2023-2024 Self-Paced PD Offerings

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Are you ready to enhance your understanding of modern AI systems and leverage cutting-edge technology to streamline your teaching experience? In this session, you will develop a basic understanding of how modern AI systems work, their strengths, limitations, and strategies for developing an effective prompt. Magic School AI, an innovative platform powered by large language models, is here to empower you. Magic School AI can assist teachers with time management by generating resources such as lesson plans, rubrics, vocabulary lists, and more. This allows educators to save time on administrative tasks and focus on delivering quality instruction and what matters most, their students.

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Course# 36655

Section # 39467

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MobyMax is a standards-aligned K–8 learning platform for math, literacy, science, and social studies equipped with adaptive tests, fluency applications, and the ability for teachers to create assignments directly tied to tier 1 instruction. Teachers, parents, and students all have access to tracking a student's progress, which can empower students to become more accountable for their own learning.

In this course, participants will learn how to:

manage the Moby Max classroom groups and settings

create and analyze Teacher made assignments and data

manage and analyze Moby Placement Test and data

manage and analyze Moby Fluency applications and data Click on the link below to open the instructions and resources for this self-paced session.

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Course# 36599

Section # 39376

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This professional development opportunity is for homeroom teachers or computer lab EA/teachers who support 2nd and 3rd grade students. Keyboarding Without Tears (KWT) is a computer literacy program for 2nd and 3rd grade students. Students access via the Clever portal and the program takes students automatically through keyboarding lessons to help strengthen their keyboarding skills. There is little to no teacher preparation or interaction needed. Only teachers who have a 2nd or 3rd grade homeroom will have access to view activity on the KWT dashboard. The is a recorded Webinar from Fall 2023 with Keyboarding Without Tears trainer Nina Ross.

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Course# 36553

Section # 39321

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Looking for an easy whiteboard solution that allows you to annotate pdfs, webpages, and more? The myViewboard Whiteboard may be the perfect tool for you. In this self-paced course, participants will learn how to download and set up myviewboard whiteboard software on their laptop, annotate content from their PC and One Drive, annotate over webpages, and pull in nondigital work in the form of pictures. The myViewboard Whiteboard allows the teacher to easily navigate between the whiteboard and the desktop during the lesson and files can be saved and shared with students after class.

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Course# 36448

Section # 39136

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This interactive online course for educators will introduce the topic of student online privacy and offer concrete best practices for managing the risks to students. It will include specific tools and methods for assessing the privacy and security of products commonly used in the classroom, and it will support teachers in mitigating the risk of student data being compromised.

Open the document below to access the PD. Remember to complete the session on your own time. Also, be sure that you complete the survey at the end of the session to receive your PD credit.

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Course# 36358

Section # 38992

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Mastery Connect provides tools for teachers to track mastery of standards in real-time, and it also serves as a repository for teacher-created formative assessments. Students can take tests both online and on Bubble sheets. Bubble sheets can be scanned using a phone app, document camera, or webcam through the partner app Grade Cam. The "mastery" part of the website helps teachers plan assessments linked to standards and analyze data collected from the assessments.

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Session number # 39038
Credit Hours: 1.5

In this follow-up Schoology session, participants will gather the knowledge and skills to begin using Schoology assessments. We will walk through the process for creating and setting up assessments, along with the grading and the tool options available.

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Session numbers: #38953

Credit Hours: 1.0

Schoology will be the new learning management system (LMS) for RCS. In this "getting started" session, participants will learn how to navigate the Schoology platform, experience Schoology as a student, prepare materials for use in their Schoology courses and share content within the PLC environment. Schoology integrates videos and online tools, such as One Drive, into a single environment so teachers can create engaging online content and students can easily move between learning activities.

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Session numbers: #38500

Credit Hours: 3.0

For SPED Teachers only! Join us in this intro to Lexia session where we will cover how Lexia resources can help to inform instruction and save you valuable time. Using Lexia, students work independently at their own pace through individualized learning paths to develop fundamental reading skills in a structured, sequential manner. Teachers are notified when students require support or intervention and are provided with the resources for face-to-face instruction. Within myLexia student data reports, a data-driven action plan is provided to take the guesswork out of differentiating instruction by focusing the teacher’s time on the greatest needs in the classroom and prescribing the instructional intensity needed to help students make the gains they need.

The session is facilitated through PlayPosit. You will click link below and then click Office 365 to sign in. Follow all instructions and watch to the very end when you will receive a link to a completion survey that must be completed to receive your credit.

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Section # 38495

Credit Hours: 1.0

Now that you've created all these instructional videos for students, where can you house them that will be easy for students to access? Join us to learn how to create a free unlisted YouTube channel. You will learn how to create the channel, how to manage the privacy settings, how to upload videos, how to edit videos (including blurring out faces and any private information), and how to share videos with your students.

Click on the link below to access the instructions and resources for this self-paced PD. Please be sure to complete the whole online lesson and fill out the Microsoft Form link at the end to receive credit for completing the course.

