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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Presented by Iheoma U. Iruka, Ph.D., Chief Research Innovation Officer & Director, HighScope Educational Research Foundation; Stephanie Curenton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Boston University; and Kerry-Ann Escayg, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha Sponsored by Gryphon House In this edWebinar, the lead authors of the newly released book, Don’t Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms, call all […]
Resources for activities that do not require electronic technology 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.