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"Connected Learning TV" (connectedlearning.tv) is a webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision.

http://connectedlearning.tv/connected-curriculum-promoting-interest-powered-learning
How are practitioners successfully adapting the principles and values of Connected Learning into their daily educational practice and learning environments?

CLTV - Connected Curriculum: Promoting Interest-Powered Learning - Oct. 28, 2014

In this first episode of the “Teach the Whole Child” podcast, Steve introduces his teaching approach and describes how it began and how it developed. (10:47) He also shares four of his favorite ways in which teachers can build a strong personal connection with students. These strategies put smiles on children’s faces, offer positive, individual attention to everyone in the class, produce powerful bonding moments, and improve the overall classroom environment.

Podcast Episode #1: 4 Ways to Build a Personal Connection with Students

In his ebook The First Month of School, Steve discusses how important it is for elementary teachers to emphasize four priorities at the beginning of each school year. In this fourth episode of the “Teach the Whole Child” podcast, he narrows his focus to the first hour of school and describes how he begins to address two of these priorities during this critical time. Specifically, Steve shares what the first hour of each new school year looks like in his elementary classroom and explains what he and his students do and why they do it.

Podcast Episode #4: The First Hour of the New School Year

Every day every member of a classroom community has a golden opportunity to powerfully and positively impact others—with kindness, positive energy, gestures of friendship, and other good deeds. When educators encourage strong student-to-student connections, our classrooms become happier places, the need for belonging that all of us have is met, the sense of “connectedness” that children feel to one another and to the class as a whole increases, and greater learning gains result. In this episode Steve shares specific strategies that elementary teachers can use to build strong student-to-student connections.

Podcast Episode #5: How to Build Strong Student-to-Student Connections in Our Classrooms

In this episode Steve explains why movement is such a powerful learning catalyst and describes how movement-based activities engage children on an emotional level, transform the classroom environment, improve student learning, and offer unparalleled novelty, interest, stimulation, excitement, and joy. Steve also introduces a specific type of active learning approach that he calls “concept-embedded” movement and shares five of his favorite concept-embedded activities that help children learn important language arts standards.

Podcast Episode #6: One of the Most Powerful Instructional Strategies Elementary Teachers Can Use

Listen to our full interview with Alexander Lucini to find out what resources teachers need to effectively implement personalized learning in the classroom.

Personalized Learning #3: How to Help Teachers When Redesigning Systems for Personalized Learning

We take a look at how technology can support student-centered learning. This is the first in a two-part look the topic. In our next pod we will hear from educators at ISD's Big Picture school.

The New Tools - Student Centered Learning Pt. 1

Each year at our annual Symposium, Matthew Shea and Courtney Belolan manage the Voices Hub. It’s a recording space set in the Innovation Zone where attendees can drop by and share their thoughts, lessons learned, and process the ideas they’re getting through the conference. Over the next several weeks, we’ll share some of the most thought-provoking and engaging conversations. We start with an interview with Shawn Rubin, our 2017 Innovator Award recipient and Chief Education Officer at the Highlander Institute. He shares an innovative educator prep model and talks about what’s missing from the conversation in the shift toward student-centered learning.

Shawn Rubin on Innovative Educator Prep and Stakeholder Voice

EdTech Times is a digital media company sharing untold stories from the intersection of education, technology, innovation, and work. Through our podcast, we’re passing the microphone to those improving the world through education.

This is a podcast dedicated to exploring how technology can be utilized by teachers as tools to support and improve instruction and learning.

NWP Radio is a podcast of the National Writing Project that features a wide array of guests discussing education-related topics like teaching writing, Connected Learning, Writing Project site development, out-of-school education, science and writing, maker ed, and more.

During his 24-year career as a National Board Certified elementary educator, Steve Reifman has created an approach that engages the whole child and empowers students to achieve academic excellence, build strong character, develop lasting work habits and social skills, and take charge of their health & wellness. 

He is excited to launch his new podcast. (It’s actually more like a TED Talk or workshop presentation than a traditional podcast.) In each episode he will be sharing strategies, stories, tips, and resources that will help fellow elementary educators inspire and empower their students and improve their teaching.

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