Come explore various activities you can use to engage and empower students and build a collaborative classroom community. Participants will engage in a series of activities that strengthen relationships, make students feel valued, and emphasize positive mindsets, including Daily Questions, Visual Learning Selfies, Circle Sharing Routines, Vision Boards, Mathematical Mindsets, and more. There will be time to discuss, brainstorm, and iterate on ideas to make them more relevant to your classroom context as well as share related ideas that have been effective for you. We will discuss how making space for student reflection and relationship-building leads to student success, and why allocating precious time to these efforts is important. Participants will leave with activities they can start using the next day.
Rayna Freedman is a 5th grade teacher at the Jordan/Jackson Elementary School in Mansfield, MA. She has taught grades 3-5 and is an ITS. She is working on her doctorate through Northeastern as she hopes to change the field of education some day. Rayna is President of MassCUE and has been presenting at the annual conference since 2010. She is a Google Level 2 certified educator, a BrainPOP certified educator, Flipgrid Ambassador, Fablevision Ambassador and Wakelet Ambassador. Rayna has presented for ISTE, Ed Tech Teacher, Tech and Learning, Medfield Digital Learning Day, FETC, BPLC, and BLC.