Page 8 - December 2017 Professional Development Catalog

Encouraging Engagement and Understanding with 3Q and Tasks Per Slide

Presented By: Tonya Smith
Target Audience: K-12 Teachers
Learn how to use the 3Q method or Task-Per-Slide to assess engagement and mastery throughout the delivery of live
instruction.

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Instructional Strategies Friday 11:00 2

Escape Classroom

Presented By: Megan Kiebler and Rachel Sams
Target Audience: Elementary Teachers

A fun way to review with students while trying to beat the clock and escape! Great way to encourage team work as well!!

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Instructional Strategies / Planning Thursday 1:00 4

ESL Overview

Presented By: Kate Camarada
Target Audience: All Staff

This session will give an overview of the ESL process at Agora. We will also discuss who our ELs are and where they come
from. We will also talk about how we can best support them & make them successful.
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Instructional Strategies / Planning Thursday 1:00 5

Basic Excel Formulas and Formatting

Presented By: John Thomas
Target Audience: All Staff

Are you secretly jealous of that person on your team who is not afraid of opening Excel? Not only do they gladly open Excel,
but also they can figure things out with Excel. They tell you that Excel makes their job easier, and is not simply a torture
mechanism designed by evil computer scientists in dungeons below Microsoft headquarters. You assume they are lying to
you, but they say it with a straight face. Come to this session, and you too will gain an understanding of how Excel can be a
helpful tool to do your job. We will answer questions like, “How can I use Excel to sort a list of Blackboard Collaborate
participants by last name?” “How can I use Excel to figure out who on my team will be 14 this year?” “How can I format Excel
so that it doesn’t give me a headache to look at it?” We will answer all of these questions and more, covering basic Excel
functions like, Concatenate, Find and Replace, Freezing Panes, Date functions, Averages, and many more.

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Technology Thursday 2:00 5