Davis District R&R Conference 2025

Secondary teachers: Hook them and teach them on day one! Teach your policies, go over the syllabus, and establish your classroom culture through games. This on-your-feet and in-your-seat presentation will go over instantly implementable games and an analogy approach to gamifying your boring first-day business while inviting fun and higher-order-thinking from your students.

Early Elementary teachers: Join us for an interactive session where we’ll explore practical, research-backed strategies designed to engage young learners in language arts instruction. Targeted for kindergarten through third grade educators, this session will offer a variety of approaches to help you address the challenges of keeping students motivated and excited to learn. You’ll walk away with easy-to-implement strategies to engage diverse learners, including differentiated instruction techniques, creative approaches to reading and writing, and tools for fostering a classroom environment that invites active participation. Throughout the session, we will share personal experiences and best practices, providing you with real-life examples of what’s worked (and what hasn’t) in our own classrooms. Whether it’s finding ways to spark interest in reluctant readers or creating activities that encourage all students to participate, you’ll leave with valuable insights to enhance your instruction. Are you struggling with student engagement or looking to enhance your existing practices? This session will provide the ideas, tools, and resources you need to create a more dynamic, inclusive, and engaging language arts classroom.

Late Elementary teachers: Join us for an exciting and interactive session designed to transform your English Language Arts (ELA) classroom using the latest technological tools and strategies. This session will explore a variety of digital resources and techniques to enhance student engagement, foster creativity, and improve literacy skills. Participants will learn how to integrate technology seamlessly into the new CKLA curriculum using educational apps and incorporating multimedia projects. Whether you’re a tech novice or a seasoned pro, this session will provide valuable insights on how to engage students digitally in the new CKLA curriculum.

Secondary teachers: Come and brainstorm how to use children's books in your classroom to cultivate a positive learning environment, boost engagement, or take a brain break. We always hear that to be a good teacher, you need to be a good story teller...but you don't always have to create something new. We can use picture books to engage our junior high and high school students! Come learn about some of the options, how to work with the school librarian to get your books approved, and how this approach can help teachers of all subject areas add variety to their class routine.

Secondary teachers: Hook them and teach them on day one! Teach your policies, go over the syllabus, and establish your classroom culture through games. This on-your-feet and in-your-seat presentation will go over instantly implementable games and an analogy approach to gamifying your boring first-day business while inviting fun and higher-order-thinking from your students.

Early Elementary teachers: Join us for an interactive session where we’ll explore practical, research-backed strategies designed to engage young learners in language arts instruction. Targeted for kindergarten through third grade educators, this session will offer a variety of approaches to help you address the challenges of keeping students motivated and excited to learn. You’ll walk away with easy-to-implement strategies to engage diverse learners, including differentiated instruction techniques, creative approaches to reading and writing, and tools for fostering a classroom environment that invites active participation. Throughout the session, we will share personal experiences and best practices, providing you with real-life examples of what’s worked (and what hasn’t) in our own classrooms. Whether it’s finding ways to spark interest in reluctant readers or creating activities that encourage all students to participate, you’ll leave with valuable insights to enhance your instruction. Are you struggling with student engagement or looking to enhance your existing practices? This session will provide the ideas, tools, and resources you need to create a more dynamic, inclusive, and engaging language arts classroom.

Late Elementary teachers: Join us for an exciting and interactive session designed to transform your English Language Arts (ELA) classroom using the latest technological tools and strategies. This session will explore a variety of digital resources and techniques to enhance student engagement, foster creativity, and improve literacy skills. Participants will learn how to integrate technology seamlessly into the new CKLA curriculum using educational apps and incorporating multimedia projects. Whether you’re a tech novice or a seasoned pro, this session will provide valuable insights on how to engage students digitally in the new CKLA curriculum.

Secondary teachers: Come and brainstorm how to use children's books in your classroom to cultivate a positive learning environment, boost engagement, or take a brain break. We always hear that to be a good teacher, you need to be a good story teller...but you don't always have to create something new. We can use picture books to engage our junior high and high school students! Come learn about some of the options, how to work with the school librarian to get your books approved, and how this approach can help teachers of all subject areas add variety to their class routine.

Ditch the bus and sack lunch... and embark on Virtual Field Trips from the comfort of your own classroom! Join us for an engaging session focused on leveraging technology to connect your students with experts. We’ll explore synchronous tools like Zoom, Skype, and Teams, as well as asynchronous platforms like Padlet, to connect and learn from professionals at sites around the world! In this session participants will learn the importance of selecting connections and virtual trips that resonate with students and reflect the diverse backgrounds within the classroom. This session will showcase practical examples of how to effectively integrate these tech-based platforms into everyday teaching. By the end of this session, attendees will: • Gain confidence in implementing Teams, Zoom, Skype, and Padlet in the classroom. • Understand the benefits of virtual connections and the best practices used to facilitate them. • Discover exciting ideas and relevant applications for virtual connections with guest presenters and learn how to schedule them effectively.

Effective classroom management is not about controlling students, but about creating conditions that allow for active learning and personal growth. In this session, we will explore how engagement is the key to managing a language classroom in a way that encourages students to take responsibility for their own learning and fosters a culture of collaboration and enthusiasm for the language. These ideas could be applicable to other content areas as well.

