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Intro Welcome to a special bonus episode of House of #EdTech, where I'm celebrating a remarkable 10-year journey! My Memories of the Last 10 Years Reflecting on a decade of growth, challenges, and triumphs. The evolution of educational technology over these years. Inspiration for the Show Sharing the spark that ignited the idea for House of #EdTech. Recording and Publishing That First Episode The excitement and nervousness of bringing the first episode to life. Overcoming initial hurdles and learning along the way. House of #EdTech - episode 1 A nostalgic snippet from the very first episode. Favorite Episodes 3 - Joe Iacono 14, 52, 54, 66, 76, 92, 138 - Katelyn 117, 137 - Miles 100, 108 - Dad 59 - Stacey & AJ Interviewed Me By the Numbers 10 Years = 120 months, 521 weeks, 3,652 days, 87,648 hours, 5,258,880 minutes, 315,532,800 seconds. 239 official episodes. 1,457,893 total downloads. Awesome Supporters Expressing heartfelt gratitude to all supporters. Jeff Herb - 1st supporter, sticking with us for 211 episodes. Leo Calbusch - Our latest awesome supporter. Acknowledging former and current Awesome Supporters. Special mention to Stacey Lindes - my 1st fan. Derek Larson - Fill-in host and the creator of the Smackdown sheet. Because of HoET... How HoET gave me the confidence to put my voice out there. Believing in the value of what I have to say. Awards 2015 Educator's Voice 2016 EdTech Digest Leadership Award 2018 EdTech Digest Top-100 EdTech Influencer 2019 K-12 Education 30 Must-Follow IT Influencer 2021 Learning Ladders Best Educational Podcaster Travel and Conferences Memorable trips to Utah, Alabama. Experiences at EdCamps, NJECC, ISTE, and Podcast Movement Rutgers Professor since 2016 The journey of becoming and being a professor at Rutgers. The Pod Journal A dive into the creation and impact of The Pod Journal. I Like to Podcast and You Will Too! Discussing my guide to podcasting and its influence. Purchase your copy! Education Podcast Network The growth and success of the Education Podcast Network. Podcast Editor Role and experiences as a podcast editor for: Google Teacher Podcast Partial Credit Assist Learning Podcast The Infused Classroom Podcast Zebra Podcast Network PodcastPD Chase for 28 Knock Knock, Who's There? Behind the Mic: Voices of the EPN Inspiring Thoughts Daily

Elana Leoni (CEO, Leoni Consulting Group) talks with Kevin about the unique challenges and opportunities that both educators and professionals face as they attempt to push forward in a post-COVID environment. This episode dives into the dynamics of the education technology industry, exploring the shift from free to paid services, the impact of the pandemic on edtech startups, and strategies for engaging busy school leaders and educators. Elana Leoni has had a significant career in improving K-12 education, notably leading marketing at the George Lucas Educational Foundation and expanding Edutopia's social media reach. She is a board member of Mt. Tam College, a prominent blogger and speaker in social media and education, and has been recognized as a top community professional. Elana introduced Edcamps to the West Coast and holds a business administration degree from Cal Poly and an MBA from Berkeley's Haas School. In her leisure time, she enjoys international travel, yoga, "old man sports," and almost anything on the water. Find Elana online: Twitter: https://twitter.com/elanaleoni LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elanaleoni/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elanaleoni/ Find Leoni Consulting Group online: Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeoniGroup LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lcg-found/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leoniconsultinggroup/   Learn more about creating better learning environments at www.Kay-Twelve.com. Kevin Stoller is the host of the Better Learning Podcast and Co-Founder of Kay-Twelve, a national leader for educational furniture. Find out more about Kevin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinstoller/ For more episodes of the Better Learning Podcast, visit https://www.betterlearningpodcast.com/ Who made this episode possible? Association for Learning Environments (A4LE) - https://www.a4le.org/ Education Leaders' Organization - https://www.ed-leaders.org/ Second Class Foundation - https://www.secondclassfoundation.org/

Over the past two years, we have seen technology use in the classroom skyrocket. From assessment tools to curriculum support, these technologies are essential to classrooms in districts across the country. Hand in hand with the bloom in learning technologies, inclusive technologies have become a major topic of discussion in the education world. In part two of this two-part series sponsored by the Center on Inclusive Technology & Education Systems (CITES) at CAST, our guests discuss how to implement a technology program that meets the needs of all learners. Step by step- setting standards, creating guides for teachers, sourcing and vetting vendors, and communicating support, this episode explores how district leaders can implement a comprehensive program to support all students with stories and examples from district leaders themselves. Today's guests are two leaders from the Jenks Public Schools in Jenks, Oklahoma – District Assistive Technology Coordinator Janna Greathouse and Edtech Coordinator Samantha Reid. Janna graduated from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma with a Master's degree in Speech Pathology. She has practiced as a speech-language pathologist in public school systems in the Carolinas and in Oklahoma, where she currently works. . Her latest pursuits involve efforts to increase accessibility, equity, and inclusion district-wide so that students are empowered to be experts in their own learning and are supported in doing so. Samantha obtained her M.Ed in Curriculum and Instruction with an Emphasis on Technology Integration in Education from UNLV in 2006, after which she began working in EdTech. Prior to moving into EdTech, she taught in Elementary School. Samantha is an ISTE Certified Education as well as receiving several other certifications and Micro-credentials through the years. She has done training all over the region and has presented at several EdCamps, Google Summits, and conferences, including ISTE, TCEA, FETC, and CoSN. This episode of The CoSN Podcast is supported by the Center on Inclusive Technology & Education Systems (CITES) at CAST. Learn more at https://cites.cast.org/ Engage further in the discussion on Twitter. Follow: @CoSN, @MindRocketMedia, @cafox, @MaggieP, @CAST_UDL, @JoSenja, @GreathouseJanna The CoSN Podcast is produced in partnership with MindRocket Media Group and published on edCircuit. To learn more about CoSN, visit www.cosn.org. Learn more about MindRocket Media Group at www.mindrocketmediagroup.com. Read the transcript of this interview here: https://edcircuit.com/creating-a-framework-for-inclusive-technology-part-2-s3e6/

Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #172 with a veteran principal from New Jersey, USA, who has actively been writing about highly relevant solutions to problems in educational leadership since 2018, Michael Gaskell.  Michael's second book, Leading Schools Through Trauma[i], was just published this September, and his first book, Microstrategy Magic[ii], last fall. Watch this interview on YouTube here https://youtu.be/V7sJTeFi-1c Learn more about Dr. Gaskell here https://www.facebook.com/Mikesmicrominute/  See past Neuroscience Meets SEL Podcast Episodes here https://www.achieveit360.com/episodes/  On Today's Episode You Will Learn: ✔︎  Why we must NEVER give up on a struggling student. ✔︎  What we should ALL know about being trauma-informed in today's schools. ✔︎ What Dr. Gaskell's 3-STEP Process says about the importance of educator well-being. ✔︎ How to recognize trauma, and next steps for working with our students in the classroom. ✔︎ The Pygmalion Effect and why our belief in our students matters. ✔︎ What Dr. Gaskell would say to a new, first year teacher, who is struggling in the classroom. ✔︎ Putting Together a Trauma-Informed Plan in your school. ✔︎ The importance of surveys for Teacher Training and Implementation. ✔︎ Actionable Ideas That You Can Implement Immediately. I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of our listeners, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind high performance strategies that we can use to improve our own productivity in our schools, our sports, and workplace environments. My vision is to bring the experts to you, share their books, resources, and ideas to help you to implement their proven strategies, whether you are a teacher working in the classroom or online, a student, or in the corporate environment. When I first began presenting on the topic of stress, learning and the brain in 2016, in those early days of learning about how the brain works and responds to stress, I started to receive messages from teachers around the country (and the world) with questions about how to handle students suffering from the damaging effects of trauma. Educators would attend the webinar presentations I was offering, and their emails requesting help at the end of these presentations were urgent. Since starting this work, I have always replied personally to every single email that comes in, but the ones about trauma I know I didn't have the best answers for, and I remember not knowing exactly how to answer these questions. I only knew from my viewpoint or experience working with behavioral students in my first-year teaching what worked for me back then, but I definitely lacked the strategies that are needed more than ever in our schools today, and understand now why being trauma-informed is so important. I'm grateful that this podcast has not only given us a platform to what's new and relevant, timely and important as it relates to educational neuroscience and leadership, but where else would we all gain access to the leaders around the world, working directly with the most innovative ideas in educational reform, productivity, and results. I want to thank you again, for all who tune in, and offer interview ideas and suggestions. The reach goes beyond those early days when we would host those webinars, now into over 154 countries, and we remain in the TOP 100 charts for iTunes in the category of education/how-to) in many of these countries around the world. This is only the beginning of our vision for this work so we can answer the questions that I know we all have, with the leading experts in this field. Which brings us to our next guest, Michael Gaskell, who has a unique story, because he's not only writing from his experience working in schools, and offering trauma-informed solutions from what he has seen working in his day to day world,  but Michael takes it a step deeper, BEING a former student who was labelled himself as “anxious, low-performing, hostile and other terms that pointed to the characteristics of trauma.” (xi, Leading Schools Through Trauma). We spoke in episode #170 with John Harmon[iii] just how important belief was for students learning their academics, (like math) and for someone who failed math not once, but twice in high school, this belief was not there. Something helped Michael to overcome his early academic challenges,  helping him to reach levels that most educators envision in their mind, but few attain—when he was presented with his dissertation for his educational doctorate. Let's meet Dr. Michael Gaskell and learn from his vast experience about how to be trauma-informed in today's schools. Welcome Dr. Gaskell, I really enjoyed getting to know you through email before this interview and know that we are all just one person away from knowing someone in this small world with you being from the town where my husband grew up in New Jersey. So good to meet you in this very small world. INTRO Q: Dr. Gaskell, the story you tell at the beginning of your most recent book about your personal experience of struggle that many children are dealing with today, especially the past few years. What was it, do you think, that made a difference for you? Was there something that sticks out in your mind as a turning point where you did something, anything different, putting you on a new trajectory? You mention maybe accidental fortune, but was there anything that you think helped you to make a shift? The shift we know our students are capable of, but they just don't know how? INTRODUCTION TO TRAUMA: Q1: Since many of us who were trained to work in today's classroom were not trained in the importance of understanding simple neuroscience, many of us also don't have a background in abnormal psychology, yet alone trauma. I like how you have taken the important research, and tied it into your book, right from the beginning with the study from Werner and Smith (2001) where they tracked individuals from childhood to middle age demonstrating how they responded to trauma in their life, and the finding that stuck out to be important was that among the high risk group (who we would expect to have challenges later in life) about “1/3 of the high-risk individuals displayed resilience and beat the odds.” (Page 2) We talked in depth with Horacio Sanchez about protective factors in episode #74[iv] but what do you think would be something we should all know about, if we have a student who appears to be going nowhere, what would you tell the teachers you are working with about the importance of understanding these protective factors to make an impact that we might not see right away? 1B) What change can really be expected in a year? Q2: What is different with your 3-step approach than some of the earlier books written to help save our students, like Ross Green's Lost at School[v] where they look they say that “kids with social, emotional, and behavior challenges lack important thinking skills” (Page 329 Lost at School) or Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators by Elena Aguilar[vi] that I think builds the character of an educator from the inside out, beginning with “self-awareness, knowing your emotions, social identities, core values and personality” ((page 816) to help you to see your purpose in life, or why you get out of bed every day. What comes first, the student's well-being, or the educators' well-being? RECOGNIZING TRAUMA: Q3: In the training I'm receiving now, we just covered some sessions to help us to understand how trauma impacts people in different ways and that strategies that might help one student, might push another's buttons and set them off. Where do we even begin to be “trauma-informed” in today's classrooms? Q3B) How do you assess a student's progress? Q4: I know how important our mindset is, or what we believe about those we are teaching, or coaching, but you have a study that backs this up with science. Can you explain the Pygmalion effect, and why what we think about our students matters so much? TREATING THE TRAUMA: RESOURCES/TOOLS/TEACHER SENSITIVITY: Q4B) I think back to my first year of teaching, with an assignment of 30 behavioral students, and not know how to control them (without any training in behavior management, and Dr. Bruce Perry hadn't released his Tree of Regulation where we learn that we need to be regulated ourselves, before we can regulate our students, but if I came to you after school and told you that my class was “out of control” what kind of plan would you put in place to  help me as a new or experienced teacher to recognize what's behind the behavior and help me to better connect with these students? Q5) What should we keep in mind when teaching children who've been exposed to trauma? Q6) Can you tell me about the “I Am More Than That Program?” I have seen similar programs within education, but reading it in the book, was different, especially when it comes from a student, uncovering their identity, increasing their self-awareness. Can you explain this progam, and why it's important for all of us to know who we are, to our very core? Q7) How can curiosity be used as a success tool in a school? IMPLEMENTATION and TRAINING: Q8) In a world that's forever changing, it's crucial to not overlook trauma like you identify at the macro level (everything we all went through during the Pandemic) to micro (like the unexpected death of a family member). How do you use surveys to identify your faculties concerns, while also giving them a voice for what training they will be receiving? Q9) How are you using EdCamps for your faculty meetings? ACTIONABLE IDEAS TO IMPLEMENT RIGHT NOW! Q10) What are some important takeaways that we can use right away? John Gottman's research/other ideas? Michael, I want to thank you very much for taking this deep dive with me into your most recent book, Leading Schools Through Trauma. For those who want to get a copy to further explore the tools, resources and ideas that we haven't had time to discuss, I will put a link in the show notes. Are there any other places people can follow you? FOLLOW MICHAEL GASKELL, EdD Neuroscience and the Brain Conference coming this NOVEMBER https://www.learningandthebrain.com/education-speakers/Michael-Gaskell https://twitter.com/GaskellMgaskell https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-gaskell-922711100/ https://www.facebook.com/Mikesmicrominute/ www.mikesmicrominute.com FOLLOW ANDREA SAMADI:  YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreaSamadi   Website https://www.achieveit360.com/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samadi/  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Achieveit360com   Neuroscience Meets SEL Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2975814899101697   Twitter: https://twitter.com/andreasamadi   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreasamadi/  RESOURCES: Anxiety vs Relaxation: Relabeling Anxiety as Excitement by Svetlana Whitener April 7, 2021 https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2021/04/07/anxiety-vs-relaxationrelabeling-anxiety-as-excitement/?sh=4cd2f56d7afd https://educationpost.org/network/michael-gaskell/  REFERENCES: [i] Leading Schools Through Trauma, by Michael Gaskell, Published September 15, 2021 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0367755629/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_api_glt_fabc_F6D3RBYCYKP8F9QW5JPW_nodl#immersive-view_1628594830538 [ii] Microstrategy Magic by Dr. Michael Gaskell Sept.23, 2020 https://www.amazon.com/Microstrategy-Magic-Confronting-Classroom-Challenges/dp/1475855311 [iii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #170 with John Harmon on “Our Brain and Mind Under Pressure” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/cognitive-neuroscience-researcher-john-harmon-on-our-brain-and-mind-under-pressure/ [iv]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #74 with Horacio Sanchez on “How to Apply Brain Science to Improve Instruction and School Climate”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/leading-brain-science-and-resiliency-expert-horatio-sanchez-on-how-to-apply-brain-science-to-improve-instruction-and-school-climate/ [v] Lost at School by Ross W Greene, Ph.D. Published October 14, 2008  https://www.amazon.com/Lost-School-Behavioral-Challenges-Falling-ebook/dp/B001FA0IN8 [vi]Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators by Elena Aguilar Published May 8, 2018  https://www.amazon.com/Onward-Cultivating-Emotional-Resilience-Educators/dp/1119364892

