“Cultivating Compassion Through Creativity!” Using VIDEO and a Green Screen
Have you found a curiosity on how to use video lessons in your school or even virtual classroom? Are you CURIOUS on how you may utilize a Green Screen or video production to teach MINDFULNESS and SEL skills? If you answered “YES!”, then this session is for YOU! We as educators are always looking for […]
BOBs- Sure Things in Unsure Times
For many years, I have been developing projects that I call BOBs (Building Outside the Blocks projects) that help students build skill, autonomy, community, and connection to self. I have been sharing these projects with teachers around the world for students in Grades 3-12. When remote learning hit, the best way to sustain the community […]
Centralizing Student Wellness in The Virtual Classroom and Beyond
“Maslow before Bloom”—a phrase that continues to weigh heavily on educators, especially during these challenging times. While there is no true replacement for face-to-face connection at the classroom level, a wellness-centered approach to teaching is attainable through virtual learning as well. Join PDSB teacher Timea Szoboszlai as she shares how her simple #MindfulMonday icebreakers evolved […]
Remixing Leadership and Culture with The Pepper Effect
Using the elements from my book, #ThePepperEffect, I will share the application of Belief in Vision, Belief in Collaborators, Belief in Your Masterpiece, and Ignoring Naysayers as a way to ignite inspired action for all educators. The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in. Loading…
STEM Beyond Expectations
We all know the importance of STEM to prepare students for jobs of the future. According to tech giants like Google, however, more important than STEM skills are soft skills like flexibility, empathy, and collaboration. Is it possible to develop STEM skills and soft skills typically associated with SEL, simultaneously? We’d argue you might already […]
THE HEART OF THE LYNX: How Coding Nurtures Social-Emotional Learning
Our new curriculum recognizes the impact of social-emotional learning (SEL) on mathematical processes. Free CanCodeToLearn resources link math & coding to art, social studies & global competencies in a project approach. Explore dispositions inherent in coding that nurture SEL & discover options for support in your classroom. Lynx is a text-based coding environment made in […]
The Importance of Ethics in Data Science: How Students and Teachers can Learn the Importance of Being Human Through Computational Thinking
Make mistakes, accept failure, persevere, collaborate, empathize and consider someone else’s perspective! K-12 students are encouraged to be human in their everyday learning environments. However, integrating learning design to develop these learning outcomes is a lot harder to do. Open data science and open source programming is premised on the idea of a shared learning […]
The Mentoree: A Suppostive Mentorship Community
The Mentoree is a community that supports professional learning and efficacy through different forms of supportive mentorship. In this workshop, we will share some definitions of mentorship and the mentorship models currently on the education landscape, showing why The Mentoree is unique. Additionally, we will illustrate why this growing mentorship community is a place where […]
Virtual Playdates: Social Connections & Learning Through A Screen
The Kindergearten Program Document supports play-based learning, so what happens when school moves online? We explored small group virtual playdates to help support social-emotional expectations, as well as linking literacy and math to learning done at home. Hear about a few of our experiences as well as talk about other virtual playdate possibilities for kindergarten […]