Dr. Catlin Tucker | Keynote Speaker, International Professional Learning Facilitator & Bestselling Author

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Dr. Catlin Tucker

Keynote Speaker, International Professional Learning Facilitator & Bestselling Author

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Dr. Catlin Tucker
Biography

Dr. Catlin Tucker is a bestselling author, international trainer, and keynote speaker. She was named Teacher of the Year in 2010 in Sonoma County, where she taught for 16 years. Catlin earned her master's in education at the University of California at Santa Barbara and her doctorate in learning technologies from Pepperdine University.

Catlin has published nine books, including The Shift to Student-led, The Complete Guide to Blended Learning, and UDL and Blended Learning. She hosts The Balance podcast and is active on X and Instagram.
 

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Shifting Workflows
Let Students Lead & Avoid Teacher Burnout

Teachers are burning out at record levels. They’re drowning in unrealistic expectations and doing the lion’s share of the work in classrooms. It’s time to shift from time-consuming, teacher-led, and often frustratingly ineffective workflows to sustainable student-led workflows that position learners at the center of the learning experience. Grounding these student-led workflows in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and leveraging blended learning models to shift control to students can help all students develop into expert learners capable of acquiring information and making meaning. These reimagined workflows also free teachers from the front of the room to spend more time working alongside individual and small groups of learners.

Harnessing AI to Design Equitable Learning Experiences

Educators teach beautifully diverse groups of students with various skill levels, needs, language proficiencies, and learning preferences. Too often, this diversity is seen as problematic or a challenge to be overcome. Before AI, designing for this diversity and learner variability was an arduous, time-consuming process that felt unsustainable. AI simplifies this design work, alleviating the pressure on teachers to spend hours designing lessons and providing feedback. Educators using AI should view it as a powerful thought partner, inspiring purposeful and creative design that strives to remove barriers, create flexible pathways, and free teachers to work directly with learners. AI should elevate the teaching profession and amplify the teacher’s impact in classrooms.

Activating Agency, Differentiation, Community, and Inquiry with Blended Learning

The pandemic taught educators several lessons:
 * Learning can happen anywhere, any time.
 * Human connection and participation in a learning community make learning rich and engaging.
 * Students are more likely to be motivated if they enjoy autonomy and agency.
 
So, how can teachers move forward in the face of so much change to design and facilitate dynamic student-centered learning experiences? Instead of relying on one model for every lesson, teachers need a robust toolbelt full of instructional models and engagement strategies they use to design learning experiences that give students agency, differentiate effectively, build community, and drive inquiry! Blended learning provides a sustainable path forward that frees teachers from the front of the room, allowing them to work directly with small groups and individual learners. This shift makes it possible for teachers to spend their precious class time on the aspects of this work that are most engaging and rewarding.

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Shifting to Sustainable Student-led Workflows with Blended Learning & UDL

Note: You can create a customized learning experience for your teachers by selecting the workflows you want to target in your training session.

Description: Teachers are exhausted because they do the lion’s share of the work. This workshop will guide teachers in reimagining time-consuming, teacher-led workflows that are ineffective and help them to shift to more sustainable student-led workflows. This workshop will focus on developing a partnership with learners and embracing workflows that position the learners as active agents in the learning process. We’ll explore how teachers can leverage blended learning to create the time and space for these sustainable workflows and use the principles at the heart of Universal Design for Learning to ensure these workflows are accessible, equitable, and inclusive. Teachers will leave this training with concrete strategies designed to help them shift to more student-led sustainable workflows. These workshops are hands-on and practice-based, so participants will leave with resources they can use immediately!

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Featured Books

Shift Writing into the Classroom with UDL and Blended Learningby Dr. Catlin Tucker

Shift Writing into the Classroom with UDL and Blended Learning

by Dr. Catlin Tucker

This book is an essential resource for all educators. To address declining literacy skills, every educator needs to become a teacher of writing. In every grade and subject, the writing process enables students to interpret complex ideas, cultivate their individual voices, and shape and share their learning.

