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The Continuing Educator | A Texas Principal talks Family Literacy
In this episode of The Continuing Educator, we talk to a working educator about the importance of family literacy and strategies for increasing it. Our guest Martin Silverman is the principal at Salinas Elementary School in Universal City, TX, and has worked as a teacher in both urban and rural schools. From his own experiences growing up, he saw the importance of literacy as a focus in families and has sought to revitalize that practice in the families of his students.
Topics: Accessibility, Early learning, Equity, Instructional strategy & resources, Literacy, Professional learning, Social emotional learning
Products: MAP Reading Fluency, Professional Learning
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The Continuing Educator | Digital and Disciplinary Literacy, with Laura Hansen
What are digital and disciplinary literacy, and why are they so important right now? We dive into these questions with Laura B. Hansen, director of Teaching and Learning Connections at NWEA.
Topics: Accessibility, Early learning, Equity, Instructional strategy & resources, Literacy, Professional learning, Science
Products: MAP Reading Fluency, Professional Learning
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The Continuing Educator | Family Literacy, with Lauren Bardwell and Shiji Mathews
The essence of family literacy is that parents are supported as the first teachers of their children. Family Literacy is the idea that long after diapers and baby steps, our children have so much to learn by watching, observing, and collaborating with trusted adults at home, particularly when it comes to building a strong foundation for reading with confidence. On this episode, we dive deeper into this idea and share the how and why of building and sustain robust family literacy practices.
Topics: Accessibility, Early learning, Equity, Instructional strategy & resources, Literacy, Professional learning, Social emotional learning
Products: MAP Reading Fluency, Professional Learning
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The Continuing Educator | The Science of Reading, with Lynne Kulich & Natalie Wexler
On this episode, we explore literacy instruction, the science of reading, early childhood literacy, and the differences between skills-focused and knowledge-focused classrooms. Our two guests are passionate leaders in the field: Dr. Lynne Kulich, Director of Early Learning at NWEA, and Natalie Wexler, an education writer and author.
Topics: Early learning, Equity, Instructional strategy & resources, Literacy, Professional learning, Social emotional learning
Products: MAP Reading Fluency, Professional Learning
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The Continuing Educator | Early literacy and early numeracy, with Cindy Jiban and Tammy Baumann
Letās take a trip to where it all begins, at least academically, with early literacy and numeracy. On this episode, early learning experts Cindy Jiban and Tammy Baumann join us to share classroom strategies to help young learners navigate this important season of life. The discussion touches on the science of reading, why early numeracy sometimes takes a backseat to early literacy, and how teachers early in their career can hit the ground running in these areas.
Topics: Accessibility, Assessment, Early learning, Equity, Literacy, Math, Social emotional learning
Products: MAP Reading Fluency, Professional Learning
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For episode 4, we head to Las Vegas and the nationās fifth largest school district. NWEA and Clark County School District are longtime partners who recently engaged on developing a robust and holistic professional learning program that could have major implications for school districts throughout the country. Two members of the NWEA professional learning team, Angela Morton and Lindsay Prendergast, join us to give their stories of how the program took shape and their perspective on how itās helping educators and kids in Las Vegas.
Topics: Professional learning
Products: Professional Learning
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The Continuing Educator | Formative Conversation Starters, with Ted Coe and Anita Brown
āFor many, learning mathematics leads to perceiving the subject as a collection of procedures that are disconnected from any big picture. Itās much like filling a box with puzzle pieces, yet never building the puzzle.ā
For this episode, we are joined by Dr. Ted Coe and Anita Brown of NWEA to discuss how educators move beyond doing math to thinking about mathematical concepts, with a focus on formative conversation starters.
Topics: Assessment, Accessibility, Early learning, Equity, Insights and reports, Instructional strategy & resources, Literacy, Social emotional learning
Products: Professional Learning