MNHS Academy Week 2015

Your Choice Sessions

Session

Death by
Powerpoint

Who
will
attend
?
Optional

Julia McCollum
Melissa
Hernandez

Room: F226

Google Basics

Presenters

Optional

Room: F228

Kellie Wendte
Jessica Carrier
Jennifer
McClelland

Lights,
Camera,
Action!
iMovie in the
classroom

Optional

Megan Boggs
Lisa Martin

Description

Are the presentations in your classroom hypnotic (and not in

a good way)? This learn and share session will focus on
increasing engagement of teacher and student
presentations.

Create, collaborate, and share using Google Drive! Learn the

basics to navigating Google Drive and creating collaborative
documents that you can share and edit with both your teams
and students.

Everyone enjoys a good movie! Learn the basics when it

comes to utilizing iMovie to help bring your students work
come to life. Whatever subject you teach, iMovie can be an
excellent tool to make learning fun. We will cover the
technical aspects and versatile uses of this program; you will
come out of this session with the tools needed to create
videos with your kids!

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Room: F22
MacBook: Help
session for the
learning curve
Room: F221

Optional

Lana McFarland

This session is intended as an overview of the basics of using

your MacBook Air. It is intended for those that are needing
assistance or wanting a refresher on setting up your
preferences, using OS X Mavericks, how to set up and use Air
Drop, overview of QuickTime for recording screen and audio,
setting up Outlook, adding printers, setting security to lock
your computer and troubleshooting help.

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AVID 101

Optional

Room: F226

Meaningful
Relationships

Edward Sanchez
Terra Boyko

Optional

Chris Anderson
Alysia Neal

Room: F233
Recording your
lessons using
media

Optional

Ryan Solano
Deanne Pratt

Room: D119
Active in AVID
(WICOR)

Optional

Paula DSpain
Amanda Blair

Room: F229
Digital
Citizenship
Room: F208

Optional

Jennifer
McClelland

McKinney North is 1 out of 151 schools across the United

States that is an AVID National Demonstration School. Come
learn about AVID, its mission, how YOU contribute to Norths
Demonstration School status, and how to prepare our
students to be college ready.

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Enjoy a round table discussion about how to help build trust

with your students so they will work for you. Included will be
strategies and some great video examples that you can use
in your preparation for the school year.

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This session will present methods you can use to flip your
classroom, have students learn from your daily lesson again
at home, and give you a great option for you being your own
substitute.

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Come join us as we work our way through AVID strategies

that incorporate writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization
and reading into your daily lessons. This is a you do kind of
class and not a sit and get.

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Students today are using digital media to connect in ways

never before imagined. This is both a blessing and a curse.
School districts are dealing with negative interactions and/or
inappropriate usage like cyberbullying, digital cheating, or
safety and security concerns. These issues sometimes get in
the way of student learning. Teachers and students should be
aware of and understand digital literacy and citizenship skills.
Digital media today does determine many aspects of our
future beyond this moment in time of posting, tagging, and
chatting.

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Eduphoria
Refresher

Optional

Kasie Taylor

Room: F231
Is this for a
Grade?

Optional

Whitney
Williams

Room: F209

World Caf &

other
discussion
strategies

Kevin
McPherson

Optional

Holly Hunt
Jessica Carrier

During this session we will tackle 2 major components:

Forethought and Aware. Begin the year right by getting your
online planner set up with ease. Then tackle Aware by
learning ways to pull data reports based on specific needs.
Did we do anything yesterday? Is this for a grade? When
is this due?
Do these student questions aggravate you because you
thought you had made the expectations clear? This session
focuses on strategies to make students accountable for their
own learning, their own expectations, and their own planning.
Participants can expect to share and hear best practices and
strategies that are student focused instead of teacher
focused.

Need some new strategies to engage students in productive

discussion? Using the World Caf strategy, well explore a
variety of discussion strategies to energize your classroom
and involve all students.

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Room: F224

Cooperative
Learning
Strategies and
Support
Structures
Room: F231

Optional

Julia McCollum
Paula Kent
Kellie Wendte

What are the best ways for students to collaborate and work
together? Make student collaboration more effective with
these proven cooperative learning strategies.

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