Learn how to foster future leaders by using interactive learning activities that promote critical thinking and amplify student voice. Explore strategies that help students evaluate evidence, support opinions, solve problems, and think analytically. Examine research- and project-based practices that maximize engagement across all content areas.
Engage in reflection and discussion around implementing critical thinking and student-centered strategies. Explore examples, share ideas, and consider ways to make learning experiences more interactive and meaningful for students.
Apply critical thinking and student voice strategies to your own lessons and content areas. Design engaging tasks that encourage problem solving, evidence-based reasoning, and analytical thinking, ready for immediate classroom use.
Learn about a range of AI chatbots while examining key cautions and considerations for using AI. Explore how to design effective prompts that generate standards-aligned essential questions, enduring understandings, transfer goals, student learning targets and proficiency scales with clear learning progressions.
Engage in hands-on AI tasks using content-area state or national standards. Analyze AI-generated outputs, reflect on prompt effectiveness and refine prompts through peer and facilitator feedback.
Apply new learning by creating proficiency scales with level 1–4 learning progressions aligned to grade level or content area. Gain ready-to-use lesson components and the ability to design meaningful learning experiences and assessment tools.
Instructional Technology Specialist, St. Charles R-VI School District
Tina is the instructional technology specialist for the St. Charles R-VI School District. She has been an educator for over 25 years. She has taught technology to students through UMSL's Microcomputer program and to adults through district professional development opportunities. She... Read More →
Wednesday June 3, 2026 10:00am - 11:15am CDT RM 136209 S Kingshighway St, St Charles, MO 63301
Learn how Discovery Education supports every part of a teacher's day through practical, UDL-aligned instructional moves, engagement routines and time-saving planning strategies.
Engage with modeled classroom moments, hands-on demonstrations and collaborative redesign activties that mirror a real instructional day. Apply ready-to-use routines, digital tools and planning approaches that elevate learning from bell to bell.
Learn how to use a simple yet powerful facilitation framework to uncover what matters most to your teachers and anchor your AI implementation to real needs rather than features. Discover how this framework can serve as an entry point for identifying north stars and barriers across your school community. Gain a clear model for how coaches and education leaders can multiply their impact by turning teacher challenges into AI-powered solutions that drive impact across the wider school community.
Engage by experiencing a collaborative brainstorming activity, surfacing the bright spots and friction points most relevant to your own context. Use your identified challenges to drive a hands-on design sprint, building a schoolai-powered experience anchored to a real need in your school, district or community. Walk through a flexible facilitation protocol you can bring directly into your next team meeting, informal conversation or professional learning session.
Apply a repeatable, supportive conversation framework that moves your teachers from their most pressing challenges to AI-powered solutions with confidence and purpose. Return to your community with a schoolai artifact you built during the session, ready to introduce to your team. Use a 30/60/90 implementation road map structure to stay focused, learn from what is working and scale what is making a difference.
Learn how research on experiential learning, motivation and neuroscience connects to increased joy, relevance and student ownership. Explore learning approaches, from low-prep, high-impact entry points to longer-term designs that deepen community connection and shared responsibility for learning.
Engage in collaborative reflection and analyze learning examples across multiple content areas to uncover what makes these experiences powerful and replicable. Reimagine your own instructional practices through guided design time.
Apply learning principles by drafting an initial ExL design aligned to instructional goals and student needs. Gain a flexible framework to use in designing future experiential learning.
Chelsea Center Coordinator, Webster Groves School District
Kerry Arens is a connector, creative problem-solver, systems designer, & coach of learners in the classroom and beyond. Kerry spent her first ten years in education as an English teacher in Parkway and Kirkwood School Districts. Her passion for working alongside her colleagues to increase student... Read More →