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What do you love about teaching? What inspired you to teach? How are you finding ways to experience what you love about teaching in the current climate?

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Danielle Mancinelli is currently a Senior Learning Designer of Professional Development with Springboard Collaborative. She started her career as a second-grade teacher and since then has served as a Reading Specialist, an Early Literacy Specialist, and an Assistant Principal of Instruction. Danielle was a member of the Leadership Philadelphia’s 2018 “Connectors and Keepers” class, appeared on Billy Penn’s “Who’s Next” list of education leaders, and a New Leaders Council Fellow.

Every February, American educators make decisions about Black history and how to teach it. This week we take a look at our evolving thinking about teaching Black history with off-the-shelf lesson plans.

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Chelsea Fullington-Egli is in her 6th year teaching in the Kansas City area, She currently teaches 3rd grade in the urban core of KC. Master's in Educational Technology. Just another teacher fighting for equitable public schools! She's an avid skywatcher, wife, and dog mom of 3. She's been a NASA-JPL Solar System Ambassador since 2018. Lifetime seeker of good trouble, and loud anti-racist.

In this session, we talk about how to maximize the positive potential of social media in education and minimize the downside and misuses.

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Mike Messner is a teacher of United States History and Civics at Los Altos High School in Los Altos, California. He is also an adjunct instructor of United States history and California history at Skyline College in San Bruno, California. He is a Google certified educator, a 15-year veteran of teaching, and a proud husband and father.

Pandemic learning is producing widely uneven academic results and producing what many are calling the COVID learning gap. Join us as we discuss how to address and close that chasm between what should have been taught and what students actually learned.

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Harvey Alvy has served as a teacher, principal, and university professor, and was honored to be a National Distinguished Principal. He is the author of Fighting for Change in Your School: How to Avoid Fads and Focus on Substance, and co-author of Learning From Lincoln: Leadership Practices for School Success.

Few of us have taught through a moment more historic and pivotal than the current one. What are the big takeaways? What have we learned?

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Starr Sackstein (NBCT) is a certified Master Journalism Educator through the Journalism Education Association (JEA). She serves at the New York State Director to JEA. She is the author of several books, including Teaching Mythology Exposed: Helping Teachers Create Visionary Classroom Perspective. Harvey Alvy has served as a teacher, principal, and university professor, and was honored to be a National Distinguished Principal. He is the author of Fighting for Change in Your School: How to Avoid Fads and Focus on Substance, and co-author of Learning From Lincoln: Leadership Practices for School Success.

When students are not interested in a subject, how do we balance the tension between covering content and student engagement?

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Harvey Alvy has served as a teacher, principal, and university professor, and was honored to be a National Distinguished Principal. He is the author of Fighting for Change in Your School: How to Avoid Fads and Focus on Substance, and co-author of Learning From Lincoln: Leadership Practices for School Success.

As we continue to grope through remote and hybrid earning, is the traditional approach to teacher observations and evaluations suited to pandemic teaching and learning?

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Adam Yankay has 20 years of teaching experience, 13 of which are in boarding schools. His students learn AP Statistics, various sports, and hopefully even more about themselves. He believes his most valuable work in schools is to help the most vulnerable math students develop confidence and joy in the learning process. He currently lives in Hudson, Ohio with his wife and three children.

With vaccinations on the horizon, what can we expect in the near term for hybrid teaching, assessments, and the new normal?

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This week we contemplate the changes coming to education under a new administration and a new US Secretary of Education. Join us as we review some of the biggest challenges ahead and what many of us hope will be better under the new leadership.

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Harvey Alvy has served as a teacher, principal, and university professor, and was honored to be a National Distinguished Principal. He is the author of Fighting for Change in Your School: How to Avoid Fads and Focus on Substance, and co-author of Learning From Lincoln: Leadership Practices for School Success.

In the wake of our experience with emergency remote teaching and learning, rethinking assessment is now on the table. Join us for a discussion about the road ahead for formative assessment, summative assessment, and standardized testing.

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Starr Sackstein (NBCT) is a certified Master Journalism Educator through the Journalism Education Association (JEA). She serves at the New York State Director to JEA. She is the author of several books, including Teaching Mythology Exposed: Helping Teachers Create Visionary Classroom Perspective.