AC&E | Back to School 2019

CCSSO    The Council of Chief State School Officers presents   THE NATIONAL TEACHER OF THE YEAR TABATHA ROSPROY .......Congrats to Tabatha, an early childhood educator. How about that! We'll talk with her about her goals for the year as she represents great educators everywhere in this year of remote education. Join the ...
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REAL DATA ON STUDENT SAFETY  2019-20...A REPORT FROM GAGGLE :  We need data more than ever and Gaggle, has it and your district can get it too. With so much remote education, it takes on an even stronger importance. Paget Hetherington, Gaggle Director of Marketing is our guest ...
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THE SCHOOL COUNSELOR'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE REOPENING OF SCHOOL  An ASCA show with two ASCA board members, school counselors both, Geoff Heckman of Platte County MO and  Susan Arvidson of St. Paul MN schools  ...
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MAGNET SCHOOLS DURING COVID : An overview with Todd Mann, Executive Director of  Magnet Schools of America and his special guest, Immediate Past president of the Association Susan King. JOIN THE K12 EQUITY CONSORTIUM AT WWW.ACE-ED.ORG. FREE TO EDUCATORS. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD ...
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MEASURING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT DURING  REMOTE LEARNING :We have the folks with the data on just that. Gotta keep those  kids not just busy but engaged. Friends from  "Catch On", the company that gives you the data explore the subject ...
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A rigorous and engaging curriculum makes all the difference in a child's learning. Dr. David Steiner, Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Education Policy, former NY State Commissioner of Education, and Director of Education at The National Endowment for the Arts, discusses why we need to make ...
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SUPERINTENDENTS VIEW ON EARLY LEARNING IN AMERICA  An AASA show with Supt Ed Manuszak, Dundee MI , cochair of the Early Learning cohort at AASA and Todd Whitlock of "Standards for Success" Join the PreK-12 Equity Consortium today, FREE TO EDUCATORS... at www.ace-ed.org ...
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AESA's Joan Wade is joined by the folks at Iowa's Heartland AEA where, for the 150,000 students  and 10,000 educators they serve, they are creating a curriculum based on social justice and equity ...
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"NOTICE. TALK. ACT." : LEARN ABOUT THE SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM :  HOW IMPORTANT IS THIS NOW AS WE AND THE STUDENTS RETURN TO SCHOOL. From the American Psychiatric Association, their director of social justice programs for schools Chris Seeley and an educator  who  has been trained in this  program ...
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THE SHOAH FOUNDATION  IN YOUR CLASSROOM : Learn and teach anti-racism in your classroom through video testimnony and  the work of this incredible  foundation founded by Steven Spielberg. Director of Education Claudia Ramirez Weideman is our returning guest ...
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An NAGC show  on ways to advocate and also a look at alternatives in these crazy COVID times to be sure gifted kids are getting the education they deserve while education is so caught up in a shuffle of other expectations.   ...
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 REGARDING THE IMPACT OF BUDGET, SEL, DISTANCE LEARNING AND INEQUITIES AS SCHOOLS BEGIN ANEW: We welcome a very learned voice in education, Rich Long, The Executive Director of "Learning First", the organization that works with many professional education  associations nationwide to coordinate actions  and thought leadership ...
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 THE IMPORTANCE OF ONGOING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DURING COVID..AND NEW ONLINE COURSES FOR K12 EDUCATORS NATIONWIDE : It's a brave, new  world of opportunity and chaos out there in education today. We're thrilled to have Dr Bob Spires and Dr Kate Cassada  from the University of Richmond  schools and centers of ...
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EDUCATORS AND THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY:This  is going to be a very interesting show with Dr Inaya Jaafar, a graduate of the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and how that works in her daily job in North Bergen NJ schools  as mental health situations arise ...
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FROM JOHNS HOPKINS  UNIVERSITY : "CENTER FOR EDUCATION POLICY :WHY KNOWLEDGE AND HIGH QUALITY CURRICULUM MATTERS : Meet Dr David Steiner, Executive Director of the Institute, former NY State Commissioner of Education,  and Director of Education at The Nat'l Endowment for the Arts. A rigorous and engaging curriculum makes all the difference in ...
