Events

You will find links to presentations given by the TeachersFirst team of presenters. Feel free to peruse any presentation you find interesting: 

2026

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
PETE & C	Free Tools – Amplify Student Choice and Voice	2/2/26
PETE & C	Multilingual Magic for Linguistic Empowerment	2/4/26
IDEACON	Zombie Zone: Storytelling That Boosts Learner Agency	----
IDEACON	Future-Forward Coaching: Envision Your EdTech Potential	----
IDEACON	Copy, Paste, Create: AI Made Easy with Templates	Virtual
IDEACON	Lights, Camera, Canva: Quick Videos That Wow	Virtual
IDEACON	Multilingual Magic: Tools That Make Every Student Shine	Virtual
IDEACON	Brain Boost: Tech Tools for Executive Function Success	Virtual
ISTE Live 2026	Tools That Make Multilingual and All Students Shine!	6/29/26
ISTE Live 2026	Student Choice and Voice Champions	6/30/26
ISTE Live 2026	AI Tools to Transform Your Teaching Game!	6/30/26
ISTE Live 2026	Thinking Routines Meet Digital Citizenship	7/1/26

 

2025

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
PETE & C	Game-Based Learning for Multilingual Learners	2/11/25
IDEACON	Edtech Coaching Reimagined with TeachersFirst	2/17/25
IDEACON	Edtech Coaching Reimagined with TeachersFirst	2/18/25
IDEACON	Tech Tools Smackdown: 10 Resources for Multilingual Learners	Virtual
IDEACON	Level Up Your Lessons with TeachersFirst	Virtual
IDEACON	AI for Differentiation	Virtual
IDEACON	Tech Made EZ with Padlet	Virtual
IDEACON	Google Keep for the Classroom	Virtual
ISTE 2025	Integrating AI Training Into Professional Development: A Bite-Sized Approach	6/30/25
ISTE 2025	Stepping Into History: Revolutionizing Social Studies Through Immersive Simulations	7/1/25
ISTE 2025	Multilingual Magic – Tools and Strategies to Engage and Empower Multilingual Learners	7/1/25
ISTE 2025	Mission Possible: A Fully Immersive Gamified Book Study Experience	7/1/25
ISTE 2025	Amplify Student Agency: 3 Tools for Empowering Learners’ Voices and Choices	7/2/25
ISTE 2025	Tech Toolbox for All: Differentiated Reading Strategies Across Subjects	7/2/25
PAECT KTI Summit	Amplify Student Agency: 3 Tools for Empowering Learners’ Voices and Choices	7/22/25
PAECT KTI Summit	STEM Night with TeachersFirst	7/22/25

 

2024

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
TCEA	Move over Oregon Trail… FREE Immersive Social Studies Resources	2/4/24
TCEA	Jumpstart Student Research Projects with the Edge Browser	2/7/24
IDEACON	Design Dynamic Instruction with TeachersFirst	On-Demand
IDEACON	Generating Formative and Summative Assessment Using AI	On-Demand
IDEACON	Building Background Knowledge with Annotated Images	On-Demand
IDEACON	The Science of Engagement: MySciLife in Action	On-Demand
IDEACON	Designing for Diversity: Culturally Sensitive EdTech Solutions	On-Demand
IDEA Wednesday Webinar	Tech Tools Smackdown: AI Tools	Virtual
IDEA Wednesday Webinar	Cool Tools to Build Communication Skills	Virtual
ISTE	Packed with Potential: Engaging All Students with Learning Bentos	6/22/24 (Virtual)
ISTE	OneNote: The Inclusive Educator’s Power Tool	6/24/24
ISTE	The Science of Engagement: MySciLife in Action	6/24/24
ISTE	Game-Based Learning for Multilingual Learners	6/25/24
ISTE	Designing for Diversity: Culturally Sensitive EdTech Solutions	6/25/24
ISTE	Life’s a Journey Using Google My Maps in All Curricular Areas	6/25/24
ISTE	Bridging the Gap: Leveraging Tech to Build Background Knowledge for Multilingual Students	6/25/24
ISTE	Nifty 50: Tools to Create – Build School-wide Literacy with Student Choice	6/25/24
ISTE	Live from ISTE 2024… It’s the ISTE Standards for Students Game Show!	6/26/24
ISTE	Deepen Understanding and Build Student’s Background Knowledge Using Reading Treks	6/26/24
PAECT KTI Summit	Nifty 50: Tools to Create to Offer Student Choice	7/23/24
PAECT KTI Summit	STEM Night with TeachersFirst	7/23/24
ideaU Virtual Institute 2024	Gemini in the Classroom: Getting Started	On-Demand
Archdiocese of New York Preservice Webinar	Design Dynamic Instruction with TeachersFirst	9/3/24
VSTE	Edtech Coaching Reimagined with TeachersFirst	12/8/24
VSTE	Level Up Your Lessons with TeachersFirst	12/9/24
VSTE	10 Strategies to Save Time in Assessment	12/10/24

