edWebcasts

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

Educators are eager to create 21st-century skilled, self-directed learners—but what needs to be in place for that to be successful? How can educators move from classroom learning that is unconnected from students’ lived experiences and create opportunities for students to use their skills and knowledge to lead their learning? 

In this edWeb podcast, educator and researcher Julie Stern and edtech expert and educator Maria Arfanakis discusses how schools can shift their focus from teaching to the standards to teaching for learning transfer. The presenters share more about what learning transfer is and how educators can use it to design equitable learning experiences that are meaningful and engaging. Educators learn how the right instructional moves, such as discussion-focused collaborative games, create a perfect conduit to harness students’ prior learning and experiences, move students toward expertise, and improve students’ social-emotional learning. 

The conversation addresses the practical steps educators can take to move from a teacher-controlled to a student-led classroom, how leaders can encourage their staff to prioritize the instructional behaviors that maximize student learning while preparing students to tackle the complex challenges in their careers, and how centralizing learning transfer has the power to transform schools into vibrant laboratories of learning and problem solving. 

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

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This edWeb podcast is Sponsored by The Social Express and Digital Respons-Ability.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

Now, more than ever, we all need to prioritize social-emotional learning (SEL). The discussion focuses on the skyrocketing demand for supporting students and their teachers in terms of SEL and mental health. The presenters address the need for trauma-informed practices and best practices in regard to digital citizenship. Additionally, they speak directly to guidelines for accelerating recovery in terms of the American Rescue Plan ESSER funds.

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

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

On April 8th, AASA released An American Imperative: A New Vision of Public Schools. This set of recommendations from an AASA Learning 2025 National Commission presents a series of connected, essential recommendations which will shape American education. Please join Co-Chairs Dr. Bill Daggett and Dr. Daniel A. Domenech as they share the commission’s call for holistic redesign of the public school system by 2025. Learning 2025: Student-Centered, Equity-Focused Education is an AASA initiative grounded in the foundational work of the AASA Learning 2025 National Commission, comprised of thought leaders in education, business, community, and philanthropy.

The time for action is now. Schools must operate as the heartbeat of the country we want and believe in—a country where freedom, justice, and opportunity are extended to everyone, without question, qualification or exception. The recent pandemic has given us an opportunity to finally reshape schools to meet ALL whole learner needs for maximized achievement. We’re calling on educators to seize this opportunity to realize the vision of holistic school redesign.

Dr. Daggett and Dr. Domenech discuss AASA Learning 2025 National Commission’s core components and corresponding essential areas of systemic school redesign. As leaders, teachers, and students work to realize this vision, all must play an active role in redesigning systems, reengineering instruction, and co-authoring the learning journey.

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 The Christensen Institute.
The webinar recording can be accessed here. 

Like discoveries washed ashore after a turbulent hurricane, the pandemic has exposed like never before both the importance of students’ social and emotional well-being and their need to equitably access supports in order for them to thrive socially and academically. This edWeb podcast reveals strategies that build and strengthen students’ relationships to help ensure schools not only come back, but come back better in serving every student. 

On May 4th, the Christensen Institute released a free, five-step playbook that distills decades of social capital research and cutting-edge practices from the field into a customizable roadmap that any K–12 or postsecondary leader can use to begin implementing the tools, metrics, and designs needed to ensure every student’s well-being and access to opportunity. 

edWeb podcast listeners understand not only the importance of students’ relationships to their personal, academic, and career success, but also how to incorporate intentional designs that reimagine students’ relationships as tangible outcomes to learning that far outlast one-time interventions. They also discover strategies that help adults who work with young people become both intentional and inclusive in building developmental relationships with all youth. They are introduced to the tools and tactics that could be implemented in standalone programming or courses. However, we encourage listeners to treat relationship building as a system-wide goal, rather than a one-off effort reserved for only a few students. 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 and postsecondary leaders, defined as any innovative practitioner spearheading initiatives on behalf of students.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by D2L.
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The pandemic demonstrated the need for resilience to enable quality and equitable learning continuity in the face of disruptions from pandemic to natural disasters to ongoing technology, policy, and economic change. But how do K-12 leaders move from recognition to planning and implementation? This edWeb podcast provides K-12 leaders with a framework, practices, tools, and examples for moving from a react/recover approach to proactively increasing system resilience ahead of future disruptions. 

The presenters share their experiences and a new actionable framework and guide to help you answer:

• How should we think about resilience moving forward? What are the potential disruptors we must mitigate? 
• What are the principles and practices of a resilient K-12 system? 
• What are the organizational behaviors and processes needed to drive systems change and build toward resilience? 

The opportunity and responsibility are strong for planning to ensure continuity of quality learning ahead of foreseeable disruptions. This edWeb podcast provides you with the professional understanding and tools for that journey. 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 school and district leaders, state education agency leaders, regional support education agencies, and nonprofit member and mission education organizations.

