SMARTBRIEF AND SMARTBLOGS  present Susan Ragsdale, Editor's Choice Award Winning Blogger and Ann Saylor, her co author on 

GROUPS, TROOPS, CLUBS and CLASSROOMS

www.smartbrief.com  www.smartblogs.com @sbeducation

www.theassetedge.net  @theassetedge

NO MOUNTAIN TOO STEEP TO CLIMB  

One Science Teacher and  600 Bilingual Elementary Students" 

Ashley Green, the Science Lab teacher and Campus Webmaster for the Douglas Elementary School in Tyler TX reaches the summit every day. Find out how she does it.

 

Presented by CAROLINA BIOLOGICAL

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BATS AND BIOLOGY IN THE FIRST GRADE CLASSROOM.

I love bats. In fact the official bat at Wildlife Acoustics is named "Larry" after...guess who? This is a fun show with Bob Giershick of Wildlife Acoustics and his guest, from Columbus, GA, first grade teacher Susan Prater who is Teaching Biology at to young children through bat ecology.

www.wildlifeacoustics.com @wildlifeacoust

STEM  EDUCATION:The State of Play in Engineering Education.

James Brown of The STEM Ed Coalition and his guest Tom Perry, Director of Engineering Education at ASME, The American. Society of Mechanical Engineers .

Actually they're human. They just design mechanical things.

www.stemedcoalition.org

 

Presented by PITSCO EDUCATION

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ASCA's Dr Eric Sparks with an update for school counselors on this important subject k_12 Important for school boards and adminsitrators too.

My good friends at Dreambox Learning set me up with the one and only Tom VanderArk along with Tim Hudson on CREATING A STUDENT CENTERED MATH LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

 

www.dreambox.com @dreambox_learn @dochudsonmath @tvanderark

NATIONAL SUPERINTENDENT CERTIFICATION 

AASA  and The SUPES ACADEMY

I was hoping for a guest named 'Campbell" since my guests are all "supes". But even better, we have Superintendents Michael Lubelfeld of Deerfield IL, Katrise Perera of Isle of Wight Schools, VA and Martin Ringstaff of Cleveland TN schools talk about this new initiative from AASA 

www.aasa.org  @aasahq

 

Presented by  KNOWLEDGE WORKS

www.knowledgeworks.org  @world oflearning

WHAT'S GOING ON IN PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. IS SCHOOL CHOICE THE ANSWER ?

Starlee Coleman formerly of The National Public Charter Schools Association  has set me up with Bob Bowdon who is an expert on school choice  and runs "Choice Media' and we are going to discuss the stae of Philly and I don't mean Pennsylvania. I'm a K-12 grad of Philly Public Schools and we'll get some good insights from Bob.

Thanks Starlee!?

NSTA presents SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE MIDDLE GRADES:WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO DO GOOD SCIENCE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. 

The authors of "Doing Good Science in Middle School: A Practical STEM Guide, Jackie Cleveland, Ole Jorgenson, Vicki Massey and Rick Vanosdall are our guests to discuss their new book

 

Presented by CAROLINA BIOLOGICAL

www.carolina.com  @carolinabio

MENTORING ONLINE LEARNERS. ITS IMPACT ON STUDENT LEARNING. As you know I love Online Learning and our guests Rebecca Stimson and Dr Joe Friedhoff are experts  from The Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute and they will be joined by Professor Jered Borup of George Mason University. Sending out a big thanks Kathryn Kennedy for setting up the show.

 

www.mivu.org

 

Presented by DREAMBOX LEARNING

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