Podcasts about Science Leadership Academy

In this episode, Chris Lehmann, founding principal and CEO of Science Leadership Academy schools, shares his compelling journey from a shy English teacher to a pioneer of the "school 2.0 movement." Discover how SLA embodies an inquiry-driven pedagogy where students actively ask questions, research, collaborate, and present their learning, fostering an environment where technology is as essential and unnoticed as oxygen.Science Leadership Academy, inquiry-driven, project-based school in Philadelphia, PAInquiry Schools, non-profit dedicated to modernizing learning experiencesBuilding School 2.0: How to Create the Schools We Need, book by Chris Lehman, Zac ChasePractical Theory - A View From the Schoolhouse, blog from Chris LehmanEducon,an educational innovation conference where people can come together to discuss the future and the now of schoolsTed Sizer (educational philosophy)Deborah Meier (educator)Ann Cook (educator)Understanding by Design (UbD)Chubbies Steaks (Roxborough, Philadelphia)Jim's Steaks (South Street, Philadelphia)D'Alessandro's Steaks (Roxborough, Philadelphia)

Zoe Siswick is a counselor and athletic director at Science Leadership Academy in Center City.  She has spent the last several years coaching both softball and girls soccer, but will be stepping away from those roles to serve as the softball sports chair for the Philadelphia Public League on July 1st. In Episode #220 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt welcomes Siswick in studio to talk about her career. They discuss how she has juggled her multiple roles at the school over the years, discuss the road that saw her go to college for international relations but end up in her current roles at SLA,  talk about this new opportunity as softball sports chair and much more. “1-on-1 with Matt Leon” is a KYW Newsradio original podcast. You can follow the show on X @1on1pod and you can follow Matt @Mattleon1060.

We speak with Chris Lehmann, founding principal of Science Leadership Academy, inquiry-driven and project-based schools in Philadelphia. The academic model centers inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation, and reflection. Students take English, science, and history as a cohort, allowing for interdisciplinary understanding. Systems and structures ensure there is time for teachers to build relationships with students, and create the basis for the schools to survive beyond the founders. The post Creating the conditions: Sustaining “caring for” education first appeared on Ethical Schools.

Temple University's Klein College of Media and Communication sponsors this report from the KYW Newsradio Newstudies Program which teaches broadcast journalism to high school sophomores, juniors and seniors from throughout the area. From our 2023 graduating class, here is Iman Byrd from Science Leadership Academy at Beeber.

Temple University's Klein College of Media and Communication sponsors this report from the KYW Newsradio Newstudies Program which teaches broadcast journalism to high school sophomores, juniors and seniors from throughout the area. From our 2023 graduating class, here is Terrel Bundy from Science Leadership Academy at Beeber.

Temple University's Klein College of Media and Communication sponsors this report from the KYW Newsradio Newstudies Program which teaches broadcast journalism to high school sophomores, juniors and seniors from throughout the area. From our 2023 graduating class, here is Lara Rosenbach from Science Leadership Academy.

Episode 43: Building School 2.0Chris Lehmann worked in a school that matched his vision of education by about 75% – and that other 25%, he says, was what gave him “license to dream.” What would you dream of if you had the opportunity to design a school from scratch? The founder of Educon, the Science Leadership Academy, and Inquiry Schools talks with host Tim Fish about his quest to create a fully inquiry-driven, human-centered learning model where citizenship and science shape the direction of the school. Guest: Chris LehmannResources, Transcript, and Expanded Show NotesIn This Episode:“I want their heads full of thought. I want them to have the wisdom to apply those thoughts in meaningful ways. I want them to have the passion to push through when the world tells 'em it cannot be done. And I want them to be kind because I think we need more of that in the world.” (15:49)“We don't give anyone else agency, right? We as human beings, you have agency because you are a human, because you are alive, as do I. Now lots of institutions in our society, school being primary among them, take away agency. But what actually we try to do is not give students agency, but help them unlock their own.” (23:10)“If a high school science education does not help students understand fundamentally that the way in which they live their lives, the products they buy, the kind of house they build or live in, you know, the way they use power, the car they drive, that all of these things have a profound impact on our world, right? Then you have failed children. Because the ability to apply a scientific lens to the choices we make every day as human beings is a fundamental part of being a citizen.” (26:51)Related Episodes: 35, 32, 31, 28, 16,17, 4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Writing science fiction requires attention to science while retaining the sense of wonder and imagination that makes it fiction. In writing my new sci-fi novel Moon Rescue: Escape from the Dome, I went to a great source for advice and guidance--engineering students and their teacher at a Philadelphia public high school that nurtures young people's interest in STEM. Teacher John Kamal, with degrees in mechanical engineering and a passion for teaching young people, brought two of his students into my research process and the three of them kept me on the right track as I made stuff up about how 5,000 people might live under a giant dome on the Moon. My interview with John reveals a man who left a successful career in developing power sources for spacecraft and supply chain software to teach in one of the most financially challenged school districts in America.  I was inspired and you will be, too!Promo for TK BooksTK Books LLC Adult fiction and science fiction; ebooks, softcover, hardcover and audiobooks.Support the show

