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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Nicholas Keith (Executive Director of Curriculum & Instruction), and Jennifer Williams (Math Interventionist & Cross-Content Instructional Coach) share how Teach Transform has filled the learning gaps, shifted pedagogy, and engaged their learners in math.
Resources:
Connect to TeachTransform
Teach Transform's Elementary Math Content & Strategy Academy
(TAP) Teacher Advancement Program from the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Join the founder and CEO of Bright IDEA Education Consulting, Dr. Rolanda Fabien, sharing her 20 years of experience and expertise in educational leadership and special education. Bright IDEA provides resources and support to students, teachers and families.
Resources:
Connect to Floreo
Connect to Dr. Rolanda Fabien
Connect to Bright IDEA Consulting
Bright IDEA on Facebook
Bright IDEA on Instagram
Bright IDEA on Twitter
Bright IDEA on YouTube
Bright IDEA on LinkedIn
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Join math intervention specialist and founder of CollaboratEd Consulting, Juliana Tapper, to learn how to increase engagement, participation, and success of students who struggle in mathematics.
Resources:
Connect to Page a Day Math
Connect to CollaboratEd Consulting
Find Dr. Jo Boaler & her books
Which One Doesn’t Belong Images
Juliana's 10 Math Intervention Strategies Free guide
Juliana's digital course and community, Making Math Accessible for all, waitlist
Resources and community building for students who struggle with 6-12th grade math
Thursday Jun 10, 2021
Thursday Jun 10, 2021
Steve Ventura, president at Advanced Collaborative Solutions, discusses his upcoming book on Achievement Teams™ -- an experiential and effective four-step protocol centered around Collective Teacher Efficacy (a shared belief that educators can have a greater impact on student achievement when they work together.)
Resources:
Connect to Future Holders
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Districtwide Manager of Social Emotional Academic Learning, Kim Price, shares the promising practices that are making classrooms more welcoming, safe, nurturing environments that empower students and staff to best attend to holistic learning and greater academic achievement.
Resources:
Connect to Vivensity
Reach out to Kim Price
Denver Public Schools support for the Whole Child
Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett
The Character Lab with Angela Duckworth
Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
Secondary math and finance teacher Eric Sigman, and 5th grade teacher Shon Villars, share how ClassHook captures students attention, makes ideas and concepts concrete and relatable, and keeps students engaged. This is an easily affordable and timesaving tool for every teacher.
Resources:
Connect to ClassHook
Thursday May 20, 2021
Thursday May 20, 2021
Professional theater director and Ithaca college professor Gavin Mayer discusses the High School Arts Integration program he and his colleagues founded and how the arts make our students better, smarter and kinder human beings.
Resources:
Connect with The Art Docent Program
Find Gavin Mayer
Learn about the Pomona Arts and Humanities Program
Thursday May 13, 2021
Thursday May 13, 2021
Entrepreneur,TED speaker, equity warrior, and GALS co-founder, Liz Wolfson discusses positive gender identity, integrated movement and the game-changing model of the Girls Athletic Leadership Schools.
Resources:
Connect with Unruly Studios
Connect with Elizabeth Wolfson
Thursday May 06, 2021
Thursday May 06, 2021
Technology and Special Education teacher Lee Hollman, from PS 132 in Brooklyn NY, shares how Codemancer has filled a technology gap and energized all of his students to love coding, expanding their skills for al content areas.
Resources:
Connect to Codemancer
Thursday Apr 29, 2021
Thursday Apr 29, 2021
District Managers for Restorative Process, Deanna Goodrich and Yeruwelle de Rouen share trauma-informed and Restorative Process Practices to help shift school climate and create safe, nurturing spaces to accelerate learning.
Resources:
Connect to Class Composer
Deanna & Yeruwelle's EdCuration conference session
Contact Deanna
Contact Yeruwelle
Intersectional Innovations Consulting
Denver Public Schools Restorative Process Guide
Oakland Unified Schools Restorative Justice Resources
Chicago Public Schools Restorative Process Guide & Toolkit
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
Veteran Gifted and Talented teacher Susan Holcomb, shares how the national WordMasters Challenge competition keeps vocabulary alive through analogy and competition. She credits the program with developing autonomous learners who consistently end up as merit scholars. Each year, over 125,000 students from some of the best public and private schools throughout the United States participate.
Resources:
Connect to WordMasters Challenge
Read more about WordMasters & related research
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Cultural Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leader at St Andrew's Episcopal School, Baltimore Maryland, Dr. Kenneth Waters shares research, his own experiences, best practices and tips for supporting and improving outcomes for Black boys.
Resources:
Connect to Mini Money Management
Connect to Dr. Waters
Dr. Waters' EdCuration Conference session: Educating Black Boys in Today's Social Climate