SMSD Secondary IFair 2025

PLC/cross district collaboration/project-based learning all rolled into one! Teaching a singleton elective can be a lonely place. Teachers from all five high school journalism programs work together to make life easier and more fun, in addition to providing more opportunities for our students. Teachers will get inspiration for collaborative projects and ideas for working together across the district.

In this session, Ryane Jewell and Eli Schraad will present their methodologies and procedures for converting state secondary art standards into learning targets and unit outcomes.
This discussion is geared towards secondary art educators and other project-based secondary learning teachers.

This session is designed to equip middle school teachers with practical, easy-to-implement strategies to support English Language Learners (ELLs) in their classrooms. Focusing on quick wins that can be applied immediately, this session will help content area teachers foster a more inclusive and effective learning environment for their ELL students. Teachers will leave with actionable tools and strategies that promote language acquisition, engagement, and content understanding. For those who have been in an ELL Quick Win session already this year, this session will have similar content but with fresh, new examples of what these strategies might look like in your classroom.

Come check out "the pass off game". Stolen from a phenomenal music educator from Georgia, tweaked for mixed instrument ensembles, this system provides a structure to give individual feedback within a large group setting, while also providing a 'learn-at-your-own-pace' framework for students in need of extension or remediation.

Bring a secondary instrument (singers welcome!). The best way to learn it, is to try it!

Learn how to teach and reinforce vocabulary in science and social studies through a simple, structured routine that students can apply across all subjects. This session will focus on practical, low-prep strategies to incorporate vocabulary seamlessly into your lessons without adding to your workload. Discover how these techniques enhance comprehension and support student success in all content areas. Some work time will be available to get you started on implementing this in your classroom as soon as possible. Participants will leave with resources.

Objective 1: Participants will understand how to implement a structured vocabulary routine that students can transfer across science, social studies, and other content areas.

Objective 2: Participants will identify practical, low-prep strategies for incorporating vocabulary instruction into their lessons without increasing their workload.

This class will focus on solving problems that commonly arise in the Automation and Robotics curriculum. Topics may include developing common project rubrics, calibrating rubric scoring, developing a pacing guide, materials organization ideas, and any other topics that class enrollees find important. Developing project rubrics Calibrating rubric scoring Developing a pacing guide

This session will model how literacy can be incorporated into a science classroom. The strategies will be focused on supporting our ELL students but will benefit all students. During this session, teachers will have the opportunity to explore the resources shared and implement into a future lesson.
Objectives

1. Teachers can identify strategies that support literacy based on a model lesson. 
2. Teachers can explore resources and modify text to meet the needs of their students. 
3. Teachers can design a lesson, or portion of a lesson, focused on literacy for an upcoming topic.

This session is designed to equip high school teachers with practical, easy-to-implement strategies to support English Language Learners (ELLs) in their classrooms. Focusing on quick wins that can be applied immediately, this session will help content area teachers foster a more inclusive and effective learning environment for their ELL students. Teachers will leave with actionable tools and strategies that promote language acquisition, engagement, and content understanding. For those who have been in an ELL Quick Win session already this year, this session will have similar content but with fresh, new examples of what these strategies might look like in your classroom.

From Basics to Advanced, all you need to know about teaching guitar (or just playing for fun!). Join us for a demonstration and discussion about the guitar and its place in curriculum at Elementary, Middle, and High School level! This will be a light-hearted session going from the basics through high school jazz pedagogy. Bring your questions and best guitar player jokes!

Learn how to teach and reinforce vocabulary in science and social studies through a simple, structured routine that students can apply across all subjects. This session will focus on practical, low-prep strategies to incorporate vocabulary seamlessly into your lessons without adding to your workload. Discover how these techniques enhance comprehension and support student success in all content areas. Some work time will be available to get you started on implementing this in your classroom as soon as possible. Participants will leave with resources.

Objective 1: Participants will understand how to implement a structured vocabulary routine that students can transfer across science, social studies, and other content areas.

Objective 2: Participants will identify practical, low-prep strategies for incorporating vocabulary instruction into their lessons without increasing their workload.

In this class we will discuss common problems that the middle school wood shop teachers have, and solutions we have found. Possible topics include band saw maintenance, new project ideas for students, best wood finishing methods, and any other topics that enrolled staff find important. Proper band saw maintenance Proper belt sander maintenance Discussing new project ideas

The Curb-Cut Effect. How these special education tips, tricks and strategies can benefit your general education classroom. We will explain the curb-cut effect and how it can benefit your classroom. We will show you a variety of techniques, often common in special education classrooms, that can be beneficial in the general education setting. Mix of sit and get and hands on learning.