Beau Neal is an educator, an administrator, and an entrepreneur seeking to improve the state of education not just in his home state of Oregon, but across the country. In the last four years he has co-founded a revolutionary online charter school, Frontier Charter Academy, and a first-of-its-kind educational consulting company, SYS Education. Beau is an advocate for online education and a believer in giving power to teachers. 

This episode is a unique opportunity to learn from a leader who is at the forefront of an online educational evolution, and you’re invited to join it. Can you really get to know students in an authentic way, online? Yes. Can you really teach physical education online? Yes. Find out how...

 

Timestamps 

• Getting personal using Google Slides and discussions [2:50]

• How Beau uses journals to connect with students. [4:26]

• Does being online allow students to be their more authentic selves? [6:57]

• How Beau celebrates students’ strengths and builds relationships. [7:39]

• Beau’s recollection of one of his favorite teacher’s way of connecting [8:59]

• What sorts of things does Beau share about himself with students? [10:33]

• What does Bruce Lee have to do with online teaching?[15:07]

• Can you really teach PE online?[15:37]

• Not reinventing the wheel online [18:21]

• Beau’s advice for newly-online educators [20:43]

• The experiment that is online education. [21:11]

 

Selected Link from the Episode 

• Beau’s Blog Post: Engaging Students while Teaching Online

• • https://rb.gy/aboh2t
• Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee by Shannon Lee

• • https://rb.gy/pwtmcn