LessonCast

09/06/2022

Innovative professional development experiences. Transformative collaboration. Sustainable student and teaching outcomes.✨ Lessoncast helps educators and professionals spark curiosity in the classroom and bring the joy back to learning!

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12/15/2018

Resources for culturally responsive pedagogy and conversations about equity and anti-racism.

A Children's Book List for Anti-Racist Activism

06/05/2018

For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
- James Baldwin

09/13/2017

Lessoncast is proud to be a National Collaborator with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and their Network for Transforming Educator Preparation (NTEP). Today NTEP published the first compilation of lessons learned from the charge in Transforming Educator Preparation. Get the full report and hear our own stories from the field of how Lessoncast is helping transform educator preparation because "when teachers learn better - students learn more".

CCSSO lessons learned helping teacher prep meet new demands. Includes how National Collaborator Lessoncast partners to help educator prep programs w/ results.

09/13/2017

It seems disastrous Hurricanes coinciding with back-to-school season may be the new normal. New Orleans taught us lessons that cities might survive the hurricane but be devastated by a storm surge of educational opportunist. Storms will inevitably come; the tragedy is that avoidable manmade disasters will follow unless someone protects the vulnerable.

Katrina (and now maybe Harvey and Irma) attracted educational opportunists who looked past children and families Storms will inevitably come; the tragedy is that avoidable manmade disasters will fo…

09/13/2017

Great video on a huge misconception about common core math. Full disclosure: As a parent I hated my kids experience with this! But it wasn't common core's fault. I hated it because it was an entirely new way of thinking about math taught by a teacher who wasn't equipped with a correspondingly new way of teaching and assessing mathematical ability. So much of changing the way our schools work is a teacher education problem. More on that tomorrow...

08/22/2017

It's that time of year again and Lessoncast has hit its stride helping PD leaders with the heavy lifting of creating and executing a year-long PD plan that get buy-in and gets results!

It’s that time of the year again! As we get ready for the start of the school year, professional development leaders everywhere - whether leading PD for a school, district, region, or state - are making yearlong professional development plans in hopes that by improving adult learning we can impact s...

04/08/2016

Lessoncast announces new tools for leaders of professional learning communities. Grow you own professional development with the missing platform for schools to continuously improve their teacher education practices, and connect them to student learning challenges. Sign up for our free summer evaluation

04/08/2016

Lots of professional development takes place over the summer, but how are you leveraging that professional growth and teacher expertise in a way that support...

04/08/2016

Are you charged with leading PD for teachers over the summer? We've been there. We know how hard it is to coordinate meaningful experiences for your best teachers. We also know that capturing this time with them is immensely valuable once the new school years starts and the focus shifts to newly hired and developing teachers. We're launching a FREE summer PD program designed to help teacher-leaders capture what they've learned in ways that create learning resources for others and allow schools to grow their own PD.

Lots of professional devlopment takes place over the summer, but how are you leveraging that professional growth and teacher expertise in a way that supports teacher learning throughout the year?