Episodes
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Staying Inspired to Inspire Your Students
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Critical Race Theory: Sorting Facts and Fallacies
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
Changing the Tune For Math Strugglers With Music Enhanced Learning
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
Improving Accessibility for Students With Hearing Loss: Janice Lintz
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
Equip Students to Critically Analyze Media Messages and Sources
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
Transformative Coaching Practices for Teacher Support, Efficacy & Retention
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
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
INTRODUCING: Steven Miletto [Teaching, Learning, Leading K-12] with Irshad Manji
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."
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.
Thursday Jan 20, 2022
Thursday Jan 20, 2022
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
Deborah Heiser's website: www.DeborahHeiser.com
Deborah Heiser's article in Psychology Today: The Right Side of 40
The Optimize Your Success Broadcast
Deborah Heiser's TEDx Talk - Rethinking Aging: Mentoring A New Generation
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Primary Teachers Share Evidence-Based Success for Emerging Readers
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
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
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
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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Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
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Thursday Dec 30, 2021
Thursday Dec 30, 2021
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
EdCuration's SEL Resources
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Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
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
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
School Counselor, Patricia Bryant, Shares the Literacy Based SEL Solution She Loves
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
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
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
What is Media Literacy, Why is it Essential, and How Do We Teach it?
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
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 Summa News Literacy Curriculum
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
Thursday Dec 02, 2021
Project Based, Integrated STEAM Curriculum Checks All the Boxes
Thursday Dec 02, 2021
Thursday Dec 02, 2021
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
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Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events