Past Courses

Tuesday, May 14, 2024  |  5:15 – 8:45 p.m.

Center of Leadership & Innovation  |  St. Thomas School  |  8300 NE 12th St, Medina, WA 99353

$140  |  dinner included  |  3 Washington State Approved STEM Clock Hours provided

Step into Minecraft Education 201, tailored for K-12 educators in all subjects who have already dipped their toes into the Minecraft world and are now eager to refine their skills in making basic modifications and lesson design. In this session, teachers will explore simple tweaks to Minecraft worlds and learn how to assess student progress effectively within the game including through in game tools. Through hands-on activities and collaborative discussions, attendees will gain practical insights into incorporating these modifications into their STEM and other classroom experiences. The workshop includes dinner, offering a relaxed setting for networking and idea exchange among fellow educators. By the end of the workshop, participants will feel confident in their ability to make simple modifications to Minecraft worlds and develop meaningful assessment strategies in Minecraft.

Goals

• Identify the benefits of game-based learning when crafting learning experiences for students.
• Learn how Minecraft Supports STEM and other subject learning
• Explain how to assess learning in the Minecraft game
• Plan a lesson: augment or make simple modifications to a learning experience with Minecraft Education

Instructor

Jess Saulzallido, a veteran educator with over eight years of experience integrating Minecraft into her classrooms, also served as a visiting scholar with the Minecraft Education team in 2022. Recognized for her dynamic presentations and leadership in professional development, she empowers educators to embrace innovative teaching methodologies and game-based learning. Jess is a leader in the education technology community, leading the Seattle Ed Tech meetup and organizing impactful events to bridge the gap between educators and technology creators. She

has presented at esteemed conferences including ISTE, NCCE, TCEA, and FETC. Jess currently works in the Center for Leadership & Innovation at St. Thomas School.

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Tuesday, May 7, 2024  |  5:15 - 8:45 p.m.

$140  |  dinner included  |  3 Washington State Approved STEM Clock Hours provided

Center of Leadership & Innovation  |  St. Thomas School  |  8300 NE 12th St, Medina, WA 99353

Join us for our Minecraft Education 101 workshop, where K-12 educators in all subjects will place your first blocks in the world of Minecraft. In this session, teachers will explore the fundamentals of Minecraft Education, discovering its benefits and the transformative potential of game-based learning. Through interactive activities and discussions, attendees will prepare to implement their inaugural Minecraft lesson. Enjoy a delightful dinner while networking and collaborating with fellow educators, fostering a supportive community. By the end of the workshop, participants will have not only an understanding of how Minecraft supports STEM and all subject learning but walk away with a full lesson plan to begin integrating Minecraft into their classrooms.

Goals

• Describe Minecraft Education and prepare to teach your Minecraft first lesson
• Identify the benefits of game-based learning when crafting learning experiences for students.
• Learn how Minecraft supports STEM and other subject learning
• Plan a lesson: make a substitution or augment a learning experience with Minecraft Education

Instructor

Jess Saulzallido, a veteran educator with over eight years of experience integrating Minecraft into her classrooms, also served as a visiting scholar with the Minecraft Education team in 2022. Recognized for her dynamic presentations and leadership in professional development, she empowers educators to embrace innovative teaching methodologies and game-based learning. Jess is a leader in the education technology community, leading the Seattle Ed Tech meetup and organizing impactful events to bridge the gap between educators and technology creators. She

has presented at esteemed conferences including ISTE, NCCE, TCEA, and FETC. Jess currently works in the Center for Leadership & Innovation at St. Thomas School.

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9:00 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. each day
St. Thomas School  |  8300 NE 12th St  |  Medina, WA 98039
11.5 Clock Hours

Early Bird Registration (Ends TBD): $330
Group Registration (3+): $330
Registration (Begins TBD): $400

Liberating Structures seriously and playfully disrupt conventional patterns in how we work and learn together, that can be used in our work from everyday classrooms teaching to student presentations and faculty meetings. An ever-evolving and expanding repertoire of methods makes it possible to immediately include, engage, and unleash everyone to shift our everyday meetings, planning sessions, workshops, presentations, lessons trainings, etc.  

In this immersion workshop co-designed and co-facilitated by area educators and led by Maggie Chumbley.  We’ll learn and practice a wide array of the Liberating Structures repertoire to get quick exposure to as many of the methods as we can and how they might be used.  This 2-day immersion workshop is great for unconventional networking, serious play, and skill building for educators, other adult professionals, and anyone in a formal or informal leadership position. You’ll experience with other educators how tiny shifts in how we distribute participation can dramatically change student engagement, boost inquiry, and make teaching more joyful. 

Can you take both the Deep Dive and the 2-Day Immersion? 

YES!  

• Both of the workshops will be designed in a way that compliments taking either one or both.
• Like any new method, practice is the best path to mastery 
• Taking both workshops may be especially helpful for educators in an administrative role.  

 

Friday, January 25, 2019  |  9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
St. Thomas School  |  8300 NE 112th St  |  Medina, WA 98039
5.5 Clock Hours

Early Bird (ends December 10, 2018) Registration: $190
Group Registration (3 or more): $190 each
Registration (Begins December 11, 2018): $230

Disrupt conventional patterns in how we work together, making it possible to immediately include, engage, and unleash everyone to make progress on our most chronic, entangled challenges using Liberating Structures.  Learn how to structure generative interactions among your co-workers, administration, and students in ways that enliven engagement and inquiry, and help us all lead better without relying on methods that are top down, or too loose and unstructured.  

Why take a Liberating Structures workshop? 

• When your students feel included and invested, do they do a better job?  
• Have you noticed the best ideas often come from unexpected sources?   
• Do you want your students to work at the top of their intelligence?  
• Do you ever struggle to quickly invent and re-invent structures so that your teaching doesn’t rely on raising hands, lecture, and open discussion where only the most bold and articulate students participate? 

In this Deep Dive workshop format, we’ll learn and practice versatile Liberating Structures that explore how we can work together to meet and learn more efficiently and include everybody, work at the top of our intelligence, and make progress on our most chronic, entangled challenges. We will take ample time to experience, learn, practice, and apply adaptable structures for the school environment. We’ll focus on a few selected structures in a deep way with lots of practice and discussion about application. 

Facilitated by Maggie Chumbley with over a decade of experience in working with groups through teaching, facilitation and instructional design. Maggie, a self-described high-energy pedagogy geek, using a facilitation approach driven by neuroscience, adult learning, and relational coordination. Her expertise is in instructional design, facilitation, design- thinking and project base learning. In her current work, she consults helping organizations across sectors by facilitating and designing effective meetings, trainings, and events, that foster deep learning and make for lasting initiatives. www.maggiechumbley.com 

Registration includes lunch! 

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March 3, 2018  |  9:30 a.m. - noon

St. Thomas School  |  8300 NE 12th St  |  Medina, WA

Free  |  2.5 Stars Credits

Do the children you care for exhibit concerning behaviors? A developmentally appropriate framework for defining a child's behavior will be used to help teachers structure changes in the environment and focus their interactions in the classroom. You will leave with some practical solutions to promote positive behaviors in your classroom.