EdCuration: Where We Reshape Learning

The Mentor Project Unites Students Around the World With The Brightest Minds of Our Time

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

 

EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees

Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations

EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action

EdCuration's upcoming Online Events

Primary Teachers Share Evidence-Based Success for Emerging Readers

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

 

Ruth Gotian, PhD, Shares the Secrets of Optimizing Success, for Our Students and Ourselves

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

 

EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees

Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations

EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action

EdCuration's upcoming Online Events

 

A Reading Intervention That Integrates CTE, SEL, 21st Century Skills, and Supports ELs

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

EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees

Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations

EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action

EdCuration's upcoming Online Events

Renowned Speaker & Author Lois Letchford Shares Her Strengths-Based Approach to Literacy

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

EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees

Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations

EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action

EdCuration's upcoming Online Events

 

School Counselor, Patricia Bryant, Shares the Literacy Based SEL Solution She Loves

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

What is Media Literacy, Why is it Essential, and How Do We Teach it?

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

Project Based, Integrated STEAM Curriculum Checks All the Boxes

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

Reframing Your Curriculum for Social Justice & Sustainability

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

 

Easy, Integrated, Interactive SEL Digital Platform for Secondary Students

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

 

Turning Classrooms into Communities to Maximize SEL

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

 

College Board Pre-AP Partnership Boosts Achievement, Graduation Rates, and Shifts School Culture

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

 

A Turnkey, Evidence-Based Literacy Solution for English Language Learners

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

 

MTSS and Sensory Friendly Environments for Neurodiverse 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

 

Elevating Scientific Innovation, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics with Remarkable STEAM

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

 

 

Turnkey Solution for Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and Other Learning Challenges

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

Teaching With HEART: Integrating SEL into School Practices, Products, and Learning Communities.

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

 

Environmental Education Tools & Tips from Kiss the Ground

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

 

Stopping School Shooters Before They Strike: What Every Educator Needs to Know

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

Integrating STEAM: Every Teacher Needs a Robot!

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