About Dr. Susan Belgrad
 

Recent Presentations

What Matters Most! STEM Innovations Team Presents

SO CAL Kindergarten Conference

Moderator, WISE PI-Day Event  Finding PI Activity

California Project Lead the Way

Graduate Courses

EED 697Comprehensive Examination  (L & L; C & I)

EED 601  Curriculum, Instruction and the Reflective Practitioner 

EED 681 Classroom Management and Communication

EED 651 Curriculum Assessment (eportfolio assessment)
            
EED Student Teaching Supervision

Professional Development Presentations by Susan Belgrad

NEW for Elementary, Middle and High School Teachers:
        The Project-Based Learning Workshop Series  

	The Sage Handbook of Research on Classroom Assessment James H. McMillan, Editor Susan F. Belgrad, Chapter Author    Portfolios and E-Portfolios: Student Reflection, Self-Assessment, and Goal  Setting in the Learning Process
The Handbook provides scholars, professors, graduate students, and other researchers and policy makers in the organizations, agencies, testing companies, and school districts with a comprehensive source of research on all aspects of K-12 classroom assessment.

	Susan is a also lead author of the 3rd ed. of The Portfolio Connection: Student Work Linked to Standards and offers professional development  workshops on performance assessment and e-portfolios that promote student voice and achievement in the learning process. Susan is a Consultant with Kay Burke and Associates.
	Susan provides professional development and school-based workshops on a variety of topics including authentic learning and assessment, differentiated instruction and assessment; student portfolio and eportfolio processes for professional educators
	She also leads professional development workshops on the mind-brain-learning connection and conducts training on promoting student thinking in the media-rich classroom through cooperative, project-based learning.
Recent Presentations by Dr. Belgrad

What teachers need to know about brain development

Class size increasing?  Put cooperative learning to work 
in your classroom and school

Creating student portfolios and e-portfolios of authentic assessment

Connecting Student Achievement and Voice through Portfolios

Working WITH Not Doing to Students  

The Case for Brain-Based Learning in the K-12 Classroom  

What Teachers Need to Know about Classroom Community
and Discipline 

Ten Things New Teachers Need for Success in Next Century Classrooms


GREAT TOOLS FOR THE NEXT-CENTURY K-12 CLASSROOM

ENERGIZERS AND SILENT CHEERS FOR THE CLASSROOM

The Craft of the Effective Teacher

Portfolio ASSESSMENT

PORTFOLIOS AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

Play as a Medium for Learning

Habits of Mind

Tools for Authentic Assessment

the cooperative classroom

Tools of Cooperative Learning

WEB-BASED TOOLS

PARENTS AS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION

Multiple Intelligences THEORY
~Article
~Presentation
~Survey

PROMOTING A LEARNER-CENTERED COMMUNITY
IN THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM

Ten Strategies that Reach and Teach Diverse Learners

PROMOTING A LEARNER-CENTERED COMMUNITY
IN THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM

SONNY

 

AND REC INTRODUCE ELEMENTARY CURRICULUM AND K-5 ROBOTICS KITS

 

THE T-E STEM EVENT:  DR IOANNIS MIAOULIS, DIRECTOR,
Museum of Science Boston - Enhancing the T-E in S T E M
April 29, Nordhoff Hall from 3:00-5:00 P.M.
Nordhoff Hall 113        See Campus Map

 CSUN Is Advancing STEM Teaching and Learning

Transforming American STEM Education--
Together we are the solution

 

CALIFORNIA PLTW - CURRICULUM FOR NEXT CENTURY SCHOOLS

The Edge Factor Show: Understanding how science, technology, engineering and manufacturing in the Next Economy improve lives

SCRATCH -- Imagine, Program, Share  (from MIT)

STEM is included in The California Common  Core Standards!

Engineering in the K-5 Curriculum- Engineering IS Elementary
      National Center for Technological Literacy
       Boston Museum of Science

  Middle and High School STEM Curriculum
        PLTW California  Video

2012 VEX World Robotics Championships, Anaheim  

REC VEX Robotics Education and Competition

STEM Alert:  Vital Signs California Change the Equation

Lifelong Learning Imperative Project: Final Report -
Prospering in the knowledge age requires people with
(updated) knowledge.

Breaking the Bias Against Women in Science

A Recent Product of Engineering at Boeing

This research has important implications for the way
we educate our children

CNN Special Report
Education in America:  Don't Fail Me FIRST ROBOTICS CHAMPIONS
In "Education in America: Don't Fail Me", we learn that at this very moment, America's future is at stake. "If we don't generate the next group of innovators, scientists, engineers, and problem solvers," inventor Dean Kamen warns, "our standard of living, our quality of
life, our security, will plummet!"                   View it now
To Improve Student Learning Start with Service
PDK/Gallup released the latest results of its study of Americans' attitudes toward public education. Titled "A Nation Divided"

Next Generation Science Standards -  emphasize hands-on learning and understanding processes rather than memorizing information; and place the E in STEM (engineering) in the K-12 Classroom.
View Video - The Case for Next Generation Science Standards

ISTE CONFERENCE IN SAN DIEGO PROMOTES NEXT GENERATION LEARNING AND LEADING GOALS --Encouraging Students’ Passion to Achieve AND How do we prepare students for their future amidst globalization and rapid technological changes

ASCD WHOLE CHILD INITIATIVE NEWSLETTER Applying the Tenets to Maslow's Hierarchy

TEACHING-2030: THE EDUCATION STUDENTS NEED AND DESERVE
It’s time to revamp and revitalize teaching as a profession to reflect a complex, 21st-century world.

NAEYC Releases Report:
Developing Kindergarten Readiness and Other Large-Scale Assessment Systems

 

Enhancing the E in STEM School Workshop

*Packed with educators, parents, authors and articulate youngsters, “Race to Nowhere” reaches out to children hounded by a confluence of circumstances: parental fears of a disappearing middle class....  Educators and parents aspiring for their children's success need to see this.

Race to Nowhere Review

Changing Education Paradigms   Sir Ken Robinson
 

Waiting for Superman:  Are Teacher Unions to Blame for the Failures in Public Education?

Teaching 2030:  A vision for what our students need and the teaching profession they deserve.

             Teaching with Poverty in Mind by Eric Jensen

              Click here to read “Held Captive”: Child Poverty in America
          
              Do schools kill creativity?  with Sir Ken Robinson

               Ernest Morrell: "Youth Re-Writing the World: Literacy,
               Learning, and Civic Engagement in 21st Century Urban Schools"

  California's Teaching Force 2010
  The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning

Some Interesting Links for Educators and Parents

What Educators Need to Know about
Brain Development

Do You Know Why You Are Teaching and Learning in an Era of Disruptive Innovation??  Scott Mcleod

A Vision of K-12 Education Today

How Technology Has Transformed How Students Learn

What Teachers Make

The Best Dentist--Absolutely

Do Americans Really Like Children?

 

Ways to Become a Child Advocate



Supporting the Whole Child: Reflections on Best Practices in Learning, Teaching and Leadership

The Children's Defense Fund Needs Us!
Become A Child Advocate: 

 

Children in California . . . First 5 California: Knowing about the importance of the
first five years of children's lives

WEB-BASED TOOLS for Teachers

Animoto (Example)

Creative Commons -licenses to share and collaboratively build textbooks, lectures, and lesson plans.

Doodle  Scheduling made easy

Elluminate - virtual classroom

JING  Free screenshot saver

Polleverywhere -Gather live responses in any classroom

ProProfs  Quiz maker

Screencast Upload screenshots with info to the cloud

Weebly  -  Create a free website or blog in minutes

Zoomerang (Tutorial)