As writing becomes more efficient with the aid of AI chatbots, there's an unparalleled opportunity for educators across all content areas to reimagine their approach to writing. In Shift Writing into the Classroom, UDL and blended learning experts Catlin R. Tucker and Katie Novak invite educators to focus on human connection, sitting alongside learners to understand their specific needs and provide individualized instruction and support across all grades and content areas. Tucker and Novak transform traditional writing workflows to provide students with meaningful opportunities in the classroom to work through the writing process, collaborate with peers, and produce original writing that addresses task, purpose, and audience creatively and authentically.

Ideal for schools and districts prioritizing the integration of literacy across the curriculum, this book offers practical guidance, strategies, and resources to elevate students' writing abilities in every subject.

The Complete Guide to Blended Learning: Activating Agency, Differentiation, Community, and Inquiry for Students (Essential guide to strategies and ...by Dr. Catlin Tucker

The Complete Guide to Blended Learning: Activating Agency, Differentiation, Community, and Inquiry for Students (Essential guide to strategies and ...

by Dr. Catlin Tucker

Skillfully shifting between online and in-person learning has become expected of teachers. In this essential guide, you will learn how to harness technology to enhance student learning in both realms. Combining theory, reflection, and personal experience, author Catlin R. Tucker equips educators with a wide variety of strategies and tools to support student and educator success in blended environments and beyond.


K–12 teachers and administrators will:

  • Gain insight on why blended instruction provides paths for effective, student-centered teaching
  • Learn to navigate flexible learning landscapes
  • Understand different collaborative and community-oriented strategies for successful blended teaching
  • Utilize thoughtful reflection questions to examine your own school or district
  • Discover strong theoretical frameworks and models for online and offline instruction


Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Blended Learning
Chapter 2: Building Your Blended Learning Technology Toolbox
Chapter 3: Teachers as Designers of Learning Experiences
Chapter 4: Teachers as Instructors and Content-Area Experts
Chapter 5: Teachers as Facilitators of and Partners in Learning
Chapter 6: Developing a Dynamic Learning Community
Chapter 7: The 5Es Instructional Model and Student-Centered Inquiry
Chapter 8: Taking Blended Learning to the Next Level
Conclusion
Appendix: Glossary
References and Resources

The Shift to Student-Led: Reimagining Classroom Workflows with UDL and Blended Learningby Dr. Catlin Tucker

The Shift to Student-Led: Reimagining Classroom Workflows with UDL and Blended Learning

by Dr. Catlin Tucker

The Shift to Student-Led by Catlin R. Tucker & Katie Novak

Your Guide to Student-Led Learning

Catlin Tucker and Katie Novak have worked with too many educators who are frustrated and disillusioned with the teaching profession. They know that teachers are drowning in work and unrealistic demands. Many are mentally and emotionally exhausted by the uncertainty and constant change created by the pandemic. In this follow-up to UDL and Blended Learning, the authors have set out to help teachers reimagine their approach to this work so that it is sustainable and rewarding.

Each chapter in The Shift to Student-Led takes apart one traditional teacher-led workflow, examining the problems it presents teachers and students, what the research says versus what the reality in the classroom is, and how UDL and blended learning can free teachers from the “sage on the stage” role and place students at the center of their learning. These reimagined student-led workflows help students develop self-awareness, internal motivation, and self-regulation skills, which are critical to becoming expert learners.

Intended for K–12 educators, instructional coaches, and school leaders who want to create academically robust, inclusive learning communities, this book is full of principles, strategies, and resources that can be put into practice right away and at any level.

UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapesby Dr. Catlin Tucker

UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes

by Dr. Catlin Tucker

You can develop the skills to meet the needs of learners in any learning environment.

 

This approachable, in-depth guide unites the adaptability of Universal Design for Learning with the flexibility of blended learning, equipping educators with the tools they need to create relevant, authentic, and meaningful learning pathways to meet students where they're at, no matter the time and place or their pace and path. With step-by-step guidance and clear strategies, authors Katie Novak and Catlin Tucker empower teachers to implement these frameworks in the classroom, with a focus on cultivating community, building equity, and increasing accessibility for all learners.

