Making Parents Your Best Partners Using Remind PD for NYCDOE Teachers 5/24/17

Making Parents Your Best Partners Using Remind

Presented by Clemencia Acevedo Twitter: @Acevedo493 

For NYCDOE TEACHERS:

New technology to the public offers educators a variety of choices to use free digital tools to reach out and connect with parents to encourage their children follow constructive learning attitudes, positive behavior and supervise the completion of assignments. Participants will learn how to use Remind features to connect and communicate with parents who speak a variety of languages to help and motivate students succeed in school. Note: Your attendance will count towards your PD hours and receive Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) credit. Register in the link below

When: Wednesday, May 24th, 2017

Time: 4:00-5:30pm Where:  Urban Science Academy, 1000 Teller Ave. Bronx, NY Room 304PD credit: Attendance will count towards your PD hours and receive CTLE credit For more information, email me at cacevedo9@schools.nyc.gov 

Professional Development session is made possible by iZONE  Twitter: @InnovateNYCedu

REGISTER TO ATTEND PD: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-parents-your-best-partners-using-remind-tickets-34255211259

Upcoming PD in the Bronx - Wednesday, May 17

Google Classroom: Making Teaching Successful and Easier

Presented by Clemencia Acevedo Twitter: @Acevedo493 

For NYCDOE Schools ONLY.

This session will explore key features offered by Google Classroom to improve student's literacy and productivity. Participants will learn and experience how this App facilitates teachers to post assignments, share resources and supports students to complete assignments and collaborate with peers online.

When: Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Time: 4:00-5:30pm 

Where:  Urban Science Academy, 1000 Teller Ave. Bronx, NY Room 316

PD credit: Attendance will count towards your PD hours and receive CTLE credit 

For more information, email me at cacevedo9@schools.nyc.gov 

Professional Development session is made possible by iZONE  Twitter: @InnovateNYCedu

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Twitter PD 

Meeting date/time: April 6^th at 6:00 pm

#MediaLiteracy with @KellyMendoza of @CommonSenseEd - #NYCSchoolsTechChat

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Professional Development Opportunity at Apple SoHo 4/18 Free!

Are you looking to learn about how to support for English Language Learners?

Apple for Education provides PDs for teachers once a moth at Apple SoHo location. The next one coming up is on Tuesday, April 18, 2017. 

Registration Link, click here

See you there!

Clemencia
@Acevedo493

Tech Tools and Social Media for Parent Engagement

Empowering Parents Through Tech Tools and Social Media
by Clemencia Acevedo

Teachers agree that parents are key to success in children's education. We know that their involvement in their child’s learning makes a huge positive difference. However, connecting with parents to inform them about their child’s learning needs and progress in class is a challenge because teachers don’t have enough time available in their daily schedule to make frequent phone calls, send text messages or write emails. But innovations in technology are gradually assisting teachers overcome this problem. Technology companies such as Remind, Apple, Facebook and Google  are partnering with public education departments to offer free and useful tech tools that teachers can use to engage students in learning and involve parents in the academic needs, progress and success of their children.

Parents want to be informed how their children are performing in class. They want want to know what they can do from their end to ensure that their children learn something to be able to do high school and college work in the future. At least, that’s the message I have received in my communication with my student’s parents. Even if parents work long hours and do hard work, they still care and are willing to schedule a best time to talk or reply to teacher’s messages because they want their children to succeed. Keeping in mind this belief, I have found different ways to communicate with parents fast and effective. I have followed and incorporated in my practice how teachers in the city and across the US have utilized tech tools and social media to communicate and collaborate with parents to guide young learners follow constructive behavior and help them finish important class assignments.

The use of technology and social media is gaining interest to support teaching and learning. This February, I presented Collaborating with Parents and Community Using Remind and & Social Media Tech Tools at Apple SoHo Store as part of Apple’s outreach to teachers. The focus was to share with other educators how I have been using tech tools and social media to assist parents play a more active role in their children’s education.

View presentation slides for more information

    Apple SoHo presentation - Parent Engagement

Using social media tools for education is a new phenomenon, many are hesitant to employ them in teaching. This is a short list of excellent online places teachers can ask questions.

Facebook:

#NYCSchoolsTech

Closed FB group of amazing leading DOE teachers who share info about tech for teaching

Blogs: 

Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator

Amazing educator who brings enlightened teachers together to ask and answer questions about teaching and tech

 

Fordham Digital Literacies Collaborative 

Amazing study group of teachers in the Tri-State Area who discuss about tech tools to develop literacy skills

On the question of using Social Media in Education

Finally, two useful Apple resources I learned after the presentation teachers and parents can use.

Use Built-in-features in Ipad to become a better reader and support ELL - Learning with Ipad- Supporting English Language Learners

Become an Apple Teacher- Teachers can apply to become Apple Teachers 

EdTech, Education and Business

EdTech Meets Education and Business @ NY EdTech Week

by Clemencia Acevedo 

On Tuesday, December 20, 2016, I had the opportunity to attend  NY EdTech Week. Thank you IZONE, Startedaccelerator and NY EdTech Week team for the ticket! Such a wonderful and encouraging day for educators, Ed tech creators and investors. The education and tech business community are building partnerships to improve teaching and impact student learning regardless of their social and economic background.

This collaborative initiative reminded me about the books I read for my history class at Hunter College on how innovative individuals, investors and government at the local and national level worked together in the first half of the 1800s in the United States and as a result led to a massive economic growth, boom in the Arts&Culture and improved the quality of life for some sectors of the American population. It also reminded me of that vibrant atmosphere full of thinking, knowledge and culture when I worked in the film industry and networked with film festival directors, filmmakers and producers in film festivals such as The World FF (CANADA) and Berlin FF (Germany).

NY EdTech Week featured speakers who are now making a difference in education driven by the belief that our students can succeed in school and acquire the knowledge and skills they now need to secure a decent life for themselves, their families and community at large.  It feels so good to know that such people exist and be inspired by their wisdom and actions.

Hear what educators, business men/women, reformers and artists had to say!

Carmen Farina, NYC Schools Chancellor of the NYC Department of Education 

                      Jim Shelton, Head of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Education Division 

                          David Kirkland, Associate Professor at NYU Steinhardt 
                             & Alex Rappaport, Co-Founder, CEO of Flocabulary 

              Ike Ramos, Educator and District Sales Manager & Artists of Flocabulary

                                                      Larry Berger, CEO Amplify

              AQ&A Session with Jeanne Allen of the Center for Education Reform
              Jim Shelton, Head of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Education Division 
                                                              & others 

Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Tips for #BacktoSchoolNYC During Tonight's #NYCSch...

Hope everyone join us today for #NYCSchoolsTechChat



Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Tips for #BacktoSchoolNYC During Tonight's #NYCSch...: I hope you'll join us for our fifth monthly #NYCSchoolsTechChat taking place today, Thursday, September 1st at 3:30 pm Eastern Standard...



Questions:

• Q1 What are you most looking forward to implementing when you go #BacktoSchoolNYC this year? #NYCSchoolsTechChat
• Q2 Share your best #BacktoSchoolNYC tips & tricks. #NYCSchoolsTechChat
• Q3 What technology tools are you looking forward to using when you go #BacktoSchoolNYC? #NYCSchoolsTechChat
• Q4 Give a shout out & share a past, present, or future #NYCSchoolsTechChat participant who you plan to learn with/from when you go #BacktoSchoolNYC.
• Q5  Share links to your favorite books, sites, spaces, resources for #BacktoSchoolNYC Success. #NYCSchoolsTechChat