Welcome to the iDCPS Conference 2025 registration site! Before registering for sessions, you will need to create an account by clicking on the "Sign Up" option on the menu bar at the top and selecting "Sign Up with Email" (use school email address). Once an account has been created, you will be able to sign up for sessions. If you attended iDCPS Conference 2024 then you already have an account created and should use that same account to register for sessions.
You will need to select a session for all time slots. Please be sure to review the conference website for sample schedules and sessions that are required for your position.
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What habits or mindsets do you want to carry with you this school year to protect your peace? Join this interactive, refreshing self-care workshop designed just for YOU. Discover how to B.A.L.A.N.C.E. effectively, even when life doesn’t slow down, and leave with practical tools to restore calm, clarity, and control.
If you love creating designs, presentations, and posting to your favorite social media accounts, come learn some techniques and tricks of using Canva and leave with basic knowledge and where to go to keep learning this exciting application for education! The following will be covered: Finding the right template, using free images or uploading an image, editing the template to make it your own, making custom content, and printing and saving your design. **You will need to bring your laptop to this session.
This session will be geared towards individuals with very limited experience using Google Sheets to more easily compile, organize and communicate data. Topics will include conditional formatting, data validation to incorporate drop down boxes, simple formulas, checkbox usage, sorting, hiding data, protecting fields, and sharing tabs to existing and new spreadsheets. Topics covered: Conditional formatting, Data Validation with drop down boxes, Simple Formulas, Adding Checkboxes, Sorting/Filtering/ Hiding Data, and Protecting and Sharing Data. **You will need to bring your laptop to this session.
Ever wonder how to get things done faster and better? This session is all about showing you how to work smarter, not harder. Learn cool tips and tricks to make tasks easier and achieve your goals. We will be delving into how to use tools Google Suite, One Note, Microsoft Suite, etc. along with some custom productivity templates to help you track completed tasks, monitor and coordinate projects, and plan tasks and projects in the future. **You will need to bring your laptop to this session.
This session will introduce educators to the basics of AI in the classroom. Learn how AI can support student engagement, simplify tasks, and inspire creativity with simple tools and apps. By focusing on hope, participants will see how easy and impactful integrating AI can be for both teaching and student learning.
Ready to level up your lessons with eye-catching visuals and engaging student projects? This session introduces secondary teachers to Canva, a powerful (and free!) design tool that makes creating professional-quality presentations, infographics, worksheets, and classroom materials easy and fun. Whether you're brand new to Canva or looking to explore advanced features, you'll leave with practical tips, ready-to-use templates, and creative ideas to boost both instruction and student engagement. Bring your device and get ready to design!
In this session, experienced educators will explore how to integrate AI into the classroom to boost student engagement and prepare future AI users and responsible citizens. Discover how AI can free up time from menial tasks, allowing teachers to focus on creativity and student-centered activities. Participants will learn practical AI applications that help foster dynamic learning environments while sharing strategies for overcoming challenges in the classroom and exchanging ideas with colleagues who are actively using AI.
Do you work with large datasets in Google Sheets and wish you could make sense of it all? This training dives into powerful tools like filters, pivot tables, and charts to help you organize, analyze, and present your data with ease. Through hands-on practice, you'll discover how to quickly extract key insights, create dynamic visualizations, and simplify complex datasets. By the end of the session, you'll be equipped with practical techniques to unlock the full potential of your data in Google Sheets.
This program provides an overview of anxiety and depression in youth and offers strategies for supporting those identified students in your role in the school community. Tier 1, 2, and 3 supports will be discussed, and time will be provided for questions. Topics to be covered include: differentiating between anxiety and stress, differentiating between depression and sadness, warning signs and symptoms, appropriate responses to anxiety behaviors, behavioral de-escalation, suicidal ideation in youth, mitigating long-term effects of mental health issues at a young age and the role of supporting adults.
Are you making the most of Infinite Campus? This training highlights powerful features of the student information system that you might not know exist. Learn how to streamline communication by emailing parents/students or messaging through parent and student portals, generate missing assignment reports, export your gradebook, and create custom ad hoc and using built-in reports. Packed with practical tips, this session will empower you to use Infinite Campus more efficiently and enhance your connection with students and parents.
This session will introduce educators to the basics of AI in the classroom. Learn how AI can support student engagement, simplify tasks, and inspire creativity with simple tools and apps. By focusing on hope, participants will see how easy and impactful integrating AI can be for both teaching and student learning.
In this session, experienced educators will explore how to integrate AI into the classroom to boost student engagement and prepare future AI users and responsible citizens. Discover how AI can free up time from menial tasks, allowing teachers to focus on creativity and student-centered activities. Participants will learn practical AI applications that help foster dynamic learning environments while sharing strategies for overcoming challenges in the classroom and exchanging ideas with colleagues who are actively using AI.
Do you work with large datasets in Google Sheets and wish you could make sense of it all? This training dives into powerful tools like filters, pivot tables, and charts to help you organize, analyze, and present your data with ease. Through hands-on practice, you'll discover how to quickly extract key insights, create dynamic visualizations, and simplify complex datasets. By the end of the session, you'll be equipped with practical techniques to unlock the full potential of your data in Google Sheets.