Click for full show notes, exercises, and parenting scripts from this episodeYou know you have to discuss race....but you're not sure where to start. With everything going on in the news and centuries of history to cover, there's quite a bit to talk about. You might feel like you're unauthorized or just woefully unprepared. What if you say the wrong thing, or your teen asks a question you don't know the answer to? With all the uncertainty, it can be tempting to just skip the topic of race altogether.But if we don't encourage kids to think critically about racism, they may grow up ignorant to prejudice in their community. They might not be able to identify microaggressions, or might not think about a certain language before they use it. Plus, with all the information floating around on social media these days, kids might just learn about race from unreliable sources when they could be having a productive conversation about it with a trusted parent!To help us crack the code to race conversations with teens, we're sitting down with Matthew R. Kay, author of Not Light But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom. Matthew's one of the founding English teachers at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, as well as the founder of a Philly slam poetry league! As a teacher, he's had countless conversations about race in his classroom–leading him to learn what works and what doesn't.Matthew and I are discussing how you can create a safe space for kids to open up about intense issues like race. Plus, we're talking about how you can keep the conversation in check so it doesn't go off the rails, even when you and your teen have some differences of opinion.Click for full show notes, exercises, and parenting scripts from this episode

Lillian Hsu is the Principal at Latitude High School in Oakland, CA, and Chris Lehmann is  Principal at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA.Highlights from the interview include:Changes made by both schools when transitioning to an online space.Positive takeaways during the pandemic. The importance of valuing both the adults and kids in a learning environment.What it means to lead for equity.Lessons learned throughout the year.The infamous FRH "Lightning Round." Additional Resources:http://www.deeperlearningdozen.org

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As we move through spring break, we begin looking ahead to the end of the school year. Join us as we consider how to end this extraordinary year well and prepare for whatever the coming school year will bring? Follow on Twitter: @ASCD @a_rebora @mattrkay @bamradionetwork @jonHarper70bd Matthew Kay is a founding English teacher at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia and the author of Not Light, But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom. Host Anthony Rebora is the Editor in Chief of Education Leadership.

As we move through spring break, we begin looking ahead to the end of the school year. Join us as we consider how to end this extraordinary year well and prepare for whatever the coming school year will bring? Follow on Twitter:    @ASCD  @a_rebora  @mattrkay  @bamradionetwork   Read the EL Article  Matthew Kay is a founding English teacher at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia and the author of  Not Light, But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom. Host Anthony Rebora is the Editor in Chief of Education Leadership.

Chris is the founding principal of Science Leadership Academy, an inquiry-driven, project-based modern high school in Philadelphia, PA. The school is the first Dell Center of Excellence, was named one of the Ten Most Amazing Schools by Ladies Home Journal, was featured in the PBS documentary Digital Media: New Learners for the 21st Century, and has been written about in publications including Edutopia Magazine, EdWeek and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Email: chris@practicaltheory.org Twitter: @chrislehmann Website/Blog: https://practicaltheory.org/blog/

Fostering Self-Empowered Learners and Critical Thinkers with Chris Lehmann, CEO and Principal of Science Leadership Academy Chris and I discuss his work for Science Leadership Academy, Inquiry Schools, and discuss all things edtech and inquiry-based education. ** Reuploaded and fixed intro audio ** Resources Mentioned Science Leadership Academy Website: https://sla.philasd.org/ Building School 2.0: How to Create the Schools We Need by Chris Lehmann and Zac Chase Authentic Inquiry in the Digital Age: Engaging Students Through Inquiry by Larissa Pahomov John Spencer, bell hooks, Ted Sizer Educon at SLA: http://2020.educon.org/ diana@inquiryschools.org EdTech Classroom: https://edtech-class.com/ Instagram @edtechclass Twitter @edtech_class

