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Online Conference
The CAAASA Professional Development Conference on Equity and Social Justice
October - December 2018
Up Next
Session 1
Tuesday, Nov 27 8:00 pm EST
Grades 9-12
Claire Trouard Carencro High School, Academy of Information Technology Director, shares how she engages parents to help cultivate and secure life-changing internships for her students.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
Sessions
Tuesday, Dec 4 8:00 pm EST
Tuesday, Dec 11 8:00 pm EST
Organizing “Career Lunches” that establish lasting connections between students and industry leaders
Jasmine Smith shares how she builds and maintains her advisory board by organizing student-hosted lunches with industry leaders.
Grades 9-12
Sessions
Wednesday, Dec 5 8:00 pm EST
Wednesday, Dec 12 8:00 pm EST
Enlisting industry partners to bring real-life expertise to your career-academy classroom
Sharrell Howard shares how she engages industry partners to support her career-academy classroom and grow and strengthen her advisory board.
Grades 9-12
Sessions
Thursday, Dec 6 8:00 pm EST
Thursday, Dec 13 8:00 pm EST
Inspiring students to give back to their community by preparing income tax returns through the IRS VITA program
Sue Bahrenberg shares how she turns her high-school finance students into VITA-certified tax preparers who provide free basic income-tax-return preparation to individuals in their community.
Grades 9-12
Sessions
Wednesday, Dec 12 8:00 pm EST
Wednesday, Dec 19 8:00 pm EST
Encouraging students to explore new cultures in ways that foster their critical thinking, independence, and collaboration.
Meirav Kravetz shares how bringing her students in contact with a new culture and its citizens helps them to become better critical thinkers and more independent and collaborative learners.
Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
PODCASTS
Aven Cook
Learn about Aven Cook and her experiences as a new teacher in Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky. Aven is a second-year Englis...
Celine Coggins interview
Celine Coggins, founder of TeachPlus, talks with Dr. Vicki Phillips about her life as a teacher, a policy advocate, and an author. Celine has spent...
Interview with Susan Rodgerson
Susan Rodgerson is Founder and Executive Director of Artists for Humanity, a Boston-based non-profit organization that provides youth with keys to ...
Interview with Margaret Noble
Margaret Noble is an artist and teacher at San Diego’s High Tech High, a network of schools that focus on personalization, an adult world connectio...
Interview with David Berg from Big Picture
David Berg is currently the Director of Technology for Big Picture – a network of schools that puts students at the center of their learning...
Learning Is Open Podcast with Gary Stager
Gary Stager is a leading expert and advocate for computer programming, robotics, and learning by doing. He is co-author of Invent to Learn – ...
Learning is Open Podcast with Bob Lenz
Bob Lenz is Executive Director of the Buck Institute for Education, the premier professional development organization for project based learning. H...
Interview with Bob Regan from Big History Project
Bob Regan is Director of Education at the Big History Project, a free online educational resource that was inspired by the work of historian David ...
Paul Barnwell On Writing for Outside the Education Community
Paul Barnwell talks with Val Brown about writing to influence audiences beyond the education community. In this episode, an accomplished author who...
VIDEOS OF PRACTICE
Introducing open-ended problem solving to engage students in mathematical procedures and outcomes.
Traditionally, teaching problem-solving in mathematics includes presenting students with “closed problems” that encourage them to follow a single p...
Grades K-2, Grades 3-5
Using author’s craft to build student comprehension and to model writing.
Looking at literature closely helps build comprehension and eventually students can use the strategies they identify in their own writing. In my ca...
Grades K-2, Grades 3-5
Employing “interactive modeling” to teach students the procedures for math word problems.
Employing “interactive modeling” to teach students the procedures for math word problems.
Grades K-2, Grades 3-5
Preparing students for mathematical problems by introducing real-world contexts connected to their lives
Preparing students for mathematical problems by introducing real-world contexts connected to their lives
Grades 9-12
Using backward planning to create rubrics with students that better assess their learning needs.
Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
Using cloud-based apps to help students collaborate and share their writing.
Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12