edWebcasts

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Achieve3000.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

According to the Brookings Institution, the number of English learners (ELs) in U.S. public schools has grown by roughly 60 percent over the last decade. While the level of diversity they have brought us holds plenty of potential value for all students, we are not yet able to capitalize on that, as many English learners are not enrolled in schools with teachers who have been given the sufficient preparation and training to teach them. 

Listen to Dr. John Nelson, former Assistant Superintendent of the Chula Vista Elementary School District (CVESD) in Southern California, where more than a third of the district’s 30,000 K-6 students are classified as English learners, for an engaging edWeb podcast about how to help all educators support multilingual students. 

School and district leaders learn how to improve outcomes by:

• Supporting collaborative academic planning efforts across subject areas
• Providing ongoing professional development with an EL emphasis
• Embedding coaching around understanding the language development needs of students learning English as a new language

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

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

From the looks of it, too much has already been said about teacher survival, as if that was our goal—to survive classroom teaching while following the ever-growing list of mandates and budgeting for essentials like Starbucks and dry erase markers. “Oh, no thanks, I’m going to pass on the thriving thing, prefer merely surviving here,” says no honest person. How do we transition from surviving to thriving—and stay there—in education? The answer might be in doing something really scary like becoming a leader. But, is it really scary? Not if you decide to do what matters to you. 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to elementary through high school teachers, as well as school and district leaders.

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This edWEb podcast is sponsored by Educator Impact.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

With student well-being top of mind for educators and administrators (particularly in light of the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic), many are looking for solutions to address increasing mental health challenges—the so-called “second pandemic”—in our classrooms. But addressing these challenges requires more than a single solution; it takes the whole school to support the whole learner. 

This edWeb podcast explores the challenges schools face in supporting student well-being along with strategies and tools for supporting student social-emotional development through whole-school well-being efforts:

• Creating a culture based on a common language around well-being
• Using regular, frequent data to inform real-time interventions and support
• Amplifying student and staff voice
• Monitoring the progress of SEL curricula, training, and initiatives 

Learn what it takes to transform your school through a focus on student well-being from experts at Turnaround for Children and from schools across the country. 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to teachers and administrators in K-12 settings.

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fast becoming a mainstay in industries including criminal justice, healthcare, and education. While AI has had tremendous impacts in many ways, it has also had unintended consequences that have disproportionately impacted marginalized populations, including students of color, those living in poverty, and those with learning disabilities. What do educators need to know about AI to leverage its potential and make sure it works effectively and without bias for unserved, underrepresented students?

This edWeb podcast first defines what AI is and then describes educational equity issues vulnerable to amplification by AI systems. For example, what do teachers need to know about how EdTech product developers need to identify, validate, and mitigate for bias so their products champion the needs of our most marginalized learners? 

In this edWeb podcast, we:

• Define AI, so we are all speaking the same language
• Learn to identify the ways in which existing equity issues in education can be amplified by the EdTech products we use
• Dive into best practices for mitigating AI bias by focusing on case studies
• Unveil new Digital Promise product certification for prioritizing racial equity in AI
• Discuss how we might identify new opportunities in AI that champion the needs of our most marginalized learners 

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

Optional pre-reading for this edWeb podcast: What Do EdTech and AI Have to Do with Racial Bias?

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

In this edWeb podcast, we welcome Jellisa Westney, Team Canada athlete and educator, and Kieran Block, the first Black sledge hockey player in Canada and now an educator, whose passions both revolve around supporting students’ mental health. They share strategies for creating safe spaces for learning. Jellisa discusses the role of grit and poverty, exasperated by the pandemic, and the implications for disadvantaged youth. Kieran speaks to developing a foundational understanding of the mental health implications and possible interventions for our youth. Both draw from personal experiences they had as children and as professional athletes, and how they share these lessons in their classrooms on a daily basis. 

