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Check in Conference role play

Look! A conference with Dylan Wiliam, Thomas Guskey, and our own Bob Dillon, among others! Good company there.

Tons of links to some great presentations and resources from Texas conference

This blog post challenged my thinking about how teachers want to learn. There aren't solutions or answers given. It calls out that "fun" conferences are gaining attention with teachers and this is interesting to pay attention to.

"Twiddla is a no-setup, web-based meeting playground. Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly."

Guide for 1:1 check ins

"These short videos are designed to shift the conversation, to prompt a deeper, more authentic discussion about issues of racial equity in schools. Made during the 2017 National Teacher Leadership Conference, State Teachers of the Year and other educators speak from the head and the heart, sharing their experiences and their ideas about how to move forward."

Excellent perspective and suggested solutions around how to proceed with student learning. The phrase "learning loss" is problematic for various reasons and also impacts the kinds of solutions that are generated. Excerpt: How we define problems shapes the solutions we develop to solve them. Casting the academic impacts of COVID as "learning loss" is no different. As Steve Holmes, superintendent at Sunnyside Unified School District, a high-poverty, urban district in Tucson, AZ, warned at a conference last month, "No one loses learning, but it becomes part of the narrative and rhetoric. It drives ideas, and more importantly it drives solutions."