Chris Fitzgerald Walsh chats with Chris Lehmann —the founder of Science Leadership Academy, an inquiry driven, project-based, public high school in Philadelphia. And half-way through, Deborah Meier also pops-in to celebrate Chris' achievements and share her thoughts on the state of education. ¯------------------ ◠‿◠ ------------------ /¯ school180.com@school_180Chris Fitzgerald Walsh: @fitzwalshChris Lehmann's Blog: practicaltheory.orgScience Leadership Academy: sla.philasd.orgDeborah Meier: deborahmeier.com

Daniel 1:1-71. Isolation, v. 3-4 “There is one thing a professor can be a absolutely certain of; almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative…Relativism is necessary to open-mindedness; and this is the virtue, the only virtue, which all primary education for more than fifty years has dedicated itself to inculcating. Openness- and the relativism that makes it the only plausible stance in the face of various claims to truth and various ways of life and kinds of human beings- is the great insight of our times. The study of history and of culture teaches that all the world was mad in the past; men always thought they were right, and that led to wars, persecutions, slavery, xenophobia, racism, and chauvinism. The point is not to correct the mistakes and really be right; rather it is not to think you are right at all.”-Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind2. Indoctrination, v. 3-5Four things about this indoctrination process…a) comes disguised as “education”b) starts with changing a persons worldview- a worldview is a particular philosophy of life or conception of the worldc) the goal is to train them to think like Babylonians rather than Israelitesd) the ultimate goal is to instill in them a total dependence upon Nebuchadnezzar for everything they need. “So this fall, virtual class discussion will have many potential spectators- parents, sibling, etc- in the same room. We’ll never be quite sure who is overhearing the discourse. What does this do for our equity/inclusion work? How much have students depended on the (somewhat) secure barriers of our physical classrooms to encourage vulnerability? How many of us have installed some version of ‘what happens here stays here’ to help this? While conversation about race are in my wheelhouse, and remain a concern in this no walls environment, I am most intrigued by the damage that ‘helicopter/snowplow’ parents can do in the host conversations about gender/sexuality. And while conservative parents are my chief concern-I know that the damage can come from the left too. If we are engaged in the messy work of destabilizing a kid’s racism or homophobia or transphobia-how much do we want their classmates parents piling on?” -Matthew Kay, English teacher, Science Leadership Academy, Philadelphia, PA3. Incorporation, v. 5- Romans 12:1-2, The Messagevv. 8-214. Identification, v. 6-7Hebrew namesBabylonian namesDaniel: “God is my judge” Belteshazzar: “Lady protect the king”Hananiah: “Yahweh is gracious” Shadrach: “I am very fearful of God”Mishael: “Who is what God is?” Meschach: “I am of little account”Azariah: “Yahweh has helped” Abednego: “Servant of the god Nebo”Two things to notice… a) people over placeb) they maintained their status as exilesI Peter 2:11-17Mental worship…How has not gathering for public worship affected you and what does that say about the role of weekly public worship? About you? What are some ways that your faith informs and affects how you see the world?Is there any water in your boat today and if so, how did it get there?Do you live as an exile or have you learned to fit in with this world?In the passage today, Daniel was creatively bold. What could you do right now that would be considered creatively bold?

Why won’t a cooker-cutter approach to transforming schools work? Principal of the innovative Science Leadership Academy, Chris Lehmann explains.

COVID-19 has caused schools across the country to change their teaching styles in a matter of days. What is it like being a high school student, especially a high school senior during remote instruction? What obstacles do teachers face? How will the pandemic change teaching and learning as we know it? Sit down with Science Leadership Academy’s founding principal Chris Lehmann, teacher John Henkel, and high school senior Serenity Baruzzini to hear how the pandemic has impacted school. Their information can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrislehmann/, https://scienceleadership.org/people/jhenkel, and https://www.linkedin.com/in/serenity-baruzzini-a5b60411b/

In this Flashpoint Encore Podcast, we bring back the interview with newsmaker of the week, School District of Philadelphia. Superintendent Dr. William Hite sat down with host Cherri Gregg days after town hall meetings with the parents of students from Ben Franklin High and Science Leadership Academy got heated.  The Ben Franklin School building closed unexpectedly, forcing the district to find a temporary home. Dr. Hite explains how the school district has created a "Plan B" to prevent future scrambles, as they continue efforts to renovate aging facilities.

