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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.
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3/11/2025 (4:15-5:30 PM) - ADOBE: Storytelling with Confidence: Using Adobe Express to Empower Speaking Skills for Multilingual Learners
Session Description: Storytelling is a powerful tool for helping multilingual learners build confidence, practice speaking, and use their language skills in authentic ways. In this hands-on session, educators will explore how to leverage Adobe Express to support multilingual learners in various grade levels and subject areas. By integrating video, audio, and visual elements, participants will learn ways to guide students in using multimedia projects to enhance language skills and build community in meaningful and personal ways.
This session will focus on providing multilingual learners with opportunities to use language in authentic contexts. Whether students are narrating personal experiences, sharing cultural stories, or explaining academic concepts creatively, Adobe Express offers an accessible platform for students to confidently share their voices.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: English Language Development (ELD)
SFUSD Goal: Goal 1: 3rd Grade Literacy
3/12/2025 (2:45-3:45 PM) - SEESAW: Empowering Every Learner: Differentiated Small Group Instruction with Seesaw
Description: Learn how to supplement small group instruction with engaging, differentiated Seesaw Lessons aligned to the HMH Into Reading curriculum. Teachers will explore how to access and implement high-quality, standards-aligned, and interactive lessons that provide multiple entry points for learners, allowing all students to show their thinking and learning in meaningful ways.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Language Arts
SFUSD Goal: Goal 31: 3rd Grade Literacy
3/19/2025 (2:45-3:45 PM) - SEESAW: Authentic Assessments & Insights with Seesaw
Formative assessment is critical in the classroom when making real-time, data-informed instructional decisions. Learn how to use Seesaw's AI features to create auto-graded formative assessments, in order to gain meaningful insights into student understanding. You'll also explore how Seesaw's multimodal tools help students practice question types and build key test-taking skills for the district’s interim STAR assessments.
This session is designed for: School site leaders EED, School site leaders PK-5, School site leaders 6-8, School site leaders 9-12, Site-based educators, Paraeducators
This custom-made session is hosted by the Department of Technology and presented by Seesaw.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Assessment & Grading
SFUSD Goal: Goal 1– 3rd Grade Literacy
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3/19/2025 (4:30-5:30 PM) - ADOBE: Empowering Students to Design Personalized Podcast, Album, or Book Cover Art in Adobe Express
Session Description: "In this hands-on session, educators will explore how to guide students in creating meaningful and visually engaging cover art in Adobe Express. Whether they're recording podcasts in Ethnic Studies, designing book covers for a personal narrative in English class, or curating an album for Women's History Month, adding visuals to their project will increase student engagement and help promote their materials to viewers (like you!).
Teachers will learn how to guide students to easily incorporate symbolism, meaningful imagery, and unique fonts into their designs using Adobe Express. By the end of the session, teachers will be ready to support students in creating cover art that reflects their personal voices and unique perspectives. Get ready to help your students bring their projects to life! "
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Social Studies/Civics
SFUSD Goal: Goal 1: 3rd Grade Literacy
3/20/2025 (3:30-4:15 PM) - NEWS LITERACY PROJECT: Algorithms, Building Search Habits
Description: The Internet is inconceivably large and essentially endless! It can be a struggle to find accurate information. Understanding search algorithms can equip students with the ability to Google like a pro! Understanding how a program works helps us to use a program effectively, so we are not trapped by confirmation bias but empowered with accurate information to make fully informed decisions. We will have time for participants to use the tools we share and will also invite you to share how you can use these resources in the classroom.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Media Literacy
SFUSD Goal: Goal 3: College & Career
3/26/2025 (2:45-3:45 PM) - EVERFI: Financial Literacy & College and Career Readiness
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Session Description: EVERFI's Financial Literacy & College and Career Readiness course offerings overview (grades 4-12). Are your students equipped with the critical life skills they need to thrive beyond the classroom? Participants will learn how to integrate EVERFI's no cost, online financial literacy & college and career readiness courses in their classrooms to enhance current curriculum.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Financial Literacy & College and Career Readiness
SFUSD Goal: Goal 3: College & Career
3/26/2025 (4:15-5:15 PM) - DoT: Adobe Express for Student Reflections
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Session Description: Come learn how Adobe's Animate from Audio feature helps capture student reflections around their academic and personal goals. Animate from Audio allows students to easily record their voices, customize characters and backgrounds, and share their thoughts with a wide audience.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Portfolios
SFUSD Goal: Goal 3: College & Career
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4/9/2025 (2:45-3:45 PM) - DoT: Best Practices and Strategies for Successful 1:1 Learning Environments
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Session Description: Has your school recently implemented a Chromebook 1:1 take-home program? Congratulations! Now you are probably at the stage where you are wanting to know some strategies for how to deal with students who: have broken, lost, or damaged their device; are not bringing their device to school, or they bring it not fully charged! Your teachers are also probably going to want to learn some best practices and strategies for both integrating the use of technology into their teaching, while also needing some good classroom and device management tips and strategies! If this sounds familiar, then join us for this session where we will share best practices and strategies that the SFUSD Department of Technology team has learned from the past 8 years of SFUSD's 1:1 programs!
