WMRHSD Fall Edcamp 2024: Full Schedule

Welcome to our Fall edcamp 2024! There are over 30 sessions scheduled throughout the afternoon covering a wide range of best practices, ideas for leveraging technology to assess students, and teacher wellness.

Please make sure you are registered for a session during each time slot (1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m., 2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m., 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.).

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1:00pm EST

Breaking Down the NGSS Storyline Template

Wednesday November 20, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm EST

Room 218

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We will break down how to create a lesson from a pre-organized NGSS-style storyline curriculum such as iHub, New Visions, or OpenSciEd, for each science subject area. We will be able to problem-solve, explain, and model how to take a prepared storyline and disseminate it to students. By the end of the session, participants will be able to adapt, apply, or produce a storyline lesson.

Speakers

Kathryn Beatty

Teacher, West Morris Regional High School District

Shannon Pickrell

Teacher, West Morris Regional High School District

Breaking Down the NGSS Storylines pdf

Wednesday November 20, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm EST
Room 218

Pedagogy & Assessment

1:00pm EST

G.R.A.S.P.S.

Wednesday November 20, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm EST

Room 215

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G.R.A.S.P.S.

Do you struggle with creating project-based learning assignments or assessments? In this session, you'll learn what G.R.A.S.P.S. stands for and how it can help you design engaging group projects. Bring an upcoming course topic, and by the end of the session, you’ll leave with a ready-to-use project-based assignment!

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Speakers

Mary Hill

Teacher, West Morris Regional High School District

Wednesday November 20, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm EST
Room 215

Pedagogy & Assessment

1:00pm EST

Open Forum: Successes and Strategies for Independent Reading

Wednesday November 20, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm EST

Room 216

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During this session, English Teachers are encouraged to share their questions, successes, and strategies surrounding our independent reading program. Specific topics may include duration and frequency of independent reading sessions, encouraging reluctant readers, incentivizing reading without formal grades, cross-classroom collaboration, building classroom libraries, and specific books that work.

Speakers

Joseph Geddes

District Supervisor, West Morris Regional High School District

Wednesday November 20, 2024 1:00pm - 1:50pm EST
Room 216

Pedagogy & Assessment

3:00pm EST

Group Projects - Collecting Evidence of Learning while Nurturing Collaboration Skills

Wednesday November 20, 2024 3:00pm - 3:30pm EST

Room 219

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Explore skill development opportunities plus best practices and pitfalls during this conversation, share-out, and brainstorm session aimed at refining this valuable form of assessment. Topics to be discussed include the implications of Gen AI in group work/presentations, equitable distribution of work, the role of rubrics and reflection in evaluating products and outcomes.

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Steve Ryan

Principal, West Morris Regional High School District

Wednesday November 20, 2024 3:00pm - 3:30pm EST
Room 219

Pedagogy & Assessment

3:00pm EST

NJ Portfolio Appeal Planning

Wednesday November 20, 2024 3:00pm - 3:30pm EST

Quiet Study Room

Teachers of Math Reasoning and Critical Reading are invited to meet to collaborate on best practices for the implementation of the portfolio process.

Wednesday November 20, 2024 3:00pm - 3:30pm EST
Quiet Study Room

Pedagogy & Assessment