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Nuts & Bolts Webinar: The Educational Ecosystem from All Directions: A Conversation with Dr. Eduardo Padrón
A conversation with Dr. Edwardo Padrón, President Emeritus of Miami Dade College and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He shares his journey as a teenage refugee, influential faculty member, and college president recognized for making college more accessible and affordable for all.
Nuts & Bolts Webinar: A Fathers Place: The Important Role Fathers and Families Have in their Child's Education
When fathers are involved in their child’s life, research shows they are more likely to do well in school, have healthy self-esteem, and exhibit positive social behaviors. This webinar will showcase how participants can effectively engage fathers and families to positively impact student outcomes.
Nuts & Bolts Webinar: Family Engagement: Enhance, Unify, and Amplify
The National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement shared their highly anticipated Family Engagement Core Competencies. Based on over 3 years of research, these competencies bring together the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that family facing professionals can utilize.
Nuts & Bolts Webinar: Cultural Reciprocity: Leaning Forward, Not Bending Over Backwards
Cultural reciprocity is an approach that goes beyond the concept of cultural competence. By seeking to learn about the beliefs of family members and reciprocally explaining professional assumptions and beliefs, mutual respect can be established. This process results in genuine collaboration.
Nuts & Bolts Webinar: Community Learning Exchange: The Alchemy of Building the Nuts and Bolts of Engagement
This plática/conversation is grounded in assets-based development and will highlight the values, tools, and processes for transforming communities from within. This webinar uses a dynamic-critical pedagogy to disrupt the status quo and mobilize a sustainable, pedagogy, inquiry, and change process.
Nuts & Bolts Webinar: Looking Back, Looking Around, Looking Forward: The Ecosystem Approach to Education
This engages a panel of three extraordinary educational leaders: Dr. Ira Murray, Mr. Jermar Rountree, and Mr. Kurt Russell who discuss history of schools, the current landscape, and the future of classrooms. They also highlight an ecosystem approach focusing on communities.
BranchED seeks to support individual educator preparation programs (EPPs) and the field at large in reimagining and redefining “quality” preparation programs such that attention to issues of diversity and equity are explicit, embedded, and inextricably linked to high-quality performance.
The Resource Portal was created to support our community by providing resources such as instructional materials, online modules, podcasts, practice-based learning opportunities, research briefs, teaching video library, tool/toolkit, and webinars.