Host and KYW Newsradio community affairs reporter Cherri Gregg asks the burning questions around the rising rate of suicide among youth. Sarah-Ashley Andrews, founder of Dare 2 Hope joins Dr. Dan Romer, a University of Pennsylvania professor who focuses on the connection between mental health and media and Science Leadership Academy freshmen Sasha Mannino and Iris Peron-Ames who tragically lost their friend to suicide in 2017 but are working to keep her legacy alive. The newsmaker of the week is Luis Berrios, who was shot in the back during a robbery outside of his North Philadelphia home last November. He recently set out on a crusade for forgiveness The changemaker of the week is the Animal Alliance, a New Jersey based non-profit that provides support to animals that have suffered abuse and neglect. Founder, Annie Trinkle, is the guest. Flashpoint airs every Saturday at 9:30pm and Sunday at 8:30am on KYW Newsradio. Subscribe to the Flashpoint Podcast on the Apple Podcast, Radio.com or others apps where you get your podcast by searching "Flashpoint KYW."

In this episode, we take a candid look at the challenges of discussing race in the classroom with an eye on what works and what does not. Follow: @ASCD @kylehamstra @mattrkay @bamradionetwork Matthew Kay is a founding English teacher at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia and the author of Not Light, But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom (Stenhouse, 2018). Host Anthony Rebora is the Editor in Chief of Education Leadership.

[spp-playlist] An educator and media artist, Douglas founded Rough Cut Media with his students while pioneering the media studies program at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. Winner of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, he advocates for access to media creation tools in schools and cofounded @1976km- a project empowering refugees. Watch Doug's TEDx Talk HERE. Learn about Doug Organization HERE BeTheTalk is a 7 day a week podcast where Nathan Eckel chats with talkers from TEDx and other branded events. Learn the tips tools and techniques that can help you give the talk to change the world at www.BeTheTalk.com !

[spp-playlist] An educator and media artist, Douglas founded Rough Cut Media with his students while pioneering the media studies program at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. Winner of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, he advocates for access to media creation tools in schools and cofounded @1976km- a project empowering refugees. Watch Doug's TEDx Talk HERE. Learn about Doug Organization HERE BeTheTalk is a 7 day a week podcast where Nathan Eckel chats with talkers from TEDx and other branded events. Learn the tips tools and techniques that can help you give the talk to change the world at www.BeTheTalk.com !

Diana Laufenberg is a twenty-year veteran secondary social studies teacher who most recently taught at Philadelphia’s Science Leadership Academy. Along with Chris Lehmann, Diana founded Inquiry Schools  a new non-profit working to create and support learning environments that are inquiry driven, project based, and utilize modern technologies. Her TED Talk “How to Learn? From Mistakes” has garnered nearly 2 million views and her classroom was featured in the PBS documentary “Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century.”