Dene Gainey is a twelve-year classroom educator, currently Grades 4-5 English Language Arts, Technology & Gifted. He received his undergraduate degree in Elementary Education K-6 from the University of Central Florida and his Masters of Education degree in Instructional Technology from American Intercontinental University in 2006. Currently he is pursuing a PhD. Never too far from the classroom, Dene believes that you should never stop learning! He thoroughly enjoys learning and growing by means of his professional learning network, interacting with other educators and teacher leaders through Voxer, Twitter, EdCamps, and conferences. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bigedidea/message

GotTechED the PodcastEpisode #86: EdTech Resources for Summer 2021If you are a new listener to GotTechED the Podcast, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our https://gotteched.com/contact-us/# (Contact Page) and let us know how we can help you today! Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode #86 called “EdTech PD and Resources for Summer 2021”. Each year we publish an episode where we share how we plan to grow professionally over the summer and this is that episode. We'll talk about summer PD we plan on attending, books we plan on reading, podcasts we plan on listening to, resources we want to explore, and people we're going to follow. This is another episode you don't want to miss. Check it out. Segment 1: Summer Professional Development OpportunitiesNick does https://digitalpromise.org/edcamp/attend/ (EdCamps both Virtual and in-person) https://conference.iste.org/2021/ (ISTELive21) - Virtual, $155-$195, lots of great sessions as always, June 26-30, virtual https://www.deelac.com/ (Digital Learning Annual Conference )- June 8, 14-16, or June 30, virtual or in-person (austin, TX) https://connectedlearningsummit.org/ (Connected Learning Summit )- July 7-30, Virtual, $15-$250 Segment 2: BooksDebbie Tannenbaum https://tannenbaumtech.com/transform-book (Transform Techy Notes to Make Learning Sticky) http://gotteched.com/episode82 (Episode 82) Kyle Anderson https://edumatch-publishing.myshopify.com/collections/educator-stories/products/to-the-edge-edu-by-kyle-anderson (To the Edge of EDU) Throughout To The Edge, Kyle shares his story of how risks have shaped him into the person and educator that he is today. From risks that resulted in immediate success to ones that elicited failure and regret, you surely will be inspired by Kyle's story. Take yourself to the edge and become more of a risk-taker in your life and career! #ToTheEdgeEDU Mandy Froehlich https://www.amazon.com/Divergent-EDU-Challenging-assumptions-limitations/dp/1732248796 (Divergent EDU: Challenging assumptions and limitations to create a culture of innovation) The concept of being innovative can be made to sound so simple. We think of a new idea. We take a risk and implement the new idea. We fail, learn, and move forward. But what if the development of the innovative thinking isn't the only roadblock? What if so much of your day is spent solving the issues around you that even the attempt at developing new ideas is not even on your radar? What if you long to have more divergent teachers in your school district or to be that divergent teacher, but you simply don't know where to start? This is where I was as a Technology Integrator several years ago. I knew what innovative teaching looked like, but I didn't know how to support all the other areas that were taking teachers away from having the time and the brain space to think innovatively and divergently. Segment 3: PodcastsGuise's Blog will be out by 5/31 https://www.teachbetter.com/podcasts/teachbettertalk/ (Teach Better Talk Podcast) Rae Hughart and Jeff GargasThe Teach Better Talk Podcast is a weekly show featuring expert educators ready to share progressive tactics to reach more students. Teach Better Talk is created by teachers, and fueled by passion! Every week, Rae Hughart and Jeff Gargas, of the Teach Better Team and www.teachbetter.com, chat with educators from all around the world, discussing failures, successes, exciting new tactics, and dishing out loads of tips, tricks, and advice for educators of all levels. Publishing two educator interviews and at least one bonus episode a week - this won't be a show you want to miss! https://teachersonfire.net/ (Teachers on Fire) Tim CaveyProfiling agents of growth and transformation in K-12 education. Advocating for collaboration, communication, creation > consumption, critical thinking, design thinking, growth mindset, inquiry, PBL, and strategic uses of technology in education *** Also check...

AJ Bianco is a husband, father of three amazing children (2 boys and a girl), and currently is the Vice Principal of East Brook Middle School in New Jersey. When it comes to the ideal classroom, AJ is an advocate for technology tools and methodologies. He is also a major proponent for Blended Learning practices, Personalized Learning and the Flipped Classroom model to enhance student learning. AJ is an avid podcast listener, host of ReflectEd Podcast, co-host of PodcastPD, and co-host of The Chas for 28, a Yankees podcast. He is also a co-host of #CoffeeEDU in Bergen County, New Jersey. You can find AJ at a variety of EdCamps and Conferences throughout New Jersey and New York. AJ shares his passions for education, educational technology, and leadership through his website at www.ajbianco.me.

In this episode, we chat about one of the more negative aspects of technology integration. I connect with Stacey Lindes, Chris Nesi, and AJ Bianco, AKA the Podcast PD crew. We talk about the edtech pet peeves that we have. We are all guilty of doing something that others hate and that's OK, it doesn't make us any less of a person or educator. This list contains some things that you or your colleagues might be guilty of doing. And being that the Podcast PD crew is all based in New Jersey, what better meal to have than pork roll (or as AJ calls it, Taylor Ham). So try not to get too hungry while consuming this episode and check to see if you are guilty of some of these edtech pet peeves. Buen provecho! Podcast PD Website About Stacey Stacey is a 5th grade teacher with nearly 20 years experience in education from pre-school to high school. She is passionate about tech integration and a balance between the digital and analog world. Stacey is also the cohost of PodcastPD, a show about learning and growing with podcasts. Stacey on Twitter Stacey on Instagram About Chris Christopher J. Nesi is certified in social studies and supervision and has inspired students and teachers at the K-12, and collegiate levels. Technology and its role in education are his professional passion. Mr. Nesi hosts the House of #EdTech Podcast. House of #EdTech explores how technology is changing the way teachers teach and the impact that technology is having in education. He is also the co-host of the PodcastPD Podcast. In 2015, he founded the Education Podcast Network as a way to connect with other education podcasters and to provide a place where people could easily access the best in education podcasts. In 2019, he was named one of EdTech’s 30 Must-Follow K–12 Education IT Influencers by EdTech Magazine. Chris on Twitter Chris on Instagram Chris on Facebook Chris' Website About AJ AJ Bianco is a husband, father of three amazing children (2 boys and a girl), and currently is the Vice Principal of East Brook Middle School in New Jersey. When it comes to the ideal classroom, AJ is an advocate for technology tools and methodologies. He is also a major proponent for Blended Learning practices, Personalized Learning and the Flipped Classroom model to enhance student learning. AJ is an avid podcast listener, co-host of PodcastPD, and a podcast coming in early 2020! He is also a co-host of #CoffeeEDU in Bergen County, New Jersey. You can find AJ at a variety of EdCamps and Conferences throughout New Jersey and New York. AJ shares his passions for education, educational technology, and leadership through his website at www.ajbianco.me AJ on Twitter AJ on Instagram AJ on Facebook ReflectED Website

We’ve tried to balance the need to reopen schools closed during the pandemic, with the safety of students, teachers, and communities. But have we considered all of the angles and possibilities? Follow on Twitter: @jonHarper70bd @froehlichm @j1berger @TeachMrReed @Glennr1809 @bamradionetwork Jonah Berger is a Marketing Professor at the Wharton School and Bestselling author of Contagious, Invisible Influence, and most recently The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind..Teaching phenom and educational activist, Dwayne Reed, has been crisscrossing the globe, promoting his message of love and equity in education. After seeing viral success with the release of his educational music video, "Welcome to the 4th Grade," and appearing on Good Morning America, CNN, and MTV's TRL, Reed has been on a mission to convince the world that relationships mean everything in education, and that every child, no matter their race or social status, deserves a fair chance at a quality education. Glenn Robbins is a Lead Learner/Designer @NCSNJ. Husband and father. Ed.D Student and organizer of EdCamps.

In this episode I chat with an incredible educator and friend, Monica Spillman. Monica is a teacher and edtech enthusiast with experience teaching pre-k and middle and high school special education in Georgia and Tennessee. She is also a Google certified trainer and an incredible sketchnoter and co-creator of the annual Pass the Sketchnote global sketchnoting collaboration. Loved our conversation about edcamps, sketchnoting, and gamified learning. Connect with Monica: Twitter: @mospillman Teach Like a Pirate Sketchnotes by Monica Spillman Sketchnoting on or off Screen with Monica Spillman, Carrie Baughcum, and Tanny McGregor The Pencil Made Me Do It by Carrie Baughcum Ink & Ideas: Sketchnotes for Engagement, Comprehension, and Thinking by Tanny McGregor How to Sketchnote: A Step-by-Step Manual for Teachers and Students by Sylvia Duckworth Sketchnote books by Mike Rhode

We’ve tried to balance the need to reopen schools closed during the pandemic, with the safety of students, teachers, and communities. But have we considered all of the angles and possibilities? Follow on Twitter: @jonHarper70bd @froehlichm @j1berger @TeachMrReed @Glennr1809 @bamradionetwork Jonah Berger is a Marketing Professor at the Wharton School and Bestselling author of Contagious, Invisible Influence, and most recently The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind..Teaching phenom and educational activist, Dwayne Reed, has been crisscrossing the globe, promoting his message of love and equity in education. After seeing viral success with the release of his educational music video, "Welcome to the 4th Grade," and appearing on Good Morning America, CNN, and MTV's TRL, Reed has been on a mission to convince the world that relationships mean everything in education, and that every child, no matter their race or social status, deserves a fair chance at a quality education. Glenn Robbins is a Lead Learner/Designer @NCSNJ. Husband and father. Ed.D Student and organizer of EdCamps.

