edWebcasts

This edWeb podcast is presented by CoSN and AASA and sponsored by ClassLink.
The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here.

The “one-size-fits-all” approach to teaching and learning was never a strategy that worked. As technology tools for learning continue to grow and evolve, school leaders need to know how best to leverage technology to meet the learning needs of each student. Whatever students’ disabilities or learning differences are, appropriate technology tools can help them overcome their learning hurdles.

In this edWeb podcast, two superintendents share the strategies their districts implement to assure that the teachers and staff have the knowledge and skills to effectively leverage the tools that technology can provide so that each student can be a successful learner. Free online resources created to assist school leaders in ensuring accessibility for all learners will also be shared.

This edWeb podcast is of particular value to superintendents, K-12 school and district leaders, and aspiring school leaders.

ClassLink
ClassLink’s mission is to remove barriers between students and impactful education content.

AASA, The Superintendents Association
AASA advocates for equity for all students and develops and supports school system leaders.

CoSN
Visionary leaders empowering every learner to achieve their unique potential in a changing world.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Common Sense Education.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

How can we use AI ethically and purposefully? Join Common Sense Education’s Tali Horowitz, Director of East Coast Education, and Sue Thotz, Director of Education Outreach, as they discuss how a foundation of digital citizenship can be applied to prompt engineering. To get the most out of our AI tools, we need to know how to ask the right questions.

In this edWeb podcast, you learn how to apply core digital citizenship concepts of privacy, media literacy, creators’ rights, and mitigating bias for responsible results. Come ready to share your ideas around ethical prompts and leave with concrete suggestions for prompt engineering for you as an educator, in combination with AI literacy lessons that you can use with your students to talk about some of the key challenges of our AI world.

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 teachers, librarians, and school leaders.

Common Sense Education
Dedicated to helping all kids thrive in a world of media and technology.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by The Modern Classrooms Project.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

In this edWeb podcast, the presenters explore innovative approaches to elementary education. Immerse yourself in the transformative realm of blended, self-paced, and mastery-based learning, tailored specifically for young minds. Discover innovative strategies that cater to diverse learning styles, nurturing a love for learning from an early age.

This session delves into creating engaging environments that empower elementary students, fostering independence and a deep understanding of subjects. Explore the future of elementary education as we discuss and envision student-centered practices that lay the foundation for a lifetime of curiosity and academic success.

This edWeb podcast is of interest to teachers and school and district leaders of the second through fourth grades.

The Modern Classrooms Project
Meet every student's needs with classroom-tested techniques that help every student truly learn.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Solution Tree.
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In this edWeb podcast, listeners learn practical ways to involve multiple stakeholders in developing a productive and celebratory reading culture in schools and classrooms. The session begins with an overview of why it is important for educators to embrace the opportunities that establish an authentic reading culture and routine. It includes references and connections to the relationship between reading volume and achievement and future-ready skills. Strategies and practices are shared to invite students to sustain engagement in reading, participate in a reading community, and be reflective about their own reading identities, habits, and behaviors.

This edWeb podcast emphasizes designing relevant and joyful reading experiences that position students to be leaders of their own learning. Authentic examples from classrooms and schools are shown throughout to contextualize the ideas that are shared. Listeners leave with resources to bring back to their schools and classrooms to start implementing their learning right away. Learning outcomes include:

• Learn practical ways to cultivate a culture of reading in schools and classrooms
• Gain plans for how various stakeholders (students, teachers, administrators, caregivers, and community members) can contribute to a child’s reading life
• Reflect on how celebrating reading as a social experience can build community and joy in schools and classrooms

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 teachers and instructional coaches.

Solution Tree
Providing research-based, results-driven services that improve learning outcomes for students.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Exemplars.
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Featuring special guests Pam Harris and Kim Montague.

At the heart of our discussion lies a powerful concept: Math is Figure-out-able™.

Join us as we explore how mathematical strategies and models guide students to ambitious problem solving, the construction of mathematical relationships, and the cultivation of flexibility. Together, we identify ways for educators to leverage the brilliance inherent in our students’ knowledge, supporting the growth of confident mathematicians. Additionally, we explore productive ways for you to utilize problem strings and performance tasks, to foster flexible thinking and empower your mathematicians.

During this edWeb podcast, we:

• Unpack “math is figure-out-able”
• Experience a problem string, a purposefully designed sequence of related problems that helps students mentally construct numerical relationships and nudges them toward a major, efficient strategy
• Examine student thinking from an Exemplars performance task that intentionally builds upon our problem string
• Engage with a teacher lens to understand what the students know and are able to do
• Build a next-step teacher action problem string as our learning moves forward
• Discuss the relationship between fact fluency, math relationships, and mathematical understanding

Teachers and school and district leaders of all grade levels are encouraged to listen to this engaging edWeb podcast.

Exemplars
Our performance material promotes reasoning, communication, and higher-order thinking.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Solution Tree.
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In this edWeb podcast, you hear from Bo Ryan, Author of The Brilliance in the Building and Principal of Ana Grace Academy of the Arts 6-8 (CT). Bo shows how your urban school can make an impact on student achievement and change the trajectory of student lives using the time available during the day, the resources in the book, and the brilliance in the building—your amazing staff!

