edWebcasts

This edWeb podcast is hosted by Classroom Champions and sponsored by ClassLink.
The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here.

Let’s be candid—our educators are feeling “March tired” already, well before the end of the school year. In this second year of personal and professional upheaval due to the effects of the pandemic, educator attrition rate is at an all-time high, threatening the infrastructure of our school system and the wellbeing of our students and school communities. Our educators are leaders in the community and often help set the positive tone about aiming high and staying positive. But how can one stay mentally motivated to persevere through the lows to finish the school year strong? 

Listen to this edWeb podcast to hear from Paralympic medalist Deja Young as she shares how she’s trained herself to embrace the athlete mindset to work through her personal and professional highs and lows throughout her track and field career. Deja has been quite candid in dealing with her own mental health challenges, and she discusses those practices and techniques she has embraced to help motivate herself and work towards her goals. Her journey parallels what many of our teachers are facing in today’s classrooms, so come hear Deja’s inspiring presentation in this new year. 

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

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

Classroom Champions
Classroom Champions partners athletes with schools with an SEL curriculum and mentorship experience.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by ABC-CLIO.
The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here.

Curiosity is the foundation of deep and meaningful learning—in fact, research has shown that curiosity is among the most powerful determinants of academic achievement. 

Unfortunately, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, studies of secondary classrooms showed that most students asked very few questions in class, if any. These pre-existing dynamics have only been exacerbated by our current challenges. Fully 88% of teachers responding to a recent EdWeek survey reported their students are less motivated to learn since the start of the pandemic. What can educators do to turn the tide, reignite curiosity in the classroom, and reconnect students to their intrinsic desire to learn? 

In this engaging edWeb podcast, four district leaders from around the country share lessons learned, best practices, and from-the-trenches wisdom about sparking and sustaining student curiosity in today’s schools. Listeners: 

• Learn to apply principles of design thinking to student learning experiences for deeper engagement
• Explore methods for infusing greater voice and choice into the content and structure of student work
• Reflect on the importance of culturally sustaining pedagogy and culturally relevant resources in fostering student curiosity
• Gain insight and inspiration from success stories of leaders driving the shift toward a districtwide culture of inquiry

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

ABC-CLIO
Providing reference, nonfiction, online curriculum, and PD to inspire life-long learning.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Scholastic Education Solutions.
The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here.

In this edWeb podcast, ​​Dr. Freddy Hiebert shares her research-based strategies for educators to help students make connections that will allow them to not only understand the text at hand, but also to build the capacity to understand more texts at a deeper level. Educators especially appreciate Dr. Hiebert’s tactical and thoughtful approach as she shares small, actionable changes that make a big, long-term impact. 

Listeners leave with an understanding of the following: 

• The science behind vocabulary and background knowledge and its impact on reading comprehension and content learning
• At what point of a child’s reading development it is best to introduce vocabulary and background knowledge—and how this overlaps with developing other critical reading skills such as word recognition
• How educators engage young children (Grades PreK-2) in the expansion of their vocabulary and knowledge base 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-5 teachers, school and district leaders, and education technology leaders.

Scholastic Education Solutions
We partner with districts and schools to inspire lifelong readers and learners.

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

Launched by Stevie Van Zandt and the Founders Board of Bono, Jackson Browne, Martin Scorsese, and Bruce Springsteen, TeachRock.org provides free, standards-aligned resources that use music to help K-12 students succeed in disciplines like science, math, social studies, language arts, and more.

This edWeb podcast provides an overview of the free TeachRock curriculum, highlighting resources and strategies for elementary school, middle school math, and high school social studies. The TeachRock curriculum embraces music integration as means to foster student engagement and buy-in, and a culturally supportive approach to education that enables all students to see themselves reflected in their studies. Two examples of newly released resources that are featured are:

• Segregation and Integration in Asbury Park, a three-part lesson collection that accompanies the film Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock & Roll. Students discover the impact the city of Asbury Park has had upon the history of American popular music, and explore the local conditions that led to the emergence of Stevie Van Zandt and Bruce Springsteen, and other artists and musicians.
• Math and the Music Industry, a five-part lesson collection for students to practice math skills within the context of the music industry. Utilizing important artists as case studies, students gain a valuable understanding of how fundamental math is to the industry’s functionality, as well as discovering the many components that comprise the music industry. Whether calculating touring costs, analyzing industry data, or determining fan engagement on social media, math is central to numerous aspects of the music industry.

Listeners hear how teachers have used the free TeachRock materials in their own classrooms, and learn more about all of the resources from the TeachRock team.

Educators receive an overview of music-integration strategies that work with a wide range of students. By the end of the session, viewers are able to:

• Apply music-integration strategies to their classrooms.
• Navigate the free TeachRock resources to support further music and arts integration.

This edWeb podcast is of interest to teachers, librarians, administrators, and educators at any level from elementary through high school.

TeachRock
An arts integration curriculum that uses the history of pop music and culture to help engage student

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Hāpara: Your Partner in Learning.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

How can Open Educational Resources (OER) foster educational equity? This edWeb podcast provides a vision for using OER to this end, explores the resurgence of using OER to improve teaching and learning, and reviews how to get started in making the transition to doing so. 

