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FALL 2025 LEARNING LAB

Leveraging AI in Your Classroom
Science Education Book Club 25-26

Leveraging AI in Your Classroom

“Work smarter, not harder!” AI tools give us the power to do just that. The possibilities are endless! Explore the opportunities for using AI-driven tools to design rubrics, protocols, instructional activities, and more! Also, generate higher-order questions while engaging with your class and write your talking points for lessons and videos. Learn the nuances of using AI as your instructional design assistant and your power partner in the classroom to meet individual student needs through greater personalized learning.

Syllabus:

Understanding different aspects of AI and how it can look in your classroom
Leveraging AI as a thought partner in instructional design to support your diverse student population
Exploring AI tools and resources to support building executive function and SEL skills
Leveraging AI to design activities, leveled facilitation questions, and more

DATES: SEPTEMBER 8, 2025 – OCTOBER 20, 2025

TIME: ASYNCHRONOUS

LOCATION: ON-LINE COURSE

CREDITS: 2 IN-SERVICE CREDITS OR AUDIT

For those taking this course for In-Service credit, payment should be sent at the time of registration.
Please make checks payable to Byram Hills and send to the District Office, Attention: Colin O'Connor. The fee is $400.
Registration cannot be approved on Frontline Professional Growth (MLP) until payment is received at the District Office.

Participants will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the course. Completion of this course also requires a 5 Hour Independent Action Research Component. Credits will not be awarded until the certificate and component are uploaded to MLP and the activity is marked complete.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS 9/4/25.

REGISTER HERE!

Science Education Book Club 25-26

This book club will unpack the language and the pedagogy outlined and described in this book. We will discuss: planning for student engagement, talk as a tool for learning, making thinking visible through models, supporting changes in thinking, justifying claims in the science community, and more.

You will meet in small and large groups on zoom to make sense of the teaching and learning changes as part of the vision of the NYS P-12 SLS!

A copy of "Ambitious Science Teaching" by Mark Windschitl, Jessica Thompson, & Melissa Braaten must be purchased to participate.

DATES :

OCTOBER 9, 2025
NOVEMBER 13, 2025
DECEMBER 4, 2025
JANUARY 8, 2026
FEBRUARY 5, 2026
MARCH 5, 2026
APRIL9, 2026

TIME : 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

LOCATION : ZOOM LINK WILL BE EMAILED

CREDITS: 1/2 IN-SERVICE CREDIT

AUDIENCE: K-12 SCIENCE TEACHERS

COST : SELECT 'DISTRICT BILLING' ON MLP and please send a check for $100 to Colin O'Connor at the District Office, made payable to Byram Hills CSD.

REGISTER HERE!

INFORMATION

Professional Growth (My Learning Plan) Registration Instructions:

Payment Information for Credit; Auditing a Course; and Stipends

1. Payment for in-service credit:

Payment should be sent to the District Office at the time of registration.
Please make checks payable to Byram Hills and send to the District Office, attention: Colin O'Connor.
For a ½-credit course (7½-hours), the fee is $100.
For a 1-credit course (15-hours), the fee is $200.
For a 2-credit course (30-hours), the fee is $400.
For a 3-credit course (45-hours), the fee is $600.

2. Audit a course:

At times, certain courses may be offered for "audit." To audit a course means that the District will pay for the course, however, teachers are not provided a stipend for participation.

3. Stipends:

At times, certain courses, offered in the summer only, may provide teachers a stipend for participation at the current summer curriculum workshop rate.

Registration Guidelines

All registrations are to be done through My Learning Plan

Course registration is limited. Teachers will be admitted to the course in the order in which they submit payment. Approval will not be granted until receipt of payment.

Please note that courses may be cancelled if the minimum enrollment requirements are not met within 5 days prior to the start of the course.

Teachers who withdraw from a course must provide notice no less than 5 school days prior to the start of the course in order to receive a refund.

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