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Digital Learning Professional Development
The Digital Learning Team, part of SFUSD's Department of Technology, leads professional learning, coaching, program development, and content creation centered on technology-enabled 21st-century learning. We enable educators to leverage technology for equity of opportunity, towards SFUSDs goals of disrupting systemic inequalities through a culturally responsive and anti-racist approach that supports the district's Vision, Values, Goals, and Guardrails.
Earn while you learn! For teachers and paraprofessionals who attend sessions after their contractual hours, these sessions can count towards your 18 FWEA paid, professional development hours, as long as you receive approval from your site administrator. For DLeaF teacher-leaders, you may claim up to 12 hours of session attendance towards your DLeaF Opportunities compensation, instead.
Fall 2024 Digital Learning PD Sessions
OCTOBER
OCT. 29th (4:15-5:15 PM) - SEESAW 101: Fostering Joyful Learning Experiences with Seesaw
Session Description
Bring joyful learning to life through the power of Seesaw's Learning Experience Platform!
Teachers will explore Seesaw's unique and creative multimodal tools that empower students throughout the learning process.
Learning Objectives
Learn how to document learning in student portfolios
Engage students during whole class instruction
Explore how students capture learning in Seesaw portfolios
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Digital Learning Basics
SFUSD Goal: VVGG Goal 1 – Third grade literacy
OCT. 29th (4:15-5:15 PM) -DoT: Introduction to the NEW SFUSD 6-8th Grade Digital Agency (Citizenship) Curriculum
Session Description
Come learn about the brand NEW SFUSD-created Digital Agency (Citizenship) Curriculum Package for middle grades. It is designed so that it can be taught in any of the 6-8th grades. Includes detailed lesson plans for teachers, activities for students, and even parent newsletters and infographics that can be sent home for each topic being taught.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Digital Agency
SFUSD Goal: Guardrail 2: Whole Child
OCT. 30th (1:30-2:30 PM) - DoT: Use Seesaw for Family Connection with Young Learners
Session Description
Discover Seesaw's multimedia tools, in addition to its auto-translate feature, which help you keep families involved in their child's learning and can serve as your one-stop shop for home-school communication.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Family Partnership
SFUSD Goal: Guardrail 2: Whole Child
OCT. 30th (5:00-6:00 PM) - SEESAW: Deploying EduProtocols with Seesaw
Session Description
You know what EduProtocols are, but now what? Deploying EduProtocols with Seesaw will help admins, TOSAs, and instructional coaches recognize new ways to adopt EduProtocols across an organization. Author of Deploying EduProtocols, Kimberly Voge, will join and help show school leaders how to implement EduProtocols in their organization to help all students learn.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Pedagody
SFUSD Goal: Guardrail 3: Curriculum & Instruction
NOVEMBER
NOV. 5th (4:15-5:15 PM) - SEESAW: Online Assessments Approaching? Seesaw Can Help with Authentic Assessment and Insights
Session Description
Formative assessment is critical in the classroom when making data-informed instructional decisions. Learn how to create auto-graded formative assessments in Seesaw to gain meaningful insights into student understanding. And, with this extra practice, you can be more confident that when your students take online assessments, their scores will be reflective of their content proficiency, and not their computer navigation skills.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Assessment & Grading
SFUSD Goal 1: 3rd Grade Literacy
NOV. 6th (1:30-2:30 PM) - DoT: Seesaw: Your New Best Friend for Managing Assessment with Early Learners
Session Description
Experience Seesaw's multi-media tools, plus its folders, skills-labeling, and scoring, to help you capture, organize, and monitor student progress, including with the DRDP.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Assessment & Grading
SFUSD Goal 3: 3rd Grade Literacy
NOV. 6th (4:15-5:15 PM) - ADOBE: Adobe Creative Institute Series - Session 3: Assessment Made Easier
Session Description
Adobe Express Creative Institute (Session 3 of 4): Assessment Made Easier: Elevate and Empower Students with Formative Assessment
During this four-part series, we will design learning experiences that foster creativity to ensure an affirming and rigorous learning environment. Participants will discover how to access and curate resources, assess creative works, and plan for a creative classroom. All are welcome! Participants who attend all four sessions will receive their Adobe Creative Educator (ACE) Level 1 and Level 2 Certification!
