EdCuration: Where We Reshape Learning: Recent Episodes
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EdCuration, in partnership with educators across the world, explores the tools, resources, practices and movements that are reshaping education. Learn about how to keep teaching and learning fresh, engaging, relevant and impactful in your classroom, school or district.
What happens when learning jumps off the page and into motion? In this episode, we chat with Diane Fraser and Jacie Chandler from the Emerald Coast Science Center, Patty Messer from the Grande Innovation Academy in Casa Grande, Arizona, and Ruth Wilson from Oglethorpe County Schools in Georgia.
These passionate educators share how SMALLab from EdMotion has brought a whole new level of energy and engagement to their classrooms—helping students think critically, collaborate, and truly love learning. Hear firsthand how SMALLab is turning cross-curricular content for all ages into unforgettable, hands-on experiences.
Resources:
Check out SMALLab from EdMotion to learn more.
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In this episode of the Reshaping Learning podcast from SchoolDay, host Kristi Hemingway sits down with Matt Glanville, Director of Assessment at the International Baccalaureate. Together they explore how AI is reshaping education—from reducing grading burdens and providing real-time feedback to supporting differentiated assessment and improving student writing.
Matt also shares the IB’s perspective on using AI ethically to augment—not replace—human judgment, and how schools can harness these tools to empower teachers and better prepare students for a rapidly changing world.
This episode is sponsored by Scribo from Literatu—AI for writing that builds real connections. Scribo helps teachers see what students need, gives students personalized feedback, and shows schools real progress. Trusted worldwide and award-winning, Scribo works with any LMS. Try it free for one month at literatu.com.
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This important and engaging episode features Joan Kelley, founder and CEO of Abound Parenting, and MaryKate DeSantis, who highlight the critical role of oral language and vocabulary—not just decoding—in long-term reading success. Drawing on Kelley’s research at Harvard, they explain how the Abound app equips families with tools like reading check-ins, daily conversation prompts, vocabulary practice, and curated book lists to strengthen language development at home and build stronger school-family connections.
The episode also spotlights BookR Class, a digital reading platform for English learners ages 4–14 that offers 1,200+ animated books and interactive games to build comprehension and vocabulary. Together, Abound Parenting and BookR provide practical, research-based tools for supporting children’s reading growth.
Resources:
Learn More about BOOKR Class and their digital library for classroom use. BOOKR Class is an award-winning, teacher-favorite digital reading platform that harnesses the power of stories to teach English as a Second Language (ESL) effectively. Specially created for students ages 4–14, including those with learning difficulties such as ADHD and dyslexia, BOOKR Class provides personalized language learning experiences driven by advanced AI technology.
Learn more about Abound Parenting and access the Abound Parenting app.
Reach out to Joan Kelley here.
See the overview here.
Wanna dive into the super compelling reading research. Here you go!:
- Lesaux, N. K., & Kieffer, M. J. (2010). Exploring Sources of Reading Comprehension Difficulties Among Language Minority Learners and Their Classmates in Early Adolescence. American Educational Research Journal, 47(3), 596-632. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831209355469 (Original work published 2010)
- Gámez, P. B., & Lesaux, N. K. (2015). Early-adolescents’ reading comprehension and the stability of the middle school classroom-language environment. Developmental Psychology, 51(4), 447–458. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272520099_Early-Adolescents'_Reading_Comprehension_and_the_Stability_of_the_Middle_School_Classroom-Language_Environment
- Reynolds, A. M., & Burton, S. L. (2016). Serve and return: Communication foundations for early childhood music policy stakeholders. Arts Education Policy Review, 118(3), 140–153. https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2016.1244779 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10632913.2016.1244779
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In this episode, we sit down with Danielle Malfara, Coordinator of College and Career Counseling for the School District of Osceola County, Florida. With a background that spans K–12 education and higher ed, Danielle brings a deep passion for helping students answer the powerful questions: “Who am I?”, "What matters to me?" and “What am I capable of?” She shares her mission to close opportunity gaps and help students build meaningful post-secondary pathways.
Danielle discusses why Osceola County and the state of Florida chose Xello as their go-to college and career readiness platform, highlighting the tool’s ease of use and its broad appeal among educators, students, and families. She also brings the conversation to life with inspiring student success stories—real examples of how personalized exploration and planning can change lives.
Whether you're an educator, administrator, or advocate for student futures, this episode is full of practical insights and hopeful takeaways.
Resources:
Xello is the only career development program built with the entire district community in mind. Xello provides every student of all pathways the freedom to create meaningful future plans, while giving educators the resources they need to help students.
With a carefully designed, student-centered experience, Xello meets accessibility standards and offers age-appropriate career development for every student K-12. Xello creates effective educator workflows so you can spend less time checking boxes and more time helping students.
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Blog: Strengths-Based College and Career Exploration Strategies for K-12 Educators
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What if education empowered students not just to learn about the world’s problems—but to solve them?
In this inspiring episode, we dive into the Solutionary Framework developed by the Institute for Humane Education. Learn how this powerful, action-oriented approach is transforming classrooms by equipping students with the critical thinking, compassion, and systems analysis they need to become changemakers.
Our guests, Katie Coppens & Marcela Villan, unpack how educators can use the framework to guide students in identifying real-world problems, investigating root causes, and designing innovative, ethical, and sustainable solutions that benefit people, animals, and the planet.
Whether you're a teacher, leader, or lifelong learner, this episode offers a fresh perspective on what education can—and should—look like in a world that needs more Solutionaries.
Learn more about the Institute for Humane Education
Learn about IHE's Micro-credential course for teachers
Learn more about the award-winning Solutionary Framework
Bring the Solutionary Program to Your School - 2018 video
Student Reflections on Solutionary Projects (Then & Now)
Katie Coppens 14-day plan for the Environmental Action Project
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Today's guest, Dr. Maggie Broderick is a creative and experienced educator with over 20 years of expertise in higher education and K-12 settings. Currently an Associate Professor and Dissertation Chair in the Department of Teacher Education, she is a leader in curriculum development and passionate about fostering social-emotional learning (SEL) in students.
In this episode we explore how to go beyond box-checking with our SEL programs, to a truly relational and effective approach.
Resources:
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BLOG: Social Emotional Learning: Embracing Empathy and Connection
WEBINAR: You've Earned an A+ Celebrating the "A" in the Acronym LGBTQIAA++: Allyship at its FInest
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Current research indicates that adolescents lose interest in STEM learning by the age of 15 at a concerning rate - particularly girls from underserved communities.
UScellular is partnering with the YWCA on a national level to find out why, and address this gap. Based on the research findings from behavioral psychologist, Dr. Richard Rende, they are implementing a STEM empowerment initiative through YWCA's existing TechGYRLS program. In this episode we hear all about this exciting new program from Dr. Rende, and UScellular Senior Director of Service Engineering, Dr. Lori Dawson.
Resources:
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Marchup advances college & career readiness with AI-powered personalized counseling, resume building, curated jobs, and resources that help students lead initiatives—all within a supportive, student-centered community
Marchup enhances student achievement and college admissions success, reduces counselor workload, and fosters an engaged alumni network. This network provides students with valuable advice and connections while supporting schools in fundraising and community engagement.
Read about how UScellular Drives Creation of Unique Research-Based STEM Program to Tackle Declining Interest Among Youth
Read Dr Rende's research findings - Reversing Declining STEM Interest in Underrepresented Youth
Connect to Dr. Lori Dawson, Senior Director of Servie Engineering at UScellular
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Dr. Akilah WIllery is a dynamic educator, entrepreneur, and digital transformation expert. She empowers education and business leaders to thrive through innovative eLearning solutions and automation strategies.
In this episode we focus on the specific benefits, cautions, guidelines, and opportunities afforded by video resources in classroom settings.
Dr. Willery's ability to bridge the gap between technology and pedagogy has earned her recognition as a leading
expert in the field.
Resources:
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Connect with Dr. Akilah Willery through her webiste at http://upskillservices.site. Dr. Willery provides career coaching for veteran educators.
Listen to Akilah Willery at "The Melanated Midlife" podcast
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Veteran English teacher Carrie Shevlin couldn't wait to tell the EdCuration listeners about how Scribo from Literatu has given her students loads of confidence with their writing, greatly improved their outcomes, and made both her planning and grading quicker, easier and much more personalized.
While AI can never take the place of a teacher, Carrie says Scribo gives both her and her students a huge boost toward stronger, skillful writing.
Resources:
Scribo by Literatu is designed to improve student writing skills by providing real-time feedback, personalized insights, and actionable strategies. It helps students improve their writing proficiency while offering educators valuable data to tailor instruction.
As part of the SchoolDay Collection, Scribo is available for a free pilot without requiring or collecting PII student data.
SchoolDay Collection products are available for purchase on the AWS Marketplace.
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After bouncing between two very different demographics in Georgia and Washington State, veteran English teacher, Julia Cafaro, was determined to find strategies, resources and texts that brought success and excitement for her students regardless of district or demographic.
Along her journey a few resources have truly stood out. In this episode she shares how the The Alexandria Learning Ecosystem for Educators, or ALEE, made her job so much easier while also increasing engagement and outcomes for her students - particularly in their writing.
Resources:
ALEE for Middle School is available at EdCuration.com. The ALEE instructional tool provides teachers with everything they need to teach a book effectively, all in one place.
Teachers use ALEE to create standards-aligned novel units, plan rigorous and differentiated lessons, find relevant paired texts, and develop content expertise.
To inquire about a free pilot opportunity reach out to marjorie@myalee.com or click the "schedule a demo" button here.
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Amy Ely, Director of STEM at Detroit Catholic Central High School, announces the opening of the George & Mary Turek Hall of Science - state-of-the-art 57,000 sq ft STEM Center.
Learn about the cutting-edge facilities including a large-scale observatory, robotics labs, and an advanced greenhouse for sustainability projects. She captivating descriptions include full-motion flight simulators and immersive theaters that can stream astronomical data.
Amy emphasizes the importance of future readiness and project-based learning. highlighting the importance of collaboration and adaptation in education.
Her vision is to prepare students not only for current STEM careers but also for those that will emerge in the future, embodying her belief that education should be both forward-thinking and deeply connected to real-world applications.
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School Passport empowers schools govern the exchange of student, staff, and parent PII data with SaaS vendors, approve and publish apps to a district or school branded on-demand AppStore, and delegate to school staff and teachers the ability to activate apps within their groups.
Learn more about Detroit Catholic Central High School
See the George and Mary Turek Hall of Science
Take a video tour here
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Learn Why Fewer Young Men are Choosing to Pursue College Degrees (From PBS)
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The late Sir Ken Robinson once quipped that many of us feel like, "Math is a party to which we have not been invited."
Today's guest, Peter Coe, wants to make sure those invitations get delivered. As the Founder and Lead K-12 Mathematics Consultant at Coe Learning, LLC, Peter works to make sure students not only get invited to the party, but that once they arrive it's party worth staying for.
Peter works with schools, districts, and organizations on the equitable mindsets, technical skills, resources, and infrastructure required to provide rich, engaging mathematical learning experiences for K-12 students.
A mathematician by training, he has taught in both district and charter schools, and served as a mentor teacher, department chair, and instructional coach.
He is a recipient of the Math for America's Master Teacher and School Leader fellowships.
Peter helped lead the development of the EngageNY mathematics curriculum, as well as realignment of the state assessment program in mathematics. He also helped found and served as Chief Academic Officer of UnboundEd, leading the development of the Standards Institute mathematics pathway and advising numerous organizations and school districts on K-12 mathematics strategy.
Peter has been a speaker at the NCTM and NCSM National Conferences, SXSWEdu, Learning Forward, and other national conventions.
Today he shares advice to districts in how to shift both their practices and resources to raise engagement and achievement in math classrooms.
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The engaging program combines highly structured lessons with fun motivational elements, ensuring key concepts are learned in depth.
Mathseeds is trusted by teachers for its curriculum alignment to state standards and proven effectiveness, earning ESSA Level II evidence certification.
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Want to partner with Peter Coe to build a world where all students are included in the math party? Go to coelearning.org
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District leaders all across the country have long lamented the dearth of high-quality, culturally relevant and engaging curriculum for history and social studies.
And it's not just leaders and teachers. Students surveyed also report that they don't see themselves in the curriculum, feel that they are only learning one side of history, and that none of it seems to have anything to do with them or their lives.
