Use the "Brain Rules" to Deliver Your Best Learning

The library makerspace is emerging as a powerful vehicle for increasing library visibility and value to the student community. In this session, Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, and Donna Burns, Technology Integrator, of New Canaan High School in Connecticut, feature how reorganization and materials selection helped one learning community fully embrace “making” across disciplines and grade levels.Participants can expect to learn strategies that will grow maker culture. This session is of particular benefit to K-12 librarians, teachers, and administrators, and is designed to empower educators to lead transformational learning through making regardless of where they are on the maker continuum.

Susan Manos is the Director of Learning & Development for Corporate Quality Assurance at Procter & Gamble and has more than 10 years of experience in building and sustaining a global learning program for Quality Assurance employees and their colleagues at P&G. She has a bachelor’s degree in Organizational Leadership and Supervision from Purdue University. She has also earned the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) credential from the Association for Talent Development (ATD).Susan’s current L&D interests are all about providing opportunities for learning without a huge time commitment, oftentimes leading her right down the rabbit hole!

When you’re the one in the trenches, it’s easy to feel like teaching is an undervalued profession. But educators on the front lines are in a better position than anyone else to have a true, lasting impact on the next generation. So how do you remind teachers that their efforts really matter? How can you motivate your teachers so they can motivate your students? In her upcoming webinar, the three-time best-selling author will walk you through collective teacher efficacy — the overwhelming power that school teams have to impact change when they collaborate to solve problems.

The teacher-researcher partnership is discussed as key to connecting learning sciences research to practice. But what does an authentic partnership look like? This edWebinar explores the unique collaboration between Pooja Agarwal, Ph.D. and Patrice Bain, Ed.S., one that is true to the rigors of cognitive science and also practical with today’s teachers in mind.Look at their partnership through the lens of their work in retrieval practice, spacing, and metacognition as a way for learners to improve their memory for schoolwork and exams and reduce test-taking stress.