edWebcasts

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

School closures during the pandemic exacerbated challenges facing more than 1.3 million students who experience housing insecurity and rely on schools for meals, internet access, and social services. In response, many schools and communities found innovative ways to bring students everything from meals to WiFi.

In this recorded session, you heard from panelists who came from districts where these innovations have paved the way for districtwide initiatives using repurposed buses to deliver meals and serve as mobile hubs for internet access and remote learning. These mobile learning recovery centers provide a safe, secure place for students without homes to receive tutoring and homework help, basic healthcare services, and healthy meals. Listen for a discussion with leaders from The School District of Osceola County in Florida and Baltimore County Public Schools in Maryland about how COVID-era innovations have helped them reimagine their approaches to serving hard-to-reach students.

This recorded edLeader Panel podcast is of interest to K-12 school and district leaders and education technology leaders.

Varsity Tutors for Schools
Deliver personalized live learning to every student with our customizable, all-in-one platform.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Mindsets Learning.
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The many demands of the K-12 school leader include serving as a thought leader. Moving the hearts and minds of their school communities through inspiration and discovery remains elusive for many due to the political realities which surround their work.

For the current school administrator, what are the limitations and expectations of providing authentic thought leadership? What does thought leadership look like given the multiple pressures and ever-expanding duties on school leaders’ to-do lists? Is there room in the day for thought leadership after all the other boxes are checked? And, if we accept the notion that thought leadership matters, how are we training our leaders to undertake this responsibility? This session promises a lively and provocative conversation surrounding how and if school administrators can serve as thought leaders.

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

This edWeb podcast is part one in a three-part series on leadership. Register for part 2, Mindsets Leadership Series: Upskilling Teachers for Today and Tomorrow. Stay tuned for details on part three (March 29th).

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 ParentPowered, creator of Ready4K.
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Great family engagement practices not only make everyone’s job easier, but they’re also doable for the entire team. But like any new practice, it can be hard to get into the groove. As an education leader, you want to help your team to build those healthy family engagement habits that improve outcomes for students.

In this edWeb podcast, we look at ways to build family engagement within your existing structures and classroom daily routines so that high-quality family engagement becomes a HABIT for everyone involved! We cover:

• Why family engagement has taken center stage in building healthy schools
• Five habits that foster great family engagement
• Strategies for building your new family engagement habits
• Micro-moments that are perfect for practicing family engagement habits

This edWeb podcast is of interest to PreK-8 school and district leaders and those involved with parent and community involvement, family engagement, and school improvement.

ParentPowered
Creating easy-to-use tools for great parenting to improve the lives of all children

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Center on Inclusive Technology & Education Systems.
The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here.

Students with disabilities confront many systemic barriers that prevent them from complete independence and participation in the general education curriculum. In this edWeb podcast, you discover a framework of evidence-based practices, developed by the Center on Inclusive Technology & Education Systems (CITES), which have been co-developed by a cohort of diverse school districts across the country. 

This free framework provides a guide for effective collaboration across EdTech and special education empowering school districts to create and sustain inclusive technology systems to serve all students. Specific action steps for district leaders with practices focusing on leadership, teaching, learning, assessment, technology infrastructure, and family engagement are provided. You learn from EdTech and Assistive Technology (AT) district leaders from Jenks Public Schools in Jenks, Oklahoma, who share successes and hurdles. 

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

CITES
Empower school districts to create and sustain inclusive technology systems that serve all students.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Panorama Education.
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Faced with alarming data from the recent NAEP report, many districts are looking for the best and most effective path to learning recovery. With Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), collecting and examining the right data will help your teams focus on areas of urgency first. Hear from school leaders who are making finely tuned changes to their MTSS in order to accelerate learning recovery for their students.

