Reshaping Learning with SchoolDay

Paloma Mena-Werth, a teacher-leader and Middle School Band teacher, shares how GiveThx has built community among the staff and students at her school and is elevating relationships,  overall school climate, and the work environment. It's quick, research-based, SO easy -- and it's free!

Resources: 

Connect to GiveThx for their free pilot opportunity

Hear what teachers and students have to say about GiveThx

Book:

Making Grateful Kids: A Scientific Approach to Helping Youth Thrive by Jeffrey Froh, Giacomo Bono, & Jefferey J. Froh

Videos:

A Soul Pancake Presentation: An Experiment in Gratitude| The Science of Happiness

The Science of Gratitude & How to Build a Gratitude Practice

Learn more about SchoolDay

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In Literature and the New Culture Wars, Professor Deborah Appleman addresses the contentious contemporary discourse around which books deserve a place in the classroom, breaking down practical strategies for teaching troubled texts while still confronting and dissecting the controversies they may invoke.

Resources:

Connect to  ALEE, providing everything teachers need to teach novel studies effectively

deborahappleman.com

@deborahappleman

Order Literature and the New Culture Wars

Order Deborah Applman's first book,  Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison

Co-edited with Peter Williamson: School, Not Jail: How Educators Can Disrupt School Pushout and Mass Incarceration

Recommended articles:

Banning Books Won’t Make Students Safer by Miriam Poltinsky

Learn more about SchoolDay

Explore SchoolDay's Career Academy and visit our blog.

Veteran music teacher, Matthew Hall, shares how Moosiko's K12 guitar (and ukulele) platform has increased both student engagement and achievement by allowing for student choice. Flexible and systematic instruction, and easy tracking for the teacher allows for better connections in a flipped classroom. 

Resources:

Connect to Moosiko and sign up for a full semester free pilot.

Learn more about SchoolDay | Explore the SchoolDay Academy and visit our blog.

Dr. David Bain, Sr. Vice President of Innovation & Analytics at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, helps us understand how advancing educational technology is shifting our approach to  intervention from a way to address struggling learners to a way to provide targeted, personalized learning for all students.

Resources:

Connect to AnetaEd, allowing PreK - 5th kids navigate to websites, links and apps in the order and at the times that educators want for them, all on their own. Aneta enables differentiated learning pathways regardless of class size.  

Connect to Dr. David Bain on LinkedIn

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Luke Butcher, Product Developer at International Dyslexia Learning Solutions, discusses dyscalculia research, helping us sort through, understand and address our students' math challenges. Learn about the tools for screening and addressing dyscalculia.

Resources:

Learn more about the IDLS Numeracy Intervention. Purchase through EdCuration and receive a 10% discount

Dr. Brian Butterworth's website 

Judi Hornigold - Dyscalculia specialist

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Dyscalculia: Strategies for Students in Elementary School from SchoolDay Academy powered by Coursera

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In this episode we hear from Laura Benisch, the Director of Career Planning and Partnerships at the Lincoln Academy Public Charter School in Beloit Wisconsin,  about real-world and career-focused learning, and the platform that is supporting all of the educators and K-12 scholars in the state of Wisconsin in career exploration.

Resources: 

Xello Teachers

Xello Students

Learn more about SchoolDay

Explore SchoolDay's Career Academy and visit our blog.

Author and educator, Miriam Plotinsky, shares strategies for giving students more voice, more choice, more responsibility and more challenge. Having spent 20 years as a classroom educator, Miriam now writes for publications like Ed Surge, Ed Week, and Edutopia. Her first book (for teachers) is Teach More, Hover Less: How to Stop Micromanaging Your Secondary Classroom.

Resources:

Connect to today's sponsor, Schoolytics, and sign up for a 30-day free trial

Miriam Plotinsky's website

Order Teach More, Hover Less: How to Stop Micromanaging Your Secondary Classroom

Preorder Miriam's upcoming book Lead Like a Teacher

Find a list and links for Miriam's articles here

Learn more about SchoolDay

Explore the SchoolDay Academy and visit our blog.

Principal Melissa Barlow, English Teacher Hannah Hodge, and 11th Grader Kaleb, are enthusiastic to share how TutorMe has enhanced student achievement, empowered teachers, and is shifting the culture at Yukon High School in Oklahoma City. TutorMe provides highly qualified tutors, available 24/7, in 7 different languages.

Resources:

Connect with TutorMe to learn more

EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees

Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations

EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action

EdCuration's upcoming Online Events   

Andrea Keith brings her background as a classroom teacher, professional developer and ed-tech leader, to her current role as the Executive Director of Let Grow. Let Grow is making it easy, normal and legal to give kids the independence they need to grow into capable, confident and happy adults. Learn about Let Grow's programs for schools.

Resources:

Read&Write from TextHelp

OrbitNote from TextHelp

Let Grow

• The Let Grow Play Club

Free Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy 

• Free downloadable chapter for educators

The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Jonathan Haidt

Lots more recommended books from Let Grow

Daniel Shuchman, Chairman of the Board for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

Dr. Peter Gray's TED Talks and Videos

• The Decline of Play

EdCuration's Certified EdTrustees

Micro Professional Learning ExPLorations

EdCuration's Blog: Learning in Action

EdCuration's upcoming Online Events