Vice Principal Emma Veltri, and  Principal Diana Herbst share the essential criteria for choosing a Social Emotional Learning Resource for secondary students, how to structure this learning for success, how to gain student and teacher buy in, and why Emozi has been so successful at Maze Middle School in Holllister California. 

Resources:

Connect to Emozi Middle and High School Social Emotional Learning Curriculum

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        A 'Novel' Approach: Developing Middle School Students' Social Emotional Skills With Literature

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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

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing  by Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry

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Educators Rachel Steil, Lee Zientara, and Lela Goettl share their excitement about Learners Edge - the top quality, online, professional learning and continuing education graduate credit courses for teachers. Not only has Learners Edge allowed them to increase their skills, overall efficacy, and compensation, but has also provided a fin and lucrative sideline as course evaluators.

(As of March 2023, Learners Edge and Teaching Channel have joined forces under the Teaching Channel umbrella. Same great people and a massively expanded lineup of courses ready to serve you under a new name and a refreshed website). 

Resources:

Connect to Learners Edge/Teaching Channel

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Award-winning Associate Editor of Education Week, Stephen Sawchuk, shares the history, misunderstandings, impact and legislation around Critical Race Theory to help us get smarter about this current controversy. Understand the impact on K-12 classrooms and teachers based on current legislation in this enlightening conversation.

Resources:

Connect to our sponsor, Ad Fontes Media, home of the Media Bias Chart and the SUMMA News Literacy Curriculum

From Stephen Sawchuk:

• What Is Critical Race Theory and Why Is It Under Attack?

Ed Week's up to date Map: Where Critical Race Theory is Under Attack

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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: 

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Read about Muzology's creator, Dr. Lana Israel

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Janice Lintz has become the go-to, global consultant and advocate for hearing access. She shares her inspiring story of working with education, cultural, and government institutions to improve accessibility, and offers tips for educators on how to best support students with hearing loss.  

Resources:

Contact Notysing - supplemental, digitally-based music curriculum

Janice Lintz Website

Janice Lintz on LinkedIn 

Founder & CEO: Hearing Access and Innovations

HuffPost Article: 10 Misconceptions Teachers Should Know About Children Who Are Hard of Hearing

Rethinking Cities for People With Hearing Loss by Janice Lintz

Contributor: Tell Her She Can't: Inspiring Stories of Unstoppable Women

2008 People Magazine Hero: A Champion for the Hard of Hearing

2016 Nominated United State of Women Changemaker

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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.  

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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

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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:

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Becca Silver is a teacher, coach, and founder of The Whole Educator. Her customized trainings are focused on fostering teacher buy-in, bridging gaps and increasing teacher effectiveness and retention. You'll love her tips on how to give teachers the real support they need to be great at their jobs, and to love teaching again.

Resources:

Connect to Learners Edge

The Whole Educator

Free e-book: 17 Tips For Being a Mind-Blowingly Impactful Instructional Coach

Becca's Transformative Coaching videos

Whole Educator Programs

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