In this engaging session, educators will explore how to gamify the classroom to create an inclusive, comfortable, and fun environment where students feel confident sharing ideas and collaborating with their peers. Through activities like Codenames, Poetry for Neanderthals, and immersive lessons, we’ll discuss how games and playful interactions can break down social barriers, encourage teamwork, and foster a sense of belonging among students. You'll learn how to incorporate laughter, creativity, and healthy competition into your classroom to inspire students to take risks, think critically, and contribute freely to class discussions. This session will offer strategies to make learning more interactive and get the teacher and students excited for lessons by using games, simulations, investigations, and activities that help students bond, share knowledge, and grow together, while cultivating a positive and dynamic classroom culture. Get ready to transform your classroom into a space where every student feels seen, heard, and excited to participate!

Elementary teachers: Come get some ideas about how to make your lessons even more engaging. I will share things you can do to add a little magic to a phonics or reading lesson, games that can be adapted to a wide variety of grades and contents that don’t allow students to get out or lose a turn, and ideas that help make sure every student is involved in learning a new math concept. The goal of this session is to load you with some ideas that feel like they’ll work with the things you already do and will hopefully get students just a little more excited about their school day. We’ll know we were successful when they want to go home and tell their family about it! Let's get our lessons to make it to the dinner table! Students that are excited about being in the classroom will likely have better attendance, better behavior (they just might make a better choice because they don’t want to miss out on your next reading lesson if they know it’s a” Boom Clap Grab” day) and overall better learning!

Are you looking for fun engagement strategies that support all learners? Are you ready to add to your toolbox when it comes to tech tools that enhance the learning of all students? This session will be packed with takeaways that are ready to apply to courses for all grade levels and learners. Attendees will try some of these strategies and test out these tools in this interactive session, not to mention learn from one another in how to support every student in our classroom. Focusing on level 2 of High Reliability Schools and effective teaching in every classroom, we will talk about how to bring in feedback, context, and content in engaging and tech savvy ways. We will especially focus on supporting multilingual learners! Attendees will leave with a Google document filled with resources to support all learners as well as access to a Canva with PCBL ideas for all students. From Canva to Padlet to Phonics and Stuff to Virtual Field Trips to Skill Struck AI Tutors, the tech tools shared in this session add play, boost engagement, and are ready to use in your classroom.

Ditch the bus and sack lunch... and embark on Virtual Field Trips from the comfort of your own classroom! Join us for an engaging session focused on leveraging technology to connect your students with experts. We’ll explore synchronous tools like Zoom, Skype, and Teams, as well as asynchronous platforms like Padlet, to connect and learn from professionals at sites around the world! In this session participants will learn the importance of selecting connections and virtual trips that resonate with students and reflect the diverse backgrounds within the classroom. This session will showcase practical examples of how to effectively integrate these tech-based platforms into everyday teaching. By the end of this session, attendees will: • Gain confidence in implementing Teams, Zoom, Skype, and Padlet in the classroom. • Understand the benefits of virtual connections and the best practices used to facilitate them. • Discover exciting ideas and relevant applications for virtual connections with guest presenters and learn how to schedule them effectively.

Effective classroom management is not about controlling students, but about creating conditions that allow for active learning and personal growth. In this session, we will explore how engagement is the key to managing a language classroom in a way that encourages students to take responsibility for their own learning and fosters a culture of collaboration and enthusiasm for the language. These ideas could be applicable to other content areas as well.

In this engaging session, educators will explore how to gamify the classroom to create an inclusive, comfortable, and fun environment where students feel confident sharing ideas and collaborating with their peers. Through activities like Codenames, Poetry for Neanderthals, and immersive lessons, we’ll discuss how games and playful interactions can break down social barriers, encourage teamwork, and foster a sense of belonging among students. You'll learn how to incorporate laughter, creativity, and healthy competition into your classroom to inspire students to take risks, think critically, and contribute freely to class discussions. This session will offer strategies to make learning more interactive and get the teacher and students excited for lessons by using games, simulations, investigations, and activities that help students bond, share knowledge, and grow together, while cultivating a positive and dynamic classroom culture. Get ready to transform your classroom into a space where every student feels seen, heard, and excited to participate!

Elementary teachers: Come get some ideas about how to make your lessons even more engaging. I will share things you can do to add a little magic to a phonics or reading lesson, games that can be adapted to a wide variety of grades and contents that don’t allow students to get out or lose a turn, and ideas that help make sure every student is involved in learning a new math concept. The goal of this session is to load you with some ideas that feel like they’ll work with the things you already do and will hopefully get students just a little more excited about their school day. We’ll know we were successful when they want to go home and tell their family about it! Let's get our lessons to make it to the dinner table! Students that are excited about being in the classroom will likely have better attendance, better behavior (they just might make a better choice because they don’t want to miss out on your next reading lesson if they know it’s a” Boom Clap Grab” day) and overall better learning!

Are you looking for fun engagement strategies that support all learners? Are you ready to add to your toolbox when it comes to tech tools that enhance the learning of all students? This session will be packed with takeaways that are ready to apply to courses for all grade levels and learners. Attendees will try some of these strategies and test out these tools in this interactive session, not to mention learn from one another in how to support every student in our classroom. Focusing on level 2 of High Reliability Schools and effective teaching in every classroom, we will talk about how to bring in feedback, context, and content in engaging and tech savvy ways. We will especially focus on supporting multilingual learners! Attendees will leave with a Google document filled with resources to support all learners as well as access to a Canva with PCBL ideas for all students. From Canva to Padlet to Phonics and Stuff to Virtual Field Trips to Skill Struck AI Tutors, the tech tools shared in this session add play, boost engagement, and are ready to use in your classroom.