Discover how your school library can be a powerful partner in teaching and learning. This session highlights the wide range of services, resources, and collaborative opportunities available through the library, along with practical ways to integrate them into your classroom to support literacy, inquiry, and student engagement. Students and teachers have access to dozens of curated databases and over 2 million books through the district's partnership with the Indianapolis Public Library. Come learn how to find them!
This is a focused work session for high ability point people to collaboratively align Jacob’s Ladder passages with the CKLA curriculum in preparation for the 2026–27 school year. Participants will work directly with CKLA units to identify, select, and map appropriate Jacob’s Ladder texts and thinking tasks that extend comprehension and support deeper analytical thinking for high-ability learners. The goal of the session is to produce a coherent, usable alignment that can be implemented consistently across classrooms and grade levels. By the end of the session, teams will have completed initial alignment work and established clear next steps to finalize resources for classroom use in 2026–27.
This session focuses on how intentional classroom design can promote language production and student discourse. Participants will explore the use of narrative input charts as tools to model language, support comprehension, and scaffold speaking and writing. The session highlights how a thoughtfully designed environment can provide ongoing language supports that help students confidently produce language and engage in meaningful conversations.
As MSDLT moves student discipline management out of Smartsheet and into Skyward for the 2026-2027 school year, it is critical that teachers understand the new process. This training will include how teachers can submit concerns about students, as well as discipline incidents, through Skyward, and review best practices for doing so.
In this session, we’ll look at how to move students past basic button-pushing. We will start with tough standardized testing problems that Desmos handles in seconds. Then, we’ll dive into practical, year-round strategies. The goal is to remove arithmetic barriers so we can focus on deeper analysis.
From basic needs (food & clothing) to crisis support, join us in this session to find out about the resources available to your students through the Office of Student Services. Meet District Family Liaisons and find out about how your building-level Liaison can support students and help engage families to improve student attendance and achievement.
This session provides an overview of a K–8 Tiered System of Supports in mathematics, with a focus on planning and implementing targeted interventions for students who are not yet meeting grade-level expectations.
This session helps educators understand the differences between scaffolding, accommodations, and modifications and how to effectively use each in the general education classroom. Participants will learn how to provide appropriate supports that promotes access to grade-level content, maintain high expectations, and meet diverse learner needs while aligning with inclusive practices and IEP/ILP requirements.
This session will focus on using School AI spaces to help students monitor their learning and track their progress towards skill mastery. Participants will be provided with fill-in-the-blank prompts they can use in SchoolAI to set up their spaces, as well as details for how to export and use the data, if they so choose.
Participants will gain practical strategies for incorporating oracy into classroom instruction, from planning through implementation. They will also learn how to craft effective language targets that guide purposeful oracy interactions that support the continued growth of students’ language development.
This session explores the power of intentional spiral review as a key strategy for improving student retention and confidence. Participants will examine how to move beyond routine skill practice to strengthen number sense, fluency, and problem-solving through spaced practice and retrieval. Attendees will leave with practical strategies, examples, and resources to implement meaningful spiral review in their classrooms immediately.
This session provides a practical overview of special education designed specifically for general education teachers. Participants will explore the major disability categories, how students qualify for services, including the exclusionary factors that must be considered during evaluations. The presentation will also clarify the important role general educators play throughout the evaluation process. By the end of the session, teachers will have a clearer understanding of the referral and evaluation process and their role as a member of the multidisciplinary team.
From basic needs (food & clothing) to crisis support, join us in this session to find out about the resources available to your students through the Office of Student Services. Meet District Family Liaisons and find out about how your building-level Liaison can support students and help engage families to improve student attendance and achievement.
This session focuses on Spanish Literacy Development for Elementary Dual Language Teachers, highlighting best practices for building strong literacy skills in Spanish. Participants will explore how to intentionally develop oracy, reading, writing, grammar, and foundational skills to support students in deepening their Spanish proficiency.
This session will focus on using School AI spaces to help students monitor their learning and track their progress towards skill mastery. Participants will be provided with fill-in-the-blank prompts they can use in SchoolAI to set up their spaces, as well as details for how to export and use the data, if they so choose.
Cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated and more prevalent every year. This session will explore different types of cyber attacks and best practices to avoid compromising the security of your data, your students' data, and our organization's data. This session will explore password security, A.I. data sharing, email phishing, and other potentially harmful components of teachers’ day-to-day tasks.
This session will explore the term “high-leverage practice” which has been defined as “practices that are essential to effective teaching and fundamental to supporting student learning. The high-leverage practices (HLPs) are structured around four key domains: Collaboration, Data-Driven Planning, Instruction in Behavior and Academics, and Intensifying and Intervening as Needed. Within each domain are foundational pillars and integrated practices that emphasize inclusive teaching approaches. While HLPs were originally designed for special education teachers, HLPs are designed to support all educators in meeting the needs of every student, which is why this session will help to provide resources available for a range of roles involved in implementing these practices as well as strategies to begin introducing these practices within your classroom.
This Kindergarten session will focus on decomposing numbers through hands-on, engaging instruction. Participants will share strategies for instruction and ways to differentiate to support all learners while aligning to grade-level expectations. Educators will leave with practical tools and ideas that can be immediately implemented in their classrooms.