In this 176th episode of The Wired Educator Podcast, I interview Dan Kreiness, host of the Leader of Learning podcast, an extraordinary educational leader and instructional coach in Connecticut. Dan just finished his doctorate in Educational Leadership with a focus on the topic of growth mindset. I enjoy Dan‘s podcast, and I'm excited to have him on the show. We talk about the return to school in all of the different models, growth mindset, remote learning, and instructional coaching.  Dan is a brilliant educational leader. This podcast will help you level-up to make a difference in the lives of students. Let's go! Thank you for choosing this episode of The Wired Educator Podcast! You are awesome!  Dan and I talk about: Dan's SCOPE acronym for what makes coaching growth mindset a medical doctor's opinion on which learning model is best for students (an interesting discussion) transformational leadership to inspire growth mindsets in teachers maintaining a growth mindset around school reopening instructional coaching and leading by coaching differentiating and personalizing learning during hybrid/distance learning and more! Dr. Dan Kreiness is an instructional leader and podcast host who constantly searches for the most effective ways to advance education and produce high student achievement. Dan began his teaching career by spending nearly eight years in the New York City Department of Education as an eighth grade English language arts teacher, academic intervention specialist, and middle level literacy coach, then spent nearly five years at Derby Middle School in Derby, Connecticut as a reading teacher and instructional coach. He is currently an ELA Instructional Coach in the Norwalk Public School District in Norwalk, Connecticut. Dan holds master's degrees in adolescent education and educational leadership and a doctorate in educational leadership. His dissertation and original research were titled, “Transformational Leadership to Inspire Growth Mindset in Classroom Teachers.” Dan was named to the 2017 class of ASCD Emerging Leaders. He is also a Google Certified Educator, Nearpod PioNear, Flipgrid Ambassador, and Wakelet Ambassador. Dan hosts the popular Leader of Learning podcast which can be found on music streaming services such as Spotify, iTunes and Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and TuneIn, or on any podcast catcher. Dan has been a recurring host and panelist on the EduMatch Tweet and Talk podcast series. He is also an author who features his writing the “Leader of Learning” blog and has contributed guest blogs to The EduCal Blog, Your Instructional Coach, and TeachBoost. In addition to blogging, he also has published works as a contributor to the Edumatch Snapshot in Education (2017) Volume 2: Professional Practice and The EduMatch Teacher's Recipe Guide: Survive and Thrive in the Kitchen and Beyond. Dan is emerging as an expert presenter at educational conferences, trainings, and EdCamps on topics including leadership, growth mindset, podcasting, student engagement, various instructional technologies, and using social media in education. Dan was the creator of the #growthmindsetEDU Twitter chat and Voxer group after his interest in growth mindset was sparked as he studied how to be an effective instructional coach. His specific educational interests include leadership, educational technology, and student engagement. Mentioned in this podcast:  Kelly's new book: Unthink Before Bed: A Children's Book on Mindfulness Dan's website: https://leaderoflearning.com Follow Dan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dr_kreiness Follow Dan on Instagram: https://instagram.com/dr_kreiness Follow Dan on his Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/leaderoflearning One of Dan's favorite reads is the book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath.  Sign-up for Kelly's newsletter here. Kelly Croy is an author, speaker, and educator. If you'd like to learn more about Kelly or invite him to your school or conference to speak please send him an email. • Listen to Kelly's other podcast, The Future Focused Podcast and subscribe. • Subscribe to The Wired Educator Podcast with over 176 episodes of interviews and professional development. • Visit Kelly's website at www.KellyCroy.com. • Looking for a dynamic speaker for your school's opening day? • Consider Kelly Croy at www.KellyCroy.com • Order Kelly's book, Along Came a Leader for a school book study or your personal library. • Follow Kelly Croy on Facebook.  • Follow Kelly Croy on Twitter.  •  Follow Kelly Croy on Instagram   

Teacher Bruce Reicher shares two of his favorite distance learning tools - Wakelet and Wevideo. He talks about how he uses them with students and teachers for classroom learning and teacher PD. Take a look at Wakelet for organizing files and WeVideo for editing and screencasts. www.coolcatteacher.com/e672  Sponsor: This Fall season is going to be different, but we’re not sure how. Whatever happens, online learning will play a huge role in our teaching. What better way to understand online learning than to take your summer PD online through Advancement Courses? With Advancement Courses, you never stop learning. They offer over 280 graduate-level PD courses in 20 different subjects — all self-paced with up to six months to complete. Go to advancementcourses.com/coolcat and save 20% off each course by using the code COOL20. That’s just $120 per graduate credit hour or $160 for 50 clock hours. You can also receive graduate credit through CAEP and regionally accredited university partners for continuing education requirements. Thanks, Advancement Courses for sponsoring today’s show. Bruce Reicher - Bio as Submitted Bruce Reicher has been a technology teacher for over 25 years. He's currently teaching Digital Leadership, Python Coding and Video Production at Cavallini Middle School in Upper Saddle River, NJ. Mr. Reicher's students have produced a live morning news show for the past 12 years and recently produced their 2,000th show. Mr. Reicher is an avid learner who enjoys going to Edcamps and conferences. His passion is to learn, share, teach and repeat. Mr. Reicher has been a proud Board Of Education member the past 8 years for Hawthorne, NJ public schools. https://wakelet.com/@reicher and https://sites.google.com/view/brucereicherpd/home Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a sponsored podcast episode. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."  

Dr. Dan Kreiness is an instructional leader, podcast host, and doctoral candidate who constantly searches for the most effective ways to advance education and produce high student achievement. Dan began his teaching career by spending nearly eight years in the New York City Department of Education as an eighth grade English language arts teacher, academic intervention specialist, and middle level literacy coach, then spent nearly five years at Derby Middle School in Derby, Connecticut as a reading teacher and instructional coach. He is currently an ELA Instructional Coach in the Norwalk Public School District in Norwalk, Connecticut. Dan holds masters degrees in adolescent education and educational leadership and is currently a doctoral candidate in the field of educational leadership. His dissertation is titled, “Transformational Leadership to Inspire Growth Mindset in Classroom Teachers.” Dan was named to the 2017 class of ASCD Emerging Leaders. He is also a Google Certified Educator, Nearpod PioNear, Flipgrid Ambassador, and Wakelet Ambassador.Dan hosts the popular Leader of Learning podcast which can be found on music streaming services such as Spotify, iTunes and Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and TuneIn, or on any podcast catcher. Dan has been a recurring host and panelist on the EduMatch Tweet and Talk podcast series. He is also an author who features his writing the “Leader of Learning” blog and has contributed guest blogs to The EduCal Blog, Your Instructional Coach, and TeachBoost. In addition to blogging, he also has published works as a contributor to the Edumatch Snapshot in Education (2017) Volume 2: Professional Practice and The EduMatch Teacher's Recipe Guide: Survive and Thrive in the Kitchen and Beyond.Dan is emerging as an expert presenter at education conferences, trainings, and EdCamps on topics including leadership, growth mindset, podcasting, student engagement, various instructional technologies, and using social media in education. Dan was the creator of the #growthmindsetEDU Twitter chat and Voxer group after his interest in growth mindset was sparked as he studied how to be an effective instructional coach. His specific educational interests include leadership, educational technology, and student engagement.Contact Dan at dan@leaderoflearning.com

Sarah-Jane Thomas, PhD is a Regional Technology Coordinator and founder of the EduMatch project, which promotes connection and collaboration among educators around the world. Sarah is also on the leadership team of the ISTE Digital Equity PLN, and Affiliate Faculty at Loyola University in Maryland. In this episode, Sarah provides advice on how to implement technology in the classroom from a leadership perspective and also shares her passion for EdCamps. You can find Sarah on Twitter @sarahdateechur.

Access the full post: http://shakeuplearning.com/43 Today we are chatting about something that may seem a bit taboo. We are talking about some alternative ways to share professional learning tips and strategies through what has been dubbed as #PottyPD. My guest, Pam Hubler, is going to share how she uses #PottyPD to make the most of a captive audience. This idea has been seen in many iterations over the years--Learning in the Loo, Goo in the Loo (for Google-specific learning), Copier PD, etc. Pam shares how she uses #PottyPD on her campus to share tips and resources with her teachers. Pam also shares her Google Drawings template, how she curates with Wakelet, and how other campus leaders can make the most of a captive audience in the teacher's lounge, by the copying machine, in the hallways, and yes, even the teacher's bathroom! [ctt template="1" link="xZt16" via="yes" ]#PottyPD: How to Make the Most of a Captive Audience (FREE TEMPLATE and guest post by @specialtechie)[/ctt] [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/shakeuplearning/SULS043.mp3" social_linkedin="true" social_pinterest="true" social_email="true" ] ... Shoutout Thank you to Michelle Spradlin Ward for her kind comments in our FREE Facebook community. Do you have a question or idea to share on the podcast? Leave me a message here. #PottyPD: How to Make the Most of a Captive Audience We’ve all been in the restroom at a restaurant and found ourselves reading anything within sight, appropriate or not, right? Well, why not take advantage of the few extra minutes teachers have to give them tips to add to their idea toolkit.  I am not the first one to use this strategy; there are many different versions out there. One name for this type of visually-driven bathroom professional development is called #PottyPD, which I started creating immediately after seeing Tara Martin (author of Be Real) share this idea on Twitter and her blog.  I just loved the name #PottyPD and had to borrow it! That’s what teachers do…no need to reinvent the wheel! #sharingiscaring As an Instructional Coach, providing professional development is a big part of my job. I also remember what it was like to be a teacher, with very little extra time to attend professional development.  Keeping this in mind, I decided to create a visual in the restrooms as a “teaser,” then curate a digital newsletter using Wakelet for teachers to access the same information later if something piqued their interest.  I figured this was a way to share information without putting too much in an email that would go un-read (TLDR “To Long Didn’t Read”). I’m not blaming anyone. I’m guilty of it myself.  Educators have a never-ending to-do list! #PottyPD Examples Here are pictures of my first year of #PottyPD.  You can see that I use a mix of icons, images, and screenshots to create my visual. Enough to catch your eye, read quickly, and make people want to read later.  How to Gather Ideas for #PottyPD Each volume of #PottyPD has a Google Form (see image below) attached that asks a few questions to guide what I share on the next one. I also do giveaways to encourage teachers to complete the form. I duplicate the form for each volume, change the image and title at the top, so it matches my printed newsletter, then link it to one Google Sheet so the data is in one place.  Each volume will have its own tab in one Google Sheet (click here for more information on how to do this).  I use the “What would you like to see more of?” question to help guide my next volume, which I usually do monthly.  I also add ideas to a Google Keep note, so I don’t forget what teachers have needed as I help out in classrooms or get information from the district.  Your school improvement goals and district initiatives can also guide you in the right direction. Just like planning for technology integration, you want to ask yourself, what’s the end goal? I use this question every time I prepare for professional development. How to Create the #PottyPD Poster Google Drawings! I love the flexibility of the tool.  It’s like having a blank canvas that gives you the chance to unleash your creativity!  Step 1: Open Google Drawings Go to File>Page Setup>Custom>Change the size to 8.5 x 11 inches  Step 2: Add anything you want to your drawing! You can see all the insert options in the image below.  I use the shape tools in Google Drawings A LOT!  These shapes can be used to fill color, text, images, etc.   If you want to use a border, start with a white square shape and make it a little smaller than the canvas. We could go on for days on how to use Google Drawings.  Check out the resources linked at the bottom of the post if you want to learn more!  Step 3: Create a Wakelet Collection I do this last, so I don’t put too much information on the visual.   Wakelet is an amazing curation tool. The image below shows all of your options.     Once you publish your collection, click the Share button and copy the QR Code to add to the top of your Google Drawing.  You might also want to add the shortened URL to the top in case someone just takes off a picture of it and wants to type it in when they get back to their room.  Step 4: Save a copy as a PDF to print for the restrooms Go to File>Download As> PDF I’ll also download it as a PNG image, so I can use part of the visual for the top of my Wakelet Collection (next step) and Google Form.  I like to use the plastic sign holders in the bathrooms so it can sit on a counter where you can still read it.  It also protects the page for sanitary reasons.   I hope this gives you some ideas for your school! Even if you are a classroom teacher, you can use this as a newsletter for your parents.  Let us know what you create and share your creations using the hashtag #PottyPD and #ShakeUpLearning. We’d love to see what you create!  Pam's Wakelet Collection of #PottyPD See all of Pam's #PottyPD collections: Wakelet collection of 19-20 Potty PD Wakelet collection of 18-19 PottyPD FREE Google Drawings TEMPLATES! CLICK HERE to make a copy of Pam's Google Drawings template (with directions). CLICK HERE to make a copy of Pam's Google Drawings blank template.  Resources and Links A Wakelet about Wakelet!   Google Drawings Resources Colorzilla: Chrome extension for grabbing exact color codes from the web. Noun Project: Free and paid icons to use in your projects Podcast Question of the Week "As a leader, how can you create quick learning opportunities for your teachers?" Post your answer to your favorite social media platform using the hashtag #ShakeUpLearning, or share it in the Shake Up Learning Community on Facebook! About Pam Hubler Pam is an Instructional Coach in Charleston, South Carolina, with 22 years in education.  She is passionate about professional development, technology integration, and building a strong culture in schools. As a Google Certified Trainer, Pam supports teachers by providing frequent professional development on how to integrate GSuite tools into their daily routines.  She also guides discussions during weekly PLC’s to help teachers find dynamic ways to provide instruction and develop engaging activities that incorporate the 4 C’s in authentic ways. Pam also loves to create resources to share with educators through her website www.spedtechgeek.com, Twitter, as community manager of the Shake Up Learning Facebook Group and other social media platforms. She has presented at FETC, the EdTechTeam Low Country Summit, and EdCamps. Pam is a lifelong learner who loves to read professional development books, especially books from Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc., and listens to Podcasts like the Google Teacher Tribe to keep up with educational technology and pedagogy.  She strives to be a PIRATE Leader to support educators so we can keep great teachers in the profession. Follow Pam on Twitter: @specialtechie See Pam's other guest blog posts and appearances on Shake Up Learning Student “Play of the Week” with Google Slides (FREE Template) Google Tips for Instructional Coaches and Tech Coaches Google Success Story: Pam Hubler, Google Certified Trainer  

We interview Jared Covili, one of the coordinators of EdCamp Utah, scheduled for November 2 at Rowland Hall in Utah. Beyond the immediacy of this upcoming event, EdCamps are a professional learning opportunity taking the nation by storm. They are a way for educators to have more say over their professional learning options. What is an EdCamp, and how is it different than traditional professional development--and why might it be a better option? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tracyandjim/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tracyandjim/support

OK in my opinion, an Edcamp is a place where you go to learn, lead and repeat. Everyone needs to attend an edcamp! At the beginning of this episode, I share my experience with my first edcamp. Then I share 5 reasons why YOU need to attend an Edcamp. Check out the Edcamp Foundation site to find a variety of edcamps near you! Look to see if an edcamp is near your hometown that you can attend during a break from school. I close out the episode with information about Edcamp GCC - April 18, 2020. I hope to see you there! To find the show notes and link to register for Edcamp GCC check out https://www.sfecich.com/post/5-reasons-why-you-need-attend-an-edcamp Please subscribe, rate, and review!