2023

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
IDEACON Pre-Conference	TeachersFirst: Instructional Resources for Teachers by Teachers	1/24/23 Virtual
TCEA	Game-Based Learning + Triple E	1/30/23
TCEA	Nifty Fifty Tips and Tools: Global Citizenship	1/31/23
TCEA	Reach Your ELL Students Using the Four Domains and Cool Tech Tools!	2/1/23
IDEACON	Using Multimedia Text Sets to Build Background Knowledge	2/14/23
IDEACON	Making the Most of the TeachersFirst Website	On-Demand
IDEACON	Resource Roundup: Free Tools from the Edge	On-Demand
IDEACON	Global Collaboration For Cross-Cultural Understanding	On-Demand
IDEACON	Engage & Inspire with Reading Treks	On-Demand
IDEACON	Find New Resources for SEL in a Flash	On-Demand
PETE & C	Nifty Fifty Tips and Tools: to the Core and Beyond	2/13/23
PETE & C	Games and the 4 Domains for ENL/ESL Students	2/15/23
ISTE 2023	Engage Your ENL Students using the 4 Domains and Cool Tech Tools!	6/25/23
ISTE 2023	Cultivate Creative Communicators With Big Huge Labs	6/27/23
ISTE 2023	Book Study as Gamified Professional Learning	6/27/23
ISTE 2023	Nifty Fifty Tips and Tools for Global Citizenship	6/28/23
ISTE 2023	Hexagonal Thinking: Six Ways to Build Connections	6/28/23
AMLE50	Boosting SEL with TeachersFirst Resources	11/2/23
AMLE50	Empowering Middle School Educators to Design Dynamic Instruction with TeachersFirst	11/3/23
Midwest Conference for Educational Coaches (MCEC)	Leveraging TeachersFirst to Support Teacher Growth and Development	On-Demand
VSTE 2023	Climbing Together: Nurturing Classroom Climate and Culture with Edtech	12/3/23
VSTE 2023	Level Up Your Teaching with Edtech Games for Formative Assessment	12/4/23
VSTE 2023	Navigating the Peaks of Literacy in the Digital Age	12/5/23

 

2022

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
Common Ground	Sway Cool Reading	2/5/22
Common Ground	Easy and Engaging Reading Projects for Your Classroom	2/6/22
PETE & C	Nifty Fifty Tips & Tools: Global Citizenship	2/9/22
ISTE	Learn and Discover Copyright-Friendly Media for Student Projects	6/26/22
ISTE	Easy and Engaging Projects for your Reading Classroom	6/26/22
ISTE	Just a Smalltown Girl…10 Tools to Encourage Global Citizenship	6/27/22
ISTE	Light Up Your Library	6/27/22
ISTE	How to Be VOCAL Online	6/27/22
ISTE	Wakelet for Student Knowledge Construction	6/28/22
ISTE	Global Collaboration for Cross Cultural Understanding	6/28/22
ISTE	Building a Culturally Sensitive Remote Classroom	6/29/22
VSTE	Tech Tools for Student Knowledge Construction	12/4/22
VSTE	Using Multimedia Text Sets for Student Knowledge Construction	12/5/22
VSTE	Blended and Remote Learning with Microsoft Forms	12/6/22

 

2021

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
PETE & C	Nifty 50: Microsoft Tools, Tips & Treasures	2/9/21
ISTE	Come on Down…. To the ISTE Standards for Students Game Show 2021	6/26/21
ISTE	Encouraging DEI Through Critical Thinking with Literature	6/27/21
ISTE	Think Outside the Book: Create Context with Reading Treks	6/28/21
ISTE	Ingredients for e-Learning Excitement	6/29/21
FCIS	Encouraging DEI Through Critical Thinking with Literature	11/5/21
VSTE	Integrating Technology with the ISTE Standards for Students	12/5/21
VSTE	Encouraging DEI Through Critical Thinking with Literature	12/6/21
VSTE	Sway Cool Student Projects	12/7/21

 

2020

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
FETC	40 in 40: Game-Based Learning is Elementary on Any Device!	1/16/20
TCEA	Play on Player - Ten Terrific Gaming Tools to Use For Formative Assessment	2/6/20
TCEA	Nifty 50: Microsoft Tips, Tools, and Tricks	2/7/20
PETE & C	Nifty 50 Tips and Tools: Play on Player!	2/26/20
PETE & C	3 Cool Tools for Digital Storytelling Across the Grades	2/24/20
PETE & C	Hack Attack: Low-Tech and No-Tech STEM Activities!	2/24/20
ISTE	Expanding Your Zones of Regulation Toolbox	11/29/20
ISTE	10 Terrific Gaming Tools for Using the Triple E With Elementary Students	12/2/20
ISTE	Living the Dream With the ISTE Standards for Coaches	12/3/20
ISTE	Social Studies Rocks! Engage Your Middle School Students With These Free Resources	12/4/20
ISTE	Increasing Independence in Emergent Readers Through Technology	12/4/20
ISTE	The Wakelet HUB: NextGen Digital Lesson Design	12/5/20
VSTE	Play on Player! 20 Tips and Tools for Remote Game-Based Learning	12/13/20

