edWebcasts

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Penda Learning, A Learning 2020 Company.
The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here.

Teacher shortages and retention, student engagement, closing gaps in learning, and supporting all learners are top of mind for district and school leaders. When it comes to science instruction, these challenges are often amplified by a lack of qualified science teachers and pressure to focus instructional time on math and reading.

Listen to this edWeb podcast to hear from two Florida district leaders about how their science programs support teachers, encourage science learning in and out of the classroom, and drive significant growth in science achievement. Listen to the lively discussion to learn:

• How Flagler Schools and Clay County District Schools (FL) are addressing common challenges that districts face with science teaching and learning
• How these districts are incorporating gamification into science assessment and instruction
• How the mechanics and principles of gaming paired with other learning principles like the 5E Model and Webb’s DOK can deepen learning

Don’t miss this opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look into how other districts are providing equitable, high-quality science instruction. This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 school and district leaders, particularly science coordinators, science curriculum directors, and others involved with science.

Penda Learning
Motivate and empower students to spend more time practicing and mastering science standards

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Move This World.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

As the field of social-emotional learning (SEL) continues to evolve and grow, listen to this edWeb podcast where presenters dive into what takes place behind the scenes of the learning process for students and adults. They explore the “why” and “how” behind SEL, uncovering its role in our brains’ development and what neuroscience can teach us about the value of this work. Listeners also gain a deeper understanding of what this looks like in practice, as the presenters uncover strong SEL practices that can be applied and implemented in daily routines. 

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

Move This World
Social emotional learning platform for schools and families

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

Through its annual Driving K-12 Innovation series, CoSN continues its commitment to sharing high-quality trend reports that support the use of emerging technologies in K-12 education. The 2023 Driving K-12 Innovation report identifies current hurdles schools may face when it comes to leveraging technology for innovation. Additionally, the report describes the latest trends and new technologies that can accelerate and enable the effective and impactful use of technology in K-12 schools.

Three superintendents who served on the international committee that researched and produced the CoSN 2023 Driving K-12 Innovation report are the featured guest panelists on this edWeb podcast. Each superintendent describes how the Hurdles, Accelerators, and Tech Enablers specified in the report manifest themselves in their school districts. The superintendents also share the strategies they have implemented to overcome the Hurdles as well as leverage the Accelerators and Tech Enablers that are included in the report in order to maximize technology innovations within their school districts. Listeners of this session learn how they can leverage the information included in the 2023 Driving K-12 Innovation report to lead and implement technology innovations within their own K-12 education settings.

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 University of Kansas School of Education and Human Sciences.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

The Science of Reading (SOR) is everywhere, and teachers are being told that they don’t know what it is. What is the SOR? You know more than you think. In this edWebinar, you learn what the SOR is and what it is not. You learn about a few key literacy concepts relevant to students across preschool to the secondary level so that you may begin reflecting on your current instructional practices. You also learn where to locate useful resources to support your instruction.

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

University of Kansas
Convenient online graduate programs designed to flex around your full-time work and life commitments

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

We know that every student learns differently—but the level of differentiation and personalization it can require to teach to each of their needs is impractical given the demands on most educators. While it can be overwhelming to ensure that we provide exactly what our learners need to be successful during and after they leave our classrooms, there are strategies we can employ that are manageable for educators and can best serve all students.

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

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 ENA by Zayo.
The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here.

Join ClassLink and ENA by Zayo for the launch of a new Cybersecurity Rubric designed to help K-12 practitioners self-assess their cybersecurity environments. Informed by NIST and other reputable standards and frameworks, this easy-to-use tool was created by a coalition of education-focused organizations dedicated to helping schools on their cybersecurity journeys.

Listen to this edWeb podcast to gain exclusive access to the rubric, training, and a waived exam fee to become a CCRE (Certified Cybersecurity Rubric Evaluator).

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 district leaders, education technology leaders, network administrators, and cybersecurity administrators.

ENA
We empower communities by bridging innovative technologies with exemplary customer care.​

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

Technology is an excellent resource for teachers with English learners at a variety of different levels. However, it can be difficult to find tools that can easily be tailored to support all students, especially newcomers.

Listen to this edWeb podcast featuring California educator, administrator, and newcomer advocate Efraín Tovar on boosting achievement with newcomers. Educators leave this session with practical instructional strategies for making lessons accessible for newcomer ELs.

