Family Code Week
2020-04-17 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
​A fun, free and loving learning experience for families sheltering at home.
One hour, offered ten times, LIVE, April 13-18.

TinkerTogether: A Virtual Roundtable for Parents & Educators
2020-04-17 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Parents, students, educators and the Tinkercad community are quickly adjusting to these changing times. Computers and online resources are becoming an even more essential way for people to play, learn, and explore.
To complement the free, live STEAM programming for kids brought to you by Mbadika and Autodesk (for more info, visit: autode.sk/mbadika,) Mbadika and Autodesk will be hosting weekly virtual roundtables for educators and parents to discuss and brainstorm ideas for how to navigate remote learning with students.
This will also be an opportunity to ask questions to the Tinkercad team about how to get started in Tinkercad, and also to share best practices for how it can be used as a vehicle for bringing joy and creativity to learning.
This webinar will be run on the Zoom webinar platform. Participants are subject to Zoom’s terms of service and other policies, including eligibility requirements: https://zoom.us/privacy-and-legal
THIS WEBINAR IS INTENDED FOR ADULTS. Autodesk uses the information you provide for and during the webinar as described in the Autodesk Privacy Statement https://www.autodesk.com/company/legal-notices-trademarks/privacy-statement

Semana de código con familia
2020-04-17 16:00 - 17:00, 2020-04-18 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Una experiencia de aprendizaje en vivo, divertida y amorosa para las familias en el hogar.
Una hora, ofrecido cinco veces, EN VIVO, 13-18 de abril.​

Semana de código con familia
2020-04-18 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Una experiencia de aprendizaje en vivo, divertida y amorosa para las familias en el hogar.
Una hora, ofrecido cinco veces, EN VIVO, 13-18 de abril.

#TheEdCollabGathering
2020-04-18 09:45 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
The Educator Collaborative provides K-12 literacy professional development to schools across the United States and around the world. They provide expert support in areas like writing workshop, reading workshop, balanced literacy, anti-bias education, multilingual pedagogy, digital literacy, and standards integration.
The #EdCollabGathering is day-long virtual conference.

Listening Leadership in a time of Pandemic: Session I
2020-04-18 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 lines of the pandemic.

Family Code Week
2020-04-18 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
A fun, free and loving learning experience for families sheltering at home.
One hour, offered ten times, LIVE, April 13-18.

Listening Leadership in a time of Pandemic: Session II
2020-04-20 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 the hero/villain/victim triangle that stress entrenches us in.

Staying connected while letting go of control
2020-04-20 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
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.

How to Talk to Your Kids Without Giving Them the Answer
2020-04-21 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
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: Tips, Tricks, and Tools for Virtual PBL
2020-04-21 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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, tricks, and tools for teachers on how to continue to facilitate group work, spark creative collaboration, and manage student progress.
All are welcome!

Music - Learning in the Making: LIVE!
2020-04-22 13:00 - 13:45 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 following materials:

Peruvian Cajón: cardboard box, scissors, writing utensil, tape –
Shaker/Maraca: an empty bottle or container and rice, beans, seeds or pebbles –
Make Your Own: pots & pans, bucket, spoons, cans, tape, etc.

Visit our blog at Makered.org/blog for more inspiration, resources, and project guides!

Listening Leadership in a time of Pandemic: Session III
2020-04-22 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 spaces.

Facilitating Rich Math Tasks Remotely Graham Fletcher
2020-04-22 16:00 - 16:45 (America/New_York)
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, which are rich tasks that are always freely available on his website. Whether you’re able to have real-time virtual conversations or are limited to asynchronous options, Graham will share ways you can connect with your students, create spaces for them to share their ideas, and engage students in productive math thinking from home.
Referenced Websites:
3-Act Math Tasks: https://gfletchy.com/3-act-lessons/
Graham Fletcher’s website: https://gfletchy.com/

Creativity and Engineering with Household Robotics
2020-04-23 11:30 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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.

