Use Technology, Freckle Math, to Identify and Close Skill Gaps to Drive Math Success for All Students

It can be a challenge to help students master higher-level math skills—and it’s also one of the most important things we can do to prepare them to succeed in school and beyond. Students with stronger math skills are more likely to graduate high school, graduate college, have ambitious career goals, and earn higher salaries.
Yet it does not work to simply place students in higher-level math content and hope they succeed. We need to successfully transition them to more and more challenging content. Explore how Renaissance® combines assessment, instruction, and practice to help you keep all students on track for math success.

Renaissance® applies its proven, data-driven educational technology to amplify the effectiveness of classroom teachers so that students of all levels can achieve their full potentials. By giving teachers the right insight, tools, and resources, Renaissance helps teachers teach better, students learn better, and school administrators lead better.

Speakers: Becky Klais and Ronda Oyen | Ronda.Oyen@renaissance.com  

Company Website: www.renaissance.com

Twitter Handle: @RenLearnUS

Give Your Students the Advantage

This session brings out the challenge students and schools are facing with the legitimacy, tracking, and encouragement that goes along with extracurricular activities. Learn about new technologies that help administration and faculty save time, increase student involvement, and give your students the competitive edge.

Total Student is an all-in-one extracurricular management platform for schools. Our software helps you manage, track, and increase student involvement.

Speaker: Casey Seidl, Co-Founder & CEO | casey@totalstudent.io

Company Website: www.totalstudent.io

Twitter Handle: @total_student

Leveraging Library and School Based Content for Student Success

Learn how leading schools are taking a holistic approach with digital content to support student achievement anytime, anywhere. We’ll also cover how the new Sora reading app can serve as an invaluable portal to your public library’s digital collection for greater reading and learning opportunities.

OverDrive Education is the leading global digital reading platform for K-12, offering the industry’s largest catalog of ebooks, audiobooks, and streaming video. As a 100% digital company serving 23,000+ schools worldwide, OverDrive combines the technology you need with the content you want to support reading and learning in the classroom, library, and home.

Speaker: Connie Bowman, Account Executive | cbowman@rakuten.overdrive.com

Company Website: https://overdrive.com/schools

Twitter Handle: @OverDriveEd

Session information coming soon!

Vocabulary.com is a platform for systematic vocabulary improvement that adapts to the needs of individual students. Used in over 40,000 schools, Vocabulary.com is proven by research to improve literacy skills. Our platform integrates with all curriculum and allows teachers to create activities based on any text. We’ll identify each students’ trouble words and work with them until they achieve mastery.

Company Website: www.vocabulary.com

Twitter Handle: @Vocabulary.com

College Readiness with the Blindfold Off / ACT readiness

Explore how and why more and more Wisconsin high schools are abandoning test-prep and turning to CERT as the primary assessment and remediation program targeting the ACT College Readiness Standards to drastically improve college readiness as measured by the ACT.

The College Equipped Readiness Tool (CERT) is an ACT based online assessment and remediation program that drastically approves ACT scores and college readiness for Wisconsin students.

Speaker: Stirling Sampson, Administrative Consultant | buddy.sampson@certforschools.com

Company Website: www.certforschools.com

Twitter Handle: @certforschools

Phidgets – Take Coding to the Next Level

Phidgets are interactive USB sensors that make physical computing easy. In this hands-on session, you will experience our introductory kit to learn the basics. Afterwards, learn about additional educational kits or one of hundreds of other sensors. All attendees go home with two FREE kits and one sensor ($50+ value).

Phidgets Inc. designs interactive USB sensors that excite students about coding by bringing their projects to life. Simply plug in a Phidgets sensor, code in your favorite language, and watch your ideas come alive. These tools are used by thousands of STEAM professionals globally, and are now available to classrooms.

Speaker: Lucas Pacentrilli, Education Director | lmpacent@phidgets.com

Company Website: www.phidgets.com

Twitter Handle: @PhidgetsInc