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.
Episodes
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
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
NIH: National Library of Medicine: Age of first bilingual exposure as a new window into bilingual reading development
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
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday May 12, 2022
Thursday May 12, 2022
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.
Dr. Lana Israel's website
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday May 05, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
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
Joel Garza:
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Mar 17, 2022
Thursday Mar 17, 2022
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
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
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!
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 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
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
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 Amazon
More information on The California Promise
Learn about Swun Math Curriculum
Learn about Swum Math Professional Learning
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
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
Free e-book: 17 Tips For Being a Mind-Blowingly Impactful Instructional Coach
Becca's Transformative Coaching videos
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
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
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:
Free videos and lesson plans to inspire global citizens:
The Mongolian Band Hangai singing one of their most famous songs:
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Jan 27, 2022
Thursday Jan 27, 2022
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
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Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
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.
Moral Courage Project on Instagram
Moral Courage You Tube Channel
Irshad Manji's book, "Don't Label Me: How to do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars."
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