edWebcasts

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

The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the inequitable access to technology and broadband required for continuity of education through distance learning, particularly for students who have traditionally been marginalized. Unprecedented federal funding through the CARES Act and the American Rescue Plan provides an opportunity to make significant strides toward closing the digital learning gap, but only if we think differently about how schools leverage technology to meet the needs of every learner. Access to technology and broadband alone will not improve teaching and learning. 

Digital Promise’s new K-12 Leaders’ Guide to Successful Technology Integration shares best practices from several of the organization’s initiatives, including seven years of implementing the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) program. They have found that the most successful schools have six elements in place to establish and sustain a culture of powerful learning that leverages technology. 

In this edWeb podcast, you hear from a superintendent and principal whose district and school helped inform this new resource. You leave with strategies for achieving these six elements in your districts. 

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

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by The Jed Foundation.
The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here.

The pandemic has caused a pressing wave of mental health challenges across the nation, and the rising rates of suicide among teens have brought about major concerns. In this edWeb podcast, listeners learn about solutions to implement in high schools to ensure the health and success of our nation’s youth. The panelists share comprehensive approaches, as well as innovative strategies, that aim to support high schools to address the mental health needs of students now and into the future. 

By the end of this edWeb podcast, listeners are able to:

• Learn innovations and strategies that are helping students and educator communities
• Develop an understanding of their readiness to adopt mental health strategies to positively change the mental health landscape of their school community
• Deepen their knowledge of the current mental health landscape of K-12 students in the United States

This edWeb podcast is of interest to school and district leaders as well as teachers at the high school level.  

The Jed Foundation’s approach is used to demonstrate how high schools can address the mental health needs of students with their cost-effective solution.

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

As early learners step into the classroom for the first time since the pandemic, educators are contending with increased behavior issues, separation anxiety and lack of focus. 

Listen to district leaders and award-winning practitioners—including the California Association of African-American Superintendents and Administrators President-Elect, Superintendent Michele Bowers, Ed.D.—as they share strategies and insights for equitably supporting early learners’ social-emotional learning (SEL), as well as that of their families and communities. 

In this edWeb podcast, the presenters share:

• Innovative strategies and tools for creating safety, emotional attachment, and improved SEL in early learners
• How they’re meeting the unique behavior needs of each student, while still meeting expected learning outcomes
• How to create safe and predictable environments for early learners
• How they’re engaging and supporting families’ and communities’ wellness 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to school and district leaders, teachers, school counselors and social workers, federal program coordinators, and all involved in early learning SEL and learning readiness in the PreK through elementary levels.

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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.

More than half of the school districts and about one-third of public schools in the United States are situated in rural areas. Rural districts have unique challenges, ranging from poverty and sizeable travel distances to a lack of affordable, reliable and robust internet access. However, since rural school districts tend to have smaller student populations, they can also leverage unique opportunities. Rural districts may be nimbler when it comes to dealing with change and frequently have strong community involvement. Teacher retention can also be comparatively strong. 

Listen to the conversation with four rural school district superintendents as they discuss the challenges and opportunities that are unique to rural school districts when leading digital transformations that change how teachers teach and students learn, as well as impact the way school districts operate. Each superintendent also shares the leadership strategies and technology tools they have implemented during the past year in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic to assure that all students in their districts continue learning. Plans for how the schools in these rural school districts will operate during the 2021-2022 school year are also reviewed. 

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

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This edWeb podcast is hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

Listen to John Krownapple and Floyd Cobb, PhD, authors of Belonging Through a Culture of Dignity: The Keys to Successful Equity Implementation, as they share insights into equity implementation. In the summer of 2020, racial inequality and injustice captured the world’s attention, leading many school and district leaders to “do something” about its effect on students. For many, this started what we call the Dysfunctional Cycle of Equity Work, which includes a predictable backlash. Educational leaders in many states across the country are contending with this very reality as legislatures in numerous states take steps to restrict efforts to advance diversity, equity and inclusion. In this edWeb podcast, Floyd and John share insights that help you avoid missteps with implementation and come to understand how greater success must align with proven frameworks for school transformation. 

From this edWeb podcast, listeners are able to:

• Define the phases and stages of the Dysfunctional Cycle of Equity Work
• Develop knowledge of the concepts foundational to equity and essential to successful implementation
• Illuminate proven theories of action for equity implementation

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

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Kaplan Early Learning Company.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

Following their widely successful edWebinar, Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms: A Response to Racism in America, the authors of Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms participate in a roundtable discussion on how to embrace anti-bias classrooms and anti-racist teaching by creating affirming and culturally grounded environments that protect children from psychological trauma and heal them from the inside out. 