Written with the needs of urban educators in mind, this essential guide shares specific action steps and ready-to-use tools for supporting successful Professional Learning Communities at Work®. All of the reproducibles were created based on 25 years of extensive research and actual use in schools. Leaders and staff in urban schools cannot do this work in isolation; they must work together to accomplish their goals, therefore, the work in this book is grounded in the PLC at Work principles. Listen to this session to learn how to create:

• A culture of care in your school environment
• A culture of collaboration in your building with three categories: maximizing time, ensuring the success of teams, and coaching the teams
• Shared knowledge of the learning block process focused on creating a guaranteed and viable curriculum; creating, administering, and scoring common formative assessments; and meeting in data teams while bringing the team meeting to the classroom
• A culture of continuous learning in your school to provide staff with job-embedded, cost-effective professional development

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 teachers and school leaders.

Solution Tree
Providing research-based, results-driven services that improve learning outcomes for students.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Writable.
The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here.

Only 7% of school systems are providing guidance on AI, yet teachers, parents, and students have all emphasized the critical need for AI policy and implementation. Building and implementing a district AI policy takes considerable planning, but it doesn’t have to be daunting. In this edWeb podcast, listeners gain valuable insights from experienced district leaders and state-level consultants who have been at the forefront of shaping AI policy. You learn how to garner your stakeholders’ support, plan a multifaceted but straightforward policy, and begin the implementation process for the future of teacher and student learning.

The panelists review the shift towards generative AI, unpack federal- and state-level initiatives, and provide sample policies and practices from trusted organizations and first-mover districts. Jerry Almendarez and Dr. Kecia Ray explain the process for gaining stakeholder support and implementing AI plans in alignment with well-known guidelines. Listeners leave equipped with examples of initiatives and processes to bring back to district discussions and resources mentioned in the presentation.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from your peers in the ever-evolving landscape of AI in education! This edWeb podcast is of interest to school and district leaders, education technology leaders, teachers, and librarians of all grade levels.

Writable
Writable helps students become more purposeful, proficient writers.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Digital Promise.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

Durable skills for the 21st century are on the minds of many educators and district leaders. These skills can include developing critical thinking, curiosity, creativity, and collaboration—skills a growing number of employers seek in new employees based on the rapidly evolving needs of the Digital Revolution. Unfortunately, these skills are not made available to far too many students. Preparing to introduce these skills in schools redefines student success and elevates new education goals. These can be found in the Portrait of a Graduate framework used by many districts nationwide.

In this edWeb podcast, we hear the history of Portrait of a Graduate and be provided with examples of how schools have adopted this framework and addressed these skills so that all students can meet success. We also hear about the Learner Variability Project’s new learner model, Portrait of a Learner, to understand the importance of developing durable skills through a whole child lens, the research that supports them, and strategies to bring them to life in classrooms. Listeners learn about:

• Some of the key factors of learning that comprise the Portrait of a Learner, including critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, civic mindedness, and curiosity
• How to create a “greenlight culture” in schools in order to understand and address development of these durable skills
• The importance of student ownership
• Specific experiences of a teacher engaged in Portrait of a Learner work in her classroom

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 teachers and school and district leaders.

Digital Promise
Digital Promise's mission is to accelerate innovation in education to improve opportunities to learn

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by CFR Education.
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Our world is interconnected. In a matter of seconds, news from across the globe can make its way to your students and into your classroom. Educators continue to go beyond the call of duty and try to supply students with the knowledge, skills, and perspective to understand our constantly changing world. How can you prepare to help students understand the news when a major world event makes its way to your classroom?

Join the experts at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Education for a conversation with an award-winning high school teacher, an expert on global affairs, and the teaching and learning director from this leading foreign policy think tank to learn best practices for teaching current events. In this edWeb podcast, you leave with:

• Tips and tricks for how to incorporate current events into your class
• Insight on global trends to watch and how they connect to your teaching
• Examples of what worked (and didn’t work) in the classroom
• FREE, non-partisan resources and ready-to-use lesson plans that offer a foundational understanding of world events

This edWeb podcast helps educators make complex global affairs and foreign policy issues accessible for middle school, high school, and higher education students.

CFR Education
Introducing students to the fundamentals of foreign policy and international relations

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by American College of Education.
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The educator talent pipelines that previously met school district needs are no longer sufficient. Teacher shortages don’t hinge on one particular issue—they’re a conglomeration of a wide range of shortages in specific subjects, regions, and specialties. As a result, school districts are looking for innovative solutions to ensure that they have access to high-quality educators. School districts need solutions that not only help get more qualified educators entering the profession but also support teacher retention and promotion into leadership roles within a district.

Proven partnerships and models offer lessons for today’s teacher shortage. While different in their approach, these programs all solve the same core problems: They offer a positive return on investment for teachers who participate, they cultivate new populations for inclusion in the teaching population, they create accessible opportunities for teacher advancement, and they balance rigor and time to completion.

Listen to this edWeb podcast as the presenters dive into the challenges many K-12 districts are facing today, and what is being done to fix the problem. Listeners have access to a newly published whitepaper that addresses the problem and provides insight into potential solutions.

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 school and district leaders.

American College of Education
100% online, accredited, low-cost programs you can finish quickly to advance your career.

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