ShiftinEdu

Bring more joy, relevance, and irresistibility into your lessons with the assistance of AI. Learn how to collaborate with chatbots and other tools to transform your teaching with intrigue, personalized content, and humor—making every class feel like a treat.

Unlock the potential of AI to enhance your teaching with “Teach Smarter, Not Harder: AI in Education.” This session offers practical strategies and tools for integrating AI into the classroom, making learning more efficient and engaging. Discover how AI can streamline tasks, personalize instruction, and transform the educational experience.

Authentic learning can be quite messy, thus the necessity to recognize the requirements and disconnects of space as it relates to clutter. Within the walls of educational environments, cluttered classroom environments are negatively affecting the health, safety, and potential of its learners. As designers, we sometimes continue the delivery of “kitchen cabinets” within classrooms without the knowledge that this antiquated harboring device is simply not suited for today’s set of resources. This presentation will explore fresh, new innovative concepts for appropriate systematic solutions, as well as guidelines and recommendations for the housing of these resources.

There’s something majestic about being able to create, touch, and share printed productions. Teachers can create enchanting instructional materials, and students can showcase learning through projects that end up on paper. Let's make customized door hangers, zines, sticky notes, dice, and other tangible products.

Create stunning visuals with artificial intelligence. Discover free websites and apps for editing existing images, and explore the best sites for generating images from your prompts. Get practical ideas for using custom illustrations in your lessons and educational resources.

In this workshop, explore how gathering, proxemics, and personas interact intricately when learning happens. These elements of human spatial relationships and settings are crucial in crafting learning environments that are not just spaces, but dynamic settings where effective learning thrives.

This session provides school and instructional leaders strategies they can use to raise confidence for teachers by being more intentional about when and how to provide feedback by structuring conversations around what they observe in learning walks or formal observations using simple universal guidelines. A feedback tool will also be modeled and provided.

Dive into this engaging workshop tailored for teaching teams seeking to amplify their impact in their schools through the instructional innovation process. Discover practical action research skills designed to boost teacher confidence, performance and the use of high-yielding instructional strategies. Participants will delve into data-driven decision-making methods, empowering them to drive positive change in classrooms. Join us to unlock the tools and insights needed to cultivate inclusive, engaging learning environments that propel student success.