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ASCD Professional Learning Community

Member Spotlight

This month we celebrate ASCD Community member Shellon Samuels-White, a 2022 ASCD Emerging Leader and a lecturer and faculty assessor at the Mico University College! Shellon is also hosting our ASCD Leaders Meetup in Kingston, Jamaica in November. Get to know Shellon this month in the ASCD Community!

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Recent Discussions

Honoring the Life and Service of Dr. Jaime Castellano
ASCD shares with sadness and gratitude the passing of our friend and colleague, Dr. Jaime Castellano. Jaime was a longtime supporter of ASCD and a tireless proponent of educating Hispanic/Latino students. You may have known him as an ASCD author and speaker, a leader of our Hispanic/Latino American Critical Issues and…
ECS: How Can States Support Immigrant Students’ Education?
Conversations about immigrant and refugee students often obscure the fact that federal laws — bolstered by court decisions throughout the past few decades — provide newcomer students with the right to a free public education. Specifically, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1982 Plyler v. Doe decision affirmed the…
ASCD Emerging Leader Dan Reichard presents Mentor 360 Teacher Induction Program at VASCD
Dan Reichard EL23 presented "What’s your 360? Inspiring, Empowering, and Preparing All New Teachers to Excel" a session at the Virginia ASCD Annual Conference, sharing the Stafford County Public Schools' Mentor 360 beginning teacher induction program model with participants. Two of his school-based lead mentors joined him…
Brookings Institute: How to improve Government decisionmaking around Edtech
As part of the Research on Scaling the Impact of Innovations in Education (ROSIE) project, we’ve been investigating how government decisionmakers choose education innovations for their countries—and the combination of forces shaping their decisionmaking. Our recent report examined these decision-making processes in low-…
ITIP Ohio announces its 2024 Google Conference
Roger Minier, Affiliate leader for Instructional Technology Integration Partnership (ITIP) Ohio, is pleased to announce its Google Conference 2024 will be held October 28th-29th at the Kalahari Convention Center in Sandusky, Ohio. Send email to roger@itipohio.org to receive a presentation proposal form! See more here.
Coca-Cola Invites You to create a Real Magic Holiday Card using the power of AI!
Cocoa-Cola has launched a new site to generate holiday greeting cards using the power of artificial intelligence (AI). You select a subject, scene, and style and the app will do the rest! Finalize your artwork by adding borders and captions and save it to your personal gallery. From there you can share it with family and…
ASCD Emerging Leader Shellon Samuels-White recognized for her research and scholarship!
Shellon Patrike Samuels-White received a letter of commendation from her department head (in the Department of Professional Studies) and the Dean of the faculty of education for The Mico University College, for her contribution to research and scholarship through her presentation at the ASCD Leadership Meetup on November…
SSIR: The Lobbying for Good Movement
A right that democracies guarantee, lobbying is about providing ideas and sharing concerns with policy makers to make them—and the whole policy process—more responsive. It enables society to tackle the root causes of the major challenges facing us, not their symptoms. In fact, lobbying is one of the most effective ways to…
December 2023 Educational Leadership: Literacy Across the Disciplines
Literacy is not just for language arts and English classes! The December 2023 / January 2024 issue looks at how schools can embed meaningful reading and writing practice in all content areas, exploring both discipline-specific literacy practices and the role of literacy in increasing conceptual understanding and academic…
HBR: A Sports Analogy for Understanding Different Ways to Use AI
The potential impact of generative AI on the economy, society, and work is polarizing, swinging from the positive benefits of a technological revolution to doomsday scenarios. AI tools can range from steroids, to sneakers, to a coach, each representing a different relationship between human users and the technology.…

Trending Discussions

ASCD Emerging Leader Dan Reichard presents Mentor 360 Teacher Induction Program at VASCD
Dan Reichard EL23 presented "What’s your 360? Inspiring, Empowering, and Preparing All New Teachers to Excel" a session at the Virginia ASCD Annual Conference, sharing the Stafford County Public Schools' Mentor 360 beginning teacher induction program model with participants. Two of his school-based lead mentors joined him…
ECS: How Can States Support Immigrant Students’ Education?
Conversations about immigrant and refugee students often obscure the fact that federal laws — bolstered by court decisions throughout the past few decades — provide newcomer students with the right to a free public education. Specifically, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1982 Plyler v. Doe decision affirmed the…
Honoring the Life and Service of Dr. Jaime Castellano
ASCD shares with sadness and gratitude the passing of our friend and colleague, Dr. Jaime Castellano. Jaime was a longtime supporter of ASCD and a tireless proponent of educating Hispanic/Latino students. You may have known him as an ASCD author and speaker, a leader of our Hispanic/Latino American Critical Issues and…
ASCD Emerging Leader Cynthia Jacquet takes on two new Leadership Roles!
Cynthia Jacquet EL23 is a new assistant principal at Sierra High School in the Harrison School District 2. Her new district executive administrators embraced ASCD's model of developing educator leaders by offering CO-ASCD's microcredentials to increase educator capacity. The district's goal is to have as many teachers as…
HBR: A Sports Analogy for Understanding Different Ways to Use AI
The potential impact of generative AI on the economy, society, and work is polarizing, swinging from the positive benefits of a technological revolution to doomsday scenarios. AI tools can range from steroids, to sneakers, to a coach, each representing a different relationship between human users and the technology.…
December 2023 Educational Leadership: Literacy Across the Disciplines
Literacy is not just for language arts and English classes! The December 2023 / January 2024 issue looks at how schools can embed meaningful reading and writing practice in all content areas, exploring both discipline-specific literacy practices and the role of literacy in increasing conceptual understanding and academic…
SSIR: The Lobbying for Good Movement
A right that democracies guarantee, lobbying is about providing ideas and sharing concerns with policy makers to make them—and the whole policy process—more responsive. It enables society to tackle the root causes of the major challenges facing us, not their symptoms. In fact, lobbying is one of the most effective ways to…
ASCD Emerging Leader Shellon Samuels-White recognized for her research and scholarship!
Shellon Patrike Samuels-White received a letter of commendation from her department head (in the Department of Professional Studies) and the Dean of the faculty of education for The Mico University College, for her contribution to research and scholarship through her presentation at the ASCD Leadership Meetup on November…
Coca-Cola Invites You to create a Real Magic Holiday Card using the power of AI!
Cocoa-Cola has launched a new site to generate holiday greeting cards using the power of artificial intelligence (AI). You select a subject, scene, and style and the app will do the rest! Finalize your artwork by adding borders and captions and save it to your personal gallery. From there you can share it with family and…
ITIP Ohio announces its 2024 Google Conference
Roger Minier, Affiliate leader for Instructional Technology Integration Partnership (ITIP) Ohio, is pleased to announce its Google Conference 2024 will be held October 28th-29th at the Kalahari Convention Center in Sandusky, Ohio. Send email to roger@itipohio.org to receive a presentation proposal form! See more here.

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