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Join us to hear from AI visionaries and education leaders on building future-ready schools.
Join us for an engaging and informative series, "Focus on Learning Recovery," designed to support educators, administrators, and educational stakeholders in addressing the challenges of learning loss, adapting to the new normal, and forging a new way forward. This comprehensive series combines practical advice, strategies to implement tomorrow, and product demonstrations to equip participants with valuable insights, strategies, and tools to address learning loss in their districts.
WATCH ON DEMAND Session 1: Navigating the New Normal: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities to Address Learning Recovery
Recorded Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Several years out, schools are still feeling the effects COVID-19. But until now, research on pandemic-related impacts has largely been focused on students’ academic outcomes and mental health. Little to no research has been published on how students’ subjective experiences of school and learning has changed, despite being a key component of student success.
To fill that knowledge gap, Panorama’s Data Science and Applied Research team completed a three-year study of over 200,000 students’ learning-related experiences during the pandemic. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of its kind. In this session data scientist Sam Moulton will frame our latest pandemic research trends and 2023 National Teacher of the Year, Rebecka Peterson and Dr. Kevin McGowan, National Superintendent of the Year, will offer reflection and reaction to the data, including how educators can anchor on relationships, community, and connection in classrooms to outline a vision for 2023-2024.
Drawing on their expertise, our panelists will discuss key elements involved in effective learning recovery best practices, including identifying opportunities to align “catch-up growth” and “annual growth”, the importance of providing whole child support, and leaning into data-informed decision-making.
Panelists:
Rebecka Peterson, 2023 National Teacher of the Year
Dr. Kevin McGowan, 2023 National Superintendent of the Year, Brighton Central School District
Samuel T. Moulton, Ph.D., Data Science and Applied Research Team, Panorama Education
Moderator:
Takeru "TK" Nagayoshi, Professional Learning Director: Community Events, Panorama Education
WATCH ON DEMAND Session 2: Implementing Evidence-Based Strategies for Learning Recovery
Recorded Wednesday, August 23, 2023
While there’s no silver bullet to addressing learning recovery, educators can implement tried and true strategies that assess their learning gaps, provide targeted interventions, and put students on the path to academic recovery and growth. Led by our Teaching & Learning (T&L) team, this webinar will examine an interventions framework to help you determine how to select interventions in your learning recovery journey. From “Leave One/Add One” to “Student Attendance Plans,” participants will not only learn new evidence-based strategies to implement in their classrooms and school but also how to select interventions that prioritize learning recovery.
Panelists:
Kyla Haimovitz, Director of Education Technology, Digital Promise
Moderators:
Takeru "TK" Nagayoshi, Professional Learning Director: Community Events, Panorama Education
Nick Woolf, Playbook Content Director, Panorama Education
WATCH ON DEMAND Session 3: Live Demo: Interventions and Strategies to Address Learning Recovery
In the final session, we demonstrate how our intervention dashboard provides a holistic picture of student progress that informs opportunities to align "catch-up growth" and "annual growth" of all students. We also share how our MTSS tool, Student Success, can help you identify needed interventions, track student progress, and progress monitor, ensuring implementation fidelity.
With the Panorama Team
2023 National Teacher of the Year
2023 National Superintendent of the Year
Professional Learning Director: Community Events, Panorama Education
Senior Researcher, Panorama Education
Director of Education Technology, Digital Promise
Playbook Content Director, Panorama Education
2023 National Teacher of the Year
2023 National Superintendent of the Year
Professional Learning Director: Community Events, Panorama Education
Senior Researcher, Panorama Education
Director of Education Technology, Digital Promise
Playbook Content Director, Panorama Education
2023 National Teacher of the Year
Rebecka Peterson, the 2023 National Teacher of the Year, is a math teacher who loves stories.
Rebecka has taught high school math classes ranging from intermediate algebra to Advanced Placement calculus, for 11 years at Union High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Amid a difficult first year of high school teaching, she found the “One Good Thing” blog. She credits daily posting there to helping her recognize the beautiful and positive experiences occurring in her classroom, which inspired her to stay in the profession. She has since contributed 1,400 posts to the blog. As Oklahoma Teacher of the Year, she has visited teachers across the state to highlight their important work through the Teachers of Oklahoma campaign.
As National Teacher of the Year, Rebecka plans to use her platform to highlight teachers’ stories of the good that’s happening in education. Teaching is a profession that affords creativity, autonomy and purpose, and Rebecka believes that highlighting the stories of joy happening in classrooms across the country will help encourage current teachers and attract new educators to the profession.
Rebecka is a proud immigrant of Swedish-Iranian descent and lived in several countries around the world as her parents traveled as medical missionaries. Her own experience with supportive teachers who celebrated her diversity and math abilities informs Rebecka’s efforts to create a supportive and accessible classroom for students. She values listening to students’ stories as a way to better understand them and elevate their voice.
Before joining the faculty at Union High School, Rebecka taught for three years at the collegiate level. She holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Oklahoma Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of South Dakota. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her husband, Brett, and son, Jonas, and she enjoys reading, crafting and playing board games.
A suburban superintendent in upstate New York who has deftly handled recent challenges to the school district’s diversity, equity and inclusion work was named the 2023 National Superintendent of the Year at AASA’s National Conference on Education in San Antonio, Texas.
Kevin McGowan, 48, is superintendent of the Brighton Central School District, a first-ring suburb of Rochester, N.Y. He has been Brighton’s superintendent since 2009 and a superintendent in 2006.