A monologue about a Latina woman who is confronted by the police in her home starts a conversation about community policing and law enforcement. Featuring conversations with a young Afro-Latina woman who channels her Puerto Rican father's stories about law enforcement into her writing and activism, Michael J. Chitwood, a police chief with a 53-year career in law enforcement, and Vashti Dubois and Dubois Stewart, a mother and son in the wake of a stop and frisk. Click here to read a transcript of this episode. “You come into this neighborhood and police it when you feel like it. And because you’re at the top, and we’re at the bottom you think you got us all figured out: we’re all just thugs. But you don’t know me...” — from "Neighborhood Blue" by Autumn Angelettie  * * * When Autumn Angelettie was given an assignment in her creative writing class to write a monologue about something that has been on her mind recently, she chose to write about community policing. “I think when I was a kid the way I was taught to think about police officers was respect them, keep your distance,” Autumn, a young Afro-Latina woman, said when asked about how she feels about police. “Don’t really interact because things can go wrong really quickly.” For Dubois Stewart, a young African American man, the latter sentiment flashed through his mind when he was stopped and frisked by the police for the first time recently. “I was terrified” he said. “I seriously thought I wouldn’t go away unharmed.” Dubois’ mother, Vashti, knew this day would come. “We practiced,” she said, in order to avoid what could have happened. “It could’ve gone badly. It could’ve gone really badly. For no reason.” For communities of color, relationships with police are precarious, to say the least. Because this keeps happening. Again and again and again. The ongoing trauma has negative effects for communities and families on both sides of the badge. For law enforcement officers, like Michael J. Chitwood, Superintendent of the Upper Darby Police, the pursuit of public safety is about working in the community to build relationships, trust, and familiarity. So when something goes fatally wrong, it’s a setback. “Everybody deserves the opportunity to educate their children to sit down on their step to walk their dog and to enjoy life,” Chitwood says. “And that’s what our goal is. And I think sometimes we do it. But it’s a constant, continual being out there, being present, being a part of the community.” conversations Michael J. Chitwood is Superintendent of the Upper Darby Police Department. His 53 year career in law enforcement began in 1964 in Philadelphia, where he worked as a highway patrolman, hostage negotiator, and homicide detective for 19 years. In 1983, he became Police Chief of Middletown Township in Bucks County, where he spent four and a half years before being named Chief of Police in Portland, Maine, where he worked for 14 years before coming to Upper Darby in 2005. As Superintendent, Chief Chitwood oversees more than 130 officers in the incredibly diverse community of Upper Darby, which is home to residents who speak more than 50 languages. Chief Chitwood's leadership centers on building relationships between the police force and the community. The Police Department runs a number of community initiatives, including a 5th grade mentoring program, Citizens Police Academy, and Coffee with a Cop.  Image: Upper Darby Police Department Dubois Stewart (left) is a senior at Science Leadership Academy. An avid squash player, Dubois is a member of the SquashSmarts family where he mentors other young people and teaches them how to play squash. This fall, he will attend the University of Pennsylvania to study environmental science. His mother,  Vashti Dubois (right), is the Founder and Executive Director of The Colored Girls Museum in Historic Germantown. Founded in 2015, The Colored Girls Museum "honors the stories, experiences, and history of Colored Girls" and is the first institution of its kind, offering visitors a multi-disciplinary experience of memoir in all its variety in a residential space. Vashti is also a literacy coach at the Free Library of Philadelphia and has held leadership positions at a number of organizations over her more than 30 year career in non-profit and arts administration, including: Tree House Books, the Historic Church of the Advocate, Children's Art Carnival in New York City, Haymarket Peoples Fund in Boston, Congreso Girls Center, and The Leeway Foundation. Image_: Denise Allen_ connections According to their website, "The mission of the Upper Darby Township Police Department is to partner with community members to increase the quality of life for all citizens in the Township. Through law enforcement, we will increase public safety thereby reducing the fear and incidence of crime. We will commit to providing high quality services with honor and integrity." Mural of officers and youth painted by young residents of Upper Darby (photo by Mitchell Bloom) The Colored Girls Museum "is a memoir museum, which honors the stories, experiences, and history of Colored Girls. This museum initiates the 'ordinary' object—submitted by the colored girl herself, as representative of an aspect of her story and personal history, which she finds meaningful; her object embodies her experience and expression of being a Colored Girl. The Colored Girls Museum is headquartered in the historic neighborhood of Germantown in Philadelphia, an area renowned for its compliment of historic buildings and homes. Audience members are treated to a Salon Styled-Guided tour of a home which has been converted to a Museum. This multidisciplinary event is a collaborative experience between patrons and The Colored Girls Museum." further reading & Resources For more information about police violence in the United States, check out Mapping Police Violence, a research collaborative collecting comprehensive data on police killings nationwide to quantify the impact of police violence in communities. For our Philly crowd: Find out where the Democratic candidates for District Attorney stand on police shootings and policies like stop and frisk via Philly.com. For some lighter fare and perhaps a smile, check out this article from the Washington Post about a video of a police encounter that ended in a dance off, which includes a compilation of some of the finer dancing cop moments. From the article: "When reached by phone, the officer in the video said she did not want to be identified because she didn’t  want to make the story about her. 'It’s kind of embarrassing that this became so big,” she said. “This is what we do everyday.'" Click here to learn more about Philadelphia Young Playwrights.