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

The recent federal American Rescue Plan (ARP), passed into law by Congress, provides an unprecedented investment in education, giving schools and districts access to funds to address the needs of students more holistically. In this edWeb podcast, we share actionable recommendations from the Center for Learner Equity’s recent resource, The Rising Tide that Lifts All Boats: Investing Stimulus Dollars with an Equity Focus, and discuss several specific strategies that districts, schools, and educators should consider to optimize the positive impact of ARP stimulus dollars on students, especially those with disabilities. 

Listen to this edWeb podcast to better understand:

• The requirements and limitations for the various ways that funding is earmarked
• The timeline for obligation of fund use
• The importance of blending established and emerging research and a dose of creative thinking to optimize spending
• How spending with an equity focus can be transformative for all students 
• Ways to prioritize the suggestions in the companion document to fit the needs of your student body

This edWeb podcast is of interest to teachers, school and district special education or student services coordinators or directors, and school and district leaders of all grade levels.

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

Federal relief funding is a welcome benefit to districts and schools struggling to help teachers and students stay connected and continue teaching and learning. Yet, navigating the process is cumbersome without assistance. In this edWeb podcast, listen to Dr. Don Gemeinhardt discuss the how, what, when, and why’s of the federal relief funding. For those who have attempted to apply for funding but have been overcome by the process, this is a must-attend discussion since many applications are due soon. 

Also learn about solutions to help teachers improve instruction, even via remote or hybrid learning. These solutions meet many of the criteria of federal funding requirements including but not limited to addressing learning loss, providing and conducting activities for students with unique needs, and planning for long-term school closures. 

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

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Simba Information, a business of Market Research.com.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

Online professional learning has accelerated rapidly during the pandemic and has been identified as one of the silver linings of the pandemic. Professional learning is also one of the district expenditures that aligns with the ESSER funding. Listen to an edWeb podcast on how COVID-19 has impacted preK-12 professional learning, and how to help districts align their professional learning needs with the ARP funding. 

Our panelists include Kathy Mickey, Managing Editor of Simba Information, who discusses the Simba PreK-12 Professional Learning Market 2020 report. The report was issued during the pandemic and examines the continued transformation from top-down professional development to teacher-led, job-embedded, continuous professional learning that has been going on for several years. Kathy discusses:
The increase in need and demand for professional learning.
The topics in demand now.
Changes in how educators want professional learning delivered.
How the pandemic accelerated changes, and which changes are most likely to stick around.

Lisa Schmucki, founder and CEO of edWeb.net, reports on edWeb’s Annual Professional Learning Survey conducted in April 2021. The survey has tracked attitudes and preferences over four years. This year, the survey added questions on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on professional learning. 

Joyce Whitby, President of Innovations4Education, has been working with clients on how to help districts meet their professional learning needs with ARP funding. The need for quality professional learning is higher than ever, and industry partners can help educators make the best use of these funds. 

This edWeb podcast is part of our edFocus series exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the future of education. The edWeb podcast is of interest to district leaders and industry executives in K-12 education. 

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

Please listen to Aldine Independent School District’s Superintendent, Dr. LaTonya Goffney, Chief Academic Officer, Dr. Todd Davis, Chief Human Resources Officer, Dr. Javier Villarreal, and Chief Communications Officer, Sheleah D. Reed, as they share the district’s journey in creating equitable opportunities for all students. They are champions for equity, leadership, and literacy. In this edWeb podcast, the presenters share stories and illuminate the issues that are most important in ensuring ALL children have choice, opportunity, and access from the very beginning of their lives as students. In the Aldine Independent School District, leadership matters, and everyone is a leader who makes a difference in the trajectory of a student’s life. 

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 Scholastic Digital Solutions.
The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here.

Research has demonstrated that school policy, teacher pedagogies, and educational leadership are directly impacted by broader societal issues. Over a year since its emergence, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to highlight ongoing inequities through its disproportionate impact on communities of color. This has coincided with the rise in frequency of racial violence, most recently targeting Black and Asian communities within the United States. 

Put plainly, our communities are enduring multiple crises. It is therefore critical that educational leaders at every level are equipped to address the ways these crises manifest (and have manifested) within K-12 educational settings, in order to define and create a “new normal” rooted in equity-mindedness. This moment calls all educators to reconstruct learning to meet children where they are, and ultimately guide them towards a brighter, equitable future. 

In this edWeb podcast, listeners: 
Learn what equity-mindedness means as a way of thinking, working, and living
Concretize recurring conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion that impact our youth
Reflect on “norms” within our schools that are inequitable by design
Devise ways to create more equitable norms and strategies moving forward. 

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

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