Teachers and students suffered through COVID’s upheavals. With its dissipation come the aftereffects, from unfinished learning to teacher shortages. The pandemic furthered a lingering malaise linked to existing school gaps and challenges.
Presented by Lindsay Vanderburg, District Instructional Specialist, Secondary Reading Language Arts, Killeen Independent School District (TX); and Cortney Kingery-Ragan, Lead Teacher, Early College High School English Department, Killeen Independent School District (TX)
Beginning in a new school, grade, or classroom can be a daunting prospect for any student. However, when English isn’t a student’s first language, the barrier to adaptation is especially challenging.
Watch the Recording For decades educators have known that children who can read on grade level by the third grade stand a much better chance of succeeding in school and in life. The fundamental skills needed to read begin in early childhood and require the developmental scaffolding of skills to put all the pieces together… read more →
Presented by Jay Meadows, MAT, Chief Executive Officer, Exemplars; and Lisa Westman, Founder and President, Lisa Westman Consulting
Moderated by Jim McVety, Managing Partner, First Step Advisors, and Senior Advisor, Exemplars
What happens when a state has a professional learning mandate for teachers but no funding to offer them? Or taking any professional learning seminar requires hours of travel with no viable substitutes to cover the class? And what about adult learning in general, when the majority of workers in need are low income and marginalized?
Presented by Jay Meadows, Chief Education Officer and Chief Executive Officer, Exemplars; and Suzanne Hood, M.Ed., Independent Math Consultant, K-5
Moderated by Jim McVety, Managing Partner, First Step Advisors, and Senior Advisor, Exemplars
Presented by Amy Taylor, Chief of Community Engagement, Truth Initiative; and Jay Matthews, Community Impact Specialist, EVERFI
Moderated by Jessie Fox, M.Ed., Director of K12 Community Engagement, EVERFI
Presented by Camille Schroeder, Director of Efforts for K-12 Outreach for the College of Engineering, Iowa State University; and Elizabeth Bacon, Curriculum Development Lead, CoderZ
Presented by Marjorie Frank, HMH Into Science Co-Author, ELD Specialist, and Adjunct Faculty of Hunter, Manhattan, and Brooklyn Colleges
Moderated by Whitney Yaple, Director of K-12 Science Product Marketing, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt