Giving Students Choice at Strategic Moments in a Learning Cycle

Presented by Kareem Farah, Former Educator, Current CEO and Co-Founder, Modern Classrooms Project; and Dr. Catlin Tucker, Best-Selling Author, International Trainer, and Keynote Speaker

Sponsored by The Modern Classrooms Project

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Education is often dictated by many outside forces: pacing guides and school board priorities, political decisions, and parental preferences. We know that student voice and choice are essential to supporting motivation, engagement, and academic success, but supporting that choice can sometimes feel daunting. Doing so in a way that is meaningful, sustainable, and positively impacts student learning can feel next to impossible.

In this edWebinar, education leaders Dr. Catlin Tucker and Kareem Farah explore what meaningful, motivational choice in a classroom setting actually looks like and how and when educators can implement opportunities for choice at strategic moments in the student learning cycle.

This recorded edWebinar is of interest to K-12 teachers and school and district leaders.

About the Presenters

Kareem Farah earned a B.A. in finance from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.A. in secondary education from Johns Hopkins University. After joining Teach For America in 2013, he spent six years teaching in schools that support students with a high diversity of academic and social-emotional needs in Hawaii and Washington, DC. Kareem was awarded the 2018 Standing Ovation Award for Excellence in Classroom Innovation for his blended, self-paced, mastery-based approach to teaching and learning. Kareem’s work has been featured in Edutopia and CBS News, among other local and national outlets. He tweets regularly about education at @KareemFarah23.

Dr. Catlin Tucker is a best-selling author, international trainer, and keynote speaker. She was named Teacher of the Year in 2010 in Sonoma County, where she taught for 16 years. Dr. Tucker earned her doctorate in learning technologies from Pepperdine University. Currently, she is working as a blended-learning coach, education consultant, and professor in the Master of Arts in Teaching program at Pepperdine University. Dr. Tucker has written a series of best-selling books on blended learning, which include The Complete Guide to Blended Learning, Balance With Blended Learning, and Power Up Blended Learning. She is active on Twitter @Catlin_Tucker and writes an internationally ranked blog.

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