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New England ISTE News

Late January 2021

SEL From A Distance

Dr. Jessica Djabrayan Hannigan and Dr. John Hannigan

Our students need social and emotional learning more than ever! How can we determine their needs and where do we begin? This session offers tools and best practice processes for social-emotional learning (SEL) that you can implement immediately in any setting. You’ll learn:

• The five SEL competencies and how to implement the easy to use tools and processes for building skills in each

• Tips for identifying, teaching, modeling, and reinforcing SEL skills in any environment

Engaging Learners Online: Digital Learning That Sticks

Bryan Goodwin

For many students and teachers, online and blended learning has often been a joyless, disengaging, frustrating, and fruitless experience. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. When designed with the science of learning in mind, online and blended learning can spark curiosity and fire up their love of learning even more than in-person instruction—making learning easier and more joyful for everyone. Join us for an engaging session featuring important insights and practical strategies from the new ASCD book Learning that Sticks that you can use right away to create learning experiences that challenge and engage your students—no matter where learning takes place.

Making Inquiry Work Online K16

Kimberly Mitchell

Kimberly shares how she uses the five inquiry strategies (Get Personal; Stay Curious; Ask More, Talk Less; Encourage Evidence; Extend Thinking Time) from her book Experience Inquiry to keep kids curious online. Together we will practice easy-to-implement activities like the Question Formulation Technique, Conversation Partners, Appreciative Inquiry question routines, and Spiral Journaling.

Launch Open Inquiry Online and Offline
Turner Bohlen and Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Learn how to help students become self-directed learners and effective team problem-solvers, all online and offline! Teaching methods should be action-oriented, give students agency, train careful observation of their world, and encourage an optimistic mindset. In this mini-master class you’ll learn about inquiry-based projects and how to overcome roadblocks to student engagement. We’ll share our full structure and process, covering from student choice of topic all the way to project completion.

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AR/VR for Young Learners
Jaime Donally

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Enhancing Student Engagement
and Retention Through Sketchnoting

Lorraine Kasyan

Lorraine's Sketchnoting Wakelet

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From Pandemic to Prepared:
Best Practices in 2020s Shifting
Educational Landscape
Alma, a New England ISTE Mission Sponsor

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K-12 and HigherED Resources for Moving Learning Online

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Upcoming Conferences

ACTEM Spring Leadership Conference
NEISTE Innovation Summit
Vita-Learn Dynamic Landscapes
ISTE 21 - San Antonio?

Podcasts

The “Course of Mind” podcast will explore evidence-based strategies for teaching the whole child and creating engaging and effective educational experiences for learners.

Digital Wish has Donors Ready to Give Hotspots and Laptops to Schools in Need!

Nonprofit Digital Wish is solving the digital divide and they have donors ready to give! Nationwide, 11 million students don’t have connectivity at home and can’t participate in distance learning.

Tell us what you need. Do your schools have students who need internet connectivity at home? Please take this 10-question survey and tell Digital Wish how many hotspots and computing devices you need to connect all your students from home. Digital Wish is working right now to match schools with donors. There is funding available now. Take this quick survey here: MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "app.blh441.net" claiming to be https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Tech_Divide

February Resource Package

Hello Partners of Common Sense Education,

I hope this email finds you well as you navigate the first few weeks of 2021. If we know anything, it's that educators continue to show up and support their students and school communities, despite any challenging circumstances and events they face. I want to take a moment to say thank you. You inspire us.

The content package for February 2021 has been added to this Google spreadsheet. In addition to the resources listed for educators, I want to highlight two family-focused resources that you may find useful:

Age-based tips and questions to have conversations as a family about the events at the Capitol, in English/en español.
On Wide Open School, we have curated activities to promote Winter Wellness. We are also working on engaging, free content for Black History Month so please check out MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "app.blh441.net" claiming to be www.wideopenschool.org at the end of the month for new curated activities.