 Welcome to CESA 201 for Teachers, Train the Trainer. We are going to experience this training as a participant. Please follow along and pause the video when necessary. This training is designed to support deeper instruction with CESA through activities. If you're in this training, it means you've been using CESA for a while now in your classroom. Please pause the video to do either a turn-and-talk or a think-and-write if you are alone, to discuss how CESA has changed your teaching. If you haven't used it in your class yet, think about how CESA might change your teaching this year. Please pause the video now. CESA activities can support engagement, agency, and reflection. But CESA activities are a tool, and an activity is only transformational if you make it transformational. Please independently, or with a partner if you have one near, search for these activities in the community library. You must log in to your teacher account to search for these activities by their title. Please make sure the filter in the community library is set to all grade levels. Please search for these activities and think about what makes them effective. When we say transformational, we mean that the learning experience is transformed by technology. The task has been significantly redesigned, or a new task is made possible because technology is used. Based on the activities you've examined, and your own experience, if you are making a list of criteria for what makes a transformational learning experience, please do a think-and-write now, or a turn-and-talk. Pause the video. You may have discussed that these activities have a clear objective or why statement. They include step-by-step text and audio directions, multimedia examples and resources. They also support exploration through hands-on digital tools, and a layer of reflection for the students. Research shows that students learn best when they are actively engaged in constructing and reflecting on their learning. We are going to spend our time together looking at how CSAH allows students to construct and reflect on their learning in many ways. Today, you will learn how to use CSAH activities to create transformational learning experiences that support engagement, agency and reflection for all students. A refresher is always helpful. Let's make sure we're starting on the same page with a quick review of the activity library. We know we can access the activity library by clicking on the green add button that assign activity. We know we have my library, the school library, and the community library. We can save activities to my library by clicking the heart icon. We can assign those activities to students in our class by clicking the green assign button and following the prompts. We know we can modify existing activities by clicking the three dots at the bottom of the activity, then copy and edit activity. This allows us to change any aspect of the activity to meet the needs of the students in our classroom. When we assign activities, they show up in the activities tab and students can click add response to reply. We also know that if a student accidentally clicks the green add button, the response will get added to the journal but not be attached to the activity. So we want to make sure we train students to click add response when they are responding to an activity in CSAH. Now that we're all on the same page, let's talk about creating activities. I am going to ask you to watch me first, then you will have time to explore. To create a new activity, you will go to my library and click create new activity. This is the activity template. Simply fill in the field including a descriptive title and step-by-step directions. You might notice that some of these directions include emojis. To add emojis to your directions, simply copy and paste them from a source like emojicopy.com. You might also notice there are some words written in between colons like the word add. These are CSAH icon shortcuts. Here are all the icon shortcuts. You have these in your handout that is a link at the bottom of the description. You can add these visuals to your directions to support all learners to access the directions, especially little learners and students learning English. When you type a shortcut, it will transform into the icon when you save the activity. Now this is where CSAH activities get even more interesting. You can add multimedia files to your instructions or example. There are tons of ways to use CSAH examples to support student learning. Can you think of any? Pause the video to do some brainstorming. There are tons of ways to use CSAH example to support learning. One idea that's really popular with CSAHs is attaching a demonstration video that you can add a video of you giving a demonstration or a mini lesson that students can access on demand. It allows you to be in two places at once. You might want to upload an exemplar, a supplemental video or article, a demonstration video like I mentioned, or attach other materials that support students in completing the activity. Whatever you attach, as an example, can be viewed by your students. If you want students to complete work on top of a graphic organizer or other handout, you will need to attach it as a template. Students can use CSAH tools on top of whatever you attach as a template. Here are some ideas of what you can add as a template. Please look at the screen. You can upload a graphic organizer, a PDF, photo, notes, multi-page. The possibilities are really endless. During the exploration time, you will have an opportunity to try all of these different features out within your own activity. Now it's your turn. You will have an opportunity now to create an activity in CSAH. I encourage you to try something new. Attach an example, template, or even both. You will work independently or in pairs to create an activity with an example and template. Please pause the video now to work for at least 10 minutes on your activity creation. A moment to think about how that went, what went well, and what was challenging. Creating an activity on CSAH is like creating a lesson plan in real life, but you have so many more options. This can be exciting, but also hard to get used to. It takes a lot of thought and consideration to create transformational learning experiences, but the more we do it, the easier it will get. When you create amazing transformational activities, you may want to share them with colleagues. Now you can. You are able to share activities from my library by clicking on your activity, clicking on the three dots at the bottom, and then share. You can email your activity to colleagues by selecting the teachers at your school. To make sure you are on this list, you need to have email notifications turned on in your account settings, and make sure that your account is associated with your school. You can do this by clicking your profile, clicking Add School, and choosing your school. You can share an activity link with educators at your school or other schools by clicking Get Activity Link. This will give you the URL of the activity you can share. You can also share an activity to your school or district library. You can just click Share. Keep in mind, sharing activities to the school and district library depends on what your school has set up. It's a great way to share ideas and increase equity across classrooms. Indicate the subject and grade level, then click Update Activity to share it to your school or district library. Now it's your turn to practice. Please pause the video and practice sharing an activity. Please take a moment to consider when you should share an activity to the school library and when you shouldn't. You may have discussed, is this relevant to other teachers' classes? Does it include the criteria discussed today for a transformational activity? And is it your best work? Think about if it benefits others and if you're following school norms. You're a CESAW PRO! You learn to create transformational activities of your own and share them with colleagues. Way to go! Make sure to complete your exit ticket. Set a goal for one way you can transform your instruction this year. You can access your exit ticket by looking at the description in the video and looking at the link next to handout. If you want to dig even deeper into CESAW, please visit web.cesa.me slash training for free live and on-demand topics like co-teachers, folders, skills, and more. Thank you so much for joining us today.