Nichol Everett, K-12 Social Studies Instruction Facilitator for Tacoma Public Schools, partnered with Educurious to co-design a project-based, interactive, Civics unit called Advocacy in Action that has students and teachers cheering and achieving. Find out how they did it in this inspiring episode.
Resources:
Learn more about Educurious' project-based courses, aligned to state and national standards, and written on a foundation of research-based design principles for learning.
Learning in Action Blog: Why Project Based Learning is Necessary for Deep Understanding in Social Studies
Learning in Action Blog: 5 Reasons Why Project-Based Learning is Essential to Social Studies Instruction
Hear how Cross-Content, Customized Project-Based Units Have Revolutionized Learning in Three Districts
Learn more about The Educurious Experience
Free Micro-Learning ExPLoration with Educurious! Transformative State History: learn how to engage your students with PBL unit, Decisions that Define Us
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We're joned today by Monica Schultz, Senior Manager for Navigator Services with Denver Public Schools, and Nazli José, a student at Montebello Career and Technical School. They enthusiastically share the many benefits of the School Passport Administrator digital internship offered through GG4L. The program provides both High School and college credit for students while giving them real-world tech skills and providing the full flexibility of a digital certification.
Resources:
Inquire about the Certified School Passport Administrator (CSPA)digital internship program HERE. The CSPA program offers high school students a 60-hour internship with a mix of academic and hands-on experiences, with certification and college credit included.
Access program overview & syllabus HERE
GG4L’s School Passport® is a data exchange platform that exchanges any data with any EdTech product, eliminates the need to share student PII and is easy to implement for schools and vendors. It empowers schools to centrally:
- Govern the exchange of student, staff, and parent PII data with SaaS vendors
- Approve and publish apps to a district or school branded on-demand AppStore
- Delegate to school staff and teachers the ability to activate apps within their managed groups on-demand
School Passport® is used by over 25,000 schools in the US and abroad.
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Richard Kincaid, the State Director of Career and Technical Education for the District of Columbia, shares his journey to becoming a passionate advocate for educational equity and opportunity. His career spans over two decades, during which he has dedicated himself to building systems that drive meaningful impact in K-12 public schools, government, and educational non-profits.
Kincaid's focus is on Career and Technical Education (CTE), providing students with access to diverse pathways beyond traditional academia, whether directly into college, the workforce, or national service.
The conversation delves into the establishment of Washington, DC's first Advanced Technical Center (ATC), aimed at providing CTE courses that were previously out of reach for many students. The ATC offers programs in nursing, cybersecurity, and more, providing students with industry-recognized credentials and dual credits, saving them thousands of dollars in future education costs. Kincaid highlights the center's inclusive transportation model, ensuring access for all students regardless of location.
Moreover, Kincaid discusses the significance of CTE programs in addressing workforce shortages, particularly in high-demand fields. He emphasizes the need to dispel stigmas surrounding trades and vocational education, showcasing success stories of students finding fulfilling careers through CTE pathways.
Resources:
Today's sponsor, Xello is the only career development program built with the entire district community in mind. Xello provides every student of all pathways the freedom to create meaningful future plans, while giving educators the resources they need to help students.
With a carefully designed, student-centered experience, Xello meets accessibility standards and offers age-appropriate career development for every student K-12. Xello creates effective educator workflows so you can spend less time checking boxes and more time helping students. Learn more here or here.
Read about Strengths-Based College and Career Exploration Strategies for K-12 Educators
Hear from hear from Laura Benisch, the Director of Career Planning and Partnerships at the Lincoln Academy Public Charter School in Beloit Wisconsin, about real-world and career-focused learning, and the platform that is supporting all of the educators and K-12 scholars in the state of Wisconsin in career exploration.
Learn the story behind Xello from CEO and co-founder Jeff Harris.
Reach out to Richard W. Kincaid
State Director, Career and Technical Education
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Twitter: @careertechninja
Web: careertechdc.org
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In this episode we learn from Andrea Becker, the lead instructor at the Virtual Learning Academy Consortium (or VLAC) in Michigan, and her colleague Amanda McKay, the supervisor of student services with VLAC. While virtual learning was happening prior to 2020 but it has certainly been normalized as a viable option for many more students since the pandemic. We wanted to learn from Andrea and Amanda, veterans in the field of virtual learning, about how to do it well, and the components that make it most effective, and the curriculum program that is bringing huge success to students at all levels of need and ability.
Resources:
Learn more, or reach out to Lincoln Learning here
Check out Lincoln Learning's podcast and Lincoln Learning's blog
Hear how Lincoln Learning is partnering with Urban Green Education to reach learners across the globe
Learn more about Michigan's Virtual Learning Academy Consortium
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Dr. Charles Dana Hall, co-founder of Sterling Literacy Consulting, works with schools and districts across the country, many of which have been identified for improvement, to bring them to recognized levels of high performance in reading. In this episode he shares his passion and the research-backed strategies that serve every student - offering many examples of what is possible when using the science of reading systematically.
Resources:
Reading Eggs is the multi award winning online reading program for grades PreK-5. Fully aligned with the Science of Reading and utilizing the five essential keys to reading success, the program unlocks all aspects of learning to read for students.
Reading Eggs is trusted by teachers for its curriculum alignment to state standards and proven effectiveness, earning ESSA Level III evidence certification. Learn more at EdCuration.com
Sterling Literacy Consulting works to provide . . .
- all students with equitable learning experiences and access to rigorous instruction that develops foundational and life-long literacy skills so they can be successful in their education, life, and career experiences.
- educators with professional learning experiences that are accessible, valuable, and immediately applicable to their instructional repertoire.
How the Brain Learns to Read - Professor Stanislas Dehaene
TurnThePageProject - Emily Hanford
Sold a Story podcast with Emily Hansford
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This episode of the EdCuration Podcast is brought to you by Sanako Connect at Multimedia Solutions Inc.
Guest Stephanie Knight from the Center for Applied Second Language Studies, explores the paradigm shift in world language learning catalyzed by technology integration, the significance of starting foreign language study early, and how global economy shines a spotlight on the shifting educational landscape.
We also discuss the ingenious iAgents 21st Century Global Competence Curriculum, a CASLS initiative aimed at solving 'resource scarcity' with creative approaches. This curriculum makes language learning an interconnected endeavor by introducing 18 different languages to elementary learners intersecting with fundamental subjects like math and English.
The episode also uncovers crucial insights into the rising demand for bilingual skills in the job market due to increasing globalization, cognitive boosters derived from learning a foreign language, the role of AI technologies in facilitating multilingual transactions, and the transformative potential of the Intercultural Pragmatic and Interactional Competence Framework.
We scrutinize the effectiveness of language learning strategies in the modern digital age and the use of mixed reality for enhancing language learning experiences. Further, we discuss opportunities provided by the Center for Applied Second Language Studies to diverse learners, teachers, and leaders, and how to select high-quality language instruction programs that aligns with defined learning objectives.
This episode gifts you with practical strategies and tools to amplify your language-learning experience in the digital era.
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Connects speaking pronunciation and listening activities develop students' fluency and confidence in any language. Developed following highest standards in accessibility guidelines to be accessible also for students including with disabilities such as deaf and visual impairments
Explore the resources of University of Oregon's Center for Applied Second Language Study
Learn more about Stephanie Knight here, or reach out at knights@uoregon.edu
Check out the Radio Ambulante podcast, with Spanish study and educational resources!
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Dive deep into the exciting universe of Academic eSports with our distinguished guest, Dr. Katrina Adkins. Leveraging her vast experience as an educator and a passionate gamer, Dr. Adkins enlightens us about the significant role eSports can play in reshaping K-12 education.
The three key principals of eSports - curriculum, competition, and careers - underscore the transformative potential of a competitive, yet cooperative gaming environment. Dr. Adkins offers a fresh perspective on how eSports can boost learning experiences and pave the way for a myriad of career opportunities in the booming industry.
Redressing common misconceptions, she also addresses essential concerns about increased screen time and highlights the multifaceted benefits of eSports – from improved cognitive abilities and hand-eye coordination to fostering social-emotional learning. She offers rich insights into the progressive integration of eSports into academics, suggesting simple and practical steps for schools interested in nurturing competitive eSports programs.
This episode illuminates the path for educators, parents, and administrators interested in incorporating eSports, spelling out strategies for overcoming challenges and ensuring sustainability amidst high turnover. Dr. Adkins also demystifies the eSports job market, pointing out the wide range of careers that extend beyond gaming.
Resources:
Ignite interest and engagement in computer science and STEM through the exciting field of esports. With the USAEL toolkit, students and schools will have everything they need to start and run their very own esports team, enhancing learning in the classroom through play.
Join the CodeCombat AI League -- both a competitive AI battle simulator and game engine for learning real Python and JavaScript code.
The AI League allows students to showcase their understanding of coding concepts in a new creative environment and practice problem solving strategies as they go head to head in battle against their classmates. Competitive coding has never been so epic!
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And learn more about Dr. Katrina Adkins, her work, resources and speaking engagements check out Dr. Adkins' website
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In this exciting episode of the EdCuration podcast, we are joined by Jeffrey Bradbury, an influential figure in educational technology. We discussed his journey from being a music teacher to a predominant instructional coach, highlighting the importance of adaptability in learning dynamics. We also tackled the misconceptions about the role of instructional coaches and their potential to tackle district-level challenges.
Bradbury’s commitment to open dialogue across all levels of the educational field is emphasized throughout the podcast. He stresses the necessity of better communication between administrators and teachers, as well as the need for a strategic approach to maximizing the efficiency of the resources available. The conversation also explores the contents of his book, in which he outlines his vision for the future of instructional coaching.
This episode also emphasizes the significance of the vertical approach, as opposed to the traditional horizontal one, when it comes to instructional coaching. We discuss how such an innovative method could be implemented from the central office level and the importance of collaboration across different departments.
Moreover, we explore how instructional coaches can prove their value using definable performance data. We discuss in detail the challenges faced by coaches in different situations, whether being the sole coach in the district or a member of a centralized coaching team. We also touch on goal identification, the building of support networks, and more.
Towards the end of the episode, we emphasize the importance of a unified strategic plan from the administration. We wrap up with a call to action for coaches to remember that they are not alone and to continually seek ways to assert their value within the education sector. Tune in to get a wealth of knowledge on instructional coaching and its potential to reshape the educational landscape.
Resources:
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Reach out to Jeffrey Bradbury on LinkedIn
Learn how to leverage your strategic goals and Vision through your instructional coaches, to create a Standards-Based Culture for future-ready digital learning at Teachercast.net
Take your coaching to the next level with Jeffrey Bradbury at Ask the Tech Coach.
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Ayinde Bennett, from The Urban Assembly, is passionate about post-secondary success and career readiness. Learn about the tool and the program that is putting Urban Assembly graduates far above the national average in post-secondary success.
Resources:
Xello is the only career development program built with the entire district community in mind. Xello provides every student of all pathways the freedom to create meaningful future plans, while giving educators the resources they need to help students.
With a carefully designed, student-centered experience, Xello meets accessibility standards and offers age-appropriate career development for every student K-12. Xello creates effective educator workflows so you can spend less time checking boxes and more time helping students.
Schedule a demo, or talk to a representative
Connect with Ayinde Bennett on LinkedIn
Learn more about The Urban Assembly. Meet Ayinde's team and learn more about their post-secondary readiness program.
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Author and educator Dr. Charles Barrett has been a High School and Middle school psychologist for over 13 years, and is currently a K-12 administrator in Washington DC. He is a frequent speaker and workshop presenter for educators, families, and community organizations on the topic of social justice. See his many books in the notes below. Today we discuss his most recent book Social Justice in Schools: A Framework for Equity in Education.
Resources:
Connect to The Institute for Humane Education's Solutionary Framework.
The Solutionary Framework is a multi-step approach that teaches students to think like solutionaries, someone who is able to identify and address unjust systems, from problem identification to solution implementation. The framework can be adapted to fit into existing curriculum.
Students engaged in solutionary learning think more critically and systemically; demonstrate greater compassion for other people, animals, and the environment; and feel a greater sense of agency and optimism in the face of significant social and environmental challenges.
The Institute for Humane Education's website
IHE's Micro-Credential Program
IHE's Graduate Programs through Antioch University
The IHE podcast, Evolve with Zoe Weil
Hear from teacher Julia Fliss, about how the solutionary framework applies with her students.
