edWebcasts

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

Student data is a critical component for navigating student success and making informed decisions within any school system. Today’s highly connected learning environments present real challenges when it comes to balancing technology advances with the need to protect both student privacy and school data. 

In this edWeb podcast three superintendents review five critical guidelines for ensuring data privacy in any school system’s use of technology. They share how their leadership teams make data privacy a priority across an entire school system. Effective strategies for communicating their district’s commitment to assuring student data privacy are also reviewed. 

Additionally, the project director for CoSN’s Privacy Initiative and Trusted Learning Environment Program shares information about how school districts can earn CoSN’s Trusted Learning Environment Seal and why that process benefits stakeholders across a district. Each of the superintendents on the edWebinar panel represents a school district that has earned the Trusted Learning Environment Seal. They discuss how they each led that process in their own districts and the lessons learned along the way. 

This edWeb podcast will be 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 CatchOn An ENA Affiliate.
The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here.

Data is everywhere. Data is powerful—but only if it can be analyzed and then presented in such a way that it tells a story. While Google Forms and Sheets have some quite powerful data analysis features, Google Data Studio takes it to the next level. 

This free tool allows users to visualize, connect, share, and collaborate and present their data and tell their story. Therefore, teams can make accurate, data-driven decisions. Using the drag-and-drop report editor, users can create customized and interactive reports with ease. Create beautiful, easy-to-read data visualizations that tell a story and inspire action. All of this and more is possible in Google Data Studio. Learn how Google Data Studio works with CatchOn, a powerful and expansive data analytics tool, to give you visibility into your EdTech efficacy and remote learning. 

Learning outcomes of this edWeb podcast include:

• Define Google Data Studio and identify use cases
• Explore the Google Data Studio interface
• Connect data sources
• Create a report
• Explore chart types and identify when to use each type
• Configure report controls
• Explore data visualization basics
• Create a template
• Learn how to integrate Google Data Studio with an expansive data analytics tool (CatchOn)

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

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

In this edWeb podcast, Academy Award-winning film producer and director and SuperDville founder, Peggy Stern, explores how accessible content and hands-on activities are key to ensuring more successful social and emotional learning (SEL) for students with learning differences. SuperDville is a free video-based SEL curriculum for 7-12-year-olds who learn differently. 

Peggy also discusses how peer-to-peer video-based lessons, featuring other kids with learning differences, help address the whole child and buoy self-esteem, resilience, and empathy while cultivating useful self-advocacy tools, particularly in overlooked communities—like Black, Latinx, and EL students—for whom the equity gap is most wide and the need for SEL programming is the greatest. 

This edWeb podcast: 

• Explores why relatability is essential for building self-esteem and belonging
• Emphasizes the need for a community-driven solution to address the needs of kinship and collaboration
• Delves into topics of equity and inclusion that bolster student empowerment

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

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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.

The multiple crises of 2020 exposed the enormous inequities that manifest themselves when students lack effective and reliable access to digital devices and robust connectivity in their homes. Often referred to as the “Homework Gap,” the reality is that students and their families suffer major challenges related not only to learning, but also to the ability to stay connected with family and friends, as well as access health services, job opportunities and so much more, when they do not have home access to the appropriate digital tools and high-quality broadband connectivity. 

Achieving digital equity requires focused leadership and innovative strategies. Given the current realities of remote and hybrid learning, as well as the use of digital resources within school classrooms, the issues involved in leading digital transformation are now more urgent and relevant than ever. The promise of anywhere, anytime learning—for all students—requires that schools and communities come together to solve the challenges of digital inequity and the widening disconnect that impacts millions of students and their families. Watch this edWebinar with three leading superintendents who share their strategies, and lessons learned along the way, as they seek to achieve digital equity for all students. 

This edWeb podcast is of particular value to superintendents, K-12 school and district leaders, and aspiring school 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 NexGen Education.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

How can educators ensure that middle school students are engaged and driven to master math concepts? This enlightening edWeb podcast introduces you to the winning strategies of the Harlem Children’s Zone®, which was founded with the vision of disrupting the cycle of intergenerational poverty by offering students the support they need to succeed from pre-K through college to become productive, self-sustaining adults. 

