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Resources for Project Momentum

ADEL - This is a site that helps you find resources for subject areas and project momentum developed by ADE.
Passport - This is a site developed by ADE to help you with unpacking the standards.

Add the AHS Calendars to your Outlook Calendar

Please email me for calendar links. I've sent them before and I can send them again. I can also just come and help you with this in person. Just send me a note! I can not place them on our public website. :)

Create your own laptop checkout sheets!

Easy Student Laptop Checkout Sheet Template.

Bloomz Tips and Tricks

Students sign in to Bloomz using clever from any computer in the building.
Students can add their phone number to their bloomz account so that they also get text messages.
If students want to communicate with you or get updates for your class though, they will need to download the app.
Some students could not log into the app on their phone with Clever. If they are logging in to be part of your group or team, you will have access in your Bloomz settings to give them an individual code to log in with. I'll create an information sheet about this soon.

Here are some issues staff have experienced so far:

Not being able to log into their staff account once they have logged in as a parent or vice versa.
- Log out with your personal email account and then log in with your staff email through clever.
- If your wusd email address is in Synergy as the primary parent contact for a student, you will need to change that with Valerie Dehombreux.

Curriculum Review Resources

Click here to get the Essential Standards breakdown worksheet. Use this to break down the essential standards once you have chosen them as a team.

ACT Resources

Curriculum Review Worksheets:

These pages show what should be covered in class so that students can be at a passing level on the ACT. In order for students to be passing in our district, they need to be able to demonstrate these skills at the 400 level by 10th grade and the 500 level by 12th grade:

How to use AI to create targeted ACT practice questions!

We are also assessing students for reading and math using a targeted learning program that helps students fill in the gaps in their knowledge. Students can go into MyPath from clever for either reading or math and get lessons targeted to their individual learning gaps.

Resources for Class-Building

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE before you do any of the following in class:

Ask questions of the group...
Put your students into groups....
Ask your students to talk to each other for academic reasons....
Ask your students to talk to a partner...

TAKE SOME TIME OUT FOR CLASSBUILDING!

Class-building is the process of helping your students develop connections and feel safe with each other so that they can engage in learning without fear and knowing that they will be heard. Class Builders are activities that you do with your class that are fun and help them engage with each other. Many times they result in laughter or deep conversation. Always, they will make it just that much easier for your students to risk when it comes to academic questions.

Rules:

Connection before content. Any class builder or engagement strategy should be done for Social reasons first so that students can learn the structure in a non-threatening way. This means that when you do it for academic reasons, students only have to worry about the content...rather than worrying about the social aspect AND the content at the same time.
Never ask your students to take a social risk you would not take yourself. Before you ask them, demonstrate taking that same risk socially.
Always demonstrate what the strategy/game looks like and sounds like. Be real and be you.
Class-builders should be done at least once a week if not more often. They are good to do when you see that you are loosing your class.

Here are resources that contain LOTS of great class building games and activities you can do!

Playmeo.com - Lots of free team building and class building strategies searchable by type. Click "Activities" in the top bar.
7 classroom Icebreakers for Teens - A Youtube video.
Low Prep Icebreakers for Teens - A Youtube video.
5 No Prep Icebreakers for Adults - A Youtube video (these would be great for Juniors and Seniors.
43 Teambuilding Games and Activities - an article...some of these might be best for younger grades but there are some other great ones in there!
WeConnect Cards - online version of question cards for icebreakers. These are great for impromptu activities that connect people with one another.
Kagan Class Building Strategies (TM)

There are many more out there. Try them out! The key is to do them WITH your students and to invite them to your space. It won't be easy at first, but it does get easier! If you need help getting started, please invite me to come co-lead a few of these in your classes! I would love to help you!

How to Sign in to Microsoft 365 for Students and Staff

24-25 SY Preservice Sessions

Student Data Privacy and Protection

Privacy by Elizabeth Sigman

AI Tools for Teacher Sanity

Here is our link for the Microsoft Team for discussion and resources today.
If you don't have a laptop with you today, I will have some laptops for you to use.
Here are some of the AI resources we are talking about today that you can access without having to log in to Teams.
- Khanmigo Demonstration
- Khanmigo Training for Teachers
- MagicSchool AI Demonstration
- MagicSchool Training for Teachers. - Level 1
- Level 2 MagicSchool Training for Teachers
Learn a bit about Generative AI so that you understand the tool.
- What is Generative AI
- AI tools in use in China
Here are some of the major LLM providors
- Perplexity AI
- Chat GPT by OpenAI
- Claude AI by Anthropic
- Copilot by Microsoft
- Gemini by Google
- Both of the last two are browser specific and you can't be logged in to Chrome or Edge with a WUSD.US account or a WUSDSTUDENT.us account.

to take some of the load off of you! by Elizabeth Sigman

Observation Forms Used by Administrators

Informal Observation Form

Formal Observation Form

Summative Performance Report

Tech Tools for Teachers

	Curipod is a resource for content creation and student interaction in the classroom. Use the AI tool that creates content for you given the subject! This is a great starting point and you can customize it after the structure is set. It will automatically insert interactive structures into the lesson so that you don't have to think them up!
	Common Lit is a paid service but they do have quite a few articles on there for free. One great thing about those is that they are listed by lexile so that you can pick out things that address your students' reading levels.
	There is a free version of this that you can use to design escape room type games that students can use for review or for lessons. These are great interactive games.
	Use Chat GPT for a variety of tasks. Have it suggest a lesson plan for a particular standard or subject. Have it rewrite an article at a particular reading level. Submit the transcript of a youtube video and have it write you worksheet questions you can use for the video. The possibilities are endless!
	MyViewboard is the online resource that you log in to in order to get the online tools for your viewsonic board. You already have an account if you are a teacher. Use your wusd.us email address to sign in.