Using XR to Enhance Professional Learning

Join us for a full day of exploration into the world of Extended Reality (XR)! Participants will learn and experience the potential of using applications to practice classroom management techniques and other skills. *This session is limited to 12 participants.

Highlights:

• Policy & ethics of using Extended Reality applications and hardware.

• Demonstration of a mixed reality application and how a shift from passive to active learning takes place, building confidence and understanding.

• Targeted classroom management strategies: Explore the use of avatar-based mixed reality (MR) simulations to practice managing specific strategies.

• Targeted one-on-one conferencing strategies: Explore the use of avatar-based simulations to practice conferencing (e.g. parent/teacher conferences)

• Reflection: Employ a protocol for reflection where participants record their virtual sessions and self-assess actions within the mixed reality environment.

Workshop Series Details:

• Dates: April 24, 2026

• Time: 9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. pm EST each day

• Location: SIEC Office in Jasper, Indiana

• Fee: $250 (includes lunch)

• Other Details:

  • Deadline to register is April 10, 2026.

  • A confirmation email will be sent to all registered participants.

  • A PGP certificate will be awarded at the end of the session.

  • See the registration link on this page to register.

    
    

*Would you like to register for the related webinar in March? Click here to register.

Presenter: DeAnne Taggart, SIEC Solutions Specialist, BSU Doctoral Student

Ms. Taggart has 21 years of K-12 classroom experience, two years of central office administration experience (K-12 school district), and over nine years of extensive experience as a Director of Professional Learning and Solutions Specialist for a state education service center. She is a graduate of Indiana University (Bloomington) and Indiana Wesleyan University (Marion). She is currently enrolled and working toward her Ph.D. in Educational Studies with a focus on Educational Technology at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She has served as a curriculum development trainer, an academic/leadership coach, a collaboration coordinator, and has developed a wide variety of professional learning sessions aligned to the needs of educators including ten different new teacher cohorts over multiple school years. Ms. Taggart’s interests include pursuing continual home improvement projects as well as the mountain of good books that are on her must-read list. She has two children and three grandchildren who are a source of tremendous joy in her life.