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Presents
Empowering Career Pathways in a Virtual World
October 26–29, 2020 3:00pm–5:30pm Pacific Time
with sessions from the Get Focused...Stay Focused!® founders; special guest presenters; and Academic
Innovations, our curriculum partner
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The following links are to the recorded sessions from the conference:
This session focuses on the development of early college credit courses using the Get Focused Stay Focused
program with Dr. Lauren Wintermeyer Ramirez and Dr. Diane Hollems, co-founders of Get Focused Stay Focused.
This session will highlight customized Get Focused Stay Focused professional development models from the
Northern and Central Valley regions of California to meet the specialized needs of their regional educators.
In this session, Carol Keiser, Get Focused Stay Focused Lead Teacher, Mentor Teacher, and Certified Trainer, focuses on incorporating
technology applications like Typing.com, Google Search, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Slides, Google Sheets, and so much more!
Listen as Tanja Easson, Academic Innovations VP of Curriculum, walks you through the online version of our award-winning
Career Choices and Changes textbook. See how the text is combined with the online activities of
My10yearPlan.com to help students create personalized 10-year career and life plans.
Learn how to utilize a variety of Zoom features to create engagement in online meeting sessions. Wendy Bingham, Academic
Innovations Vice President of Professional Development, will also explore the new Online Class Agendas for the Career Choices
series. This exciting new resource will save valuable prep time and help you achieve maximum impact in your live sessions with
remote learning students.
Join Tanja Easson, Academic Innovations Vice President of Curriculum, as she teaches you all of the tips and tricks for using
the Canvas platform in your Career Choices series course. Learn how to use and edit the Canvas cartridge we have already created
to suit your students' specific needs.
Join Carol Keiser, Get Focused Stay Focused Lead Teacher, Mentor Teacher, and Certified Trainer, as she reviews her strategies
for managing your Career Choices series course through Google Classroom. This session includes tips on the use of key Google
Classroom features, such as Announcements and Interactive Lectures.
In this session, Geno Malkiewicz, Transition Specialist and Career Choices and Changes teacher for Folsom Cordova Adult
Education Program, highlights how Adult Ed instructors can use the Career Choices and Changes course to reengage their
students in academia. Current and former adult students of Geno's 'Get Focused' course join the session to share their
own success stories.