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Depth Track– Participants choose one 2.5 hour session. (10:30-1:05)

Through a Different Door: Creativity & Collaboration for Your Classroom

Presented by: Ellen Alt

This strategy employs several learning modalities to offer multiple entry points into understanding and interpreting source material. Participants will work with a range of supplies and techniques to experience collaboration as it builds through reading, interpreting and understanding. Teachers will create a visual collaborative mural during the session, working as individuals, in pairs and in small groups. They will have time to plan how to adapt this model to their own classrooms and content areas.

_{Grades: 6-8}

_{Content Areas: Hebrew language; Mishna/Gemara; Tefilla; Humash; ELA}

Differentiated Instruction Skills (10:30-2:15)

Presented by: Deanna Stecker and Tamar Appel

Hidden Sparks will take general and Judaic studies faculty on a deep dive into Differentiated Instruction. Together, with colleagues, you will think flexibly about your lessons and the multiple ways in which they can be developed to reach all your students, boost engagement and student success. Through varied hands-on experiential activities, you will gain a vast toolbox of differentiation strategies that you can apply in your classroom, tailored to the age and subject matter you teach.

_{Grades: K-8}

_{Content Areas: Math; ELA; Humash; Hebrew language; Mishna/Gemara}

Leveraging Data to Support Small Group Instruction

Presented by: Nicole Baz

While teachers want to individualize instruction and work with students in smaller groups, collecting the data to inform those groups, and managing the logistics of small group instruction can be overwhelming.

In this workshop, we will explore different tools for data collection that make it easier to consistently check in on student progress and use data to inform group organization. We will also discuss different methods for making small group instruction work for your classroom. 

_{Grades: K-8}

_{Content Areas: Math; ELA; Humash; Hebrew language; Mishna/Gemara}

Supporting Productive Struggle: A Collaborative Experiment for All Educators! 

Presented by: Dennis Desormier

Session participants will engage in experimentation and exploration of challenging tasks in order to understand the multiple layers of productive struggle. Grounding the work in brain research and classroom experience, participants will plan how to implement strategies to support productive struggle and predict common impediments in their own classrooms.

_{Grades: K-8}

_{Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies}

Gaming STEAM

Presented by: Orly Nadler and Adam Jerozolim

Join us for a deep dive into STEM challenges that you can easily replicate with your students. During our time together you will use the Engineering design process to explore structural engineering and will be exposed to a creative activity that explores electricity. Master CIJE Mentors will guide you through this exciting session and help you consider how you can further integrate STEAM into your classroom. 

_{Grades: 6-8}

Play/Create/Build with Found Materials

Presented by: Wendy Gelsanliter

Teaching Beyond the Square (TBS), a non-profit organization based in New York City, works to support an inquiry and play-based approach to education through professional development and coaching. As part of this mission, TBS operates a Materials Center in Manhattan, providing educators and families with a resource for open-ended materials, as well as a mobile Materials Trailer that offers on-site experiences to schools across the tri-state area.  Wendy Gelsanliter, Materials Educator & Coordinator, will bring a variety of items from the Center for all to explore the potential of “fiddling around” with found materials for a better understanding of the implications of this work.

Participants will have an opportunity to fully engage with salvaged, single-use objects and discarded samples from design firms, and understand their role as active participants and supporters in promoting play as a means of learning and the connection to sustainability. Afterwards, Wendy will present how materials enrich children’s learning experiences and the work of TBS in schools across the city. We will also touch upon how to collect these types of materials and the logistics behind creating the time and space for these essential experiences in toddler through 3rd grade classrooms.

_{Grades: ECE-3}

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