Reshaping Learning with SchoolDay

Brendon Jobs, Director of Diversity & Inclusion at The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, shares how learning the Question Formulation Technique energized his teaching, and shares with us how to bring this technique into our classrooms to better engage students in challenging content.

David VanSicklen, Advanced Learning Specialist in the Middleton Cross Plains School District in Madison, WI, shares his affinity for the app Seesaw for younger elementary students.  He says Seesaw has "unlimited possibilities."   Resources: Connect to Seesaw

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 

Sonja Herring from Cresthill Middle School in Douglas County, Colorado shares how she uses TCI's Geography Alive's Map Labs to make geography learning active, relevant and engaging for middle school learners.   Resources: Connect to TCI's Social Studies Resources

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 to Big Ideas Math

Kathy Zaleski shares how she uses Connection Circles to build community in her classroom, which she learned from the Longmont Community Justice Center.  She discusses how restorative practices are alternatives to traditional discipline, and shares the following resources for others looking to learn more about this powerful instructional practice: The little books:https://emu.edu/cjp/resources/little-books  Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding: Restorative Discipline for Schools The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice The Little Book of Circle Processes, Return to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice, Not Light but Fire by Matthew R. Kay    The Little Book of Restorative Teaching Tools https://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Restorative-Teaching-Tools/dp/168099588X  Circle Forward - http://www.livingjusticepress.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B33EC0E83-CD69-4255-BCD5-298AD3846FF6%7D

Today on the show we veer away from discussion of a curriculum product to focus instead on a teaching strategy.  Learn from Emily Fields in Douglas County, Colorado, how and why she uses Socratic Seminar to teach critical reading & writing in her middle school classroom.

Chris Miraglia discusses how he uses Flipgrid in his middle school social studies classroom to give students a voice, and engage 75% of the students who wouldn't normally participate in a classroom discussion.   Resources: Connect to Flipgrid

Ashley Cooksey, a school librarian in Arkansas, shares the way that implementing codeSpark in an elementary library taught her how to code right alongside the students, paving the way to her current role as an Instructional Technology Coach and an accomplished educational leader.     Resources: Connect to codeSpark Ashley's resources to help teach coding through storytelling:  https://padlet.com/ashley_cooksey2/CodeWithBooks or bit.ly/CodeWithBooks.   

Diane Sweeney from Diane Sweeney Consulting shares how school systems can use the coaching cycles in Student-Centered Coaching to support a successful curriculum implementation.