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Beyond Content: Taking a Culturally Responsive Approach to Online Learning

Equity begins with access. Considering background knowledge, interest, and culture is only part of a Culturally Responsive Approach. During this edWebinar, Kevin Bairdedhttps://home.edweb.net/webinar/differentiate20200414/ will draw directly from high-stakes assessment questions to discuss methods for engaging students from across cultural and socio-economic backgrounds while accelerating assessment outcomes. We will journey from the idea of “Culturally Responsive” as […]

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Facilitating Young Children’s Learning with Nature

Nature-based education seems to be all the rage lately. This includes nature-based preschools, forest preschools, and nature-based elementary programs. While the number of immersive nature-based programs is increasing, there are thousands of more traditional programs that have the opportunity to meaningfully integrate nature into their early childhood program. This edWebinar will help early childhood providers, […]

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Demystifying the Safe Space: How to Create a Classroom Ecosystem That Supports Meaningful Race Conversations

In just 90 minutes, discover the methods and strategies for initiating and facilitating meaningful, productive, and respectful dialogues about race with presenter and author of Not Light, But Fire, Matthew R. Kay. In this free webinar, you will: • Learn how to create classroom ecosystems that support meaningful race conversations. • Learn ways to practice […]

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Listening Leadership in a time of Pandemic: Session I

Session I: Listening Virtually: Creating Space for Our Shared Humanity During this 1-hour webinar, Shane Safir will explore how to build authentic, connected communities across physical distance. Joined by Jessica Huang, currently a teacher in Taiwan, we will engage in a case study of innovative, humane, student-centered responses from a country on the early front […]

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Listening Leadership in a time of Pandemic: Session II

Session II: Listening to Our Bodies: From Fight/Flight/Freeze to Freedom Session 2 will allow Shane Safir to explore the physical/somatic toll of living through this pandemic. Joined by Alcine Mumby, we’ll explore our bodies’ default settings and responses to the sustained stress of this moment, and we’ll look at practical strategies for getting out of […]

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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 education with a focus on technology. These activities will be useful for learning at home and at school.

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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 for this special webinar on how to empower your students to continue doing project-based work, even during distance learning. They will be covering various tips, […]

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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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