A free Introduction to Solutionary Teaching and Learning for teachers - In this four-part mini-course, you will learn what a solutionary is and how bringing solutionary teaching and learning into our education system benefits our youth, our communities, and our world. Get a framework and supporting resources to help you bring solutionary teaching and learning into your classroom or school.
Connect to Dr. Charles Barrett
Purchase Social Justice in Schools: A Framework for Equality in Education by Charles Barrett, PhD.
Find all of Dr. Barrett's other books and resources here
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Instructional Technology Resource teacher, Ginnie German, shares why TeacherMade was the number one resource she recommends for her teachers. Learn about all the ways that it lightens teacher workloads, while providing timely relevant feedback for students, and improving scores and outcomes.
Ginnie says, "If I could only ask for one thing for my teachers, it would be this."
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Students struggling to read in upper elementary, middle school, and beyond present a unique challenge for teachers in terms of appropriate resources. Erin Paske is a dyslexia tutor, a certified academic language therapist and a licensed dyslexia practitioner. She co-founded the Nashville Dyslexia Center.
For this episode, Erin is joined by MaryKate Heavey, a reading and early childhood literacy specialist who currently works as an equitable literacy coach for the city of Boston.
Erin and MaryKate are eager to share the amazing outcomes their students have achieved with Simple Words decodable chapter books.
Special Thanks from MaryKate to 5th Grade teacher Olivia Samuel!
Resources:
Learn more, or order Simple Words Books for your students here
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Director of Learning and Teaching at College Achieve Patterson, Jasonn Denard, shares how his middle-school students have been inspired and empowered to achieve and compete at the High School level through the SheHeroes program. He is joined by Middle School Science teacher, Melissa Mendizabal, and one of her 7th grade students.
Resources:
SheHeroe's mission is to inspire girls to dream big for their futures by offering video profiles of successful women, with a focus on STEM. Our STEM Career Path Curriculum is free for teachers.
- Explore a sample lesson here
- Closing the STEM Gap whitepaper
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Jennifer Serravallo shares her New York Times bestselling, The Reading Strategies Book, helping listeners implement goal-directed, responsive instruction in every classroom. Jen is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences and travels throughout the US and Canada to work with teachers and students creating engaging, productive and joyful classrooms.
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In this podcast, Innovative Educator Alyna Utt shares the amazing hands-on, real-world, and community-driven STEM project accomplished by her students -- and other initiatives that Project Invent fellows are leading in their classrooms to positively impact their communities.
Resources:
- Learn about bringing Project Invent to your school or community
- See Project Invent Students' featured projects
- Apply for the 2023-2024 Fellowship
- Download the Project Invent Curriculum
- Discover the Project Invent Demo Day national events, where students pitch their ideas for social good and develop their own businesses
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Don Lamison, from the Urban Green Education Project, shares his vision of revolutionizing education across Indonesia and beyond with high-impact resources like Lincoln Learning, and more. You won't want to miss this inspiring conversation!
Resources:
Lincoln Learning Solutions offers features core, elective, and credit recovery courses. It provides essential and specialty selections with a consistent design and functionality across subjects and grades.
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Learn more about Urban Green Education
Learn about Green Study
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Music Blocks is an Ambie-award-winning podcast that explores how songwriters and composers use sound to express their emotions and share their experiences. Each episode runs about 5 minutes making them ideal for classroom bell work, anticipatory sets and discussion starters or writing prompts. Hear from co-host and producer Rebekah Romberg, and content consultant Carla Aguilar, in this fun and musical interview!
Resources:
Moosiko is a comprehensive, differentiated digital platform helping K-12 guitar, ukulele, and modern band programs boost student engagement and increase enrollment. Teachers save time with skill tracking and assessment tools.The mobile friendly app contains over 400 fun, relevant songs from the 1950s to today. Free teacher and student accounts are available.
Hear more about Moosiko from veteran music teacher, Matthew Hall
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Shonda Ronen, Illinois Principal's Association 2022 Elementary Principal of the Year, shares how the Classroom Education Plan from QoreInsights supports the needs of her teachers at every level of experience, and in every content area, and has brought data-driven instructions and research-based strategies to the forefront in every classroom.
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The Classroom Education Plan from QoreInsights creates powerful teacher learning experiences. AI uses teacher/student input to match teachers with real-time, targeted research-based strategies; tracks impact on student growth; and guides rich collaboration.
Users report high teacher usage, teacher excitement around new strategies, improved teacher practices, and increased student engagement and performance in just 4 weeks of use.
Our recent interview with the Learning Scientist's Dr. Cynthia Nebel
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Curt Minich has been teaching computer science for 31 years. He and three of his students heartily endorse CS Academy from Carnegie Mellon University as the complete package that has allowed them to achieve a level of coding that they hadn't previously imagined.
CS Academy includes consistent hands-on support for teachers, and it's completely free.
Resources:
CMU CS Academy is an online, graphics-based computer science curriculum taught in Python provided by Carnegie Mellon University, offering novel, world-class Computer Science education for your classroom —and it’s entirely free.
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Hear from two educators about how Penda Learning is raising both student engagement and standards mastery in Science, Grades 5-10. Heidi Alves is a former high school biology teacher who now serves as the K-12 science and curriculum specialist. Jeremy Blinn is a Secondary Science Curriculum Specialist.
Personalized learning for all students: struggling readers, ESE students, and ESOL students. Science content has been hand-crafted for NGSS, FL NGSSS, and TX TEKS.
Resources:
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Dr Cynthia Nebel, is an instructor in the doctor of education (Ed.D.) in leadership and learning in organizations program at Vanderbilt University. In her research, she examines techniques to improve student retention, emphasizing learner charateritics and applied settings. Professor Nebel spreads the science of learning to educators worldwide through her work with the Learning Scientists.
Resources:
QoreInsights’ Classroom Education Plan (CEP) creates powerful teacher learning experiences. AI uses teacher/student input to match teachers with real-time, targeted research-based strategies; tracks impact on student growth; and guides rich collaboration.
Users report high teacher usage, teacher excitement around new strategies, improved teacher practices, and increased student engagement and performance in just 4 weeks of use.
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Spaced Practice
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Elaboration
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Books:
- Ace That Test: A Student's Guide to Learning Better
- Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide
- Five Teaching and Learning Myths Debunked: A Guide for Teachers
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Retrieval Practice is a simple research-based teaching strategy that dramatically raises students’ grades. When students retrieve and bring information to mind, this mental challenge produces durable long-term learning. Easy learning leads to easy forgetting. Stop cramming, reviewing, and re-teaching. Instead, simply ask students what they remember. No prep, no grading, just powerful teaching.
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Bilingual educator, Karla Estrada, shares how BeeReaders is unlike any other Spanish literacy resource through its flexible features and truly authentic texts from multiple Spanish speaking countries. It motivates students to read in an instructionally-sound, gamified environment.
Resources:
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See the wide variety of authentic Spanish content and authors from across the Spanish-speaking world for your K-12 students! Click here for our 2023 Catalog!
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Mohan Sivaloganathan is the Batman of Social Impact, as a nonprofit leader by day and hip-hop artist by night. He guides the work of Our Turn, the nation's leading movement of students fighting for education justice.
Mohan was awarded as a “40 Under 40 Rising Star” by New York Nonprofit Media and a “Next Generation Leader” by the Human Services Council, and was featured in Good is the New Cool, an Amazon Philanthropy & Charity #1 new release.
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Middle School teacher, Julia Fliss, shares the resources, framework and trainings from The Institute for Humane Education, that have guided her students to become "solutionaries" in their classroom, school, families and the wider community.
Resources:
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Learn about The Institute for Humane Education's Solutionary Micro-Credential
Zoe Weil, co-founder of The Institute for Humane Education, is the author of seven books including Amazon #1 Best Seller in Philosophy and Social Aspects of Education, The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating a Generation of Solutionaries (2021/2016), Nautilus Silver Medal winner, Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life (2009), The Power and Promise of Humane Education (2004), and Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times (2003).
She has also written books for young people, including Moonbeam Gold Medal winner, Claude and Medea: The Hellburn Dogs (2007), about 12-year-old activists inspired by their teacher to right wrongs where they find them, and So, You Love Animals: An Action-Packed, Fun-Filled Book to Help Kids Help Animals (1994).
In 2010, Zoe gave her first TEDx talk “The World Becomes What You Teach” which became among the 50 top-rated TEDx talks within a year. Since then she has given five other TEDx talks: “Solutionaries”, “Educating for Freedom”, “How to be a Solutionary”, “Extending our Circle of Compassion” and “How will you answer this question?”
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Stephanie Pratt, M.Ed. is a Structured Literacy Dyslexia Specialist, explains the proven strategies to support students with dyslexia, and how the Science of Reading is essential tier one instruction for all learners.
Stephanie is Founder and Director of the Pratt Program for Students with Dyslexia at Bishop Walsh School in Cumberland, Maryland, where she has used the Orton-Gillingham approach to help hundreds of students in grades K-12, learn to read, write and spell.
She has taught a reading remediation course to graduate education students at Frostburg University and has many years of experience testing children with learning differences and guiding their families.
Stephanie joined Dr. Fran Levin Bowman in training educators in the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading intervention using Bowman’s Orton-Gillingham “Plus” Guidebook; she has trained hundreds of educators in public schools, private schools, as well as many private tutors and parents.
When Dr. Bowman passed away in 2021, Stephanie became Director of Bowman Educational Services. She is proud to carry on Dr. Bowman’s legacy of training teachers in the Orton-Gillingham approach, giving them the knowledge and tools they need to help struggling students become become competent readers.
Resources:
OgStar Readingfollows the Science of Reading, and has a patented, multi-sensory learning approach. Their Orton-Gillingham app offers a home or school-based full structured literacy curriculum for early readers, dyslexics, English language learners, or struggling students from ages 4 - 13.
OgStar is currently offering a ten day free trial, and as a thank you for listening to todays episode, they are providing 10 free iPad apps and 10 free Chrome web-based apps. Visit OgStar, click the “Let’s Talk” button and type "EdCuration podcast" in the question field.
The Bowman Educational Services (Stephanie's Website - find information about upcoming trainings, resources, etc.)
Fumiko Hoeft, MD, PhD is Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Weill Institute for Neurosciences and directs the UCSF Hoeft Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (brainLENS.org).
Nadine Gaab, PhD is an associate professor of Education, with degrees from University of Zürich, Stanford and MIT. She is the 2019 recipient of the LDA Award (Learning Disabilities Association America) for her work on learning disabilities.
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Mike Daugherty, director of technology and Innovation at Chagrin Falls Exempted Village Schools, shares how Read&Write increases equity and improves outcomes for all students. The easy to access app helps with reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work.
Resources:
TextHelp
Read&Write is a text-to-speech literacy support tool for students at all reading levels -- especially effective for struggling learners and ELLs
OrbitNote allows you to transform and interact with documents in a completely different way. Create an accessible, dynamic and collaborative space that works for everyone.
Data Desk creates reports and tracks data for Read&Write and Orbitnote
You can find additional information on Texthelp pricing here. Read&Write is free for individual teachers. District's can purchase student licenses with pricing based on the total number of student licenses needed.
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Join this inspiring and touching conversation with New York Times Learning Network editor, Katherine Schulten. Former high school English teacher and literacy consultant, she shares the process and creators of the NYT recently released book, Coming of Age in 2020: Teenagers on the Year That Changed Everything.
Resources:
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Connect to Katherine Schulten on LinkedIn
Get the book! Coming of Age in 2020: Teenagers on the Year That Changed Everything
Documenting Your Life in Extraordinary Times New York Times Learning Network Curriculum Unit with links to all the things: a step-by-step guide, mentor texts, writing prompts, the original call-out, and the 2020 winners.
Additional Articles:
- A NYT piece about a school system that adapted the project and how it became a cool community endeavor: "The Found Project': How We Built Community With the Coming of Age Unit
- A NYT piece from Katherine about teaching with the book: How to Teach With Art and Artifacts in our New Book, 'Coming of Age in 2020'
Credits:
Intro Music: Here's to 2021 -- Thomas Kaufman, Lance Algabre, & Andrew Garcia, from Juneau, Alaska
Violin Underscoring: original composition Until Tomorrow -- Tienne Yu
Outro Music: Pandemic Boyfriend -- Amelia Ross
Self Expression - Abram Loya
"Borscht Recipe" -- Daniel Rykunov
"Trending in 2020" -- Piper Chase
"Letter to My Teacher" -- Andrew Badhwa
"Ashes to Ashes" -- Kaltun Mohamed
"The Five Stages of Grief: Quarantine Bangs Edition" -- Anushka Chakravarthi
The New York Times ran the contest again in 2021, and here were that year's winners.