  Joshua Spodek (Twitter, Web Site and Blog) is an Adjunct Professor at NYU, leadership coach and workshop leader for Columbia Business School, columnist for Inc., founder of Spodek Academy, and author of Leadership Step by Step (launching February 2017). Sign up for his webinar here He has led seminars in leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity, and sales at Harvard, Princeton, MIT, INSEAD (Singapore), the New York Academy of Science, and in private corporations. He holds five Ivy League degrees, including a PhD in Astrophysics and an MBA, and studied under a Nobel Prize winner. He helped build an X-ray observational satellite for NASA, co-founded and led as CEO or COO several ventures, and holds six patents. He earned praise as “Best and Brightest” (Esquire Magazine’s Genius Issue), “Astrophysicist turned new media whiz” (NBC), and “Rocket Scientist” (ABC News and Forbes) and has been quoted and profiled by ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He has visited North Korea twice, swam across the Hudson River, and has done burpees every day for six years and counting. He lives in Greenwich Village and blogs daily at www.joshuaspodek.com. Josh’s history Chris Lehmann, founder of Science Leadership Academy. educon How you learn is as important as what you learn Realized the lectures he prepared weren’t as effective as he wanted. KIBSD High School Team Challenge How his graduate level courses work. Don’t give lectures on leadership, give experiences to help people learn what they need to learn. Understanding yourself Leading yourself Understanding others Leading others Think of a project that has some deliverable that you care about the outcome, tell what success means. Three raisins exercise: eat the raisins completely mindfully. People know when you’re not paying attention. Are you feeling like you are always behind at school? Do you feel like you need about 2 more hours each day to accomplish everything? Here’s how I help principals work manageable hours: Create your ideal week, so that you can leave work at work and enjoy your life! Join my group coaching program Please take a moment to rate this podcast in iTunes or on Stitcher.  Please follow me on Twitter: @jethrojones for the host and @TrnFrmPrincipal for the show. Buy Communication Cards Show notes on TransformativePrincipal.com Download Paperless Principal.   Web Site Transformative Principal on Stitcher Refer A Principal Best Tools for Busy Administrators Survey

Where there is technology there will be tech problems. Education is no exception. Join us as we talk about how to avoid as many as possible and respond well to the unavoidable issues when they arise. Follow: @larryferlazzo @covili @jay460 @LPahomov @Bamradionetwork #edchat #teachers #edtech Anne Jenks is the principal of the McKinna Elementary School, an Apple Distinguished Program. She was named the CUE Site Leader of the Year in 2015. Larissa Pahomov teaches students English at Science Leadership Academy and is the author of Authentic Learning in the Digital Age. Jared Covili is a professional development trainer for the Utah Education Network who specializes in teaching strategies for classroom integration of technology such as Google Apps for Education; he is the author of two books - Going Google and Classroom in the Cloud.

When students have input in their motivation to learn can rise. In this segment we explore strategies for using student choice to drive motivation and learning. Follow: @JMcCarthyEdS @jhblock @bodymindchild @bamradionetwork #edchat #teaching #edreform #AskingWhatIf Joshua Block teaches students English and History at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. His work with students integrates inquiry, project-based learning, technology, student performance, and public art. John McCarthy is a national consultant on Differentiation, Edutopia contributor, adjunct professor, co-moderator of the Differentiation chat group: #DI4ALL at www.di4all.org.

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar, Mary Beth Hertz, Featured Teacher, February 21, 2015. We are very excited to have Mary Beth Hertz on Classroom 2.0 LIVE as our Featured Teacher for the month of February! She will be sharing some of her teaching passions (including STEM and MakerSpaces) and stories/examples from her classrooms. She will also share some of the differences she has experienced between being an elementary and high school teacher, the resources and tools she uses in her classrooms, and tips about setting up a computer lab. Mary Beth Hertz teaches high school students Technology and Art and is the Technology Coordinator at the Science Leadership Academy at Beeber in Philadelphia, PA http://slabeeber.org/. The Science Leadership Academy at Beeber is a second campus of The Science Leadership Academy. SLA provides a rigorous, college-preparatory curriculum with a focus on science, technology, mathematics and entrepreneurship. Students at SLA learn in a project-based environment where the core values of inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation and reflection are emphasized in all classes. She is also an Edcamp Foundation Board member, a Philly EdTech Meetup co-organizer & new mom. She began teaching in Philadelphia in 2004 as a Science teacher for grades K-6 and spent 8 years in a K-8 setting as a Technology teacher in a computer lab. She was named an Emerging Leader by ISTE in 2010, PAECT Teacher of the Year in 2013 and an ASCD Emerging Leader in 2014. Mary Beth blogs for Edutopia.org and at http://mbteach.com/ and can be found on Twitter as @mbteach https://twitter.com/mbteach Take a look at her recent Edutopia blog post "Social Media at School: Teaching Safety on the Virtual Playground" http://www.edutopia.org/blog/social-media-school-teaching-safety-virtual-playground"

