In this episode, we hear from Lisa Doty and Jamie Forshey, two educators who coach and support teachers in their school districts who are implementing the Modern Classroom instructional model.

Show Notes

Virtual Mentorship Program

Screencast-o-Matic and Modern Classroom tutorial

Modern Classroom resources

Modern Classroom webinars

School and District partnerships, including Expert Consultation sessions

Making Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison and Lisa’s infographics:

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New for Summer 2022 - ISTE Meetup!

Toni Rose will be at ISTE in New Orleans from 6/26/2022 to 6/29/2022! If you're attending, please fill out this form so she can schedule an in-person MCP meetup.

In episode 10, we begin a two-episode series on collaboration; this week's episode focuses on pre-planned full group activities like labs and seminars, and we discuss ways teachers can manage these collaborative activities in a self-paced, mastery based class.

Show Notes

Sign up for Office Hours, every Tuesday with Modern Classrooms

Guide to collaboration in a Modern Classroom

Edutopia video featuring Kate and Kareem Farah

Tech tools we mention:

Daily Do Now check-in (tailored for distance learning through Google Forms)

Resources for Student Input in Teacher-Created Groups

Example of a breakout-room deliverable

Sign up for our November 12th Webinar on Collaboration in a Modern Classroom

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New for Summer 2022 - ISTE Meetup!

Toni Rose will be at ISTE in New Orleans from 6/26/2022 to 6/29/2022! If you're attending, please fill out this form so she can schedule an in-person MCP meetup.

Kareem is joined by Nora Barnett and Lisa Doty to discuss in detail how they plan and implement their modern classrooms, from planning and recording instructional videos, to implementing self-paced structures and mastery checks.

Show Notes

Cult of Pedagogy Podcast episode on Screencast Videos (Kareem was the guest on this episode)

MCP Exemplar Units

Edutopia video

Universal Design for Learning

High Quality Blended Instruction: research-based best practices

Examples of Pacing Trackers showing lesson classification

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Toni Rose is joined by Brittney Cairns to talk about teaching whole-class novels using MCP.

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This week, Toni Rose is joined by Lindsay Armbruster to talk about planning units with the end in mind, beginning with standards and learning targets, and working down to mastery checks and activities before planning lessons and videos, as well as managing student (and teacher) pacing and workload via the planning process.

Show Notes

Distinguished Modern Classroom Educators - More Information

Lindsay’s Planning Process

Stephen Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Adding Captions to Instructional Videos

The Noun Project

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Kareem joins Toni Rose and Zach to wrap up our first official podcast season, which focused on self pacing! We look back on the season and discuss our takeaways, as well as giving some updates on how VSI is going and what to expect over the summer and in August when we launch our second podcast season. Thanks for listening!

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Toni Rose and Zach tackle some more listener questions on our last Q&A episode of the Spring 2022 season! Topics include explaining MCP to stakeholders, classifying lessons, displaying data in a very large class, and dealing with internet outages.

Show Notes

Send us an audio note (From Zach: I pulled this up into the main show notes this week since we talked about it, but you can always find this link down below in the "Contact Us" section)

ClassroomQ

Soundtrap

Wordle

Nerdle (like Wordle, but for math!)

Globle (like Wordle, but for geography!)

Concord Schools

Presenting MCP

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Toni Rose is joined by Rebecca Mason and Paul O'Donoghue to talk about how self pacing has impacted their approaches to teaching as well as their students approaches to learning, and their learning outcomes.

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Toni Rose is joined by Alison Stone, who shares tons of fascinating information on cognitive science, how it relates to classroom teaching, and how it fits in with the Modern Classrooms approach.

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Zach is joined by Charlie Moynahan, who shares the story of how he rapidly rolled out a modern classroom and then went about troubleshooting it, and both of them share some ideas on how implementers may troubleshoot common issues that arise in self-paced classrooms.

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