This year's contest call-out: Coming of Age in 2022: Show Us What It's Like to Be a Teenager Now
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Paloma Mena-Werth, a teacher-leader and Middle School Band teacher, shares how GiveThx has built community among the staff and students at her school and is elevating relationships, overall school climate, and the work environment. It's quick, research-based, SO easy -- and it's free!
Resources:
Connect to GiveThx for their free pilot opportunity
Hear what teachers and students have to say about GiveThx
Book:
Making Grateful Kids: A Scientific Approach to Helping Youth Thrive by Jeffrey Froh, Giacomo Bono, & Jefferey J. Froh
Videos:
A Soul Pancake Presentation: An Experiment in Gratitude| The Science of Happiness
The Science of Gratitude & How to Build a Gratitude Practice
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In Literature and the New Culture Wars, Professor Deborah Appleman addresses the contentious contemporary discourse around which books deserve a place in the classroom, breaking down practical strategies for teaching troubled texts while still confronting and dissecting the controversies they may invoke.
Resources:
Connect to ALEE, providing everything teachers need to teach novel studies effectively
deborahappleman.com
@deborahappleman
Order Literature and the New Culture Wars
Order Deborah Applman's first book, Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison
Co-edited with Peter Williamson: School, Not Jail:How Educators Can Disrupt School Pushout and Mass Incarceration
Recommended articles:
Banning Books Won’t Make Students Safer by Miriam Poltinsky
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Veteran music teacher, Matthew Hall, shares how Moosiko's K12 guitar (& ukelele) platform has increased both student engagement and achievement by allowing for student choice. Flexible and systematic instruction, and easy tracking for the teacher allows for better connections in a flipped classroom.
Resources:
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Dr. David Bain, Sr. Vice President of Innovation & Analytics at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, helps us understand how advancing educational technology is shifting our approach to intervention from a way to address struggling learners to a way to provide targeted, personalized learning for all students.
Resources:
Connect to AnetaEd, allowing PreK - 5th kids navigate to websites, links and apps in the order and at the times that educators want for them, all on their own. Aneta enables differentiated learning pathways regardless of class size.
Connect to Dr. David Bain on LinkedIn
Resources from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- HMH Science Dimensions
- Read 180
- Into Reading
- Into Literature
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Luke Butcher, Product Developer at International Dyslexia Learning Solutions, discusses dyscalculia research, helping us sort through, understand and address our students' math challenges. Learn about the tools for screening and addressing dyscalculia.
Resources:
Learn more about the IDLS Numeracy Intervention. Purchase through EdCuration and receive a 10% discount
Access the IDLS free Dyscalculia screener
Learn more about the IDLS Literacy Intervention. to address Dyslexia and other reading challenges. Purchase through EdCuration and receive a 10% discount
Access the IDLS Dyslexia Screener
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Jonathan Hamilt, Executive Director of Drag Queen Story Hour, shares the literary and creative programming for kids and teens of all ages led by drag queens. Drag Queen Story Hour, often misunderstood, is a family friendly program working to create a world where all kids (and adults) can celebrate diversity and glamour.
Resources:
Connect to BeeReaders Español and inquire about a free pilot
See Angel Electra's Story on YouTube
Connect to Drag Queen Story Hour
Follow Jonathan on instagram
See the Drag Queen Story Hour's workshop from SXSW
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In this episode we hear from Laura Benisch, the Director of Career Planning and Partnerships at the Lincoln Academy Public Charter School in Beloit Wisconsin, about real-world and career-focused learning, and the platform that is supporting all of the educators and K-12 scholars in the state of Wisconsin in career exploration.
Resources:
Connect with Xello, and inquire about a free pilot
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Author and educator, Miriam Plotinsky, shares strategies for giving students more voice, more choice, more responsibility and more challenge. Having spent 20 years as a classroom educator, Miriam now writes for publications like Ed Surge, Ed Week, and Edutopia. Her first book (for teachers) is Teach More, Hover Less: How to Stop Micromanaging Your Secondary Classroom.
Resources:
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Miriam Plotinsky's website
Order Teach More, Hover Less: How to Stop Micromanaging Your Secondary Classroom
Preorder Miriam's upcoming book Lead Like a Teacher
Find a list and links for Miriam's articles here
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Principal Melissa Barlow, English Teacher Hannah Hodge, and 11th Grader Kaleb, are enthusiastic to share how TutorMe has enhanced student achievement, empowered teachers, and is shifting the culture at Yukon High School in Oklahoma City. TutorMe provides highly qualified tutors, available 24/7, in 7 different languages.
Resources:
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Andrea Keith brings her background as a classroom teacher, professional developer and ed-tech leader, to her current role as the Executive Director of Let Grow. Let Grow is making it easy, normal and legal to give kids the independence they need to grow into capable, confident and happy adults. Learn about Let Grow's programs for schools.
Resources:
Read&Write from TextHelp
OrbitNote from TextHelp
Let Grow
- The Let Grow Play Club
- The Let Grow Project
- The Think For Yourself Scholarship
- Let Grow's Annual Independence Challenge
Free Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy
- Free downloadable chapter for educators
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Jonathan Haidt
Lots more recommended books from Let Grow
Daniel Shuchman, Chairman of the Board for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Dr. Peter Gray's TED Talks and Videos
- The Decline of Play
- How Our Schools Thwart Passions
- Play-based Learning
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Middle school teacher, Thé Bui, inspires us with all the ways NexGen News has elevated student voice, brought continually new and engaging content to his curriculum, and built a culture of curiosity, creativity and student-led learning in his science and social studies classroom.
Resources:
Connect to NexGen News to learn more and take advantage of their free two-month pilot
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Adam Collins, PhD, the Statewide Bullying-Prevention Manager and MTSS Specialist for the Colorado Department of Education, and his colleague Jason Harlacher, PhD, Senior Researcher with American Institutes for Research are passionate about making schools safe and welcoming places for every student. They have co-written the book, Effective Bullying Prevention: a Comprehensive School-wide Approach, supporting educators to successfully create a bully-proof culture.
Resources:
Connect to The Wonder Project from myFace
Pre-order Effective Bullying Prevention: a Comprehensive School-wide Approach
Evidence Based Recommended Resources from Adam and Jason's book:
- PRAISE
- RULER
- Second Step
- Words Wound
- Bully Prevention in Positive Behavior Support Curriculum Resource for Elementary Students
- Expect Respect from PBIS is a school-wide resource for secondary students
- Facing History and Ourselves
- Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP)
- Positive Action
Article: From Ancient Greece to Iraq, the Power of Words in Wartime
More Resources:
Bullying Prevention and Education Resources from CDE
School Bullying Prevention Resources from CDE
Reducing the Effectiveness of Bullying Behavior in Schools from the OSEP Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
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Veteran administrator and teacher, Wendy Young, had 100% attendance at parent teacher conferences, twice a year, for two years in a row. She also had 100% student engagement for 98% of the time during remote learning, and she communicates with ease with families from her multilingual class. Listen to learn how she does it.
Resources:
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Jocelyn Pickford from CurriculumHQ and Josh Parrish from the Collaborative for Student Success, discuss how High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) transform classrooms, empower and retain teachers, and accelerate student learning and engagement exponentially. Learn how you as an educator or parent, can make a difference.
Resources:
Visit us at EdCuration.com
CurriculumHQ.org
CurriculumHQ ‘Materials in My State’ Map
Resources on Implementing High-Quality Instructional Materials
Curriculum A-B-C Blog
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Educators, Dan Fouts & Eryn Sherman, share the transformative, inquiry strategies that bring spice, curiosity, engagement, and belonging to their classrooms. Hear how student-led learning hits all the standards and shifts school culture.
Resources:
Connect with Inquiry Partners
Get the book - Experience Inquiry: 5 Powerful Strategies, 50 Practical Experiences by Kimberly Mitchell
Chapters International - find workshops and conferences
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Artists, educators and researchers James Rees and Flavia Bastos share the powerful, nationwide digital storytelling project and research project, Who Is American Today. Hear student projects, learn about research findings, and discover how to participate with your students or host an exhibit.
Resources:
Connect to NexGen News and ask about their free pilot opportunity
the Who is American Today website
Gallery and Student Projects
Education Package and curriculum resources
Tutorial Videos to help you participate
James Rees' website - full of very cool art
Flavia Bastos' website
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Andria Danko has been teaching primary school for 18 years, and she knows what works. Since using Page a Day Math, her students' progress has accelerated, and they are even asking for Math during their free time!
Resources:
Connect with Page a Day Math
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Dina Zuckerberg, the Director of Family Programs at myFace.org, shares the challenges of having a craniofacial difference, and the ways that The Wonder Project launches kindness and anti-bullying movements and momentum.
Resources:
Connect to Learning Ally
Connect to The Wonder Project
Connect to myFace
Connect to Dina Zuckerberg
Read the book Wonder, by RJ Palacio
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Monica Valdes is a 21-year teaching veteran with a background in media and film. She shares how Checkology has empowered both her and her students to sort through the onslaught of misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories. Media literacy has become an essential foundation for core content and Checkology makes it easy to integrate.
Resources:
Sign up for Checkology for free!
Connect to The News Literacy Project
The News Literacy Project is a nonpartisan education nonprofit, building a national movement to advance the practice of news literacy throughout American society, creating better informed, more engaged and more empowered individuals — and ultimately a stronger democracy. Read our brochure
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Sharon Gamson Danks, the CEO and founder of Green Schoolyards America, shares all the educational, social, environmental and health-related benefits of redesigning schoolyards into living, diverse, outdoor learning spaces.
Resources:
Connect to The Institute for Humane Education for free resources and training
Connect to Green Schoolyards America
Access the National Outdoor Learning Library
The District Pathway through the Outdoor Learning Library
Learn about the California Schoolyard Forest System
Climate Resilient Schools Podcast Series:
Episode 1 with Andra Yeghoian
Episode 2 with Karen Cowe and Craig Strang
Books:
- Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for School Transformation by Sharon Gamson Danks
- Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
- The World Becomes What We Teach by Zoe Weil
- Nature Play at Home: Creating Outdoor Spaces the Connect Children with the Natural World by Nancy Striniste
- How to Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers by Ardoin Bucklin-sporer and Rachel Kathleen Pringle
- Schools That Heal: Design With Mental Health in Mind by Claire Latane
- Curriculum Guide by Susan Humphries:
Experiential Outdoor Learning in the Schoolyard
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Hear how Lisa Free, a teacher at Joseph Cook Elementary, reinforces content learning, SEL, and computer science with Infini-d Learning. She shares the remarkable student growth achieved by turning her classroom into a spaceship.
Average student growth with the Infini-D Lab: Critical Thinking +76% Collaboration +19% Initiative +34% Grit +21% Overall SEL +34%
Resources:
Connect to Infini-d Learning for a free pilot
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Karen Cowe, CEO of Ten Strands, and Craig Strang, Associate Director of the Lawrence Hall of Science, share how the Covid 19 Outdoor Learning Initiative was created, and how they are pivoting from a Covid response to a climate response.
Resources:
Connect to the Institute for Humane Education
Connect to the Covid 19 Outdoor Learning Initiative
The Lawrence Hall of Science
Ten Strands: Connecting Education, Environment, and Community
Sustainable & Climate Ready Schools Admin Fellowship
Equity and Justice in Outdoor Learning:
Racial Equity in Outdoor Science and Environmental Education: Re-Establishing the Field with Intention
Examining Equitable and Inclusive Work Environments in Environmental Education
Building Towards an Inclusive Organizational Culture: Insights and Lessons Learned from YES Nature to Neighborhoods
Intentional Hiring and Recruitment through the Lens of Equity and Inclusion
Article: Environmental Literacy & Classrooms That Can Save the World
Curriculum: Solutionary Units of Study
Curriculum: The Resource Center for Sustainable and Climate Resilient Schools
The California Environmental Literacy Initiative
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
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Dr. Lori Grace, Associate Superintendent of School Leadership at Twin Rivers USD in California, shares how, within a few short months, the job embedded, ongoing training and coaching from Swun Math (along with their corresponding curriculum) shifted teacher efficacy and confidence, while drastically raising student outcomes. Learn how to give your math experts the tools and support they need to succeed.
