The Missing Link with Rola Tibshirani

Branka is an educator who connects Math to real world experiences for the students. From the environment to peace in the world. Giving students their agency to drive their creativity for learning. Empathy is important for their social emotional learning by connecting to real world experiences.

The learning was hijacked for many years, as we are now figuring out how to build passion back. Teachers will be redefining the learning after the pandemic. Barbara Bray an author, a coach, an innovator and a disruptor for students' empowerment and agency for learning. Barbara Bray shares, this is the time that educators can do something that they always wanted to do by disrupting the practice int...

Julia creates a brave space with a common vision honoring all opinions and voices. An ecosystem of building each other up never tearing each other down, failing forward to take risks, and be their best. Listen to the voices of the students as students already come with voices. Her students focus on how they are the world learning by challenges and sharing perspectives of causes of these challenges...

Mrs. Uppal promotes a community at The British School of New Delhi that is a holistic culture of a safe, happy and secure learning environment. Every student perseveres through a personalized learning journey in which their voices are critical part of the community. It is a community of growing leaders, together building growth and well being from the child to the educators.

When the students are thinking they are developing many competencies like communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. SOAR encourages students to develop critical thinking skills by extending their thinking to create something new. Empathy is at the heart of the design thinking process.

Steve Sostak is an author a leader with a contextualizing curriculum to spark students' lead action for a collective well being. From a whole school for sustainable development of the Global Impact Model to teachers service learning through the design thinking lens. Care, aware able & impact for students to make a difference in a powerful agency. Sustainable thinking, system thinking. cognitive em...

Meghna is an educator who believes in connections than corrections. The language of connections will get the academic content faster to the learners. The global connection should start from KG. What is a local problem is also a global problem. The students should imply sustainable challenges for knowledge and cognitively throughout the school. The whole school is weaving the SDGs into the curricul...

Melissa Lavoie represents students' voices from rural communities through Google Maps and Google outreach tools. The students are Personal stakeholders by sharing their rural communities. Education represents seeing on Google maps, the students are historians and digitally preserving their communities by sharing the images of their communities. They are representing their perspective.

The students learn through fieldwork and service-learning within the community. The SDGs are the goals for building empathy. SDGs are cross-disciplinary for all grade levels. All learning is rooted in empathy. Following the Design Thinking process feel, imagine, do & share the students are being resourceful by connecting to experts.

Vito Michienzi is an author a magician, a programmer and of course a teacher who writes to answer his own questions. If you are not building relationships you are not teaching. Vito's upcoming book will be "Teaching Outside The Curriculum".

Patricia Fiorino shares how Social Emotional Learning is part of the academics. SEL skills are embedded in the curriculum. All students have needs and strengths, navigating students and teachers to be an environment to feel safe. When SEL is implemented students apply positive strategies, students' academic engagement is up and students see themselves as problem solvers.

Xena Biffert is an educator who emperors students' agency through outdoor space explorations. The environment provokes students' learning for real community projects and creativity. the students document on journals by sitting and reflecting on their inquiries from sketching to poetry. Xena hopes to continue the outdoor culture of learning and building capacity throughout the school. Through outdo...

Tristan Nuyens empowers Ss through thinking skills to think critically and honor to collaborate through rich conversations to problem solve. The students learn to push their own autonomy and demonstrate full agency when problem-solving. By using nonpermanent vertical surfaces thinking spreads like wildfire around the room. Allowing students to read the test and have rich conversations prior to wri...

Tania focuses on the students' accountability throughout the assessment process. Learning is a journey based on co-constructing learning goals, open discussions for a gradeless assessment. Visible learning for equity and ownership of the journey, from long-range planning to a clear path of expectations. Grades are negotiated and determined with the students. Applying Design thinking process with a...

Lynn Thomas empowers her students through real-world learning opportunities. The students being researchers for social justice to empathy building for action-taking. It is important to develop social emotional learning and have students explore the Science of learning. The sustainable Global Goals are the lens to all curriculum expectations

Erin Dowd is an educator with Belouga. Belouga aligns students' impacts through the SDGs. The students explore through episodes and connect to other students working on the same contact. From Belouga's connections, the students collaborate through missions and series to real-life learning connections within their classroom or community. Opportunities to Collaborate and self reflect, taking action...

From Engineering to teaching robotics, curriculum developers to the development thrive SDGs. The students build their confidence when they develop life skills for real-life experiences. Thrive is taking action by giving students opportunities for global connections to problem solve wither by prototyping a product or implementing a social solution. https://www.thrivesdg.com/ #Innovation #creativity...

Transferable learning is building conceptual understanding that transfers across situations a bigger picture of how the world works. The students think about the why of learning. The students articulate the transferable concepts the why of the structure of the disciplines through strong reasoning and evidence. How do we get Ss not to forget their Learning? Conceptual relationship questions are the...

Being in the field of teaching is like by being chameleons and living our dreams. Dr. Jennifer William shares how we all own the Sustainable Development Global Goals. We all can take actions to make a difference. It is connecting to take action fearlessly and boldly through conversations at the high-level. The students and the teachers have to be at the table with these conversations. Innovation w...

Jenna believes in students' voice and for teachers to be active listeners. From Art animation to #PBL sharing #joy. She bridges her curiosity to her students in the classroom. From Impact Team to Speakup creating a creative space of inclusion with the students. Jenna believes in dreaming big and making it real with the students. ​

Mahfuza Bridges students learning by building skills tackling through #SDGs with HS Ss for the power to make a change in their local and global communities. From the process of collecting data, critical thinking for answers and empowering students to change perspectives. The students becoming community members and impacting learning beyond the classroom. Learning is the real world when students le...

Jen is a risk-taker and an innovator who builds a community with the students to develop empathy. Inquiry Minds is the class for the students to apply SDGs and design thinking. Through the process of creativity and critical thinking, she empowered the students to recognize their actions for the future.

David is a game designer high school teacher who guides at risk students to design games for Social Change. Designing for problem solving and critical thinking with the focus on a growth mindset. From a troubled point of view to a successful point of view creating a culture of trust and the risk of investing in the unknown. Social emotions are successful in getting to understand the social-emotion...

Lisa is an educator who believes in community building for learning. She bridges her students to community difference-making to empower their compassion and empathy to others. Lisa reflects on the moments of growth and surprising moments of community building.

Steven Floyd a researcher and an educator who emphasizes, thinking at all levels through the curriculum on inclusivity, equity diversity of courses with genuine opportunities for the students. The students to be engaged & have access to all materials exploring students' interests through the curriculum. Dedications for all to be successful at the competencies to be placed at the forefront for stud...