Dr. Michelle Magallanez, Head of Special Projects at AVID Center, talks about the importance of STEM and computer science and her personal journey to being an advocate for these fields.
Review the final step of the ANSWERS Inquiry Process, which focuses on preparing students to effectively share their new learning with an audience.
Unpacking Education cohost Paul Beckermann shares some of the key things he’s learned throughout his career as an educator.
Explore strategies that guide students to review their work, reflect on possible improvements, and then revise their products to make them better.
The podcast team celebrates 200 episodes of Unpacking Education and Tech Talk For Teachers by looking back at highlights and looking toward the future of education.
Explore how students can elaborate and express their learning by analyzing, synthesizing, and interpreting their research as well as how they might communicate those findings.
Unpacking Education cohost Rena Clark shares the insights that she’s gained during her career in education.
Review two key elements of weaving information together: the critical consumption of information and the process of note-taking and making connections.
Chrissy Ziccarelli joins us to explain how Girls Who Code is supporting girls and women in the fields of computer science and coding as well as how you can get involved.
Review five ways that students can search and seek out credible information to support their inquiry questions.
Dr. Kelly Camak Niccolls explains how the five elements of revelatory assessment can make assessment more personal, narrational, relational, iterative, and reciprocal.
Review how to have students gain general background knowledge about their topic and develop a research plan by noting the possibilities available to them.
Shannon McClintock Miller joins us to talk about the role of future ready librarians and how every person in a school system fits into the Future Ready Framework.
Explore the first step of the ANSWERS inquiry process and learn how to have students generate questions that drive their learning.
Dé Kwaan Wynn shares how he overcame a traumatic childhood experience and behavior issues in school to graduate with honors and earn a master’s degree.