This interactive session empowers educators to cultivate a positive classroom culture through intentional practices. Participants will explore strategies to enhance student connection, establish consistent routines, and align classroom practices with school-wide expectations. You will receive a structured guide for developing a personalized plans and a resource list for further learning.
Are you starting your first (or second… or third) year of teaching and looking for ways to get your classroom running smoothly while staying calm and confident? Join the Secondary Early Career Coaches for a session on seven classroom management basics as well as key questions every classroom needs answered before day one. With these tools, you’ll create an environment where everyone feels supported, engaged, and ready to succeed. Come connect, reflect, and leave with a few solid strategies to start the year strong.
Jordan is an Early Career Coach at EPS and a former Psychology teacher and History teacher of 16 years. He currently works mostly with first-year secondary teachers in the district helping them develop classroom management and instructional skills.
The Tulsa Leadership Effectiveness (TLE) framework isn’t just an evaluation tool — it’s a roadmap for professional growth, student-centered instruction, and instructional clarity. In "Empowering Excellence: The TLE Toolkit Unpacked", teachers will explore how to use the TLE rubric to reflect on practice, set meaningful goals, and engage in authentic conversations about instruction. This hands-on session will break down key indicators, share classroom-aligned tools, and help educators walk away with practical strategies they can use immediately to feel more confident and in control of their professional journey.
Teaching Scientific Inquiry with Gizmos prepares teachers to use the inquiry process and Gizmos to support the development of deeper student understanding of important science concepts. The instructor models best practices for teaching with Gizmos in science, demonstrating a progression of inquiry that develops students’ scientific inquiry skills. Teachers become more skillful in using inquiry methods of instruction, which encourage students to ask questions, make observations, and construct reasonable explanations. Bring a charged device.
Attendees will learn rehearsal room approaches to analyzing and interpreting drama, specifically Shakespeare. These techniques can be applied to other works of literature as well.
We will start with theater games to warm up and build energy, then walk to closely read a text, followed by using groups to read and stage a scene.
Attendees will take away three activities they can use in English for teaching Shakespeare, poetry, or any play or monologue (plus warmups that are great for extra time at the end of a class period or for a brain break).
