WEMTA 2025 - Ignite and Inspire: Impacting Learning Together: Full Schedule

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8:45am CDT

Maris Education Spring Update for WEMTA 2025

Monday March 10, 2025 8:45am - 9:45am CDT

Join Maris Education to learn what's new for 2025 in K-12 educational media and publishing: new books, new digital resources, and Spring specials direct from our Publishers.

Speakers

Marty Dambekaln

Wisconsin K-12 Reps for Capstone Publishing, Maris Education

Morey and Marty Dambekaln are your Wisconsin K-12 Publishers Representatives for Capstone, FlutterBee, and other top school library publishers. Please contact us through Maris Education at www.mariseducation.com

Morey Dambekaln

Wisconsin K-12 Publishers Rep., Capstone / Maris Education

Wisconsin K-12 Publishers Rep. for Capstone, PebbleGo, and the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.Learn about new Content and Functionality for your Capstone PebbleGo subscription-Connect and Create with Classroom-Ready activities and resource links.

Monday March 10, 2025 8:45am - 9:45am CDT
Hilton Garden Room A

Intermediate, Elementary, Middle School

Company Budget & Resources, Equitable Digital Access, Students as Creators

1:00pm CDT

TechnoTeachers

Monday March 10, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT

Hilton Garden Room A

Build a teacher technology team by tapping into the talent already present in your school. There's immense potential for growth in developing and leveraging the skills of your current staff. This session will guide you through a step-by-step process to help you unlock that potential and create a strong, collaborative team.

Speakers

Sonja Pupovac

Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Coach, Milwaukee Public Schools

Monday March 10, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT
Hilton Garden Room A

Beginner, Early childhood, Elementary, Middle School, High School

Company Collaborative Leadership, Collaborative Spaces, Facilitating Professional Learning

3:00pm CDT

Reinvigorate the Library: Leverage Differentiated Texts to Boost Reading Motivation and Literacy Gains

Monday March 10, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm CDT

Hilton Garden Room A

In today’s libraries, providing students with engaging, vetted, and accessible content is more important than ever. Newsela Library empowers librarians with over 17,000 leveled texts across 20+ genres, including videos, multimedia, infographics, and more. These resources are designed to foster student motivation and understanding, support collaboration with classroom teachers, and promote digital citizenship.

This session will highlight:
How Newsela can increase student engagement and motivation
How to curate and customize content for teachers to support background knowledge in novel and book studies.
Ways students can actively engage with Newsela Content and Tools
How to locate and save relevant content on Newsela including resources for digital citizenship, curriculum complements, and more.

Speakers

Danielle Rivera

Patrick Gaffney

Monday March 10, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm CDT
Hilton Garden Room A

Beginner, Elementary, Middle School, High School

Company Culturally Responsive Instruction, Instructional Partnerships, Literacy