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

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

In this edWeb podcast, Pam Allyn, renowned author and social impact innovator, and Malcolm Mitchell, Super Bowl superstar, reading hero, and author of bestselling children’s books, bring us together in these changing times to talk about what anchors us, gives us wings, and makes all possible—the role that books, stories, and literacy itself play in our lives and the lives of all children. 

They talk about what it really means to help every child and teen (it is always possible at any age, as Malcolm will show us) engage in the process of becoming a super reader and how fatherhood, motherhood, teaching and leading can illuminate the deepest of bonds between parent, school, child, and teacher. All this matters now more than ever before. 

Join us for an hour of inspiration, wisdom, and practical strategies for building lives of literacy for every child and teen at home and at school. This edWeb podcast is of interest to teachers, librarians, school and district leaders, and education technology leaders of all grade levels. 

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

Earlier this year, the George Lucas Educational Foundation released four new studies highlighting how project-based learning (PBL) helps accelerate student learning—across age groups, multiple disciplines, and different socio-economic statuses.

Whether a newbie or PBL master, with this year’s emphasis on unfinished learning it may be time to focus on developing your PBL acumen. Listen to this edWeb podcast to gain insights from education leaders as they share:

• Strategies to develop and implement in your classroom
• Nuts and bolts for how to start or progress in your PBL journey
• How to implement individual and whole-school PBL programs
• The gains—academic, social, and emotional—they’ve seen since implementing PBL
• Gateways and entry points to authentic PBL experiences

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

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

This edWeb podcast helps educators navigate the world of news and media by engaging in strong relationships with students and providing them with reliable skills and habits. 

K.C. Boyd is a Washington, D.C. librarian and News Literacy Project ambassador preparing students with essential skills in the midst of Black Lives Matter, the January 6th insurrection, and vaccine misinformation. K.C. shares how she teaches students the importance of watching local and national news, and how to identify misinformation in their news feeds by using the following teaching strategies: 

• Active teacher listening: Teachers can better understand the student experience and moderate tough conversations
• Finding student-friendly news sources: Identify trusted resources with journalistic integrity, but also meet students where they’re at on social media
• Engaging in civics: Highlight ways for students to be informed about their world, understand their options, and take a stand for what they believe in

K.C. demonstrates activities and share takeaway resources that listeners to replicate her strategies with their own students. 

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

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Norton Books in Education.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

How can schools bring an equity lens to their trauma-informed education initiatives? Schools can do more than respond to the trauma that some students have already experienced; they can play a key role in preventing trauma and disrupting the larger social forces that create trauma in our world. This edWeb podcast presents a fresh take on trauma-informed practices, with takeaways for teachers, school leaders, and anyone else who is invested in making change in education.

Alex Shevrin Venet, author of Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education, introduces listeners to the key understandings of the Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education framework, sharing stories from her work as a teacher and supporting schools with trauma-informed education. Listeners can expect to leave with a new understanding of their role in trauma-informed education and ideas for how to get started. 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to PreK-12 educators, school leaders, district leaders, chief equity officers, and at-risk coordinators.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by ClassLink and co-hosted by CoSN, AASA, and edWeb.net.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

One of the key functions of education is building skills, not only for academic success, but also for understanding mental, social, and emotional wellbeing. Critical capabilities that include empathy, grit, persistence, flexibility, and adaptability shape mindsets which enhance successful learning, collaboration and problem-solving. Though these aspects of learning have always been important, the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic heightened the need to address the social and emotional aspects of learning, not only for students and their families, but also for teachers, school leaders and administrators. The use of technology to meet these social and emotional essentials has also been heightened over the past months. Today educators are challenged to think about how technology can enhance and/or diminish the social-emotional needs they must address. 

In this edWeb podcast, three innovative, compassionate superintendents share how they address the social and emotional needs of the students, staff, and families in their school districts. They each review the strategies and practices they are leading in their districts to leverage technology tools to address the challenges of social-emotional learning. 

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

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