Resources:
Connect to Swun Math for a free pilot of professional development
Connect to Swun Math for a free pilot of their ECE-8 math curriculum
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Andra Yeghoian is the Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Coordinator at the San Mateo County Office of Education, and one of the four creating partners for the Covid 19 Outdoor Learning Initiative. Learn about all the ways that sustainability, equity, and environmental learning go hand in hand, and all the amazing resources developed by Andra and her colleagues.
Resources:
Connect to the Institute for Humane Education
Contact Andra Yeghoian at ayeghoian@smcoe.org,
Phone: (925) 348-5337
akyeghoian@gmail.com
Connect to the Covid 19 Outdoor Learning Initiative
SMCOE Environmental Solutionary Teacher Fellowship
Sustainable & Climate Ready Schools Admin Fellowship
Youth Climate Ambassadors Leadership Program
Article: SXSW EDU Panel Explores the Future of Outdoor Learning
Article: Environmental Literacy & Classrooms That Can Save the World
Article: Climate Change is the Ultimate Teachable Moment
UC Davis: Environmental Literacy in History Social Science
Curriculum: Solutionary Units of Study
Curriculum: The Resource Center for Sustainable and Climate Resilient Schools
The California Environmental Literacy Initiative
San Meteo County Resources:
Sustainable & Climate Resilient Schools Framework
The Outdoor Learning Weather Analysis
SMCOE Outdoor Learning and Play Considerations
Change Theories for Solutionaries
San Mateo County Changemakers - You'll be so inspired!
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Rebah Ginn, Director of School Culture and Enrichment at Circle City Prep, shares the stress eliminating, digital resource that has allowed her to organize all of her school activities - clubs, field trips, dances, concerts, pretty much every event - in one easy to access online platform. Families can sign up, pay, and enter all of their information ONE time. AfterSchool HQ is a no-brainer for every school, everywhere!
Resources:
Connect with AfterSchoolHQ to set up a free pilot
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As a college professor and the Director of Writing Assessments for the ACT College Admissions Exams, Dr. William Bryant became increasingly concerned by the lack of writing skills displayed by high school and early college students. Learn what he is doing to equip not only students, but their teachers, for college-ready writing.
Resources:
College-Ready Writing Essentials from BetterRhetor Resources
Find Dr. Bryant on LinkedIn
ExPLore a free workshop with Dr. Bryant, including downloadable resources and a continuing education certificate: Preparing Students for College Writing Success
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Library Science specialist, Nancy Florio, and Technology Design expert Bonnie Blan, are passionate about empowering students with reliable, unbiased, curated sources of information and instruction in all content areas. Infobase has been providing current, reliable databases for student use for over 30 years. In this era of misinformation and disinformation, this resource has never been more necessary.
Resources:
Connect to Infobase Solutions for K-12 Schools, and inquire about their pilot opportunity
The infobase Learning Cloud offers over 80,000 videos and professional learning courses for teachers, to bolster your skills and keep your content knowledge current. CEU certificates are included.
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Kyle Denman's work at New Village Girls Academy in Los Angeles is changing the lives of "at-promise" students, many of whom have experienced trauma and challenges such as trafficking, homelessness, gang violence, domestic violence, and substance abuse. Through the lenses of fashion, art, and design, Denman teaches social-emotional skills. Learn how a robust internship and career-readiness program positions his students for success.
Some of his many accolades include: - 2022 MUSE Design Award Winner - 2021 International Design Awards Fashion Design of the Year - 2021 30 Under 30 Changemaker in Education - 2018 Young Fashion Designer of the Year - 2016 Project Runway Remake It Work Grand Prize Winner
Resources:
ImBlaze
New Village Girls Academy
New Village Girls Academy on instagram
Follow thekyledenman on instagram. You won't regret it!
email Kyle at k.denman@newvillagegirlsacademy.org
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Read about the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools, 30 under 30 Changemakers. So inspiring!
Big Picture Learning's Big Bang Conference. I will be there!
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Third grade teacher Sarah Messier, and Student Support Director Lauren Reppucci, discuss how the moozoom SEL program has effectively addressed the current mental and emotional health challenges, and correlated behavior challenges, for their students through consistent, relevant, engaging and easy to implement lessons, assessments, and flexible activities and discussions. You'll be inspired by their success stories and the shift in class and school culture.
Resources:
Connect to moozoom to learn about and access their free 3-month pilot
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Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden equips teachers to lead highly efficient, class-wide math intervention using paired learning. She's created an award-winning, school-wide MTSS solution that carries both teachers and students to streamlined success in math. Schools average a 95% proficiency rate within three years of implementation with Spring Math.
Resources:
Connect to Spring Math for a free, 3-month pilot
Connect to Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden on LinkedIn
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Mary Beth Cunat, Principal at Spectrum Progressive School in Rockford Illinois, is adamant about equipping her students as global citizens, with World Language skills. However, as a small school, funds are tight for additional language teachers. Mary Beth and her students found the perfect solution with Meg Languages, which goes far and away beyond a typical language learning platform. Listen and be inspired!
Resources:
Connect to Meg Language to learn more, and see Meg in action
Set up a free pilot of Meg Languages Spanish
Set up a free pilot of Meg Languages Mandarin
Reach out to Matt at Meg, to schedule a live demo for you and your team
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Research:
CNN Business: The Hottest Job Skill Is...
New American Economy: Demand For Bilingual Workers More Than Doubled in Five Years
Science Daily: Bilinguals of two spoken languages have more gray matter than monolinguals
The New York Times: Why Bilinguals Are Smarter
Language Magazine: Blurring the Line Between Language and Culture
ERIC: The Effect of Foreign Language Study in High School on Verbal Ability as Measured by the Scholastic Aptitude Test
NIH: National Library of Medicine: Age of first bilingual exposure as a new window into bilingual reading development
EIC: The Relation between High School Study of Foreign Languages and ACT English and Mathematics Performance.
The Atlantic: How Foreign Languages Foster Greater Empathy in Children
The New York Times: The Superior Social Skills of Bilinguals
Forbes: How Being Bilingual Can Increase Your Income
Technology Integration Specialist, Steven Lamb, shares how to enhance learning in all content areas through technological innovations and imagination. Steven has been recognized as a PBS Digital Innovator, Apple Distinguished Educator, the Henry Ford Innovative Teacher, and an ISTE Making IT Happen award recipient. He and his wife Rachel Thomas, started a virtual team teaching movement which they shared at the 2016 and 2017 TEDxABQ Education events. Listen and be inspired!
Resources:
Connect to Infini-D Learning to inquire about a free pilot
Steven Lamb and Rachel Thomas' website on Virtual Team Teaching
Reach out to Steven at steven.lamb@isdenver.org
International School of Denver
Steven Lamb and Rachel Thomas at TEDxABQ Education
Tristan Harris and the Center For Humane Technology
Foundations of Humane Technology: An Online Course For Professionals Shaping Tomorrow's Technology
Find The Social Dilemma on Netflix
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
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Christy Chappell, counselor at Boltz Middle School, and Karen Helfrich, administrator at High Plains K-8, have found a resource that provides a school-wide screening tool that enables targeted, data-driven, three-tiered SEL and intervention. Hear all the reasons why they, their teachers, and their students, love Bloomsights.
Resources:
Connect to Bloomsights to learn about their free pilot opportunity
Bloomsights Blog
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Dr. Lana Israel is a globally recognized learning expert and author, who has been helping people learn better for three decades. She shares how a growing body of neuroscience research confirms that music activates memory, attention, motivation and emotion, and how it successfully boosts engagement and achievement in math where all else has failed.
Resources:
Connect to Muzology to learn about a free pilot
Hear Math teacher and Department Head, Shirley Forehand, and Pre K-12 Math Supervisor Gary Petko share their Muzology success.
Kids love Muzology on Twitter
Dr. Lana Israel's website
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Duane Smith, English Department Chair at Byram Hills School District, and his middle school students couldn't wait to tell us about Written Out Loud, their published books, and the skills and confidence they've gained as writers. This unique, fun and out-of-the-box program was recently featured on Good Morning America for the way it kept students not only engaged, but excited and progressing during the pandemic and beyond.
Resources:
Connect to Written Out Loud
Hear About Written Out Loud on Good Morning America
Learn About Written Out Loud at Byram Hills Central School District
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Joel Garza, High School English Teach in Dallas Texas, gives us an idea of how instruction has evolved and progressed in his classroom over his 15 year career. He is joined by Shelley Rodrigo, Senior Director of the writing program at the University of Arizona, and VP of the National Council of Teachers of English. Their enlightening dialogue helps us understand how to better prepare students for success with college and career writing expectations.
Resources:
Learn about BetterRhetor and their College-Ready Writing Essentials
EdCuration's free, brief micro professional learning ExPLorations for educators, including downloadable resources and a professional learning certificate: Preparing Students for College Writing Success
National Council of Teachers of English
NCTE's Position Papers
Contact and follow Shelley Rodrigo:
Shelley on LinkedIn
shelley.rodrigo@gmail.com
Joel Garza:
www.greenhill.org
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Vice Principal Emma Veltri, and Principal Diana Herbst share the essential criteria for choosing a Social Emotional Learning Resource for secondary students, how to structure this learning for success, how to gain student and teacher buy in, and why Emozi has been so successful at Maze Middle School in Holllister California.
Resources:
Connect to Emozi Middle and High School Social Emotional Learning Curriculum
Engage in this short, free professional Learning from PATHS, LLC
A 'Novel' Approach: Developing Middle School Students' Social Emotional Skills With Literature
Discover all the programming in the Education Podcast Network
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EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellow, discusses how her own experience of trauma led her to the mindfulness practice that now empowers her students and the teachers she coaches. These are some of the practices helping educators combat the rampant burnout and demoralization many are experiencing.
Resources:
Inquire about InfoBase Learning Cloud's Free Pilot Opportunity
Connect with Moozoom for real life, easy to implement SEL support
You can contact Jennifer Yoo-Brannon and access all of her EdSurge article on her EdSurge Writer's Page
Follow Jennifer and see her adorable children @JYooBrannon
Jennifer's articles:
- Trauma is Everywhere. My Experience With it Made Me a Better Teacher
- We Need to Make Schools Human Again. That Means Treating Teachers With Respect
- There's No Easy Protocol For Handling Classroom Conflict. We Must Challenge Ourselves
- Concerned Parents and Lawmakers, Here's What You'll Really See in My Classroom
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry
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Educators Rachel Steil, Lee Zientara, and Lela Goettl share their excitement about Learners Edge - the top quality, online, professional learning and continuing education graduate credit courses for teachers. Not only has Learners Edge allowed them to increase their skills, overall efficacy, and compensation, but has also provided a fin and lucrative sideline as course evaluators.
Resources:
Connect to Learners Edge
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Award-winning Associate Editor of Education Week, Stephen Sawchuk, shares the history, misunderstandings, impact and legislation around Critical Race Theory to help us get smarter about this current controversy. Understand the impact on K-12 classrooms and teachers based on current legislation in this enlightening conversation.
Resources:
Connect to our sponsor, Ad Fontes Media, home of the Media Bias Chart and the SUMMA News Literacy Curriculum
From Stephen Sawchuk:
- What Is Critical Race Theory and Why Is It Under Attack?
- Critical Race Theory and the Fight Over History Standards: 6 Things to Know
- Revising America's Racist Past
- Polls About Lessons on Racism in Schools Can Be Eye-Opening, and Misleading
Ed Week's up to date Map: Where Critical Race Theory is Under Attack
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Math teacher and Department Head, Shirley Forehand, and Pre K-12 Math Supervisor Gary Petko, have not only seen engagement and test scores increase drastically for their math students--music enhanced learning with Muzology is creating a cultural shift in math learning, and growing confidence in the their students that is impacting cross content achievement.
Resources:
Connect to Muzology
Read about Muzology's creator, Dr. Lana Israel
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Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
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Janice Lintz has become the go-to, global consultant and advocate for hearing access. She shares her inspiring story of working with education, cultural, and government institutions to improve accessibility, and offers tips for educators on how to best support students with hearing loss.
