edWebcasts

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by KinderLab Robotics . The webinar recording can be accessed here . In this edWeb podcast, Dr. Marina Umaschi Bers discusses how teaching coding, computational thinking and robotics develops socio-emotional learning, cultivates character, and fosters a moral compass along with crucial technical knowledge and STEM skills.  Dr. Bers, a leading researcher on early chi...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by SmartLab Learning . The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here . The George Lucas Educational Foundation released five new studies highlighting how project-based learning (PBL) helps accelerate student learning across age groups, multiple disciplines, and different socio-economic statuses. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, STEM occupations...

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by VEDAMO . The webinar recording can be accessed here . High-dosage tutoring is an essential tool for helping students catch up and fill in gaps after two years of disruptions. The Department of Education is encouraging schools to provide up to 90 minutes a week of tutoring per student. Many schools want to provide these services themselves, maintaining a strong li...

In this edWeb.net podcast, Larry Jacobs, the host of Education Talk Radio, Lisa Schmucki, edWeb Founder and CEO, and Melissa Hodgson, edWeb Manager of Member Services, discuss best practices for virtual professional learning and how to put best practice into real practice. This interview continues their conversation on January 20, 2022 about how the pandemic has accelerated the growth and acceptan...

This edWeb podcast is hosted by ERDI and sponsored by ClassLink . The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here . In the fall of 2021, ERDI hosted a Thought Leadership Symposium on Systems Leadership for Equity where district and industry leaders and emeritus superintendents came together to address these issues, provide insight, and offer a way to frame conversations around equity, access, an...

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...