2025 Summer Symposium

Building relationships and structuring routines in the classroom can help create an environment where ALL students want to learn. Adam's ideas for creating a welcoming and community-like atmosphere will have you ready to head back to school and excited to start your year! Learn ideas for building relationships with students, learn strategies for creating positive expectations and routines, and leave with ideas you can put in place right away!

This unique session leverages "dumb data" team spirit and the absurd, presenting metaphor-rich prompts to ensure engagement without the pressure of competition. It's joyous, silly, and inclusive, fostering high engagement. Wellness blossoms as teams connect, reflect, share, and laugh together over poll answers seen in real time.  Funny Polling is the perfect teacher's aide for wellness and team to help ensure happy healthy teachers will continue to influence more happy healthy students.

Join us as we explore technology's impact on today’s students and their developing brains, the school ecosystem, and inside the classroom. Along the way, we’ll dig into other contributing factors to the current student mental health crisis and what we, as educators, can do to make positive changes at school that impact our student’s overall well-being. How do we thrive in both the oxygenated and the digital world? 

By the end, you’ll walk away with a new awareness geared toward helping us all navigate the digital world with less stress, more productivity, and greater wellness and awareness in mind.