USD 475 WINFest '26

In this session, aimed at secondary teachers of all disciplines, we will dig into the tension between effort-based and mastery-based grading. We’ll look at academic research on grading, test anxiety, and achievement, then use real scenarios - “grade killer” exams, missing work, retakes, and falling performance against standards - as prompts for structured discussion. Participants will examine how their current gradebooks reflect (or contradict) their beliefs about learning and leave with 1-2 concrete changes they can try to bring practice closer to their philosophical ideal.

This class will give you confidence to use AI to help with lesson planning, projects, rubrics, choice boards, structuring assignments to meet individual needs, and even aid with communcation. This will help you work smarter and not harder. In this workshop teachers will have time to become comfortable using AI in their classroom by working with AI to structure a lesson.

Extension of Session #1 - Topics covered in Toolkit #2 are Consolidation, Meaningful Notes, CYU (Check Your Understanding) - Curricular Tasks and Thin-Slicing

This class will give you confidence to use AI to help with lesson planning, projects, rubrics, choice boards, structuring assignments to meet individual needs, and even aid with communcation. This will help you work smarter and not harder. In this workshop teachers will have time to become comfortable using AI in their classroom by working with AI to structure a lesson.