Digital Learning Topic/Category: 1:1 Learning Environments
SFUSD Goal: Goal 3: College & Career
4/15/2025 (3:30-4:30 PM) - DoT: AI Playground for Coaches
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Session Description: Be introduced to the history of AI, it's current place in education and explore some ways you can use AI tools to maximize your time. Walk away with prompts and structures to use AI for giving teacher feedback and data organization.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: AI
SFUSD Goal: Guardrail 3: Curriculum & Instruction
4/16/2025 (2:45-3:45 PM) - DoT: Introduction to the NEW SFUSD 6-8th Grade Digital Agency (Citizenship) Curriculum
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Session Description: Join us for an introduction to the new SFUSD Digital Agency curriculum created by the Digital Learning team for the middle grades. The purpose of the Digital Agency lessons is to promote students’ building and reflecting on their own digital habits and beginning to make small changes to develop a healthier digital life. There are lesson plans for teachers, activities for students, and also resources for parents around the topics covered including: My Digital Life, Media Balance, Social Media and Me, and Digital Kindness. You will have time to explore the lessons and resources.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Digital Agency
SFUSD Goal: Goal 3: College & Career
4/16/2025 (2:45-3:45 PM) - EVERFI: Prevention Education & Mental Wellness
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Session Description: EVERFI's Prevention Education & Mental Wellness course offerings overview (grades 2-12) - This session will provide an overview of learning modules that help to educate students on the science behind mental health, stress, and addiction, while helping them to develop healthy coping strategies, practice mindfulness, and support themselves and others struggling with mental health in their community. Teachers will receive full access to EVERFI’s health programs, including Mental Wellness Basics, Prescription Drug Safety, AlcoholEDU, and others.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Prevention/Social Emotional Learning
SFUSD Goal: Gaurdrail 2: Whole Child
4/17/2025 (3:30-4:15 PM) - NEWS LITERACY PROJECT: Making Sense of Data
Description: Analyzing and interpreting data, engaging in arguments using evidence, and using mathematics and computational thinking lays the foundation for students to think critically and evaluate and interpret information. Equipped with these strategies, students learn what to trust, share and act on. We will have time for participants to use the tools we share and will also invite you to share how you can use these resources in the classroom.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Media Literacy
SFUSD Goal: Goal 3: College & Career
4/23/2025 (2:45-3:45 PM) EVERFI: Digital Citizenship & STEM Education
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Session Description: EVERFI's Digital Citizenship & STEM Education course offerings overview (grades 6-12) - Now more than ever, it’s important that we are equipping students with the real-world skills and tools they need! From math and science at work in the game of hockey to STEM careers, environmental sustainability, and internet safety, we’ll review a variety of online and offline lessons that help bring STEM concepts to life, and empower students to be wise digital consumers - all at no cost to schools.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Digital Citizenship/STEM
SFUSD Goal: Goal 3: College & Career Readiness
4/30/2025 (2:45-3:45 PM) - EVERFI: Financial Literacy & College and Career Readiness
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Session Description: EVERFI's Financial Literacy & College and Career Readiness course offerings overview (grades 4-12) - Are your students equipped with the critical life skills they need to thrive beyond the classroom? Participants will learn how to integrate EVERFI's no cost, online financial literacy & college and career readiness courses in their classrooms to enhance current curriculum.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Financial Literacy/College & Career
SFUSD Goal: Goal 3: College & Career Readiness
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To Be Scheduled-SEESAW: Use Seesaw for Ongoing Formative Assessment and Online Test Fluency
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: GL1: Third Grade Literature
To Be Scheduled- DoT: Everyday Accessibility: Game-Changing, Built-in Tools that Benefit Everyone
Session Description: Explore the built-in features and settings that you and your students already hold in your hands, which can help with comprehending spoken and written content, writing, and translating. Choose between learning the accessibility features of Chromebooks, laptops, iPhones, iPads, and Androids. Please bring the device whose features you want to explore during this hands-on, self-guided tour, plus a device to watch tutorial videos on. Our goal is for you to leave this session with the belief that accessibility tools are for everyone!
Digital Learning Topic/Category: UDL/Accessibility
SFUSD Goal: Goal 1: 3rd Grade Literature
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DoT: Maximize Google Classroom for All Learners
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This session will go over the new features in Google Classroom and will offer opportunities for participants to practice with their own Google Classroom. We will review classroom organization and settings, get an introduction to new tools: practice sets, videos, vids and classroom groups.
Digital Learning Topic/Category: Differentiation
SFUSD Goal: Guardrail 3: Curriculum & Instruction
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
**Recording Coming Soon!** - 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
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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
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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
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