Today on the show, Howie and Ryan welcome a friend and wonderful educator, Diane Trout. Diane is currently teaching 2nd grade at HEART academy at Julian Newman in Athens Alabama and is a Disney enthusiast, to say the least. She graduated from Athens State University with her B.S. in Elementary Education and a minor in Educational Technology. Diane has worked as a Title 1 coach and as a kindergarten teacher.  In 2016 she was awarded “Outstanding Educator of the Year” from Athens State University and has shared her expertise, presenting at conferences like FETC, AETC, NATC, Athens State University’s TEACH conference, and several local EdCamps. Diane is also a Seesaw ambassador and Nearpod Certified Educator. Diane has said, “I believe students have a genuine passion to learn and it is up to teachers to help develop those passions.” In today’s episode, you will hear from Diane how she goes about continuing her development as an educator and how she turns that development into the engaging lessons and activities that grow those passions in her students. One of the many professional development opportunities that she took advantage of was our P.D. Magic course and the culminating experiential learning field trip. Diane shares her expectations, experiences, and wonderful contributions to the course and then gives us some examples of how she is currently implementing these ideas into her classroom. We know you are going to love listening to Diane and we know that you will know immediately through her passion that she is a true advocate for the student. Providing a creative, rich, and engaging magical classroom for all who come to her happy place.

This week on I Wish I Knew EDU, I’m talking to Kiersten Wrona @ms_wrona about taking risks, S led EdCamps, the Ignite experience, the importance of Global Skills, keeping kids pumped up for EQAO and letting primary Ss be leaders.

In Season 2 episode 9, Tori chats with Kim Zajac who is on the board of MassCUE. Kim and Tori discuss all things MassCUE (an organization in Massachusetts that helps to promote and support technology in education). They also chat about Sketchnoting, EdCamps, and getting involved in educational organizations outside of the classroom. This episode will leave you feeling motivated and eager to connect with other educators.

In this episode, Nick and Guise talk about their favorite take-a-ways from the ISTE Conference in Philadelphia.  They review the latest improvements to their favorite edtech tools as well as introduce a few new tools. GotTechED Episode 36:  Flipgrid (https://flipgrid.com/) Updates Shorts Wakelet (https://wakelet.com/) Integration Pals Immersive Reader Smaller changes: Rearrange videos Mass action download Google Updates 2.  Google Forms (https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/) Now has the ability to copy questions from quiz to quiz Applications Google Expedition (https://edu.google.com/products/vr-ar/expeditions/) feature Summer 2019 available on Chromebooks (https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/04/google-to-launch-a-chromebook-app-hub-for-educational-apps-and-lesson-ideas/ https://chromebookapphub.withgoogle.com/ideas) Where in the world is carmen santiago  Web and mobile versions of Google Earth (https://www.google.com/earth/) Screencastomatic (http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/blog/screencast-o-matic-chrome-browser-extension/) accepted on the Chrome store Adobe Spark (https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwiFn4exj5TjAhUVtsgKHeyYDf8YABAAGgJxdQ&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESEeD2hCDuGVDm9Usm0LwbHDJR&sig=AOD64_3TXBFjMwErlBbFSQL5RIGhvttOaA&q=&ved=2ahUKEwi5hP-wj5TjAhXvguAKHerMCekQ0Qx6BAgQEAE&adurl=) Collaboration option (https://kahoot.com/) More room to write questions Response timer has been extended to 4 minutes Drag and drop questions into a new order Autosaving your work 10. GimKit (https://www.gimkit.com/) New Feedback options 11. WriQ (https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/wriq/) Keeps track of writing, grammar, customizable rubrics WriQ is an extension for Google Docs that automatically grades papers digitally. It’s faster, more accurate and consistent than traditional manual and subjective grading – giving students, parents and teachers clear visibility of writing progress over time against peers and standardized norms. Social Media: Guise on Twitter  @guisegotteched (https://twitter.com/GuiseGotTechEd) Nick on Twitter  @nickgotteched (https://twitter.com/NickGotTechEd) GotTechED the Podcast on Twitter  @wegotteched (https://twitter.com/WeGotTechEd) Music Credits: The Degs: Shotgun (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/) @bensounds (https://www.bensound.com/) Other Relatable GotTechED Episodes: Summer Professional Development (https://gotteched.com/episode10) Teacher Creativity, EdTech Round-table, and PD Badge System (https://gotteched.com/episode16) PLC’s vs. PLN’s, Teacher Conventions vs. Edcamps, and Education Statistics (https://gotteched.com/episode19) Quarter 1 Grading Tips, Pop Culture Lessons, and Being Thankful! (https://gotteched.com/episode20) The Art of Questioning, Preservice Teachers, & Leadership Characteristics (https://gotteched.com/episode22) Other ways to follow GotTechED Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gotteched/id1358366637?mt=2) Google Podcasts  (https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Indeizidhz4h37mawfylwdgco4y) Stitcher  (https://www.stitcher.com/search?q=gotteched) YouTube  (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMIQwu39Tkow3kduRQAH85w?view_as=subscriber) Twitter   (https://twitter.com/WeGotTechED) Facebook    (https://www.facebook.com/WeGotTechED/)    

Annalee Good, an evaluator and researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, joins us in this episode to discuss her recently published book, Teachers at the Table: Voice, Agency, and Advocacy in Educational Policymaking (Lexington Press, 2018). Our conversation begins with her own journey from teaching middle school social studies to studying teacher engagement in policy advocacy. This research is particularly timely (though of course always timely!) with the 2018 wave of teacher strikes across the United States and record numbers of teachers running for office. Having teachers involved in policy advocacy is critical for policy quality and legitimacy, yet they often aren’t. Annalee’s book is a systematic inquiry into the institutional forces that make it hard for teachers to engage in policymaking, and she contrasts these barriers with the ways they are do have a voice and agency. Her study focuses on mentor and intern teachers who participated in a policy-focused professional development program in West Virginia. Through her qualitative data analysis, contextualized with national surveys, the voices of the participating teachers come through, underscoring that teachers have more power and more expertise than they often perceive. We close the episode hearing about the new work Annalee and Jerry are doing through the Wisconsin Education Policy, Outreach, and Practice group (WEPOP), which is dedicated to teacher-driven conversation about public policy. This group work runs summer policy 101 workshops with pre-service teachers, writes policy-in-practice briefs, and offers sessions at regional EdCamps. Find out more about their work and follow them on twitter @WEPOPwisc. Gerald Dryer is a graduate student in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research explores the relation between social justice and personalized learning in schools. Follow him on twitter @GeraldDryer or check out his research and vacation photos at: https://punkphd.wordpress.com. Julie Kallio is a graduate student in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her research interests include research-practice partnerships, educational change, innovation and improvement networks, and participatory design. You can find more about her work on her website, follow her on twitter, or email her at jmkallio@wisc.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Annalee Good, an evaluator and researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, joins us in this episode to discuss her recently published book, Teachers at the Table: Voice, Agency, and Advocacy in Educational Policymaking (Lexington Press, 2018). Our conversation begins with her own journey from teaching middle school social studies to studying teacher engagement in policy advocacy. This research is particularly timely (though of course always timely!) with the 2018 wave of teacher strikes across the United States and record numbers of teachers running for office. Having teachers involved in policy advocacy is critical for policy quality and legitimacy, yet they often aren’t. Annalee’s book is a systematic inquiry into the institutional forces that make it hard for teachers to engage in policymaking, and she contrasts these barriers with the ways they are do have a voice and agency. Her study focuses on mentor and intern teachers who participated in a policy-focused professional development program in West Virginia. Through her qualitative data analysis, contextualized with national surveys, the voices of the participating teachers come through, underscoring that teachers have more power and more expertise than they often perceive. We close the episode hearing about the new work Annalee and Jerry are doing through the Wisconsin Education Policy, Outreach, and Practice group (WEPOP), which is dedicated to teacher-driven conversation about public policy. This group work runs summer policy 101 workshops with pre-service teachers, writes policy-in-practice briefs, and offers sessions at regional EdCamps. Find out more about their work and follow them on twitter @WEPOPwisc. Gerald Dryer is a graduate student in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research explores the relation between social justice and personalized learning in schools. Follow him on twitter @GeraldDryer or check out his research and vacation photos at: https://punkphd.wordpress.com. Julie Kallio is a graduate student in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her research interests include research-practice partnerships, educational change, innovation and improvement networks, and participatory design. You can find more about her work on her website, follow her on twitter, or email her at jmkallio@wisc.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Annalee Good, an evaluator and researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, joins us in this episode to discuss her recently published book, Teachers at the Table: Voice, Agency, and Advocacy in Educational Policymaking (Lexington Press, 2018). Our conversation begins with her own journey from teaching middle school social studies to studying teacher engagement in policy advocacy. This research is particularly timely (though of course always timely!) with the 2018 wave of teacher strikes across the United States and record numbers of teachers running for office. Having teachers involved in policy advocacy is critical for policy quality and legitimacy, yet they often aren’t. Annalee’s book is a systematic inquiry into the institutional forces that make it hard for teachers to engage in policymaking, and she contrasts these barriers with the ways they are do have a voice and agency. Her study focuses on mentor and intern teachers who participated in a policy-focused professional development program in West Virginia. Through her qualitative data analysis, contextualized with national surveys, the voices of the participating teachers come through, underscoring that teachers have more power and more expertise than they often perceive. We close the episode hearing about the new work Annalee and Jerry are doing through the Wisconsin Education Policy, Outreach, and Practice group (WEPOP), which is dedicated to teacher-driven conversation about public policy. This group work runs summer policy 101 workshops with pre-service teachers, writes policy-in-practice briefs, and offers sessions at regional EdCamps. Find out more about their work and follow them on twitter @WEPOPwisc. Gerald Dryer is a graduate student in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research explores the relation between social justice and personalized learning in schools. Follow him on twitter @GeraldDryer or check out his research and vacation photos at: https://punkphd.wordpress.com. Julie Kallio is a graduate student in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her research interests include research-practice partnerships, educational change, innovation and improvement networks, and participatory design. You can find more about her work on her website, follow her on twitter, or email her at jmkallio@wisc.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Annalee Good, an evaluator and researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, joins us in this episode to discuss her recently published book, Teachers at the Table: Voice, Agency, and Advocacy in Educational Policymaking (Lexington Press, 2018). Our conversation begins with her own journey from teaching middle school social studies to studying teacher engagement in policy advocacy. This research is particularly timely (though of course always timely!) with the 2018 wave of teacher strikes across the United States and record numbers of teachers running for office. Having teachers involved in policy advocacy is critical for policy quality and legitimacy, yet they often aren’t. Annalee’s book is a systematic inquiry into the institutional forces that make it hard for teachers to engage in policymaking, and she contrasts these barriers with the ways they are do have a voice and agency. Her study focuses on mentor and intern teachers who participated in a policy-focused professional development program in West Virginia. Through her qualitative data analysis, contextualized with national surveys, the voices of the participating teachers come through, underscoring that teachers have more power and more expertise than they often perceive. We close the episode hearing about the new work Annalee and Jerry are doing through the Wisconsin Education Policy, Outreach, and Practice group (WEPOP), which is dedicated to teacher-driven conversation about public policy. This group work runs summer policy 101 workshops with pre-service teachers, writes policy-in-practice briefs, and offers sessions at regional EdCamps. Find out more about their work and follow them on twitter @WEPOPwisc. Gerald Dryer is a graduate student in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research explores the relation between social justice and personalized learning in schools. Follow him on twitter @GeraldDryer or check out his research and vacation photos at: https://punkphd.wordpress.com. Julie Kallio is a graduate student in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her research interests include research-practice partnerships, educational change, innovation and improvement networks, and participatory design. You can find more about her work on her website, follow her on twitter, or email her at jmkallio@wisc.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    We first talked with Ge-Anne Bolhuis almost a year ago on episode 205 of Teaching Learning Leading K12 where we talked about the Future Ready Librarian. Today we are focused on Independent Reading Choice. Ge-Anne started her career in education in 1994 in Middle Tennessee. She moved to Georgia in 2003 and immediately fell in love with professional learning. She served as a classroom teacher, computer skills teacher and later as a school-level instructional technology coach. She holds advanced degrees in the field of curriculum and instructional technology and is certified in the service fields of Instructional Technology and as a Media Specialist. Ge-Anne currently serves as the Instructional Technology Specialist and Media Specialist Liaison for Whitfield County Schools, Georgia. Her heart is in building relationships and empowering teacher leaders. You can find Ge-Anne often at local Edcamps and CoffeeEDU meetups where she loves talking with and learning from other educators. Lots to talk about and learn today. Thanks for listening! Enjoy! Connect with Ge-Anne: Twitter: @gabolhuis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabolhuis/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/geanne.bolhuis https://perspectivesonreading.com/school-library-media-specialists-evolve-champion-independent-reading/ http://www.teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2019/04/sunday-reflections-how-misuse-of-the-40-book-challenge-made-my-kid-hate-reading-and-why-how-i-pushed-back/ https://www.glma-inc.org/ https://www.glma-inc.org/si https://futureready.org/ https://futureready.org/institutes/atlanta/ #futurereadylibs http://coffeeedu.org/ http://coffeeedu.org/guidelines/ Length 48:36

