LinkedUp: Breaking Boundaries in Education

When the internet emerged in the 1990s and educators were wondering how they might use technology in education, Kathy Schrock emerged on the scene. Kathy Schrock, a librarian, began curating websites and assisting teachers all over the world to effectively incorporate technology into the curriculum. For twenty-five years, Kathy has been mentoring and assisting educators as they maneuver the educational landscape in the world of technology. Kathy has been a leader, an inspiration, and a pioneer in this field.

About Kathy Schrock:

Kathy Schrock has been a school district Director of Technology, an instructional technology specialist, and a middle school, academic, museum, and public library librarian. She is currently an online adjunct graduate-level professor for Wilkes University (PA) and an independent educational technologist. She has been involved with technology to support teaching and learning since the early 1990's, and is an Adobe Education Leader, a Google Certified Innovator, an Amazon Teacher Innovator, an Apple Teacher 2016, a ThingLink Certified Educator, a MakerBot Curriculum Creator, and a Discovery Education Guru. In 1995, Kathy created the award-winning site, Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, to help teachers easily wade through the many resources on the Web. In 1999, she partnered with Discovery Education and maintained the site until late 2012 when the site was retired. Kathy's current online resources may be found on Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything! In addition to teaching online, Kathy writes, speaks, blogs, tweets, and conducts professional development workshops, presentations, and keynotes both nationally and internationally. She is known for her practical presentations dealing with pedagogically-sound practices for the embedding of technology seamlessly into teaching and learning. Kathy's passions are online tools to support classroom instruction, the role of emerging technologies in the classroom, infographics, tablets in the classroom, assessment and rubrics, copyright and intellectual property, and gadgets of any type! You can find her on Twitter (@kathyschrock), Skype (kathyschrock), LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and on many other social networks!

Kathy’s critical evaluation guide: https://www.schrockguide.net/critical-evaluation.html.

Podcasting from the historical Asbury Park on the Jersey Shore, Jamie and Jerri talk with three iconic education technology leaders:  Kathy Hurley, Lisa Schmucki and Anne McMullan.  These three women have blazed a trail in education technology implementation.    Kathy Hurley, a former executive with Pearson, discusses her book "Real Women, Real Leaders" and offers great advice on leadership at all levels. Kathy has worked in sales, marketing, and business development for DLM, IBM, The Learning Company, Grolier, Mindscape, Skillsbank, NetSchool, PLATO Learning, Pearson, and the Pearson Foundation.   Ann McMullan currently serves as the Host/Moderator of the CoSN/edWeb monthly webinar series on The Empowered Superintendent (https://www.edweb.net/supers).  In 2016 Ann co-authored and published "Life Lessons in Leadership: The Way of the Wallaby." Using simple lessons illustrated by brief enchanting stories and graphics, the quick read serves as a powerful guide for leaders in their professional and personal leadership roles. For more information, please see www.lifelessonsinleadership.com.  Ann discusses her book and shares her guidance for leaders ages 8 to 88.  Lisa Schmucki is the founder and CEO of edWeb.net, an award-winning professional learning network that serves the global education community. edWeb helps educators share their best ideas and practices to improve teaching and learning and prepare students to succeed in life. Previously, Lisa held senior marketing and product development positions in education, publishing, and media with Time, Macmillan, Peterson's, Films Media Group, and Achieve3000.  This podcast contains a treasure trove of advice on leadership, collaboration and finding success.  www.edweb.net  Real Women, Real Leaders. https://www.amazon.com/Real-Women-Leaders-Surviving-Succeeding/dp/1119061385 

 "Life Lessons in Leadership: The Way of the Wallaby. https://www.amazon.com/Life-Lessons-Leadership-Wallaby-Leaders/dp/1537237616/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=%22Life+Lessons+in+Leadership%3A+The+Way+of+the+Wallaby.&qid=1630614617&s=books&sr=1-1

This last year has been one of change and transition.  In this podcast, our LinkedUp co-hosts discuss starting a brand new podcast In a pandemic without ever meeting in person.  This anniversary podcast highlights their reason for starting LinkedUp, the incredible guests they have interviewed and some exciting news about the LinkedUp Podcast’s roadmap with exciting and new opportunities for educators. Jamie and Jerri also discuss some of the lessons they learned as they launched this new education podcast.

Check out our PD Podcast Choice Boards for CEU credit! tinyurl.com/LinkedUpPodcastPD

Holly Clark is an education thought-leader, international speaker, best selling author and an advocate for students. She is a twenty-plus year educator who has spent over 15 years teaching in a 1:1 classroom and over five years as an administrator in both public and private schools, holding a master’s degree in Instructional Design and Educational Technology from Columbia University. Her passion for helping teachers create classrooms where students want to learn and can become the agents of their own thinking and understanding is what she talks to us about in this LinkedUp podcast. 

