Podcasts about cttl

On this episode Joe sits down with "Friend of the Show" Glenn Whitman. Glenn is the Director of the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning in Potomac, Maryland and the author of "Neuroteach". Joe and Glenn talk about The Meadows partnership with the CTTL, Mind Brain Education and the future of learning! 

Glenn Whitman is a History teacher and Executive Director of the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (CTTL) at St. Andrew's Episcopal School. Glenn is the co-author of Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education, the co-designer of Neuroteach Global and Neuroteach Global Student and co-editor of Think Differently and Deeply, the international publication of the CTTL. Glenn earned his MALS from Dartmouth College and a BA from Dickinson College and has shared the work of the CTTL through publications such as Edutopia, ASCD Express and EdSurge and presented around the world at public, private, and international school conferences including: Learning Forward, New Teacher Center, Learning & Brain and SXSWedu. Social Links Twitter: @gwhitmancttl LinkedIn: @glenn-whitman

The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In this penultimate conversation of Series Nine, we talk with Glenn Whitman. Glenn is a History teacher at St. Andrew's where he is also the Executive Director for the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning. He is the co-author of Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education and co-designer of Neuroteach Global. Glenn loves the challenge and opportunity to help students, teachers, schools, and districts translate the most promising research and strategies in how the brain learns to their practice or programs. He is driven to meet the CTTL's vision--A world where every teacher understands how every student's brain learns--through the CTTL's Bridge and contributions to Edutopia and EdSurge in addition to presentations and workshops at public, private, and international school conferences world-wide. When not thinking about the student and adult learning brain, Glenn can be found working on his own brain by listening to Bruce Springsteen or playing a round of golf. Our series sponsor is a School for tomorrow. To find out more, visit https://www.aschoolfortomorrow.com/strategic-educational-development-program The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE. The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at gamechangers@circle.education, on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn and Twitter. Let's go!

The Coming to the Table organization's vision for the United States is of a just and truthful society that acknowledges and seeks to heal from the racial wounds of the past—from slavery and the many forms of racism it spawned. Its mission is to provide leadership, resources, and a supportive environment for all who wish to acknowledge and heal wounds from racism that is rooted in the United States' history of slavery.We are so pleased to welcome CTTT founder, Prinny Anderson, and Gayle Jessup White (Public Relations & Community Engagement Officer at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation) to the show. Both speak candidly about their experience when meeting descendants of the enslaved and the family/families that enslaved their ancestors - and vice versa. Prinny & Gayle are more than CTTL colleagues – they are cousins who share Thomas Jefferson as an ancestor. Join us as they candidly talk about black and white sides of the same family, joined by slavery, meet to discuss America's past – and its future. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/genealogy-adventures. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

English and math may seem like polar opposite disciplines, but Mind, Brain, and Education Science strategies like metacognition help students excel at both. St. Andrew's teachers and CTTL staff members Julia Dean and Molly Magner chat with Glenn about collaborating on their Think Differently and Deeply article as English and math teachers, and discuss how teachers can help students develop metacognitive skills by demonstrating them in their own classroom practice. (Note: this episode was recorded in spring 2019, before Julia departed St. Andrew's and the CTTL to begin her Master's degree in social work. Thank you again, Julia, for your enthusiasm and dedication to countless teachers and students.)

As a St. Andrew's student, alumna Joy Reeves '18 contributed to the CTTL as a research fellow and a resident illustrator, having designed the covers of two workbooks for the Science of Teaching and School Leadership Academy. She returns to St. Andrew's after her first semester at Duke University to chat with Glenn about her experience bringing Mind, Brain, and Education Science strategies to her college course load.

Mike and Dan welcome two great guests, Bror Saxberg and Glenn Whitman, to discuss the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, The Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, neuroscience and learning, and how a holistic approach to education applies to teaching and teacher development. Phew! Bror, Vice President, Learning Science at CZI, discusses the mission of the organization and how it recently invested in CTTL. Glenn describes the work that's been done on a local level at the St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Maryland and how that work is being scaled across the US and globally through CZI. Can training teachers on how the brain works make them more effective in the classroom? We talk often about teaching the whole student, but can we miss out on reaching the whole teacher? CTTL has done some great work in the field and have partnered with CZI to build NeuroTeach, which is set to launch broadly in January. Tune in for a wide-ranging discussion on neuroscience, learning engineering, growth mindset, microlearninf, and much more. We may even debunk a few neuromyths before we’re done. Enjoy!

