Lemonade Learning

In part two with culture expert Jimmy Casas, Jimmy reveals the four most powerful words in leadership, the key to leading amid uncertainties, and how he uses “Life Fit” to custom tailor priorities, perspectives, and principles to help people become the best versions of themselves.

Don't miss this inspiring episode with special guest, culture expert, Jimmy Casas who shares some positive vibes and tips for creating a postive classroom culture!

Amidst challenging and uncertain times, we, as educators, have the opportunity to examine and redefine roles, build capacity, and propel students to become the true catalysts of their own learning. In this episode, we explore learning design using the 3 D's: Discover, Discuss, and Demonstrate.

One name is synonymous with Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The. Dr. Katie. Novak. She literally wrote the book -- 7, in fact, if you’re counting -- including the best-selling UDL Now and Innovate Inside the Box with George Couros.

Katie shared so many great ideas with us that it was worthy of more than one episode so this is part 2. Check out episode 10 for Part 1 if you haven't already!

In this episode, Katie shares how "firm goals, flexible means" translates to professional learning.

10 is a big number -- and to celebrate our 10th episode we invited a special guest -- our very FIRST guest -- to stir things up.

One name is synonymous with Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The. Dr. Katie. Novak.

She literally wrote the book -- 7, in fact, if you’re counting -- including the best-selling UDL Now and Innovate Inside the Box with George Couros.

Pouring her expertise over our continually evolving educational environment, Katie shares her manifesto of firm goals, flexible means and how this guiding principle fuels equitable, engaging, and effective practices.

Offering a sweet take on the many sour situations, Katie offers a buffet of practices that support variability and portability (aka F2F, socially distanced, remote, online, hybrid, etc) while keeping equity and empathy at the heart of learning.

Katie shares so much great stuff! In fact, it was worthy of more than one episode so this is part 1 of 2. We will get part 2 out to you as soon as possible.

Is this March 2020? No, it is July and the 2020/21 school year will be starting soon for many around the world. Yet, there is a strong sense of Deja Vu as more and more districts and counties announce going fully remote for the unforeseeable future. How do we, as educators and parents, cope with all this uncertainty?

In this episode, we talk about planning with portability in mind and design thinking. We share ideas for working together and getting creative once we know our constraints.

In this episode, we discuss an easy 4 part framework for evaluating tech apps and resources that is also effective for designing lessons and learning. Taking into consideration these 4 lenses -- age, activity, access, and appropriateness -- we apply scenarios, circumstances, and situations that will help assist you in making the right choices for your needs.

We live in the age of ubiquitous information, and right now at least, it seems that we’re witnessing, experiencing, and processing unprecedented amounts of highly charged events and emotions.

How can we help our children make sense of things when we aren’t even sure ourselves? What are appropriate response mechanisms and outlets? How can we keep our eyes on the proverbial prize when the promise of it keeps moving further away?

As parents, we know our kids look to us -- for comfort, for safety, for hope. As educators, our kids look to us for structure, for answers. In this episode, we discuss the importance of modeling mindfulness and prioritizing social-emotional health. We acknowledge that emotions are integral to our human experience, drive our mindset and mindstate, and are crucial to learner-centered environments.

It's Summer, What Now? Activating Agency, Engaging Choice & "Engineering the Special"

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As educators, how can we help parents best continue and encourage learning through the summer? How can we empower parents to help their children move from a place of compliance to owning their learning?

Please see the link to the recording in the show notes!

This special episode is a raw, unscripted response to the death of George Floyd and the global attention to racial inequality in our country that this tragedy sparked. As educators and parents, we stay committed to sharing ideas to make learning better for all. While we certainly don’t have all the answers, in this episode we discuss the importance of honoring the work of social-emotional learning as well as culturally responsive teaching and our responsibilities as parents and educators to infuse diverse and positive representations of people through literacy, curriculum, and social presence.