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How much teaching experience is required to be an effective school leader? Have the modern demands of school administration increased or decreased the need for classroom experience?

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Mike Terborg is a former federal librarian turned school media specialist and works at 2 inner-city schools. He believes that the appropriate use of technology should be integrated into our students' educational experience.

Some schools are preparing to return to on-site learning and completely eliminating the remote learning option. Some teachers, students, and parents are thrilled, others, no so much. In this episode, we unpack the thinking and feelings in these two camps.

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Starr Sackstein (NBCT) is a certified Master Journalism Educator through the Journalism Education Association (JEA). She serves at the New York State Director to JEA. She is the author of several books, including Teaching Mythology Exposed: Helping Teachers Create Visionary Classroom Perspective.

In this episode, we look at merit pay and other incentives that encourage and discourage teaching practices that drive authentic learning.

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Harvey Alvy has served as a teacher, principal, and university professor, and was honored to be a National Distinguished Principal. He is the author of Fighting for Change in Your School: How to Avoid Fads and Focus on Substance, and co-author of Learning From Lincoln: Leadership Practices for School Success.

In this episode, we look at the freedom many teachers experienced during remote learning, why so many still feel restricted, and what this all means for the future of teacher autonomy.

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Harvey Alvy has served as a teacher, principal, and university professor, and was honored to be a National Distinguished Principal. He is the author of Fighting for Change in Your School: How to Avoid Fads and Focus on Substance, and co-author of Learning From Lincoln: Leadership Practices for School Success.

The Derek Chauvin verdict was announced right before #edchat was set to begin, so we switched topics. That's how this group of educators found ourselves in the middle of a raw, real, and relevant discussion, as the world was reacting in real-time.

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Robin Hix is an English Language Arts /Special Education teacher of students in detained spaces.

The rumble we’re all hearing around learning loss is drowning out the stories of students who have done well during the pandemic. Join us as we think out loud about COVID slide and try to make sense of it all.

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Michael Campbell is a graduate student, currently in his fifth year of working as an ed tech in a life skills program at a local high school.

In this episode, we recap the #edchat discussion we had on unionizing. Is it time for all states to consider unionizing schools?

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Harvey Alvy has served as a teacher, principal, and university professor, and was honored to be a National Distinguished Principal. He is the author of Fighting for Change in Your School: How to Avoid Fads and Focus on Substance, and co-author of Learning From Lincoln: Leadership Practices for School Success.

Now that we have a new administration and a new head of the U.S. Department of Education, what changes do you hope to see?

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Mike Messner is a teacher of United States History and Civics at Los Altos High School in Los Altos, California. He is also an adjunct instructor of United States history and California history at Skyline College in San Bruno, California. He is a Google certified educator, a 15-year veteran of teaching, and a proud husband and father.

Call it an “aha moment,” an epiphany, or an awakening, in this episode we look at the new insights we’ve gleaned from the last year of pandemic teaching and learning.

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Harvey Alvy has served as a teacher, principal, and university professor, and was honored to be a National Distinguished Principal. He is the author of Fighting for Change in Your School: How to Avoid Fads and Focus on Substance, and co-author of Learning From Lincoln: Leadership Practices for School Success.

Most schools started closing or transitioning on pandemic teaching and learning models last march. As we approach the one-year anniversary we checked in with our #edchat colleagues to hear what teachers are thinking about the road we’ve traveled and the road ahead.

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