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In this conversation, we venture into the domain specific ways we, as educators, can empower students within our classrooms.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources, Literacy, Math
Products: Professional Learning
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This episode will explore elements of culturally responsive teaching, supportive environments, and the actions that educators and leaders can take to create a space where students belong, feel valued, and thereby are more likely to take risks, make mistakes, and build a sense of self-efficacy that will serve them well in their academic journeys and in their lives beyond school.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources, Social emotional learning
Products: Professional Learning
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The Continuing Educator | Giving students a say, with Myron Dueck and Brooke Mabry
This session examines elements of student āvoice and choiceā as critical enabling elements needed to build in students that kind of self-efficacy that will help them thrive and meet their full potential as learners.
Topics: Social emotional learning
Products: Professional Learning
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The Continuing Educator | What is student agency? With Sarah Brown-Wessling and Anthony Swann
Teachers have tremendously complex jobs and a constantly shifting ecosystem of expectations, yet despite shifts across so many other areas of educational practice, building student agency remains a key desired classroom outcome that educators generally recognize as an area of need. This conversation will give teacher voice to the importance of student agency, varied practitioner views on the opportunities and challenges related to building student agency, and a frame for the season that will prepare listeners to hear about topics ranging from supportive environments and goal setting to meeting the unique needs of students with disabilities and emergent bilinguals.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources
Products: Professional Learning
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The Continuing Educator | The problem with grading behavior, with Matt Townsley and Chris Thoms
Traditional grading practices typically incorporate non-learning measures such as behavior and effort into an average. Yet by mixing achievement and behavior, we miscommunicate on both accounts. Students and parents still need information on both, but the critical step is to separate reporting, and Dr. Matt Townsley and NWEA User Experience Designer Chris Thoms will share with us both why this is crucial for equity, and how teachers can put it into action.
Topics: Equity
Products: Professional Learning
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The Continuing Educator | What is “Grading for Learning?” with Myron Dueck and Brooke Mabry (Ep. 2)
To successfully create the conditions where grading for learning practices may thrive, consider first the importance of ensuring student-centered assessment. Hear from experts on how formative assessment is crucial to cultivating a growth-mindset in a safe, respectful classroom environment, and learn how to invite students to be co-pilots in the assessment and feedback cycle rather than passengers.
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources
Products: Professional Learning
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The Continuing Educator | Why do we grade? with Thomas Guskey and Chase Nordengren
Let’s begin our journey towards better grading practices! Grades have remained a fundamental component of our education system for over a century. Yet despite shifts across so many other areas of educational practice, grading practices have seen little, if any, change to match the demands of modern pedagogy. The pandemic revealed stark flaws in traditional grading protocols and simultaneously presented a profound opportunity for actual change. What should educators, families, and society in general consider around why change is needed and where to begin?
Topics: Instructional strategy & resources
Products: Professional Learning