InterACTIVE PD
Explore hands-on keynotes, workshops, and sessions designed to spark creativity, amplify student voice, and bring meaningful innovation to real classrooms. These aren’t sit and get sessions, they’re immersive learning experiences built to inspire educators, elevate creativity, and turn big ideas into classroom ready action.
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Unlock Your Creativity ERA with Canva; From 'BLANK SPACE' to 'LOVE STORY'
(90 min - 120 min)
'Sparks Fly' when working with Canva's creative power! 'Begin Again' in the classroom, crafting creative activities better than your 'Wildest Dreams' – posters, infographics, animations, and more. 'Shake It Off' and redefine how students demonstrate their learning today.
Introduction to Canva for Teachers and Students
(90 min)
In this session, we'll walk you through how Canva can be used by both teachers and students. We'll take learning standards directly from our own classrooms and show how you can meet learning goals and keep the learning engaging and relevant!
Teaching AI: We’re Never Getting Back Together with Old Methods
(90 min)
Dive into a "Blank Space" of teaching possibilities with AI, and "Shake Off" outdated methods like rote memorization for dynamic approaches like cooperative learning and project-based inquiry. Learn how AI tools "Swiftly" transform classroom environments, fostering creativity and deeper understanding. You'll leave ready to "Begin Again" with innovative strategies.
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Empowering Learning with AI: Hands On Approaches for Students
(90 min)
Ready to empower your students with AI? In this hands-on session, you'll explore creative and adaptable ways to integrate AI into lessons that spark curiosity and engagement. We’ll share tools that give you practical strategies to elevate student learning with AI-driven tools in any classroom setting!
Creation Over Consumption: Reimagining How Students Engage with Content in the Classroom
(40min -60 min)
Rethink traditional methods and empower students to create and innovate in the classroom! Learn ideas to harness the power of creation over consumption and how to promote a highly engaging classroom environment.
Create Without the Cost: Free Tools that Transform Classrooms
(40min -60 min)
This session highlights powerful, free digital tools that help teachers design engaging, creative, and standards-aligned learning experiences. Participants will walk away with practical strategies and ready-to-use ideas for increasing student voice, collaboration, and meaningful creation using tools they can access immediately.
Leveling Up Your Lessons with Student Voice
(40 min - 60 min)
Ready to level up your lessons and turn up the volume on student voice? In this energizing, hands-on session, we’ll show you how to take the standards you already teach and transform them into creative, student-driven learning experiences. Using real examples from our own classrooms, we’ll model how to blend tech and creativity in ways that amplify student voice, deepen understanding, and boost engagement. You’ll explore tools, strategies, and project ideas that help students showcase their learning in authentic, personalized ways. Walk away with fresh ideas you can use immediately—no matter your content area—to create lessons that are as standards-aligned as they are student-centered.
Getting Students Creating with Canva in the Classroom
(40min -60 min)
Unlock the creative power of Canva in your classroom! Join us as we showcase real examples, share plug-and-play templates, and equip you with ideas you can use with students tomorrow.
Creativity: More Than a Buzzword
(40 min - 60 min)
In a world where AI tools evolve daily and classrooms look different than they did even five years ago, many educators feel pressure to redefine creativity for a new era. But what if creativity hasn’t changed at all? What if what’s changed is how students demonstrate it—and how we recognize it? In this keynote, The Merrills challenge the myth that creativity needs reinvention. Instead, they invite educators to shift their lens: to recognize creativity in today’s learners, unpack what it truly looks like in modern classrooms, and create space for it to grow. Through real classroom examples, practical strategies, and a hopeful call to action, participants will leave inspired to stop chasing a new definition—and start celebrating creativity that has been there all along.
Putting the 'A' in Accessibility with AI
(40min -60 min)
The InterACTIVE Class: Making Learning More Relevant and Engaging
(40min -60 min)
The InterACTIVE Class challenges educators to rethink engagement by designing classrooms where creativity, collaboration, and purposeful technology integration drive meaningful learning (this session revolves around ideas from our book series).
Keynotes
What if the tools you’re already using every day have built-in AI features designed to make learning more accessible for all students? In this session, explore how familiar classroom platforms include powerful - and often overlooked - accessibility supports. Discover practical strategies for adapting content, differentiating instruction, and empowering student creativity through AI so every learner can engage, create, and succeed.
Getting Started with School AI
(40 min - 60 min)
Learn how School AI makes learning engaging, accessible, and relevant for your students. We’ll walk you through the student and teacher experiences so that you are confident and ready to use the platform in your lessons immediately!
Using AI to Empower Minds: Transforming Obstacles into Opportunities
(40 min - 60 min)
AI doesn’t replace educators — it challenges us to rethink what learning can become. In this high-energy keynote, educators will confront common fears, break through AI myths, and explore how generative tools can amplify creativity, accessibility, and human thinking. Walk away empowered with a fresh mindset and practical inspiration to turn everyday classroom obstacles into powerful opportunities for growth and innovation.
Workshops
2026
Ohio
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“This was the best session of my entire week. This session was literally hands-on and interactive for the full hour and 1/2. We were able to do everything with them in real-time, and it was exactly what I was looking for from a learning session. The Merrills are informed, articulate and well paced.”
-Educator Attendee
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