ABC Summer PL: Full Schedule

You will be able to validate your attendance (Check-In to sessions) using your personal schedule.

9:45am PDT

The Feedback Frontier:Blending AI and HI to Hear Every Student LIMITED

Friday August 8, 2025 9:45am - 11:00am PDT

Discover how AI tools like Brisk Teaching and Snorkl can transform how you gather, analyze, and respond to student feedback. Learn practical strategies for using technology to enhance student voice while maintaining the human connection essential for a responsive, student-centered classroom environment. (Grades 6-12)

Speakers

Chad Laines

IT Program Specialist, ABCUSD

After 33 years teaching middle school history, Chad Laines now serves as an Instructional Technology Specialist advocating for thoughtful tech integration in education. His HI+AI philosophy positions technology as a tool guided by human intelligence to enhance learning through personalized... Read More →

Friday August 8, 2025 9:45am - 11:00am PDT
206

All

11:30am PDT

Planning Panic, Be Gone! Your AI Teaching Assistant Has Arrived FILLING

Friday August 8, 2025 11:30am - 12:45pm PDT

206

No more Sunday scaries! Escape the late-night lesson planning vortex with this transformative session on AI-enhanced curriculum design. This session promises to revolutionize your relationship with prep time so thoroughly that your friends will suspect you've hired a secret teacher's assistant (spoiler alert: you kind of did). Learn how to transform that blank document dread into curriculum confidence with AI tools that actually understand what teachers need and, most importantly, what students need. (Audience Grades 4-12)

Speakers

Chad Laines

IT Program Specialist, ABCUSD

Friday August 8, 2025 11:30am - 12:45pm PDT
206

Upper Elementary, Secondary

1:45pm PDT

Getting Started with UFLI LIMITED

Friday August 8, 2025 1:45pm - 3:00pm PDT

206

Have you heard about UFLI but aren't using it yet? UFLI is an explicit and systematic phonics program that many K-1 teachers are using in the district. It will be made available to 2nd-grade teachers in the 2025-2026 school year. Come get a brief introduction to UFLI and see a lesson taught.

Speakers

Jodene Smith

Implementation Coach, ABCUSD

Jodene Smith has been an educator for 29 years. She spent the first 23 years teaching in the primary grades and has spent the past 6 years working as a TOSA. She currently works as an Implementation Coach at Willow and Burbank Elementary and is passionate about helping students learn... Read More →

Friday August 8, 2025 1:45pm - 3:00pm PDT
206

K-2

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