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
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
Elizabeth Yarnell devotes her passion for story, movie-making and engaging the most reluctant learners to a tool that can bring life and excitement into pretty much any content area and topic.
Resources:
Connect to Digistars Make a Movie Workshop
Thursday May 14, 2020
Thursday May 14, 2020
Tamara Speidel, principal of Buffalo Trail Elementary School in Cherry Creek Schools uses Class Composer to guarantee that every student has other students like them in their class each year. She loves Class Composer for its ability to help guarantee demographic equity, as well as save her faculty and herself HOURS of work in balancing class lists for the upcoming academic year.
Resources:
Connect to Class Composer
Thursday May 07, 2020
Thursday May 07, 2020
Anita Landoll describes a methodology that she developed to help struggling readers learn to read, which she calls "The Sounds of Words."
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
Darnell Jenkins shares how he uses Figure Math to engage high school students with different learning styles as they become more proficient in not only solving equations, but also exploring, collaborating, creating and evaluating math together.
Resources:
Connect to Figure Math
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Teresa Gonzalez shares how SEL Adventures supported the turn around of a challenging class, and helped students learn how they learn best through the motivation of this online game.
Resources:
Connect to SEL Adventures
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Brendon Jobs, Director of Diversity & Inclusion at The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, shares how learning the Question Formulation Technique energized his teaching, and shares with us how to bring this technique into our classrooms to better engage students in challenging content.
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
Saturday Feb 15, 2020
Saturday Feb 15, 2020
Susan Connick from St. Benilde School in Metarie, Louisiana shares how she uses Lexia Core 5 to support her Tier II struggling readers in grades K-7.
Resources:
Connect to Lexia Core5
Saturday Feb 15, 2020
Saturday Feb 15, 2020
Sonja Herring from Cresthill Middle School in Douglas County, Colorado shares how she uses TCI's Geography Alive's Map Labs to make geography learning active, relevant and engaging for middle school learners.
Resources:
Connect to TCI's Social Studies Resources
Friday Feb 14, 2020
Friday Feb 14, 2020
Jared Adamson from Cherokee Trail High School discusses how Big Ideas Math helps him increase student achievement through the curriculum's Investigations, Game Closet and other tools that provide students with immediate feedback.
Resources:
Connect to Big Ideas Math
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Kathy Zaleski shares how she uses Connection Circles to build community in her classroom, which she learned from the Longmont Community Justice Center. She discusses how restorative practices are alternatives to traditional discipline, and shares the following resources for others looking to learn more about this powerful instructional practice:
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The little books:https://emu.edu/cjp/resources/little-books
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Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding: Restorative Discipline for Schools
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The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice
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The Little Book of Circle Processes,
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Return to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice,
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Not Light but Fire by Matthew R. Kay
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The Little Book of Restorative Teaching Tools https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Restorative-Teaching-Tools/dp/168099588X
Thursday Oct 24, 2019
Thursday Oct 24, 2019
Today on the show we veer away from discussion of a curriculum product to focus instead on a teaching strategy. Learn from Emily Fields in Douglas County, Colorado, how and why she uses Socratic Seminar to teach critical reading & writing in her middle school classroom.
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Friday Oct 04, 2019
Friday Oct 04, 2019
Ashley Cooksey, a school librarian in Arkansas, shares the way that implementing codeSpark in an elementary library taught her how to code right alongside the students, paving the way to her current role as an Instructional Technology Coach and an accomplished educational leader.
Resources:
Connect to codeSpark
Ashley's resources to help teach coding through storytelling: https://padlet.com/ashley_cooksey2/CodeWithBooks or bit.ly/CodeWithBooks.
Thursday Aug 29, 2019
Thursday Aug 29, 2019
Diane Sweeney from Diane Sweeney Consulting shares how school systems can use the coaching cycles in Student-Centered Coaching to support a successful curriculum implementation.
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
Serri Mills shares how she found AVID, and found students' stories about AVID so compelling, that she brought it to her entire elementary school and became a "Truly Changed Teacher" as a result.
Tuesday Aug 27, 2019
Tuesday Aug 27, 2019
Rebecca Sklepovich, Director of Curriculum and Instruction at the Denver School of Science and Technology at Green Valley Ranch, shares what she has learned about running a successful curriculum adoption, including how to research and what to look for when procuring high quality, evidence-based curriculum resources.
Monday Aug 05, 2019
Monday Aug 05, 2019
Sarah Noble shares how her use of the Facing History and Ourselves curriculum helps her tackle tough issues of race and racism in the classroom, to make sure she doesn't alienate students when reading canonical texts that include dehumanizing language.
Resources:
Connect to Facing History and Ourselves
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
John Nolan from the Alameda Unified School District shares how E.L. Achieve's Constructing Meaning has helped him, for the very first time in his long teaching career, feel like he is EFFECTIVELY meeting his ELL students' English-learning needs.
Resources:
Connect with E.L. Achieve and Constructing Meaning
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019