2024VSTE Annual Conference

Get students excited about READING! Roll with us along the journey to see how Innovation on Wheels benefitted both a rural and urban district by taking literacy to the streets. From a summer program delivering books and meals to a fulltime program working year-round we will highlight the strategies addressing both the challenges and successes. Rolling through the rural streets of Nottoway County(Nottoway Book-A-Way) and city streets of Richmond(Literacy "Lit" Limo) provided much needed resources to families and is especially important now with the implementation of the Virginia Literacy Act. Hop on board and drop an anchor on the Lit Limo for an exciting ride!

Are you preparing your young students for the future? How often do you give them the skills and for the future? Our young learners can collaborate, even with digital tools, if given the proper scaffolds. Discover ways to empower collaboration in your classroom using simple and powerful tech tools and best practices as you embark on a collaboration journey in your classroom.

Learn to create "Choose Your Own Adventure" stories with Book Creator. Join a tech integrator and 4th-grade teacher as they share tips, templates, and Canva integration ideas for this engaging classroom project.

In this session, we?ll explore our strategies and best practices through our journey towards building and maintaining our positive coaching relationship as instructional coach and instructional technology coach. By fostering trust, communication, and collaboration, we build a culture of continuous improvement. This session addresses the ISTE Coaching Standard 4.3.a Cultivate Coaching Relationships - Establish trusting and respectful coaching relationships that encourage educators to explore new instructional strategies.

What if students didn't just consume knowledge, but actively created enduring learning resources to support their peers and future classes? This presentation explores how authentic assessment projects enable precisely that. Through examples like study guides, podcasts, videos, games and more, attendees will see how giving students choice in demonstrating mastery unlocks creativity and engagement. But the impact extends far beyond the individual student experience. When these authentic projects are curated and shared, they become part of a continually expanding library of crowdsourced, student-created learning materials for each course. Rather than disposable assignments, student work transforms into self-perpetuating repositories that benefit cohort after cohort. Participants will gain strategies for implementing this transformative model where learners aren't just consumers but creators. By positioning students as knowledge architects, educators cultivate learner autonomy while building robust interdisciplinary resources. Attend this session to revolutionize assessment while harnessing the power of learners as content developers.