 

As we face increasing uncertainty and frequent disruption to traditional ways of living and learning, UDL and Blended Learning offers bold, innovative, inclusive solutions for navigating a range of learning landscapes, from the home to the classroom and all points in between, no matter what obstacles may lie ahead.

Balance With Blended Learning: Partner With Your Students to Reimagine Learning and Reclaim Your Life (Corwin Teaching Essentials)by Dr. Catlin Tucker

Balance With Blended Learning: Partner With Your Students to Reimagine Learning and Reclaim Your Life (Corwin Teaching Essentials)

by Dr. Catlin Tucker

Rethink the roles, responsibilities, and workflow in your blended learning classroom and enjoy balance in your life.

Blended learning allows a partnership that gives teachers more time and energy to innovate and personalize learning while providing students the opportunity to be active agents driving their own growth.

Balance With Blended Learning provides teachers with strategies to actively engage students in setting goals, monitoring development, reflecting on growth, using feedback, assessing work quality, and communicating their progress with parents. It includes
 

  • Practical strategies for teachers who are overwhelmed by their workloads
  • Vignettes written by teachers across disciplines
  • Ready-to-use templates to help students track their progress
  • Stories from the author′s experience as a teacher and blended learning coach
Power Up Blended Learning: A Professional Learning Infrastructure to Support Sustainable Changeby Dr. Catlin Tucker

Power Up Blended Learning: A Professional Learning Infrastructure to Support Sustainable Change

by Dr. Catlin Tucker

This book provides an actionable framework for leaders looking to implement a long-term professional learning plan that extends professional development beyond a handful of days each year to create a "coaching culture" that supports teachers as they move toward blended learning.

Blended learning expert Catlin Tucker provides tools and resources for embedding professional learning into your school’s culture, including:

  • Coaching protocols
  • Templates for feedback
  • Lesson planning resources for blended learning
  • Rubrics for evaluation
  • Stories and tips from blended learning coaches
  • Vignettes from teachers who have successfully shifted to a blended learning model
  • Reflection questions for leading book studies

Blended Learning in Action: A Practical Guide Toward Sustainable Changeby Dr. Catlin Tucker

Blended Learning in Action: A Practical Guide Toward Sustainable Change

by Dr. Catlin Tucker

Shift to blended learning to transform education    

Blended learning has the power to reinvent education, but the transition requires a new approach to learning and a new skillset for educators. Loaded with research and examples, Blended Learning in Action demonstrates the advantages a blended model has over traditional instruction when technology is used to engage students both inside the classroom and online. Readers will find:

  • Breakdowns of the most effective classroom setups for blended learning
  • Tips for leaders
  • Ideas for personalizing and differentiating instruction using technology
  • Strategies for managing devices in schools
  • Questions to facilitate professional development and deeper learning
Blended Learning in Grades 4-12by Dr. Catlin Tucker

Blended Learning in Grades 4-12

by Dr. Catlin Tucker

Use technology to focus on your students!

In this step-by-step guide, teacher and education blogger Catlin Tucker outlines the process for integrating online discussion with face-to-face instruction in a way that empowers teachers to focus their energies where they're most needed. With concrete strategies, ready-to-use resources, and sample rubrics grounded in the Common Core State Standards, this book shows teachers how to:

  • Increase engagement and drive higher-order thinking
  • Prepare students for high-stakes exams without sacrificing class time
  • Assess online work
  • Personalize learning and differentiate lessons
  • Move toward flipped instruction to create a student-centered classroom
Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards With Technology: Grades 6-12by Dr. Catlin Tucker

Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards With Technology: Grades 6-12

by Dr. Catlin Tucker

Let technology pave the way to Common Core success.


Engage your students by delving into the Common Core ELA standards with the tools they use the most. As you explore the creative road to academic success, with the Common Core ELA and literacy standards—you will turn your classroom into a student-centered learning environment that fosters collaboration, individualizes instruction, and cultivates technological literacy. Features include:



  • Specific recommendations for free apps and tech tools that support the Common Core

  • Step-by-step guidelines to breaking down standards by grade and subject

  • Teacher-tested, research-supported lesson ideas and strategies

  • Replicable resources, including prewriting activities and writing templates

  • Real-life examples





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