Journeys to Belonging

Today's guest is Malinda Hurt, a 7th grade English teacher in a small rural school district in northern Illinois. This is her sixth year teaching in the classroom. She has held many positions in education from staff to faculty. Malinda enjoys connecting her students to the world using the Global Goals. In fact, she is a co-administrator for Our Global Classroom.

Malinda mention several resources for teaching with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including;

https://www.globalgoals.org

https://worldslargestlesson.globalgoals.org

https://educationelevators.com 

Malinda also mentioned Enneagram as a tool she used to find out more about herself and how she works. The website is: https://www.enneagraminstitute.com

I mentioned the School Reform Initiative protocol, Compass Points. https://schoolreforminitiative.org/doc/compass_points.pdf

Malinda's contact details are

Twitter: @mrshurtteaches 

Email: [email protected]

Buncee is one of my favorite apps, so when Francesca Arturi, accepted my invitation to be on my podcast, I was thrilled.

Francesca Arturi is a School Relationship Manager at Buncee. Throughout her time at Buncee, she has not only supported schools and educators to achieve their learning goals through the platform, but has coordinated a number of projects. This includes global connectivity projects, the publishing of online courses for both blended learning and literacy instruction, and hosted numerous #Bunceechats to foster connectivity and collaboration amongst the educator community.

There are many ways to use Buncee that Francesca mentioned during the podcast. Here are some links:

Here is our remote learning page with a link to sign up for a buncee account at no cost under 'Get Buncee': https://www.remotelearning.buncee.com/?utm_source=homepagebutton&utm_medium=buncee&utm_campaign=rl2020site

https://blog.buncee.com/7-new-updates-to-support-remote-learning

Here's Tan's coffee talk & blog post: https://youtu.be/47Ww7_YKQ9U and https://blog.buncee.com/buncee-giving-voice-to-the-voiceless 

And two links on Buncee + Immersive Reader: https://blog.buncee.com/buncee-and-immersive-reader-stories-of-student-success and https://youtu.be/Gl84WYP-kFQ

Buncee Ideaslab: https://app.edu.buncee.com/ideas-lab

My guest today is Elizabeth Merce and we are discussing belonging and "littles" as she likes to call children age 3-8 years old. Her advice is practical and easy to implement. Elizabeth has been involved in early childhood education for over 10 years. She has created and implemented differentiated lesson plans for kindergarten with a focus on meaningful technology integration. Elizabeth has taught at Tidewater Community College, Teaching Art, Music and Movement, a hands-on course focusing on preparing teachers to teach art, music, and movement activities in an early childhood setting, and Guiding the Behavior of Children- that exposes teachers to positive guidance methods to use in their early childhood classrooms and works to move from theories to practical applications.

Elizabeth is an early childhood specialist who mentors teachers and offers daily advice every morning at 7:00 a.m. ET about teaching young children and their social/emotional learning needs on Twitter and Periscope #DitchTheClip

Noa Daniel MEd, is a teacher, consultant, coach and Chief Building Officer at BOB. Noa is also a podcaster and a blogger. She hosts The Personal Playlist Podcast (#P3) and the weekly live OnEdMentors show on VoicEd Radio She blogs about her work in and outside of school and writes a weekly post on each of her guest's  on the P3. Noa is also the cofounder of OnEdMentors Connect (OEMConnect), which now falls under The Mentoree, with Leigh Cassell of Digital Human Library (dHL). The Mentoree  is a collaborative community that promotes professional learning and efficacy through mentorship. Explore 1:1 self-directed mentorship opportunities and engage in personalized learning experiences with educators in a supportive and caring environment through face to face and virtual connections. Follow Noa on Twitter @noasbobs to find out more about Building Outside the Blocks Find out more: https://buildingoutsidetheblocks.com/

An example of a completed BOB (Photo Synthesis): https://noadaniel7.wixsite.com/bobblog/single-post/2020/06/09/Snapshot--a-Photo-Synthesis

Join Melisa Hayes @hayes_melisa (Twitter) as she chats with me about her experience with inclusion and belonging in her classroom in Hilliard, Ohio.  Melisa is an amazing educator who loves to share what she knows with other educators, so there are lots of tips to learn about including how she creates a family. Her students feel they belong when they walk into her classroom from the first day of school.