Too many initiatives. Too many strategies. Not enough time — and students who still can’t get started, stay focused, or push through when learning gets hard.
Sound familiar? This session is for you.
Kim Voge — educator, instructional designer, and EduProtocols practitioner — cuts through the noise with a research-backed framework for designing lessons that actually work with the brain, not against it. Instead of adding more to your plate, Kim shows you how to be more intentional about what’s already on it.
You’ll experience three powerful EduProtocol structures firsthand using Snorkl, and walk away with a planning lens you can apply to any content area, any grade level, starting tomorrow.
From Overwhelmed to Intentional: Designing High-Impact Lessons That Actually Stick
Description: In a time of initiative fatigue and endless strategies, how do we design lessons that truly move learning forward? This session introduces a research-backed framework for simplifying planning while increasing rigor, engagement, and transfer. Explore practical structures that support equity, cognitive science principles, and student ownership—and leave with ready-to-use tools for immediate classroom impact.
What you’ll learn:
- 🧠 Why most classroom struggles are learning management problems — not content problems — and how to design around them
- 🌊 The FLOW framework: Focus, Leverage, Ownership, and Widening access as a lens for intentional lesson design
- ⚡ Fast and Curious — a low-pressure retrieval practice protocol for activating prior knowledge and tracking growth over time
- ✏️ Sketch & Tell (Sketchintello) — a drawing-speaking-writing sequence that builds verbal processing and deep understanding before students ever write a word
- 📊 Thick Slides — a deconstructed paragraph structure that increases rigor without increasing overwhelm, with built-in comparison and critical thinking
- 📌 Thin Slides — a fast, low-stress check for understanding that gives every student a voice in three minutes
- 🔬 How UDL, socio-emotional learning, and executive functioning all show up in the same classroom moment — and how to address all three at once
- 💡 Research from Hattie, Marzano, and Zaretta Hammond woven into practical lesson design you can actually use
Kim also walks through a full sample lesson redesign on the water cycle — showing exactly how Fast and Curious, Sketch & Tell, and Thick Slides work together from engagement through synthesis.
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About Kim Voge
As an educator for 27 years, Kim has been an innovator in and out of the classroom. Kim incorporates best practices, including WICOR, UDL, and ELL. She believes in identifying learning objectives FIRST and then applying technology. Literacy in all content areas is the goal…and literacy must include new media. Kim strives to meet teachers where they are and move forward. In the classroom, Kim weaves pedagogy and technology in meaningful ways. Kim is an adjunct professor at Hope International University.
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