In this episode, our guest, Ray Steinmetz, a math teacher at Portsmouth Middle School in Rhode Island, talks about his classroom experience from being a traditional math teacher to transitioning to blended learning. 01:35 Ray’s experience as a traditional math teacher 01:54 Learning through the Highlander Institute and shifting to blended learning 02:26 Ray’s technology […]

BEP026 – Tales From the Field with Portsmouth (RI) Middle School Math Teacher Ray Steinmetz

Education

Training

Language Courses

Higher Education

K-12

Educational Technology

Education Technology

Here are our general observations, a review of where the sentiment is and productivity is, almost a year after Covid19 hit. 02:05 Our hopes 03:06 Teachers are still being very reactive, day to day based on COVID cases coming in and out 04:26 Thinking about our first graders and their teachers 06:10 Administrators putting out […]

BEP078 – Post-Covid Year in Review

Why do we pull data and set goals around sub-groups in a school when we have a goal that’s hoping to meet the needs of all students?   02:00 Schools setting goals based on data on student academic success 03:00 Schools also set goals based on specific subgroups  03:30 Trying to understand where some of […]

BEP077 – Designing Equity-Based Goals

What is the impact on relationships that this remote virtual learning world has put on teachers, parents, students, and staff? 02:00 Why this episode 03:00  Building rapport and building relationships 03:19 Transactional relationships 03:45 You don’t have those water cooler moments anymore 04:17 How do you build trust? 05:00 Strategy cycles at Whiteknact Elementary, with […]

BEP076 – Post-Covid Impact on Relationships in Schools

What can potentially engage students virtually? Here are different tactics to lessen the load on the emotional exhaustion that happens from running a virtual classroom all day, and to increase student engagement. 04:49 Flipped model for learning 09:01 Having an agenda or checklist 10:46 Pick sticks 13:05 Waterfall response

BEP075 – Musings on Student Engagement 2.0

We talk about stamina as it pertains to distance learning from the student and teacher perspective, and the challenge of student engagement. 01:32 Three  buckets of stamina: from the lens of a teacher from a first grader doing distance learning from an older learner, an adolescent ninth-grade student 04:31 Everybody is trying to get some sort of […]

BEP026 – Tales From the Field with Portsmouth (RI) Middle School Math Teacher Ray Steinmetz

Download our free app to listen on your phone