In this edWeb podcast, we explore moving from alarm to action through:

• Positively impacting the ABCs through social-emotional learning interventions
• Collecting data that can assess student social-emotional learning status in your district
• Interpreting data to inform action on the most urgent issues your district is facing

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

Panorama Education
Helping schools and districts transform their approach to education, so that every student thrives.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Innovamat.
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The best way to bring competency-based and meaningful learning into the elementary math classroom is to create a problem-solving environment. What traits define a good math problem? How can we foster rich class discussions? What manipulatives should we use? How can we manage differentiated instruction within the same problem? In this edWebpodcast, we discuss 10 practices to foster a problem-solving classroom environment that develops meaningful math understanding and explore them through different examples of rich math activities. Listeners:

• Have the chance to face math activities as students
• Listen to all the learning opportunities beneath the activities
• Expand their understanding of best practices for learning math through discovery
• Learn ideas on how to help students develop meaningful math skills while learning the curricular content

This edWeb podcast is of interest to elementary teachers and school and district leaders.

Innovamat
The k-8 math curriculum you will love: teacher-tested, standards aligned and research based.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Reading Horizons.
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Listen to this edWeb podcast for a robust look at the Science of Reading in action. Our distinguished panel includes district curriculum directors, curriculum developers, and panel leader Stacy Hurst, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at Southern Utah University and Chief Academic Advisor at Reading Horizons. 

From the implementation of reading science practices in early elementary education to evolving teacher training and professional development approaches, this edLeader Panel helps site and district-level leaders gain valuable perspectives. How and when do you transform early literacy instruction and teacher practice? Can we actually achieve reading proficiency for students by the end of third grade? What kinds of training, resources, and implementation strategies will schools and districts need for success? The session also explores the role of technology-embedded instructional methods for both students and teachers. If you’re curious about what’s new and what’s next in reading science and how to evaluate programs, products, and professional learning, this session gives you insights, affirmation, and practical steps to take now. 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to teachers, librarians, school and district leaders, education technology leaders, and curriculum leaders of all grade levels.

Reading Horizons
We offer a reading program that can help all students reach proficiency by the end of third grade.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Ripple Effects.
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Listen to renowned school culture expert Phil Boyte and Fresno Unified School District Principal Abraham Olivares share the strategies and tools they use to engage and connect with students and adults to improve academic, behavioral, and mental health outcomes. In this edWeb podcast, listeners  learn:

• How to create connections with students so they feel like they belong and want to come to your school—even when coming from multiple feeder schools
• Fort Miller Middle School’s secret to achieving a 95% non-recurring suspension rate
• A cost-effective “one-stop-shop” digital tool for all MTSS tiers that improves behavior AND connection to school
• What “people first, professionals second” means and practical applications to enhance staff and student relationships

This edWeb podcast is of interest to PreK-12 school and district leaders, teachers, school counselors and social workers, federal program coordinators, and those involved in supporting students’ and families’ mental health.

Ripple Effects
Proven effective SEL & Mental Health Digital Programs for preK-12 students and staff

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Amplify.
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¡La ciencia de la lectura es para todos! The Science of Reading is for everyone, but how can we best support our emergent bilinguals? Listen to learn why celebrating bilingualism and biliteracy as assets and cognitive strengths in assessment and instruction can propel emergent bilinguals to reading success in English and Spanish. 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to teachers, librarians, and school and district leaders of the elementary school grades.

Amplify
Helping teachers celebrate and develop student thinking.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Digital Promise.
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Fostering student agency is a critical step for student success in and out of the classroom, but what can teachers do, and what strategies can they employ, to pave the way for students to develop agency? What indicators influence teachers that may help or thwart designing classrooms to increase opportunities for students to develop agency, especially learners who have historically and systematically been excluded? 

In this edWeb podcast, we hear from the author of Understanding Your Instructional Power: Curriculum and Language Decisions to Support Each Student, who explains her Power Principle, which guides teachers as they “unpack how they understand and use the power associated with their authority and responsibility as an educator.” 

We also explore the Learner Variability Project’s Guide for Culturally Responsive Practice with the guide’s lead author. The purpose of the guide is to provide educators with questions and protocols to apply culturally responsive instructional practices as they address students’ learner variability in a holistic way—leading to student agency. Listen to this session to:

• Understand the role teachers play in developing student agency, along with strategies to encourage student engagement
• Develop knowledge of a framework and set of strategies to engage students in developing their agency
• Explore the importance of a culturally responsive practice for developing student agency
• Take back to the classroom practical and easy-to-use strategies to develop a practice that develops and nurtures student agency

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 teachers, librarians, 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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