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Shonda Ronen, Illinois Principal's Association 2022 Elementary Principal of the Year, shares how the Classroom Education Plan from QoreInsights supports the needs of her teachers at every level of experience, and in every content area, and has brought data-driven instructions and research-based strategies to the forefront in every classroom.

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The Classroom Education Plan from QoreInsights creates powerful teacher learning experiences. AI uses teacher/student input to match teachers with real-time, targeted research-based strategies; tracks impact on student growth; and guides rich collaboration.

Users report high teacher usage, teacher excitement around new strategies, improved teacher practices, and increased student engagement and performance in just 4 weeks of use.

Our recent interview with the Learning Scientist's Dr. Cynthia Nebel

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Curt Minich has been teaching computer science for 31 years. He and three of his students heartily endorse CS Academy from Carnegie Mellon University as the complete package that has allowed them to achieve a level of coding that they hadn't previously imagined. 

CS Academy includes consistent hands-on support for teachers, and it's completely free.

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CMU CS Academy is an online, graphics-based computer science curriculum taught in Python provided by Carnegie Mellon University, offering novel, world-class Computer Science education for your classroom — and it’s entirely free.

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Hear from two educators about how Penda Learning is raising both student engagement and standards mastery in Science, Grades 5-10. Heidi Alves is a former high school biology teacher who now serves as the K-12 science and curriculum specialist. Jeremy Blinn is a Secondary Science Curriculum Specialist. 

Personalized learning for all students: struggling readers, ESE students, and ESOL students. Science content has been hand-crafted for NGSS, FL NGSSS, and TX TEKS.

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Dr Cynthia Nebel, is an instructor in the doctor of education (Ed.D.) in leadership and learning in organizations program at Vanderbilt University. In her research, she examines techniques to improve student retention, emphasizing learner characteristics and applied settings. Professor Nebel spreads the science of learning to educators worldwide through her work with the Learning Scientists.

QoreInsights’ Classroom Education Plan (CEP) creates powerful teacher learning experiences. AI uses teacher/student input to match teachers with real-time, targeted research-based strategies; tracks impact on student growth; and guides rich collaboration.

Users report high teacher usage, teacher excitement around new strategies, improved teacher practices, and increased student engagement and performance in just 4 weeks of use.

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@AceThatTest on Twitter

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The Learning Engineering Toolkit  by James Goodell 

Reach Dr. Cynthia Nebel  at [email protected]

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Retrieval Practice is a simple research-based teaching strategy that dramatically raises students’ grades. When students retrieve and bring information to mind, this mental challenge produces durable long-term learning. Easy learning leads to easy forgetting. Stop cramming, reviewing, and re-teaching. Instead, simply ask students what they remember. No prep, no grading, just powerful teaching.

The science of learning exists. It’s time to unleash it.    

The Artful Educator - Applying Cognitive Psychology to the Classroom

3 Star Learning Experiences - An Evidence-Informed Blog for Learning Professionals

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Bilingual educator, Karla Estrada, shares how BeeReaders is unlike any other Spanish literacy resource through its flexible features and truly authentic texts from multiple Spanish speaking countries. It motivates students to read in an instructionally-sound, gamified environment.

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Mohan Sivaloganathan is the Batman of Social Impact, as a nonprofit leader by day and hip-hop artist by night. He guides the work of Our Turn, the nation's leading movement of students fighting for education justice. 

Mohan was awarded as a “40 Under 40 Rising Star” by New York Nonprofit Media and a “Next Generation Leader” by the Human Services Council, and was featured in Good is the New Cool, an Amazon Philanthropy & Charity #1 new release. 

Visit Mohan Sivaloganthan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/msivaloganathan 

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Learn about today's sponsor, Reading With Relevance.

Reading with Relevance is an evidence-based curriculum using high-interest diverse books to unite academic and social/emotional learning. Our intentional lesson plans inspire students to read deeply, think critically, talk openly, and write reflectively about topics that matter.

Reading with Relevance has been approved by CASEL as one of their few academically-integrated SEL programs — demonstrating evidence of effectiveness at improving student outcomes at the highest level by supporting students' academic, social & emotional growth.

Visit Mohan Sivaloganthan on LinkedIn 

Visit Our Turn to learn more about the work of changemaking in education

Visit Ahmen's website to hear his music and learn about his music, speaking, events, and social impact

View Ahmen's new release, Love Letter

View Ahmen's song Troublemaker

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Stephanie Pratt, M.Ed. is a Structured Literacy Dyslexia Specialist, explains the proven strategies to support students with dyslexia, and how the Science of Reading is essential tier one instruction for all learners.

Stephanie is Founder and Director of the Pratt Program for Students with Dyslexia at Bishop Walsh School in Cumberland, Maryland, where she has used the Orton-Gillingham approach to help hundreds of students in grades K-12, learn to read, write and spell.

She has taught a reading remediation course to graduate education students at Frostburg University and has many years of experience testing children with learning differences and guiding their families.

 Stephanie joined Dr. Fran Levin Bowman in training educators in the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading intervention using Bowman’s Orton-Gillingham “Plus” Guidebook; she has trained hundreds of educators in public schools, private schools, as well as many private tutors and parents.

