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In this episode we review the 27 episodes that we put out in 2019. I give a short summary of each guest and talk about why I appreciate them being on the show.
Thank you to all the listeners and contributors that made 2019 a banner year for Intersection Education. We appreciate all your continued support in our quest to support school leaders.

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Here is a list with links to all episodes:

• #32 – George Couros – What The Innovator’s Mindset Brings to Good Teaching
• #33 – Dr. Jennifer Tupper – Educating Future Teachers
• #34 – Justin Jackson – Engaging Adults in Learning
• #35 – Dr. Kate Storey – Healthier Students & Communities
• #36 – Jennifer Gfroerer – Leading STEM Implementation
• #37 – Supt. Rob Hill – Police and Schools Working Together
• #38 – Dr. Marian Small – Numeracy and Math
• #39 – Dr. Randy Hetherington, Bryn Spence, and Corey Haley – Leading Schools
• #40 – Tal Thompson – Building Character and Academics
• #41 – Janelle Allen – Engaging Adult Learning Online
• #42 – Brian Torrance – Everactive Schools & Healthy Communities
• #43 – Diane Lander – Concept-Based Instruction
• #44 – Dr. Jed Richardson – Program Evaluation
• #45 – Dr. Jody Carrington – Kids These Days
• #46 – Aaron Dublenko – Innovate for Citizenship and the Environment
• #47 – Richard Gerver – A Manifesto for Change
• #48 – Dr. Randy Hetherington, Bryn Spence & Corey Haley – Leader’s Round Table
• #49 – Langston Evans – Increasing Equity in Schools
• #50 – Dr. Simon Breakspear – Learning Sprints and Teacher Expertise
• #51 – Nicole Lakusta – Technology for Learning
• #52 – What Great Schools Do – Teacher Professional Learning
• #53 – Brad Langdale – “Doing” Physics
• #54 – What Great Schools Do – Create Schools Where Students Want to Be
• #55 – Lynn Leslie – School Planning That Has Impact
• #56 – Adrian Piccoli – Education from a Minister’s Perspective
• #57 – Joey Feith – Teaching Physical Education
• #58 – Dr. Bonnie Stelmach – Building School Communities
• #59 – Scott Onuczko – Creativity, Communication, & Technology

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Our guest this episode is Scott Onuczko, Communication Technology teacher at Spruce Grove Composite High School in Alberta. Scott uses both traditional tools and the latest technology to help students explore their creative sides, enhance their design and production skills, explore interests outside the curriculum and change the world … one personally designed and silkscreened t-shirt at a time.

Breaking away from the traditional teacher model, Scott has designed his classes around his students' passions, areas of ability and learning needs. He recognizes that in the rapidly changing field of communication technology, he cannot always be the expert in the room, he acts as a guide for students as they solve problems and help each other. He won a Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2016.

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Our guest in this episode is Dr. Bonnie Stelmach, Professor in the Faculty of Education (Educational Policy Studies) at the University of Alberta. She has been an educational researcher and university instructor since 2006, first at the University of Saskatchewan, and now at the University of Alberta. Her research focus is on parent involvement, primarily concerned with whether and/or how secondary school parents feel in community with their children’s schools. She has a particular interest in rural and northern school contexts, owing to her personal and professional experiences living and teaching in rural and northern Alberta.

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In this episode, we speak with Joey Feith. Joey is an elementary physical education teachers at St. George’s School of Montreal in Quebec, Canada and the founder of ThePhysicalEducator.com. He is a young, recognized leader within the field of physical education and one of the most passionate physical educators you are likely to ever meet. His passion for teaching is perhaps only matched by his passion for sharing what he have learned about teaching Phys. Ed. with the world. With his website and his leadership around #pechat on twitter, he is a positive force for sharing great pedagogy around the world.

You can connect with Joey on Twitter @JoeyFeith or on his website ThePhysicalEducator.com

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This episode features Adrian Piccoli. Adrian is the former Minister of Education for the State of New South Wales in Australia. He is currently director of the Gonski Institute for Education at the University of New South Wales and Professor of Practice in the School of Education. After his time in office, he wrote the book 12 Ways Your Child Can Get the Best Out Of School. In 2017,  he was made a Professor of Practice in the School of Education at UNSW and has also been made a Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders.

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This episode features Lynn Leslie. Lynn works as a school principal in Calgary, Alberta and is currently pursuing an Education Doctorate at Western University, focusing on the effective implementation of school plans. She draws on her past experiences as a School Board Trustee and Business Systems Analyst to inform her leadership practice. Lynn is a recipient of The Learning Partnership’s forty 2017 Canada’s Outstanding Principals’ Award, and the Alberta Teachers’ Association’s 2014 Distinguished Leader Award.

She speaks to us about educational planning and the work she has done to ensure this plan, that is often mandated, can have impact in schools.

You can connect with Lynn on Twitter @LynnLeslie2

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This episode is part 2 of a series we are running called “What Great Schools Do”. In this series, we will discuss different aspects, the actions that are taken, and the ideas that ensure success in high performing schools.
What is a great school? We are defining it as a school where student outcomes in both learning and life are positively impacted. Where because of the school and the actions that it takes, students make progress.
There is no way that I have captured all the elements that go into making a good school, so please don’t think that if your idea is not in this list, that it is not important. Rather, this is a series that reflects my thinking right now and will certainly evolve over time.

