10:00 AM Practical Time Management: Maximizing Productivity & Library Resources by Brooklynn Bors

Aligning your daily schedule with your professional goals creates the capacity to lead with clarity and bring renewed energy. This session provides actionable strategies to identify common time-management pitfalls and offers practical methods to maximize productivity. Participants will gain tips for centralizing tasks and protecting focus, while learning how to utilize the public library as a central hub for professional research and organizational tools.

Our students have trauma in their past and often in their present. When we learn to recognize how trauma is adversely affecting our students, we can teach them more effectively. This workshop provides foundational neuroscience concepts and connects them to trauma and our students' ability to learn (and our ability to teach). The material is accessible and practical. We will examine resources, skills, and knowledge that will improve your classroom environment. You will also develop a greater understanding of yourself and how your nervous system affects your teaching (and your life). If you feel like you have too much to do and cannot add something else, then this workshop is for you! Trauma-informed instruction is not "one more thing" you have to squeeze into your day - it is an approach to what you are already doing. This workshop will provide research-based best practices for trauma-informed instruction to support you in working smarter, not harder. 

Using the book Atomic Habits by James Clear as a guide, this session will emphasize the importance of teaching adult learners how to create positive habits and identify negative habits that keep students from reaching their full potential.

Graduate students from OSU will share practical classroom tips and techniques and discuss pronunciation in an interactive format.