Listen and learn how HCZ does this on an unprecedented scale, working with over 14,000 youth, many of them facing significant socio-economic and academic challenges. In order to achieve this vision, the HCZ team employs a unique set of strategies and best practices while leveraging data to provide individualized and timely support. 

Over the past two years, HCZ has used a remote learning platform to support its middle school math instruction. This platform engages students through an AI-driven, rich curriculum while providing teachers and school leaders with the real-time progress and performance of all students, helping each student achieve their individual learning objectives. 

Listen to this fascinating presentation as Geoffrey Canada shares Harlem Children’s Zone’s model for success and how this remote learning platform has helped the HCZ team keep its middle school students on track in mathematics. 

Listeners will walk away from this edWeb podcast with newfound knowledge of: 

• The HCZ model and how it has found unprecedented success in some of the most challenging environments
• Teaching and learning strategies proven to be successful in remote learning classrooms
• How the HCZ team has leveraged a remote learning platform to keep its students on track

This edWeb podcast is of interest to middle school teachers, school and district leaders, directors of curriculum, math coaches, Title 1 math coaches, after school directors, and summer school directors..

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

In order to advance equity, educational leaders must overcome institutional obstacles and be ready to take the next steps. District procedures to assess ways in which policies, practices, and initiatives undermine racial equity will be shared. Join Dr. Pedro Noguera for a riveting and inspiring presentation. AASA’s Executive Director, Dan Domenech, opens the session, and Mort Sherman, Associate Executive Director, moderates.  This edWeb podcast discussion centers on assessing readiness for courageous conversations about best practices to mitigate the effects of racism and poverty while addressing the social-emotional and academic needs of students and staff. 

Essential questions include: 

• What situational strategies do leaders need to talk about race and equity? 
• How do district leaders generate the will to change? 
• How do racial equity outcomes get reported routinely in today’s political climate? 
• How can district leaders share goals and work with colleagues to develop an equity action plan? 
• Why should system leaders view racial inequity as a structural problem rather than a cultural problem attributed to historically marginalized populations? 

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 hosted by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

Please listen to an edWeb podcast interview with Medal of Honor Recipient Lieutenant Colonel William D. Swenson (Afghanistan). Lieutenant Colonel Swenson was awarded the Medal of Honor for risking his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving in Afghanistan.

Interviews with Medal of Honor Recipients are part of the Medal of Honor Character Development Program, a free program that helps middle – high school students build character and promotes responsible citizenship. The Medal of Honor is awarded for “gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of one’s life, above and beyond the call of duty.” Those awarded it drew upon their deepest convictions and values in the most challenging of circumstances. Their examples of courage and sacrifice can inspire us as we face our own challenges.

Then-Captain Swenson risked his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving in Afghanistan in 2009. Enemy fighters had ambushed Captain Swenson’s combat team as it moved on foot into the village of Ganjgal for a meeting with village elders. As the enemy unleashed grenades, mortar, and machine gun fire, Captain Swenson immediately returned fire and directed the response of his Afghan Border Police while simultaneously calling in support. He coordinated air assets, indirect fire support, and medical evacuation helicopter support. Captain Swenson ignored enemy radio transmissions demanding surrender and maneuvered to render medical aid to a wounded fellow soldier. With complete disregard for his own safety, he then led a team into the kill zone to recover more wounded and search for four missing comrades. His exceptional leadership and stout resistance against the enemy during six hours of continuous fighting rallied his teammates and effectively disrupted the enemy’s assault.

Here are ways you can share this inspiring story and interview with your middle – high school students: 

• Share Lieutenant Colonel Swenson’s story with your class.
• Watch the edWebinar above and listen to this edWeb podcast to share and discuss with your class.
• Take advantage of the free lessons provided by the Medal of Honor Character Development Program. For  shortened activities specifically for you to use while learning has shifted to an online format, follow the Character Development Program on Facebook. 
• Please note that students must listen to the edWeb podcast under the supervision of a teacher and are not allowed to log into the program individually.
  