Resources:
Contact Notysing - supplemental, digitally-based music curriculum
Janice Lintz Website
Janice Lintz on LinkedIn
Founder & CEO: Hearing Access and Innovations
HuffPost Article: 10 Misconceptions Teachers Should Know About Children Who Are Hard of Hearing
Rethinking Cities for People With Hearing Loss by Janice Lintz
Contributor: Tell Her She Can't: Inspiring Stories of Unstoppable Women
2008 People Magazine Hero: A Champion for the Hard of Hearing
2016 Nominated United State of Women Changemaker
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Library Media Specialist, Sara Webb, shares how the Media Bias Chart and other resources from Ad Fontes Media, have equipped her students to think critically about the messages coming from all different media branches and platforms. Ad Fontes teaches students to read laterally and measure reliability and bias in the news stories they are reading for content studies as well as social media.
Resources:
Find the Interactive Media Bias Chart
ad fontes' SUMMA Essential News Literacy Curriculum
ad fontes media --Tell them the EdCuration podcast sent you!
Media Literacy Now
Where Can I Find Resources for Media Literacy Lesson Planning? Blog post by Sara
National Association of Media Literacy Educators --Membership is free and they have a great journal.
The 2021 Media Literacy Index
The Stanford History Education Group
An article reporting the SHEG study findings that students are unable to judge the credibility of online information.
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
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The Long Beach Unified Public School District regularly hosts visitors from all over the world, eager to learn from their success in closing achievement gaps. Christopher Steinhauser, who led the LBUSD for 18 years as superintendent, reflects on the reasons for their success and his newly released book.
LBUSD is the five time nominee and national winner of the Broad Prize- the nation's largest education prize, honoring large urban districts that demonstrate the greatest overall performance and improvement in student achievement while reducing achievement gaps among various ethnic and socioeconomic groups of students. Additionally Long Beach was listed as a World Class School by Mckenzie and company and were recognized as schools that are beating the odds by the Learning Policy Institute.
Dr. Steinhauser is the Co-author of Schools on the Move: Leading Coherence for Equitable Growth (Corwin Press in 2022) with a forward by Michael Fullen.
Resources:
Connect to Proliftic
Chris' book Schools on the Move: Leading Coherence for Equitable Growth
and here from google books
and here from Amazon
More information on The California Promise
Learn about Swun Math Curriculum
Learn about Swum Math Professional Learning
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Educators Jennifer Romer from Alaska, Shannon Heckelsmiller from Washington State, and Ashley Martinez-Doublin from Colorado, all share how they transitioned to project based learning strategies with the cross-content, standards-aligned, customized units from Educurious. Student engagement and achievement have both soared. Students are making connections to their environment and community in ways previously unseen, and formerly reluctant learners have tuned in and turned on.
Resources:
Connect to Educurious
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Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
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Becca Silver is a teacher, coach, and founder of The Whole Educator. Her customized trainings are focused on fostering teacher buy-in, bridging gaps and increasing teacher effectiveness and retention. You'll love her tips on how to give teachers the real support they need to be great at their jobs, and to love teaching again.
Resources:
Connect to Learners Edge
The Whole Educator
Free e-book: 17 Tips For Being a Mind-Blowingly Impactful Instructional Coach
Becca's Transformative Coaching videos
Whole Educator Programs
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
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Instructional leader and curriculum team member, Marisa Curtis, from Crandall ISD in Texas, is excited to share the resource that has her students highly engaged and hitting standards in authentic measurable ways--consistently. Education Galaxy is a space-themed instruction and assessment tool that has transformed data-driven, standards-based instruction, and has helped students become highly invested in their own learning.
Resources:
Connect to Education Galaxy Online
Education Galaxy's Liftoff Adaptive Intervention
Education Galaxy's free professional learning ExPLoration: Identifying Academic Gaps to Reclaim Learning Loss
Education Galaxy's sponsored episode with Dr. Deborah Heiser
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Lottie Dowling has worked for the last 20 years in education, as a school practitioner and professional learning leader on a global, national, and regional level. She's worked in 6 different countries and is a sought after speaker and consultant on Global Citizenship and the Global Competencies that are increasingly becoming a part of our academic landscape. In this episode she gives us a deeper understanding of what those are and how to teach them.
Resources:
Discover Meg Languages Spanish and Meg Languages Mandarin
Lottie Dowling on Twitter
Lottie Dowling on LinkedIn
A great model :
Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World
Some Background Reading:
What is 'Global Citizenship Education'?
PISA Global Competence Assessment
Lottie's blog posts:
Critical Thinking Can Help Students Become Better Global Citizens
Having Difficult Conversations
Greta Thunberg's Fridays for the Future
Video Resources:
The Global Oneness Project
Free videos and lesson plans to inspire global citizens:
Project Explorer
The Mongolian Band Hangai singing one of their most famous songs:
Drinking Song
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Fifth grade teacher and instructional coach Amanda Borum says her students' science scores are higher than they've ever been, and elementary science specialist Christopher Linton agrees. They were anxious to share Penda Science: a supplemental resource that fills science learning gaps, targets standards, increases achievement, and fosters a love for science.
Resources:
Connect to Penda Science
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Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
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Irshad Manji is a professor at Oxford University’s Initiative for Global Ethics and Human rights and a New York Times bestselling author of Don’t Label Me: How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars. She serves as the Director of Moral Courage ED at Let Grow, a nonprofit that promotes independent thinking and emotional resilience in students. Its signature program for secondary school students (and their teachers!) is Moral Courage ED, which empowers students to hear, not fear, different perspectives. She is the recipient of Oprah’s first “Chutzpah Award” for boldness.
irshadmanji.com
Moral Courage Ed
LetGrow.org
Moral Courage on Twitter
Moral Courage Project on Instagram
Moral Courage on Facebook
Moral Courage You Tube Channel
Irshad Manji on LinkedIn
Irshad Manji's book, "Don't Label Me: How to do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars."
Teaching Learning Leading K12 provides resources for all educators. No matter what the environment or level of learning, we all need ideas, inspiration, and fuel to help us meet the needs of our students. We strive to help our students achieve their dreams. We're happy to introduce EdCuration's listeners to Teaching Learning Leading K12.
stevenmiletto.com
YouTube Channel
Instagram and Twitter @SRMiletto
Deborah Heiser, an Applied Developmental Psychologist, is passionate about helping people leave a legacy and share their knowledge and passion with the next generation. The Mentor Project partners with schools around the world to pair top experts across many fields with classrooms and schools--all for free.
Resources:
Connect with Education Galaxy
Learn how to identify academic gaps and reclaim learning loss with Education Galaxy's Liftoff
The Mentor Project
Deborah Heiser's website: www.DeborahHeiser.com
Deborah Heiser's article in Psychology Today: The Right Side of 40
The Optimize Your Success Broadcast
The Mentor Project podcast
The Meet Your Mentor Podcast
Deborah Heiser's TEDx Talk - Rethinking Aging: Mentoring A New Generation
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Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
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Kindergarten teachers Allison Martinez and Kelly Spinks, share the challenge of engaging beginning readers in leveled, uninspired texts and how decodable Express Readers have changed their own practice, created excitement and fun, and have consistently improved student reading outcomes.
Resources:
Connect to Express Readers
Free Digital Decodable Book Workshop & Resources
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Dr. Ruth Gotian reveals the four characteristics that innovators, astronauts, olympic champions and Nobel prize winners share that lead to success. Her new book, The Success Factor, offers a blueprint for how we can all become more successful, and how we, as educators, can foster these characteristics in our students.
Resources:
Learn more about our episode sponsor, Education Galaxy
McREL research study of Education Galaxy: https://educationgalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/McREL-Research-with-Summary.pdf
Dr Ruth Gotian's website: https://www.ruthgotian.com/
Dr. Gotian's free downloadable Passion Audit: https://www.ruthgotian.com/resources
Order The Success Factor, by Dr. Ruth Gotian
Read more about Dr. Gotian and her work at Top 30 Management Thinkers to Watch - Thinkers50 Radar List
Read Ruth's articles in Forbes and Psychology Today about optimizing success.
Join those who want to become high achievers - https://www.ruthgotian.com/contact
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Kiwonda Riley, principal of South Flores College Prep, in San Antonio Texas shares how Read to Lead has created more collaborative and equitable learning in Middle and High School classrooms and produced a 42% consistent growth on unit assessments, particularly for English Language Learners.
Resources:
Connect to Read to Lead
Apply to Read to Lead's nationwide Educational Leader Council
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Lois Letchford is a literacy problem solver, specializing in teaching students who struggle to read with creative, intuitive, strengths-based strategies that work even when all else has failed. Lois presents at literacy and learning conferences worldwide, and she is the author of the book Reversed: A Memoir
Resources:
Connect with Learning Ally
Lois Letchford's Website
Find Lois on LinkedIn
Subscribe to Lois on YouTube
Course: When Learning is Trauma
Read Reversed: A Memoir
Read The Gift of Dyslexia by Ron Davis
EdCuration's SEL Resources
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Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
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School counselor, Patricia Bryant, has been working in education for 40 years and has seen a lot of programs come and go. She loves how Cloud9World addresses Social Emotional Learning for K-12 students, in Spanish and English, while reinforcing literacy and integrating with core content.
Resources:
Connect to Cloud9World
EdCuration's SEL Resources
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Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
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Erin McNeill is nationally recognized as an expert on policy related to media literacy. As founder and president of Media Literacy Now, Erin is helping to ensure that all K-12 schools are teaching a comprehensive set of media literacy and digital citizenship skills. Discover how both we, and our students, can become smarter about who and what to believe.
Resources:
Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart
Ad Fontes Summa News Literacy Curriculum
Media Literacy Now
Contact Erin McNeill:
emcneill@medialiteracynow.org
Twitter: @erinmcnll
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Tech Director, Mike Nye, can't find enough great things to say about SAM Labs and the STEAM rollout in his school district in Redmond Oregon. Teachers and students are all in with this integrated STEAM curriculum and project kits--learn why.
Resources:
Connect to SAM Labs
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Susan Santone, author of Reframing the Curriculum: Design for Social Justice and Sustainability, helps schools, districts and organizations of all kinds to design learning experiences that increase engagement, critical thinking, and rigor, while inviting activism, social justice and sustainable communities.
Episode Notes:
Connect with SPEAK, vocal empowerment curriculum and workshops
Susan's Website
Susan's Ted Talk
Creative Change Educational Solutions
Susan's book Reframing the Curriculum: Design for Social Justice and Sustainability (Routledge, 2018).
Twitter @SusanSantone
Instagram: SantoneSusan
Susan on LinkedIn
Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity Mass Market by Frances Moore Lappe Certified EdTrustee Program
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Webinar Series
EdCuration's Blog
College freshman and author, Malavika Eby, shares how the imSparked Social Emotional Learning Program by Vivensity changed the course of her education and her life. Her 2020 book, The Gift That Keeps on Giving, provides a personal and detailed framework for self-growth and wellness for students of all ages.
Resources:
Connect with Vivensity's imSparked
The Gift That Keeps on Giving book
EdCuration.com
EdCuration's Certified #EdTrustees
Micro-Professional Learning ExPLorations for educators
Charles Vogl, author of the award-winning, and international bestseller The Art of Community, and its sequel Building Brand Communities, shares principals for transforming classrooms and creating cathartic connections. Charles advises worldwide, top-tier organizations in leadership development and program design.
Resources:
Connect with the PATHS program
Dr. Charles Vogl
Charles Vogl's Books
Charles Vogl's Old Wisdom New Era Podcast
The EdCuration Marketplace
EdCuration's Certified #EdTrustees
EdCuration's Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration Podcast
Phillip Lampron, recognized as a “Top 100 Visionary in Education” by the Global Forum for Education and Learning, shares how he helped bring Pre-AP & AP courses to an low achieving district, raising test scores, graduation rates, scholarship offerings, and the overall academic achievement and school climate. In 2020 Phillip and his wife Lauren launched Lampron Consulting LLC.
Resources:
Set up your free dashboard on EdCuration.com
Access EdCuration's ExPLorations
Learn about EdCuration's Certified #EdTrustees Program
Phillip Lampron's Website
Phillip Lampron's Blog, where educators post their opinions about topics in education.
Find Lampron Consulting on Facebook
Find Phillip Lampron on LinkedIn
Veteran ESL teacher Jean Luppino, and her colleague, Kristina Signore, share how their English learners have made rapid progress, real-world connections and gained confidence through STORYWORLD's digital, story-based learning platform. STORYWORLD utilizes reading, writing, speaking and listening to engage students with over a dozen first languages, and is easily implemented by any teacher.
