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

Fifth grade teacher and instructional coach Amanda Borum says her students' science scores are higher than they've ever been, and elementary science specialist Christopher Linton agrees. They were anxious to share Penda Science: a supplemental resource that fills science learning gaps, targets standards, increases achievement, and fosters a love for science. 

Resources:

Connect to Penda Science

EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees

Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations

EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action

EdCuration's upcoming Online Events

Irshad Manji is a professor  at Oxford University’s Initiative for Global Ethics and Human rights and a New York Times bestselling author of Don’t Label Me: How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars.  She serves as the Director of Moral Courage ED at Let Grow, a nonprofit that promotes independent thinking and emotional resilience in students. Its signature program for secondary school students (and their teachers!) is Moral Courage ED, which empowers students to hear, not fear, different perspectives. She is the recipient of Oprah’s first “Chutzpah Award” for boldness.

irshadmanji.com

Moral Courage Ed

LetGrow.org

Moral Courage on Twitter 

Moral Courage Project on Instagram

Moral Courage on Facebook

Moral Courage You Tube Channel

Irshad Manji on LinkedIn

Irshad Manji's book, "Don't Label Me: How to do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars."

Teaching Learning Leading K12 provides resources for all educators. No matter what the environment or level of learning, we all need ideas, inspiration, and fuel to help us meet the needs of our students. We strive to help our students achieve their dreams. We're happy to introduce EdCuration's listeners to Teaching Learning Leading K12. 

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 YouTube Channel

 Instagram and Twitter @SRMiletto

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

School counselor, Patricia Bryant, has been working in education for 40 years and has seen a lot of programs come and go. She loves how Cloud9World addresses Social Emotional Learning for K-12 students, in Spanish and English, while reinforcing literacy and integrating with core content.

Resources:

Connect to Cloud9World

EdCuration's SEL Resources

EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees

Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations

EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action

EdCuration's upcoming Online Events