Google Sheets for Busy Educators

Learn to design and organize your teaching data in spreadsheets for maximum efficiency in your classroom and school!

KEY INFORMATION

• LOCATION: Marymount School of NY, 115 E 97th St, Manhattan (between Park Ave. and Lexington Ave.)
• DATE & TIME: Tuesday, July 14, 2026, 9am - 1pm (lunch from 12 - 1pm)
• LED BY: Ethel Khanis (bio below)
• CTLE AVAILABLE: 3hrs
• THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR: teachers of any grade, who would like to organize their spreadsheet use in order to make theirs and their school’s lives easier. All are welcome, especially newer spreadsheet users.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

So many spreadsheets and so little time! Is this you? If so, come join this workshop to help organize and simplify your data management and use!

As teachers, we are all tasked with using data and keeping track of oodles of spreadsheets! But how? In this workshop, you will explore how to use Google Sheets. We’ll start with some basics to ground us all, and move on to using functions and conditional formatting. You will learn how to bring multiple data sources together with practice and practical examples. You will leave this workshop with starter spreadsheets to utilize within your classroom, within your grade/subject teams, and across the school.

Data can be hard to organize, keep track of, and even utilize when we have to negotiate and navigate so many different platforms and information sources. One strategy that we will explore to streamline that data is the use of a central spreadsheet to organize and utilize the myriad of information we all need to navigate daily.

All participants will be asked to bring the following:

• A laptop or Chromebook to access the workshop examples and your own personal Google Sheets files.
• One example spreadsheet (Google Sheets, MS Excel, Apple Numbers, a .csv file, etc.) from your teaching which you would like to expand and make more functional and/or control better.

All experience levels are welcome! We will be moving at a pace appropriate for users who are new to using Google Sheets, and generally to using spreadsheets as organizational tools. Expect to work together to generate new organizational ideas, and to try things out!

A downloadable version of the agenda is available HERE.

WORKSHOP LEADER(S)

Ethel Khanis (she/her) teaches Regents Chemistry virtually at Virtual Innovators Academy, New York’s only fully virtual public high school. She is a Master Science Teacher Fellow at Math for America, and a Demos Fellow. She also teaches a STEM socratic seminar course that focuses on critical thinking and leveraging data analysis utilizing Google Sheets. Outside of her zoom classroom, she bakes sourdough bread, hikes with her wife and dog, gardens, embroiders, knits, and enjoys being outside.

ABOUT STEMteachersNYC

STEMteachersNYC is celebrating 15 years! Since 2011, we have delivered professional development workshops for teachers, by teachers, about teaching. We are an approved CTLE and NYCPS MTAC vendor. All workshops over 2hrs offer CTLE. Below is some important information, but please see our official Registration FAQ on our website for full details and policies.

Pricing: workshop/event pricing reflects a desire to offer affordable professional learning experiences. Some workshops are subsidized and offered at a discount or for free. Some workshops include extra materials costs. Often, there is both a “Full Price” ticket for people who can pay full price and for schools/organizations paying for their staff to attend, and a “Teacher Price” ticket for teachers/educators paying out of pocket. If price is a barrier to your participation, please keep reading for several options.

CUNY & other partner campus pre-service students: If you are training to be a teacher, we want to welcome you to attend our workshops for free! Please email registration@stemteachersnyc.org for details and to see if you qualify.

Want to pay by invoice or purchase order? We encourage you to ask your school or organization if this is a possibility. Please see the Registration FAQ for the process, which includes a template letter with messaging geared towards administrators.

Are there discounts available? Often, yes!

• Discounted Early Bird and “Teacher Price” tickets are often available.
• Each summer, the Wanninkhof Excellence in Teaching Scholarship provides up to 2 free workshops per teacher in TItle 1 or similar schools.
• Specials and discounts are announced on our social media (@STEMteachersNYC on Instagram, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Facebook), and in our Weekly Newsletter – sign up here.
• We partner with several organizations and CUNY to offer free tickets to teachers and pre-service teachers involved.
• If at any time price is a barrier to you purchasing a ticket, please contact us at registration@STEMteachersNYC.org

Refunds, cancellations, and other registration/ticketing policies or changes: Please see the full Registration FAQ for details and policies.

Please note: We take screenshots, photographs and record video of our workshops in order to publicize a positive image of science teaching, and of STEMteachersNYC – a recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit organization – and to support future teacher leaders. If you register, you are agreeing to be photographed and to have your voice and image video-recorded. You are also agreeing to relinquish all your rights to the photographs and video recordings.

If you do not wish to be photographed or video-recorded – you must inform us before the workshop starts. For in-person workshops, we may take one photograph of your face so that we can erase your image if we happen to catch it by chance during the workshop, and we will do our best to avoid you.

Have more questions? Please see the full Registration FAQ for further details and policies, or contact us directly:

• Registration or ticketing questions - registration@STEMteachersNYC.org
• Questions about invoice/PO issues - bookkeeper@STEMteachersNYC.org
• Any other questions - info@STEMteachersNYC.org