Author and teacher Jennifer Orr shares how to take the passion and chatter that K–5 students bring to the classroom and turn it into conversation skills that make them better learners?
Podcast Episode – From Feedback to “Feed-forward”: Shifting Language to Invite Learners Towards Growth
Educators of all types – classroom teachers, administrators, support staff, coaches – are feedback-providers in various ways. Feedback is critical to the learning process at all stages. And yet, traditional feedback focuses on what the word describes, looking back. Lindsay Prendergast discusses the impact of a mindset shift towards “feedforward” and the resulting impact our language and practices can have … Read More
Podcast Episode – Tech Tips for the Classroom
Dr. Monica Burns, ASCD author and faculty member, shares strategies and tech tips for encouraging student participation and engagement, inviting student collaboration, assessing and providing feedback, and building relationships with families.
Confronting Inequity/Fighting the Jeffersonian Dismissal (ASCD Article)
A February 2020 ASCD Article published in Educational Leadership.
The New Art and Science of Teaching (April 2017)
Free On-Demand ASCD Archived Webinar with Robert J. Marzano. Duration: 1 hour, 3 minutes Summary This engaging webinar presented by Robert J. Marzano provides an overview of the new framework and accompanying resources in the book, The New Art and Science of Teaching. The new framework is much more than a second edition of the original published in 2007, and represents … Read More
What We Say and How We Say It Matter: Teacher Talk that Improves Student Learning and Behavior (Mar 2019)
Free On-Demand ASCD Archived Webinar with Mike Anderson Duration: 1 hour, 6 minutes Summary Have you ever said to a student, “I love the way you’re working so hard!”? How about, “Here are the three things I’ll be looking for in this next piece of work,”? Or perhaps you’ve said, “If you all work really hard for the next 30 … Read More
How to Become the Educator That Male Black and Latino Students Need (Sept 2019)
Free On-Demand ASCD Archived Webinar with Robert Jackson Duration: 1 hour, 5 minutes Summary “They don’t care about their education.” “They are not capable of learning.” “I can’t work with them.” “I can’t get through to them.” Just as educators may have these thoughts about their students, so, too, may students have similar thoughts about them: “She doesn’t care about … Read More
Rise to the Challenge: Designing Rigorous Learning That Maximizes Student Success (Sept 2019)
Free On-Demand ASCD Webinar with Jeff C. Marshall Duration: 1 hour, 5 minutes Summary Do you sense that some students have mentally “checked out” of your classroom? Look closely and you’ll probably find that these students are bored by lessons that they view as unchallenging and uninteresting. Leveraging the latest research in the field as well as years of classroom … Read More