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Episodes
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
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.
Connect with Don Lamison on LinkedIn
Learn more about Urban Green Education
Learn about Green Study
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Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
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
Listen to Music Blocks and finding supporting resources at Colorado Public Radio
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An Honest Day's Work episode
We Love a Love Story episode
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Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
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.
Resources:
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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Thursday Mar 23, 2023
Thursday Mar 23, 2023
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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Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
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:
Learn more about Penda Learning and their semester-long or full academic year pilot opportunity.
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Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
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.
Click "Inquire about a Pilot" to how to get 50% off a 4-month pilot through the current and coming school year.
The Six Strategies from the Learning Scientists:
Spaced Practice
Interleaved Practice
Elaboration
Self-Explanation
Concrete Examples
The Learning Scientists on Facebook
@AceThatTest on Twitter
Follow The Learning Scientists on Instagram
The Learning Engineering Toolkit by James Goodell
Reach Dr. Cynthia Nebel at cynthia.nebel@vanderbilt.edu
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
Mentioned Resources:
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.
The science of learning exists. It’s time to unleash it.
The Artful Educator - Applying Cognitive Psychology to the Classroom
3 Star Learning Experiences - An Evidence-Informed Blog for Learning Professionals
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Thursday Feb 16, 2023
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
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:
Learn more about BeeReaders
Interested in trying our authentic Spanish reading learning experience with your Spanish-speaking students for 30 days? Click here for your FREE class trial.
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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Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
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.
Visit Mohan Sivaloganthan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/msivaloganathan
Visit Our Turn to learn more about the work of changemaking in education : https://www.itsourturn.org
Visit Ahmen's website to hear his music and learn about his music, speaking, events, and social impact: https://ahmen.us
Resources:
Learn about today's sponsor, Reading With Relevance.
Reading with Relevance is an evidence-based curriculum using high-interest diverse books to unite academic and social/emotional learning. Our intentional lesson plans inspire students to read deeply, think critically, talk openly, and write reflectively about topics that matter.
Reading with Relevance has been approved by CASEL as one of their few academically-integrated SEL programs — demonstrating evidence of effectiveness at improving student outcomes at the highest level by supporting students' academic, social & emotional growth.
Visit Mohan Sivaloganthan on LinkedIn
Visit Our Turn to learn more about the work of changemaking in education
Visit Ahmen's website to hear his music and learn about his music, speaking, events, and social impact
View Ahmen's new release, Love Letter
View Ahmen's song Troublemaker
View Mohan's speaker reel
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Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
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 Reading follows 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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Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
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:
Get The Institute for Humane Education's Solutionary Guidebook
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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Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
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:
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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Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
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:
Connect to Inquiry Partners for their Inquiry Five School Bundle
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'
STUDENT CREDITS:
Intro Music: Here's to 2021 -- Thomas Kaufman, Lance Algabre, & Andrew Garcia, page 70
Violin Underscoring: original composition Until Tomorrow -- Tienne Yu, pages 20-21
"Borscht Recipe" -- Daniel Rykunov, page 66
"Trending in 2020" -- Piper Chase, page 71
"okay" -- Suhaylah Sirajul-Islam, page 62
"Letter to My Teacher" -- Andrew Badhwa, page 110
"Long Gone" - Brandon Yeo, pages 110-111
"Ashes to Ashes" -- Kaltun Mohamed, page 146
"A Farmer's Quarantine" -- Jadon Flinton, page 128
"Working During a Pandemic" -- Penelope Cardenas, page 126
"The Five Stages of Grief: Quarantine Bangs Edition" -- Anushka Chakravarthi, page 72
Self Expression - Abram Loya, pages 168-169
"Wait, Did I Just Join My Sister's Friend Group?" -- Schuyler Schmitt, page 93
"2020" -- Lauren Sanchez, Page 10
Outro Music: Pandemic Boyfriend -- Amelia Ross, pages104-105
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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Thursday Dec 29, 2022
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
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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Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
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
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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Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
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:
Connect to Moosiko and sign up for a full semester free pilot.
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Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
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
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Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
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
Dr. Brian Butterworth's website
Judi Hornigold - Dyscalculia specialist
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Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
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 learn more today
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Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
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:
Connect to today's sponsor, Schoolytics, and sign up for a 30-day free trial
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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Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
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:
Connect with TutorMe to learn more
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