Bay Area Maker Educator Meetup
2020-04-23 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 are adjusting to this new normal of living.
We don’t have an agenda for this maker educator meetup – we just want to offer a forum for everyone to join in community and support each other on this new adventure we are all undertaking. Depending on the number of people who end up joining, we can run some sort of “unconference” and figure out breakout discussion groups on the fly.
SO, grab your preferred after-work snack/beverage and join us to talk about maker education (or just education in general) in this time of pandemic!
And because location no longer means much, we the regional organizers of maker educators meetups are joining forces to host this meetup for all maker educators who teach in the Bay Area.
We can do this together!
– Angi, Deanna, Abigail, Danielle, Aaron, Pamela

Listening Leadership in a time of Pandemic: Session IV
2020-04-24 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 informs planning for when schools reopen.

Equity in the Making: A Virtual Unhangout Conference
2020-04-25 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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
Montera Middle School
Community Day School
MetWest
McClymonds High School
Oakland Technical High School
Oakland International High School

PBL Leadership Academy Spring Institute
2020-04-27 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
HTH Spring Institute workshops will guide you to create simple, useful PBL resources that can be shared quickly and easily and are customized to your specific community’s needs.
Each HTH PBL Leadership Academy workshop is:

Human-centered and interactive, for participants to create and collaborate.
Focused on a specific PBL teaching practice you can use during school closures and via distance learning.
Designed to expand that teaching practice, so you can continue with it when you return to school.

You may join as many, or as few, workshops as you would like. You’ll have the opportunity to “Choose Your Own Adventure” throughout the agenda.

Let's Invent! with Makey Makey
2020-04-28 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join the Makey Makey team live on Tuesday mornings to invent with everyday things you have lying around the house! We will share ideas for using Makey Makey, and also share invention ideas you can do with other items! Come have fun and invent with us!
Recording will be available on our blog: makeymakey.com/blog

Don't Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms
2020-04-28 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 early education professionals to lean in as “sheroes” and “heroes” in the lives of children; early educators are potential change agents in children’s and families’ lives. The goal of this edWebinar is to ensure that participants understand and embrace anti-bias and anti-racist teaching approaches by creating affirming culturally-rich classroom environments that protect children from psychological trauma and heals them from the inside out. Viewers will learn how institutional racism is visited in the early childhood space and the roles of implicit bias, microaggression, and white privilege in undermining the excellence and learning of minoritized Black and brown children and those who teach them. Viewers will be armored with tools and strategies, but most importantly, partners in the fight to ensure that we deliver on the promise of education especially for those who helped to build it.
This recorded edWebinar will be of interest to preK through elementary teachers, school and district leaders, coaches, trainers, and childcare providers, owners, and administrators.

A New Way Forward: Building a Learner-Centered Future
2020-04-28 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
A free virtual summit for educators, parents, and students who are ready to explore new and powerful ways to think about education and learning.

Unplugged Activities
2020-04-28 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
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.

Make For All Community Call
2020-04-28 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
How maker educators and students are responding to COVID-19
This month’s conversation will be dedicated to learning more about what organizations and individuals in our community are doing to support healthcare workers on the front lines of COVID-19 and the students and families learning remotely from home.
Hear about how students in the greater Sacramento area are contributing to Operation Shields Up! and how Hamilton County Schools’ faculty and staff have assembled a 3D printer farm to rapidly produce face shields to fill the need of 20,000 units in their community. This will be an interactive conversation where you’ll have a chance to ask questions, understand the real challenges and get advice about how to participate in similar efforts in your local community.
Featured Speakers:

Zack Weaver, BLDG 61
Zack Dowell, Folsom Lake College
Kristin Burrus, Hamilton County Schools
Erica Compton, Idaho STEM Action Center
Eric Saliim, North Carolina Central University
Alliya Smith-Brown & Kai Ulrich, Sierra College

