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In this episode of the Digital Learning Today Podcast, Jeff welcomes Laura Thomas on the program to discuss the 2024 ISTELive conference! If you are a new listener to TeacherCast, we would love to hear from you.  Please visit our Contact Page and let us know how we can help you today!

ISTE 2024 Sessions to Check Out!

• ONSITE ATTENDEE CONTENTChallenge Design: Getting Started and Going Deeper Learn how to design experiential, standards-driven, problem-based challenges that grow with you and your students. This session will introduce you to a process for designing experiences to teach and practice academic content alongside skills and dispositions. Sunday, June 23, 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.Colorado Convention Center, 603
• Higher-Order Thinking Playground — Engage in Critical Creative Thinking Activities and Resources!Monday, June 24, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.Colorado Convention Center, Playground A
• Two Great Things, Better Together: Designing PBL Challenges for SEL & Academics Learn how to design experiential, standards-driven, problem-based challenges that grow with you and your students, designed to teach and practice both academic content and skills and dispositions. Magnify the power of both your SEL & PBL efforts by taking a developmental approach to design, facilitation and assessment. Tuesday,  June 25, 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Colorado Convention Center, Mile High Ballroom 4EF

VIRTUAL ATTENDEE CONTENT

• Challenge Design: Getting started and Going Deeper - Learn how to design experiential, standards-driven, problem-based challenges that grow with you and your students. This session will introduce you to a process for designing experiences to teach and practice academic content alongside skills and dispositions. Sunday, June 23, 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

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About our Guest: Laura Thomas

After nearly a decade of teaching high school English, debate, theatre, and speech, Laura Thomas joined the Education Department faculty at Antioch University New England, first as the assistant director/director of what would become the Antioch Center for School Renewal and later as the director of the Experienced Educators Program, which provides MEds and certificates for working teachers. Laura’s portfolio includes Antioch’s PBL/Critical Skills Classroom concentration (a K–12 teaching methodology that combines project-based learning, social and emotional learning, and 21st-century skills in meaningful, authentic contexts) and its related programs in Integrated STEAM Education and Teaching and Learning Laura’s primary areas of study center on the development of teachers’ assessment and pedagogical approaches, social justice and equity (particularly in rural schools), resistance to change, and student-centered classroom practice. In 2020 she completed a four-year clinical experience as a school librarian in a 60-s