edWebcasts

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate.
The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here. 

Listen to Eric Butash, Director of Education Technology and Data Integration for Foster-Glocester Regional School District in Rhode Island, as he outlines his district’s strategy for leveraging data analytics to ensure students are engaged and on track. In this edWeb podcast, he describes Foster-Glocester’s instruction vision, processes, and data-integration blueprint for enabling educators and administrators to develop the most impactful learning pathways for students. Listeners learn how the integration of analytics programs like CatchOn with Google Data Studio can be utilized to inform best practices and boost student engagement. 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to school and district leaders of the K-12 and higher education levels.

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

Teachers have had to navigate extraordinary challenges this past year which forced schools to reevaluate and reprioritize training programs to include a larger focus on education technology (hardware, software, applications, management platforms, etc.) to deliver lessons remotely. Listen to this edWeb podcast on how to leverage the new foundational skills learned this year as a springboard for success in tomorrow’s new normal. 

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

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

How do you address the sensitive yet important issue of racism in America with your students? Learn tips on how to successfully lead courageous conversations in your classroom. Hear from Dr. Tyrone Howard, Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. His research examines equity, culture, race, teaching, and learning. He has published numerous books and articles on topics related to instruction, most recently Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools. 

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

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

The value of discussing the dynamic topic of race early with children is readily agreed upon, but HOW to do it effectively and empathetically is a resounding question. Transform your school culture by hearing from others on strategic ways to both recognize and invite conversations about race and diversity in your local community. Discover new social and emotional learning (SEL) resources to capitalize on those teachable moments that occur daily in our classrooms. 

Come hear from our panel—an education expert, school leader and a world-class athlete—who share their candid moments from their own experiences of discussing and learning about race as students. 

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

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

Have you ever wondered why we are facing a literacy crisis? A look at The Nation’s Report Card reveals that there has been no improvement to the low reading rates of our students for the past 30 years, despite increases in special education, Title I and school improvement grant dollars, technology, and the influx of countless intervention programs. This edWeb podcast will explore the underlying causes of literacy failure and how understanding the connections between the brain, reading, and the English language will help. 

In this edWeb podcast, listeners learn about:

• The complexities of the English language
• The brain and reading – understanding cognitive load and orthographic mapping
• Willingham’s cognitive model and Stanislas Dehaene’s neuronal recycling hypothesis
• A solution to address the intrinsic problems of learning to read English

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 principals, reading teachers, reading specialists, literacy coaches, classroom teachers, curriculum coordinators, federal program directors, and all educators who have a role in improving student literacy.

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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.

Technology planning and investments have never been more critical than in today’s K-12 learning environments. Yet school leaders can often find themselves challenged to balance tight budgets and multiple stakeholder needs and concerns, along with constantly evolving technology tools and resources. 

In this edWeb podcast, three tech-savvy, leading-edge superintendents share how they lead their districts in creating successful and impactful technology plans. Each superintendent explains the strategies they use to bring together a wide range of needs, interests, and district priorities to create technology plans that address the total cost of ownership, impacts on teaching and learning, and the value of those technology investments. 

The current crises that have come out of the COVID-19 pandemic have shown the world how critical technology is to continue teaching and learning along with multiple other aspects of school operations. The three superintendents share the technology strategies they have used over the past year to assure that their schools continue to function to benefit all students and families. 

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.

New York State’s 2017 Superintendent of the Year, Dr. Luvelle Brown, leads a discussion on how to cultivate an anti-racist school district. His transformative leadership style and the powerful knowledge in his book, Culture of Love: Cultivating a Positive and Transformational Organizational Culture, are shared to help leaders mobilize the kind of student-centered approach that is desperately needed in our education systems. Deputy Superintendent Lily Talcott and Principal Deborah Ptak provide examples of how the district is engineering opportunities for schools and classrooms to be laboratories for social change. 

Essential questions for discussion include:

• How can school districts shift instructional practices to be more culturally responsive? 
• What is a culture of love and how can school leaders cultivate this in schools and school districts? 
• Why is providing time and structure to self-reflect for yourself and others important? 
• Why should and how do leaders cultivate and support constructive conflict in organizations? 

Listeners learn about strategies to address systemic disparities and inequities in order to benefit all students. 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 Sound Supports K12 and Associates & Ripple Effects Social Emotional Learning.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

Listen to education leaders—including Chicago Public Schools’ Leadership award winner—as they share how to create trauma-informed schools and districts and support students’ SEL and mental health across tiered systems of support. In this edWeb podcast, the presenters share:

• How to create safe and predictable environments for students, even in distance learning
• How to connect and build trust with students, so engagement and learning can happen in both in-person and distance-learning contexts
• How to implement trauma-informed SEL that addresses each student’s unique barriers to learning and builds resilience
• How to implement digital tools in an MTSS for efficacy and sustainability
• How to bring an equity lens to trauma-informed SEL work

School and district administrators, teachers and school support staff learn concrete steps they can take to ensure their schools and districts are trauma informed across tiers, and that their students’ SEL and mental health are meaningfully supported as they continue to grapple with the challenges of COVID-19 and the social unrest we are all experiencing. 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to preK-12 school and district leaders, teachers, school counselors and social workers, federal program coordinators, and those involved in supporting student mental and behavioral health.

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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 Dr. Aaron Spence and Dr. LaQuiche R. Parrott as they share Virginia Beach City Public Schools’ strategic framework, Compass to 2025, a five-year plan focused on six goals: educational excellence; student well-being; student ownership of learning; an exemplary, diversified workforce; mutually supportive partnerships; and organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Developed with significant stakeholder input, Compass to 2025 is a true roadmap for teaching and learning in the school division. Dr. Spence and his team are staunch advocates of equity, emphasizing that every student—regardless of economic status, race or zip code—should be provided the learning experiences and the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to succeed. Equity is embedded across all six goals of Compass to 2025 as the school division strives to help achieve student, workforce and organizational success over the next five years. 

Essential questions for discussion include: 

• Virginia Beach City Public Schools has a new equity policy. How do districts begin the work on adopting an equity policy? 
• What processes and procedures are needed for districts to ensure the success of ALL students? 
• What are the initial action steps for all school leaders to ensure staff have 100% ownership for ALL students learning? 

Listeners learn about strategies to address systemic disparities and inequities in order to benefit all students. 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.

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by FIU Online – Florida International University.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

In this edWeb podcast, discover practical ways to impact communities, schools, and students across diversity, inclusion, and social justice. 

Headed by experts on global perspectives in teachers and students, politics of curriculum, urban special education, and literacy education, this discussion will cover curriculum and instruction and special education across diversity, inclusion and social justice for: 

• Intersection of race, language, culture, poverty, and disability
• Culturally and linguistically exceptional learners in urban schools
• Parental involvement of families from racial/ethnic minority backgrounds
• Diverse students in urban education and schooling
• Curriculum development for English as a second language

This edWeb podcast helps you meet the changing education needs of evolving communities and will provide practical tools and theories to impact diverse populations of learners. Presenters include experts with experience teaching students and collaborating with teachers from one of the largest public school districts in the United States. 

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

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