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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.
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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
Teachers Going Gradeless
The Case Against Grades by Alfie Kohn - Educational Leadership, November 2011
Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School
EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellow, discusses how her own experience of trauma led her to the mindfulness practice that now empowers her students and the teachers she coaches. These are some of the practices helping educators combat the rampant burnout and demoralization many are experiencing.
Resources:
Inquire about InfoBase Learning Cloud's Free Pilot Opportunity
Connect with Moozoom for real life, easy to implement SEL support
You can contact Jennifer Yoo-Brannon and access all of her EdSurge article on her EdSurge Writer's Page
Follow Jennifer and see her adorable children @JYooBrannon
Jennifer's articles:
Trauma is Everywhere. My Experience With it Made Me a Better Teacher
We Need to Make Schools Human Again. That Means Treating Teachers With Respect
There's No Easy Protocol For Handling Classroom Conflict. We Must Challenge Ourselves
Concerned Parents and Lawmakers, Here's What You'll Really See in My Classroom
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Math teacher and Department Head, Shirley Forehand, and Pre K-12 Math Supervisor Gary Petko, have not only seen engagement and test scores increase drastically for their math students--music enhanced learning with Muzology is creating a cultural shift in math learning, and growing confidence in the their students that is impacting cross content achievement.
Resources:
Connect to Muzology
Read about Muzology's creator, Dr. Lana Israel
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Library Media Specialist, Sara Webb, shares how the Media Bias Chart and other resources from Ad Fontes Media, have equipped her students to think critically about the messages coming from all different media branches and platforms. Ad Fontes teaches students to read laterally and measure reliability and bias in the news stories they are reading for content studies as well as social media.
Resources:
Find the Interactive Media Bias Chart
ad fontes' SUMMA Essential News Literacy Curriculum
ad fontes media --Tell them the EdCuration podcast sent you!
Media Literacy Now
Where Can I Find Resources for Media Literacy Lesson Planning? Blog post by Sara
National Association of Media Literacy Educators --Membership is free and they have a great journal.
The 2021 Media Literacy Index
The Stanford History Education Group
An article reporting the SHEG study findings that students are unable to judge the credibility of online information.
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
The Long Beach Unified Public School District regularly hosts visitors from all over the world, eager to learn from their success in closing achievement gaps. Christopher Steinhauser, who led the LBUSD for 18 years as superintendent, reflects on the reasons for their success and his newly released book.
LBUSD is the five time nominee and national winner of the Broad Prize- the nation's largest education prize, honoring large urban districts that demonstrate the greatest overall performance and improvement in student achievement while reducing achievement gaps among various ethnic and socioeconomic groups of students. Additionally Long Beach was listed as a World Class School by Mckenzie and company and were recognized as schools that are beating the odds by the Learning Policy Institute.
Dr. Steinhauser is the Co-author of Schools on the Move: Leading Coherence for Equitable Growth (Corwin Press in 2022) with a forward by Michael Fullen.
Resources:
Connect to Proliftic
Chris' book Schools on the Move: Leading Coherence for Equitable Growth
and here from google books
and here from Amazon
More information on The California Promise
Learn about Swun Math Curriculum
Learn about Swum Math Professional Learning
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Educators Jennifer Romer from Alaska, Shannon Heckelsmiller from Washington State, and Ashley Martinez-Doublin from Colorado, all share how they transitioned to project based learning strategies with the cross-content, standards-aligned, customized units from Educurious. Student engagement and achievement have both soared. Students are making connections to their environment and community in ways previously unseen, and formerly reluctant learners have tuned in and turned on.
Resources:
Connect to Educurious
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Instructional leader and curriculum team member, Marisa Curtis, from Crandall ISD in Texas, is excited to share the resource that has her students highly engaged and hitting standards in authentic measurable ways--consistently. Education Galaxy is a space-themed instruction and assessment tool that has transformed data-driven, standards-based instruction, and has helped students become highly invested in their own learning.
Resources:
Connect to Education Galaxy Online
Education Galaxy's Liftoff Adaptive Intervention
Education Galaxy's free professional learning ExPLoration: Identifying Academic Gaps to Reclaim Learning Loss
Education Galaxy's sponsored episode with Dr. Deborah Heiser
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
Lottie Dowling has worked for the last 20 years in education, as a school practitioner and professional learning leader on a global, national, and regional level. She's worked in 6 different countries and is a sought after speaker and consultant on Global Citizenship and the Global Competencies that are increasingly becoming a part of our academic landscape. In this episode she gives us a deeper understanding of what those are and how to teach them.
Resources:
Discover Meg Languages Spanish and Meg Languages Mandarin
Lottie Dowling on Twitter
Lottie Dowling on LinkedIn
A great model :
Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World
Some Background Reading:
What is 'Global Citizenship Education'?
PISA Global Competence Assessment
Lottie's blog posts:
Critical Thinking Can Help Students Become Better Global Citizens
Having Difficult Conversations
Greta Thunberg's Fridays for the Future
Video Resources:
The Global Oneness Project
Free videos and lesson plans to inspire global citizens:
Project Explorer
The Mongolian Band Hangai singing one of their most famous songs:
Drinking Song
EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees
Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations
EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action
EdCuration's upcoming Online Events
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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