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MACUL 2021

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Our Sessions

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Workshop

Thursday, March 18

Designing for Voice & Choice No Matter the Format

4:00 – 6:00 p.m. - Anne PerezTeaching looks different these days, and trying to plan a lesson is no longer as simple as using what worked last year. It may seem near-impossible to offer students voice and choice over their learning when you’re not even sure where learning might be taking place. Using the “flex model” can help you streamline your lessons to be effective in either a face-to-face or remote setting. This structure offers students agency over their learning while allowing teachers to provide feedback and maintain classroom control. In this immersive workshop, you will experience the “flex model” for yourself first-hand, see what it feels like to be on the receiving end of a virtual check-in, and begin designing a lesson that you can try out with your students tomorrow!
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Friday, March 19

All the Things I Wish I'd Known Earlier About Online Teaching

10:00 - 11:00 AM - Holly BoleskiThis past year, many teachers across our state taught their students from behind a screen for the first time. At Michigan Virtual, our instructors have been teaching in this format for years. So often new online teachers tell us, “I wish someone would have told me ___ about teaching online.” In this session, a panel of veteran online instructors with decades of collective experience respond to this prompt and share tips & tricks they wish someone had told them earlier about how to effectively reach and teach students in a virtual learning environment. You’ll leave with an expanded sense of what online teaching is all about and be better prepared to master your online classrooms of today and tomorrow!
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21 Tech Tools for 2021

11:00 a.m. – noon - Emily SiciliaLooking to learn about the latest tech tools you can use to engage and assess your students, both face-to-face and online? Then, this session is for you! You will be introduced to 21 innovative tech tools that can help you personalize learning in your classroom, along with strategies for implementation. This session offers opportunities for exploration and discussion about how you can intentionally integrate tools in your classroom to promote student success.
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Presenters

Holly Boleski

Collaborative Partnerships
Holly has worked in the online teaching and learning field for many years, including many years pre-COVID. She enjoys being a fully online teacher and an instructional coach to those teachers who use or are interested in Michigan Virtual’s systems and practices. Holly enjoys talking about best practices and expectations for teaching and learning online.

Anne Perez

Senior Professional Learning Specialist
Anne joined Michigan Virtual after fifteen years of classroom teaching. Anne’s experiences in diverse classroom settings have shaped her desire to continuously learn with and from others. She enjoys mentoring educators, problem-solving curriculum issues, and learning best practices, so her work with the Professional Learning Specialists team puts her passion into daily practice. At home, Anne and her husband have three children who keep their evenings full of sports practices and visits to the playground.

Emily Sicilia

Professional Learning Services Manager
Emily comes to the Professional Learning Services team from a myriad of experiences. Having taught in elementary, middle, and high schools, with a focus on literacy, she is happy to be having a new adventure with Michigan Virtual. Emily enjoys connecting with and learning from fellow educators, as well as learning new strategies to engage students and improve instruction. When she does not have her nose in a book, she is spending time with her husband and two sons, either attending MSU basketball games or playing in Lake Michigan.

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Limited Course Capacity

We’re sorry to inform you that we have reached capacity for several of our Semester 1 and Trimester 1 courses. You’ll notice when attempting to enroll students in our Student Learning Portal that some courses are unavailable. While we are no longer accepting new enrollments for these courses at this time, many courses continue to remain open for enrollment.

With many students across the state 100% remote, demand for our online courses is greater than ever before. Because every course we offer is taught by a Michigan-certified teacher, this high volume of enrollments has created capacity issues for our teachers who provide each and every student with individual feedback.

While the Michigan Virtual team anticipated and planned for significant increases in student enrollments this Fall, the increased demand we’ve experienced has been unprecedented. As a result, we are taking steps to hire even more part-and full-time teachers to support larger numbers of student enrollments for Semester 2 as well as for Trimester 2 and 3. 

For schools that still need online learning options this year, please fill out the form at the bottom of our virtual pathways page to meet with someone to discuss other solutions. While some of our teacher-led courses are full, we may still have the capacity to help you in upcoming terms or can discuss timing to implement a whole-school or collaborative program in which local teachers from your school/district use our online course content to teach students. We also have free course content and resources available for you to use.

We know this is an incredibly stressful time for all, and we’re sorry if the courses you’re looking for are unavailable. We never want to turn away a student who wants to learn from us. Our top concern, however, is student success, and we have a policy to not take on additional enrollments if we cannot guarantee that all students will have a quality online learning experience. 

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we navigate the unusually high volume of enrollments we are receiving.