This weekend was spent at the Missouri Summit Conference #gafesummit
July 11th-12th
KC, MO
The conference was held at Crossroads Academy and the Kansas City Public Library. Both were beautiful! CAofKC just opened a really cool new space. I'm very intrigued by Crossroads and feel like it might be something I'd like to do at some point in my career!
Jeni, Susan, and I were selected to present three different presentations!
Globalizing your Classroom
FRIDAY:
We spent Friday morning on a google HangOut putting the final touches on the presentations. I was pretty lazy all day with the exception of meeting my Aunt Jan for lunch in Downtown LS and browsing some of the super cute boutiques!
Friday night, Kyle and I went over to Ryan and Laura's house for dinner. We ended up at a new Pizza Place in Westport called Artego Pizza. Awesome food, not so awesome service.
SATURDAY:
Saturday morning I was up bright and early making the drive to downtown KC for the conference. I got there at 7:30 (I'm an early bird / over-achiever). They had Panera breakfast for us while we waited for the kick off speaker, Rushton Hurley. Jeni and I picked up a great idea from him on how we can take our Changemakers PBL to the next step. He had some awesome ideas!
Click HERE to see the Schedule and access presentations.
Our first presentation on Tour Builder went really well! I left early and headed home to process everything I learned for the day. I've decided that I'm not very good at picking sessions. I am a "buy in" person and typically don't need to be convinced WHY I should do something. I need more of the HOW I can implement it in my classroom type sessions. Maybe I will get better at this eventually?
SUNDAY:
I headed back downtown bright and early again. The keynote speaker was Jay Atwood, a learning coach at the Singapore American School! He was a WOW! He was another "why" guy, but I really liked what he had to say. He re-energized me for the upcoming school year and gave me the confidence to try things without fear of failure.
My other takeaway was Kasey Ball with Shake Up Learning. She is my new "I want to be her when I grow up idol." She's from Dallas and was super cute and fun! I loved what she had to say and picked up a few new tools from her as well. I want to add menu style stuff to our current scheduling Google Forms as well as get some kids started on Books that Grow. I wish I would have attended her Struggling Readers Presentation. Shoot.
Her Pinterest Boards HERE.
Overall themes in education I see us moving towards: Globalization, Personalized Learning, Video/Digital Storytelling. I also see a huge shift to moving away from "THAT'S HOW I'TS ALWAYS BEEN DONE" and trying to innovate and create. Praise Jesus! Spreading creativity is my passion.
We presented twice more. I've reflected on this and I think we need to do more to get people UP and TALKING. Jeni and I talk until we are blue in the face and we need more room for questions and growing together as a room of educators.
I left after our presentations and headed home to Kyle! He had finished painting all the dressers, trimmed trees, and mowed the lawn. I watered the plants and picked up all the tree trimmings for him.
It was an exhausting weekend.
And now...a picture dump:
These two cuties watched me leave from the window!
It's not a Teacher Tech Conference if we all aren't on our phones tweeting!
Such a beautiful venue! KC Public Library for the win!
Finalizing details for our presentations.
So. Pretty.
My snuggle buddy on Sunday night.
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