Podcasts about positive tomorrows

Margaret Creighton is the President/CEO of Positive Tomorrows, Oklahoma's only elementary school and social services agency specifically for children and families experiencing homelessness. They work to give kids stability and a quality education while giving their parents the support they need to create a better life. What this organization does is truly remarkable! Listen in to hear more, and find out all the ways you can invest in the life of a child! For more information go to www.positivetomorrows.org. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-3/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-3/support

Welcome to the first of a new podcast interview series I'm titling, "Pedagogy Matters." This episode, recorded on May 30, 2022, features the pedagogy of my wife, Shelly Fryer, which I would summarize as "A Pedagogy of Computational Thinking: Constructionism, Coding, Robotics, Play, and Student Choice." Shelly started her journey as a classroom teacher in 1987 after she graduated from the College of Education at Texas Tech University. In addition to teaching in several Title 1 elementary schools in Lubbock ISD, Texas, Shelly taught for the U.S. Department of Defense in Germany for 3 years. After staying home with our children for several years, Shelly served as the Director of PreSchool Ministries at our church in Edmond, Oklahoma, and returned to the classroom in 2013 to teach 3rd, 4th and 5th grades at Positive Tomorrows in Oklahoma City for four years, which is Oklahoma's only school exclusively serving homeless children and their families. In 2017, Shelly moved to Casady School, where she taught for the past five years, starting in Language Arts for two years and then teaching STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.) As Shelly shares in the interview, when she came back to the classroom in 2013, she moved into an iPad 1:1 student learning environment, and "jumped in with both feet" learning to teach with twenty-first century digital tools for student engagement, creativity, and assessment. We specifically key in on a culminating unit Shelly taught the past couple years on biomimicry using robotics and coding activities. Also, we explore how Shelly's understanding of computational thinking, maker education, the "constructionism" of Seymour Papert, and using technology tools to empower students to "show what they know with media" have become essential elements of her personal pedagogy as a classroom teacher and designer of durable learning experiences for students. Check out the show notes for this episode (480) on speedofcreativity.org for links to the resources and technology tools mentioned in this podcast interview, and for ways to reach out to Shelly with questions and feedback. Pedagogy matters! Many thanks to Shelly Fryer (www.shellyfryer.com) for sharing her passion for teaching, for students, for engaging lessons, and equipping both teachers and students with the skills and dispositions needed to succeed and thrive in our rapidly changing environment of the twenty-first century.

As the holidays draw near, ROK is hosting a special series with local parents on giving back. First up is local mom and co-founder of Happy Plate Concepts Aly Cunningham, who shares the unique vision of the company to not only serve delicious food at their restaurants but also to serve the community by partnering with nonprofits like Pivot, Other Options, Special Care and Positive Tomorrows. Enjoy a happy dose of Aly's creativity, positivity and hopeful spirit as she discusss how she focuses on intentionality and kindness in her professional and personal lives.

Meet Susan. She's on a mission to partner with families experiencing homelessness to educate their children and create pathways to success through her organization, Positive Tomorrows. As the only private school in America devoted solely to educating children experiencing homelessness, they’re leading the charge in developing a comprehensive educational system built to bring these students up to a level playing field. But they're also bringing fun and heart too. Tune in and get inspired.The We Are For Good Podcast welcomes the most dynamic nonprofit leaders, advocates and philanthropists to share innovative ideas and lessons learned. For more information and episode details visit: www.weareforgood.com/episode/66Want to hear insider details and to get our best roundup of tips, freebies, resources and show notes from each episode? Join the Good Community - it's free! Visit www.weareforgood.com/hello

Year 13 of the Thunder’s Annual Holiday Assist may not resemble the same buzz and fanfare of years prior, but it might just be the most important year yet. Listen in as Paris Lawson explains why cancelling these events wasn't an option for the Thunder.

In this episode of the Heromakers Podcast, Laurie and Ann talk with Susan Agel, President and CEO of Positive Tomorrows, about homelessness and its effects on children. Positive Tomorrows is based in Oklahoma City and is Oklahoma's only school dedicated just to serving children who are homeless. Susan and her team and doing incredible work in providing a solid education for the kids while also addressing all the issues that come with being homeless, including systemic pains such as hopelessness and helplessness. Susan has dedicated her life to this work and is changing lives for the better.We hope this episode encourages you see the homeless and those on the margins in your area as having infinite value and worth and then acting in ways that give them a positive tomorrow. You can find Susan on IG @agelsusan and Positive Tomorrows @positivetomorrows. You can visit their website at positivetomorrows.org.Heromakers can be found on IG @heromakersmovement and on FB @heromakersmovement. You can also visit our website at: www.heromakersmovement.com.