Sewing - Learning in the Making: LIVE!
2020-04-29 13:00 - 13:45 (America/Los_Angeles)
Learning in the Making: LIVE! Join Maker Ed on April 29 at 1:00 PM PST at bit.ly/MakerEdLIVE
Looking for something fun to make at home? Each week we are collecting and curating resources around a topic and this week is sewing by hand. We are focusing on making with what you have around the house. Here’s some inspiration to get you started!
Do you have mismatched socks lying around? Don’t throw them out! Sew them into a stuffed creature of your very own. Stuffed animals can provide a source of comfort in times of stress, reducing loneliness and anxiety. In fact, cuddling anything soft and comforting releases hormones that calm and soothe us—no wonder over 40% of adults sleep with a stuffed animal! Read more about the benefits of cuddling stuffed animals here and here.
Follow along with us as we livestream hand sewing a stuffed creature and talk about designing and sewing three dimensional objects.
To make your own stuffed creature, you will need:

Planning supplies: paper, pencil, markers, crayons
Base material: fabric, particularly old socks or other worn out clothing
Tools: scissors, needle and thread (you can also use hot glue)
Stuffing: fiber fill, paper, fabric
Decorations: buttons, beads, googly eyes, fabric, yarn, ribbon, markers, paint, pom poms

Visit our blog at Makered.org/blog for more inspiration, resources, and project guides! Videos — live and archived — are at bit.ly/MakerEdLIVE

San Francisco Scratch Educator Virtual Meetup
2020-04-29 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu) is a programming language that makes it easy for learners to create their own interactive digital media.
Scratch Educator Meetups are participatory professional learning experiences for teachers who want to learn more about teaching with Scratch. They are organized as unconferences.
At the meetup, we will:
* Explore a variety of ways to use Scratch during remote / distance learning due to school closures as a result of COVID-19
* Share strategies for integrating Scratch into classroom practice
* Learn about and practice with Scratch features and extensions
* Self-organize into different interest groups and hands-on activities
FREE! Open to all educators, including both Scratch newbies and experts.
SFUSD teachers: This is a good opportunity to earn your Paid Professional Development (Prop G/LWEA) paid PD hours (with administrator approval).

Día del niño y la niña: Online Summit
2020-04-30 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Este próximo 30 de abril será un día del niño muy diferente para todos los niños y por ello queremos regalarles una experiencia en línea completamente gratuita para que se diviertan, griten, jueguen, aprendan y se conviertan en héroes por un día.
This coming April 30 will be a very different children’s day for all children and that is why we want to give them a completely free online experience so they can have fun, scream, play, learn and become heroes for a day.

#LunchBites Episode 7: Making Thinking Visible with Maker Ed
2020-04-30 11:30 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us for a webinar full of ways to make your students’ learning visible, with guest presenter Justin Boner from Maker Ed.

Edcamp: Powerful Learning at Home
2020-04-30 13:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Are you an educator adjusting to teaching and learning from home? Join us on April 30 for Edcamp: Powerful Learning at Home, an unconference-style professional development hosted completely online. Register to attend, propose session topics, and lead a session.
As a result of COVID-19 school closures, many educators are figuring out how to best support students through the rest of the school year. Digital Promise invites educators to support one another in the transition to distance learning at Edcamp: Powerful Learning at Home, hosted completely online.
Edcamps are free public events which leverage the knowledge and experiences of attendees to create the topics and discussions of the day. Edcamp: Powerful Learning at Home is an unconference-style professional development where educators have the opportunity to:

Identify the issues most important to them as they navigate teaching and learning from home
Moderate session topics
Network with educators across the country

As part of registration, you can propose session topics and sign up to be a moderator. Moderators will support small-group conversations at the Edcamp by facilitating breakout discussions. Moderators do not need to prepare a presentation nor be subject-matter experts. Digital Promise will support moderators by sharing guiding questions and facilitation tips in advance of the Edcamp.