Episode 008: Glenn Whitman, NeuroTeach Today we talk with one of the authors of NeuroTeach: Brain Science and the Future of Education, Mr. Glenn Whitman. His dedication to understanding neuroscience and learning in order to effect change at the school building level permeates policy at the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland. Glenn speaks to us about the ways in which learning about the brain can enhance our instruction. Connect with Glenn Whitman Twitter: @gwhitmancttl | Website: thecttl.org | Book: NeuroTeach: Brain Science and the Future of Education Links & Show Notes Out of our heads and into the classroom Memory Palace / Memory Journey (1:35) ..* Kevin Horsley, International Grandmaster of Memory ..* Priming (2:55) ..* Spacing (3:25) ..* Hidden Brain (3:49) ..* Thinking Fast & Slow / You are Not So Smart (4:11) ..* “The more you know, the easier it is to know more.” ..* Science of Success episode with Kevin Horsley ..* Storytelling (5:00) ..* Dreams as a story to create narrative from chaos ..* Broca’s Area (5:37) ..* Brain lighting up when hearing stories same as if action was happening to you (fMRI) ..* Stillmotion: touch the heart to move the mind Intro to Glenn Whitman (6:50) ..* NeuroTeach ..* CTTL ..* Think Differently & Deeply One educational truth: Every day every kid will bring his or her brain to class (7:54) How do kids actually learn, never trained (8:37) In 2007 - asked ourselves ‘What makes an Expert Teacher?’ (9:02) ..* Do we know enough about the organ of learning, the brain? Only 20% of teachers have been exposed to that sort of training, per Glenn’s experience Mind Brain Education - train St Andrews Teachers in the Learning Brain + ongoing PD in Educational Neuroscience (10:17) ..* Denise Pope at Stanford ..* Dan Willingham at UVA ..* Rob Coe at University of Durham in UK Mission-driven (12:55) Teacher enthusiasm for working with research (13:41) “Can you change the culture of a school through research?” (14:22) ..* We don’t intentionally use research enough in the learning space to improve instruction. ..* Teacher as researcher ..* Ready-made research (15:25) ..* E.g. Memory (16:00) ..* Spacing effect, active retrieval, dual coding, flashcards being misused ..* Action Research (17:01) ..* Original Research studies (17:25) Unconscionable List (18:12) - “detrimental pedagogy” ..* Labeling students (19:15) ..* Surprise quizzes that count for substantial points (19:51) ..* Wasting the beginning and the end of class (20:34) ..* Ebbinghaus Curve of Forgetting (21:55) ..* Exclusive Content: add 2 more to the list ..* No high school should start before 830 am (22:42) ..* No more than 4 subjects a day (23:20) ..* Other unconscionable list items: ..* Balance between project-based learning and the content knowledge necessary to be successful in those projects (23:38) ..* The Myth of Learning styles (24:34) ..* Howard Gardner Start and end of class (25:31) 3 questions every Monday from one teacher - one thing you remember from last week, 1 thing you remember from last month, 1 thing you remember from September (28:19) ..* Primacy recency effect Labeling (29:09) ..* What labels do to our mindset (29:57) ..* Create a fixed mindset & a self-fulfilling prophecy ..* Neuroplasticity (31:09) The Mindset Scholars Network (31:40) ..* Belonging Mindset ..* Purpose & Relevance Mindset Study - Reminded participants of race before a math assessment (33:34) ..* Hardiman out of Johns Hopkins ..* Downshifting (33:55) 12 Things Teachers should do for every student every day (35:16) ..* Choice Final Exams (35:38) ..* Low stakes Formative Assessment (37:08) ..* Connection between emotion and learning (37:37) ..* Rick Wormeli “Fair is not always equal.” ..* Spacing / active retrieval / dual coding ..* Exclusive Content ..* Teaching students the neuroanatomy behind learning (39:37) Making the podcast better (40:03) ..* Think Differently & Deeply - authors podcast (40:25) ..* Acknowledging prior knowledge Teaching is a learning profession for the adult (42:03) ..* You should be better in June than you were in September ..* Project Zero’s Thinking Routines ..* Ron Ritchhart ..* CTTL - Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning Mind, Brain, Education (44:10) ..* Twitter is a great lifeline - the Learning Scientists - subscribe! ..* @gwhitmancttl ..* “NeuroTeach Global” being released in January 2019 (45:01) Multitasking (46:41) - think about the pace and the amount of activities we’re giving our students Self-testing is the million dollar strategy (49:00) - how much do you know without referencing anything, then build upon the gaps We want doctors that have studied the organs of the body; we want teachers that have studied the organ of learning (50:47) ..* Studying the learning brain should be the foundation in our professional learning for improving at other pedagogical techniques Takeaways (53:21)

What does a research-informed school day look like? The first episode of the Think Differently and Deeply Podcast features Dr. Ian Kelleher, Director of Research for the CTTL, and Head of Intermediate School Judy Kee, who discuss the creation of the school’s new 2018-2019 schedule.

This webinar will explore how traditional public middle and high schools can work with private schools to provide innovative professional development opportunities for teachers and leaders, supporting continuous improvement. All4Ed will highlight partnership experiences of Margaret Lee, supervisor of advanced academics for Frederick County Public Schools, and John Yore, principal of Meade High School in Anne Arundel County Public Schools, with Glenn Whitman, director of the CTTL, to provide professional development in mind, brain, and education science to their teachers and school leaders.