Allegheny Intermediate Unit

IES Practice Guide Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding K-3
2025-02-27 08:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | PA
This session will review the research and practical application of the four recommendations for teaching foundational reading skills to students in kindergarten through 3rd grade. Each recommendation includes implementation steps and solutions for common obstacles. The recommendations also summarize and rate supporting evidence. This guide is geared towards teachers, administrators, and other educators who want to improve their students’ foundational reading skills, and is a companion to the practice guide, Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade. To preview the practice guide, visit https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/PracticeGuide/21

Building AI Tools to Personalize Learning and Simplify Tasks
2025-02-27 08:30 - 15:30 | Allegheny Intermediate Unit, East Waterfront Drive, Homestead, PA, USA, 475 East Waterfront Drive, Homestead, PA, 15120, United States
Learn to build AI tools to personalize learning more effectively and efficiently than ever. Also, learn to automate your own routine tasks.

Description
Learn how to build AI tools, like chatbots, that are safe and customized to your classroom. Learning gets more efficient as we harness AI to personalize learning for students and automate our own routine tasks.

No experience is necessary–you will be amazed by what you can create in one day of learning!

What to Bring | Please bring a laptop or tablet, if possible
Who Should Attend | Educators interested in AI; no prior experience necessary.
Lunch will be provided.
