Staying connected while letting go of control

Participants will learn about using google classroom check-ins to learn about students social-emotional needs and taking time to connect with students and authentically help them process what they’re going through.

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How to Talk to Your Kids Without Giving Them the Answer

Discussion, activities, and resources for adults to encourage creative thinking and problem solving presented by DevTech Researchers and Early Childhood Technology (ECT) Graduate Certificate alumni and instructors on early childhood […]

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Project Invent: Tips, Tricks, and Tools for Virtual PBL

Project Invent is dedicated to empowering students to solve real-world problems, not just ones in textbooks. Project-based learning shouldn’t stop just because students are learning from home. Join Project Invent […]

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Music – Learning in the Making: LIVE!

Looking for something fun to make at home? Each week we are collecting and curating resources around a topic and this week is music! Check out this activity to learn how vibrations create sound, and join us as we build some instruments and make music together! To make your own musical instruments, you will need the […]

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Listening Leadership in a time of Pandemic: Session III

Session III: Listening for Equity: Resisting White Supremacy in Virtual Spaces In this third 1-hour session, principal, blogger, and racial equity coach Joe Truss will join Shane Safir to examine how we can think about self-care as a radical, antiracist response to the pandemic and how to notice and disrupt white supremacy culture in virtual […]

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Facilitating Rich Math Tasks Remotely Graham Fletcher

Rich math tasks are designed to promote student discourse and sensemaking in the classroom. In this time of remote learning, how can we adapt our facilitation of rich tasks so students have access to interesting mathematics from home? During this 45-minute free webinar, Graham Fletcher will talk about remote ways to facilitate 3-Act Math Tasks, […]

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Creativity and Engineering with Household Robotics

Join the CA STEAM Symposium’s Lunch Bites Webinar Series for an art infused session where we’ll explore engaging at-home activities integrating math, engineering and the design process with guest presenter Nancy McIntyre from the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation.

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Bay Area Maker Educator Meetup

We are living in an unprecedented time, where teachers are being asked to completely shift their practices to a remote model. Whether we are designing activities to send home to students, teaching online via Zoom, filming videos for students to watch asynchronously (or all of the above!), we are all doing so while we ourselves […]

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Listening Leadership in a time of Pandemic: Session IV

Session IV: Listening for Equity: Reaching Students & Families at the Margins In this final session, we’ll think about what it means to live outside the testing paradigm for a minute. How do we rethink our measures of equity without the standard metrics guiding us? I’ll offer you hands-on tools for gathering equity data right now that […]

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Equity in the Making: A Virtual Unhangout Conference

A virtual Unhangout conference, brought to you by the 2019-20 Agency by Design Oakland Teaching Fellows. Teachers from the following schools will be represented: Emerson Elementary Howard Elementary Lazear Charter Academy Melrose Leadership Academy Peralta Elementary Urban Promise Academy ASCEND Park Day School Urban Montessori Charter School Bret Harte Middle School Elmhurst United Middle School […]

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