Resources:
Connect to STORYWORLD for English Language Learners
Connect to STORYWORLD for World Language Learners
Laura Lee Smith is the MTSS/PBIS Behavior Coach for the Pioneer School District, as well as a Brain-Aligned Social Emotional Learning Consultant. She teaches the Applied Educational Neuroscience framework to help schools and districts best serve all students, including neurodiverse learners.
Resources:
Connect to Floreo, the Virtual Reality platform that delivers behavioral therapy and helps teach social skills for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Reach out to Laura Lee Smith at Laura Lee Smith Educational Consulting: Brain Aligned Behavior Response
Discover Universal Design for Learning
The Out of Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz
What Happened to You? by Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey
Mark Mathias, founder and president of Remarkable STEAM, tells how Connecticut's Makers Faire is elevating Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics, while boosting the economy, elevating STEAM in schools, and creating space for community and global connection and innovation.
Resources:
Unreal Engine from Epic Games
Mark Mathias on LinkedIn
The Great Duck Project
View the Great Duck & ducklings
The Connecticut Maker Faire
Veteran Inclusion Coordinator, Hannah Docherty, shares how IDL Solutions has enabled teachers from early childhood to grade 12, to support students with Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and other learning challenges. IDL provides a diagnostic tool, a turnkey digital platform that adapts instruction for each student, differentiating learning and providing formative data for teachers.
Episode Notes:
IDL Literacy
IDL Numeracy
IDL Multiplication Check
IDL Dyscalculia Screener
Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez, the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, and author of the recently released book Teaching With the HEART in Mind: A Complete Educator's Guide to Social Emotional Learning. Her work is dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities.
Resources:
Connect with imSparked from Vivensity
Dr. Martínez's Website, where you will find links to her book and the many resources mentioned in the episode : loreamartinez.com
Facebook: Lorea Martinez SEL
Twitter: @loreamart
LinkedIn: Lorea Martínez
CASE STUDY - Social Justice Humanitas Academy: A Community School Approach to Whole Child Education
Karen Rodriguez, VP of Program Operations at Kiss the Ground, is passionate about teaching children, and adults who teach children, about food, the magic of soil, restoring systems, and aligning our daily practices to support the earth so that our soil can not only feed us, but save us. Learn about their resources for schools.
Resources:
Kiss the Ground website
Kiss the Ground Movie
Kiss the Ground Movie Educational Cut
Children's Educational Kit
Soil Advocate Training
Kiss the Ground on Facebook
Kiss the Ground on Twitter
Kiss the Ground on Instagram
Kiss the Ground on Youtube
The Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
Dr. Peter Langman is a psychologist and the author of three books on school shooters, including his latest: Warning Signs: Identifying School Shooters Before They Strike. He has presented at FBI Headquarters, the FBI National Academy in Quantico, and the National Counterterrorism Center, and has trained thousands of professionals in education, law enforcement, and mental health on preventing school shootings.
Resources:
Connect to Epic Ethics for Peaceful Schools
Contact Dr. Langman and find his blog, books, school safety and prevention information and more at schoolshooters.info
Michael Cullen (Elementary), Leah LaCrosse (Middle School), and Rabbi Tzvi Hametz (High School) share how the Sphero robots have brought cross-content integration, increased engagement, hands-on learning, personal connection, creativity, excitement and STEAM into their classrooms.
Resources:
Connect to Sphero
- Blogs
- How to Teach Kids Problem-Solving Skills
- Improving Critical Thinking Skills
- Child Development Resources & Activities :
- Meet indi, the First Sphero Robot for Early Learners
- Video
- Meet Sphero indi
- Meet indi, Sphero's newest robot
Drawing on nearly twenty years of teaching MIT's "Career Success Accelerator" program, and a career spanning half a dozen industries, Mark Herschberg distill the key skills that our students need for 21st century success, and how to instill them. It's all in his new book The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You
Resources:
Connect to Mini-Money Management for a free trial
The Career Toolkit - contact Mark and/or buy the book
The Career Toolkit app for Apple
The Career Toolkit App for Android
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
Well established research confirms that grades diminish students' interest and reduce the quality of thinking in classrooms. Veteran secondary teacher, Andy Lee, shares how removing the obstacle of grades has increased engagement, ownership and authentic learning for his English/History students.
Resources:
Connect to Agile Mind
Reach out to Andy Lee
Teachers Going Gradeless
The Case Against Grades by Alfie Kohn - Educational Leadership, November 2011
Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School
Dr. Megan Sweet, has worked at every level of K-12 education for 25 years, and she's ready to change the way we do school. Her book, An Educator's Guide For Using Your 3 Eyes, outlines how changing your classroom, school and school system starts by doing our own work. She has worked with school districts across the country to reinvent, refresh and transform practices and learning environments.
Resources:
Connect with The Teaching Channel
Order An Educators Guide to Using Your 3 Eyes
Find Megan on:
Her website
Megan's podcast: The Awakening Educator
Natalie Irons and Jenna Kamp, co-founders of Leadership Resource Network and Institute, share how a cognitive coaching model raises efficacy and shifts culture, and, how a leadership support community was born in a pandemic.
Resources:
Connect to NuMinds
Connect to The Leadership Resource Network
Register for the Leadership Resource Institute
Connect to Natalie on Twitter: @IronsNatalie
UCLA CenterX Coaching website
Connect to Jenna on her website
Jenna's Facebook
Jenna's Instagram
Jenna's Twitter: @EducationalKamp
Psychologist and LEAPS Founder, Jay Burcham, shares the strategies that turned adjudicated, at-risk kids, into engaged, productive students. LEAPS for schools integrates easily with MTSS, RTI & PBIS systems to deliver proven, targeted outcomes for all teachers.
Resources:
Connect to Leaps for Schools
Receive 3 free sample lessons
Second Language Acquisition Specialist, Dr. Rocio Meli, shares how rigorous instruction, high expectations and real-world connections have helped her students to not only gain second-language fluency, but have provided life-changing opportunities through the sister school program at Castle Rock Middle School.
Resources:
Connect to Sonrisas Spanish
Learn more about Dr. Meli's sister school program
Ash Gelb, MEd., is an Education Equity Coach for teachers in highly diverse schools with outdated materials that feel pressured to conform. She is the founder of Liberated By Design and CALM - the Classroom Acceleration Liberation Membership, supporting teachers to infuse diversity, inclusion and equity into classrooms so that kids are ready to create a world worthy of their vision.
Resources:
Connect to Ash
Sign up for CALM
Ash's Podcast: Liberated By Design
Ash's Blog: The Pulse
Peter Hostraswer, "The Unlearning Coach," shares all the ways that he, his team, and mostly his students are disrupting traditional models of learning, and manifesting their passions through student launched businesses. Peter is a business and finance teacher and business coach, as well as the founder of HallPass Education.
Resources:
Connect to Exploring Your Potential
Connect to Peter Hostrawser
The Unlearning Coach
The Disrupt Education Podcast
Get a Hall Pass - College readiness, Gap Year & transition
Nicholas Keith (Executive Director of Curriculum & Instruction), and Jennifer Williams (Math Interventionist & Cross-Content Instructional Coach) share how Teach Transform has filled the learning gaps, shifted pedagogy, and engaged their learners in math.
Resources:
Connect to TeachTransform
Teach Transform's Elementary Math Content & Strategy Academy
(TAP) Teacher Advancement Program from the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching
Join the founder and CEO of Bright IDEA Education Consulting, Dr. Rolanda Fabien, sharing her 20 years of experience and expertise in educational leadership and special education. Bright IDEA provides resources and support to students, teachers and families.
Resources:
Connect to Floreo
Connect to Dr. Rolanda Fabien
Connect to Bright IDEA Consulting
Schedule a call or consult
Bright IDEA on Facebook
Bright IDEA on Instagram
Bright IDEA on Twitter
Bright IDEA on YouTube
Bright IDEA on LinkedIn
Join math intervention specialist and founder of CollaboratEd Consulting, Juliana Tapper, to learn how to increase engagement, participation, and success of students who struggle in mathematics.
Resources:
Connect to Page a Day Math
Connect to CollaboratEd Consulting
Find Dr. Jo Boaler & her books
Which One Doesn’t Belong Images
Juliana's 10 Math Intervention Strategies Free guide
Juliana's digital course and community, Making Math Accessible for all, waitlist
Resources and community building for students who struggle with 6-12th grade math
Steve Ventura, president at Advanced Collaborative Solutions, discusses his upcoming book on Achievement Teams™ -- an experiential and effective four-step protocol centered around Collective Teacher Efficacy (a shared belief that educators can have a greater impact on student achievement when they work together.)
Resources:
Connect to Future Holders
Connect to Steve Ventura & Advanced Collaborative Solutions
Districtwide Manager of Social Emotional Academic Learning, Kim Price, shares the promising practices that are making classrooms more welcoming, safe, nurturing environments that empower students and staff to best attend to holistic learning and greater academic achievement.
Resources:
Connect to Vivensity
Reach out to Kim Price
Denver Public Schools support for the Whole Child
Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett
The Character Lab with Angela Duckworth
Secondary math and finance teacher Eric Sigman, and 5th grade teacher Shon Villars, share how ClassHook captures students attention, makes ideas and concepts concrete and relatable, and keeps students engaged. This is an easily affordable and timesaving tool for every teacher.
Resources:
Connect to ClassHook
Professional theater director and Ithaca college professor Gavin Mayer discusses the High School Arts Integration program he and his colleagues founded and how the arts make our students better, smarter and kinder human beings.
Resources:
Connect with The Art Docent Program
Find Gavin Mayer
Learn about the Pomona Arts and Humanities Program
Entrepreneur,TED speaker, equity warrior, and GALS co-founder, Liz Wolfson discusses positive gender identity, integrated movement and the game-changing model of the Girls Athletic Leadership Schools.
Resources:
Connect with Unruly Studios
Connect with Elizabeth Wolfson
Elizabeth's Ted Talk
Technology and Special Education teacher Lee Hollman, from PS 132 in Brooklyn NY, shares how Codemancer has filled a technology gap and energized all of his students to love coding, expanding their skills for al content areas.
Resources:
Connect to Codemancer
District Managers for Restorative Process, Deanna Goodrich and Yeruwelle de Rouen share trauma-informed and Restorative Process Practices to help shift school climate and create safe, nurturing spaces to accelerate learning.
Resources:
Connect to Class Composer
Deanna & Yeruwelle's EdCuration conference session
Contact Deanna
Contact Yeruwelle
Intersectional Innovations Consulting
Denver Public Schools Restorative Process Guide
Oakland Unified Schools Restorative Justice Resources
Chicago Public Schools Restorative Process Guide & Toolkit
Veteran Gifted and Talented teacher Susan Holcomb, shares how the national WordMasters Challenge competition keeps vocabulary alive through analogy and competition. She credits the program with developing autonomous learners who consistently end up as merit scholars. Each year, over 125,000 students from some of the best public and private schools throughout the United States participate.
Resources:
Connect to WordMasters Challenge
Read more about WordMasters & related research
Cultural Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leader at St Andrew's Episcopal School, Baltimore Maryland, Dr. Kenneth Waters shares research, his own experiences, best practices and tips for supporting and improving outcomes for Black boys.
Resources:
Connect to Mini Money Management
Connect to Dr. Waters
Dr. Waters' EdCuration Conference session: Educating Black Boys in Today's Social Climate
Joel Rose, Co-Founder and CEO of New Classrooms, shares a whole new model for structuring learning that not only accelerates achievement and closes learning gaps in middle school math, but also improves classroom culture and increases student engagement.
Resources:
Connect to Snappet - individualized math learning for elementary students
New Classrooms Teach to One Read about The Iceberg Problem
Teach to One Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn New Classrooms Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
Educator, certified coach & trainer, and sought after speaker Lana Hailemariam shares stories and strategies for how to empower students' voices, facilitate tough conversations, and talk to kids about race.
Resources:
Connect with SPEAK
Lana's EdCuration Conference session: How to Talk About Race With Youth
Lana's website
contact StandUP
Celeste Headlee's TED talk - How to Have a Better Conversation
Veronica Fiedler, Specific Learning Disability Specialist for the state of Colorado, discusses how to best support diverse learners and their teachers, and helps us better understand the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Resources:
Connect to IDL Solutions
CDE SLD Webpage: https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdesped/sd-sld
How to join the CDE SLD Listserv:
To subscribe to the CO-SLD listserv:
- Open a new email.