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COSN's NEW "EQUITY at SCALE" REPORT : CoSN has always stood for equity in K12. This new report goes deep..... based on the efforts of CoSN at an Ontario  Canada meeting in December of 2019. Our guests are from Hampton Township schools in PA,  Asst Supt Rebecca Cunnningham and CTO Ed McKavany ...
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BACK TO SCHOOL IN CLAYTON COUNTY GA: HOW TECHNOLOGY IS HELPING IN A COVID YEAR: Meet April Mayo, their Director of Instructional  Technology and from Boxlight-EOS, CEO Alex Leis ...
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CELEBRATING THE 'ACT SCHOLARS' 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY :  Learn about a program that has had tremendous impact on education and individuals with ACT's 'Center  for Equity in Learning' Director Lew Montgomery and ACT scholar Dr Shamira Rothmiller ...
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PREVIEWING  AASA's UPCOMING URBAN SUPERINTENDENTS  CONFERENCE : AASA,The School Superintendents Association, will (virtually) host its 6th annual Urban Superintendents Academy Conference, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. The Academy prepares educators for certification and success in urban and increasingly diverse suburban settings and bolsters the effectiveness of district leadership in those settings ...
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BACK TO SCHOOL 2020 IN MERIDEN ,CT : Listen to long time Supt Mark Benigni, his ass't supe, Mike Grove and the amazing Barb Haeffner, director of teaching and innovation at a district we've visited with many times ; this time about their plans for opening in the craziest back ...
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MUSIC BASED MATH LEARNING :This has been a pet peeve of mine for years...why music isn't incorporated into math education since kids love music and music is mathematics. Finally the great Dr Lana Israel has created MUZOLOGY, a company and program that emphasizes this and she is really something.   ...
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Meet Dr Calvin Moore  Jr., CEO of The Council for Professional Recognition, the accrediation group for professionals in the field ...
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WHY PROACTIVE CARE MATTERS FOR STUDENTS  ..From DeVry Institute, we welcome back Elise Awwad, their VP of Strategic Enrollment. We can all learn from folks who have been doing this for years! ...
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“HELP STUDENTS ENGAGE WITH YOUR CAMPUS VIRTUALLY THIS FALL: PlatformQ Education offers virtual college events and online engagement for prospective and admitted students.”Mallory Willsea,  Vice President, Strategy and Operations at PlatformQ Education is our guest. Help your students plan higher ed ..give a listen ...
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SPECIAL EDUCATION &  THE REOPENING OF SCHOOLS :CASE, The Council of Administrators  of Special Education , bring us their Executive Director Phyllis Wolfram ....and from Essex Junction /Westford VT schools , Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and CASE President, Erin Maguire ...
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COMMUNITY COLLEGES, EQUITY & HIGHER ED IN THE TIME OF COVID: J. Noah Brown of ACCT on how community colleges are reacting to COVID education , enrollment challenges and the financial hit of the pandemic  ...
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An ACE-ED.org EQUITY Consortium Presentation  : AUTHOR /EDUCATOR BRONWYN HARRIS: "LITERALLY UNBELIEVABLE". Having taught in Oakland at an under-resourced school, she saw what's going on first hand and how we can all make it better . Now a thought leader in the field of equity, we welcome Bronwyn to our ...
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Dr. Ashley Rogers Berner is Deputy Director of The Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and Associate Professor at JHU's School of Education, is author of "Pluralism and American Public Education." Listen to part 1 of her interview with Larry Jacobs. Part 2 is here ...
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NEVADA TEAMS WITH DISCOVERY ED STATEWIDE  FOR SOLID LEARNING AND TEACHING , NO MATTER WHERE THIS FALL : We welcome Nevada's State Superintendent Jhone Ebert to discuss how and why the decision was made as we make ready a new school year under COVID conditions ...
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Professor  Berner returns . She's so enjoyable to listen to that you'll want to take notes.Educational pluralism is a structure for school systems in which the government funds and regulates, but does not always operate, elementary and secondary schools. Most democratic school systems are pluralistic. This is a great topic ...
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