CNUSDEdChat

In this episode, Kim sits down with Dr. Katie Novak to discuss the importance of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) a framework that embraces all students and acknowledges the potential barriers imposed by our educational practices. Dr. Novak encourages listeners to consider UDL as a buffet in which all learners have the potential to be successful through choice and support. Dr. Novak eloquently states that it is not our students who are disabled, it is our educational system that is disabling. She challenges educators to consider how we can proactively design a lesson or unit so that all students have equal opportunities to learn.

In this episode, Jenny interviews Dr. Michelle Barrios and Sussan Ortega, members of the Corona-Norco USD English Learner and Equity Department. Sussan and Michelle speak to the beauty and the challenge for teachers, schools and families in supporting English Language Learners. They remind educators that our English Language Learners bring a whole range of assets and diversity that contributes to the richness in our classrooms.

Kim sits down with the CNUSD edtech innovation team, Director Joe Fuertsch, Laurel Kirchhoff and Roni MacDonald, as they chat about exciting tech tools to enrich student learning. This episode features advice for teachers looking to give tech a try in the classroom and inspiring innovators to follow on social media. Take a listen and learn how you can use technology to tell your story and cultivate an equitable classroom environment.

You may recognize our guest from his active twitter feed, guest appearance on Good Morning America and The View, and not so small photo-op in People magazine, but more than that, Nicholas Ferroni is an educator who seeks to empower both teachers and students. In this episode, Ferroni sits down with Kate to discuss the power of his social experiments in engaging his students and how he uses his national presence to advocate and bring awareness to teachers and the critical work they do for our future generations.

How do we prepare students for a world that we know is changing? Jennifer Fletcher shares her work with teaching for transfer, teaching rhetoric in an information saturated world, and teaching for “adaptability rather than compliance.”

Looking for more ways to be innovative in your practice? Listen in to lead innovators, researchers and fellow EDUpodcasters Dr. Katie Martin and A.J. Juliani speak to what it means to be innovative in 21st century education. Together they share the must do's and may do's for teachers and administrators when it comes to practical innovation at any school site. Dr. Katie Martin is the Head of Partnerships-West at Alt School and A.J. Juliani is the Director of Learning and Innovation for the Centennial School District in Pennsylvania.

What do grades actually represent? Should we allow re-takes or assign zeros? In this episode, Corona-Norco USD principal, Dr. Jeremy Goins and teachers, Kathryn Byars and Tracy Gamache, confront traditional grading systems. Together, they share their investigation and exploration of standards based grading.

In this bonus episode, Ivy and Dr. Tyrone Howard chat about the experiences of teaching in urban schools and the particular needs students, families, and educators face in urban schools.

In this episode, Ivy chats with Dr. Tyrone Howard, Professor of Education and Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion at UCLA. He calls on educators to have much-needed conversations around race, culture, and equity. Dr. Howard is the author of Why Race and Culture Matters in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America’s Classrooms.

In this bonus episode, CNUSD third graders share fun and informative weather reports via the CNUSDEdChat podcast. Listen together with your students or children and discuss the causes and effects of current weather conditions or severe weather such as floods, tornadoes, blizzards, and hurricanes.

Approximate Timestamps:

• :40, L.P Rains and V.H Blizzards

• 2:18, Landon Hurricane and Luke Winds

• 3:35, Lani Blizzards and Haydyn Rains

• 5:09, J.B Thunder, Hurricane Spotter Pettit, and Giovanni Thunder

• 6:47, Ryan Thunderstorm and Malia Hurricane

• 8:25, L.G Storms and Valeria Sky

• 10:06, B.W Tornado and Sammy Tornado

• 11:28, E.O Hurricane and C.J Hurricane

• 12:17, Sara Tornado and Evan Tornado

• 13:00, CO-AM-830 and Storm Catcher Alex

• 14:17, Alexa Floods and Aliya Rains

• 15:37, Joyce Blizzard and Priscilla Blizzard