(Note: This is Session #3 of a 4-part series)
Session 4: Dec. 4th from 4:15-5:45 PM
NOV. 7th (4:15-5:00 PM) - Common Sense Education: Partnering with Families: Bringing AI Learning Home
Session Description
Families play a key role in supporting AI literacy at home. In this session, educators will explore strategies to engage parents in AI literacy, providing them with tools to monitor and support their children’s understanding of privacy and digital tools. Learn how to guide families in fostering AI literacy and creating responsible use at home.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Artificial Intelligence
SFUSD Goal: Guardrail 2: Whole Child
New Date! NOV 7TH (4:15-5:15 PM) - SEESAW: Prepare for Student Led Conferences with Seesaw
Session Description
Join us as we share tips and ideas for preparing for conferences with Seesaw. Whether you have student-led conferences or family-teacher conferences, this will be a session packed with ideas to make the process easier while empowering students!
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Portfolios
SFUSD Goal 3: College & Career Readiness
NOV. 12th (4:15-5:15 PM) - Strengthening K-5 ELA with Seesaw
Session Description
Learn how to deliver high-quality, interactive Seesaw instruction that are aligned with HMH and California state standards, empowering students to show their thinking and learning.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Language arts
SFUSD Goal 1: Grade 3 literacy
New Date! NOV 15th (10:00-10:30 AM) - SEESAW: Maximizing the Value of Seesaw for Site Leaders
Session Description
A successful Seesaw implementation starts with a solid understanding of the Seesaw platform and the tools you have at your fingertips. Participants will learn how to maximize student, educator, and family outcomes with Seesaw.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Seesaw
NOV. 19th (4:15-5:15 PM) - DoT: Google Tools & Tricks for the Busy Educator!
Session Description
Learn how to filter your email and effective use the search function in Gmail, explore tools to organize your Google Drive, find out ways to more effectively use Google Sheets.
Try out the tools you feel would be most beneficial to you!
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Productivity
SFUSD Goal: Guardrail 3: Curriculum & Instruction
NOV. 20th (3:30-4:30 PM) - SEESAW: Matheps = Mathematical Mastery
Session Description
Have you ever taught a math skill, only to revisit it a month later and students have forgotten everything? Help build mathematical muscle as we break Lisa Nowakowski's Matheps down just for littles. Students become masters of multiple standards and concepts across the year. Just watch as your littles become mathematical masters with this EduProtocol!
Digital Learning Topic/Category: STEM
SFUSD Goal 2: 8th grade math
DECEMBER
DEC. 4th (4:15-5:45 PM) - ADOBE: Adobe Creative Institute Series - Session 4: Creativity in Class
Session Description
Adobe Express Creative Institute (Session 4 of 4): Creativity in Class: How does this translate to your classroom?
During this four-part series, we will design learning experiences that foster creativity to ensure an affirming and rigorous learning environment. Participants will discover how to access and curate resources, assess creative works, and plan for a creative classroom. All are welcome! Participants who attend all four sessions will receive their Adobe Creative Educator (ACE) Level 1 and Level 2 Certification!
