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.

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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

Find Gavin Mayer

Learn about the Pomona Arts and Humanities Program

Entrepreneur,TED speaker, equity warrior, and GALS 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

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.

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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.

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Connect to WordMasters Challenge

Read more about WordMasters & related research

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 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. 

National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII): 

• NCII’s Tools Chart: https://intensiveintervention.org/about-charts-resources 

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