Melinda Miller is the elementary principal in Springfield Missouri and has been rocking that role for 15 years, unable to imagine doing anything else. She loves connecting with other principals and collaborating online. Teacher's work really inspires her and she strives to help her teachers grow. Technology integration is my strength as a leader. She has been Principal of the Year, a podcaster, she is a Google Certified Teacher/Administrator, she has been a district president for Southwest Missouri Association for Elementary Principals and has planned Edcamps. She is co author of a book about to be released this year that will no doubt impact school cultures across the country with it focus on appreciation and motivation for educators. In this episode, we learn about several communities that Melinda has both led and enriched. She shares the benefits of being a connected professional, and we learn more about the impact of showing appreciation for staff. Through her story, we learn how we too can grow communities by building them, taking risks, and learning about ourselves through the process. This interview was so fun as any experience ever is with Melinda, and I know you will love her Community Builders story. Connect with Melinda: Melinda on Twitter Melinda on Instagram The Principal Blog Principals Staff Appreciation and Motivation Group on Facebook Mentioned in the Podcast: Jessica Johnson Dr. Alec Couros on Twitter Scott Ellias Dr. Tony Sinanis on Twitter Theresa Stager Dean Shareski on Twitter Spike Cook on Twitter Appreciation at Work Melinda Mentions Awe Inspiring Recommendations: Amber Teamann Joe Sanfelippo Kelley Begley-McCall Kristen Kuhlmann Jay Posick Mark French Dave Burgess Consulting Books The Four Disciplines of Execution Atomic Habits High Performance Habits --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/inawepodcast/message

In this episode, Mike Mohammad (@Mo_physics) and I discuss the importance of Edcamps. From how they work to what you can take away from them. We both hope you give an Edcamp a chance soon!

This episode features New Jersey Department of Education Commissioner Dr. Lamont Repollet, host Ken Bond and educators who participated in Edcamp Newark. For more about the Office of the Professional Learning Network visit https://www.nj.gov/education/pln/. To find Edcamps in your area visit https://www.edcamp.org/.

In this episode of Educational Podcasting Today, Jeff sits down with podcaster Dan Kreiness about how you can automate your podcast process. Learn what apps you should and shouldn't be using to save some time once you hit the record button. If you are a new listener to TeacherCast, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our (http://teachercast.net/contact) and let us know how we can help you today! In this episode, we discuss: Leader of Learning Podcast Favorite Podcasting Equipment Samson Q2U Microphone (https://www.teachercast.net/product/B071FLM3QB/US/teach00-20/?cart=y) Neewer Microphone Stand (https://www.teachercast.net/product/B00DY1F2CS/US/teach00-20/?cart=y) Instructional leadership through coachingHaving a Growth Mindset Personalized Learning BrandingThe “why” – for me, “where educators can come find inspiration to transform education through effective leadership” The “who” (target audience) – for me educators and aspiring leaders/administrators The “message” – how will it be recieved? Consistency through logo/graphics, sharing content, social Media presence, PLN, conferences, etc. Levering Social Media for your Podcast Automating Social MediaSocial Media Recurpost (https://recurpost.com/) IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/) Audiogram/Headliner.app Website/Blog posts Revive Old Posts (https://revive.social/plugins/revive-old-post/) Newsletter Mailchimp (https://mailchimp.com/) – create a template About our Guest (https://www.twitter.com/dkreiness) Dan Kreiness is a middle school administrator, instructional leader, podcast host, and doctoral candidate who constantly searches for the most effective ways to advance education and produce high student achievement. Dan began his teaching career by spending nearly eight years in the New York City Department of Education as an eighth grade English language arts teacher, academic intervention specialist, and middle-level literacy coach, then spent nearly five years at Derby Middle School in Derby, Connecticut as a reading teacher and instructional coach. Dan holds masters degrees in adolescent education and educational leadership and is currently a doctoral student in the field of educational leadership. He was named to the 2017 class of ASCD Emerging Leaders. He is also a Google Certified Educator, Nearpod Pioneer, Flipgrid Ambassador and Hoonuit Learning Ambassador. Dan hosts his own Leader of Learning podcast that can be found on music streaming services such as iTunes, Google Play, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and TuneIn, or on any podcast catcher. Dan has been a recurring host and panelist on the EduMatch Tweet and Talk podcast series. He is also an author who features his writing on his own “Leader of Learning” blog and has contributed guest blogs to The EduCal Blog, Your Instructional Coach, and TeachBoost. In addition to blogging, he also has published works as a contributor to the Edumatch Snapshot in Education (2017) Volume 2: Professional Practice and The EduMatch Teacher’s Recipe Guide: Survive and Thrive in the Kitchen and Beyond. Dan is emerging as an expert presenter at education conferences, trainings, and EdCamps on topics including leadership, growth mindset, student engagement, various instructional technologies, augmented and virtual reality for education, and using social media in education. His specific educational interests include leadership, educational technology, and student engagement. About the Leader of Learning PodcastLeader of Learning is a website, a podcast, and a blog that explores transformational leadership in education. It is where educators can come to find inspiration to transform education through effective leadership. It is a community where educators can realize their leadership potential regardless of their position or title. What originally launched as just a blog and was improved with a podcast has now evolved into an educational...

Episode 22: The Art of Questioning, Preservice Teachers, & Leadership Characteristics Welcome to GotTechED the Podcast! In this episode, Guise and Nick discuss the art of teacher questioning after a teacher inquiry.  They share their experiences after some recent college visits with Rutgers and Rider University students. They also take a look at the Teacher of the Year programs and discuss their importance.  Finally, Guise and Nick argue over their favorite edtech for formative assessment. Teacher Questioning: Challenges and Advice Going Back to College Teacher of the Year Programs Tech Battle Royale: Formative Assessment Tech Nick argues for Go Formative – https://goformative.com/ (https://goformative.com/) Guise argues for Classkick – https://classkick.com/home-g?utm_expid=112791515-66.rooizQ8tQ6KuYt0PMWnwVQ.1 (https://classkick.com/home-g?utm_expid=112791515-66.rooizQ8tQ6KuYt0PMWnwVQ.1) Social Media: Guise on Twitter (https://twitter.com/GuiseGotTechEd) Nick on Twitter (https://twitter.com/NickGotTechEd) GotTechED the Podcast on Twitter @wegotteched (https://twitter.com/WeGotTechEd) Music Credits: The Degs: Shotgun  http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/ (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/) @bensounds  https://www.bensound.com/ (https://www.bensound.com/) Other Relatable GotTechED Episodes: Summer Professional Development (https://gotteched.com/episode10/) Teacher Creativity, EdTech Round-table, and PD Badge System (https://gotteched.com/episode16/) PLC’s vs. PLN’s, Teacher Conventions vs. Edcamps, and Education Statistics (https://gotteched.com/professional-development/) Quarter 1 Grading Tips, Pop Culture Lessons, and Being Thankful! (https://gotteched.com/episode20/) Other ways to follow GotTechED Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gotteched/id1358366637?mt=2) Google Podcasts   (https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Indeizidhz4h37mawfylwdgco4y) Stitcher   (https://www.stitcher.com/search?q=gotteched) YouTube   (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMIQwu39Tkow3kduRQAH85w?view_as=subscriber) Twitter    https://twitter.com/WeGotTechED (https://twitter.com/WeGotTechED) Facebook     https://www.facebook.com/WeGotTechED/ (https://www.facebook.com/WeGotTechED/)

Google News and Updates Don’t be a turkey: Use Google Maps to avoid traffic and crowds this Thanksgiving Create your smart home for the holidays with the Google Assistant Featured Content Pam Hubler is an Instructional Coach in Charleston, South Carolina with 22 years in education. Pam is passionate about professional development, technology integration, literacy, and building a strong culture in schools. As a Google Certified Trainer, Pam supports teachers by providing frequent professional development on how to integrate GSuite tools into their daily routines no matter what they teach. She also guides discussions during PLC’s to help teachers find dynamic ways to provide instruction and develop engaging literacy activities. Pam also loves to create resources to share with educators through her website, Twitter, as community manager of the Shake Up Learning Facebook Group and other social media platforms. She has presented at FETC, the EdTechTeam Low Country Summit, and EdCamps. Pam is a lifelong learner who loves to read professional development books, especially books from Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc. and listens to Podcasts like the Google Teacher Tribe to keep up with educational technology and pedagogy. She strives to be PIRATE leader to support educators so we can keep great teachers in the profession. Google Certifications: Google Certified Educator Level 1, Google Certified Educator Level 2, Google Certified Trainer Google “Spark”: I've always found technology integration interesting, especially when online creativity tools became possible. I don't even remember how or when I started using Google, but once I switched, that was it! I think being introduced Google Forms and realizing how Google Drive worked on all devices is when I realized just how productive Google tools can help educators become.  The longer I use it, the harder it is to use other tools, especially paid tools, for my day to day productivity and resource creation. Connect with Pam: www.spedtechgeek.com @specialtechie Resources Pam’s Tech Coach Resources Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag Linda Hummer (Ohio) - Thank you for all you do! I love listening to the podcast and trying out the ideas you share! I have an app smash- use the new cc feature in slides along with screencastify. Students that are shy or not comfortable talking in front of the class could record themselves ahead of time and then have it played during class or the teacher can view when they have time. This will also help the teacher when they are accessing the project. There are times when you are grading while students are presenting that you miss things. Having the video to replay showing what they said would be extremely helpful! Thanks! Joel (via SpeakPipe) - G Suite admin for a small school, students using Google Classroom stream during class that was neither constructive nor appropriate, easy for students to navigate to other sites … way to monitor without micromanaging? On The Blogs Matt - Google Slides sticky note brainstorming: Powerful planning (+ FREE template!) Kasey - How to Create a Google Class Template in Google Classroom [shortcode-variables slug="signature"]

