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MCIU Learns - The Office of Professional Learning

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The Office of Professional Learning (OPL) podcast showcases educational learning opportunities and collaborations with Pennsylvania school districts, teachers, school leaders, and Montgomery County Intermediate Unit guest speakers.
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In this episode, join Cassie Brusch, Julie Ortlieb, and Brandon Langer as they delve deeper into the heart of accessibility in education, spotlighting innovative strategies and technologies that pave the way for inclusive learning environments. While the primary focus remains on ensuring every student has access to the resources and support they ne…
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Join us in this episode as we explore the role of technology in making learning more accessible. Cassie Brusch and Julie Ortlieb share insights on how digital tools are transforming education, offering flexibility and a variety of learning methods. They discuss the significance accessibility features like speech-to-text in enhancing learning experi…
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Join us in this insightful episode of the OPL Podcast as we continue our conversation with Pia Houseal to discuss the three pivotal goals of MCIU's Project AWARE. Learn how we're enhancing student well-being through Suicide Prevention Training, Mental Health Screening, and Electronic Referral System Development. Tune in to understand how these goal…
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Join us for a deep dive into Project Aware with Pia Houseal and Brandon Langer. In this episode, we uncover how Project Aware is: Empowering Through Awareness: Increasing suicide prevention training for students (K-12) to raise awareness and reduce suicidal tendencies and feelings of depression. Fostering Mental Health Support: Ensuring school dist…
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Dr. Donna Gaffney, Dr. Rebecca Millspaugh, and Brandon Langer from the MCIU are joined by Ryan Winter from LinkIt! to discuss navigating MTSS and data platforms in schools. Listen as they explore the practical side of MTSS implementation and the impact of data-driven decisions on student success.By MCIU Learns - The Office of Professional Learning
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Stephanie Schwab, Erin McCool, and Brandon Langer dive into Environmental Literacy and Sustainability. What does it mean, where is headed in schools, and what will the impact be on students?!? Erin and Steph also share the details about a brand new offering from the Office of Organizational and Professional Learning, the Environmental Mobile Unit. …
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Kicking off season 5, we delve into the challenges faced by high school math teachers, from the constraints of standardized tests to the limited scope of current curricular structures. Discover why the status quo is no longer acceptable and why it's crucial to revamp course organization, teaching methods, and assessments to meet the demands of toda…
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Season 4 of the MCIU podcast wraps with a conversation between MVP (MCIU23) and our friends from IU8 with the World of Learning Institute. In this episode, we explore the intersection of storytelling and executive functioning in online learning. Storytelling has the power to engage learners and enhance their executive functioning skills, leading to…
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Erin, Jesse and Brandon meet with the Inglewood Elementary team to hear their journey with Universal Design for Learning and the UDL team at Montgomery County Intermediate Unit. For more information and resources, visit the MCIU Learning Network at https://Learn.MCIU.org.By MCIU Learns - The Office of Professional Learning
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Pennsylvania Department of Education's Science Content Advisor, Dave Bauman, joins Andrew Kuhn and Brandon Langer to discuss the upcoming MCIU Science Expo and the statewide launch of the STEELS standards. Register to attend the MCIU Science Expo on May 16, 2023: https://mciu.gosignmeup.com/public/Course/browse?courseid=3804 For more information ab…
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Deborah Peart joins Steph Schwab and Brandon Langer to talk "mathing," "mathers," and how she believes in building a math community where it is safe to take risks and share ideas. All of which provides an incredible preview for her upcoming MCIU session "Making Math Invitational."By MCIU Learns - The Office of Professional Learning
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In the first episode of a new mini-series, Julie Ortlieb and Brandon Langer discuss how it may be tempting to focus solely on “functional skills” in a complex needs classroom and why literacy is the most important functional skill that our students can acquire.By MCIU Learns - The Office of Professional Learning
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MCIU kicks off the new season of the OPL Podcast with special guest, Robert Kaplinsky. Robert shares his background, interests, and steps educators are taking with the open-middle and #observeme movements. Robert comes to MCIU later in the fall of 2022, more information can be found on the MCIU Learning Network here: https://learn.mciu.org/robert-k…
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Lead Project Consultant Kari Kessler meets with Dr. Mark Dixon to discuss the background and structure of the PEAK Relational Training System. Stay tuned to the MCIU Learning network at LEARN.mciu.org for details about our upcoming PEAK event in October! PEAK ABA YouTube ChannelBy MCIU Learns - The Office of Professional Learning
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OPL Project Consultant Cassie Brusch finishes her series about SDIs in Virtual Environments. Brandon Langer and Cassie Brusch discuss the importance of developing executive functioning skills in virtual learning environments. The sixth and final post of this series can be accessed on the MCIU Learning Network.…
