CSDPower of We

It's back to school time and back to the CSD Power of We Podcast too! Shane and Jen welcome CSD English Teacher, Susan Ban, for a great talk about the different ways we kicked off the new year with our classes. We know that relationships are key and we all want to start the year off developing strong ones with our students, but this might come more naturally for the extraverts amongst us...so what about the introverts? Shane and Susan share some interesting insights, too!

In Episode 13 of the CSD Power of We Podcast, we have a great discussion about ways that we work as a school community to finish the school year strong and remember #whatmatters: Relationships. A good sense of humor helps, too! How do teachers get through an incredibly stressful, busy time of year and end the year smiling and keeping important relationships (with students and co-workers alike) at the forefront? Shane and Jen have taken the podcast to the sunshiny outdoors since we are now on vacation and are joined by Community School of Davidson’s Marianne Coale, Connie Wessner and Beth Knight for a fun end of the year wrap up.
Here’s a link to the senior send off video referenced https://youtu.be/navnVTuCpB0

Intro/outro music: “Summertime” courtesy Nicolai Heidlas

In episode 12 of the CSD Power of We Podcast, Jen and Shane welcome middle school teachers, Beth Knight, Dorothy Pagan and Mimi Siadak in to take a look at CSD's 6th Grade Holocaust Museum project. This year will be our 10th year of creating this museum and is a good time to explore how and why this project came to be, why it's important to continue and some of the really important learning that happens throughout this project. Check back soon for a follow up mini episode where we'll hear from the teacher who conceived this project, Melissa Porter, as well as students who have taken part in it and lasting impressions.

Intersession is coming up at Community of Davidson High School! Inter what? Yes, Intersession. Listen in as Shane and Jen welcome CSD counselor, Jessica Smith, to talk about this unique program at CSD, where teachers and students take a break from the more traditional work of school and take part in 3 days of learning and exploring on more specialized, high interest types of activities.
Here's a link to past original music from the Music Production group referenced in the podcast...great stuff....take a listen! http://mglass7.wixsite.com/csdmusiclabs

In Episode 10 of the CSD Power of We Podcast, Shane and Jen welcome Community School of Davidson administrator, Marianne Coale and 5th grade teacher, Amy Teckenbrock for a great conversation about prepping for state mandated end of grade testing. Children are so much more than the score they get on exams and, while testing is necessary for a variety of reasons, there is so much more to a school year than just test prep. Listen as Amy and Marianne talk about how the elementary prepares students for these assessments and still keep school fun and work to keep test anxiety to a minimum.

8th graders at CSD take part in a weekly "Practicum" program. In this episode of the CSD Power of We Podcast, a group of these students, along with Connie Wessner, who developed our Practicum program and is a CSD administrator, join Shane and Jen to talk about their experiences with Practicum. Listen in for their highs and lows, the whys and why nots and even a definitive declaration of what gender rules when it comes to impromptu lip sync battles!

Across the Twitterverse -CSD Power of We Podcast episode 8
In this episode of the CSD Power of We podcast, Shane and Jen welcome CSD’s Sara Behnke and explore how teachers can use Twitter for professional development purposes. More specifically, we introduce #CSDChat, a new PD initiative for CSD staff to use Twitter to engage with each other in online conversations as part of our broadening perspectives initiative. Interested in checking out some of the live Twitter chats mentioned in the podcast? Click here for a calendar of scheduled chats https://sites.google.com/site/twittereducationchats/education-chat-calendar
Here is a link to @ShaneCapps’ presentation on how teachers can get the most from Twitter from the #freshtake2017 conference.
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Episode 7 and it's our special "Fresh Take"edition, produced during and as part of Community School of Davidson's Fresh Take Conference in our "Podcasting Simplified" session. Shane and Jen, along with 17 other educators, enjoy a terrific discussion on podcasting, ranging from uses for professional development, classroom use and much more. This is part 2 of a 2 part episode.

Here are links to handouts referenced in the session, along with the presentation:
Resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rhy9nLeyKowjmQwHrpsI4PzGBN-GarageBand Cheatsheet: 37XePfl1XDPLjJdg/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z959PAbw1Xh2N9eaYAJfmHJwWMIXPB-CRNneRxILuxg/edit

Episode 7 and it's our special "Fresh Take"edition, produced during and as part of Community School of Davidson's Fresh Take Conference in our "Podcasting Simplified" session. Shane and Jen, along with 17 other educators, enjoy a terrific discussion on podcasting, ranging from uses for professional development, classroom use and much more. This is part 1 of a 2 part episode.

Here are links to handouts referenced in the session, along with the presentation:
Resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rhy9nLeyKowjmQwHrpsI4PzGBN-GarageBand Cheatsheet: 37XePfl1XDPLjJdg/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z959PAbw1Xh2N9eaYAJfmHJwWMIXPB-CRNneRxILuxg/edit

This is the 6th episode of the CSD Power of We podcast and to kick off 2017, Shane and Jen welcome CSD teacher, Shannon Davis as we reflect on the power of reflection. We discuss why it's important for teachers to reflect on their practice as well as to model reflection for their students. In the episode, we share Shannon's reflection poem and poetry slam that she did for 8th graders awhile back. For the full effect of the actual video, click here: https://www.facebook.com/shannon.b.davis.3/videos/825689140818709/.