GotTechED Episode 20: Quarter 1 Grading Tips, Pop Culture Lessons, and Being Thankful! Welcome to GotTechED the Podcast! In this episode, Guise and Nick share the most effective edtech for faster grading.  After a teacher inquiry, they discuss some ways that pop culture can be used to enhance learning. In the spirit of the holidays, they also share some of the things they’re most thankful about in education today.  Finally, Guise and Nick argue over their favorite newly discovered tech. Top Tips for Faster Grading CheckMark Extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/checkmark/kfddponboekcbjlhhjinkefjollhhidp?hl=en) Talk and Comment Extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/talk-and-comment-voice-no/djnhkfljnimcpelfndpcjcgngmefaobl?hl=en) Google Keep Extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-keep-chrome-extens/lpcaedmchfhocbbapmcbpinfpgnhiddi?hl=en) Enhancing Lessons with Pop Culture Being Thankful in Education The Hello Girls (https://www.59e59.org/shows/show-detail/the-hello-girls/) Tech Battle Royale: Newly Discovered Tech Nick argues for HHMI BioInteractive  (https://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/how-science-works) Guise argues for EdSurge (https://www.edsurge.com/product-reviews) Music Credits: The Degs: Shotgun http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/ (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/) @bensounds https://www.bensound.com/ (https://www.bensound.com/) Social Media: Guise on Twitter (https://twitter.com/GuiseGotTechEd) Nick on Twitter (https://twitter.com/NickGotTechEd) GotTechED the Podcast on Twitter (https://twitter.com/WeGotTechEd) Other Relatable Episodes: Summer Professional Development (https://gotteched.com/episode10/) Teacher Creativity, EdTech Round-table, and PD Badge System (https://gotteched.com/episode16/) PLC’s vs. PLN’s, Teacher Conventions vs. Edcamps, and Education Statistics (https://gotteched.com/professional-development/) The Art of Questioning, Preservice Teachers, & Leadership Characteristics (https://gotteched.com/episode22/) Other ways to follow GotTechED Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gotteched/id1358366637?mt=2) Google Podcasts   (https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Indeizidhz4h37mawfylwdgco4y) Stitcher   (https://www.stitcher.com/search?q=gotteched) YouTube   (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMIQwu39Tkow3kduRQAH85w?view_as=subscriber) Twitter    (https://twitter.com/WeGotTechED) Facebook     (https://www.facebook.com/WeGotTechED/)

GotTechED Episode 19: Professional Learning Community’s (PLC’s) vs. Professional Learning Networks (PLN’s), & Teacher Conventions vs. Edcamps Welcome to GotTechED the Podcast! In this episode, Guise and Nick compare Professional Learning Communities to Professional Learning Networks.  Next, they discuss some of the differences between traditional teacher conventions and edcamps. Nick shares some surprising educational statistics while Guise gives his opinions on each one.  Finally, Guise and Nick argue over their favorite Chrome Extensions. PLC’s vs. PLN’s Professional Learning Communities Professional Learning Networks Teacher Conventions vs. Edcamps Sobering Educational Statistics You Probably Didn’t Know Tech Battle Royale: Chrome Extensions Nick argues for Pablo – https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pablo/gfpibnlcombjoeejlongmihndgkpnjjo?ref=producthunt (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pablo/gfpibnlcombjoeejlongmihndgkpnjjo?ref=producthunt) Guise argues for DarkDocs – https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/darkdocs/jagekcabhgjlinjdcpocekgnnfidnmpi/related?ref=producthunt (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/darkdocs/jagekcabhgjlinjdcpocekgnnfidnmpi/related?ref=producthunt) Music Credits: The Degs: Shotgun http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/ (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/) @bensounds https://www.bensound.com/ (https://www.bensound.com/) Social Media: Guise on Twitter (https://twitter.com/GuiseGotTechEd) Nick on Twitter (https://twitter.com/NickGotTechEd) GotTechED the Podcast on Twitter (https://twitter.com/WeGotTechEd) Other Relatable Episodes: Summer Professional Development (https://gotteched.com/episode10/) Teacher Creativity, EdTech Round-table, and PD Badge System (https://gotteched.com/episode16/) Quarter 1 Grading Tips, Pop Culture Lessons, and Being Thankful! (https://gotteched.com/episode20/) The Art of Questioning, Preservice Teachers, & Leadership Characteristics (https://gotteched.com/episode22/) Other ways to follow GotTechED Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gotteched/id1358366637?mt=2) Google Podcasts   (https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Indeizidhz4h37mawfylwdgco4y) Stitcher   (https://www.stitcher.com/search?q=gotteched) YouTube   (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMIQwu39Tkow3kduRQAH85w?view_as=subscriber) Twitter    (https://twitter.com/WeGotTechED) Facebook     (https://www.facebook.com/WeGotTechED/)

Recorded on October 7, 2018   Panelists: Martine Brown (@MMBrown_Brown) Martine Brown is an Instructional Coach from Dallas County. In her spare time she enjoys running and spending time with family.   Misty Kluesner (@MistyKluesner) Misty is a Digital Innovation ToSA for Campbell Union School District in California. She is an avid sketchnoter and is passionate about bringing creative thinking and design opportunities into the classroom.   Manuel Herrara (@ManuelHerrara33) Manuel is an educator, a consultant, and a doodler. He currently serves as the Innovation Coordinator and Design Space Facilitator for the Affton School District, a suburban St. Louis school district.     Rayna Freedman (@RLFreedM) Rayna Freedman is in her 18th year at the Jordan/Jackson Elementary School in Mansfield, MA. She has taught grades 3-5 and is an ITS. Rayna is MassCUE's President Elect and has been presenting at their conferences since 2010. Rayna has also presented at ISTE, EdTech Teacher Summits, Tech & Learning, MassCUE Fall and Spring Conferences, Medfield Digital Learning Day, JumpStart at St. John’s Prep, and EdCamps. Rayna serves on the DESE Digital Literacy and Computer Science Standards Panel. She is part of the #ditchbook crew and a certified educator for BrainPOP and Flipgrid. Rayna co-founded EdCamp SE Mass and is working on her doctoral degree at Northeastern. Check out: EduMagic by Samantha Fecich The Fire Within by Mandy Froehlich The Teacher’s Journey by Brian Costello Journey to the Y in You by Dene Gainey   Music: Ron Madison (@Madison_Ron) Producer: Sarah Thomas (@Sarahdateechur)   Subscribe: podcasts.edumatch.org/edumatchpodcast Join the movement: www.edumatch.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edumatch-tweet-talk/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/edumatch-tweet-talk/support

GotTechED Episode 16: Teaching Creatively with EdTech Welcome to GotTechED the Podcast! In this episode, Guise and Nick evaluate the benefits of teaching creatively.  After a teachers inquiry, they discuss the role of an educational tech coach from multiple perspectives. They also take a look at badge systems as a motivational tool for teaching teachers.  Finally, Guise and Nick argue over their favorite tech tools to maximize creativity. Transform Your Teaching with Creativity Teacher Question: Utilizing Your School’s Tech Coach Teacher Badge Systems Tech Battle Royale: Creativity Tech Nick argues for worlde.net (http://www.wordle.net/) Guise argues for Photofunio (http://photofunia.com/) Music Credits: The Degs: Shotgun http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/ (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/) @bensounds https://www.bensound.com/ (https://www.bensound.com/) Social Media: Guise on Twitter (https://twitter.com/GuiseGotTechEd) Nick on Twitter (https://twitter.com/NickGotTechEd) GotTechED the Podcast on Twitter (https://twitter.com/WeGotTechEd) Other Relatable Episodes: Summer Professional Development (https://gotteched.com/episode10/) PLC’s vs. PLN’s, Teacher Conventions vs. Edcamps, and Education Statistics (https://gotteched.com/professional-development/) Quarter 1 Grading Tips, Pop Culture Lessons, and Being Thankful! (https://gotteched.com/episode20/) The Art of Questioning, Preservice Teachers, & Leadership Characteristics (https://gotteched.com/episode22/) Other ways to follow GotTechED Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gotteched/id1358366637?mt=2) Google Podcasts   (https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Indeizidhz4h37mawfylwdgco4y) Stitcher   (https://www.stitcher.com/search?q=gotteched) YouTube   (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMIQwu39Tkow3kduRQAH85w?view_as=subscriber) Twitter    (https://twitter.com/WeGotTechED) Facebook     (https://www.facebook.com/WeGotTechED/)

  Ge-Anne Bolhuis is the Instructional Technology Specialist and Media Specialist Liaison for a Georgia (US) school system. Today, we are talking about Future Ready Schools and Future Ready Librarians. According to their website futureready.org, "Future Ready Schools® helps K-12 public, private, and charter school leaders plan and implement personalized, research-based digital learning strategies so all students can achieve their full potential."  Additionally, a Future Ready Librarian is expected to be an instructional leader to help schools become Future Ready. Ge-Anne shares with us her thoughts about the need to have the instructional talents of the librarians used to help teachers implement better practices in the classroom. She shares that building administrators really have to have a better understanding of the role that librarians can play in keeping the school on track. You'll hear us discuss the expectations of a Future Ready Librarian as well as some of the tools that the librarians can use to help drive the school to new levels of success. We also talk about her favorite app - Google Keep and other tools that the Future Ready Librarian can share with the faculty of schools and students. Listen for us to talk about EdCamps and CoffeeEDU meetups, as well. Lots to learn about today. Ge-Anne is inspiring! Thanks for listening. Enjoy!    Connect with Ge-Anne and find out more information: @gabolhuis https://futureready.org/ https://futureready.org/institutes/atlanta/ #futurereadylibs http://coffeeedu.org/ http://coffeeedu.org/guidelines/ Future Ready Institute - Atlanta - October 2018   Length - 39:03

Are you frustrated with traditional models of professional development? Are you ready to take PD at your school to the next level? In this episode, special guest Rich Czyz, an elementary school principal from New Jersey, discusses his book, The Four O'Clock Faculty: A Rouge Guide to Revolutionary Professional Development, and shares some innovative solutions to "reimagine" PD for educators. Among the topics discussed are EdCamps, Ignite Sessions, #CoffeeEDU, Book Studies, Voxer Groups and a few surprises to challenge the status quo. Twitter: @RACzyz. Blog: www.fouroclockfaculty.com. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/greg-goins/support

www.mytechtoolbelt.com @mytechtoolbelt  #MyTechToolbelt You can listen to our podcast on: Apple Podcasts Google Play Music Spotify or listen here Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, we will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. @ISTE #ISTE18 ISTE - Internation Society for Technology in Education - is the EPICENTER OF EDTECH, the most comprehensive ed tech event in the world. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS David Eagleman, Andy Weir, Katie Martin, Nadia Lopez, Michael Cohen @TheTechRabbi We cover the following topics: This year’s ISTE they announced new initiatives smaller more directed conferences throughout the US ISTE U - certifications for teachers with option for college credit TedED partnership? estimated 18540 / 24000+ w Expo people in attendance over 500 vendors over 5000 submissions for sessions over 1400 sessions and posters BIG announcement was that ISTE will be focusing on Digital Citizenship not just the basics but how students should use the technology to make the world a better place / fact vs fiction / not just the safety / etc. How we spent our time: Shannon: Networking Keynotes - The Tech Rabbi, Luis Perez TedEd speaker, Andy Weir (the Martian - online novel) sessions focused on Higher education What do principals think about tech data was interesting showing that there is support among the administration but they are worried about screen time at home with 95% feeling that students have too much screen time at home and 64% feeling that they are spend just the right amount of screen time at school. Brenda: Top 10 tech tools for teachers focused on networking meeting new vendors and old friends. Met one of our listeners from Chile !! Shout out to Christina Alvayay Next year, ISTE will be in Philadelphia, June 23-26, 2019!   July 2, 2018 we attended Mammoth Ed Camp #EdCampMammoth hosted by CUE and Mono Co Dept of ed, at Mammoth Lakes Middle School. Over 50 teachers registered from California & Nevada  some teachers from Tahoe, Monterey, OC, LA, Bakersfield, Ridgecrest and local of Mono county & Mammoth Lakes. Est ⅔ had never experienced an edcamp before Edcamps are peer-led, participant-driven professional learning opportunities for educators that use an “unconference” model to build teacher networks and share best practices. Shared doc where there were collaborative notes @quizizz #quizizz Looking forward to more connections and collaborations with these amazing teachers Coming Up: Better Together in CA July 27 Friday all over the state of California Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally acclaimed expert on creativity and innovation and author of, “Finding Your Element”, “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything” and Out of Our Minds.” His TED talk on developing an education system that nurtures creativity holds the illustrious title of “most popular TED talk of all time.” The convening will take place concurrently at dozens of locations, including college and university campuses across the state. Over 30 sites across CA Register to attend one near you! (Nor Cal /SF Bay/ Central Cal/So Cal/) Shannon will be at LMU   Flip Grid Announcement - Microsoft added Flipgrid to the MS Suite resulting in all teachers having FREE access to the full FG Teachers that had paid will be getting prorated refunds for the remaining amount of their subscription   Sincerely, thank you for listening, we appreciate you!   If you enjoyed this episode, tell a friend, and SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW!  And please consider leaving us a rating and review. Please share this podcast with someone you think might be interested in the content. What’s in your Tech Toolbelt? Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music  

