Participate and share: Interactive session 
Purpose
Educators have more roadblocks and are in charge of creating more change than ever before. Because of these real factors, educator burnout is growing more and more. To counteract this, our presentation provides ways to reignite the passion that lives within through inspired, engaging, and creative PD. Participants will learn a variety of engagement strategies we have utilized within our district, and will leave with ideas to build their own school or district's plan to inspire and engage.
Objectives
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
• Explain and model various engagement strategies
• Reflect on current professional learning and meeting norms, strategies
and practices
• Engage in continuous improvement by inspiring others through various
strategies
• Participate in gamified learning strategies throughout presentation
Evidence of Success
Participants will leave with a toolbox of tangible ideas they can take back and apply in their own schools or districts. Our goal with all of our strategies is to inspire those engaging or learning to then recreate in their own environment; if participants are able to do this, we will feel successful in our presentation.
During this presentation, we will model as many of the engagement strategies that we share with our staff as possible. The entire presentation will be one big game with presenters following along with details on the slides. Smaller games and strategies will be sprinkled throughout. Participants will leave with examples and templates of the strategies we share.
• Introduction (5 minutes)
○ Presenter Bios
○ Career Background
○ Overview of presentation game
• Professional learning engagement strategies to inspire and motivate
(20 minutes)
○ Whole district teacher-led professional development
▪ Festival Ignite - Opening institute kick-Off mini-conference
▪ Innovation Day - Mid-year reenergizer mini-conference
▪ Mustang Madness – Instructional strategy showdown focused
on inclusive practices
• Scaffolded department and meeting strategies to engage and build
capacity (20 minutes)
○ Department/Faculty Meetings – modeling engagement strategies
with staff that prioritize ease of implementation and high impact.
○ Lead Teacher Retreat – modeling more involved strategies to
empower teacher leaders to lead more meaningful change
○ Administrator Retreat – modeling strategies that support
collaborative team building but can also be replicated by various
district admin
• Continuous improvement impact (10 minutes)
○ Examples of how these strategies have been implemented by
district and building admin
○ Examples of how these strategies have been implemented and
expanded by teachers in their classrooms
Wrap up and questions from the audience (5 minutes)
Jennie Magiera and her book "Courageous Edventures" https://us.corwin.com/books/courageous-edventures-247884
Michael Matera and John Meehan https://emc2learning.com/
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