Ready to take your productivity game to the next level? In this high-energy session, you’ll draft your own “game plan” for tackling tasks, managing time, and staying focused. Just like a great football team, success comes from strategy, execution, and minimizing fumbles.
We’ll break down key “plays” for organization, explore digital tools that act as your all-star teammates, and learn how to call the right audibles when distractions threaten to throw you off course. You’ll also develop a strong offensive strategy for setting goals and a solid defense against procrastination.
Perfect for anyone looking to score big on efficiency, this session will help you create a personalized productivity playbook. Walk away with winning techniques to run your day like a championship team—because productivity isn’t about working harder, it’s about playing smarter!
Discover how Root Robots, Code & Go Mice, and Indy Cars can spark creativity, problem-solving, and perseverance in students of all ages. This hands-on session will empower educators—regardless of coding experience—to integrate robotics into their classrooms, fostering heart, hope, and heroism through engaging, accessible STEM activities. Walk away with ready-to-use ideas that make a big impact with little bots!
Are you making the most of Infinite Campus? This training highlights powerful features of the student information system that you might not know exist. Learn how to streamline communication by emailing parents/students or messaging through parent and student portals, generate missing assignment reports, export your gradebook, and create custom ad hoc and using built-in reports. Packed with practical tips, this session will empower you to use Infinite Campus more efficiently and enhance your connection with students and parents.
This session will introduce educators to the basics of AI in the classroom. Learn how AI can support student engagement, simplify tasks, and inspire creativity with simple tools and apps. By focusing on hope, participants will see how easy and impactful integrating AI can be for both teaching and student learning.
Big ideas and complex concepts in math and literacy are accessible to our youngest learners. To make sense of big concepts, we begin with familiar, concrete objects, next translate these into images, and then connect these with language. Throughout we engage in playful learning that is empowering, meaningful, and joyful. Come explore manipulatives that bring to life big math and literacy concepts. We'll experience ways to move from concrete to pictorial to abstract with big ideas, including phonological awareness, letter knowledge, number sense, measurement, algebraic and geometric reasoning, and writing.
In this one-hour session, teachers will explore how Empty Patchy Beard can be used in kindergarten through sixth-grade classrooms to teach self-expression, empathy, and uniqueness. The session begins with a read-aloud, followed by a discussion of key messages. Teachers will participate in interactive activities like drawing, role-playing, and a creative “beard building” activity where students symbolize their strengths. Instructional strategies will focus on using the book for social-emotional learning, reading comprehension, and creative writing. Teachers will also receive lesson plans with activities like writing prompts and group discussions to engage students. By the end of the session, teachers will have practical tools to incorporate the book into their classrooms. Each teacher will be given a copy of Empty Patchy Beard to use with their students, making it a valuable resource for fostering inclusion and creativity.
Provide guidance for staff interested in providing instruction to Homebound and home based students. During the orientation, we will review the process, forms that are required, and answer questions.
In this session, experienced educators will explore how to integrate AI into the classroom to boost student engagement and prepare future AI users and responsible citizens. Discover how AI can free up time from menial tasks, allowing teachers to focus on creativity and student-centered activities. Participants will learn practical AI applications that help foster dynamic learning environments while sharing strategies for overcoming challenges in the classroom and exchanging ideas with colleagues who are actively using AI.
Do you work with large datasets in Google Sheets and wish you could make sense of it all? This training dives into powerful tools like filters, pivot tables, and charts to help you organize, analyze, and present your data with ease. Through hands-on practice, you'll discover how to quickly extract key insights, create dynamic visualizations, and simplify complex datasets. By the end of the session, you'll be equipped with practical techniques to unlock the full potential of your data in Google Sheets.
Leaving this session, teachers will walk away with hands on, multisensory, and direct activities to enhance their phonics lessons. Presenters will discuss open and closed syllables, diagraphs, blends, vowel rules, VCe, soft C and G, r-controlled vowels, and more! Teachers will leave with new or improved ways to teach students the difficult English language.
Ready to take your productivity game to the next level? In this high-energy session, you’ll draft your own “game plan” for tackling tasks, managing time, and staying focused. Just like a great football team, success comes from strategy, execution, and minimizing fumbles.
We’ll break down key “plays” for organization, explore digital tools that act as your all-star teammates, and learn how to call the right audibles when distractions threaten to throw you off course. You’ll also develop a strong offensive strategy for setting goals and a solid defense against procrastination.
Perfect for anyone looking to score big on efficiency, this session will help you create a personalized productivity playbook. Walk away with winning techniques to run your day like a championship team—because productivity isn’t about working harder, it’s about playing smarter!
Discover how Root Robots, Code & Go Mice, and Indy Cars can spark creativity, problem-solving, and perseverance in students of all ages. This hands-on session will empower educators—regardless of coding experience—to integrate robotics into their classrooms, fostering heart, hope, and heroism through engaging, accessible STEM activities. Walk away with ready-to-use ideas that make a big impact with little bots!
