Season 2

Veteran ESL teacher Jean Luppino, and her colleague, Kristina Signore, share how their English learners have made rapid progress, real-world connections and gained confidence through STORYWORLD's digital, story-based learning platform. STORYWORLD utilize...

Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez, the award-winning founder of HEART in Mind Consulting, and author of the recently released book Teaching With the HEART in Mind: A Complete Educator's Guide to Social Emotional Learning. Her work is dedicated to helping schools …

Join math intervention specialist and founder of CollaboratEd Consulting, Juliana Tapper, to learn how to increase engagement, participation, and success of students who struggle in mathematics. Resources: Connect to Page a Day Math Connect to Collabo...

Steve Ventura, president at Advanced Collaborative Solutions, discusses his upcoming book on Achievement Teams™ -- an experiential and effective four-step protocol centered around Collective Teacher Efficacy (a shared belief that educators can have a gre...

Districtwide Manager of Social Emotional Academic Learning, Kim Price, shares the promising practices that are making classrooms more welcoming, safe, nurturing environments that empower students and staff to best attend to holistic learning and greater ...

Secondary math and finance teacher Eric Sigman, and 5th grade teacher Shon Villars, share how ClassHook captures students attention, makes ideas and concepts concrete and relatable, and keeps students engaged. This is an easily affordable and timesaving ...

Professional theater director and Ithaca college professor Gavin Mayer discusses the High School Arts Integration program he and his colleagues founded and how the arts make our students better, smarter and kinder human beings. Resources: Connect with...

Entrepreneur,TED speaker, equity warrior, and GALS co-founder, Liz Wolfson discusses positive gender identity, integrated movement and the game-changing model of the Girls Athletic Leadership Schools. Resources: Connect with Unruly Studios Connect with...

Technology and Special Education teacher Lee Hollman, from PS 132 in Brooklyn NY, shares how Codemancer has filled a technology gap and energized all of his students to love coding, expanding their skills for al content areas. Resources: Connect to …

District Managers for Restorative Process, Deanna Goodrich and Yeruwelle de Rouen share trauma-informed and Restorative Process Practices to help shift school climate and create safe, nurturing spaces to accelerate learning. Resources: Connect to Class...

Veteran Gifted and Talented teacher Susan Holcomb, shares how the national WordMasters Challenge competition keeps vocabulary alive through analogy and competition. She credits the program with developing autonomous learners who consistently end up as me...

Cultural Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leader at St Andrew's Episcopal School, Baltimore Maryland, Dr. Kenneth Waters shares research, his own experiences, best practices and tips for supporting and improving outcomes for Black boys. Resources: Con...

Joel Rose, Co-­Founder and CEO of New Classrooms, shares a whole new model for structuring learning that not only accelerates achievement and closes learning gaps in middle school math, but also improves classroom culture and increases student engagement...

Educator, certified coach & trainer, and sought after speaker Lana Hailemariam shares stories and strategies for how to empower students' voices, facilitate tough conversations, and talk to kids about race. Resources: Connect with SPEAK Lana's EdCurati...

Veronica Fiedler, Specific Learning Disability Specialist for the state of Colorado, discusses how to best support diverse learners and their teachers, and helps us better understand the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Resources: Co...

Christine Danhoff, technology integration specialist at the Genoa School District, shares the Unruly Splats which have allowed her and her teachers to integrate STEM, movement and coding into pretty much any content area. I'm not even kidding. And it's F...

In Read Write Code, Jeremy Keeshin demystifies the world of computers, starting at the beginning to explain the basic building blocks of today’s tech: programming, the internet, data, apps, the cloud, cybersecurity, algorithms, artificial intelligence, a...

Dr. Aaron Griffen, Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Denver Schools of Science and Technology, discusses his new role, his new book (Challenges to Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs in Organizations) and building DEI...

Michael Spencer, 8-year music teaching veteran, shares about the impact of cultural music on cross-content learning, community building and school climate. Resources: Find Michael at michael_spencer@dpsk12.net Find QuaverEd Michael Spencer's EdCurat...

Diedre Spicer, teacher and founder at of Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana, California, shares how Actively Learn helps learners with all learning styles to engage, and find multiple points of access into texts of all kinds …

Keena Day, Senior Manager of Humanities at Denver Schools of Science and Technology enlightens us on best practices in culturally responsive literacy and encouraging critical thinking. Resources: This episode was sponsored by Reading Plus Find Keena ...

Anthony Chiles, Student Support Coordinator at Burke County School District, discusses practical strategies for building positive relationships with students. Resources: Building-Relationships-Toolkit.pdf MVPSpaces.com See Anthony's session from the C...

Andrew Roberts, veteran math teacher, instructional coach, teacher trainer and data guy says that there is just no arguing with results when it comes to inquiry-based vs direct instruction. Resources: Connect with Figure Math Angela Duckworth's book -...

Middle school teacher Becca Fenton from John E. Flynn A Marzano Academy in Westminster Colorado has found an integrated, easy-to-implement, and highly effective system of classroom management that also teaches authentic life skills and financial literacy...

Heather Eskridge, elementary school counselor in Franklin Tennessee, says that in her 23 years as a counselor she's never found a program more comprehensive, engaging and flexible than Quaver Social Emotional Learning. Resources: You can learn more an...

Angela Mangum, a 26 year veteran of both elementary and secondary music, share the ways Quaver music has increased student engagement, made advanced skills and concepts accessible, and increased the fun and joy in her classroom and life. Resources: C...

School counselor, Kelly Crowe, shares how the Axiom dashboard allows her to easily track and communicate personally with students and their families in their language of choice--addressing questions, needs and concerns. It's a system that leaves no stude...

Students Lerato and Eliza, from Boulder Colorado share their experience learning with SPEAK's Vocal Empowerment Curriculum. SPEAK supports students to empower their voices for self-advocacy and civic participation. Resources: Connect with SPEAK

Mary Bonnety shares how her students are able to build their own 3D, interactive digital spaces, integrate them with different academic content areas, collaborate, and share their spaces during both in-person and remote learning.

Veteran teacher Cindi Krebs explains how BoomWriter allows students to collaborate on a story which can then be published into a softcover book. Students also love group writing activities, skills lessons and journal activities.

Benjamin Dancer, a teacher at the Jefferson County Open School (JCOS) and a 24 year veteran, shares his huge passion for fostering curiosity and connection through authentic relationship and experience. JCOS is a life changing alternative to conventional...

Susan Connick from St. Benilde School in Metarie, Louisiana shares how she uses Lexia Core 5 to support her Tier II struggling readers in grades K-7. Resources: Connect to Lexia Core5

Jared Adamson from Cherokee Trail High School discusses how Big Ideas Math helps him increase student achievement through the curriculum's Investigations, Game Closet and other tools that provide students with immediate feedback. Resources: Connect t...