- In the “To” field, type the email SLD-subscribe-request@cdelist.cde.state.co.us and send the message.
- Once added, you will receive a confirmation email.
- If you have a problem, email Veronica Fiedler at fiedler_v@cde.state.co.us.
National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII):
- NCII’s Tools Chart: https://intensiveintervention.org/about-charts-resources
- NCII’s Taxonomy of Intervention Intensity: https://intensiveintervention.org/taxonomy-intervention-intensity
CAST UDL Guidelines: https://udlguidelines.cast.org/
Christine Danhoff, technology integration specialist at the Genoa School District, shares the Unruly Splats which have allowed her and her teachers to integrate STEM, movement and coding into pretty much any content area. I'm not even kidding. And it's FUN!
Resources:
Find Unruly Splats at EdCuration.com
In Read Write Code, Jeremy Keeshin demystifies the world of computers, starting at the beginning to explain the basic building blocks of today’s tech: programming, the internet, data, apps, the cloud, cybersecurity, algorithms, artificial intelligence, and more. As CEO and Co-founder of CodeHS, Keeshin has helped teach coding to millions of students over the last decade. This book is a must-read for modern educators and anyone who wants to understand why code matters today.
Resources:
Find ClassHook
Order Read, Write, Code
Jeremy's LinkedIn
Jeremy's Twitter
Jeremy's Website
Dr. Aaron Griffen, Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Denver Schools of Science and Technology, discusses his new role, his new book (Challenges to Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs in Organizations) and building DEI capacity in the midst of the current challenges.
Resources:
The Axiom Dashboard
Dr Griffen's EdCuration Conference session: All The World's Become an Antiracist Stage
Prosperity Educators
Challenges to Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs in Organizations
The 90-Day Prosperity Journal
Michael Spencer, 8-year music teaching veteran, shares about the impact of cultural music on cross-content learning, community building and school climate.
Resources:
Find Michael at michael_spencer@dpsk12.net
Find QuaverEd
Michael Spencer's EdCuration conference session: The Critical Impact of Cultural Music in Public Education
Diedre Spicer, teacher and founder at of Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana, California, shares how Actively Learn helps learners with all learning styles to engage, and find multiple points of access into texts of all kinds and levels. And it's so easy to use.
Resources:
Connect to Actively Learn
Keena Day, Senior Manager of Humanities at Denver Schools of Science and Technology enlightens us on best practices in culturally responsive literacy and encouraging critical thinking.
Resources:
This episode was sponsored by Reading Plus
Find Keena at thesavvyurbaneducator.com
Find Keena's Day's EdCUration Conference Session: Critical Thinking in an Antiracist Environment
Anthony Chiles, Student Support Coordinator at Burke County School District, discusses practical strategies for building positive relationships with students.
Resources:
Building-Relationships-Toolkit.pdf
MVPSpaces.com
See Anthony's session from the Committing to Antiracist Curriculum and Instruction conference here
Connect to Carousel, for high quality & easy to implement social emotional learning
Find us at EdCuration.com, where you can filter searches, keep notes, save favorites and dialogue with resource providers.
Andrew Roberts, veteran math teacher, instructional coach, teacher trainer and data guy says that there is just no arguing with results when it comes to inquiry-based vs direct instruction.
Resources:
Connect with Figure Math
Angela Duckworth's book - Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth's TED Talk on Grit
Carol Dweck's book - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol Dweck's TED Talk on Mindset
Middle school teacher Becca Fenton from John E. Flynn A Marzano Academy in Westminster Colorado has found an integrated, easy-to-implement, and highly effective system of classroom management that also teaches authentic life skills and financial literacy.
Resources:
You can learn more about Mini Money Management and connect to creator Lorne Jenkins at EdCuration.
Heather Eskridge, elementary school counselor in Franklin Tennessee, says that in her 23 years as a counselor she's never found a program more comprehensive, engaging and flexible than Quaver Social Emotional Learning.
Resources:
You can learn more and connect with Quaver SEL at EdCuration.com
Angela Mangum, a 26 year veteran of both elementary and secondary music, share the ways Quaver music has increased student engagement, made advanced skills and concepts accessible, and increased the fun and joy in her classroom and life.
Resources:
Connect with Quaver Music
School counselor, Kelly Crowe, shares how the Axiom dashboard allows her to easily track and communicate personally with students and their families in their language of choice--addressing questions, needs and concerns. It's a system that leaves no student behind.
Resources:
Connect to the Axiom Dashboard
Students Lerato and Eliza share about their experience learning with SPEAK's Vocal Empowerment Curriculum. SPEAK supports students to empower their voices for self-advocacy and civic participation.
Resources:
connect with SPEAK
Mary Bonnety shares how her students are able to build their own 3D, interactive digital spaces, integrate them with different academic content areas, collaborate, and share their spaces during both in-person and remote learning.
Veteran teacher Cindi Krebs explains how BoomWriter allows students to collaborate on a story which can then be published into a softcover book. Students also love group writing activities, skills lessons and journal activities.
Benjamin Dancer, a teacher at the Jefferson County Open School (JCOS) and a 24 year veteran, shares his huge passion for fostering curiosity and connection through authentic relationship and experience. JCOS is a life changing alternative to conventional schooling.
Resources:
Connect to Jefferson County Open School
Grey Nakayama has been a High School math teacher, working with advanced levels of Math, for 26 years. She is an enthusiastic cheerleader for ClassCalc, saying that it has made both her and her students lives easier and learning better.
Resources:
Connect to ClassCalc
Elizabeth Yarnell devotes her passion for story, movie-making and engaging the most reluctant learners to a tool that can bring life and excitement into pretty much any content area and topic.
Resources:
Connect to Digistars Make a Movie Workshop
See Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Inclusion
Tamara Speidel, principal of Buffalo Trail Elementary School in Cherry Creek Schools uses Class Composer to guarantee that every student has other students like them in their class each year. She loves Class Composer for its ability to help guarantee demographic equity, as well as save her faculty and herself HOURS of work in balancing class lists for the upcoming academic year.
Resources:
Connect to Class Composer
Anita Landoll describes a methodology that she developed to help struggling readers learn to read, which she calls "The Sounds of Words."
Darnell Jenkins shares how he uses Figure Math to engage high school students with different learning styles as they become more proficient in not only solving equations, but also exploring, collaborating, creating and evaluating math together.
Resources:
Connect to Figure Math
Teresa Gonzalez shares how SEL Adventures supported the turn around of a challenging class, and helped students learn how they learn best through the motivation of this online game.
Resources:
Connect to SEL Adventures
Brendon Jobs, Director of Diversity & Inclusion at The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, shares how learning the Question Formulation Technique energized his teaching, and shares with us how to bring this technique into our classrooms to better engage students in challenging content.
David VanSicklen, Advanced Learning Specialist in the Middleton Cross Plains School District in Madison, WI, shares his affinity for the app Seesaw for younger elementary students. He says Seesaw has "unlimited possibilities."
Resources:
Connect to Seesaw
Susan Connick from St. Benilde School in Metarie, Louisiana shares how she uses Lexia Core 5 to support her Tier II struggling readers in grades K-7.
Resources:
Connect to Lexia Core5
Sonja Herring from Cresthill Middle School in Douglas County, Colorado shares how she uses TCI's Geography Alive's Map Labs to make geography learning active, relevant and engaging for middle school learners.
Resources:
Connect to TCI's Social Studies Resources
Jared Adamson from Cherokee Trail High School discusses how Big Ideas Math helps him increase student achievement through the curriculum's Investigations, Game Closet and other tools that provide students with immediate feedback.
Resources:
Connect to Big Ideas Math
Kathy Zaleski shares how she uses Connection Circles to build community in her classroom, which she learned from the Longmont Community Justice Center. She discusses how restorative practices are alternatives to traditional discipline, and shares the following resources for others looking to learn more about this powerful instructional practice:
- The little books:https://emu.edu/cjp/resources/little-books
- Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding: Restorative Discipline for Schools
- The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice
- The Little Book of Circle Processes,
- Return to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice,
- Not Light but Fire by Matthew R. Kay
- The Little Book of Restorative Teaching Tools https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Restorative-Teaching-Tools/dp/168099588X
- Circle Forward - http://www.livingjusticepress.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B33EC0E83-CD69-4255-BCD5-298AD3846FF6%7D
Today on the show we veer away from discussion of a curriculum product to focus instead on a teaching strategy. Learn from Emily Fields in Douglas County, Colorado, how and why she uses Socratic Seminar to teach critical reading & writing in her middle school classroom.
Chris Miraglia discusses how he uses Flipgrid in his middle school social studies classroom to give students a voice, and engage 75% of the students who wouldn't normally participate in a classroom discussion.
Resources:
Connect to Flipgrid
Ashley Cooksey, a school librarian in Arkansas, shares the way that implementing codeSpark in an elementary library taught her how to code right alongside the students, paving the way to her current role as an Instructional Technology Coach and an accomplished educational leader.
Resources:
Connect to codeSpark
Ashley's resources to help teach coding through storytelling: https://padlet.com/ashley_cooksey2/CodeWithBooks or bit.ly/CodeWithBooks.
Diane Sweeney from Diane Sweeney Consulting shares how school systems can use the coaching cycles in Student-Centered Coaching to support a successful curriculum implementation.
Serri Mills shares how she found AVID, and found students' stories about AVID so compelling, that she brought it to her entire elementary school and became a "Truly Changed Teacher" as a result.
Rebecca Sklepovich, Director of Curriculum and Instruction at the Denver School of Science and Technology at Green Valley Ranch, shares what she has learned about running a successful curriculum adoption, including how to research and what to look for when procuring high quality, evidence-based curriculum resources.
Sarah Noble shares how her use of the Facing History and Ourselves curriculum helps her tackle tough issues of race and racism in the classroom, to make sure she doesn't alienate students when reading canonical texts that include dehumanizing language.
Resources:
Connect to Facing History and Ourselves
John Nolan from the Alameda Unified School District shares how E.L. Achieve's Constructing Meaning has helped him, for the very first time in his long teaching career, feel like he is EFFECTIVELY meeting his ELL students' English-learning needs.
Resources:
Connect with E.L. Achieve and Constructing Meaning
John Damaso, English Teacher at Brophy Prep College Prep in Phoenix, shares about how he supports students' vocabulary growth through Membean's individualized instruction, and just how much his students have embraced this online learning program.
Resources:
Connect to Membean
Joe Adrian, veteran teacher in Leander ISD in Austin, TX, shares about how he found AVID early in his career, and has brought it with him to every school and district he's worked, and why.
Roger Chow, former Director of Curriculum and Instruction for Tacoma Public Schools and Executive Director of Secondary Education for Pueblo Public Schools, shares how Read Right helped struggling readers in his districts catch up with the students reading on grade level.
Arrupe Jesuit High School Chemistry and Physics teacher, Stephan Graham, shares how he facilitates students' ownership of their learning using the Particle Modeling Curriculum developed by the American Modeling Teachers Association at modelinginstruction.com.
Tara Gilboa, former Spanish Teacher in Boulder Valley School District, shares how she first discovered Organic World Language in college, and how the OWL approach transforms second language classrooms into lively communities world-wide.
Resources:
Connect to Organic World Language
Elizabeth Gordon from Stober Elementary in Jefferson County, Colorado shares how she found SHINE from Inside the Greenhouse to address the fourth grade science standards about fossil fuels through a movement-based curriculum that results in a play in a day.
Resources:
Connect to Shine's Inside the Greenhouse
Kelly Yrarrazaval, Counselor from Willard Intermediate School in Santa Ana, California, addresses how Beat The Odds helps her address social emotional learning while also having fun.
Resources:
Connect to Beat the Odds
Tiffany Syariff shares how Great Mind's Wit and Wisdom has brought deeper reading and writing skills into her classrooms and how her students love the texts and have noticeably improved their writing.
Resources:
Connect to Great Mind's Wit and Wisdom
Teacher Dave Hancock shares how these step-by-step writing units make writing and revising so concrete for students and easy to implement for teachers. These are sequenced in a way that scaffolds learning in simple, doable chunks.
Resources:
Connect to Units of Study
Kodi Kelly, HS teacher in Westminster Colorado, shares how Kagan Cooperative Learning increases engagement, mindfullness, cooperation and deeper thinking with her students.