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:

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• Blogs
  • 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:

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Dr. Megan Sweet, has worked at every level of K-12 education for 25 years, and she's ready to change the way we do school. Her book, An Educator's Guide For Using Your 3 Eyes, outlines how changing your classroom, school and school system starts by doing our own work. She has worked with school districts across the country to reinvent, refresh and transform practices and learning environments. 

Resources: 

Connect with The Teaching Channel

Order An Educators Guide to Using Your 3 Eyes

Find Megan on:

     Her website

     Facebook

     Instagram

     Twitter

     Linkedin

Megan's podcast: The Awakening Educator

Natalie Irons and Jenna Kamp, co-founders of Leadership Resource Network and Institute, share how a cognitive coaching model raises efficacy and shifts culture, and, how a leadership support community was born in a pandemic. 

Resources:

Connect to NuMinds

Connect to The Leadership Resource Network

Register for the Leadership Resource Institute

Connect to Natalie on Twitter: @IronsNatalie

UCLA CenterX Coaching website

Connect to Jenna on her website

Jenna's Facebook

Jenna's Instagram

Jenna's Twitter: @EducationalKamp

Psychologist and LEAPS Founder, Jay Burcham, shares the strategies that turned adjudicated, at-risk kids, into engaged, productive students. LEAPS for schools integrates easily with MTSS, RTI & PBIS systems to deliver proven, targeted outcomes for all teachers.

Resources:

Connect to Leaps for Schools

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Second Language Acquisition Specialist, Dr. Rocio Meli, shares how rigorous instruction, high expectations and real-world connections have helped her students to not only gain second-language fluency, but have provided life-changing opportunities through the sister school program at Castle Rock Middle School.

Resources:

Connect to Sonrisas Spanish

Learn more about Dr. Meli's sister school program

Learn more about SchoolDay

Explore SchoolDay's Career Academy and visit our blog.

Ash Gelb, MEd.,  is an Education Equity Coach for teachers in highly diverse schools with outdated materials that feel pressured to conform. She is the founder of Liberated By Design and CALM - the Classroom Acceleration Liberation Membership, supporting teachers to infuse diversity, inclusion and equity into classrooms so that kids are ready to create a world worthy of their vision. 

Resources:

Connect to Ash

Sign up for CALM

Ash's Podcast: Liberated By Design

Ash's Blog: The Pulse

Peter Hostrawser, "The Unlearning Coach," shares all the ways that he, his team, and mostly his students are disrupting traditional models of learning, and manifesting their passions through student launched businesses.  Peter is a business and finance teacher and business coach, as well as the founder of HallPass Education.

Resources:

Connect to Exploring Your Potential

Connect to Peter Hostrawser

The Unlearning Coach

The Disrupt Education Podcast

Get a Hall Pass - College readiness, Gap Year & transition

Learn more about SchoolDay

Explore SchoolDay's Career Academy and visit our blog.