Teacher Prep Rally

In this episode: I interview Sheila Bowman and Cinda Orr about our district's Learner's Showcase event. Sheila is a TOSA in Instructional Technology for our district and she has been coordinating this great event for the last 8 years. Cinda is a Learning Coach and former teacher sponsor who has participated for several years. I think you'll enjoy hearing about the history of the showcase and about how it has evolved from a technology competition to a showcase of student innovation in our district. For a special treat, you'll even get to hear from 2nd grader Collins, who has participated in the Learner's Showcase for the last two years. And, once again, stay tuned after this interview for our questionnaire and my Check It Out Segment.

In this episode: I interview 8th grade science teacher Steve Giuliani and WMS 8th grader Hayden. They tell us how Hayden built a breakoutEDU game for Steve’s classes to practice dimensional analysis. If you’ve never heard of a breakout game, it’s a way to turn your classroom into an escape room game with a series of puzzles to complete. I hope you enjoy listening to this podcast as much as I enjoyed recording it! Steve and Hayden even stick around to answer my questionnaire, and then stay tuned for an awesome student choice resource from Stephanie Howell.

In this episode, I interview Doug Kathan. Doug is a veteran teacher here at Windsor Middle School. He is a great teacher that really connects with kids in both his Language Arts and Media classes. In this episode, he shares some of his successes with his newest class, called Broadcast Media, that challenges some of our best and brightest media students to create promotional videos for local community members.

In this episode, I interview Vicki Hall, Learning Coach and Teacher Librarian from Mountain View Elementary school about three questions she uses in coaching kids around digital citizenship.

In this episode, I interview Windsor Middle School Spanish and Cultures teacher, Robynn Tello about how she use a tool called Storyboard That to have her students create and narrate original comic strips in Spanish.

In this episode, I talk with two PE teachers who are using the Canvas LMS to integrate student writing into their PE classes.

In this episode, I interview Ericha Jaeger, Special Education Teacher at Windsor Middle, about how she is using the Stanford d.school Design Thinking process to help her 8th graders tackle the problem of middle school bullying.

The very first episode of Teacher Prep Rally! In this episode, I interview 8th grade Language Arts teacher Cindy Skinner about how her students create their own personalized Google Sites filled with their ideas and opinions about books with her Novel-a-Month project.