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.

Discover how explicit instruction, as championed by Anita Archer, can transform vocabulary learning in any classroom. This session provides teachers with research-backed strategies for teaching words with clarity, structure, and repeated practice, ensuring students understand, retain, and apply new vocabulary.

Grounded in John Hattie’s Visible Learning research, participants will explore instructional practices with high effect sizes, including modeling, guided practice, scaffolding, and activating prior knowledge before introducing new words. During this interactive session, teachers will learn how to:

Identify and prioritize high-impact vocabulary for instruction.

Activate students’ prior knowledge and build background to support comprehension.

Incorporate multiple exposures and active student responses to ensure retention.

Whether you teach elementary, middle, or high school, this session equips educators to accelerate learning, close achievement gaps, and make vocabulary instruction measurable, visible, and impactful.

In this session, you will learn how to develop a "What I Need" (WIN) model that fits the specific needs of your students through the effective triangulation of data. You will move beyond simple test scores to look at how multiple data points inform a comprehensive view of student growth and instructional needs.

You will work with a model of the Multi-Layered System of Support (MLSS) framework to develop or refine a personalized structure for your own school or classroom. By working collaboratively with your peers and the presenter, you will identify how to schedule, group, and track interventions that actually work. You will leave with a clear, actionable plan for your MLSS framework, ensuring that your intervention time is purposeful, data-driven, and designed to close achievement gaps for every student.