Throughout the month of July, Apple Distinguished Educators from around the globe took part in the ADE Festival of Learning. This four-week event  focussed on professional learning, wellness, and community through ADE-hosted sessions, Apple product spotlights, and creativity and wellness challenges. 

In this episode, Chris shares his experiences and reflections from the festival with Lee and we are joined by three special guests: Eoin Hughes, Kurt Klynen, and Alicia Bankhofer, who all share their perspectives from the festival.

👨🏻‍💻 Chris on Twitter

🧔 Lee on Twitter

🇮🇪 Eoin Hughes on Twitter

🎸 Eoin's YouTube

🇺🇸 Kurt Klynen

✏️ Kurt's Website

🇦🇹 Alicia Bankhofer

✊🏾 Alicia's YouTube

How can we re-imagine the future of education through the teaching of Black British history? 

Chris and Lee are joined by Lavinya Stennett, the CEO of the Black Curriculum, The Black Curriculum is a social enterprise founded in 2019 by young people to address the lack of Black British history in the Curriculum. The Black Curriculum’s mission is to facilitate social change by delivering arts-focused Black history programmes, providing teacher training and campaigning through mobilising young people.  

In this conversation, Lavinya shares about the inspiration behind the project, how the work they are doing with schools, and how teachers and schools can work towards creating a more diverse curriculum. 

Links 

👩🏾‍🎓 The Black Curriculum on Twitter 

📸 The Black Curriculum on Instagram 

💻 Black Curriculum Website  

➡️  Black Curriculum Website - Action 

💵 Black Curriculum Website - Donate 

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Chris and Lee are joined educator, podcaster and nature enthusiast, Kevin O'Shea. This week's show is all about teaching outdoors. Kevin shares his experience and knowledge of working in different environments and with different leaders with varied emphasis on outdoors learning. Kevin tells us about the importance of getting outdoors, gives suggestions for how we can get our classes outside more often and tells us about some of his own extraordinary work to promote learning about the great outdoors. About Kevin A proud Canadian, Kevin has lived and worked in Japan, Korea and more recently China. He currently works in Shenzen, China where he leads the Shenzen Nature Group. He leads nature walks in the hope of encouraging students and parents to get involved in getting outside.  As an IB/PYP educator Kevin started the Making Better Teachers Podcast to share ideas around good pedagogical practice. He is also the host of the long-running Just Japan Podcast. 

Links 

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🔗 Making Better Teachers 

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How can students be empowered to have voice, choice, and ownership of their learning? 

In this special roundtable debate, