Digical Education

Digical Education

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Digical Education episodes

  • Lessons in Innovation: Ryan Hoch

    Ryan Hoch is co-founder of Overgrad (www.overgrad.com).

    I was interested to learn about his story and why he went from teaching in St. Louis to a corporate job, and then eventually founding Overgrad. Likewise, I was quite interested in his concept that Overgrad as a social enterprise is more than just a tool for schools, but more significantly "a platform that unites a student's support network" in order to promote student agency.

    18 min
  • Activate Teacher Motivation and Cultivate Innovation: Thomas Arnett

    In his new report Thomas Arnett states, "the success of any school improvement hinges on teachers;" however later in the report he also states, "one key reason most school-improvement initiatives struggle to gain traction is that they are coercive."

    This podcast conversation delves deeper into the research Tom did with Bob Moesta and Michael Horn entitled "The Teacher's Quest for Progress: How school leaders can motivate instructional innovation" https://www.christenseninstitute.org/publications/teachers-jobs-to-be-done/

     

    33 min
  • Innovation or Irrelevance: Bill Latham

    This is podcast #2 with Bill Latham as in a recent conversation he challenged my own thinking about the choice between Innovation and Irrelevance in my work, our profession, and our school system. In this conversation Bill will also share what he is discovering about high quality leadership, the impact of Collective Teacher Efficacy, and professional engagement and well-being of educators.

    Bill is CEO of MeTeor Education (www.meteoreducation.com)

    27 min
  • Catalytic Leadership and Collective Teacher Efficacy: Conversation with Jon Eckert
    This is the third conversation I've had since the beginning of the podcast with Jon Eckert. In this podcast I ask Jon about what John Hattie calls "Collective Teacher Efficacy" and how it is the factor that has the greatest impact on student learning. Likewise, I ask Jon about what he calls "Catalytic" leadership in his book Leading Together.
    Jon's Bio: As a Professor of Education at Wheaton College, Jon’s research includes teaching effectiveness, teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, and teacher compensation. In addition to his work at Wheaton he is a Research Consultant for the Center for Teaching Quality and he has also consulted with the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching and the U.S. Department of Education. You can find his recent research on Collective Leadership in his new book, “Leading Together: Teachers and Administrators Improving Student Outcomes.”
    23 min
  • Millennials & Ed Leadership: Conversation with Daniel Pampuch
    Daniel Pampuch is CEO of Christian Schools Australia where he oversees 140 schools and provides advocacy for another 40 - representing 60,000 students. He completed his Ph.D. dissertation on "Next Generation Leadership", and this blog (https://blog.acsi.org/making-way-millennials-leadership) is what led to this podcast conversation.
    Millennials have been much maligned and parodied for a perceived lack of work ethic and ambition for leadership, but what Daniel has found in his research on the generations and work with younger leaders is hopefully a renewed interest in thinking differently about schools, the profession, and leadership.
    23 min
  • Beautiful Work and the Beautiful Worker: Conversation with Justin Cook
    Justin Cook is Director of Learning for the Ontario Aliance of Christian Schools (http://www.oacs.org/author/justinc/).
    A few months ago he and I had a conversation where he shared Ron Berger's article "Beautiful Work" (http://www.bie.org/object/document/beautiful_work), and in his own writing Justin states that "our work is beautiful" because it reveals coherence, interconnectedness, craftsmanship, and authenticity.
    But the primary conversation that we have pertain to his developing ideas on what he calls the Beautiful Worker.
    27 min
  • Find Your Calling: Conversation with Bryan Dik
    I was recently introduced to Bryan Dik who is Professor of Psychology at Colorado State University, Founder and Chief Science Officer for Jobzology (www.jobzology.com), and author of the book "Make Your Job a Calling."
    As an educator and counselor I'm quite interested in this idea of "calling" and finding meaning or purpose in work. Likewise, I've written a number of blogs entitled "Engagement Matters" where I review much of the research on organizations that are more successful than others in developing engagement and meaningfulness (https://cace.org/building-an-engaged-school-educators-crave-it/). I am quite interested in re-thinking schools for both students and adults as we attempt to find meaning in the work we do.
    I think you'll be interested in Bryan's definition of "calling" as he points to three commonalities of a calling (1) transcendent summons, (2) purpseful work, and (3) pro-social orientation, and I hope you enjoy the conversation.
    29 min
  • Education as Atmosphere: Conversation with Deani Van Pelt
    "Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life." - Charlotte Mason
    In an era of technology and innovation, and especially living at the heart of it all in Silicon Valley I've started to ask questions about some of the 19th and 20th Century innovators like Montessori, Doman, Waldorf, and Froebel.
    In this conversation I was able to talk with Charlotte Mason expert, Deani Van Pelt, about Mason's ideas and work, and why it matters in today's world.
    Deani Van Pelt is an Education leader in Canada, has been a teacher, professor, researcher, and will soon be president of a new school association.
    27 min
  • Professional Learning & Organizational Growth with George Roth
    "We're not really good at learning from the past." - George Roth
    I met George this past February and we had a conversation prior to the end of the school year, but I've been waiting to post this until educators, innovators, and leaders had a bit of time to listen intently as this is a conversation about topics we don't always discuss with clarity from academic research.
    In prior conversations I was having with George that led to this podcast I was asking questions about learning organizations, limits to growth, the impact of networks, and the difference between professional learning and professional training.
    I don't want to lead you as a listerner and learner, but I wonder how we might redesign the school year and education profession with some of these concepts.
    George Roth is an educator, scholar, consultant, and writer. Over the past 19 years, he has held various lecturer and research appointments at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. During that time he has studied, written about, and lectured on organizational learning, change, culture and leadership. He applies his expertise as a scholar/practitioner to conduct research in those areas, consult to corporations and government, and manage programs for MIT.
    29 min
  • Holiness and Wholesomeness in Creative Pursuits: Josh Riebock
    This is a conversation that stems from many other conversations and due to the unscripted nature of it you will hear it meander from our prior podcast conversation about creativity into a more recent conversation we've been having about Holiness versus Wholesomeness within our creative pursuits.
    I personally like the portions where Josh talks about the 'cocktail' or 'architecure' of creativity and where honesty, depth, and exploration into life fit in the mix. Likewise, I put him on the spot at the end of the podcast to share some of his poetry, so fast forward about 30 seconds as he chooses/finds a poem to share with us.
    Josh Riebock is a storyteller, poet, author, and friend. If you haven't read "Heroes and Monsters" check it out and you'll get a taste of what he shares in this podcast.
    38 min

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