Explore the ABCs of credibility and the four points of examining BIAS as strategies you can use to help your students evaluate the credibility of online content. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

In part two of our conversation with Dr. Geneva Gay, we take culturally responsive teaching into the classroom and look at practical strategies for beginning implementation. Dr. Gay acknowledges the complexity of both teaching and becoming culturally responsive in our practices. In this light, she encourages us to start small and build on our successes. She says, culturally responsive teaching “is a multidimensional phenomenon. Pick one dimension and work toward mastery of that, and then add another dimension, and then add another dimension.” Step by step, we can become more aware and more skilled in the area of culturally responsive teaching. 

To help us move toward this place of mastery, Dr. Gay offers a wide range of insights and instructional practices we can implement to make our own classrooms more culturally responsive. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

Learn strategies and tips for successful online research. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

In this, the first of two episodes with Dr. Gay, we explore both the basic concepts of culturally responsive teaching as well as strategies for addressing potential resistance, misunderstanding, and misinformation from others. We discuss how culturally responsive teaching practices, when authentically embraced, enrich everyone involved. Dr. Gay suggests, culturally responsive teaching practices should be a win-win situation, and that’s how we need to approach it. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

Learn the importance of preliminary research in the research process and discover key steps your students can use in your classroom. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

 There is a need for more computer science teachers, and there is a need for more students to engage in the computer science field. While this shortage is evident across multiple demographics, it is especially pronounced for “historically excluded” groups of people. This typically includes women and people of color. Throughout our podcast, we look at reasons for this trend. We also explore ways to change this trajectory and get students, teachers, and systems to engage people of color with computer science and STEM careers in a way that connects with their identities and motivates them to enter this field of study. To provide insight and expertise on this topic, we are joined by Allen Antoine, a STEM and School Culture Education Specialist from The University of Texas at Austin and Rice University. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

In this episode of Tech Talk for Teachers, we'll help you discover online libraries filled with quality eBooks, audiobooks, and video that you can use to give your students practice reading in digital formats. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

 We live in an innovation economy driven by and dependent on computing and technology. Dr. Fletcher points out: “We’re failing students if we don’t give them the opportunity to learn these skills.” It’s not that all students will become computer scientists. However, an understanding and competency in computer science will narrow the gap between those who become opportunity haves and have-nots. Students who learn to leverage technology to do what they want to do will become the societal “haves,” while the “have-nots” are going to be those that have the world “done to them.” Dr. Fletcher reiterates this point when she stresses, “We need to be giving more students the opportunity to really learn the skills they need to contribute, not just as workers but as citizens in the 21st century. And it needs to be a variety of students.”

Tune in to this episode to hear more about the need for computer science education in our schools and potential ways to expand opportunity, access, and participation in the field. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

In this episode of Tech Talk for Teachers, you'll discover six online polling and survey tools as well as five strategies for integrating these tools into your classroom. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

 The purchase and implementation of educational technology exploded in response to the pandemic and was driven by the need to shift to tech-dependent hybrid and remote learning models. These shifts took place in a remarkably short period of time, and in many cases, the condensed timeline forced school leaders to make quick decisions based on limited research. Now that the pace of acquisition and implementation has slowed down, districts are beginning to reflect on the ed tech they had quickly purchased and integrated.

To aid districts in the process of selection, implementation, and evaluation of educational technology, the Massachusetts Department of Education, in collaboration with The Learning Accelerator, has developed a comprehensive guide and companion workbook. The EdTech Systems Guide: Equity-Driven Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation is freely available online. In this podcast episode, we are joined by two representatives from the Massachusetts Department of Education, Jackie Gantzer and AJ Cote, as well as a representative from The Learning Accelerator, Jin-Soo Huh. Together, we explore this helpful resource, including what it contains and how it can be best used by districts. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.