NM PED 2026 Literacy and Humanities Summer Conference

In this session, you will focus on the exploration of Generative AI tools to create effective materials for planning interventions. You will begin by defining and understanding the difference between AI inputs and outputs, ensuring you have a clear grasp of how these tools process information.

Using a specific protocol, you will learn how to craft high-quality inputs that lead to precise and useful results. You will also explore how to critically analyze the quality of the output from the AI tool to ensure it meets the rigorous needs of your students. By the end of the session, you will leave with a practical framework for leveraging AI as a time-saving partner in your instructional design, allowing you to generate targeted intervention resources that are accurate, engaging, and aligned with student goals.

Strengthen student comprehension and content achievement through the power of intentional academic vocabulary instruction. In this session, you will explore Marzano’s Six-Step Process for teaching academic terms and examine how systematic vocabulary routines can be implemented across math, science, and social studies.

You will engage with practical strategies for selecting high-leverage Tier 3 vocabulary, supporting student discussion, and reinforcing learning through structured review activities and games. The session places special emphasis on using student vocabulary notebooks as a tool for building conceptual understanding, promoting equity for multilingual learners, and monitoring growth. Throughout the hour, you will collaborate to apply a menu of research-aligned practices and develop SMART coaching or classroom implementation goals. You will leave with a clear plan to support consistent, cross-disciplinary vocabulary instruction that ensures all students can access complex content.

In this engaging and interactive session, you will explore how to build capacity for disciplinary literacy in grades 6 through 12. Grounded in the science of reading, this session provides practical routines and strategies that support student comprehension, vocabulary, and knowledge building across all content areas at the middle and high school levels.

You will experience and examine examples of discipline-specific work being done in classrooms across New Mexico and leave with tools you can use immediately. Additionally, you will be introduced to the Reading Apprenticeship framework, which is an approach that supports student reading, thinking, and learning in every discipline. You will also learn how your school or district can access free training for teachers and administrators during the 2026–27 school year. By the end of this session, you will have a clear path for empowering your secondary students to master the complex texts of their specific subjects.