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar, Mary Beth Hertz, Featured Teacher, February 21, 2015. We are very excited to have Mary Beth Hertz on Classroom 2.0 LIVE as our Featured Teacher for the month of February! She will be sharing some of her teaching passions (including STEM and MakerSpaces) and stories/examples from her classrooms. She will also share some of the differences she has experienced between being an elementary and high school teacher, the resources and tools she uses in her classrooms, and tips about setting up a computer lab. Mary Beth Hertz teaches high school students Technology and Art and is the Technology Coordinator at the Science Leadership Academy at Beeber in Philadelphia, PA http://slabeeber.org/. The Science Leadership Academy at Beeber is a second campus of The Science Leadership Academy. SLA provides a rigorous, college-preparatory curriculum with a focus on science, technology, mathematics and entrepreneurship. Students at SLA learn in a project-based environment where the core values of inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation and reflection are emphasized in all classes. She is also an Edcamp Foundation Board member, a Philly EdTech Meetup co-organizer & new mom. She began teaching in Philadelphia in 2004 as a Science teacher for grades K-6 and spent 8 years in a K-8 setting as a Technology teacher in a computer lab. She was named an Emerging Leader by ISTE in 2010, PAECT Teacher of the Year in 2013 and an ASCD Emerging Leader in 2014. Mary Beth blogs for Edutopia.org and at http://mbteach.com/ and can be found on Twitter as @mbteach https://twitter.com/mbteach Take a look at her recent Edutopia blog post "Social Media at School: Teaching Safety on the Virtual Playground" http://www.edutopia.org/blog/social-media-school-teaching-safety-virtual-playground"

ASCD presents AUTHENTIC LEARNING IN THE DIGITAL AGE My hometown of Philly boasts Chris Lehmann's Science Leadership Academy, a great school . Our guest is English and Journalism teacher Larrissa Pahomov, author of "Authentic Learning in the Digital Age : Engaging Students through Inquiry www.ascd.org  @ascd   Presented by Great Books Foundation www.greatbooks.org  @greatbooksfnd

The culture of an organization is a powerful predictor of success. This applies to school cultures as well. In this segment we explore the markers of a successful school culture and look at what we can do to develop them. Follow: @larryferlazzo @chrislehmann @tweenteacher @bamradionetwork Heather Wolpert-Gawron is a middle school teacher, blogger, and author of the books Writing Behind Every Door: Teaching Common Core Writing in the Content Areas and ˜Tween Crayons and Curfews: Tips for Middle School Teachers. She has also authored workbooks on  Internet Literacy and Project Based Writing Chris Lehmann is founding principal of Science Leadership Academy, a progressive science and technology high school in Philadelphia, PA. The Science Leadership Academy is an inquiry-driven, project-based, 1:1 laptop school that is considered to be one of the pioneers of the School 2.0 movement nationally and internationally.

In this segment we face the fact that most of your staff hates meetings, especially "ho-hum" meetings. Today our guests offer suggestions on how to kick boring meetings to the curb and host meetings that your staff will actually appreciate and enjoy. Carson Tate, MS O.D. is Founder and Principal of Working Simply. Carson also serves as a consultant, coach and trainer to executives at Fortune 500 companies. Elizabeth Grace Saunders is the author of "The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: How to Achieve More Success With Less Stress." She is also the founder & CEO of Real Life E Time Coaching & Training. Brian Nichols is currently the Executive Director of School Leadership for Newport News Public Schools, (Virginia) and previously the principal of two award winning Title I K-5 schools. Chris Lehmann is Founding principal of Science Leadership Academy, a progressive science and technology high school in Philadelphia, PA.

  Description: Driving home from the airport after the EduCon Conference at the Science Leadership Academy, Mike Slinger and I discuss our conference ‘take-aways’. Topics include inquiry learning, curation (of both ideas and people), disruption, and asking students questions that we don’t know the answers to.     Show Notes: (Listen Now!) …

