How Interoperability Supports Student Success 

Designing instructional videos your learners will watch and retain doesn’t need to be time consuming to create or consume.We’re bringing together two leading training professionals to share their expertise live. Hear Karl Kapp and Keith Anderson talk about microlearning video concepts that make it easy for you to quickly generate small bursts of effective learning. Then, learn how you can apply those concepts to your animated training videos.

Al’s Pals, our nationally recognized, evidence-based, and comprehensive social–emotional learning curriculum designed to meet the specific needs of preschool children, now includes both print and digital resources. The new Al’s Pals digital experience within the Teaching Strategies platform supports an enhanced Al’s Pals curriculum, including updated lessons, additional resources, and more.

Equity has long been a priority for school systems prior to 2020; however, the pandemic has focused attention on the continuing need to create more equitable education environments. Simply putting more devices in students’ hands is not enough; they deserve access to an equitable education–including best-in-class learning solutions and technologies. These solutions must be inclusively designed, giving students multiple ways to create, engage, and participate in constructing knowledge regardless of ability, income, language, location, or identity.

The library makerspace is emerging as a powerful vehicle for increasing library visibility and value to the student community. In this session, Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, and Donna Burns, Technology Integrator, of New Canaan High School in Connecticut, feature how reorganization and materials selection helped one learning community fully embrace “making” across disciplines and grade levels.Participants can expect to learn strategies that will grow maker culture. This session is of particular benefit to K-12 librarians, teachers, and administrators, and is designed to empower educators to lead transformational learning through making regardless of where they are on the maker continuum.