Hey Teachers! Let's Innovate Education

This episode is an introduction to imagination which will be part of a series of episodes. It begins with the goal of providing some inspiration, positivity, and hope regarding remote learning. I identify some of the benefits and potential remote learning holds, share a couple of conversations I've had with other teachers and then I will introduce a larger conversation about imagination. This includes a preview of the 8 types of imagination, the stages of imagination development, and more.

This episode is in response to some great conversations I've been a part of regarding the E-Learning challenge.This point in history really is a tremendous opportunity for growth in our education system, and I hope the right people are being heard as school districts across the country problem solve. Teachers are rightfully seeing the glaring issues that have infected education for a century on display in intimate ways. In this episode I will share some E-Learning exemplars, share my own experiences, and discuss specific reforms that can innovate and enhance the educational experiences of our students and teachers forever, paving the way for the educational renaissance that many of us have been waiting for.

In this part, I dig deeper into what cultivates curiosity and offer some practical ways to bring it into your classroom while adding to the scientific evidence and ending with a focus on empathy.

Curiosity is the soil of learning, because it puts us in the mental state required to be open to the world, to build relevance in the content, and take chances. It encourages the desire to master something and the passion to do it in service of something larger than ourselves. In other words, Growth Mindset.Includes a review on the 3 phases and 6 steps I use to teach creativity

Our educational system structure, the foundation, is the soil from which we can grow our curriculum, our learning experiences... which in turn cultivates our children’s lives and by extension our society. We design our systems and they in turn design us. This episode focuses on the schedule and homework practice of the traditional education experience in America with an emphasis on how they impede creativity, agency, and SEL needs. It is in part a response to the previous episode and interview that broached these topics.

The Structure of Our Education Systems Doom Outcomes (with Michael Skura)

T​his episode is about defining and explaining this Creativity thing and how itis misunderstood at best, and definitely underutilized, obviously, if I think it will save our current education models, and it's one of the #1 skills needed in the contemporary and future economy. This is part 1 to a series that breaks down creativity into it's most basic parts and how it should be recognized as the core processor of learning in our education systems.

Why did I start this podcast about innovating education? What does it mean to be a teacher in the 21st Century? How can we move education out of the industrial revolution? Find out a little about me, about this pod, and talk positive change and creativity among other things along the way.