Here are our general observations, a review of where the sentiment is and productivity is, almost a year after Covid19 hit. 02:05 Our hopes 03:06 Teachers are still being very reactive, day to day based on COVID cases coming in and out 04:26 Th

BEP077 – Designing Equity-Based Goals

Mar 16th, 2021 15m 47s

Why do we pull data and set goals around sub-groups in a school when we have a goal that’s hoping to meet the needs of all students? 02:00 Schools setting goals based on data on student academic success 03:00 Schools also set goals based on s

BEP076 – Post-Covid Impact on Relationships in Schools

Mar 9th, 2021 19m 31s

What is the impact on relationships that this remote virtual learning world has put on teachers, parents, students, and staff? 02:00 Why this episode 03:00 Building rapport and building relationships 03:19 Transactional relationships 03:45 You

BEP075 – Musings on Student Engagement 2.0

Mar 4th, 2021 18m 11s

What can potentially engage students virtually? Here are different tactics to lessen the load on the emotional exhaustion that happens from running a virtual classroom all day, and to increase student engagement. 04:49 Flipped model for learnin

BEP074 – On Stamina, and Why It’s Important

Mar 2nd, 2021 11m 56s

We talk about stamina as it pertains to distance learning from the student and teacher perspective, and the challenge of student engagement. 01:32 Three buckets of stamina: from the lens of a teacher from a first grader doing distance learning

BEP073 – Families as Experts Series: SEL at Home

Nov 3rd, 2020 37m 43s

Continuing our family-facing series on supporting your child at home, we talk about practicing social emotional learning (SEL) at home, what SEL means, and its familiar and unfamiliar applications. 02:00 Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is ab

BEP072 – Families as Experts Series: The Learning Environment

Oct 29th, 2020 27m 32s

Malika Ali joins us in this series about parents supporting their distant learners; a resource for parents on how to set their child up to be able to learn at home. In this episode, we talk about how to set up the learning environment, and dev

BEP071 – Teacher’s Guide to Bizarroland Success

Oct 27th, 2020 18m 4s

This episode is a deep dive on teachers and what they’re dealing with as they go back to school and focus on student success. 01:44 The teachers are on the front lines of this, having to focus on student success, but also, redesign and rethin

BEP070 – Back to School 2020

Oct 20th, 2020 13m 32s

How are people making back-to-school decisions for K-12? We share our perspectives on some of the different strategies for going back to school. 01:24 Guidance from the state for how schools should be considering going back to school. 02:58 H

BEP069 – Today’s One Thing Week 6: Differentiation

Jul 2nd, 2020 25m 58s

Today’s One Thing is a series produced in partnership with The Learning Accelerator. Week 6: How do you differentiate remote instruction? 00:42 Recap of past episodes 01:40 What differentiation is and is not 03:35 Tips for looking at differen

BEP068 – Distance Learning Feedback: What do we leave behind?

Jun 30th, 2020 15m 12s

In this Part 2 of the Distance Learning Feedback series, we share what students and teachers want to leave behind once we get to a new normal in the classroom. 01:04 Why talking about the “leave behinds” is important 01:22 Students and teache

BEP067 – Today’s One Thing Week 5: Assessment for Learning

Jun 25th, 2020 24m 14s

Today’s One Thing is a series produced in partnership with The Learning Accelerator. Week 5: How do I assess learning to inform and improve instruction remotely? 01:12 Data points to be used not to assign grades but as a concrete way to colle

BEP066 – Distance Learning Feedback: What Do We Keep?

Jun 23rd, 2020 18m 1s

Christina did a survey in mid-March, asking students and teachers: What was successful about distance learning? What do you want to keep? 01:29 Reason for the survey 03:03 Use of choice boards and playlists so that students can learn at their

BEP065 – Today’s One Thing Week 4: Curating Content

Jun 18th, 2020 17m 23s

Today’s One Thing is a series produced in partnership with The Learning Accelerator. Week 4: How can educators flip existing content or curate content online to personalize and engage students, still with high levels of rigor? 01:41 Teachers,

BEP064 – Screencasts: What, How, and Why?

Jun 16th, 2020 12m 48s

We’re talking about screencasting in the classroom: how is it used and how can it help re-imagine effective learning in this new virtual world. 01:30 What is screencasting? 02:14 Screencastifty https://www.screencastify.com/ 03:07 Making int

BEP063 – Today’s One Thing Week 3: Setting Up Systems of Accountability

Jun 11th, 2020 20m 37s

Today’s One Thing is a series produced in partnership with The Learning Accelerator. Week 3: How can we develop systems and strategies that help students to self-manage engagement and progress, and also own the accountability for their work?

BEP062 – Virtual End of Year Celebrations

Jun 9th, 2020 14m 54s

We’re sharing virtual end-of-year activities and ideas in the classroom. 03:08 Compliment trade or compliment exchange 05:46 Digital scrapbook Canva https://www.canva.com/ Google Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/u/0/ 07:05 Top 10 l

BEP061 – Today’s One Thing Week 2: Structures for Independent Work

Jun 4th, 2020 21m 10s

Bianca Davila of The Learning Accelerator joins us again as we talk about how can educators help set up daily structures at home so that students can engage with content, feel supported, and build habits that create independence and autonomy.

BEP060 – School Story: Student Engagement with Baychester Middle School

Jun 2nd, 2020 39m 9s

Nando Prudhomme and Maureen Sigler of the Highlander Institute, and Liz Leebens of Baychester Middle School join us to talk about how the school is keeping kids and families at the center, and how that is driving student engagement in this time

BEP059 – Today’s One Thing Week 1: Building Connections Virtually

May 28th, 2020 18m 36s

We teamed up with The Learning Accelerator for this series, Today’s One Thing, where we focus on one thing that teachers can enact within the virtual classroom every week to connect with students. In this first episode, Bianca Dávila joins us a

BEP058 – The Evolution of the Parent-Teacher Relationship

May 26th, 2020 17m 14s

We talk about the evolution of the parent-teacher relationship and how these virtual parent-teacher conferences have started to become much more important as parents take on more of the teaching role and the teachers take on more of a consultin

BEP057 – School Story: Greystone Elementary Shifts to Distance Learning

May 19th, 2020 32m 26s

Mike Miele of the Highlander Institute and Stefanie Lafleur of Greystone Elementary School join us to talk about the expectations and reality of making the shift to distance learning during a pandemic. 02:31 Difference between digital and dis

BEP056 – Experiential Learning through the Food System with Laura Jackson & The Yellow Farmhouse

May 12th, 2020 31m 31s

Laura Jackson tells us about the Yellow Farmhouse, a working farm where they do education, food, and farm-based education for children and adults. Yellow Farmhouse Education Center – https://www.yellowfarmhouse.org/ 02:20 Yellow Farmhouse Edu

BEP055 – Teaching to and through Covid-19 with Vera De Jesus

May 5th, 2020 29m 3s

Vera De Jesus of the Highlander Institute shares a bundle of resources for teachers, families, partners, etc. that could potentially support or inform around Covid-19. 02:11 Coronavirus Resources: Teaching, Learning and Thinking Critically –

BEP054 – Remote Learning vs. Online Learning

Apr 28th, 2020 12m 48s

We talk about the differences between remote learning and online learning, and the misconceptions about the two. 02:24 If this was an easy transition, you might have been doing something wrong. 02:50 Where does the student fit in? 03:25 There