GotTechED Episode 10 Resources for the Summer Welcome to GotTechED the Podcast! In this episode, Guise and Nick talk about upcoming summer professional development opportunities.  They talk about edtech resources that they want to check out.  They will also give you a list of books, podcasts, and websites that can help you get ideas to try for next school year! Technology Projects to Explore this Summer Podcasts to Guise and Nick will Catch Up on Over the Summer @jeffbradburyTeachercast Podcast (https://www.teachercast.net/) Stuff You Should Know Podcast (https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts) Edtech Tools to Investigate Thinglink 360 – (https://www.thinglink.com/) Video Questions Editor for YouTube (https://9to5google.com/2012/09/21/youtube-launches-interactive-quiz-feature-with-video-questions-editor-beta/) Google Keep (https://keep.google.com/) Books to Read Smart but Scattered, Peg Dawson and Richard Guare Intelligent students struggling in schools who need support with executive functioning – fundamental habits of getting organized, controlling emotions and impulses (http://www.smartbutscatteredkids.com/) Teaching with your Mouth Shut by Donald Finkel Get out from behind the lecture stand Mostly for middle and high school teachers Educational Groups (PLN) Technology Teacher Tribe Hacking Project Based Learning Teaching with Tech Smashboard EDU PD Opportunities for the Summer TeachMeet NJ Aug. 9th, Toms River South, NJ Music Credits: The Degs: Shotgun (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/) @bensounds (https://www.bensound.com/) @lakeyinspired Social Media: Guise on Twitter (https://twitter.com/GuiseGotTechEd) Nick on Twitter (https://twitter.com/NickGotTechEd) GotTechED the Podcast on Twitter (https://twitter.com/WeGotTechEd) Other Relatable GotTechED Episodes: Teacher Creativity, EdTech Round-table, and PD Badge System (https://gotteched.com/episode16/) PLC’s vs. PLN’s, Teacher Conventions vs. Edcamps, and Education Statistics (https://gotteched.com/professional-development/) Quarter 1 Grading Tips, Pop Culture Lessons, and Being Thankful! (https://gotteched.com/episode20/) The Art of Questioning, Preservice Teachers, & Leadership Characteristics (https://gotteched.com/episode22/) Other ways to follow GotTechED Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gotteched/id1358366637?mt=2) Google Podcasts   (https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Indeizidhz4h37mawfylwdgco4y) Stitcher   (https://www.stitcher.com/search?q=gotteched) YouTube   (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMIQwu39Tkow3kduRQAH85w?view_as=subscriber) Twitter    (https://twitter.com/WeGotTechED) Facebook     (https://www.facebook.com/WeGotTechED/)

Dan Kreiness is a middle school instructional coach in Derby, Connecticut. Before acquiring this position in the fall of 2015, Dan helped create the intervention program at Derby Middle School as the Reading Interventionist. Dan began his teaching career by spending nearly eight years in the New York City Department of Education as an eighth grade English language arts teacher, academic intervention specialist, and middle-level literacy coach. Dan holds masters degrees in adolescent education and educational leadership and is currently a doctoral student in the field of educational leadership.   Dan is emerging as an expert presenter at education conferences, trainings, and EdCamps on topics including leadership, growth mindset, student engagement, various instructional technologies, augmented and virtual reality for education, and using social media in education. Dan is the creator of the Leader of Learning podcast. His specific educational interests include leadership, educational technology, and student engagement. He is an ASCD Emerging Leader. He is also a Google Certified Educator, Nearpod Pionear, Flipgrid Ambassador and Hoonuit Learning Ambassador. Dan will also soon have a chapter published in the upcoming EduMatch Snapshot: 2017 book on transformational leadership and growth mindset.   Dan Kreiness Show Highlights The story behind starting the Leader of Learning podcast Leading without labels Helping people feel the need for change Challenges are merely opportunities Studying the link between transformational leadership + growth mindset No one person can change another … until they want to change Know where you want to go   Dan Kreiness Resources   Dan’s website (and podcast)   Dan on Twitter   Switch   Lead from the Heart   Show Some Love BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH DID YOU LIKE THE SHOW?  iTunes SUBSCRIBE HERE! LEAVE A 5-STAR RATING AND REVIEW   Join my hybrid group coaching & leadership development community   Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444   Grab your FREE 15 Phrases of Effective School Leaders   Text PHRASES to 33444 or click the link above. Website :: Facebook :: Insta :: Twitter :: LinkedIn SHOW SPONSORS: ORGANIZED BINDER Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE) You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/ SCHOOL SPIRIT VENDING Hassle-free, year-round fundraising for your school. With School Spirit Vending, we do all the work, you just cash the check Increase school spirit with custom stickers for your school and raise funds at the same time -no upfront costs, no volunteers, no selling Sick of the same old ways of raising money for your school? Let School Spirit Vending's hassle-free, year-round fundraising program supplement the other fundraisers you're already doing. SSV is also giving away the Top 10 School Fundraising Ideas for 2018. Download the guide here.   Copyright © 2018 Better Leaders Better Schools

On this quest we'll talk to students from South Davis Elementary in Orchard Park CSD about their experience leading and learning in a student edcamp. Is this just a trend or might they be here to stay? The Quest for Edlightenment team will discuss how making time for student voice and choice made for a memorable experience for all involved.

Travis Lape is the Harrisburg School District’s Innovative Programs Director and was the recipient of the TIE Technology Leader Award for the State of South Dakota. He co-hosts the Movers & Makers Podcast and helped host over 8 Edcamps in South Dakota in the past three years. I’ve followed Travis on Twitter for several years ...

Haha, het is weer maandag en dan weet u dat er een kans is dat er een nieuwe podcast verschijnt. En u hebt geluk want er ligt weer een nieuw exemplaar op u te wachten. Een podcast met Bram Faems. Bram is Onderwijs- en Opleidingswetenschapper en werkt als coördinator gebruikerservaring voor KlasCement.net. Hij zoekt en ontwerpt manieren om leraren gemakkelijk hun kennis en concreet lesmateriaal te laten delen. In 2012 kwam Bram met iets nieuws op de proppen, hij organiseerde dan namelijk de eerste Edcamp in Vlaanderen. Ik praat met Bram over wat dat nu just is zo'n edcamp en hoe je daar aan kan deelnemen. Maar we praten ook nog verder over die andere passie van Bram: technologie. Hoe kan technologie een meerwaarde zijn in het onderwijs en is er dan nog wel plaats  voor een leerkracht? Website Edcamp: https://sites.google.com/kamerksem.be/edcamp4/home www.klascement.net https://about.me/bramfaems Inschrijven voor de volgende Edcamp: http://twikilist.com/EdCampMercurius

Lance McClard is a proud Missouri public school educator. He is happily married to his wife, Laura, a high school counselor, and father of three children: ages 10, 7, and 8 months. The son of an educator, Lance followed in his father’s footsteps and became a teacher himself. Lance has taught 4th, 7th, and 8th grade. He started his teaching career in South Carolina before accepting a position in his hometown of Jackson, Missouri. After pursuing his Master’s, specialist, and doctoral degrees, Lance accepted a dual position as a building principal and assistant principal before becoming an elementary principal of two buildings. Additionally, he coordinates his district’s elementary new teacher program. Outside of his regular responsibilities as an administrator, Lance has helped plan and organize edCamps. He is involved in the Missouri Association of Elementary School Principals and will serve as the local southeast region president. Additionally, Lance has recently joined ConnectEd Learning STL to help them achieve their mission; to support those who desire to learn more, are willing to take risks, and think differently about the problems we face in education today.   Lance McClard Show Highlights What to do when students don’t listen just because of your title How to “earn” your leadership What Lance learned facilitating EdCamps in SE Missouri How he grew EdCamp minimal participation to 150 Give up control and let magic happen Trust is the first step Have you stopped taking risks?    Lance McClard Resources   Essentialism Start right now Reframing organizations Innovator’s mindset Pure genius   Lance on Twitter Email Lance   Join my hybrid group coaching & leadership development community Text BETTERMASTERMIND to 33444 Create winning cultures Focus on the essential Lead with courage & integrity    BECOME A PATRON OF THE SHOW FOR AS LITTLE AS $1/MONTH DID YOU LIKE THE SHOW?  iTunes SUBSCRIBE HERE! SHOW SOME LOVE: PLEASE LEAVE A 5-STAR RATING AND REVIEW Grab your FREE 15 Phrases of Effective School Leaders  Text PHRASES to 33444 or click the link above.   Website :: Facebook :: Insta :: Twitter :: LinkedIn   SHOW SPONSORS: CSC Consulting Group: Catalyzing Sustainable Change Our mission is to support people in education and nonprofit organizations to improve processes and enhance the performance of their organizations. Our venture is a social enterprise and their vision is to catalyze sustainable change in our society one organization at a time Our home city is Chicago but their work can be done anywhere in the nation and they are actively looking for clients elsewhere Our current portfolio includes individual schools, nonprofit organizations, small and large districts and urban school systems Our team represents and shares a stake with the populations we serve We are strategic thought partners to leaders of public sector organizations We ideates, builds and maintains easy-to-understand data tools using the latest analytics technology   SCHOOL SPIRIT VENDING Hassle-free, year-round fundraising for your school. With School Spirit Vending, we do all the work, you just cash the check Increase school spirit with custom stickers for your school and raise funds at the same time -no upfront costs, no volunteers, no selling Sick of the same old ways of raising money for your school? Let School Spirit Vending's hassle-free, year-round fundraising program supplement the other fundraisers you're already doing. SSV is also giving away the Top 10 School Fundraising Ideas for 2017. Download the guide here.     Copyright © 2017 Better Leaders Better Schools  

Join us as we unpack a growing trend in start-up schools for white families. What's driving this dynamic? Does it matter? Follow: @gustafsonbrad, @benjamingilpin @Glennr1809 @bamradionetwork Glenn Robbins is a Lead Learner/Designer, husband. ather. Ed.D Student. Organizer of Edcamps and 2015 MS Bammy Edu Voice Award. Dr. Brad Gustafson is the principal and lead learner at Greenwood Elementary in Minnesota and author of Renegade Leadership: Creating Innovative Schools for Digital Age Learners. Ben Gilpin is the principal at Warner Elementary School in Spring Arbor.

Mød i denne episode af podcasten Didaktor Morten Mosgaard, der er skoleleder på Margrethe Reedtz Skolen. Morten har været med til at lave flere EdCamps i Danmark og lige netop EdCamp er emnet for denne udgave af Didaktor. EdCamp kan betegnes som en ikke-konference, da der ikke er planlagt noget program for dagen. I stedet for møder deltagerne op til en dag, hvor de selv skal være med til at sætte programmet. Hør om EdCamp-bølgen der lige nu ruller ind over landet i denne udgave af Didaktor. 

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar "Participate in your own PD" with special guest presenter, Brad Spirrison. February 25, 2017. We are very excited to be able to welcome back Brad Spirrison as our special guest presenter with some exciting updates to share with us with Participate (http://www.participate.com). Professional development in the digital age is participatory in nature. Brad Spirrison returns to Classroom 2.0 LIVE to discuss how Participate helps educators define and engage in their own professional development through peer collaboration and review, and access to compelling resources. Learn how Participate helps educators curate resources and ideas exchanged through chats, and host online courses, including topics such as global education and Edcamps. A proud B Corporation, Participate partners with schools, districts and educational organizations to rethink professional development, host blended learning courses and programs and provide ways to showcase and recognize new competencies learned. Brad Spirrison is the Director of Platform Innovation with Participate. He holds a M.A. in Communication/Media Ecology from New York University’s School of Education, with a focus on the role in media and technology in early childhood education. He is a Chicago-based media expert and analyst who has served as a regular contributor to ABC News, TechCrunch, The Huffington Post, NPR and dozens of other broadcast, print and new media outlets. https://twitter.com/participate

Growth demands honesty with others and ourselves. I learned this the hard way. Follow: @Glennr1809 @Jonharper70bd @bamradionetwork Glenn robbins is a Lead Learner/Designer @NCSNJ. Husband&Father. Ed.D Student. Organizer of Edcamps, @njpaecet2 & Ss led EdCamp period. 2015 MS Bammy Edu Voice Award

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar "Becoming a Connected Educator" with special guest presenter, Craig Yen, November 5, 2016. Are you a teacher or administrator who has been reluctant to try using social media tools such as Twitter to connect with other educators? Have you wanted to expand your professional learning network but just didn't know how? Often it's because you haven't seen how it can help you and you don't feel you have the time to learn with all of the many demands on your time. You aren't alone. I guarantee that you won't want to miss this webinar with our special guest, Craig Yen. Craig is a 5th grade teacher who teaches at Valle Verde Elementary in Berkeley, California. He is a fan of all things Edtech and enjoys learning from others and sharing this learning widely. No matter where you go on the internet or even f2f you will find him participating and sharing constantly with others, whether it is in EdCamps, webinars, Google Hangouts, Twitter chats, #coffeeEDUs, Mystery Skype calls, or at conferences such as CUE, ISTE and #notatiste. He is someone who is an awesome example of a teacher who has navigated this maze and has learned tools, tips and tricks to manage it with great success! Within this session, you will learn what it means to be a connected educator. Tips will be given on how to manage your Twitter stream and how and where to find people to connect with. He'll also share examples of projects that will demonstrate how you can connect yourself and your students outside the classroom walls. http://yen4teaching.blogspot.com/ (Craig Yen’s blog) Connect with him on Twitter @craigyen

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar, 7th Anniversary Celebration for 2015 and Open Mic session on professional development facilitated by Paula Naugle. Jan. 9, 2016. Happy New Year! We are energized and excited to return after our winter break with our annual Anniversary Celebration. In our first webinar of the New Year we will be celebrating our 7th Anniversary on Classroom 2.0 LIVE as well as holding an Open Mic show on a topic all of us feel passionate about—professional development! We chose this topic because we felt it was broad enough to include everyone whether you participate in PD either f2f or virtually or offer PD opportunities. (conferences-f2f & virtual, EdCamps, webinars, videos/blog posts, etc.) Join us, take the mic and share your PD experiences, resources and advice about what works... what doesn't... what are some options, etc. Come with your ideas, resources, and questions. Paula Naugle will facilitate the conversation and we hope you'll come prepared to share something with your headset/earbuds on to take the mic and add to the conversation. We'll have an awesome Livebinder prepared with professional development resources and will look forward to adding your resources to the Livebinder. We are looking forward to celebrating our Anniversary and to taking a few minutes at the beginning of the show to recognize our amazing 2015 special guest presenters, participants and Advisory Team members with a quick trip down memory lane with a few special memories all the way back to 2009! We are especially excited that Steve Hargadon, our founder and mentor, will be joining us to participate in the conversation!

