Making Magic Happen with Dyane Smokorowski

Dyane Smokorowski: Instructional Technology Coach 

@Mrs_Smoke

Dyane serves as an instructional technology trainer, providing professional development for the Andover school district, and throughout the state training preK-12 teachers on 21st Century Skills, project-based learning and technology tools.  In addition, she is an Intel National Senior Trainer, training other teachers around the nation in project-based learning strategies with enhanced technology integration, and co-hosts monthly online professional development trainings focused on effective technology integration and 21st Century Skills for PreK-12 educators for the Intel Teach Live International Monthly Webinar series.

In this episode you will learn:

How Dyane makes teachers nerdy

Why she didn't expect to land in middle school education

How she gets stuck in that space of middle school jokes, books, and jargon

A time when she almost betrayed a child's trust and what she learned from it

How Shelly Schott, of Intel Education, has mentored her. Dyane considers her a Teaching Yoda

What you can do to make the magic happen with Project-Based Learning

Ways to break the stereotype that teachers don't have passion

How to bridge the gap between old school pedagogy and new age technology

How to do teacher field trips

Where to find inspiration, especially at places like EdCamp

What great teachers do over and over again

Why everyone should read Kelly Gallagher's books, especially Write Like This and Deeper Reading

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