Episodes
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Reframing Your Curriculum for Social Justice & Sustainability
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
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 Ted Talk
Creative Change Educational Solutions
Susan's book Reframing the Curriculum: Design for Social Justice and Sustainability (Routledge, 2018).
Instagram: SantoneSusan
Susan on LinkedIn
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Webinar Series
EdCuration's Blog
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Easy, Integrated, Interactive SEL Digital Platform for Secondary Students
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
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's Certified #EdTrustees
Micro-Professional Learning ExPLorations for educators
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Turning Classrooms into Communities to Maximize SEL
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
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
Charles Vogl's Books
Charles Vogl's Old Wisdom New Era Podcast
EdCuration's Certified #EdTrustees
EdCuration's Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration Podcast
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
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
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
A Turnkey, Evidence-Based Literacy Solution for English Language Learners
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
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
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
MTSS and Sensory Friendly Environments for Neurodiverse Learners
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
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
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
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
View the Great Duck & ducklings
Thursday Oct 07, 2021
Turnkey Solution for Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and Other Learning Challenges
Thursday Oct 07, 2021
Thursday Oct 07, 2021
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:
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
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
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
Environmental Education Tools & Tips from Kiss the Ground
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
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 Educational Cut
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
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Stopping School Shooters Before They Strike: What Every Educator Needs to Know
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
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
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Integrating STEAM: Every Teacher Needs a Robot!
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
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
- Video
- Meet Sphero indi
- Meet indi, Sphero's newest robot
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Career & Technical Education Strategies & Tips from MIT‘s Mark Herschberg
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
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
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Going Gradeless Increases Authentic Learning: One Teacher‘s Story
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
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
The Case Against Grades by Alfie Kohn - Educational Leadership, November 2011
Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
School Transformation Begins With Mindful Educators
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
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:
Megan's podcast: The Awakening Educator
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Support & Community for Educational Leaders at the Leadership Resource Network
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
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
Connect to Jenna on her website
Jenna's Twitter: @EducationalKamp
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
SEL, Mental Health & Classroom Management in One Elegant Solution
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
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
Thursday Jul 29, 2021
Second Language Acquisition Through Real-World Connections
Thursday Jul 29, 2021
Thursday Jul 29, 2021
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
Thursday Jul 22, 2021
Thursday Jul 22, 2021
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:
Sign up for CALM
Ash's Podcast: Liberated By Design
Ash's Blog: The Pulse
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Real World Business and CTE Learning Fueled by Students‘ Passions & Interests
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
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
Get a Hall Pass - College readiness, Gap Year & transition