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar, 7th Anniversary Celebration for 2015 and Open Mic session on professional development facilitated by Paula Naugle. Jan. 9, 2016. Happy New Year! We are energized and excited to return after our winter break with our annual Anniversary Celebration. In our first webinar of the New Year we will be celebrating our 7th Anniversary on Classroom 2.0 LIVE as well as holding an Open Mic show on a topic all of us feel passionate about—professional development! We chose this topic because we felt it was broad enough to include everyone whether you participate in PD either f2f or virtually or offer PD opportunities. (conferences-f2f & virtual, EdCamps, webinars, videos/blog posts, etc.) Join us, take the mic and share your PD experiences, resources and advice about what works... what doesn't... what are some options, etc. Come with your ideas, resources, and questions. Paula Naugle will facilitate the conversation and we hope you'll come prepared to share something with your headset/earbuds on to take the mic and add to the conversation. We'll have an awesome Livebinder prepared with professional development resources and will look forward to adding your resources to the Livebinder. We are looking forward to celebrating our Anniversary and to taking a few minutes at the beginning of the show to recognize our amazing 2015 special guest presenters, participants and Advisory Team members with a quick trip down memory lane with a few special memories all the way back to 2009! We are especially excited that Steve Hargadon, our founder and mentor, will be joining us to participate in the conversation!

Yes, you heard it right. Our guest set up a makerspace in the school hallway. Tune in to find out what became of this unconventional makerspace. Follow: @Glennr1809 @travislape @nmhs_lms @bamradionetwork #makercamp, #makerspace #worldsofmaking Glenn Robbins is a Middle School Lead Learner/Designer @NCSNJ. Husband & Father. Ed.D Student. Organizer of Edcamps, @njpaecet2 & Ss led EdCamp period. 2015 MS Bammy EdVoice Award. Twitter ID https://twitter.com/ @Glennr1809.com

Kay Stokes, Dan Pink, Stephanie Cerda, Mike Pennington, Austin Levinson, Juan Daza, Hadley Ferguson, and Noam Chomsky give commentary on the what drive teacher autonomy, purpose, and mastery in EdCamps.  Members of Journeys in Podcasting host their own EdCamp and reflect on the experience.

Yes, you heard it right. Our guest set up a makerspace in the school hallway. Tune in to find out what became of this unconventional makerspace. Follow: @Glennr1809 @travislape @nmhs_lms @bamradionetwork #makercamp, #makerspace #worldsofmaking Glenn Robbins is a Middle School Lead Learner/Designer @NCSNJ. Husband & Father. Ed.D Student. Organizer of Edcamps, @njpaecet2 & Ss led EdCamp period. 2015 MS Bammy EdVoice Award. Twitter ID https://twitter.com/ @Glennr1809

It’s not every day that we receive visits from entrepreneurs or nonprofits leads who can site as viral of growth as the EdCamp movement. For those of you wondering if that the name for some educational type of summer camp, let me help you out. Edcamps, or “unconferences,” bring together teachers, tech experts, entrepreneurs, and anyone else interested in the education landscape, to talk about, well, whatever they want. They involve very little planning, and the schedule is entirely decided by participants only once they’ve showed up to an EdCamp. Sound a little unconventional? Well, this novelty has become, dare we say, a viral movement since the very first gathering back in May 2010. In fact, there have been more than 250 Edcamps around the world in the last year alone. The Executive Director of the EdCamp Foundation, Hadley Ferguson, stopped by the EdSurge Office on October 19 because we were curious to learn more about just what caused this viral growth. But we didn’t stop there. Are there too many EdCamps? Are entrepreneurs starting to use them as a marketing opportunity, which affects the sacred space that is EdCamp? Are these worries becoming a reality? Hadley answered all those questions and more in this EdSurge Extra.

In the first part of this episode, I have the privilege of speaking with Kristen Swanson, the co-founder of the Edcamp movement.  We talk about her previous experience as a teacher and tech director, as well as her current work as an author, consultant, professor, and Director of the Research Institute at BrightBytes (whew!).  In between everything else, I learn that Barcamps are like Edcamps but for coders, and that these were an inspiration to get Edcamps going.  For a great place to learn more about Edcamps, especially if you want to run your own, head to edcamp.org and click on the book below. For the second part of the show, I speak with Michelle White, who is the Director of the Passport to Innovative Education Program at The Summit in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Summit is graciously hosting EdCamp Fort Wayne this summer on July 23.   Click the image below to learn about this program. Click below to register for EdCamp Fort Wayne 2015! It's FREE!  

In this episode, I talk with Boston area Tech Director Andrew Marcinek, author of The 1:1 Roadmap from Corwin Press.  We'll talk about Andrew's experience organizing 4 EdCamps, his work creating an awesome Student Help Desk class, as well as a model for optional professional development that worked at his school district.  One of my favorite parts of the conversation is when he talks about a student that was able to develop their own application in order to solve a problem at their school.  I would highly recommend the 1:1 Roadmap along with Digital Leadership and Pure Genius if you're an educational leader that is striving to move your school forward, particularly with respect to innovative programs and opportunities for students.  You can connect with Andrew on Twitter @andycinek.   

A meet and greet with the new hosts of Techlandia. The new hosts are David Theriault @davidtedu, Rafranz Davis @rafranzdavis, Amy Fadeji @mrsfadeji, Karl Lindgren-Streicher @ls_karl, Victoria Olson @msvictoriaolson, and Jon Samuelson @jonsamuelson. We talk about the new show format, Edcamps, Martin Luther King Day, and TedX Langley. Tune in every Monday for the live show at 7PM PST.

Passion-Driven: This session will focus on the positive changes that can occur in our schools when one “finds their people,” or a group of other like-minded educators. I will discuss a variety of ways teachers can connect with one another on- and off-line to spark their individual passions, as well as provide tips for collaboration and passing on the spark. Examples include: EdCamps, Twitter (citing specific hashtags or chats), Google+ communities, Pinterest, worldwide educational events (Dot Day, Global Read Aloud, Hour of Code), and local and national conferences.

In this episode of Pushing the Edge: What resources are crucial to us thriving today as teachers and students?  Why must we reach out and connect? How do we work with those fears and self-doubts that stop us from reaching out?  Learn about the power of Edcamps and Twitter and some awesome educators.  Plus there's the Meteor Shower (also known as The Lightning Round) and some Gung-ho thrown in. For full Show-Notes go to: PushingTheEdge.org (Episode 2) 

In this segment we review the concept and benefits of Edcamps and the unconference model. Follow: @bradmcurrie, @wkrakower@ScottRRocco @bamradionetwork Scott Rocco is Superintendent of Schools in Spotswood, N.J., and co-founder of #Satchat. Billy Krakower is a co-moderator and is a Computer & Resource Reading Room Teacher in Woodland Park, N.J. Brad Currie is the co-founder of #satchat, a weekly Twitter discussion for current and emerging school leaders. Brad is a Vice Principal and Supervisor of Instruction for the Chester School District in Chester, N.J.

EdCamps have become a significant movement in the education movement. These educators driven UN-conferences have been held in hundreds of venues across the nation and internationally. In this segment we speak with one of the founders of EdCamp about what's new in the movement. @coolcatteacher @kristenswanson, @bamradionetwork Kristen Swanson, @kristenswanson, is Edcamp Founder, Senior Educational Technology Leader at Bright Bytes, and author of Professional Learning in the Digital Age and Teaching the Speaking and Listening Standards.

Classroom 2.0 LIVE Webinar, Nov. 23, 2013. Learn all about EdCamps in this exciting joint session being streamed live from EdCampNJ for organizers and participants to share their first-hand experiences with EdCamp. Learn about what EdCamps/ unconferences are, tips for planning, organizing and sustaining them year-long including setting up a weekly Twitter chat (#njedchat). Hear what makes EdCampNJ unique because of tremendous grass-roots support by a very large PLN with many leaders. The session will be facilitated by the amazing Jeff Bradbury, @TeacherCast who has recruited the presenters and arranged for the entire setup for the live streaming. http://edcampnj.org/

Classroom 2.0 LIVE Webinar, Nov. 23, 2013. Learn all about EdCamps in this exciting joint session being streamed live from EdCampNJ for organizers and participants to share their first-hand experiences with EdCamp. Learn about what EdCamps/ unconferences are, tips for planning, organizing and sustaining them year-long including setting up a weekly Twitter chat (#njedchat). Hear what makes EdCampNJ unique because of tremendous grass-roots support by a very large PLN with many leaders. The session will be facilitated by the amazing Jeff Bradbury, @TeacherCast who has recruited the presenters and arranged for the entire setup for the live streaming. http://edcampnj.org/

In this episode, Jon Samuelson @ipadsammy, Alison Anderson @tedrosececi, Curt Rees @curtrees, Drew Harry @drewwww, and Kristen Swanson @kristenswanson will talk about the world of educational technology. They will also discuss about #edcamponline and Edcamps in general. Be sure to check out all the links on our Learnist boards found at learni.st yes, that is a real web address.

In this episode, Jon Samuelson @ipadsammy, Alison Anderson @tedrosececi, and Curt Rees @curtrees will talk about the world of educational technology. They will also sharing 3 apps, 3 Twitter users to follow, and some great #eduwins from the past week. Be sure to check out all the links on our Learnist boards found at learni.st yes, that is a real web address.

In this segment from the 10/15/13 #Edchat, we discuss the growing popularity of Edcamps. Follow:@blairteach @web20classroom @dancallahan @bamradionetwork Edhcat Archive: http://edchat.pbworks.com/ Dan Callahan is an Instructional technology Specialist, Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Edcamp Foundation, and a graduate professor. Steve Anderson is an educator, #Edchat Co-Creator, ASCD Emerging Leader and one the Top 50 Innovators in Education. Nancy Blair is a school improvement consultant who frequently worked with the High Schools That Work and Making Middle Grades Work initiatives.

Edcamp chairman joins a concerned Edcamper to weigh in on concerns about the emergence of highly scripted presentations at edcamps. Follow:@kristenswanson, @dancallahan @bigpurplehat@bamradionetwork Kristy Vincent is the Instructional Technology Coordinator for Harmony Public Schools in Houston, TX. Dan Callahan is a technology specialist, non-profit director, graduate professor, and workshop leader. He is currently an Instructional Technology Specialist for Burlington Public Schools

The number of Edcamps has grown annually since the first in 2010, expanding across the nation and into several countries. Now a new study finds that the the Edcamp phenomenon is just heating up and sees no sign of slowing down anytime soon. In the segment look at the numbers and pullout the crystal ball to look at the future of Edcamps. Follow:@kristenswanson, @ritzius2@bamradionetwork Christine Miles is a founding member of Edcamp Philly and serves on the board of the Edcamp Foundation, a nonprofit organization designed to facilitate local, grassroots, participant-driven professional development opportunities for educators worldwide. In addition, Christine works as a consultant with Grant Wiggins' Authentic Education.

Welcome to episode #2 of EdCamp Radio with your host Kristen Swanson. In this segment we look at how the EdCamp movement is spreading and discuss highlights from EdCamp Leadership BC in Canada. Follow:@kristenswanson,@bamradionetwork Aaron Akune has been involved in public education for 17 years. Aaron is currently a Vice-Principal in the Delta School District. He has helped organize three Edcamp unconferences in BC. Mark Douangchanh is a Vice-Principal in Delta at Port Guichon Elementary School.

Welcome to the premier episode of EdCamp Radio with your host Kristen Swanson. In this segment we discuss the big ideas that surfaced at EdCamp New Jersey, one of the most successful Edcamps to date. Follow:@Sirotiak02,@kristenswanson, @teachercast, @bamradionetwork Jeffrey Bradbury, the creator of TeacherCast, is an educational podcaster. He created the website www.TeacherCast.net where he writes blogs, creates Audio Podcasts, reviews apps, and provides Screencasts. Dana Sirotiak is a 7th grade Middle School Social Studies Teacher at Frank R. Conwell Middle School #4 in Jersey City, New Jersey.