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OPL Project Consultant Cassie Brusch continues her series about SDIs in Virtual Environments. Brandon Langer and Cassie Brusch discuss accommodations and modifications and we can approach Student Work SDIs in virtual learning environments. The fifth post of this series can be accessed on the MCIU Learning Network.…
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OPL Project Consultant Cassie Brusch continues her series about SDIs in Virtual Environments. Brandon Langer and Cassie Brusch discuss accommodations and modifications and we can approach Instructional SDIs in virtual learning environments. The fourth post of this series can be accessed on the MCIU Learning Network.…
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Join project consultants Cassie Brusch and Julie Ortlieb in a conversation about our Special Educator’s Network. The MCIU Special Educator’s Network provides a space and forum to build connections, share ideas, explore resources, and problem solve as a community of educators. We discuss the origin of this network and our vision for its progression.…
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In the latest post from Cassie's series around SDIs in Virtual Environments, Brandon Langer and Cassie Brusch discuss accommodations and modifications and we can approach common SDIs in virtual learning environments. The third post of this series can be accessed on the MCIU Learning Network.By MCIU Learns - The Office of Professional Learning
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In the latest post from Cassie's series around SDIs in Virtual Environments, Brandon Langer and Cassie Brusch discuss accommodations and modifications and we can approach common SDIs in virtual learning environments. The second post of this series can be accessed on the MCIU Learning Network.By MCIU Learns - The Office of Professional Learning
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In this episode, you will hear from members of the Inglewood Elementary School UDL team debrief about their learning as part of the Introduction to UDL Professional Learning Community (PLC) run by the MCIU. This team talks about the experience of participating in the PLC, the learning that they acquired, and their future plans to continue the work.…
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OPL Project Consultant, Cassie Brusch, discusses her upcoming post series "SDIs in Virtual Environments" and how modern educational toolkits can support everyone in the education system. The first post of this series can be accessed on the MCIU Learning Network.By MCIU Learns - The Office of Professional Learning
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Season 3 of the OPL podcast kicks off with Graham Fletcher, a mathematics teacher and clinician who will visit the MCIU in early 2022. Click to listen to our conversation about problem-based learning, 3-act Tasks, and how to build procedural fluency and conceptual understanding in the elementary math classroom. Graham's background in the areas of m…
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The Competent Learner Model (CLM) is a multi-component, research-validated, instructional package containing solutions for solving the major problems faced by educators and parents of children with autism and other significant learning challenges. Today we sit with the creator Vicci Tucci and the director of the CLM Center of Excellence, Cathy Scut…
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The OPL Podcast is back for the 20-21 school year and we are excited to start the conversations with Shavon Norris, a MCIU featured speaker and valued leader in the area of inclusion. Register for Insider/Outsider: Examining the Values/Cultures/Systems that Taught Us so We Can Be Intentionally More Inclusive and Expansive in Perspective, Language a…
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Education is filled with acronyms and frameworks that are intended to help educators and leaders provide the best learning experiences possible. As a result, these tools and processes can have a language all their own and can be confusing for those who do not engage with them on a daily basis. Enter "Alphabet Soup," an ongoing mini-series dedicated…
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Upper Merion Area School District has made tremendous strides to integrate STEM in their K-12 learning sequence. Dr. Sean Gardiner and Ms. Shannon Lotz join the OPL team to discuss STEM education, what it can look like in Kindergarten and elementary environments, and how starting with Language Arts was the key to STEM success at Roberts Elementary …
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Pedro compares the state of ML now to the beginning of the aviation industry; early pilots needed to know everything from the physics of flight to the engineering behind the plan and nowadays, a pilot interfaces with the entire plane through a cockpit dashboard. Ople AI is trying to be that dashboard, hiding implementation details of training to al…
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NanoNets is a Machine Learning as a Service platform for developers to rapidly create/deploy models. Learn about how they do it with transfer learning, a technique that uses learnings from coarse models to bolster others. They have a product aimed at developers and give insights into where ML tech is going!…
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Sales is a game of managing customer leads, pipelines, and followups. People.AI is automating the sales manager to help you close more deals backed by some unexpected yet highly reliable data sources. This interview we focus on the advantages of using high quality data sets and starting off as a consulting shop, to help build out new models that yo…
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Learn how Adam and the team at LiftIgniter are bringing innovations from Google to the rest of the business world. Google, whose main revenue come from ads, has developed arguably the world’s most sophisticated machine learning for ad targeting. Lift Igniter is taking similar concepts and creating a bleeding edge personalization engine that ups use…
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