Episode 012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjuOLyY7a0k

Dr. Desiree Alexander is an award-winning educator who has been in the educational field since 2002. She is the Founder CEO of Educator Alexander Consulting, LLC, and the Regional Director of North Louisiana for the Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana. Dr. Alexander is lifetime certified in Louisiana in Secondary English Education, and holds a Doctorate in Education with a concentration in Educational Leadership from Lamar University. You can connect with her at educatoralexander.com, on Twitter at educatoralex, or on other social media platforms (including youtube) at EducatorAlexander.

 

In this episode we discuss:

-Hurricanes and Fires in 2020

-The variety of definitions of hybrid education

-The push for in-person instruction

-Reopening the economy vs. COVID

-The stagnant state of Education

-How Virtual School helps learners

-How the Virtual Option is here to stay

-The problem with school as a safe haven for students

-Picking the issue of the day

-Politics in everything

-Introversion vs. extroversion

-Hood’s online class format

-Social interaction in 40-minute classes

-Having a purpose for technology

-One-on-one meetings with students

-Desiree’s sticker story

-Dave Stuart Jr.’s record-keeping

-No faking it in teaching

-Whether Desiree is in the Middle School or High School camp

-Difference between 8th and 9th graders

-Desiree as a Librarian/Auntie

-Graphic Novels as “Real” reading

-The tech requirements of being a librarian

-The Myth of the Superhero teacher

-The culture of overworking

-Type A personalities

-Tech boundaries

-What Desiree’s watching now on Netflix