Ben speaks with Susan Agel of Positive Tomorrows, an Oklahoma City school that serves homeless students. She talks about the work of her schools during this time of distance learning. Support this podcast

The entire Thunder roster hosts a Thanksgiving party for the kids of Positive Tomorrows, a school that focuses primarily on homeless kids in Oklahoma City. The players played games, made crafts, and shared some laughs as the school unveiled it's brand new building.

Paris Lawson chats with Nick Gallo as he's in LA for the back-to-back games. They talk about Chris Paul's increased production, the overtime thriller against the 76ers, and how to take on this tough Lakers squad not once, but twice this week.Plus, CP3 invites some special guests to Thunder practice in LA:https://www.nba.com/thunder/paul-invites-ceos-to-practice-191119And the Thunder spend a special afternoon at Positive Tomorrows in OKC.https://www.nba.com/thunder/video/positive-tomorrows-191118

Director of Education Amy Brewer and Director of Family Support Kelly Berger join OPSRC's Jamila MacArthur and Sarah Julian to talk about the services and support Positive Tomorrows provides their students and families who experience homelessness and poverty.

Teaching methods are now personalised and student-focused, using an array of activities and modalities.Classrooms should now be flexible learning spaces, which enable multiple users to work concurrently with multiple purposes. So how do you incorporate the specific needs of an trauma informed approach into the design of a school? That’s the question the Oklahoma City-based nonprofit organization Positive Tomorrows asked itself when it was daydreaming about a new building that could meet the many needs of its students. Positive Tomorrows has been educating homeless kids and providing social services to families since 1989. Today we speak with Gary Armbruster and Amy Brewer.To get access to the links and resources mentioned in the interview, please visit www.tipbs.com.

This week Localites are joined by Rachel Durham, Development Officer at Positive Tomorrows to talk about their Cork & Canvas fundraiser coming up April 4 from 6 - 9 p.m. at Coles Garden. Learn more at https://www.positivetomorrows.org/get-involved/cork-canvas/.

This week we're talking SoonerCon coming up June 22 through the 24th at the Reed Center in Midwest City. The longest running pop culture convention in Oklahoma features special guests, vendors, cosplay, auctions and fun for the whole family. The newly formed Nonprofit is also raising money for Positive Tomorrows. We are talking with Marketing Director Phillip Grimes, Artist Jerry Bennett and Filmmaker Lloyd Lee Bennett. Find out more at: https://www.soonercon.com/ Support this podcast

In a very special interview we are joined by Susan Agel of Positive Tomorrows Oklahoma City! The Positive Tomorrows is a private tuition free elementary school that serves homeless children and their families in Oklahoma City. Susan tells us how the Positive Tomorrows was started, the changes it has made over the years, and some of the most inspiring stories about the children who have been helped by the Positive Tomorrows! If you want to volunteer or donate to The Positive Tomorrows, there website and social media can be found below: https://www.positivetomorrows.org https://www.instagram.com/positivetomorrows/ https://twitter.com/ptokc https://www.facebook.com/positivetomorrows If you want to get in touch with The Positive Truth to give us positive news stories you want us to talk about on the show, tell us about a topic you would like covered, or to stay updated on future episodes you can reach us below: https://www.facebook.com/ThePositiveTruthPodcast/ https://twitter.com/TPT_Podcast https://www.instagram.com/thepositivetruth/ Our E-mail: thepositivetruth@gmail.com Video version of the podcast is available on our YouTube channel: The Positive Truth OKC

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar with special guest presenter, Shelly Fryer, October Featured Teacher, October 15, 2016. Shelly Fryer, (@sfryer), 3rd and 4th grade teacher shares how she uses a variety of strategies, apps, and technologies to build classroom community, differentiate learning to meet individual student needs in literacy and math, and promote a culture of making and creating. In addition to helping her students feel safe in their classroom family, Shelly is focused on helping students love learning at school. She is passionate about helping students share their voices beyond the walls of their classroom. She teaches at a special school in Oklahoma City, Positive Tomorrows (@ptokc), which exclusively serves homeless students and families. Shelly has been a teacher for over 20 years, and is in her fourth year teaching in a 1:1 iPad classroom. Shelly became a PBS Digital Learning Innovator (@pbsteachers) in 2014, and is a Fellow with Oklahoma A+ Schools (@okaplus) promoting arts integration and creativity in the classroom. Read her blog on shellyfryer.com, and check out her classroom website on classroom.shellyfryer.com.