When Dr. Bowman passed away in 2021, Stephanie became Director of Bowman Educational Services. She is proud to carry on Dr. Bowman’s legacy of training teachers in the Orton-Gillingham approach, giving them the knowledge and tools they need to help struggling students become become competent readers.

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OgStar Reading follows the Science of Reading, and has a patented, multi-sensory learning approach. Their Orton-Gillingham app offers a home or school-based full structured literacy curriculum for early readers, dyslexics, English language learners, or struggling students from ages 4 - 13.

OgStar is currently offering a ten day free trial, and as a thank you for listening to todays episode, they are  providing 10 free iPad apps and 10 free Chrome web-based apps. Visit OgStar, click the “Let’s Talk” button and type "EdCuration podcast" in the question field.  

The Bowman Educational Services (Stephanie's Website - find information about upcoming trainings, resources, etc.)

Fumiko Hoeft, MD, PhD is Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Weill Institute for Neurosciences and directs the UCSF Hoeft Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (brainLENS.org).

Nadine Gaab, PhD is an associate professor of Education, with degrees from University of Zürich, Stanford and MIT. She is the 2019 recipient of the LDA Award (Learning Disabilities Association America) for her work on learning disabilities. 

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Middle School teacher, Julia Fliss, shares the resources, framework and trainings from The Institute for Humane Education, that have guided her students to become "solutionaries" in their classroom, school, families and the wider community.

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Zoe Weil, co-founder of The Institute for Humane Education, is the author of seven books including Amazon #1 Best Seller in Philosophy and Social Aspects of Education, The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating a Generation of Solutionaries (2021/2016), Nautilus Silver Medal winner, Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life (2009), The Power and Promise of Humane Education (2004), and Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times (2003).

She has also written books for young people, including Moonbeam Gold Medal winner, Claude and Medea: The Hellburn Dogs (2007), about 12-year-old activists inspired by their teacher to right wrongs where they find them, and So, You Love Animals: An Action-Packed, Fun-Filled Book to Help Kids Help Animals (1994).

In 2010, Zoe gave her first TEDx talk “The World Becomes What You Teach” which became among the 50 top-rated TEDx talks within a year. Since then she has given five other TEDx talks: “Solutionaries”, “Educating for Freedom”, “How to be a Solutionary”, “Extending our Circle of Compassion” and “How will you answer this question?”

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Mike Daugherty, director of technology and Innovation at Chagrin Falls Exempted Village Schools, shares how Read&Write increases equity and improves outcomes for all students. The easy to access app helps with reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work.

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Read&Write is a text-to-speech literacy support tool for students at all reading levels -- especially effective for struggling learners and ELLs

OrbitNote allows you to transform and interact with documents in a completely different way. Create an accessible, dynamic and collaborative space that works for everyone.

Data Desk creates reports and tracks data for Read&Write and Orbitnote

Read&Write is free for individual teachers. District's can purchase student licenses with pricing based on the total number of student licenses needed.

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Join this inspiring and touching conversation with New York Times Learning Network editor, Katherine Schulten. Former high school English teacher and literacy consultant, she shares the process and creators of the NYT recently released book, Coming of Age in 2020: Teenagers on the Year That Changed Everything.

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Get the book! Coming of Age in 2020: Teenagers on the Year That Changed Everything 

Documenting Your Life in Extraordinary Times New York Times Learning Network Curriculum Unit with links to all the things: a step-by-step guide, mentor texts, writing prompts, the original call-out, and the 2020 winners.

Additional Articles:

• A NYT piece about a school system that adapted the project and how it became a cool community endeavor: "The Found Project': How We Built Community With the Coming of Age Unit

STUDENT CREDITS:

      Intro Music: Here's to 2021 -- Thomas Kaufman, Lance Algabre, & Andrew Garcia, page 70

      Violin Underscoring: original composition Until Tomorrow -- Tienne Yu, pages 20-21

      "Borscht Recipe" -- Daniel Rykunov, page 66

      "Trending in 2020" -- Piper Chase, page 71

      "okay" -- Suhaylah Sirajul-Islam, page 62

      "Letter to My Teacher" -- Andrew Badhwa, page 110

      "Long Gone" - Brandon Yeo, pages 110-111

      "Ashes to Ashes" -- Kaltun Mohamed, page 146

      "A Farmer's Quarantine" -- Jadon Flinton, page 128

      "Working During a Pandemic" -- Penelope Cardenas, page 126

      "The Five Stages of Grief: Quarantine Bangs Edition" -- Anushka Chakravarthi, page 72

      Self Expression - Abram Loya, pages 168-169

      "Wait, Did I Just Join My Sister's Friend Group?" -- Schuyler Schmitt, page 93

      "2020" -- Lauren Sanchez, Page 10

       Outro Music: Pandemic Boyfriend -- Amelia Ross, pages104-105

The New York Times  ran the contest again in 2021, and here were that year's winners. 

This year's contest call-out: Coming of Age in 2022: Show Us What It's Like to Be a Teenager Now

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