This edWeb podcast is of interest to teachers, school and district leaders, and education technology leaders of the elementary through high school grades.

Listenwise
We harness the power of listening to advance literacy and learning in all students.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Mindsets Learning.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

The challenge of teacher retention continues to worsen in the U.S. in spite of this issue becoming the number-one concern of most school districts. As schools began to open up and return to brick and mortar, the American public’s initial euphoria and celebration of teachers gave way to hypercriticism and distrust of teacher judgement. Post-pandemic, large numbers of students have not returned to public school classrooms, and many remain in a home-school or non-traditional environment.

Recent research reveals that one of the main reasons teachers leave the classroom—in addition to increased hostility from parents and politicians, top-down mandates of non-educators, and lock-step curricular expectations—is the dwindling space for creativity. Teachers feel victimized, not empowered. What can be done to bring teachers back to the conversation determining leadership? Does a round table of ideas exist where their experience and expertise are both sought out and respected? When teachers leave the profession after a handful of years, what has changed to ensure that current teachers stay in our classrooms? Can we assign a value—of any kind—to empowering teachers in decision making and problem solving? Can we collaborate more and delegate less, so teachers are integral to the interpretation and execution of directives?

This edWeb podcast delivers a lively and provocative conversation where innovative ideas are celebrated and status-quo practices are challenged. It is of interest to K-12 school and district leaders as well as teachers.

This edWeb podcast is part three in a three-part series on leadership. View or listen to part one, Mindsets Leadership Series: The Hard Truth About Thought Leadership in Action, and view or listen to part two, Mindsets Leadership Series: Upskilling Teachers for Today and Tomorrow.

Mindsets Learning
Mindsets Learning re-engages students in math through inquiry based, real world challenges.

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

In this edWeb podcast, you hear from a group of researchers and practitioners who have dubbed themselves the “Reading Peaceniks” after meeting for two years and searching for ways to end the divisiveness of the reading wars. The goal of the Peaceniks is to bring together a broad spectrum across disciplines within literacy education to realize that there is more in common than there are differences. There are meaningful ways to present essential direct instruction that provide children with oral language development and the alphabetic coding that research has shown they need to develop into joyful readers and writers.

With the recent paper Print-to-Speech and Speech-to-Print: Mapping Early Literacy, published by Reading Rockets, the panelists, who are authors and contributing editors of the paper, have chosen to address essential components of instructional approaches at their earliest roots—PreK to Grade 1 or 2. In this paper, they found consensus with 35 renowned literacy thought leaders and researchers after much discussion and editing. It suggests “good practices” for early literacy that they hope will address that yearning for meaningfulness on both sides. Listen to this edWeb podcast to:

• Explore the viewpoints, priorities, and commonalities from the many literacy disciplines
• Discuss the importance of including encoding and decoding that leads to reading and writing
• Learn about actions you can take to promote harmony while spearheading a literacy revolution

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

Learning Ally
Unlocking Student Potential Through Improved Literacy

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by The Ethics Institute at Kent Place School.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

With the arrival of ChatGPT on our students’ laptops and in our classrooms, educators are grappling with the ever-increasing use of artificial intelligence in schools. Whether writing an essay or lab report, conducting research, working through a math problem, or building a presentation, students now have access to learning aids that challenge the very definitions of “learning,” “original work,” and “plagiarism.” What boundaries do we set? Does “zero tolerance” toward AI’s use by students make sense if we are preparing them for the future world that they will live in?

Learning is not the only place where AI is found in school settings. How are we, the adults, modeling the usage of AI to our students? Facial recognition software and monitoring systems that track student internet usage are just two examples of interventions done in the name of “school safety.” There are three clear learning objectives in this edWeb podcast:

• A technology specialist helps you to understand the use, purpose, and indications for artificial intelligence tools in education
• An ethicist enables you to delineate the ethical considerations and implications for the use of AI
• A head of school explains how an ethical decision-making process can enable you to develop an actual school policy

This session helps build your awareness of the ethical issues raised by AI use in schools and empowers you to ask questions in order to make well-informed and ethical policies for the adults and students in your school communities.

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

The Ethics Institute at Kent Place
Promoting the process and practice of ethical decision-making in primary and secondary schools.

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