The Missing Link with Rola Tibshirani

A new way of thinking about success in the classroom is presented in the book 100 Or Nothing by Dr. Glen Coleman. Using what you know! Failure, Friendship, and Feedback are ways for people in a community to support each other, and having Fun is the fourth F. Storytelling, kindness, and inclusivity are important aspects of classroom success. In his books, Dr. Coleman describes a four-phase workflow...

Heather Singmaster is a Director in the Center for Global Education at the Asia Society, where she oversees the Global Cities Education Network and works integrating global competence into Career Technical Education (CTE) programs as well as state and national policy. Through the SDGs, local and global communities are helping to solve problems. Bringing a global focus to the classroom and having s...

Implementing the four outcomes for self-understanding ourselves identity, connections to the families and communities, the knowledge you need to be you, and competencies. The 7th competency is the commitment to learning to humanity. The teacher's relationship with the students is understanding who they are, what is important for them what is important for the learner, and contextualize the curricu...

Margret Atkinson shares the importance of passion for learning always involving students in growth. The students are humans we need to help them develop habits to help them for their entire life. Creating an environment honoring each other for a community to embrace their voices as they are valued by building trust. The classroom is a paradigm for a larger world. Through virtual classrooms underst...

Project Based Learning is key to learning, the learning comes alive to real-world experiences. It is important to listen to students' inquiries. The students drive the questioning. Through a culture of trust and risk takings, the students amplify their voices and choices. Many entry events from a variety of sources catch students' eyes for building empathy. Connecting the students to the community...

Project based learning benefits opportunities for students in an area of interest. Investing in how students are learning through PBL is more than just focusing on assessment/grading. Engaging students with real authentic connections and options of their choices. PBL is building skills beyond the content.

Michael Crawford shares that an entrepreneurial mindset for the students is when problems are opportunities. Entrepreneurship seeing how students have agency over their learning. For people seeing needs to take action to deliver needs. Dissolving the classroom walls is impactful by having the students problem-solve with the community. In entrepreneurial thinking, the students develop confidence an...

Mandy shares that burnout can be overwhelming. Moral obligations can be challenged and can cause demoralization. Burnout and demoralization can be similar. Demoralization under control or feeling burnout, make sure the boundaries are appropriate. Understanding what is in your control and outside of your control. Spending time to connect and reconnect with the students. Engagement is how much you l...

Tara Linney is a tech consultant, a connected global educator focusing on SEL, empathy, and SDGs. Working with teachers in many communities creating opportunities for lasting impacts on well-being. Global education is bringing together educators from different backgrounds and parts of the world. Inclusivity is to grow through global connections. SDGs real-world opportunities to reach problem-solvi...

Kristen builds relationships with parents and students from day 1 to meet students' success. Beginning with thematic daily activities for students' to build relationships for community sharing and trust. The students co-construct their expectations, their goals, and what to expect from each other. "Do not power pack the academic before the human. " Reflections should be habitual and embedded for t...

Evan Whitehead is an educator who has the expertise that connects to students well being, social-emotional learning, differentiation, special education, building communities, equity, and diversity, including cultural competencies and mental health. Evan shared the importance of community building as the foundation for learning and its importance, starting from the beginning of the year. Being vuln...

Lori is a community facilitator who focuses on collaboration, communication, social metacognition, and transformation for leaders and teams. Team building is about strategy; Community building is about culture. If you don’t get the culture right, it really doesn’t matter how right you get the strategy. Community building is relationship building; it forges authentic connections among the members o...

Connie is passionate about integrating global competencies, and connecting students to problem solve globally. The interconnections of developing skills, building trust, and personal relationships are the key to students' collective thinking. When students collaborate, they are empowered by the freedom of accountability and develop global accountability. The students are leaders today by developin...

Abigail French navigates real issues with the students to find solutions by transforming learning through 21st-century skills. The students wrestle, tackle, and acknowledge by facilitating conversations valuing all thinking. Roses and thorns through circle time for students to become empathetic listeners for supporting each other.

Gregory is a talented songwriter who tells stories through his music. Creativity is important to be pursued in a safe space to be vulnerable to learn and take risks. You can find Gregory's 2 album Standing Tall and 20/20 Vision on: https://linktr.ee/gregorynaufal

Vicky Masson is a global educator who collaborates to take action with her students. Collaboration is important to get students to be critical thinkers and advocate for success. Students' voices and perspectives are explored through real meaningful connections to build empathy and action taking. Vicky is an active global advocate through many organizations promoting second language learning experi...

Barbara shares that teaching is about building relationships, Students' voices and choices through real-world connections by building thinking skills. The students take ownership and agency by problem solving SDGs issues and genius hour to be self-guided learners. The students define their needs and curate for their own curiosity.

Educators don't need to be the keeper of education. We need to ask the questions who is learning and what are students learning? The students to be in the driver seat. We navigate students giving students their reigns to seek their own information and they fall in love with the learning. Trust and relationships between the students and the teacher, the students to build relationships among themsel...

Pav Wander amplifies and lifts students' through trusted relationships in the classroom. The students build a community that they would want to be part of the learning space. Focusing on students' personal needs and building relationships to benefit from what a diverse community is able to offer them. Design thinking & empathy were embraced for problem-solving. Pav is a risk-taker who is seeing op...

The students will be creating their future and the future we created for them. Evo designs learning experiences for students to be internationally minded, empathetic, opportunists to develop leadership skills to have a vision. To be tenacious and resourceful, self-driven success for entrepreneurship innovation. A sense of responsibility for self -inquiry and global inquiry to the Sustainable Devel...

Ellen is a risk-taker who tailors the learning to the needs of the students. "It doesn't matter the Grade you teach when you focus on real-world experiences". Learning from inquiring and having students capture their thinking when learning. The students are doing the thinking for themselves and consolidating to share the learning. Recognizing how their thinking has changed and communicating thinki...

The idea of community culture is being able to form relationships with teachers, students, parents, and administrators. It is important to present your authentic self to learn from the community and take their perspectives to be a member of a team. It is important to establish the wellness and the wellbeing of a community. Supporting team members with fairness, trust, cultural awareness, and under...

The asking of why continues to drive Kavita's learning journey. From the questioning of why of learning to the deeper connections to the international curriculum for more answers from Inspire Citizens. Self-awareness and social empathy are authentic transdisciplinary learning.  There is no learning without social-emotional connections.  Pursuing holistic learning with the students.  Self passion,...

Teaching is about relationships that are the foundation of purposeful learning. Important connections, giving space for students to connect with each other, earning the trust and relationship that made the transfer easy for distance learning. Connection & collaboration with the Middle School team for Project-based learning on systems and systematic oppression. It is starting with big ideas on syst...

Denise Andre is the director of education at the Ottawa Catholic School Board. She encourages educators to be reflective practitioners to also be connected learners to serve their students. A proud director of teachers and students who embrace learning and unlearning for new opportunities to continue with equity and differentiation. "When educators grow and learn their students grow too. Through t...