Join Kimberly as she walks you through a five-step process for breathing new life and inquiry into any unit you teach ("inquiryfying"). Learn practical and research-based approaches for building stronger emotional bonds, sharing your own curiosity, helping students ask more and better questions, using provocations to help students make, analyze and defend claims, and reflect deeply.

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Welcome From EduSpark

Welcome from Kimberly

Welcome

Your Education Philosophy

Getting Started

Storytelling

Get Personal

Authentic Teacher Questions

Stay Curious

Key Questions QFT

Ask More; Talk Less

Provocations

Encourage Evidence

Spiral Journaling

Extend Thinking Time

Course Feedback And Comments

Continue Learning

What's Next?

Course Rating (for impact) and Feedback Form

Course Feedback and Comments

Inquiry-Based Unit Planning

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Kimberly Mitchell

What if we taught Gen-Z how to talk – and listen – to each other? R.E.A.L.® trains teachers to do exactly that. We start with four skills: Relate, Excerpt, Ask, and Listen. All R.E.A.L.® programs serve teachers and students in tandem — this two-pronged approach is the “secret sauce” behind our impact! Schools design a program that reflects their vision and needs by choosing among several options for both PD & Curriculum. We’re here to help you dream big and get tactical when it comes to designing a great-fit discussion skills curriculum. Take a look through our course to learn more and reach out to liza@realdiscussion.org with any questions!

Meet Liza + R.E.A.L. Discussion

Why Discussion Skills are Mission Critical for Your School

The R.E.A.L. Program: Classroom Footage, PD + Materials Previews

Results, Reflections + An Invitation!

R.E.A.L. Discussion: Teaching Gen-Z how to talk - and listen - to each other

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Liza Garonzik

When early childhood educators think about digital citizenship, it may feel like a very abstract concept to begin teaching with such a young age group. What many don't realize is that teaching digital citizenship may not be as foreign as you may think! There are certain skills and ideas that we can begin looking into that are crucial in preparing students for the future. This session will share ways you can begin teaching these concepts through an early learning lens and lay a strong foundation for our littlest learners.

Welcome from Pana

Let's Get Started!

What is Digital Citizenship?

Problem One: Building Independence and Fluency

Problem Two: Device Handling

Problem Three: Managing Pop-Ups

Problem Four: Photos

Problem Five: Pausing

Problem Six: Not Completing a Task

Addressing Common Problems

What Other Gaps do you Need to Fill?

Course Wrap Up

Digital Citizenship in Early Childhood

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Pana Asavavatana

As you explore the three modules, you’ll reflect on the power of daily teacher read alouds to develop a community of learners and boost students’ vocabulary and listening capacity.  The list of ten ways your daily read alouds become teaching tools includes enlarging background knowledge, understanding how diverse genres work, using context clues to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar words, developing an understanding of literary elements such as protagonist and theme as well as questioning techniques for discussing texts.  

Explore several resources that support students’ reading such as using Blooms Taxonomy to move from right there text questions to high level thinking such as synthesizing and analyzing and a chart of before, during, and after reading strategies.  Reflect on how to use a teacher’s notebook to model responses to reading for students and establish expectations for their writing about reading.  

In module 3, you’ll observe how you can use one text as a teaching tool for multiple purposes. By studying the think-alouds embedded in a short fairy tale, “The King and the Shirt” by Leo Tolstoy, you’ll be able to develop similar lessons for your students.   Each module contains the research that supports specific teaching ideas and closes with a video by Laura Robb and Evan Robb. You’ll also read a section called “Reflect and Connect” that invites you to try a strategy and then discuss your experiences with colleagues and students.  You can also use an EduSpark link to contact others taking this course. 

The estimated amount of time to complete Read Alouds: Multiple Teaching Opportunities is about 2 hours.  How you move through the content of a course is your choice: you can complete a few modules and pause or pause after each module. The point is to develop a plan that works for your style of learning and try to reserve time to reflect, pose questions, and reread parts to clarify your understandings.   

Welcome from Laura and Evan

Course Overview

The Power of Daily Read Alouds

Module 1 Reflection from Laura and Evan

Teacher Read Alouds

Multiple Interactive Read Alouds: Powerful Teaching Tools

Resources for Teachers and Students

Laura and Evan discuss Teacher Notebooks

Benefits of Interactive Read Alouds

Interactive Read Alouds: One Text, Multiple Uses

Module 3 Reflection from Laura and Evan

Interactive Read Alouds

Course Wrap Up with Laura and Evan

Continue Learning with Laura and Evan

Read Alouds: Multiple Teaching Opportunities

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Laura Robb

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Evan Robb

In this course Lindsay shares 3 key ways to create unit plans in a more sustainable way. If you would like to dig deeper into this concept and have Lindsay walk you through the process step-by-step, explore her Pro course Curriculum Boot Camp.  

Designing Units to Engage Students and Advance Justice

What's next?

Course Rating (For Impact) And Feedback Form

How to Design Units That Engage Students and Advance Justice

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Lindsay Lyons

Reinvigorate your appetite for professional learning

So you've had the recouperative rest that we so very much need when we finish a school year, and your mind is beginning to (maybe) wander to what to focus on for next year.

This is a free 'course' that will host and house free live sessions from a selection of our fabulous creator faculty, sometimes in a 'taster' or introductory format, othertimes more Q&A. 

If you like the message and delivery of these creators, each of the sessions lead to opportunities for further learning with the creator in existing EduSpark courses.

We'll even throw in a Pro Access trial , just in case the creator c'sourse is a Pro course.

Welcome to our Summer Series of Learning

For those folk new here, an introduction to EduSpark

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How this works!

Permanent Live Session Link Explanation

Summer Series Live Sessions

New Live Sessions 'Perma Link' (From Aug 1)

Meet Cheryl

Live Session Recording

Cheryl Doig - Futures Literacy (June 14, NZ)

Meet Chad

Summer Series interview with Chad LeDune July 13 (US), July 14 (APAC)

Session Recording

Chad LeDune - Problem Solving and Life Skills by Design (July 13, US)

Meet Sammy

Building Online Communities with Sammy White

The Session Recording!

Sammy White - Growing Online Communities (July 21, UK)

Meet Gillian

Re-Imagining Leadership

Gillian's session recording

Gillian Judson - The Surprising Yet Powerful Place of Imagination in Leadership (July 27, Canada)

Meet Erika

Meet Tricia

Tricia Fuglestand & Erika Sandstrom - Using Animation to Teach Social Emotional Learning (August 3, US)

All Courses

Inquiry-Based Unit Planning

R.E.A.L. Discussion: Teaching Gen-Z how to talk - and listen - to each other

Digital Citizenship in Early Childhood

Read Alouds: Multiple Teaching Opportunities

How to Design Units That Engage Students and Advance Justice

Summer Series Live Learning Events