When we think of students with executive function challenges, we often associate them with ADHD. However, these difficulties can affect all students. This session will explore the core components of executive functioning, its impact on academic achievement, and evidence-based strategies to support and strengthen these skills in the classroom.
"Uh-oh! Feeling a little tight on time for planning your social studies and science lessons? If you said, “YES, YES, I am!” then this session is just what you need! The Dinwiddie Elementary Librarians are here to save the day! In this session, we’ll show you how PebbleGo can be your secret time saving weapon for your social studies and science lessons. What is PebbleGo? Well, it’s a magical database full of nonfiction articles and a few select ebooks that your students (and you!) can use to dive into their research. These articles are curriculum-aligned, meaning you’ll get cross-curricular goodness that makes both you and your students look like wizards! By the end of this session, you’ll leave with ready-to-go lessons to use immediately in your classroom. Plus, you'll get to connect with your librarian and discover all the cool ways they can support your lessons too! Join us for a fun, easy-peasy way to enhance your social studies and science with PebbleGo!"
"Uh-oh! Feeling a little tight on time for planning your social studies and science lessons? If you said, “YES, YES, I am!” then this session is just what you need! The Dinwiddie Elementary Librarians are here to save the day! In this session, we’ll show you how PebbleGo can be your secret time saving weapon for your social studies and science lessons. What is PebbleGo? Well, it’s a magical database full of nonfiction articles and a few select ebooks that your students (and you!) can use to dive into their research. These articles are curriculum-aligned, meaning you’ll get cross-curricular goodness that makes both you and your students look like wizards! By the end of this session, you’ll leave with ready-to-go lessons to use immediately in your classroom. Plus, you'll get to connect with your librarian and discover all the cool ways they can support your lessons too! Join us for a fun, easy-peasy way to enhance your social studies and science with PebbleGo!"
Are you making the most of Infinite Campus? This training highlights powerful features of the student information system that you might not know exist. Learn how to streamline communication by emailing parents/students or messaging through parent and student portals, generate missing assignment reports, export your gradebook, and create custom ad hoc and using built-in reports. Packed with practical tips, this session will empower you to use Infinite Campus more efficiently and enhance your connection with students and parents.
This session will introduce educators to the basics of AI in the classroom. Learn how AI can support student engagement, simplify tasks, and inspire creativity with simple tools and apps. By focusing on hope, participants will see how easy and impactful integrating AI can be for both teaching and student learning.
Wean the kids off Wikipedia and Google. You don’t even need to leave your classroom. Feel confident that your students are using resources specifically curated and vetted for them. Provide IEP and EL accommodations with a click. Whether you assign a brief task or a major project, the online databases available to DMS/DHS students offer many of the choices and accommodations that teachers can use to meet individual needs. Participants will create a brief assignment incorporating the databases.
Provide guidance for staff interested in providing instruction to Homebound and home based students. During the orientation, we will review the process, forms that are required, and answer questions.
In this session, experienced educators will explore how to integrate AI into the classroom to boost student engagement and prepare future AI users and responsible citizens. Discover how AI can free up time from menial tasks, allowing teachers to focus on creativity and student-centered activities. Participants will learn practical AI applications that help foster dynamic learning environments while sharing strategies for overcoming challenges in the classroom and exchanging ideas with colleagues who are actively using AI.
Do you work with large datasets in Google Sheets and wish you could make sense of it all? This training dives into powerful tools like filters, pivot tables, and charts to help you organize, analyze, and present your data with ease. Through hands-on practice, you'll discover how to quickly extract key insights, create dynamic visualizations, and simplify complex datasets. By the end of the session, you'll be equipped with practical techniques to unlock the full potential of your data in Google Sheets.
Looking for a fun and creative way to tell stories? In this hands-on session, you’ll learn the fundamentals of comic book design, from crafting compelling characters to laying out engaging panels. Whether you're an artist, writer, or educator, or just someone who wants to learn a new skill, this workshop will show you how to blend visuals and storytelling to bring ideas to life.
Using digital tools like Canva, you'll create your own comic. This session is perfect for teachers looking to introduce a creative storytelling method to their students—comics can be a powerful tool for literacy, engagement, and self-expression!
By the end, you'll leave with the ability to create a unique comic of your own and ideas for using comics in the classroom. No drawing experience is needed—just bring your creativity and enthusiasm!
Sip some tea or coffee and join us to talk about the benefits of building a positive culture in your classroom or workplace. Enjoy listening to uplifting stories from others, and share how you find and create joy in your school!
When we think of students with executive function challenges, we often associate them with ADHD. However, these difficulties can affect all students. This session will explore the core components of executive functioning, its impact on academic achievement, and evidence-based strategies to support and strengthen these skills in the classroom.
This session will focus on procedures and weekly planning that create order in the classroom. Points of emphasis will center on "chunking" essential knowledge through a variety of instructional practices and the importance daily routines play in classroom management.
In this session, we will discuss how to empower your students to take the lead and fully become student leaders. We will give tips and tricks that allow us as advisors/club sponsors to be as prepared and successful as possible, along with ways to manage our time and ensure that we are keeping ourselves on track to better serve our students. Details on effective field trip planning and money management will also be shared to ensure a successful school year!
