Reshaping Learning with SchoolDay

Former 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:

Reach out to Kim Price

Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett

The Character Lab with Angela Duckworth

 

Learn more about SchoolDay

Explore the SchoolDay Academy and visit our blog.

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

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

 

Learn more about SchoolDay

Explore the SchoolDay Academy and visit our blog.

Entrepreneur, TED speaker, equity warrior, and GALS Denver 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

Elizabeth's Ted Talk

 

Learn more about SchoolDay

Explore the SchoolDay Academy and visit our blog.

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

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

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

 

Learn more about SchoolDay

Explore the SchoolDay Academy and visit our blog.

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

Joel Rose, Co-­Founder and CEO of New Classrooms, shares a whole new model for structuring learning that not only accelerates achievement and closes learning gaps in middle school math, but also improves classroom culture and increases student engagement.

 

Resources: 

Connect to Snappet - individualized math learning for elementary students

New Classrooms
Teach to One
Read about The Iceberg Problem

Teach to One Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
New Classrooms Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn

Educator, certified coach & trainer, and sought after speaker Lana Hailemariam shares stories and strategies for how to empower students' voices, facilitate tough conversations, and talk to kids about race.

 

Resources:

Connect with SPEAK

Lana's EdCuration Conference session: How to Talk About Race With Youth

Lana's website

contact StandUP

Celeste Headlee's TED talk - How to Have a Better Conversation

Veronica Fiedler, Specific Learning Disability Specialist for the state of Colorado, discusses how to best support diverse learners and their teachers, and helps us better understand the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

 

Resources:

Connect to IDL Solutions

CDE SLD Webpage: https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdesped/sd-sld 

How to join the CDE SLD Listserv: 

To subscribe to the CO-SLD listserv: 

• Open a new email. 
• In the “To” field, type the email SLD-subscribe-request@cdelist.cde.state.co.us and send the message. 
• Once added, you will receive a confirmation email. 
• If you have a problem, email Veronica Fiedler at fiedler_v@cde.state.co.us. 

 

National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII): 

• NCII’s Tools Chart: https://intensiveintervention.org/about-charts-resources 
• NCII’s Taxonomy of Intervention Intensity: https://intensiveintervention.org/taxonomy-intervention-intensity 

CAST UDL Guidelines: https://udlguidelines.cast.org/ 

 

Christine Danhoff, technology integration specialist at the Genoa School District, shares the Unruly Splats which have allowed her and her teachers to integrate STEM, movement and coding into pretty much any content area. I'm not even kidding. And it's FUN!

 

Resources:

Find Unruly Splats at EdCuration.com

In Read Write Code, Jeremy Keeshin demystifies the world of computers, starting at the beginning to explain the basic building blocks of today’s tech: programming, the internet, data, apps, the cloud, cybersecurity, algorithms, artificial intelligence, and more. As CEO and Co-founder of CodeHS, Keeshin has helped teach coding to millions of students over the last decade. This book is a must-read for modern educators and anyone who wants to understand why code matters today.

 

Resources:

Find ClassHook

Order Read, Write, Code

Jeremy's LinkedIn

Jeremy's Twitter

Jeremy's Website

Dr. Aaron Griffen, Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Denver Schools of Science and Technology, discusses his new role, his new book (Challenges to Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs in Organizations) and building DEI capacity in the midst of the current challenges.

 

Resources: 

The Axiom Dashboard

Dr Griffen's EdCuration Conference session: All The World's Become an Antiracist Stage

Prosperity Educators

Challenges to Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs in Organizations

The 90-Day Prosperity Journal

Michael Spencer, 8-year music teaching veteran, shares about the impact of cultural music on cross-content learning, community building and school climate.

 

Resources: 

Find Michael at  michael_spencer@dpsk12.net 

Find QuaverEd

Michael Spencer's EdCuration conference session: The Critical Impact of Cultural Music in Public Education

Diedre Spicer, teacher and founder at of Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana, California, shares how Actively Learn helps learners with all learning styles to engage, and find multiple points of access into texts of all kinds and levels. And it's so easy to use.

 

Resources:

Connect to Actively Learn

Keena Day,  Senior Manager of Humanities at Denver Schools of Science and Technology enlightens us on best practices in culturally responsive literacy and encouraging critical thinking. 

 

Resources:

This episode was sponsored by Reading Plus

Find Keena at thesavvyurbaneducator.com

Find Keena's Day's EdCUration Conference Session: Critical Thinking in an Antiracist Environment

Anthony Chiles, Student Support Coordinator at Burke County School District, discusses practical strategies for building positive relationships with students. 

 

Resources:

Building-Relationships-Toolkit.pdf

MVPSpaces.com

See Anthony's session from the Committing to Antiracist Curriculum and Instruction conference here

Connect to Carousel, for high quality & easy to implement social emotional learning

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Andrew Roberts, veteran math teacher, instructional coach, teacher trainer and data guy says that there is just no arguing with results when it comes to inquiry-based vs direct instruction.

 

Resources:

 Connect with Figure Math

Angela Duckworth's book - Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Angela Duckworth's TED Talk on Grit

Carol Dweck's book - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Carol Dweck's TED Talk on Mindset

Middle school teacher Becca Fenton from John E. Flynn A Marzano Academy in Westminster Colorado has found an integrated, easy-to-implement, and highly effective system of classroom management that also teaches authentic life skills and financial literacy.

 

Resources:

You can learn more about Mini Money Management and connect to creator Lorne Jenkins at EdCuration.