Podcast appearances and mentions of kelly kluthe

Show Notes: On our panel shows, we start with a goofy question, and as we are releasing this just before thanksgiving, what's a Thanksgiving side dish that you have that may not be on everyones table? - Kelly Kluthe: gooey butter cake - Sedate Kohler: cheesy potatoes #Wisconsin - Lee Ferguson: The most decadent scalloped potatoes ever. - Aaron Mathieu: Mashed turnips and carrots. Let's talk about school culture. How big is the science department in your school? Are you expected to collaborate? - Sedate: 7 people. 4 of us teach Biology, 3 teach Chemistry. Those two teams collaborate frequently, to varying degrees. Most of us also teach courses that we call “singletons”, and don't have any others who teach the same course. - Lee: There are 30 of us on campus, with another 10 at the STEAM center across town, but they are their own entity. As a department there isn't collaboration among all of us since that really takes place in teams. - Kelly: There are 3 of us: Me (biology), a chem/physical science, and a part-time environmental science/genetics & eugenics teacher. We collaborate with general science skills and with vertical alignment. - Aaron: We are ~20 with 8 Biology Teachers. We have a strong collaborative culture. Do you have any colleagues that you collaborate with to plan, develop, reflect with? Are these teachers in your building or from professional communities/PLCs? How long have you been working together? - Lee: I have my team, which I am forever grateful for. In our current iteration we have worked together for the past year. There is one teammate that I have worked with for 5 years now. I also have an extensive network of colleagues that I've built over the past 18 years that I can collaborate with, and often do. - Kelly: I definitely work with the other science teachers in my building to plan vertical alignment. Learn general teaching techniques.. Outside of my building, I collaborate a lot with people in KABT and UKanTeach grads. We've been working together since undergrad. Twitter/Facebook. - Sedate: I have two people who I've been working closely with since 2019 Fall. - Aaron: I tightly collaborate with 1 teacher who is new to our building for honors, but help coordinate our whole honors team and I collaborate with 1 teacher for AP. He is my work husband and we've been working together for 21 years. Collaboration involves a lot of things that can be challenging in the time crunch of the school year: Building trust, letting others take the lead, sharing resources, and being vulnerable. Does your school do anything to make collaboration easier? If not, what could it do? - Kelly: We have one dedicated hour of PLC each week, but I wish it were more. We also have schedules that allow us to observe each other. I'm observed each week and I often have the chance to sit in on other classes. - Sedate: This year we have a new school schedule which has made collaboration (theoretically) a lot easier - Monday - Wednesday we have a “department prep” in addition to a personal prep hour. We are on a hybrid block schedule, so M-W are 47 minutes and Th-F are 90 minutes / class. Th-F our preps are both our own. - Lee: The only thing that my school really does to make this a little easier is require that we have PLC twice a week for 30 minutes each time. We don't get much time on district PD days to collaborate--it's almost an afterthought. :( - Aaron: We have (new this year) early release days each month for collaborative time. It would be good if that time was not taken up with district initiatives. Credits: Please subscribe to Life of the school on your podcast player of choice! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LOTS Music by: https://exmagicians.bandcamp.com/ Show Notes at Lifeoftheschool.org You can follow on twitter @MrMathieuTweets or @lifeoftheschool

As our minds turn to plans for the fall, many districts are making “what if” plans for whether and how to return to in-person teaching. Guest host Kelly Kluthe brings guidelines for Missouri schools to consider how teachers can make use of safety recommendations in their classrooms. Later, we read an article about using critical analysis of online teaching to create humanizing pedagogy. We look at how to approach making inclusive spaces for online learning.