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Pedagogy
SFUSD Goal 3: College & Career
DEC. 11th (3:30-4:30 PM) - SEESAW: Building Powerful Writers with Little p*ARTS
Session Description
How do you build good writing habits over time? Where does the foundation of a sentence begin? With Little p*ARTS, students master the parts of a sentence or a paragraph, while building writing stamina and fluency over time. This EduProtocol not only helps students become great writers but also become masters of parts of speech. Using it with Seesaw makes it even better; building both written and oral language.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Language Arts
SFUSD Goal 3: 3rd grade literacy
Self-Paced Sessions
KQED: Analyzing Media Messages: Bias, Motivation and Production Choices
Session Description
With the explosion of the kinds of media now available, teaching students how to critically read media is more important than ever. Learn how media messages are built not just through scripts but production choices like framing and music and how these choices influence our interpretation and actions. This media literacy course is provided to you FREE from public media station KQED.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Media Literacy
SFUSD Goal: Guardrail 3: Curriculum & Instruction
KQED: Evaluating Online Sources: Checking Facts and Identifying Misinformation
Session Description
Prepare your students to be savvy online researchers by giving them the tools they need to distinguish facts from misinformation. Gain confidence and resources for teaching how to evaluate information and spot unreliable sources. This media literacy course is provided to you FREE from public media station KQED.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Media Literacy
SFUSD Goal: Guardrail 3: Curriculum & Instruction
KQED: Evaluating Online Tools for Classroom Use
Session Description
Student data privacy laws can be confusing. In this course, you will learn how to navigate your responsibilities as an educator and discover what to look for when choosing digital tools that will work for you and your district. This course is provided to you FREE from public media station KQED.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Digital Learning Basics
SFUSD Goal: Guardrail 3: Curriculum & Instruction
KQED: Implementing and Assessing Student Audio Projects
Session Description
Learn how to implement and assess audio projects that empower your students to share their learning, tell their stories and creatively express ideas. This course is provided to you FREE from public media station KQED.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Media Making (Students)
SFUSD Goal: College & Career
KQED: Implementing and Assessing Student Graphics Projects
Session Description
Learn how to implement and assess graphics-based media projects that empower your students to creatively communicate their learning and their experiences. This course is provided to you FREE from public media station KQED.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Media Making (Students)
SFUSD Goal: College & Career
KQED: Implementing and Assessing Student Video Projects
Session Description
Learn how to implement and assess video projects that empower your students to creatively communicate their learning and their experience. This course is provided to you FREE from public media station KQED.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Media Making (Students)
SFUSD Goal: College & Career
KQED: Inspire Creative Science Communication with Media Projects
Session Description
Unlock your students’ creative potential by incorporating the essential skill of science communication through media-making in your classroom.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: STEM
SFUSD Goal: Guardrail 3: Curriculum & Instruction
KQED: Making Audio to Inspire Learning
Session Description
Bring audio storytelling into your classroom to enhance instruction, support learning and gain the confidence to lead audio projects with your students. This media literacy course is provided to you FREE from public media station KQED.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Media Making (Students)
SFUSD Goal: Guardrail 3: Curriculum & Instruction
KQED: Making Infographics to Inspire Learning
Session Description
The language of visual design offers a powerful way to engage students. Here you’ll learn to represent complex ideas, information and data in compelling infographics and develop the confidence to enrich your teaching with new media skills. This media literacy course is provided to you FREE from public media station KQED.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Media Making (Students)
SFUSD Goal: Guardrail 3: Curriculum & Instruction
KQED: Making Photo Essays to Inspire Learning
Session Description
Photo essays are great entry points for media makers of all ages. In this course, you will learn the principles of photo essay production, make a photo essay and a lesson plan that you can use right away.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Media Making (Students)
SFUSD Goal: Guardrail 3: Curriculum & Instruction
KQED: Making Video to Inspire Learning
Session Description
Get started making videos for instruction and gain the confidence to lead video projects with your students. This media literacy course is provided to you FREE from public media station KQED.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Media Making (Students)
SFUSD Goal: Guardrail 3: Curriculum & Instruction
KQED: Understanding Copyright for Educators
Session Description
Wondering when it's ok to reuse or remix other people's work or media in the classroom? Help yourself and your students understand how to respect other creators when using and making media. This media literacy course is provided to you FREE from public media station KQED.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Digital Learning Basics
SFUSD Goal: College & Career
Spring 2025 Digital Learning PD Sessions
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This page was last updated on October 25, 2024