It often feels harder to miss school than to teach when you’re sick. But it doesn’t have to be that way! In this webinar Stress-Free Sub Planning with Insta-Lesson on October 21, 7pm ET, we’ll show you how a free AI tool called Insta~Lesson (insta-lesson.com) can help you create complete, fully editable, student-facing lessons in seconds. Plus, we’ll share how Insta~Lessons can be used to facilitate makeup work, extension activities, and self-paced learning. Insta~Lesson works for all subjects and grade levels so we hope you’ll invite your colleagues and administrators too! Register Here 

MCP Co-founder, Kareem Farah, is speaking at EDTECH Week on October 20, in New York City, NY. MCP will be exhibiting at CGCS 69th Annual Fall Conference from October 22-26 in Philadelphia, PA. If you’re attending, make sure to check them out and say hi!

Examples of Eileen's visual rubrics:

EDrenaline RUsh

Eileen's article on Edutopia: "Representing Student Proficiency and Progress With Visual Rubrics"

Mastery Transcript Consortium

Connect with Eileen by email at [email protected] or on the Edutopia Facebook page

Want to start building your own Modern Classroom and work one-on-one with an expert educator? If you’re an educator in Chicago, St. Louis, Alabama, or any of the districts we’re partnered with, you can sign up now for the Virtual Mentorship Program! The next session runs from October 20 to January 19, and the whole program is virtual and self-paced. See if there’s an opportunity in your area by going to [modernclassrooms.org/apply-now](modernclassrooms.org/apply-now)

Ready to reimagine your classroom? Join Kami, ScreenPal, and MCP as we dive into The Shift to Student-Led by Catlin Tucker and Katie Novak, focusing on shifting from information transfer to student-driven discovery for our first Book Club Session 1 out of 4 on October, 16, 7pm ET. Explore Workflow Shift 1: strategies to empower students as active learners and leave with fresh ideas to transform your teaching. Let’s chat, collaborate, and spark change—one page at a time! Register here

Cassie Fontaine and Zuzka Blasi are presenting at MassCUE on October 15-16 in Boston, MA. MCP will be exhibiting at NCTM Annual Meeting & Exposition on October 15-18 in Atlanta, GA. If you’re attending, make sure to check them out and say hi!

Dungeons and Dragons (DnD)

Balder’s Gate III

Wizards of the Coast

SchoolAI

[Example DnD Assignments](https://open.bu.edu

Not Another DnD Podcast

Dimension20

D20 Adventuring Academy

The Oregon Trail

Catlin Tucker

NotebookLM

"The Station Rotation Model and UDL," by Catlin Tucker

Universal Design for Learning

The Four C's

"The Shift to Student Led," by Catlin Tucker

Meet Every Learner's Needs, by Rob Barnett

Kareem on the Cult of Pedagogy podcast:

The Shift to Student Led, by Catlin Tucker and Katie Novak

Connect with Erin and Kim by email:

Wavio and The Wavio Pulse Tracker

Zach's anonymized progress tracker

Connect with Candi by email at [email protected]

ArtyNerdShop - Dykeisha's Etsy

City Year

Freedom Riders

Some of the games Dykeisha mentions:

Ed Tech tools Dykeisha mentions:

Comic book characters Dykeisha mentions

A few of the anime and manga mentioned on this episode:

Dykeisha's interactive classroom resource "Innocent or Guilty," based on the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series of video games

Connect with Dykeisha by email at [email protected]

Want to start building your own Modern Classroom and work one-on-one with an expert educator? If you’re an educator in Chicago, St. Louis, Alabama, or any of the districts we’re partnered with, you can sign up now for the Virtual Mentorship Program! The next session runs from October 20 to January 19, and the whole program is virtual and self-paced. See if there’s an opportunity in your area by going to modernclassrooms.org/apply-now

Looking for virtual connection? We’ve renamed the implementer meetups to The Co-Lab. Join our first one Wednesday, September 10, at 7 pm EST to connect with other Modern Classroom educators and talk about building authentic relationships with students through Unit 0 and beyond! Register here 

Ready to Transform Your Classroom? Dive into our Back-to-School Toolkit—your go-to guide for building a self-paced, blended, and mastery-based learning environment. Don’t miss out on the tips and strategies that’ll make this school year your best one yet! Click here to access the toolkit

Miguel's comprehensive resource "Personalized Learning for Multilingual Learners"

Screenpal

Screencastify

Mote

Universal Design for Learning

Edutopia videos profiling MCP:

Eduprotocols

Quizziz

Eduprotocols Resources

ChatGPT

Follow Zena on social media @zlbrownschools