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Ayinde Bennett, from The Urban Assembly, is passionate about post-secondary success and career readiness. Learn about the program that is putting Urban Assembly graduates far above the national average in post-secondary success. 

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Xello is the only career development program built with the entire district community in mind. Xello provides every student of all pathways the freedom to create meaningful future plans, while giving educators the resources they need to help students.

With a carefully designed, student-centered experience, Xello meets accessibility standards and offers age-appropriate career development for every student K-12. Xello creates effective educator workflows so you can spend less time checking boxes and more time helping students.

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Connect with Ayinde Bennett on LinkedIn

Learn more about The Urban Assembly. Meet Ayinde's team and learn more about their post-secondary readiness program. 

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Author and educator Dr. Charles Barrett has been a High School and Middle school psychologist for over 13 years, and is currently a K-12 administrator in Washington DC. He is a frequent speaker and workshop presenter for educators, families, and community organizations on the topic of social justice. See his many books in the notes below. Today we discuss his most recent book Social Justice in Schools: A Framework for Equity in Education.

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Connect to The Institute for Humane Education's Solutionary Framework.

The Solutionary Framework is a multi-step approach that teaches students to think like solutionaries, someone who is able to identify and address unjust systems, from problem identification to solution implementation. The framework can be adapted to fit into existing curriculum.

Students engaged in solutionary learning think more critically and systemically; demonstrate greater compassion for other people, animals, and the environment; and feel a greater sense of agency and optimism in the face of significant social and environmental challenges.

The Institute for Humane Education's website

IHE's Micro-Credential Program

IHE's Graduate Programs through Antioch University

Hear from teacher Julia Fliss, about how the solutionary framework applies with her students.

Connect to Dr. Charles Barrett 

Purchase Social Justice in Schools: A Framework for Equality in Education by Charles Barrett, PhD. 

Find all of Dr. Barrett's other books and resources here

Charles Barrett's Focus on the Fence blog post and graphic illustrations

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Instructional Technology Resource teacher, Ginnie German, shares why TeacherMade was the number one resource she recommends for her teachers. Learn about all the ways that it lightens teacher workloads, while providing timely relevant feedback for students, and improving scores and outcomes. 

Ginnie says, "If I could only ask for one thing for my teachers, it would be this."

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Connect to TeacherMade.  You can subscribe directly, chat with a representative, or start a free 30-day trial.

TeacherMade was founded by Teachers, and they carry an undying love for those of you out there doing the hard work in the classroom. Let them know how they can help you by sending your ideas to [email protected] and they will be passed straight on to Teachermade’s ridiculously dedicated product developers. 

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Students struggling to read in upper elementary, middle school, and beyond present a unique challenge for teachers in terms of appropriate resources. Erin Paske is a dyslexia tutor, a certified academic language therapist and a licensed dyslexia practitioner. She co-founded the  Nashville Dyslexia Center.

For this episode, Erin is joined by MaryKate Heavey, a reading and early childhood literacy specialist who currently works as an equitable literacy coach for the city of Boston. 

Erin and MaryKate are eager to share the amazing outcomes their students have achieved with Simple Words decodable chapter books. 

Special Thanks from MaryKate to 5th Grade teacher Olivia Samuel!

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Learn more, or order Simple Words Books for your students here

The Nashville Dyslexia Center

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Director of Learning and Teaching at College Achieve Patterson, Jasonn Denard, shares how his middle-school students have been inspired and empowered to achieve and compete at the High School level through the SheHeroes program. He is joined by Middle School Science teacher, Melissa Mendizabal, and one of her 7th grade students.

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SheHeroes' mission is to inspire girls to dream big for their futures by offering video profiles of successful women, with a focus on STEM. Our STEM Career Path Curriculum is free for teachers.

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Jennifer Serravallo shares her New York Times bestselling, The Reading Strategies Book, helping listeners implement goal-directed, responsive instruction in every classroom. Jen is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences and travels throughout the US and Canada to work with teachers and students creating engaging, productive and joyful classrooms.

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Instructional Design with Teachers in Mind

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Jennifer Seravallo

Maryanne Wolf's The Power of Reading

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In this podcast, Innovative Educator Alyna Utt shares the amazing hands-on, real-world, and community-driven STEM project accomplished by her students -- and other initiatives that Project Invent fellows are leading in their classrooms to positively impact their communities.

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Don Lamison, from the Urban Green Education Project, shares his vision of revolutionizing education across Indonesia and beyond with high-impact resources like Lincoln Learning, and more. You won't want to miss this inspiring conversation!

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Lincoln Learning Solutions offers features core, elective, and credit recovery courses. It provides essential and specialty selections with a consistent design and functionality across subjects and grades. 

Connect with Don Lamison on LinkedIn

Learn more about Urban Green Education

Learn about Green Study

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Music Blocks is an Ambie-award-winning podcast that explores how songwriters and composers use sound to express their emotions and share their experiences. Each episode runs about 5 minutes making them ideal for classroom bell work, anticipatory sets and discussion starters or writing prompts. Hear from co-host and producer Rebekah Romberg, and content consultant Carla Aguilar, in this fun and musical interview!

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Moosiko is a comprehensive, differentiated digital platform helping K-12 guitar, ukulele, and modern band programs boost student engagement and increase enrollment. Teachers save time with skill tracking and assessment tools. The mobile-friendly app contains over 400 fun, relevant songs from the 1950s to today. Free teacher and student accounts are available. 

Hear more about Moosiko from veteran music teacher, Matthew Hall

Listen to Music Blocks  and finding supporting resources at Colorado Public Radio

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An Honest Day's Work episode

We Love a Love Story episode

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District leaders all across the country have long lamented the dearth of high-quality, culturally relevant and engaging curriculum for history and social studies. And it's not just leaders and teachers. Students surveyed also report that they don't see themselves in the curriculum, feel that they are only learning one side of history, and that none of it seems to have anything to do with them or their lives.

Amanda Christensen, Secondary Social Studies Facilitator from the Federal Way School District in Washington State, led her team in creating a project-based, interactive, complete American History curriculum from the ground up that has students and teachers cheering and achieving. Students say it's a "game changer." Find out how they did it by partnering with Educurious in this inspiring episode.

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Learn more about Educurious' project-based courses, aligned to state and national standards, and written on a foundation of research-based design principles for learning.

Learning in Action Blog: Why Project Based Learning is Necessary for Deep Understanding in Social Studies

Learning in Action Blog: 5 Reasons Why Project-Based Learning is Essential to Social Studies Instruction

Hear how Cross-Content, Customized Project-Based Units Have Revolutionized Learning in Three Districts

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