Carrie White is here! Carrie is the 2022 Schenectady City School District Teacher of the Year and 2023 Second Step Educator of the Year. Rick sits down with Carrie and Rebecca Gleason (Assistant Director of ELA and Library Services) to debrief after a 2nd Grade Wit & Wisdom lesson. Carrie talks about planning for instruction, trusting yourself as a educator, building relationships in the classroom and much more!

DIGITAL LEARNING MARCH MADNESS! The Freshly Sharpened Team has created its own Digital Learning Resource Bracket and sat down to determine which tool has the largest impact on its grade level band, making it the Digital Learning Resource Champion for 2025. Who will come out victorious? Listen and find out!

Andy and Rick are fresh off of presenting sessions at the Hudson-Mohawk Valley Area Math Conference and debrief on how it went; Rick (Red Sox), Michael (Mets) and Andy (Yankees) guess their teams' records for the upcoming baseball season; plus AR/VR and a few disappointing rounds of Google Feud (23:17)

Schenectady Math Coach Christian Rossler joins Andy and Michael for a show about new approaches in SCSD to math instruction; he details how students are learning to engage in "thinking classrooms" where they grapple with problems in different ways, building their schema while exploring the connections between manipulatives, pictorials, and abstract concepts. And, find out how Christian became "Internet famous"!

We talk about bringing FUN to the classroom all the time...but how do you plan for it? The DLCs talk about planning for fun, and what can happen if you don't plan for it...

Then, the DLCs play a round of Family Feud...Tech Style (25:15)! Thanks to all the Schenectady staff that answered our call for answers!

In the first episode after the annual Patriot Tech Camp, the DLCs discuss some of the happenings of the event and some of the feedback from a great day.  Following that, is the recording of Unscripted: Teacher Edition - recorded live from Patriot Tech Camp! (15:15)

The DLCs are back for another episode! Powered by Michael's love of movie quotes and his incessant insertion of them into conversation, the Coaches talk about their favorite movie quotes that relate to education.

But first, the THIRD Annual Patriot Tech Camp is on March 1, 2025....the Coaches spend time talking that event, as well as the history of Ed Camps in Schenectady, dating back to the COVID Shutdown.

The Digital Learning Coaches take on the topic of having FUN in class, reflecting on how a little laughter goes a long way toward creating an environment conducive to learning. For this week's game, Michael and Rick team up to see if they can solve "Two Truths and AI", trying to pick out AI generated news stories among actual news from schools around the country.

The DLCs are back for another episode!

Andy updates us on the AI Roundtable from the NERIC Model Schools meeting, and then the three of us have a "fantasy app draft" and go back and forth picking apps and programs we would be happy getting stuck on a desert island with.

The DLCs are back behind the mics - for another episode! Rick, Andy and Michael share what they have been up to, what they are looking forward to...and then a round of the "Best Friends Ed Tech Game", a Newlywed-type game where Andy and Michael try and guess details about the other.