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Today’s educators need tools to help students develop better communication, problem solving, and 21st century skills. Strong socio-emotional intelligence is just as important as the academic ability to be well prepared and ready to move forward in life after high school.
So we set out to create the first and only learning management solution to match educators with the emotional quotient. eKadence thrives where the two collide.
At eKadence, we remain on a mission to benefit educators unlock students’ true potential and empower them to find their purpose – because purpose is a powerful thing.
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As colleges and universities start to move away from traditional admissions processes, long-term success indicators such as GPA and ACT/SAT (hard skills) scores are less emphasized when measuring an https://www.superhealthiness.com/health-tips-to-enjoy-the-holidays-with-children/individual’s full potential. student. Instead, admissions officers prefer to take a more holistic approach (involving soft skills) to understanding the student as a whole.
That’s what mastery learning does. Our platform allows your organization to manage and assess the hard and soft skills of an individual student’s subject domain and content. This leads to a profounder understanding of the student’s strengths and true potential.
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Overview – ekadence
If you are an eKadence school district that also uses Zoom for your virtual classrooms, enabling this integration will allow your teachers and district faculty to create and manage Zoom meetings directly inside eKadence.
- Teachers – Launch zoom meetings directly from inside their eKadence classroom
- Students – See that their class meetings have started and join directly the eKadence student portal.
Requirements – ekadence
- User role
- Account admins
- Zoom account eligibility
- Login to check
Permissions – ekadence
Associated with your account and others you’re allowed to access
- Settings
- Profile & Contact Information
- Calendars
Associated with your account, others you’re allowed to access, and others included in that information.
- Registration Information
- Content
- Participant Profile & Contact Information
- Product Usage
Associated with your account, others you’re allowed to access, and others included in that information.
- Registration & Scheduling
- Participants
- Content
This app can access the following information anytime including outside of a Zoom experience and when the app is not actively in use.
Scopes – ekadence
- Meeting
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- Recording
recording:read:admin
- User
user:read:admin
Connect Google Account to your eKadence Account
- In order to link your Google account to your eKadence account, click on your profile icon on any page then click on My Profile.
- On the left hand side you will see Google Account. From here you can choose any Google account you wish to connect to eKadence but it is recommended to use the Google account you had used when creating your eKadence account.
- When connecting you will be asked to grant eKadence permission to access your Google Calendar and Google Drive. To learn more about how eKadence uses Google permissions read our article Google Permissions within eKadence.
Dashboard – ekadence
The dashboard is customizable to each teacher’s preferences and has widgets for viewing a variety of things like the teacher’s schedule, student notifications or something as simple as the weather.
Themes – ekadence
The Color Theme feature allows all eKadence users, not just teachers, to change the look and feel of the entire eKadence interface. By hovering over the gear and color theme in the upper right corner of the panel, users can see different color options for light mode and dark mode. Not only does this give the eKadence interface a different look, but the dark mode allows visually impaired people to use the dark mode and make the light easier on the eyes.
Widgets – ekadence
Widgets provide convenience to users and allow users to quickly view them on their dashboard. Users can enable or disable them by hovering over the Dashboard Widgets menu and clicking the checkbox next to different widgets.
Different widgets that can be displayed:
- New Student Comment Widget – Displays the number of new student comments that have not been opened.
- My Calendar Widget – Displays a calendar with pending activities.
- Upcoming Activities Widget – Displays upcoming activities.
- Upcoming Conferences Widget – Displays upcoming conferences.
- Weather Widget – Displays the weather of the local area.
- What Grading Needs – Displays a list of assignments recently submitted by students.
Users are also presented with a reset button that they can click to reset their widgets back to a default layout.
Widgets can be moved and resized. To move a widget to another location, click on the widget and drag to move it. To resize a widget, click the bottom right corner of the widget card and drag until the widget is the size you want.
Materials – ekadence
- Lesson slides (attached)
- Note Taker Manual (attached; one for each student)
- Spoken Word Poem Resource Page (attached; one for each student)
- Color manual, symbol, image (attached; one for each student)
- Color rubric, symbol, image (attached; one for each student)
- writing paper
- pencil or pen
- Illuminators (optional)
- art objects
Engage – ekadence
Use the attached lesson slides to follow along with this lesson. Visual Slide 3. Read the essential questions aloud. Ask students to consider the questions and present any thoughts they have. Go to slide 4 and briefly discuss the purpose of the lesson.
Display slide 5. Play the video on the slide:
View slide 6. Review the slide questions with students. Ask them to consider the questions and share them with a coworker. After an appropriate time for discussion, ask for volunteers to share their thoughts with the class. Follow the entire class discussion.
Teacher’s Note – ekadence
Below is a list of videos that schoolchildren will watch in this part of the lesson. You may want to preview the language and content. Consider removing/hiding videos from class slides and grade catcher if deemed inappropriate for your students.
Alex Tang “What kind of Asian are you?” By Alex Tang
A Muslim woman and a Jewish woman unite in Washington DC
A Word Said to Your Mother by Brandon Leek
I Love You Few Indians by Ravi Shebala
The Rise of Amanda Gorman
Until Today by Shane Coison
Show Slide 7. Send each student a copy of the attached reference manual. Explain to students that they will watch six spoken word poetry videos. For each video, assign them to annotate in the Note Catcher manual.
Ask them to consider the next questions as they watch the video:
- Who does the poet address (who is his audience)?
- From whose point of view is the poet talking?
- What is the subject/theme of the poem?
- How is the topic culturally relevant?
- It is the topic historically related?
- How is the topic socially relevant?
- What strategies do poets use to make their poems relevant?
Review the definition of culturally, historically, and socially relevant, if necessary.
Optional: Differentiation – ekadence
If necessary for student understanding, define socially, culturally and historically relevant terms:
Socially Related: How did people live, what were the social trends, and what did people believe at any given time?
Culturally relevant: How are the paintings and popular interests related to a particular time and place? What are common or shared experiences (religion, race, geography, ethnicity, etc.)?
Historically related: What was happening in the world when the poem was written? What historical events took place during this time?
Show slide 8. Play the first video. Allow time for students to complete their note taker for each video before moving on to the next presentation.
Show slides 9-13. Continue the same process of asking students to take notes during each video.
Discuss with the class what stood out from each presentation. Ask volunteers to share any questions about the videos. Encourage students to share anything interesting, confusing, or familiar about any poem.