Listen to this edWeb podcast to learn about:

• How using OER fosters educational equity to help all learners succeed
• Why there is a resurgence of OER use
• The U.S. Department of Education’s recent #GoOpen initiative convening and how it is supporting states, districts and educators choosing to transition to using OER
• Practical resources to help you get started 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 educators as well as school and district leaders. The presentation is designed to inspire a vision for using OER as a means to educational equity and equip attendees with the knowledge to get started.

Hāpara: Your Partner in Learning
Providing a seamless teaching and learning experience for teachers, students and parents.

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

Every school district focuses on ensuring DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is integral to the life-changing education they provide their many learners. DEI is extremely crucial and a worthy component to any meaningful education in the United States. While one might first think “diversity” is universally understood, the interpretation of diversity is itself diverse. 

Is diversity an issue that is best addressed by race and culture? Or does diversity also encompass age, experience, and thought? How does school leadership manage the inevitable enculturation required to ensure success in diversity? This edWeb podcast focuses on how “diversity” is understood and interpreted in the K-12 school setting and how policy and practice incorporate that definition. Hear from three school leaders, representing distinct regions of the U.S., as they examine and explore the nuances and impacts of “diversity” and how it has impacted the practices, rules, policies, and laws in their states. 

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.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.
The presentation slide deck can be accessed here.

We find ourselves in a moment where the dialogue about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is happening across the nation. As we prepare for addressing these conversations in our classrooms, it is important to equip ourselves with a framework and strategies to help us feel prepared. 

Educators leave this edWeb podcast with an awareness of the culturally responsive pedagogy framework as well as strategies to create opportunities for deeper classroom conversations surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion. Listeners also gain access to digital resources as well as DEI lessons for the classroom. 

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

EVERFI
Tackling society's most challenging issues with education.

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

As school districts of every size work to boost student outcomes, teacher capacity, and accountability, the role of assessments and the value of professional learning communities are front and center. In this edWeb podcast, leaders from Lexington School District Two in West Columbia, South Carolina share their approach to grounding the work of their professional learning communities with assessment data. Dr. Dixon Brooks, Chief Instructional Officer, Dr. Rob Burggraaf, Director of Instruction, and Jennifer Wise, Coordinator of Mathematics Instruction, share their approach to answering the four essential questions of instruction:

• What do we expect students to learn? 
• How will we know they’ve learned it? 
• How will we respond when they don’t learn? 
• How will we respond when they already know it? 

They address their data-driven instructional journey and the outcomes they’ve achieved and share their plans for the balance of this school year and the one ahead. Listen to this session, and you’ll leave with impactful ideas and perspectives about managing, supporting, and leveraging your assessment investments to drive results. 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 school and district leaders, teachers, librarians, directors of curriculum and instruction, directors of assessment, directors of school improvement, Title I directors, and department chairs in math, ELA, science, and social studies. 

Mastery Manager
An Accessible, Web-based System Designed with the Teacher in Mind

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This edWeb podcast is an interview conducted by Larry Jacobs of Education Talk Radio featuring Lisa Schmucki, CEO and Founder, edWeb.net and Melissa Hodgson, Manager of Member Services, edWeb.net.

The pandemic impacted every level and aspect of education. edWeb experienced a steep growth in membership and engagement during the early days of the pandemic, proving that educators were searching for information that was needed to do their jobs during an unprecedented time. One positive effect that came out of the pandemic was the speed at which the education industry and experts pivoted to help teachers in the moment by sharing knowledge through edWeb’s free virtual professional learning platform.  By bringing the education industry, experts, and educators together, edWeb was able to provide that much needed knowledge to teachers and administrators.  

In this edWeb podcast, Larry Jacobs of Education Talk Radio and American Consortium for Equity in Education (ACE-Ed.org) interviews Lisa Schmucki, edWeb.net’s Founder and CEO and Melissa Hodgson, edWeb.net’s Manager of Member Services to explore how the pandemic impacted edWeb and the how the education industry swiftly pivoted to provide educators with the professional learning that they needed.  Listeners will hear how the pandemic changed professional learning, how professional learning will change going forward, and the timeliness of using a virtual professional learning platform.  

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

Education Talk Radio with Larry Jacobs
Larry Jacobs hosts conversations with innovative educators, authors and thought leaders in education

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by News Literacy Project.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

Today’s information landscape—complete with “fake news,” misinformation and conspiracy theories—has become increasingly difficult to navigate, particularly for students. How can you help students develop the news and media literacy skills they need to identify, analyze and understand credible sources of information? What are best practices in teaching news and media literacy? 

In this edWeb podcast, hear from four of the News Literacy Project’s news literacy ambassadors about the tips and techniques they use to teach news and media literacy. They describe how they engage their students in classroom discussions and activities that develop skills such as identifying credible information, seeking out reliable sources, and thinking critically. 

Listeners also learn about the News Literacy Project’s free educator resources for integrating news literacy concepts into the classroom, including the NewsLit Nation forum and educator resources, Checkology® virtual classroom, and the Sift newsletter. 

This edWeb podcast is held in conjunction with the third annual National News Literacy Week (NNLW), held January 24th to 28th, and presented by the News Literacy Project in partnership with The E.W. Scripps Company. NNLW raises awareness of news literacy as an essential life skill and provides educators, students and the public with easy-to-adopt tools and tips for becoming news literate. 

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

News Literacy Project
A nonpartisan national education nonprofit.

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