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Do our students have the skills they need to get a job and succeed in life when they graduate? Have they mastered the 4 C's (Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity)? One way to help prepare our students is with Google's free Applied Digital Skills curriculum. This program is made of self-paced, video-based, engaging, hands-on projects that combine tech, job, and life skills. Learn how you and your students can use this curriculum in any subject area to engage your students and extend their learning.

We are all literacy teachers--yes, even you! The National Center for Education Statistics reports that children who develop powerful literacy skills not only read better than their peers, but they also develop early numeracy skills at a faster rate and write with greater proficiency. Supporting literacy in all content areas, at all grade levels, for all kids, all the time is a mission statement that should be shared by every stakeholder in a school building. In this session, Weston will model how innovative technology tools can be combined with the most effective reading strategies to promote literacy in all content areas.

One of the most underutilized tools in GSuite for K12 is Google Drawing. In this session participants will learn how to use Google Drawing to create killer graphics, sweet logos & fantastic social media filters that can be added to other GSuite apps like slides and forms.