Rejuvenate 2025

This professional development session centers on integrating culturally relevant pedagogy into mathematics instruction to create inclusive and engaging learning environments. Participants will explore how students' cultural backgrounds, lived experiences, and community contexts can inform meaningful math teaching and learning. Through interactive activities, reflective dialogue, and practical planning tools, educators will examine how to:

• Recognize and challenge deficit-based narratives in math education
• Connect mathematical concepts to real-world, culturally meaningful contexts
• Implement instructional strategies that promote identity, agency, and critical thinking
• Analyze classroom materials and assessments through an equity lens

This session supports educators in fostering a classroom culture where all students, especially those from historically marginalized communities, see themselves as capable mathematicians and problem solvers. 

Join us for an interactive session on utilizing COMCHI Cards as an instructional strategy to develop creative problem-solving skills. COMCHI Cards are a unique tool designed to give students insights and foster innovative thinking. In this interactive session, participants will explore how to utilize the cards in both small and large group settings. The activity will use movement, music, art, and gifted strategies, with connections to career soft skills. COMCHI, what the excitement is all about!

Join us for this session designed specifically for kindergarten and first-grade teachers.  Participants will receive a preview and engage in hands-on activities to gain a better understanding of the K/1 signature experiences.  Come learn about Growing through KinderGARDEN designed to help kindergarten students develop self-awareness and self-management as they grow, learn, and showcase their development throughout the year.  Discover the How-To-Fair experience designed to help first-grade students develop self-awareness and social awareness.  They will discover their strengths and explore opportunities to learn how to make something based on interactive opportunities.  K/1 teachers won't want to miss this fun-filled session!

In this session, teachers will learn strategies to adapt and differentiate their lessons to make instruction more engaging and meaningful for students at all levels.  The session will focus on elementary age students and students requiring more significant modifications to the curriculum. Teachers will walk away with ideas and instructional strategies to implement in their classrooms.  By incorporating hands-on, multi-sensory learning, teachers will be equipped to better meet the needs of all learners in their classrooms,  fostering an environment where every student can succeed. 

In this interactive workshop, participants will explore how to create a psychologically safe classroom environment that promotes student growth, emotional well-being, and academic success. We will examine strategies for grading based on mastery, how to foster and increase students' SEL skills while decreasing teacher stress.  We will also explore the importance of building a community of accountability, where both students and teachers take ownership of their learning and well-being.   Participants will walk away with an action plan and tools to ensure students achieve and teachers thrive.