Back-to-School with AI: Plan Smarter, Create Faster, Teach with Presence
Step into the new school year with more space for what matters most, your presence and creativity in the classroom.
Learner Outcomes:
- Harness the power of AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, & Canva AI as teammates, not replacements
- Offload the heavy lifting of planning and design.
- Leverage AI power instead of spending late nights crafting lesson plans, newsletters, or parent communications
- Collaborate with AI to generate high-quality materials—giving you back the time and energy to focus on building authentic connections with your students.
Asynchronous Recorded Workshop
Invest in your professional journey with the KCI Learning Pass (click on the registration link for details). This pass grants you unlimited access to:
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All workshops (You can currently choose from 7 online/in-person and 12 recorded workshops, with the potential for even more to be offered.)
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Comprehensive materials
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Slide decks
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Recordings to revisit key concept
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Live participation in our enriching in-person AND online workshops
While we understand every dollar counts, this one-time investment unlocks a wealth of knowledge and practical strategies that can have a lasting positive impact on your teaching and your students’ learning. You will have access to all materials until March 31, 2025.
Workshop Instructors
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Ed Campos
Consultant
The AI Classroom: Teaching Essential AI Literacy Skills
Many students are already using AI, but do they truly understand it? Without guidance, they risk using AI passively. Blindly trusting its outputs, relying on it to do the thinking for them, or failing to recognize its limitations. Developing AI literacy doesn’t require fancy tech or complex tools.
Learner Outcomes:
- Explore how to build students’ critical AI literacy through engaging, accessible, and even no-tech activities
- Demystify AI concepts
- Unpack bias and misinformation,
- Create relevant resources you can use next year.
Join us in taking action towards preparing our next generation for an AI-driven world!
Asynchronous Recorded Workshop
Invest in your professional journey with the KCI Learning Pass (click on the registration link for details). This pass grants you unlimited access to:
-
All workshops (You can currently choose from 7 online/in-person and 12 recorded workshops, with the potential for even more to be offered.)
-
Comprehensive materials
-
Slide decks
-
Recordings to revisit key concepts
-
Live participation in our enriching in-person AND online workshops
While we understand every dollar counts, this one-time investment unlocks a wealth of knowledge and practical strategies that can have a lasting positive impact on your teaching and your students’ learning. You will have access to all materials until March 31, 2025.
Workshop Instructors
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Stacy Kratochvil
Teacher and Instructional Technology Coordinator
Empowering Students with EFT/Tapping for Emotional Wellbeing
Tapping, also known as Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), is a quick and simple self-care technique to help reduce the emotional intensity associated with stressful events. It is also used to support goal setting and performance (athletes use it!). People report that Tapping helps them feel more calm while providing a sense of clarity imbued with compassion. It draws on psychological principles and incorporates acupressure points used in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
In this interactive session, participants will learn and experience this simple, yet profound, evidence-based somatic practice for self-care and stress reduction that can also be shared with fellow school staff and students. Facilitators will share best practices for introducing Tapping to educators, behavioral health support staff, and students for use in the classroom, counseling office, or wellness center. Participants will have multiple opportunities to engage with each other in small groups with partners, dedicated time for self-reflection and action planning, and the opportunity to receive an accountability partner to follow up with after the conference.
Come experience how easy Tapping is to learn, gain more calm and clarity for yourself, and get links to the many free resources available to help you share Tapping.
Workshop Instructors
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Caroline Macarah