Shift Your What?

In this final episode of season 1 of Shift Your What, we sit down with Rossana Bisceglia, Research Specialist at Halton District School Board, Nogah Kornberg, Associate Director of the I-Think initiative and Jacqueline Newton, Superintendent at the Halton District School Board with a portfolio in Innovation and Ingenuity. Together we reflect on how the year of Shifting and I-Think went, how we attempted to do things differently and what the impact of using Integrative Thinking as tools to Shift have made an impact on students, teachers and leaders in the school board.

In this episode of Shift Your What, we talk to English teachers Cait Fehir and Jen Plens about using new integrative thinking tools in their class and challenges and opportunities that come with experimenting and trying something new.

Shift Your What sits down with grade 7 teachers Christine Vanderwal and Michael Marchione, grade 7 students Satwika and Hasnain along with Nogah Kornberg, Associate Director of I-Think, to talk about the Peacebuilders Challenge, and the powerful moments created when using Integrative Thinking to creatively solve a real world problem, where student voice is not only considered, but actively sought out.

The Shift Team (and many others) are busy planning the Share Your Shift Conference, which is coming up on May 23rd. If you are interested, listen in about what's in store...but maybe register first, spaces are limited!

Shift Your What talks Outdoor Education with educators Kelly-Ann Mattiaci, Margaret Williams and Stephen Jansz. They discuss the benefits of taking the learning outside, how to overcome challenges, as well as the changes they have seen in their students as a result of shifting the learning outdoors.

Shift Your What sits down with Melissa Hanmer and Pina Juresic, two elementary administrators who have just returned from the Deeper Learning Conference on the campus of High Tech High in San Diego. They talk about finding inspiration in the learning, their connections to what ways Halton is engaging in deeper learning and finding their mojo to inspire change in their schools, one incremental step at a time.

The Shift team sits down with Margaret Napier, Principal of Brookville Pubic School to talk about her upcoming visit to the High Tech High campus for the Deeper Learning Conference. She talks about what she is looking forward to learning, but more importantly, how she hopes to support her own staff as they dive into Innovation.

In this episode, Jamie and Matt sit down with Geoff Sheppard, a teacher in the Community Pathways Program at MM Robinson High School to talk about how to connect with community, leverage technology and help students of all abilities find a place in their community.

The winter weather is giving us some challenges to overcome this month, but that's not stopping us from talking about Innovation! In this episode, we are joined by Cindy Cosentino, the Instructional Program Leader for Science for the HDSB as we revisit our understanding of Innovation and ask ourselves, "Has anything changed?"

Shift Your What changes format in this episode: The Shift Team, HDSB teachers, and Science program leads and Rotman I-Think Fellows all sit down with Taddy Blecher, educational entrepreneur from South Africa, who has been tasked to implement innovative entrepreneurship curriculum in every grade of school in South Africa. A discussion ensues about how to scale up innovative process, giving permission to teachers to experiment and how to change a system of education for the better.

Shift Your What sits down with Kevin Kokerus, co-op teacher and William Baldwin, co-op student to talk about how to empower students in their own learning through a rethink of co-operative and experiential learning.

The Shift Team sit down together to reflect on the past year of innovating (dangerously) and look forward to the year of SHIFTING ahead in Halton District School Board.

Shift Your What? sits down with Amanda Williams-Yeagers and Mark Maunder to discuss their own journey through the power of making in their elementary schools and how we might infuse the energy of a makerspace into more facets of school.

Shift Your What? parachutes into a Halton District School Board Technology Conference to speak about Podcasting with students and teachers. Participants were surprised when we asked them to join us live, to speak about how models of Professional Development can be shifted.

Shift Your What? sits down with Stephanie Briggs, Math Teacher and Nicole Jarvis, Instructional Program Leader for Math. They discuss the merits of Peter Lijledahl's Thinking Classroom and how it has the potential to shift not only math class, but other subjects as well in positive ways.

Shift Your What? sits down with Katherine Compton-Morgan, English Teacher and Karamjit Sangha-Bosland, the HDSB Instructional Program Leader for Equity and Inclusive Education to discuss what drove them to realize that continuously building community with their classes was important and why you might putting community building in the centre of your teaching practice.

In this episode of Shift Your What?, we parachute into the middle of an active classroom to talk with Steve Tolton and Maggie Warneke about their integrated Math / Science program they have branded MMR Engineering.By keeping the class learning by doing, and seamlessly integrating the math with the science, they have created something truly special that is good for students.Steve and Maggie dig into why they built this program and give a little window into how they do it as well. More information on MMR Engineering can be found here:1) Updates posted on twitter @mrtoltonphysics2) Video Updates: tinyurl.com/mmrengineeringupdates3) All files for the program: tinyurl.com/mmrengineering

With help from Stephen Hurley from VoicEd Radio, we sat down with Jacqueline Newton, Superintendent of Education for the Halton District School Board to discuss the genesis of The Shift."