Summary: Imagine if all of the problems for CTL courses were worked out and explained so that students could continue to learn outside of class.Taking a cue from Khan Academy and other successful teaching and learning sites, NJCTL has collaborated with high school student interns from Bergen County Technical School to create short video files of students solving and explaining physics problems. Using a SMART Board, microphone, and SMART recorder, students have worked out over 500 practice problems from the 9th-grade physics notebooks. These videos have ben uploaded to the NJCTL’s youtube channel. Come check out this amazing project and find out how your students can contribute.

Presentation File: CTL SAVVY.notebook

Strand: Technology
Location: Mallard
Presenter(s): Timothy Panebianco, Rosanna Satterfield
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Summary: In the Progressive Science Initiative (PSI), students are taking and passing AP science exams at up to 24 times the state rate; 100 teachers are receiving training in physics and chemistry; and, of those, more than 80 will become newly certified in those fields. PSI Methods have been used to create courses in all of high school science and K-12 mathematics (PMI). PSI and PMI use interactive white board and student responder technology, combined with a website for sharing resources (www.njctl.org) to create face-to-face intraschool and virtual interschool PLCs, enabling and empowering teachers. In the future, it is expected that creative educators will apply those same approaches to new content areas; imagination being the only limitation.

Strand: Methodology
Location: Lake
Presenter(s): Bryan Barzaga
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Summary: earn how one PSI teacher took students from learning about Forces and Gravity to sending a balloon to the Stratosphere and executing an experiment on NASA’s Microgravity Aircraft! The session will also include discussion about the importance of collaboration between STEM and the Humanities.

Presentation: NASA Presentation

Strand: School Report Outs
Location: Barn B
Presenter(s): Liz Mansfield-Henriquez, Laura Nardomarino, PSI
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Summary: Features from the Math Tools will be demonstrated and practiced. The use of equation editing, handwriting recognition for mathematical terms, shape tools, graph generation and advanced shape creation and manipulation will be explored. This SMART Notebook add on will allow Cartesian graphs, quadrant graphs and line graphs to be created. Shapes can also be divided, have interior angles and side lengths measured and vertices displayed.

Note: Attendees should bring a laptop that has SMART Notebook and Math Tools installed. A 30 day free trial version can be downloaded at SMART’s website.

Presentation: Download

Other Resources: New Math tools (videos included), New features of SMART Math tools (videos included)

Strand: Technology
Location: Mallard
Presenters: Melissa Axelsson, Giancarlo Brotto

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Summary: Participants will explore how to participate in, facilitate and incorporate professional collaboration into a progressive teaching and learning environment. Participants will engage in conversation on the importance of professional collaboration and investigate methods and strategies for collaboration, the need for collaboration in curriculum alignment and unit planning and its positive impact on students.

Strand: CTL Methodology
Location: Barn B
Presenter(s): Mike Maccarone
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Summary: In the Progressive Science Initiative (PSI), students are taking and passing AP science exams at up to 24 times the state rate; 100 teachers are receiving training in physics and chemistry; and, of those, more than 80 will become newly certified in those fields. PSI Methods have been used to create courses in all of high school science and K-12 mathematics (PMI). PSI and PMI use interactive white board and student responder technology, combined with a website for sharing resources (www.njctl.org) to create face-to-face intraschool and virtual interschool PLCs, enabling and empowering teachers. In the future, it is expected that creative educators will apply those same approaches to new content areas; imagination being the only limitation.

Presentation: Introduction to PSI-PMI Presentation (PowerPoint)

Strand: Methodology
Location: Teal
Presenter(s): Bryan Barzaga
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Summary: Features from the Math Tools will be demonstrated and practiced. The use of equation editing, handwriting recognition for mathematical terms, shape tools, graph generation and advanced shape creation and manipulation will be explored. This SMART Notebook add on will allow Cartesian graphs, quadrant graphs and line graphs to be created. Shapes can also be divided, have interior angles and side lengths measured and vertices displayed.

Note: Attendees should bring a laptop that has SMART Notebook and Math Tools installed. A 30 day free trial version can be downloaded at SMART’s website.

Strand: Technology
Location: Mallard
Presenters: Melissa Axelsson, Giancarlo Brotto

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