CNUSDEdChat

We chat with historian Hardy Brown II, a Leader in historical empathy, Collector of Historical Freedom artifacts, Underground Railroad tours for educators, the Chairman of the Black Voice Foundation, and member of the San Bernardino County Board of Education. After listening to this episode, head over to our Facebook page or go to https://youtu.be/GF1yb0YBSIw to watch our first ever “Talking After the Show”.

Lifelong learner and educator, Dr. Molly McCabe, shares how the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework and guiding principles ensure that we strive to remove barriers for all learners, always obtain student and family feedback, and create expert learners. Dr. McCabe offers her advice for what to hold important whether we are in remote school, hybrid, or in person-- all during a pandemic! Dr. Molly McCabe is Director of Instructional Services at the Riverside County Office of Education (RCOE) and is a professor at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology. Note: This interview was recorded in early December of 2020 while California was still under a stay at home order due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the time between the recording and release of this episode, the stay at home order was lifted and many school districts' opening plans, including those of CNUSD, were changed.

We chat with educators Dr. Trudy Arriaga, Dr. Stacie Stanley, and Dr. Delores Lindsey. Our guests are the authors of Leading While Female: A Culturally Proficient Response for Gender Equity. They discuss their inspiration for the book as well as their recent research on gender equity in educational leadership. Listen to learn the pitfalls, pipelines, and pathways that exist for females in education and what we are all called to do about it.

In the context of the current pandemic, persistent inequities, and recent civil unrest, our CNUSDEdChat team invited long-serving advocates for equity and cultural proficiency, Dr. Delores Lindsey and Dr. Randall Lindsey, to help us process our own emotions, to examine our own values, assumptions, and beliefs, and to help us support our community of educators and learners. The Lindseys are founders of The Center For Culturally Proficient Educational Practice.

Dr. Ivy Ewell Eldridge chats with Central Michigan University professor and author, Troy Hicks, a super advocate of ways to teach and enhance the process of writing through the use of digital tools. He encourages educators to nurture our students’ curiosity, openness, flexibility, persistence, engagement, and responsibility as they engage in the writing process.

Kate chats with colleagues Tiffany Vosberg, Patricia Krcmar, and Paaru Kwiatkowski who are Instructional Coaches for Elementary Math in the Corona-Norco Unified School District. They discuss a new model for mathematics instruction and fostering math mindsets. In our second ever lightning round, they provide useful activities and resources for both educators and families.

We chat with passionate educator Michael Hughes as he shares how he empowers our littlest of students with choice, voice, and creativity. Michael Hughes is an innovative transitional kindergarten and kindergarten teacher in Corona-Norco Unified School District. He was also named Riverside County Teacher of the Year in 2019.

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In this episode, Kim sits down with Dr. Katie Novak to discuss the importance of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) a framework that embraces all students and acknowledges the potential barriers imposed by our educational practices. Dr. Novak encourages listeners to consider UDL as a buffet in which all learners have the potential to be successful through choice and support. Dr. Novak eloquently states that it is not our students who are disabled, it is our educational system that is disabling. She challenges educators to consider how we can proactively design a lesson or unit so that all students have equal opportunities to learn.

In this episode, Jenny interviews Dr. Michelle Barrios and Sussan Ortega, members of the Corona-Norco USD English Learner and Equity Department. Sussan and Michelle speak to the beauty and the challenge for teachers, schools and families in supporting English Language Learners. They remind educators that our English Language Learners bring a whole range of assets and diversity that contributes to the richness in our classrooms.

Kim sits down with the CNUSD edtech innovation team, Director Joe Fuertsch, Laurel Kirchhoff and Roni MacDonald, as they chat about exciting tech tools to enrich student learning. This episode features advice for teachers looking to give tech a try in the classroom and inspiring innovators to follow on social media. Take a listen and learn how you can use technology to tell your story and cultivate an equitable classroom environment.

You may recognize our guest from his active twitter feed, guest appearance on Good Morning America and The View, and not so small photo-op in People magazine, but more than that, Nicholas Ferroni is an educator who seeks to empower both teachers and students. In this episode, Ferroni sits down with Kate to discuss the power of his social experiments in engaging his students and how he uses his national presence to advocate and bring awareness to teachers and the critical work they do for our future generations.

How do we prepare students for a world that we know is changing? Jennifer Fletcher shares her work with teaching for transfer, teaching rhetoric in an information saturated world, and teaching for “adaptability rather than compliance.”

Looking for more ways to be innovative in your practice? Listen in to lead innovators, researchers and fellow EDUpodcasters Dr. Katie Martin and A.J. Juliani speak to what it means to be innovative in 21st century education. Together they share the must do's and may do's for teachers and administrators when it comes to practical innovation at any school site. Dr. Katie Martin is the Head of Partnerships-West at Alt School and A.J. Juliani is the Director of Learning and Innovation for the Centennial School District in Pennsylvania.

What do grades actually represent? Should we allow re-takes or assign zeros? In this episode, Corona-Norco USD principal, Dr. Jeremy Goins and teachers, Kathryn Byars and Tracy Gamache, confront traditional grading systems. Together, they share their investigation and exploration of standards based grading.