 

2019

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
FETC	Microsoft Tips	1/29/19
FETC	Makerspace Poster	1/29/19
FETC	Administrator Workshop	1/29/19
PETE & C	Nifty Fifty 2019	2/12/19
ISTE	Augmentation and Beyond	6/23/19
ISTE	Turn Up the Volume	6/24/19
ISTE	Digital Storytelling 101	6/24/19
ISTE	Edtech Coaches Playground	6/25/19
ISTE	Tortoise Technology Integration	6/25/19
ISTE	STEM & The School Library	6/25/19
ISTE	Spheros for Every Level	6/25/19
ISTE	Literacy Tools	6/25/19
ISTE	BOLD Coaching	6/26/19
ISTE	Low-Tech and No-Tech STEM	6/26/19
VSTE	Using Wakelet as an Instructional Hub	12/8/19
VSTE	ISTE Standards for Coaches	12/8/19
VSTE	Triple E Framework and TeachersFirst	12/9/19
VSTE	Makerspace-In-A-Box	12/9/19
VSTE	Free Tech Tools for ELLs and Multilinguals	12/10/19

 

2018

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
PETE & C	Pump It Up! Infuse Writing in Science	2/12/18
PETE & C	You Want Me to Do What? Trends and Standards	2/14/18
PETE & C	Lifeguarding the Shallow End of Technology	2/14/18
PETE & C	Differentiation for Special Needs Students	2/13/18
PETE & C	Let’s Get Digital: Problem Solving That Is!	2/13/18
PETE & C	Nifty Fifty: We've Got DATs!	2/13/18
PETE & C	This Is How We Do !t - Makerspace!	2/12/18
LearnerPalooza	Oh the Places You’ll Go! Social Learning in the Classroom	6/19/18
ISTE	Make Learning Accessible and Inclusive: Free Microsoft Tools Every Teacher Can	6/25/18
ISTE	What's the Buzz? Differentiation in Elementary Inclusive Learning Environments	6/27/18
ISTE	Facilitating Student Use of Social Media in Responsibly Purposeful Ways	6/27/18
ISTE	Creativity Cafe: Recipes for Formative Assessment	6/26/18
ISTE	Write on With Digital Writing Tools	6/26/18
ISTE	Tech It Out Community Night	6/25/18
ISTE	Oh the Places You'll Go! Social Learning in the Science Classroom	6/25/18
ISTE	Capture the Hearts of Struggling Learners with Digital Storytelling	6/25/18
LeadingEdge	LeadingEd 2018	10/8/18
VSTE	Sway Cool Reading	12/2/18
VSTE	TeachersFirst Tech Tools Smackdown	12/3/18

 

2017

EVENT	TITLE	DATE
FETC	Edmodo for Mass Customized PD	1/25/17
FETC	Nifty Fifty Tools for BYOT (1:1) Classrooms "	1/26/17
PETE & C	A Focus on Process and Not the Product	2/13/17
PETE & C	Engaging Students with Social Constructivism	2/14/17
PETE & C	Nifty Fifty Tools for BYOT (1:1) Classrooms	2/14/17
Brainstorm	Free Fifty in Fifty	4/7/17
VSTE SuperHero Summit	Zombies at Your Door? Survive the Horde with Your Google Bug-Out-Bag	6/21/17
ISTE	Inquiry in Biology	6/26/17
ISTE	Gotta Catch Them All	6/26/17
ISTE	Improve the Quality of Writing in Digital Storytelling Projects	6/26/17
ISTE	Motivating Teachers to WANT Professional Development	6/27/17
ISTE	Using Coding Techniques to Teach Writing in Elementary Classrooms	6/27/17
ISTE	TeachersFirst: Free Reviewed Resources, Content and PD	6/27/17
ISTE	The Nitty Gritty of Designing Problem-Based Learning	6/27/17
ISTE	Guiding Reluctant Teachers through the Shallow End of the Technology Pool	6/28/17
VSTE	Oh, the Places You'll Go! Social Learning in the Classroom	12/4/17
VSTE	Free Microsoft Tools Every Teacher Can Use to Make Learning Accessible and Inclusive	12/4/17
VSTE	Transform Your Lesson Plans with SAMR and TeachersFirst	12/5/17