How are people making back-to-school decisions for K-12? We share our perspectives on some of the different strategies for going back to school.
 
01:24 Guidance from the state for how schools should be considering going back to school.
02:58 How are the school leaders impacted and trying to make these decisions and what are some of the decisions you’ve already seen?
03:21 As a school leader, as the school administrator, we talk about teachers wearing different hats. And the same is true for leadership, where you go from kind of being an expert in knowing your people and an expert in the bird’s eye view of your school curriculum.
06:19 It also makes me think about longer term. Does this adversity create some amazing strength in the school leaders and these teachers to be able to adapt?
11:32 And the thing that we feel like we’ve really boiled down, what we’re all about, are people, like putting the student at the center, and really focusing on the experience of the people that make up a school system. 
 

 

BEP070 – Back to School 2020

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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 even weirder fires 
08:01 Teacher confidence – getting teachers comfortable to be in the classroom and bring their best for kids
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Source: TeacherGoals
11:00 If we are saying that it is this urgent, then let’s prove it with money and our thanks and our time.
12:50 Do good teaching. Think back to what you know is best practice and do that. And that way, whatever you plan will translate back into your school day.
 


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 the goals developed for subgroups came from
04:30  You look into the data, you see some gaps, you want to target success in those specific areas. And then you set those sub-goals based on where those gaps are. 
05:38 When we ignore the data indicating that certain subgroups are in crisis, we’re also ignoring their experience. 
07:00 How are we gathering as a community around these needy kids? 
08;36 Where is your focus when there are subpopulations and sub-goals
09:50 Personalized learning comes in to meet the students at their individual needs
10:50  If you plan for your neediest students, everyone’s going to benefit.
13:30 We need to plan from the student up, not the teacher down. 
 


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 principal Laurie Marchand 
06:00 “The reason I build rapport with my students is so that they feel safe.”
06:30 We need to continue to make connections and build rapport because we don’t have those in-between moments anymore.
06:53 Why do we default into existing, comfortable relationships?  It’s because we haven’t been able to build trust.
09:42 What are the great work that teachers are doing to build rapport?
 

 

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 sense of belonging, some sort of sense of connection, but at the same time, you have this cognitive dissonance
05:38 Is this a muscle that we just have to exercise over the next month or is this something that we’re going to be really working for the next year?
07:22 One of the things that’s connected to stamina is engagement. How are we keeping kids engaged as their stamina ends? And as my stamina, as a teacher, kind of ebbs? … What can I do about it?
08:15 Action steps on how to focus on improving virtual stamina
 


BEP070 – Back to School 2020

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