Due to school closures caused by Covid-19 starting in March 2020, educators around the U.S. have had to scramble to get their classrooms ready for remote learning with limited time and advice. Learn …
Achieve C.L.A.S.S. Pre-K Success with Swivl
If your Head Start uses C.L.A.S.S. as its assessment method, Swivl’s tools are designed to provide evidence for each of CLASS’s three major competency areas: Emotional Support, Classroom …
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Getting Started with a Video Program
You need a plan. Buying a Swivl was the easy part. For a video plan to work it needs strategic and meaningful goals. Implementing a video program requires leadership and vision, so ask yourself: What …
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Positive Video Recording Practices in Schools
We get it. Recording videos in the classroom can be stressful for students, teachers and parents alike. Swivl is here to help everyone become comfortable with video by offering some suggestions for …
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Student Empowerment Part 2
Authors Rick Jetter, Ph.D. and Rebecca Coda provide the justifications for and strategies to make your organization dependent on student input for genuine transformation felt by everyone from school …
Student Empowerment Part 1
This was one of a two-part webinar series that explores strategies for encouraging more authentic student voice in your class and promoting student agency in the decision making processes that …
Exploring Language Acquisition Skills and Instruction through Video Observation
If you teach, research, or otherwise serve students in the following areas, this webinar is for you: foreign languages, ELL, indigenous language immersion and preservation, or speech pathology. …
21st Century Skills
Jeremy Shaw is an Instructional Technology Coach in Snow Hill, NC, who is presenting on using technology and small group lesson formats to build 21st Century skills in students. Blog …
The Privacy and Security of our Kids
I am a dad of two kids in middle school. Every day they are exposed to new technological experiences, and every day I ask myself -- Am I doing everything I can to protect them? I worry about their …
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Using Multi-Camera to Investigate How Infants Learn to Talk by Rachel Albert
As a developmental scientist, my challenge is filming parent-infant interaction in naturalistic settings to understand how infants learn language. Capturing high quality speech recordings from infants …