This podcast features a series of recordings from the first iPadPaloozaOU conference held in Norman, Oklahoma, on August 26 and 27, 2016. The first segment is a series of audio reflections shared by participants in Shelly Fryer's Friday breakout session, "The Room 108 Radio Show." Just like Shelly has her students share in her classroom radio show, iPadPaloozaOU participants shared their first names and answered the question of the day, "What have you learned at iPadPaloozaOU and are taking back to your classroom?" The second segment is Shelly Fryer's five minute closing keynote, shared on Saturday. Five different Oklahoma educators shared a short talk about a subject they are passionate about during the combined keynote. Shelly talked about homelessness in Oklahoma, her school, Positive Tomorrows, and the importance of loving and building relationships with the students in our classrooms. Shelly shared 1 correction via Twitter following her keynote: 1 in 21 Oklahoma students are homeless today, according to recent studies. Check out the podcast shownotes for a link to a recent NewsOK.com article citing this statistic. Finally, the third podcast segment is a recording of Dr. Wesley Fryer's breakout session, "iPad Media Activities and Project Matrix." The description of the session was: "Come learn the specific steps teachers and students can use to create over 20 different iPad media projects as well as whole-class, interactive iPad writing activities. The iPad Media Activity and Project Matrix (www.ipadmediacamp.com/matrix) is used in iPad Media Camp workshops to help teachers learn to integrate effective use of iPads into the curriculum. The matrix includes whole-class response activities (interactive digital writing), single-app projects (using a learning journal like SeeSaw), 2 app projects (create + share) and Multi-app projects (app-smash projects)." The matrix is available as a series of linked Google Draw documents on http://www.ipadmediacamp.com/matrix. Check the podcast shownotes for additional referenced links and resources from these presentations. Many thanks to Anne Beck and her organizer team for making the first iPadPaloozaOU a smashing success!

This Speed of Creativity podcast features an extended interview with 3rd and 4th grade teacher Shelly Fryer, who shares about her students' classroom passion projects, learning in "Maker Studio," and learning about digital citizenship via the class chat feature of the iPad app News-O-Matic. Shelly has been teaching for over twenty years, and this was her third year to teach at Positive Tomorrows School in Oklahoma City. Positive Tomorrows is a special K-5 school which exclusively serves homeless children and their families. Shelly class has had "1:1 iPads" for the past 2.5 years, and she continues to find multiple ways to integrate iPad use meaningfully into her curriculum through engaging student activities. As Shelly explains in the interview, PT truly is "the school she loves" for so many reasons. The curricular autonomy which she enjoys as a teacher empowers her to differentiate her curriculum to the learning needs and interests of her students, and bring a variety of STEM and Maker Education (MakerEd) learning activities to students as well. Shelly explains in the interview why this year's classroom "passion projects" were likely the best student projects she's ever facilitated as a classroom teacher. From learning to sew a dress, to how to code on an iPad, to learning how to dance, to learning how to play the guitar, her students each selected a topic of interest and then explored that topic for several weeks. Each student shared a culminating presentation with other members of the class, after becoming the local "expert" on their topic of inquiry. In the second part of the interview, Shelly shares how the "Create, Make and Learn" MakerED Institute in Burlington, Vermont, in the summer of 2013 was pivotal in her journey as a Maker and elementary teacher integrating STEM activities into classroom learning. Shelly tells the story of how her students enthusiastically embraced the opportunity to create, make, collaborate and share in her Maker Studio in the closing weeks of the school year. She also describes how she worked to build a kind, respectful, and collaborative classroom culture in which students could safely thrive as learners and problem solvers. Last of all in the interview, Shelly shares how she and her students used the "class chat" feature of the iPad app to have important conversations about digital citizenship, internet safety, and digital ethics. If you listen to this podcast, please share feedback with Shelly by reaching out to her on Twitter (@sfryer). Visit her classroom website at http://classroom.shellyfryer.com and her professional blog on http://www.shellyfryer.com. Check out the podcast shownotes for links to resources and tools Shelly mentioned in the interview, including her presentation for Global Maker Day on May 17, 2016, "iPads in Maker Studio."

This podcast features an interview with 3rd and 4th grade teacher Shelly Fryer on January 29, 2016, in Oklahoma City. Shelly teaches in a 1:1 iPad classroom at Positive Tomorrows, a special school for homeless children which also serves their families in multiple ways. Shelly has been using blogging websites with her students for three years, to teach students about digital citizenship through interactive writing. The day of this interview was her current students' first day to experience blogging on an updated KidBlog website, however, and Shelly not only focused on writing with students but also on images and the digital citizenship conversations which relate to these activities online. Shelly's students have been doing a lot of "inside sharing" using the SeeSaw iPad app and website this year, and while she has shared some of the students' posts with a wider audience using Twitter, this was the first focused day of learning when students discussed and prepared for "outside sharing." Check out the podcast shownotes for links to referenced apps and websites in this interview, along with links to others we gave shout-outs to. Interactive writing can be so powerful, as well as constructively exciting for student learning inside and outside the classroom! Please click on Shelly's classroom KidBlog website on http://classroom.shellyfryer.com and leave some comments for her students. Also please let us know you listened to this podcast by sharing a reply on Twitter to @sfryer and/or @wfryer or by leaving a comment on the blog post you'll find on http://www.speedofcreativity.org.