SMSD Secondary IFair 2025

SME & SMNW have surveyed their students in regards to what works and doesn't work in regards to Canvas organization. Come see what our students have to say and learn how to best optimize your Canvas course. Teachers will learn how to better utilize Canvas to maximize student learning and clear and efficient communication.  We will have example Canvas pages for teachers to look through and time for you to edit/update your Canvas Courses to reflect your learning. 

***Educators will need their device and headphones for this session.***

Discovery Education is a supplemental resource for K-12 educators and provides educational content in all curriculum areas. The platform offers access to thousands of rich, multimedia resources including high-quality videos, images, virtual field trips, and multi-modal content for teachers and students. It provides teachers with intuitive teaching tools and grab-and-go lessons that can be searched by content and by standards to enhance daily instruction. This session will support educators in navigating the Discovery Education Experience platform specifically with finding, saving, sharing and assigning resources.

***Educators will need their device and headphones for this session.***

With the move toward RWL / PSA's / PBL / Student-Choice (Real World Learning, Post-Secondary Assets, Project Based Learning), students are completing individualized tasks. The old method of "weekly points" doesn't adequately show what students have accomplished for anyone (student, parent, teacher, or admin). Because SMSD requires that all assignments by sync'ed to Skyward (not just the course grade), we can't individualize assignments within Canvas using student groups. I will present a way to setup Canvas with individualized projects that sync's to Skyward; and shows what the student did, at what level they did it, when they did it. An added benefit is each student ends up with a portfolio of the tasks completed. 1. Use Canvas and Skyward to show individualized project completion. 2. Setup projects with different grades for different expertise levels.

Gather with Middle School and High School choir teachers to discover and share how to succeed with Sight Reading Factory (SRF). Join in a conversation about how to engage students in both large group and individual practice, trouble spots and how to address them, and transferring knowledge from SRF into the literature.

***Educators will need their device and headphones for this session.***

Discovery Education is a supplemental resource for K-12 educators and provides educational content in all curriculum areas. The platform offers access to thousands of rich, multimedia resources including high-quality videos, images, virtual field trips, and multi-modal content for teachers and students. It provides teachers with intuitive teaching tools and grab-and-go lessons that can be searched by content and by standards to enhance daily instruction. This session will support educators in using the quiz feature within Discovery Education Experience to check for student understanding.

***Educators will need their device and headphones for this session.***

If you give safety tests over equipment used in the classroom this session is for you.  The session will enable teachers who use equipment safety tests to track student scores and endorsements using Canvas Outcomes.

• The session will teach you how to use outcomes in Canvas to track which students have passed written safety tests and demonstrated safe usage of the equipment.
• You will learn how to incorporate equipment-based outcomes in Canvas project grading rubrics and use them to track student retention of the safety practices.
• You will practice setting up and linking safety outcomes to a test and project grading rubric.

With the move toward RWL / PSA's / PBL / Student-Choice (Real World Learning, Post-Secondary Assets, Project Based Learning), students are completing individualized tasks. The old method of "weekly points" doesn't adequately show what students have accomplished for anyone (student, parent, teacher, or admin). Because SMSD requires that all assignments by sync'ed to Skyward (not just the course grade), we can't individualize assignments within Canvas using student groups. I will present a way to setup Canvas with individualized projects that sync's to Skyward; and shows what the student did, at what level they did it, when they did it. An added benefit is each student ends up with a portfolio of the tasks completed._x000D_1. Use Canvas and Skyward to show individualized project completion. 2. Setup projects with different grades for different expertise levels.

Using rounds as performance pieces and technical studies in the orchestra classroom!  In this session, participants will play different rounds that have been written to enhance learning and create a memorable performance experience.  Participants will analyze the scores of these rounds to find places where they can teach specific skills that are listed on our orchestra curriculum check off sheets to all students at once!  The goal is to leave this session with musical tools that you can use to teach our curriculum in a fun, musically impactful, and, most importantly, in a time efficient way.

Join us!  We'll play around by playing some rounds!  

***Educators will need their device and headphones for this session.***

Discovery Education is a supplemental resource for K-12 educators and provides educational content in all curriculum areas. The platform offers access to thousands of rich, multimedia resources including high-quality videos, images, virtual field trips, and multi-modal content for teachers and students. It provides teachers with intuitive teaching tools and grab-and-go lessons that can be searched by content and by standards to enhance daily instruction. This session will support educators in finding and experiencing virtual field trips in Discovery Education to support teaching and learning.

***Educators will need their device and headphones for this session.***