In Canyons School District, we believe that all stakeholders benefit from purposeful technology integration within the learning process, focusing on student achievement. Educational technology will be used to empower teachers, students, and other stakeholders to gain the knowledge and skills needed to adapt, create, consume, and connect responsibly and ethically with the broader world in preparation for meaningful life opportunities.
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This interactive session explores how teachers can guide students through a structured reading process that promotes inquiry, collaboration, and deeper understanding of texts. Participants will learn practical strategies to prepare students to engage with a text, facilitate collaborative reading and annotation, and extend learning beyond the text through meaningful discussion and reflection.
Using an Activate – Engage – Extend framework, the session will model strategies that help students build curiosity before reading, collaboratively analyze and annotate during reading, and synthesize their thinking after reading. Educators will experience classroom-ready routines that support student inquiry, structured collaboration, and deeper comprehension across content areas.
Participants will leave with concrete tools to help students: • Prepare for reading through inquiry-based activation strategies • Collaboratively read and annotate complex texts • Extend understanding through discussion, synthesis, and reflection activities
The session emphasizes practical, student-centered strategies that foster meaningful engagement with texts while building critical thinking and collaborative learning skills.
We will show how WICOR strategies can be utilized for every learner, with an emphasis on special education access. We plan to model and showcase at least one strategy for every WICOR element that can be used in most classrooms.
Effective collaboration between administrators and instructional coaches is essential for building instructional capacity and achieving school goals. In this panel session, principals and instructional coaches will share real-world experiences and strategies for building strong, productive partnerships grounded in trust, role clarity, and shared purpose. Panelists will highlight how they align around instructional priorities, use coaching to support teacher growth, and create systems that connect coaching to school improvement efforts. Participants will walk away with practical ideas and actionable approaches to strengthen the administrator–coach partnership in their own schools.
Andrew is the High School Science Specialist for the Instructional Supports Department. He is passionate about the implementation of 3D science in classrooms.
Sandy LeCheminant is an instructional coach and educational leader with over four decades of experience in public education. She specializes in personalized professional learning, data-informed instructional practices, and collaboration to enhance student achievement. Sandy supports... Read More →
Introduce teachers to a variety of cooperative learning strategies that would allow students to be engaged in the productive struggle of learning all without a device. Strategies can be used in any content area.