Jokes: I’m failing geometry because I refuse to believe that pie are squared. The school board decided to remove speech and debate from the course schedule; there was no argument. Today in Art class we were going to paint a nude model, but the teacher sent her to the office for violating dress code. How does a blind skydiver know they're nearing the ground? The leash goes slack . . . From the Twitterverse: * DigMo Anyone interested in the competition, slow to get started this one :( very easy too iStopMotion 2http://bit.ly/pKhvd would appreciate it * kentmanning Just blogged about one of those "teacher moments" in a busy week. http://tinyurl.com/yesbxvb We've all had them. Looking forward to more. * bruingeek No, Honey. With the GPS we don't have to ask directions. And NO, GPS is not the acronym for General Purpose Shopping. *blondejoke* * zemote RT @tvanderark How will digital learning replace print? Here's 7 (sic) change forces http://bit.ly/15Fe6p * russeltarr How to Green Screen Using iMovie '09: http://tinyurl.com/rdvzkn * stevehargadon New Weebly for education is awesome. Great for both teachers & students to building their own web presence. http://education.weebly.com * russeltarr Creativity in the Classroom, Innovation in the Workplace (by @sirkenrobinson): http://tinyurl.com/q45hfy * russeltarr 70 Authors to Follow on Twitter (good for literature students?): http://tinyurl.com/plkkrj (Note: mostly for you, some for your students.) * eduinnovation PLC that confuses talk for action, confuses meeting for getting results, confuses time together for benefiting students.....just confused. * russeltarr Formal Education will make you a living; Self education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn. * jonbecker Standby efforts failed. Gonna be at JFK for a few hours. Keep me company? * stevehargadon RT @jonmott Great summary of DoE meta-study concluding that online learners perform better than others. http://bit.ly/2WEWmq * AngelaMaiers "Habitudes" of Professional Learning Communities http://digg.com/u1DX4W Great stuff from @eduinnovation On Our Mind: Clocks. Is it necessary to know how to read an analog clock? MEAPs coming up, state mandated testing. Do you put the pressure on or do you soft-shoe it into the testing period? DropBox http://www.getdropbox.com/iphoneapp Advisory: Return to the overview: During the first month of school have every student take a piece of string and place one end under their shoe then stretch the string so it reaches the top of their head. Cut the string and fold it up. Place a piece of masking tape with the student’s name around the folded piece of string. Put all of the strings into a bag and do not open it until the last week of school. Then have them take their string and see how much they have grown over the last year. Many of your students will be amazed at how much they have grown. A way to show what adolescents stand for is to have them outline their foot and then list all of the things they believe in inside the outline. http://www.nmsa.org/portals/0/pdf/publications/On_Target/advisory/advisory_8.pdf October is MOYA! www.nmsa.org/moya Webspotlight: Educon 21 at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA. http://educon21.wikispaces.com/ Stumbleupon http://www.stumbleupon.com (or in Troy's universe: stumbleupon.com) VUE 3.0- The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. http://vue.tufts.edu/ News: Govt talks about teacher effectiveness. Online learning expanding but slowing down.

Introductions Chris Lehman of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia joined David and Jeff for tonight's podcast. Essential Question Once shifted, where do we go next? Blog Posts of the Week David:  Digital Ethnography Chris: Measuring UP: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us Jeff: Horizon Report, David Warlick at EduCon 2.1, Flat Classroom Conference Sign Off *Next show is Thursday February 12th at 7 PM Bangkok time. *Jim Reese will be our guest. *Essential Question for the show: How to make the shift systemic and sustainable in our schools? *Don’t forget to post Web sites/blogs to the SOS Diigo bookmarking site that support our upcoming EQ.

Leading change can only happen when others believe in and then live the change leaders suggest. Listen to the voices of the students and teachers of the Science Leadership Academy through the lens of progressive, 21st Century school change.

Leading change can only happen when others believe in and then live the change leaders suggest. Listen to the voices of the students and teachers of the Science Leadership Academy through the lens of progressive, 21st Century school change.

Today, Ginger's responding to Chris Lehmann's Practical Theory blog article called Teacher Learning, Student Learning and School 2.0. He asserts that we should not be relying on only techies to train teachers, but rather to encourage teachers to train themselves. This is a good thing, and Ginger takes it further by talking about how to encourage teachers' motivation and desire to learn these new tools by prioritizing what other pieces to drop from their repertoire, as well as giving teachers profitable salary schedule horizontal movement. University credit is also a wonderful thing. Correction to be made: Because of her dyslexia, Ginger mis-labeled Chris Lehmann's school. It is the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. http://www.scienceleadership.org/ You can find a pic and info about this wonderful place at 2¢ Worth, David Warlick's blog:http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2007/01/10/new-school-sla/ Practical Theory blog: http://www.practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php

Our first DesignShare and MediaSnackers podcast sees us (Christian Long and DK) talking to Chris Lehmann, Principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philedelphia, exploring the new pedagogy of this technology-rich high school. Agree, disagree, like, don't like...? Feel free to leave a comment at http://mediasnackers.com/2007/04/mediasnackersdesignshare-podcast79/

Chris Lehmann tells us about his role in the new Science Leadership Academy in Philedelphia and also how they are using technology in positive and creative ways. Agree, disagree, like, don't like...? Feel free to leave a comment at http://mediasnackers.com/2006/06/mediasnackers-podcast2/