This session offers Wyoming principals, instructional coaches, and PLC leaders access to a complete, hands-on workflow for visualizing WyTOPP data—from raw score cleaning to uploading and generating customized visual dashboards. Participants won’t just learn “about” data analysis; they will engage directly with their own school or district datasets using the Vizit Suite (Vizit, Vizit Over Time, and Vizit Create), a set of tools developed specifically for Wyoming educators and aligned to WyTOPP data structures.
Every teacher knows this moment… You’re talking. Half the class is listening. Three kids are still finishing a story. Someone drops a pencil. And the room slowly slides off the rails.
Whole Brain Teaching gives us a reset button:
""Class!"" ""Yes!""
Think about the best things from the 90s.
A Nintendo controller. A Tamagotchi. A pair of LEGO bricks.
None of them were complicated. In fact, the magic was the opposite. The rules were simple enough that anyone could jump in instantly. But once you had the basics, the possibilities never ran out.
That’s exactly what Class! / Yes! is.
At its core, it’s the simplest routine you’ll ever teach.
Teacher says “Class!” Students respond “Yes!”
Whatever tone, rhythm, or energy the teacher uses, the class mirrors it. That mirroring locks in attention, gets every voice involved, and resets the room in seconds.
Students already know the game. They know the rule. Their brains don’t have to figure out what to do. But the tiny variations keep it fresh, playful, and engaging.
It’s like the Macarena of classroom management. Everyone knows the moves.
Indigenous Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics is practiced by my middle school students as they learn how develop a research project around camera trap data. This project is an on going project where students are introduced to what research is. Students use an Indigenous approach that utilizes their ancestral knowledge systems through three questions from Yunkaporta (2020): What can we know?, What do know?, and How do we know it?
Understanding natural systems requires more than vocabulary, it requires helping students see patterns, interactions, and feedback within dynamic systems. This session provides Wyoming educators with practical, classroom-ready strategies for teaching ecosystem dynamics and shared resource systems through modeling and structured simulations. Attendees will engage in a condensed version of a classroom modeling activity and walk away with adaptable templates and implementation-ready resources. This session draws from graduate-level coursework developed through the Science and Mathematics Teaching Center (SMTC) at the University of Wyoming. Educators seeking high-engagement, standards-aligned instruction grounded in systems thinking will find concrete strategies they can implement into their classrooms.
