📺 Ditch Summit: Powerful Teaching + Student Relationships

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Meaningful, Efficient Student Feedback with Brisk Teaching

Lots of us have tinkered with AI assistants like ChatGPT — even to do teacher tasks like lesson planning.

But if you use ChatGPT, you likely have to do a lot of copy/pasting.

What if the power of an AI assistant was already waiting for you in the tools and spaces you use every day?

Meet Brisk Teaching (briskteaching.com). It runs in Google Docs, Google Slides, YouTube, and on articles and websites — even in student work.

Click on Brisk’s circle “B” button to add feedback to student work, create a rubric, make some presentation slides, and more.

Learn how Brisk works — and why teachers are loving it — in this session.

🔎 WATCH: Meaningful, Efficient Student Feedback with Brisk Teaching

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Using Powerful Teaching to Remember and Thrive with Dr. Pooja Agarwal and Patrice Bain

Sometimes, the way that students study (and the way that teachers teach) can leave students spinning their wheels.

That’s because some of our teaching and learning practices aren’t based on the way the brain works.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

In their book Powerful Teaching, Dr. Pooja Agarwal and Patrice Bain share the four “power tools” for solid long-term memory.

Plus, they offer effective, practical ways to use retrieval practice to help students remember.

And in their Ditch Summit session, they share their favorite ways to use all of these teaching strategies in your classroom right away.

This session is so applicable — and it’ll empower your students to study and learn in effective ways.

📺 WATCH: Using Powerful Teaching to Remember and Thrive with Dr. Pooja Agarwal and Patrice Bain

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Keeping it Real with Student Relationships in Class with C.J. Reynolds

Connections.

For C.J. Reynolds, as a high school English teacher, it’s always been about connections.

He has always looked for ways to connect with his students.

Teachers don’t need to like the stuff students like, he says. They just need to make the connection. If your students are into it, learn about it so you can connect what they like to what they’re learning.

In this session, C.J. shares student relationship and classroom management strategies right out of his own classroom. He shares tips for resolving student conflicts and making connections with parents.

Plus, C.J. gives you his free Life Odyssey Project — a way to build connections with your students.

If you’re loving all of his ideas, you can check out his book, Teach Your Class Off: The Real Reap Guide to Teaching.

📺 WATCH: Keeping It Real with Student Relationships in Class with C.J. Reynolds

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