edWebcasts

This edWeb podcast is hosted by Classroom Champions and sponsored by ClassLink . The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here . Mental health is a top-of-mind topic for many these days, especially during the pandemic. For both educators and students, there is an impetus to focus on social and emotional learning (SEL) and to normalize conversations about mental health by talking candidly about...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Common Sense Education . The webinar recording can be accessed here . The presentation slide deck can be accessed here . Bringing play into the school day isn’t just important for young learners but is also beneficial to older students. Play brings out creativity, facilitates the exploration of interests, and engages students in activities of their choice without...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Achieve3000 . The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here . Listen to Star Connor, Region Superintendent of Transformation Schools in Hillsborough County Public Schools (FL), in this engaging edWeb podcast about how she has helped more than 60% of the lowest-performing schools in her district move up at least one letter grade on Florida’s school rating scal...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by ENA . The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here . Today’s school districts are facing ongoing cybersecurity risks that require teams to identify, analyze, and assess their vulnerabilities. Listen to Dr. Tom Ryan, recently retired CIO and Strategy Officer of Santa Fe Public Schools, and Lenny Schad, Chief Information & Innovation Officer for District A...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Mackin Educational Resources . The webinar recording can be accessed here . It’s no secret that today’s students need to have skills that extend far beyond what is taught in a textbook. Digital-age skills include creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and so much more. But how do we teach these? And when?  In this edWeb podcast, Dr. L. Rober...

This edWeb podcast is hosted by Digital Promise and sponsored by Ascendium Education Group . The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here . Can micro-credentials be used to create new pathways to social mobility for rural, urban, and suburban learners who are impacted by poverty, particularly for Black, Latino, and Indigenous people? Digital Promise joins educational leaders from Tennessee St...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Mindsets Learning . The webinar recording can be accessed here . Student engagement is fundamental to learning. Ask any K-12 school administrator in the United States which subgroups show the most modest academic gains, and their answer is remarkably consistent: special populations, particularly, English learners (ELs) and ESE learners/students with special needs...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by EVERFI . The webinar recording can be accessed here . The presentation slide deck can be accessed here . Listen to our conversation with Paris Woods, Ed. M., education leader, non-profit founder, and author of The Black Girl’s Guide to Financial Freedom. Paris spent years working in education and wanted to find a way to build wealth without changing careers or ta...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by EveryDay Labs . The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here . The needs of students and families are greater than ever before. Significant gaps in learning from the pandemic have been well documented across communities, districts, and states.  Despite schools and districts employing a host of programs and initiatives to meet this range of student needs–from...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by ClassLink , co-hosted by CoSN , AASA , and edWeb.net . The webinar recording can be accessed here . Over the past two years, K–12 education institutions have increasingly looked to digital content and e-learning technologies to meet their ever-evolving education needs and goals. When effectively implemented, technology-based products, services, and resources can...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by InnovateK12 . The webinar recording can be accessed here . School districts nationwide have both the challenge and the opportunity to decide on how they want to constructively reengage with their community stakeholders, while moving away from the vitriol and divisiveness—for the sake of their students and their districts—to conjure and co-design a better future f...

This edWeb podcast is hosted by Classroom Champions and sponsored by ClassLink . The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here . Let’s be candid—our educators are feeling “March tired” already, well before the end of the school year. In this second year of personal and professional upheaval due to the effects of the pandemic, educator attrition rate is at an all-time high, threatening the infr...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by ABC-CLIO . The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here . Curiosity is the foundation of deep and meaningful learning—in fact, research has shown that curiosity is among the most powerful determinants of academic achievement.  Unfortunately, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, studies of secondary classrooms showed that most students asked very few questions...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Scholastic Education Solutions . The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here . In this edWeb podcast, ​​Dr. Freddy Hiebert shares her research-based strategies for educators to help students make connections that will allow them to not only understand the text at hand, but also to build the capacity to understand more texts at a deeper level. Educators espe...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by TeachRock . The webinar recording can be accessed here . Launched by Stevie Van Zandt and the Founders Board of Bono, Jackson Browne, Martin Scorsese, and Bruce Springsteen, TeachRock.org provides free, standards-aligned resources that use music to help K-12 students succeed in disciplines like science, math, social studies, language arts, and more. This edWeb po...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Mindsets Learning . The webinar recording can be accessed here . Every school district focuses on ensuring DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is integral to the life-changing education they provide their many learners. DEI is extremely crucial and a worthy component to any meaningful education in the United States. While one might first think “diversity” is u...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Hāpara: Your Partner in Learning . The webinar recording can be accessed here . How can Open Educational Resources (OER) foster educational equity? This edWeb podcast provides a vision for using OER to this end, explores the resurgence of using OER to improve teaching and learning, and reviews how to get started in making the transition to doing so.  Listen to th...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by EVERFI . The webinar recording can be accessed here . The presentation slide deck can be accessed here . We find ourselves in a moment where the dialogue about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is happening across the nation. As we prepare for addressing these conversations in our classrooms, it is important to equip ourselves with a framework and strategies...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Mastery Manager . The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here . As school districts of every size work to boost student outcomes, teacher capacity, and accountability, the role of assessments and the value of professional learning communities are front and center. In this edWeb podcast, leaders from Lexington School District Two in West Columbia, South Caro...

This edWeb podcast is an interview conducted by Larry Jacobs of Education Talk Radio featuring Lisa Schmucki, CEO and Founder, edWeb.net and Melissa Hodgson, Manager of Member Services, edWeb.net. The pandemic impacted every level and aspect of education. edWeb experienced a steep growth in membership and engagement during the early days of the pandemic, proving that educators were searching for i...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by News Literacy Project . The webinar recording can be accessed here . Today’s information landscape—complete with “fake news,” misinformation and conspiracy theories—has become increasingly difficult to navigate, particularly for students. How can you help students develop the news and media literacy skills they need to identify, analyze and understand credible so...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by ENA and hosted by Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) . The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here . According to CoSN’s 2021 EdTech Trends Survey Report, when asked to identify their top three unmet technology needs, respondents ranked cybersecurity number one by a large margin. This isn’t too surprising given the vastness of the issue.  In this edWeb...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Screencastify . The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here . Student- and teacher-created video has permanently changed the way teachers assess student learning and understanding.  In this edWeb podcast, presenters discuss how leading districts facilitate teacher-student evaluation and even peer-to-peer student evaluation through asynchronous video. They a...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by ClassLink and co-hosted by CoSN , AASA , and edWeb.net . The webinar recording can be accessed here . There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic changed the face of education. School district leaders looked to new and innovative ways to stay connected with staff, students, parents and their communities. Technology was rapidly implemented in ways never before us...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Varsity Tutors for Schools . The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here . How can you accelerate student learning and support student social and emotional health in the wake of COVID-19? Listen to Dr. Susanna Loeb from the National Student Support Accelerator at Brown University as she shares the extensive body of research that supports high-impact tutorin...