This episode is the third in my 2019 questions series where I ask a group of teachers the same question and compile their thoughts. For this episode, I asked teachers to the value of tests in their instructional practice. We also discuss what tests look like in their classroom. I found these to be great conversations where my friends shared their struggles around assessment and how they hope to grow in the future. Guests on this Episode are: - Antonio Gamboa from Garey High School in Pomona, CA. (LOTS Episode 2) - Dessy Dimova from Franklin High School, Somerset, NJ. (LOTS Episode 40) - Ryan Reardon from Jefferson County International Baccalaureate in Irondale, AL.(LOTS Episode 18) - Kelly Kluthe from Olathe West High School, Olathe, KS. (LOTS Episode 47) - Brittany Franckowiak from Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, MD. (LOTS Episode 46) - Jon Darkow from Seneca East High School in Attica, OH.(LOTS Episode 30) - Paul Strode from Fairview High School in Boulder, CO. (LOTS Episode 13) Credits: Please subscribe to Life of the school on your podcast player of choice! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LOTS Music by: https://exmagicians.bandcamp.com/ Show Notes at Lifeoftheschool.org You can follow on twitter @MrMathieuTweets or @lifeoftheschool

Hi Patreons - This episode is episode 2 in my questions series where I ask a group of teachers the same question and compile their thoughts. For this episode, I asked teachers to define inquiry. Guests on this Episode are: - Antonio Gamboa from Garey High School in Pomona, CA. (LOTS Episode 2) - Dessy Dimova from Franklin High School, Somerset, NJ. (LOTS Episode 40) - Ryan Reardon from Jefferson County International Baccalaureate in Irondale, AL.(LOTS Episode 18) - Kelly Kluthe from Olathe West High School, Olathe, KS. (LOTS Episode 47) - Brittany Franckowiak from Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, MD. (LOTS Episode 46) - Jon Darkow from Seneca East High School in Attica, OH.(LOTS Episode 30) - Paul Strode from Fairview High School in Boulder, CO. (LOTS Episode 13)

For this episode, I've done something a little different. For this episode, I interviewed seven different teachers and discussed the value of the homework. Guests on this Episode are: - Paul Strode from Fairview High School in Boulder, CO. (LOTS Episode 13) - Dessy Dimova from Franklin High School, Somerset, NJ. (LOTS Episode 40) - Ryan Reardon from Jefferson County International Baccalaureate in Irondale, AL.(LOTS Episode 18) - Kelly Kluthe from Olathe West High School, Olathe, KS. (LOTS Episode 47) - Jon Darkow from Seneca East High School in Attica, OH.(LOTS Episode 30) - Antonio Gamboa from Garey High School in Pomona, CA. (LOTS Episode 2) - Brittany Franckowiak from Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, MD. (LOTS Episode 46)

In this episode, I sit down with five teachers who will be presenting at the 2018 NABT Conference in San Diego. My conversations are Jon Darkow from Seneca East High School in Attica, OH, Kelly Kluthe from Olathe West High School, Olathe, KS, Paul Strode from Fairview High School in Boulder, CO, Dessy Dimova from Franklin High School, Somerset, NJ, and Ryan Reardon from Jefferson County International Baccalaureate in Irondale, AL. The Full Program for the conference can be downloaded from https://nabt.org/files/galleries/NABT2018ProgramGuide_web.pdf .

Multilingual learners are sitting in most classrooms today. How do we support ELL students’ learning in math, science and social studies while they navigate the language and cultural barriers of their emergent bilingualism? We look at some research on how taking responsibility for our own cultural and linguistic perspective as teachers can help. Later, we discuss another listener recommendation. Sensemaking is an important cognitive process that is subtly distinct from thinking, planning and answering. Understanding the unique process of sensemaking leads to ways we can support it with our students. Kelly Kluthe joins us for the Peer Review this month to share a beer from her favorite brewery while she shares her progress in implementing standards-based grading in two very different school districts. We drink Serenata Notturna, a barrel-aged sour American wild ale from Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project in Denver, CO.

Kelly Kluthe is a Biology teacher at Olathe West High School in Olathe, Kansas. She also recently accepted a position to teach biology classes at Baker University. Kelly has present at both state and national biology meetings including the 2017 NABT National Conference where she presented “Project-Based Learning in the NGSS Biology Classroom” along with Camden Hanzlick-Burton and Andrew Davis. Kelley was the 2016 recipient of the Outstanding Biology Teacher Award for the state of Kansas. She has held many roles within the Kansas Association of Biology Teachers including OBTA director and secretary. You can follow her on twitter @KlutheScience