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Section # 38496

Credit Hours: 1.0

Padlet is a web-based virtual bulletin board where users can collaborate, share ideas, and organize information. It allows users to create a canvas, also known as a "wall," where they can post various types of content such as text, images, videos, documents, links, and audio recordings.

The platform is often for various purposes, such as brainstorming, project planning, feedback collection, collaborative note-taking, and visual presentations.

Users can customize their Padlets by choosing from various design templates, backgrounds, fonts, and colors. They can also control the privacy settings and choose whether to make their Padlet public or private, and who can view or edit the content.

This 1-hour pd will help users become more familiar with Padlet navigation and explore possible uses for Padlet in the classroom.

Course# 35988

Section# 38490

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Credit Hours: 1.0

In this session, Andrea Zielke, the TEL Administrator, will show how to get the most out of the free research databases available on the Tennessee Electronic Library. You’ll learn which database to use for different assignments, search tips and tricks and how to master the tools for creating citations and sharing research resources with OneDrive. You’ll also learn more about the newspaper resources including the Tennessean, Commercial Appeal and Knoxville News Sentinel. If you have upcoming research or debate projects, these are great free resources for your students!

Course #: 35992

Section #: 38494

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Credit Hours: 1.0

The Tennessee Electronic Library has a website just for K-5 students. In this session, Andrea Zielke, the TEL Administrator, will show you how to navigate the TEL4U.org website. You’ll go in depth on the World Book resources including World Book Early Learning and World Book Kids. You’ll also learn more about TEL’s newest resource PebbleGo so you can integrate research into your assignments.

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Session numbers: # 38493

Credit Hours: 1.0

PlayPosit is a web-based tool that lets teachers create and edit interactive video assessments from streamed or uploaded content. Teachers upload an audio file or a video from popular sites such as YouTube and Vimeo to create an interactive video or bulb. This self-paced PD will walk participants through how to create, assign and analyze data from this learning tool.

Please download the file attachment below for directions on how to complete this course and receive PD credit. Please allow up to two weeks before calling or emailing the PD center or the instructor.

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Section # 38489

Credit Hours 1.0

Common Sense Educators are committed to helping kids and schools thrive in the digital age. In this session, participants will navigate through the Common Sense resources and begin the pathway to become a certified common-sense educator. Common Sense Education has access to wonderful lesson plans, videos, and discussions that can help you to educate our students to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly in the digital world.

Take this tutorial to get an introduction to digital citizenship and the suite of resources

available in Common Sense Education’s Digital Citizenship Curriculum. At the end of the

tutorial, you will receive a certificate of completion.

Open the document below to access the PD. Remember to complete the session on your own time. Also, be sure that you complete the survey at the end of the session to receive your PD credit.

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Credit Hours: 1.0

Section # 38488

In this session, participants will look at a variety of technology tools that can help address accessibility challenges for many of our 504, Special Education, and ELD students. Whether students are working remotely or in the classroom Microsoft Office 365 has a robust platform that has been created with accessibility in mind. In addition to Microsoft Office tools, we will investigate additional browser extensions and apps that meet the needs of a variety of learners.

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Section # 38491

Credit Hours 1.0

BrainPOP is a web-based tool that lets teachers find and create resources to explain and check understanding of students. There are various ways to assess learning through the multiple kinds of assessments. This can allow for student choice, creativity and differentiation in and out of the classroom.

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Section # 38487

Credit Hours: 1.0

Rutherford County Schools uses Edlio to create and manage the district's webpages. In this self paced session teachers will learn how to create and manage a webpage using Edlio. Sign up in Performance Matters and submit your name using the Microsoft Form.to receive the access code. If you are new to RCS an Edlio account must be created for you before you can work on your webpage.

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Section # 38486

Credit Hours 1.0

Did you know that Microsoft Teams now has a new type of assignment called Reading Progress? Assign passages to students either from your own library of passages or browse the passages provided in Teams. Students record themselves reading the passage (with or without video, your choice). Then Microsoft Teams gives you and your student feedback on words per minute and accuracy, including mispronunciations, omissions, and insertions. And new this year, feedback on students' phonics! Save your class time to work with students on their individual literacy issues instead of having to spend time listening to students read aloud in class. Join this self-paced session to learn how to use this resource to boost your students literacy skills!

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Section: 38492

Credit Hours: 1.0

Direct Instruction when done with intention and in alignment to academic goals has a .6 effect size. During this self-paced session, learn how to use Nearpod to help determine when it’s time to move on or reteach. You can import your pre-existing PowerPoint presentations and embed formative questions, polls, videos, and quizzes. Students access your presentations on their devices, and you get great data reports after each presentation.

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Section # 38862

Credit Hours: 1.0

Gale In Context: Science is an engaging curriculum-aligned resource providing information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. Draw students into the subject matter, showing how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues and classroom topics of study, from weather patterns to viruses or green engineering to space exploration students will find topics on earth science and life science, space, technology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and more. View this training session for Rutherford County Schools to learn how to use the resource within the classroom and what tools are most effective to link students with content to support learning.

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Section # 39359