edWebcasts

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Common Sense Education.
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Bringing play into the school day isn’t just important for young learners but is also beneficial to older students. Play brings out creativity, facilitates the exploration of interests, and engages students in activities of their choice without academic pressures. “NavTime” is a structured activity time that provides students with the ability to play, have fun in a mentored space, and explore their individual interests while building relationships. 

In this edWeb podcast, you learn how your school can create this opportunity for students (and teachers) to bring joy into their day. Dr. Derek Fialkiewicz, Principal, and Heidi Carr, Teacher, both from Clark County School District in Nevada, share:

• Why they implemented NavTime at their middle school
• Ways you can and/or your school can implement NavTime
• The benefits to all stakeholders

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 teachers, librarians, school and district leaders, and education technology 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 Achieve3000.
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Listen to Star Connor, Region Superintendent of Transformation Schools in Hillsborough County Public Schools (FL), in this engaging edWeb podcast about how she has helped more than 60% of the lowest-performing schools in her district move up at least one letter grade on Florida’s school rating scale over the course of a single school year. 

With 17 years of experience as an educator, principal, and leader, Star has a powerful understanding of how to engage all members of the school community in helping students to succeed. Listeners leave with an understanding of how the Lexile® Framework for Reading can inform a comprehensive and effective strategy for setting relevant goals, monitoring progress, and celebrating student success. 

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

Achieve3000
Together, unlocking potential and accelerating learning for every student

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by ENA.
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Today’s school districts are facing ongoing cybersecurity risks that require teams to identify, analyze, and assess their vulnerabilities. Listen to Dr. Tom Ryan, recently retired CIO and Strategy Officer of Santa Fe Public Schools, and Lenny Schad, Chief Information & Innovation Officer for District Administration, as they discuss best practices school districts are implementing to strengthen their K-12 cybersecurity posture. They are joined by security industry experts from SentinelOne, Avertium, CNA Finance, and ENA to discuss critical topics such as risk management, endpoint protection, cybersecurity insurance, and the evolving security needs of K-12 districts. 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to district leaders, education technology leaders, and chief technology officers at all grade levels.

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

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Mackin Educational Resources.
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It’s no secret that today’s students need to have skills that extend far beyond what is taught in a textbook. Digital-age skills include creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and so much more. But how do we teach these? And when? 

In this edWeb podcast, Dr. L. Robert Furman takes us on a journey to uncover what the modern learner needs and supplies us with an 18-week “Future-Ready Challenge” to help systematically transform our classrooms into the digital-age environments they so desperately need. For educators and school leaders interested in improving student outcomes, accept the challenge. 

This edWeb podcast is part of our Emerging Tech series on The Portrait of a Modern Learner. During the course of this year, we’ll be presenting a series of edWebinars that address the traits and skills required for today’s students to be successful both now and in life beyond school. We examine various facets of school life at all levels, leaving participants with myriad resources and immediately applicable action steps to make a student-centered modern classroom a reality. 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to all educators from the elementary through secondary levels.

Mackin Educational Resources
Providing cutting-edge educational materials, one-source ordering, and unequaled services worldwide.

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This edWeb podcast is hosted by Digital Promise and sponsored by Ascendium Education Group.
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Can micro-credentials be used to create new pathways to social mobility for rural, urban, and suburban learners who are impacted by poverty, particularly for Black, Latino, and Indigenous people? Digital Promise joins educational leaders from Tennessee State University–the largest HBCU in the state–to highlight research on the use of micro-credentials in rural postsecondary institutions. The conversation focuses on career pathways in early childhood education. Listeners hear directly from rural postsecondary leaders and learners to understand how they are:

• Using micro-credentials for affordable, flexible, and meaningful skill development that leads to better opportunities and higher wages
• Increasing efforts to prioritize social mobility for poverty-impacted communities
• Developing educator-industry partnerships to promote sustainable career pathways

This edWeb podcast is intended for PreK-12 educators and school and district leaders, adult education and career service providers, higher education institutions, employers, and community leaders interested in leveraging micro-credentials to create real-time pathways toward social mobility for people in rural communities. 

Ascendium Education Group
We provide tools and services that drive postsecondary educational and career success.

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 Mindsets Learning.
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Student engagement is fundamental to learning. Ask any K-12 school administrator in the United States which subgroups show the most modest academic gains, and their answer is remarkably consistent: special populations, particularly, English learners (ELs) and ESE learners/students with special needs. Despite significant financial investment made by U.S. school districts, “moving the needle” for these learners remains stubbornly elusive. Yet great attention is paid by state legislatures to seek, discover and implement successful strategies for these worthy learners. 

