Laura Lee Smith is the MTSS/PBIS Behavior Coach for the Pioneer School District, as well as a Brain-Aligned Social Emotional Learning Consultant. She teaches the Applied Educational Neuroscience framework to help schools and districts best serve all students, including neurodiverse learners.

Resources:

Connect to Floreo, the Virtual Reality platform that delivers behavioral therapy and helps teach social skills for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Reach out to Laura Lee Smith at Laura Lee Smith Educational Consulting: Brain Aligned Behavior Response 

Discover Universal Design for Learning

The Out of Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz

What Happened to You? by Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey

Learn more about SchoolDay

Explore SchoolDay's Career Academy and visit our blog.

Mark Mathias, founder and president of Remarkable STEAM, tells how Connecticut's Makers Faire is elevating Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics, while boosting the economy, elevating STEAM in schools, and creating space for community and global connection and innovation.

Resources:

Unreal Engine from Epic Games

Mark Mathias on LinkedIn

The Great Duck Project

View the Great Duck & ducklings

The Connecticut Maker Faire

Veteran Inclusion Coordinator, Hannah Docherty, shares how IDL Solutions has enabled teachers from early childhood to grade 12,  to support students with Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and other learning challenges. IDL provides a diagnostic tool, a turnkey digital platform that adapts instruction for each student, differentiating learning and providing formative data for teachers.

Episode Notes: 

IDL Literacy

IDL Numeracy

IDL Multiplication Check

IDL Dyscalculia Screener

Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez, the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, and author of the recently released book Teaching With the HEART in Mind: A Complete Educator's Guide to Social Emotional Learning. Her work is dedicated to helping schools and organizations integrate Social Emotional Learning in their practices, products, and learning communities.

Resources:

Connect with imSparked from Vivensity

Dr. Martínez's Website, where you will find links to her book and the many resources mentioned in the episode : loreamartinez.com

Facebook: Lorea Martinez SEL

Twitter: @loreamart

LinkedIn: Lorea Martínez

CASE STUDY - Social Justice Humanitas Academy: A Community School Approach to Whole Child Education

Karen Rodriguez, VP of Program Operations at Kiss the Ground,  is passionate about teaching children, and adults who teach children, about food, the magic of soil, restoring systems, and aligning our daily practices to support the earth so that our soil can not only feed us, but save us. Learn about their resources for schools.

Resources:

Kiss the Ground website

Kiss the Ground Movie

Kiss the Ground Movie Educational Cut

Children's Educational Kit

Soil Advocate Training

Kiss the Ground on Facebook

Kiss the Ground on Twitter

Kiss the Ground on Instagram

Kiss the Ground on Youtube

The Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv

Dr. Peter Langman is a psychologist and the author of three books on school shooters, including his latest: Warning Signs: Identifying School Shooters Before They Strike. He has presented at FBI Headquarters, the FBI National Academy in Quantico, and the National Counterterrorism Center, and has trained thousands of professionals in education, law enforcement, and mental health on preventing school shootings.

Resources:

Connect to Epic Ethics for Peaceful Schools

Contact Dr. Langman and find his blog, books, school safety and prevention information and more at  schoolshooters.info

Michael Cullen (Elementary), Leah LaCrosse (Middle School), and Rabbi Tzvi Hametz (High School) share how the Sphero robots have brought cross-content integration, increased engagement, hands-on learning, personal connection, creativity, excitement and STEAM into their classrooms.

Resources:

Connect to Sphero

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  • How to Teach Kids Problem-Solving Skills 

Drawing on nearly twenty years of teaching MIT's "Career Success Accelerator" program, and a career spanning half a dozen industries,  Mark Herschberg distill the key skills that our students need for 21st century success, and how to instill them. It's all in his new book The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You

Resources:

Connect to Mini-Money Management for a free trial

The Career Toolkit - contact Mark and/or buy the book

The Career Toolkit app for Apple

The Career Toolkit App for Android

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

Well established research confirms that grades diminish students' interest and reduce the quality of thinking in classrooms. Veteran secondary teacher, Andy Lee, shares how removing the obstacle of grades has increased engagement, ownership and authentic learning for his English/History students.

Resources:

Connect to Agile Mind

Reach out to Andy Lee

Teachers Going Gradeless

The Case Against Grades by Alfie Kohn - Educational Leadership, November 2011

Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School 

Principal Venus Jackson share how she, her teachers, parents and students have turned around the low achievement at Park K-8 with the help of Reading Plus--a comprehensive, adaptive and personalized intervention that improves comprehension, motivation, silent reading fluency, and reading stamina.

Resources:

Connect to Reading Plus