This edWeb podcast continues to call upon all early education professionals to lean in as “sheroes” and “heroes” in the lives of children and as potential change agents in children’s and families’ lives. This is critically important as we continue to deal with two pandemics—COVID-19 and racism. Listeners learn the following:

• What an anti-bias classroom is
• How anti-bias classrooms foster culturally relevant teaching
• Why it is important to have anti-bias, culturally relevant classroom environments
• How implicit bias, microaggression, and white privilege undermine the excellence and learning of minoritized Black and Brown children and those who teach them
• How institutional racism impacts early childhood care, learning, and environments
• How to utilize tools, strategies, and partners in ensuring that we deliver on the promise of education, especially for those who helped to build it
• The authors’ latest projects and reports that are calling for anti-racist policies to support Black families and other families of color, and those who teach them

This edWeb podcast is of interest to teachers, school and district leaders, coaches and trainers, and child care providers of the PreK through elementary levels.

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

Join this edWeb podcast to learn how you can accelerate recovery in algebra readiness. During the pandemic, learning loss in math was two times more pronounced than for any other subject; for students from challenged environments, learning loss was even more severe. However, students who used Muzology, a music-based approach to math instruction (used by students in grades 5-10), demonstrated gains in math proficiency. 

This rockin’ panel, moderated by #Edchat Co-Founder Tom Whitby, shows you how to achieve the same results using this highly scalable, evidence-based model to math recovery. If you’ve ever noticed that students struggle with learning yet know every word to their favorite songs…that’s because music activates brain regions critical for successful learning. 

This edWeb podcast brings together:

• Dr. Lana Israel, a global learning expert and CEO of Muzology, to share the neuroscience and data behind music-based learning. 
• Hall STEAM Magnet High School (AR) Math Department Chair, Shirley Forehand, to show how middle and high school teachers can easily integrate this ESSER-aligned targeted intervention into their math instruction; her students achieved impressive two-to-three year increases in learning growth on NWEA MAP® Growth™ assessments during the pandemic.
• Mathematics Supervisor for Knox County Schools (TN), Gary Petko, who assisted in writing the K-12 Tennessee Math Standards, to discuss ways to successfully implement music-based math instruction districtwide—for summer programs and during the academic year.
• Special guest star Chris Blue, Season 12 Winner of The Voice, to provide unique insight into ways that music drives student engagement and motivation. 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to all leaders who are focusing on accelerating math recovery and developing programs to get ALL students algebra ready! 

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by D2L.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

As we emerge from the pandemic, our K-12 system grapples with two primary challenges: (1) learning recovery; and (2) updated expectations for more flexible learning pathways. In this edWeb podcast, we explore how a single approach centered around growth mindset can address both dynamics. 

Fundamental to post-pandemic education is the collective understanding that a more flexible, authentic, and personalized approach to learning is both optimal and attainable. Our educator panel shares research and instructional strategies that were successful this past year, and how these can be applied to support deeper, engaging, and impactful learning approaches. These methods are consistent with the immediate task of learning acceleration and the systemic goal of a more personalized and equitable pathway to success for all students. 

We address student engagement and connectedness by exploring concepts such as whole-child learning methods, mastery-based learning, authentic and deeper learning tasks, and models to support the needs of all learners, regardless of their differences. 

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

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by 2gnoMe Platform for Teachers.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

Nearly every district in America will open this fall facing the greatest hurdles they have ever faced as they attempt to overcome the learning challenges of the current COVID school year. They cannot meet that challenge unless their teachers are well supported and provided with personalized, high-quality, professional development that will help them be at their best. 

This edWeb podcast elevates awareness of the frameworks of effective teaching, in person and online/hybrid, and shares how these two frameworks are enabling school districts to personalize professional development for their teachers at scale. 

The presenters bring together teachers’ and system leaders’ perspectives from The Danielson Group and Virtual Learning Leadership Alliance to:

• Share the importance of and understanding around these two powerful frameworks of effective teaching
• Demonstrate how the system supports every teacher’s personalized growth and development at scale
• Engage in a discussion on how to support your needs as you prepare your teachers for the coming school year

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

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This edWeb podcast is hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

As the pandemic underscored deep inequities in students’ abilities to access high levels of learning remotely, educators and edtech leaders have collaborated at deep levels to call for anywhere, anytime opportunity. Join edtech leaders Dr. Beth Rabbitt, Chief Executive Officer of The Learning Accelerator (TLA), Richard Culatta, Chief Executive Officer of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and Dr. Michael T. Conner, Superintendent, Middletown Public Schools (CT), as they share their organizations’ journeys to supporting educators throughout the country. Non-profit ISTE pivoted quickly to provide extensive professional learning for teachers as they were plunged into hybrid and remote teaching models. The Learning Accelerator, a national non-profit, connects teachers and leaders with the knowledge, tools, and networks they need to transform K-12 education. AASA, The School Superintendents Association has engaged thought leaders nationwide in calling for a more student-centered, equity-focused education for the whole learner. These organizations have partnered to envision a future in which every student receives effective and engaging learning to stretch them toward their futures. 

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

Learn more about viewing live edWeb presentations and on-demand recordings, earning CE certificates, and using accessibility features.