Which strategies meaningfully engage EL students and bridge content and language? What approaches to learning bring relevance and cultural connection to ELs? Given the variety of learning disabilities and processing challenges, how do schools position the most appropriate strategies and support to our ESE learners and students with special needs and their teachers? Listen to this edWeb podcast with school leaders from diverse regions of the U.S. as they share candid and concrete strategies of engagement with all participants. 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to school, district, and education technology leaders of the middle and high school levels.

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 EVERFI.
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Listen to our conversation with Paris Woods, Ed.M., education leader, non-profit founder, and author of The Black Girl’s Guide to Financial Freedom. Paris spent years working in education and wanted to find a way to build wealth without changing careers or taking the traditional real estate or business routes. This book and corresponding conversation are the result of years of research and practice that helped her find a simpler path. Through real-life stories coupled with clear and actionable advice, you’ll walk away with ideas regarding: 

• Building generational wealth
• Avoiding common financial traps
• Achieving financial independence
• Incorporating best practices into your classroom

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

EVERFI
Tackling society's most challenging issues with education.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by EveryDay Labs.
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The needs of students and families are greater than ever before. Significant gaps in learning from the pandemic have been well documented across communities, districts, and states. 

Despite schools and districts employing a host of programs and initiatives to meet this range of student needs–from academics, to social-emotional learning, to attendance, to family engagement–these efforts are often uncoordinated and viewed as independent from one another. 

Listen to this edWeb podcast with distinguished experts who explore and provide recommendations on how attendance, academics, social-emotional learning, and family-engagement initiatives should be understood as a holistic system. Panelists highlight the strong relationships between social and emotional learning and student well-being with positive attendance patterns and discuss how these factors set the necessary foundation for academic engagement and achievement. They provide insights on how proactive and multimodal family engagement underpins the success of any district effort and share best practices for building meaningful connections with families. 

Listeners are guided on how to consider the strengths and challenges of their current school and district programs, how to build from strengths to align efforts, and how these programs directly impact literacy, mathematical fluency, and overall academic achievement in an environment that supports overall student development for lifelong success. 

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

EveryDay Labs
Absenteeism is complex. We can help.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by ClassLink, co-hosted by CoSN, AASA, and edWeb.net.
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Over the past two years, K–12 education institutions have increasingly looked to digital content and e-learning technologies to meet their ever-evolving education needs and goals. When effectively implemented, technology-based products, services, and resources can have a very positive impact on education as well as improve efficiency and outcomes in teaching, learning, and classroom and school management. And yet, as reliance on technology tools for learning and school operations grows and users become more sophisticated in implementing technology tools, gaps in the integration and interfaces among different applications can still pose problems and challenges. 

In this edWeb podcast, school leaders share successful policies, strategies, and training solutions to help districts assure the interoperability of their academic and operational systems. 

This edWeb podcast is of high value to superintendents, preK-12 school and district leaders, aspiring school leaders, chief technology officers, and other information technology education leaders.

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

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

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

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by InnovateK12.
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School districts nationwide have both the challenge and the opportunity to decide on how they want to constructively reengage with their community stakeholders, while moving away from the vitriol and divisiveness—for the sake of their students and their districts—to conjure and co-design a better future for both. Established research shows that crowd-based innovation, also known as crowdsourcing, can play a key role in helping organizations and communities—including school districts—support and cultivate creative, constructive, and results-driven engagement with their stakeholders. 

In this edWeb podcast, listeners learn how the science of effective community engagement and inclusion can lead to the cultivation of more synthesized, agile, resilient school communities through the elevation and purposeful synthesis of stakeholder voice. Critical byproducts of the process include trust, transparency, and empowerment. Research-supported best practices in crowd-based innovation have led to uncommonly creative solutions and innovation, documented outcomes that occur when stakeholders—some of which have been disenfranchised and unengaged previously—are provided the opportunity to participate meaningfully and be heard in a structured way with parameters. 

Crowd-based innovation is being used in schools and communities across the country, via a variety of compelling use cases, including strategic planning, mental and emotional health, student initiatives, COVID-19 recovery and planning, and deployment of ESSER funding. 

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

InnovateK12
Community-Based Innovation: Helping school leaders maximize controlled engagement with stakeholders.

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