (head, heart, arms, guts, legs, and feet) with a short, engaging video-based lesson and reflection activity. The 15-minute lessons are a perfect way to integrate these important concepts into your classroom in a ...
Celebrate Computer Science Education Week with Seesaw
It’s time to celebrate Computer Science Education, and it’s even better when we have core tools to do so! Seesaw is offering several live webinars for classrooms to tune into this week (see below) as well as extensive collections of computer science related activities. Explore Computer Science Collections and Resources Seesaw has ready-made lessons and ...
Hour of Code 2022!
Computer Science Education Week is approaching! This global movement, especially the Hour of Code Event, is a way to introduce students to coding and computer science in a fun and engaging way, from pre-K-12th grade. Did you know that during the Hour of Code, female students make up 50% of all participants, and that students ...
Digital Citizenship Week: Coming Soon!
October 17-21 is Digital Citizenship Week! As Common Sense Education reminds us, digital life is real life because our world is connected. This year, the focus of Digital Citizenship Week is on promoting digital well-being. Just as we support social and emotional learning in face-to-face situations, it is equally important that students are equipped with ...
Clever Cleanup for the 2022-2023 School Year (Plus a New Feature!)
As we begin a new school year, everyone is busy setting up classrooms and preparing for students – and this includes the digital space of our classroom! In Issaquah, we use Clever at the elementary level to function as a teacher web presence, a place to curate resources, and a single sign-on. This post will ...
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