For our second aspect of What Great Schools Do, I focus on creating schools where students want to be. I speak about different aspects of creating schools that are welcoming to students by discussing the following areas: relationships, academic engagement, fun, safety, fairness & equity, and voice.

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Show Notes:

• The Third Path: A Relationship-Based Approach to Student Well-being and Achievement by Dr. David Tranter, Lori Carson, & Tom Boland
• Relationships by American Institutes for Research
• School Connectedness: Improving Students’ Lives by Dr. Robert Blum
• The benefits of bonding at every age by Dr. Paul Schwartz
• Kids These Days by Dr. Jody Carrington
• What is Student Engagement and Why is it Important? by Jonathan Martin and Amada Torres
• School Engagement: Potential of the Concept, State of the Evidence by Jennifer A Fredricks, Phyllis C Blumenfeld, Alison H Paris
• Joy in School by Steven Wolk
• 10 Insights to Enhance the Joy of Learning by Scott Barry Kaufman
• No grammar schools, lots of play: the secrets of Europe’s top education system by Patrick Butler
• Bullying in Schools and What to Do About It by Dr. Ken Rigby
• Dreamkeepers by Gloria Ladson-Billings
• How Does an Equity Audit Work? By Sarah D. Sparks
• Canadian Positive Psychology Association
• The New Era of Positive Psychology by Dr. Martin Seligman (video)
• THE GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOL POSITIVE EDUCATION MODEL
• Why Student Voice Matters by Susan Groundwater-Smith
• Giving Students a Voice by Leah Shafer

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This episode features Brad Langdale, the 2019 recipient of the Canadian Association of Physicists Award for Excellence in Teaching High School Physics. Brad has spent the past fourteen years making the study of physics more accessible to students as well as teachers in the Province of Alberta. In his classroom, students are encouraged to get up out of their seats and “do physics” by building, testing and analyzing everything from table-top trebuchets to water-rockets to floating buckets.

You can connect with Brad on twitter @b_langdale or by visiting his website at http://www.ldindustries.ca/

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Show Notes:

• Smarter Every Day with Destin Sandlin
• Veritasium with Derek Muller
• The Physics Girl - Dianna Cowern 
• Video Physics (App)
• Won’t You Be My Neighbour (Movie)

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This episode is part one of a series we are running called “What Great Schools Do”. In this series, we will discuss different aspects, the actions that are taken, and the ideas that ensure success in high performing schools.
What is a great school? We are defining it as a school where student outcomes in both learning and life are positively impacted. Where because of the school and the actions that it takes, students make progress.
There is no way that I have captured all the elements that go into making a good school, so please don’t think that if your idea is not in this list, that it is not important. Rather, this is a series that reflects my thinking right now and will certainly evolve over time.

For our first aspect of What Great Schools Do, I have chosen to focus on something that I personally have invested a lot of time into. It is the aspect that I believe might have the highest impact of them all, to engage in ongoing and meaningful teacher professional learning.

As a framework for this topic, we have highlighted 6 essential elements: time, structure, collaboration, direction, research, and leader involvement.

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Show Notes:

• Student-Centered Leadership by Vivianne Robinson
• Teachers Matter: Understanding Teachers' Impact on Student Achievement by Rand Education
• Improving Student Learning By Supporting Quality Teaching by Amy M. Hightower, Rachael C. Delgado, Sterling C. Lloyd, Rebecca Wittenstein, Kacy Sellers, Christopher B. Swanson
• What is a Teacher’s Expertise? by Bruce Beairsto
• Teaching Expertise: Empirical findings on expert teachers and teacher development by Eero Ropo
• Teaching/Learning Sprints by Dr. Simon Breakspear
• Spiral of Inquiry by Judy Halbert and Linda Kaser
• Design Thinking
• Professional Learning Communities (PLC)

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This episode features Nicole Lakusta. Nicole is Curriculum Educational Technology Facilitator for Parkland School Division and is the winner of this year’s ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Interactive Video Conferencing Network Educator Award.

In our conversation we focus on how technology helps teachers have impact on student learning and she gives a lot of suggested links and resources, so be sure to check out the show notes.

You can follow Nicole on Twitter @nlakusta or visit her website at https://ottomat3ch.wordpress.com/

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Show Notes:
Learning and Technology Policy Framework
Read and Write for Google Chrome
Cisco and Compugen TelePresence Project in Parkland
ISTE - Interactive Video Conferencing Network Educator Award
SETT Framework by Joy Zabala
Educational Technology Council of the ATA
Growing Up Digital Study
The Promise and Peril of Emerging Technologies Research Colloquium Series (ATA)
The Horizon Report
Gartner Top Tech Trends
Cozmo Robot
Cue Robot
Alberta Professional Practice Standards - TQS, LQS, SLQS
Laura Lipton - Groups at Work book
FlipGrid for Educators Resources

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