BrainPOP Team

Reel Learning, Real Impact: Deepening Students’ Engagement with BrainPOP Movies

Join the BrainPOP professional learning team for an in-booth modeling session where we’ll dive into an effective instructional routine that empowers students’ background-building across the content areas using BrainPOP’s topic movies and Pause Points while simultaneously honing note-taking, discourse, and summarization skills.

Beyond Completion: Maximize Learning with BrainPOP's Teacher Dashboard

Your students have completed a BrainPOP assignment. Now what? Join the BrainPOP professional learning team to learn how to efficiently and effectively use the BrainPOP Teacher Dashboard to view students’ performance on BrainPOP quizzes, challenges, and Pause Points and drive your next steps for individual, small, and whole-group instruction that support students’ background knowledge and literacy skills.

Word Wonders: Elevating Multilingual Vocabulary Development with BrainPOP 

Join the BrainPOP professional learning team to learn how to engage your multi-lingual learners in vocabulary instruction while supporting their knowledge and background-building across the content areas with BrainPOP! In this brief in-booth workshop, the BrainPOP professional learning team will model a powerful strategy that marries BrainPOP’s topic movies with our Make-a-Map activity to support language and learning.

From Data to Action: Analyzing and Interpreting Assessment Data

Educators are relying more on assessments to understand students' learning. Join Dr. Melissa Hogan, BrainPOP's Director of Efficacy Research as she explores methods for educators to interpret data efficiently and decide on the right course of action. The focus will be on employing two crucial protocols within the Data Cycle of Inquiry: Patterns of Need and Root Cause Analysis.

Science of Reading and BrainPOP’s New Literacy Focus

In the context of the nation grappling with decreasing scores in reading assessments, the importance of literacy instruction has intensified. Join Dr. Melissa Hogan, BrainPOP's Director of Efficacy Research as she explores the convergence of the Science of Reading and Universal Design for Learning offers promising solutions. This discussion will delve into that convergence, providing educators with tactics to create inclusive literacy instruction that emphasizes comprehension and the construction of knowledge.

Guest Speakers

Empowering Students through Engineering Design

Nick (aka The Nerdy Teacher) has previously won ISTE teacher of the year and will be doing a session on engineering design approaches and the transferrable skills these lessons can foster. His session will be grounded in an inquiry-driven science approach showing how teachers can bring these theoretical concepts to life in the classroom using BPS and our engineering projects.

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Nicholas Provenzano

TheNerdyTeacher

CBE Spotlight

My BrainPOP Top 5: A Spotlight on 5 Essential Tools in the BrainPOP Toolkit

Are you ready to unlock the power of BrainPOP in your classroom? Join this session for a "CBE aha!" moment as we dive into the top 5 features that will supercharge your teaching. We'll explore interactive tools, engaging activities, and curriculum-aligned resources designed to ignite learning and boost student engagement. Get ready to revolutionize your classroom with BrainPOP!

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Rachel Studnicka, Ed.D.

E-5 Instructional Technology Coach
Minnetonka Public Schools

CBE Spotlight

BrainPOP Jr. Walk Through

Join us for a demo that explores how BrainPOP Jr. (K- 3rd grade) gently encourages young learners to ask authentic questions and form their own ideas. Rich with vocabulary development, BrainPOP Jr. also allows students the opportunity to reflect, make connections, and engage in deeper curiosity-driven learning.

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Priya Mathur, BrainPOP 

Rachel Studnicka, Ed.D, Minnetonka Public Schools

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