Shifting Our Schools - Education : Technology : Leadership

Patrick Green and Heather Dowd take their best selling book Classroom Management in the Digital Age and apply lessons from it to our new Virtual Classrooms we find ourselves in. This was a Webinar sponsored by ReImagine WA Ed. Find out more about how Washington State is meeting the needs of teachers and students at reimaginewaed.com

The team at #ReImagineWAEd and I host a YouTube Live event for educators across the state of Washington as we continue to reimagine education for our students in this state and beyond! Link: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqvzgO9d6DU

A stream of consciousness about the power of giving students and parents choice or ownership over what is learned. This is the reason we are seeing ChoiceBoards being popular during the COVID-19 Crisis.  Links:  A Framework for Understanding Poverty - A Cognitive Approach - https://www.amazon.com/Framework-Understanding-Poverty-Cognitive-Approach/dp/1948244187

This is a recording of a YouTube Live Keynote that I delivered to the educators of Washington State as we prepare to roll out a 3 phase continual learning plan to support districts, schools and educators make the most of continual learning. Link to Slide Deck: http://gg.gg/aesdvirtualkeynote

This week our happy hour conversation focused on where schools are at rolling out devices and we start to turn our attention to the next phase of distance learning, assessment. Again…everyone was sharing links to resources and ideas in the chat. I have added those to the show notes over at sospodcast.org/episode119/ so please do head there if you hear something in the podcast and want to follow up with that resource. Stay safe and stay healthy

Do to the COVID-19 pandemic schools around the world are shutting their doors. Here in the state of Washington, we have been closed for two weeks already and now are being required by the state to continue learning for students. Here are some thoughts and actions you can take as you head into your own virtual school reality. Show notes at http://sospodcast.org/episode118/

This week I host the first of what I hope to be virtual happy hours with teachers and tech coaches who find themselves either preparing for virtual learning or are already in it. During the show, they also shared a host of resources for others to use. So many that I can’t add them all to the show’s description so you’ll need to go to sospodcast.org/episode117/ where you’ll find the resources shared and mentioned in this weeks episode.

Last week I was consulting at the International School fo Luxembourg and had an opportunity to sit down and chat with my good friend John Mikton. Much like myself, John has been in virtual learning situations before and as the school prepares to close John shares what they are doing with staff now to prepare for a closer as schools around Europe continue to close due to the spread of COVID-19

This week I share tips and recommendations for going virtual school as my state, Washington, along with many of my international friends find themselves gearing up for are already in virtual school situations. You can find the full transcript of this episode on my blog at: http://www.thethinkingstick.com/virtual-school-tips-and-recommendations/

A great three days interacting and learning from other educators around the Pacific Northwest and beyond. A final reflection on the conference with my friends and Tech Coaches from Moses Lake, WA. Stefan and Monica

After the first day of NCCE2020 in Seattle, I sit down with Tyler Rablin, Patrick Green and Chris Butler to reflect on our Day 1 takeaways from NCCE2020

This week Chris Butler and I chat with Julie McDowell a teacher turned coach turned consultant with iReady. A conversation that covers a range of topics

This week Chris Butler and I have a chat with Jessia Fife and Linda Stairet two High School Teacher who team teach in a blended-learning, project-based, flexible seating enviornment….that’s right they have the trifecta. You’re going to love this one and don’t forget to check out the video of their classroom in the show notes. Link to video: http://gg.gg/fife-stairetroom

This week Chris Butler and I chat with Pat Zunaga a High School Teacher who calls his classroom "tech inclusive'. A great conversation on the power of technology to transforming learning for students.

This week Chris Butler and I chat with Ern Dickey a High School teacher digging into the idea of true student lead learning in her classroom. A fantastic conversation about inquiry and student ownership of learning.