  This edWeb podcast is of interest to all teachers and school and district leaders for their middle – high school students.

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

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

Listen to Dr. Bryant Marks, Executive Director of the National Training Institute on Race and Equity (Atlanta, GA), as he presents on the understanding of implicit biases and their impacts on America’s youth and educators. Listeners will explore the effects implicit biases have on the attitudes and behaviors of targeted groups. Dr. Marks shares how to implement practices or policies that reduce the likelihood implicitly biased beliefs will lead to biased behaviors. 

Implicit bias is everywhere and affects everyone. We all have implicit bias. The impact of our implicit bias on others significantly depends on our social and professional roles in society. Bias held by educators, police officers, physicians, prosecutors, and criminal court judges can significantly affect the life outcomes of large segments of society. 

Essential questions include: 

• What is implicit bias and what are the implications of implicit bias on students and their families? 
• What causes implicit bias and how is it measured? 
• How does implicit bias impact the student experience, performance, and opportunity? 
• How can school district leaders affect real change regarding attitudes and behaviors? 
• In schools, what are signs of implicit biases and what professional development is needed to begin an awareness? 
• How can implicit bias be reduced/managed? 

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 hosted by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

Please listen to an edWeb podcast interview with Medal of Honor Recipient Master Chief Britt K. Slabinski. Master Chief Slabinski was awarded the Medal of Honor for risking his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving in Afghanistan.

Interviews with Medal of Honor Recipients are part of the Medal of Honor Character Development Program, a free program that helps middle – high school students build character and promotes responsible citizenship. The Medal of Honor is awarded for “gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of one’s life, above and beyond the call of duty.” Those awarded it drew upon their deepest convictions and values in the most challenging of circumstances. Their examples of courage and sacrifice can inspire us as we face our own challenges.

Master Chief Britt Slabinski was awarded the Medal of Honor for risking his life above and beyond the call of duty while assigned to a Joint Task Force in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in Afghanistan. When their helicopter was suddenly fired upon his team was forced to crash land into a deep valley. Then-Senior Chief Slabinski repeatedly exposed himself to deadly fire to personally engage the enemy and orient his team’s fires in a furious, close-quarters firefight. After several teammates became casualties, Slabinski maneuvered his team to a more defensible position, directed air strikes in very close proximity to their position, and requested reinforcements. He then carried a seriously wounded teammate through deep snow and led a difficult trek across precipitous terrain while the enemy was engaging them from the surrounding ridges. Throughout the next 14 hours, Slabinski stabilized the casualties and continued to fight until his team was extracted.

Here are ways you can share this inspiring story and interview with your middle – high school students:

• Share Master Chief Slabinski’s story with your class.
• Watch the edWebinar above and listen to this edWeb podcast to share and discuss with your class.
• Take advantage of the free lessons provided by the Medal of Honor Character Development Program. For shortened activities specifically for you to use while learning has shifted to an online format, follow the Character Development Program on Facebook.
• Please note that students must listen to the edWeb podcast under the supervision of a teacher and are not allowed to log into the program individually.

This edWeb podcast is of interest to all teachers and school and district leaders for their middle – high school students.

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

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

We find ourselves in a moment where the dialogue about racism—both systemic and interpersonal—is happening across the nation. As we continue to build our class culture, many educators are looking for ways to address these conversations about race in their classrooms in alignment with culturally responsive teaching practices. 

In this edWeb podcast, listen to EVERFI’s Senior Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Jesse Bridges, special guest speaker Dr. Chezare Warren, a nationally recognized researcher in the field of urban education and teacher education, and expert educator Derek Francis, Manager of Counseling Services for Minneapolis Public Schools and Consultant with Hatching Results, for a conversation about how educators can both strengthen their culturally responsive instruction and facilitate discussions around race, privilege, systemic racism and more in their classrooms. 

Educators will leave this podcast with an awareness of the Culturally Responsive Teaching framework as well as strategies to create opportunities for deeper classroom conversations surrounding race and equity. Listeners will also gain access to a digital resource for teaching about Black History as well as an Anti-Racism Extension Guide, complete with lessons, activities, and relevant articles. 

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

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