Check out Holly's books at https://www.amazon.com/Holly-Clark/e/B073XDFBPT%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Two recognized leaders in school counseling, Mallory Jacobs and Hanna Kemble discuss building relationships and working with students on social emotional skills.  The two counselors reflect on their learnings from the recent National School Counseling Conference in Las Vegas.  Mallory and Hanna discuss overarching topics in the counseling world and share with listeners some of their favorite tips for working with staff and students on the social and emotional needs.  Hanna and Mallory are full of energy and they share many great ideas, you will not want to miss this podcast.

Anytime and anywhere learning  has been a goal of educators since technology entered into the education space.  Educators enjoy learning when it is convenient snd meaningful.  Jerri Kemble and Jamie Saponaro understand the need to learn In this way, so they have teamed with ClassLink continuous learning team to offer CEU’s  and professional credit for recertification by listening to the LinkedUp Podcast.  The podcast sessions have been categorized into seven themes.  Listeners can listen to 3 podcasts and earn 5 CEU credit.  We are excited to offer  this opportunityto educators everywhere.   Visit the LinkedUp professional development possibilities here:

https://www.classlink.com/linkedup-choice-boards/building-relationships

Two higher education administrators, Dr. Cameron McCoy, Provost at Shenandiah University in Winchester Virginia, and Dr. Michael Salvatore, Senior Vice-President at Kean University in Union New Jersey discuss the changing landscape in higher education.  Dr. McCoy and Dr. Salvatore weigh in on innovations to retain students and discuss how higher education has pivoted to meet the needs of today's learners by moving away from the "Industrial Education Model" of education.  Both leaders cited books that have helped mold their leadership and ideas about doing business:  Deep Work by Cal Newport, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results by Stephen Guise  and books by Clay Christenson.

Diane Doerch, Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Director of Technology and DeWayne McClary, the Executive Director of the League of Digital Schools share the goals and actions being taken by The Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools to bridge the digital divide. The Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools is a national network that connects and supports the most forward-thinking leaders in education. In this podcast Diane and DeWayne discuss the innovative work being done in schools, the resources that have been created for all educators to promote equitable learning environments, and the future topics Digital Promise will be engaged in to close the digital divide. 

Background information on Digital Promise and the League of Innovative Schools: Millions of students nationwide lack the access to technology and the skills they need to succeed in the digital world. Since 2012, Verizon has been working to help solve this problem through a transformative program called Verizon Innovative Learning. Digital Promise collaborates with Verizon to equip every student and teacher at select middle and high schools across America with a device and up to a four-year data plan, and provide students without reliable home internet access with a mobile hotspot. In addition to free technology and access, Verizon Innovative Learning Schools receive extensive teacher training, support, and the opportunity to engage in a unique, immersive curriculum to leverage technology in their classrooms. The League of Innovative Schools was launched at the White House under President Barack Obama within the U.S. Department of Education. League members represent 114 districts in 34 states serving more than three million students. Their diverse experiences reflect the advancements, challenges, and vital work of public education in the United States. 

The sustainability toolkit for schools can be accessed at : https://verizon.digitalpromise.org/sustainability-toolkit/ and information on the equity tools are available at www.digitalpromise.org.

 Those looking for resources to connect students to the internet and access devices can find more opportunities at www.everyoneon.org. "https://verizon.digitalpromise.org/sustainability-toolkit/. 

Those looking for resources to connect students to the internet and access devices can find more opportunities at www.everyoneon.org.  

 Millions of students nationwide lack the access to technology and the skills they need to succeed in the digital world. Since 2012, Verizon has been working to help solve this problem through a transformative program called Verizon Innovative Learning. Digital Promise collaborates with Verizon to equip every student and teacher at select middle and high schools across America with a device and up to a four-year data plan, and provide students without reliable home internet access with a mobile hotspot. In addition to free technology and access, Verizon Innovative Learning Schools receive extensive teacher training, support, and the opportunity to engage in a unique, immersive curriculum to leverage technology in their classrooms. "

Debbie Tannnbaum is a Tech Coach and an ambassador for edtech companies.  She has become so involved in making sure our youngest students can use technology effectively that she has  written a book to empower and inspire educators to use technology as a learning tool .  Her book is titled, TRANSFORM- Techy Notes to Make Learning Sticky, and it is now available on Amazon and TannenbaumTech. If you want to use technology to transform your learning and your students' learning, there are tons of techy notes inside to guide you. 

https://amazon.com/dp/177753495X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_90SQQGDB2STB101XDZKQ 

You can find Debbie at www.tannenbaumtech.com and  @Tech4Learning   @Flipgrid  CE-L3 & SVA| VA  @PearDeck  coach | @RoadtoAwesome  author

Schools and districts have worked for years to find ways to engage with parents in a meaningful and relevant way.  Parents want to be heard and educators are looking for new ways to engage in critical conversations.  Parent Camp and vice-president Laura Gilchrist believe WE -- family, school and community -- can transform education together as one team for kids! Parent Camp helps school and district teams move from compliance-based to connection-and-collaboration-based family-school-community engagement. Laura taught and coached in Kansas City for 20+ years and now serves as ParentCamp Vice President. Get involved in this positive movement by joining  the  mailing list, or learning more  about ParentCamp, by visiting www.parentcamp.org.  This new and innovative form of communication can change the educational landscape in a very positive way.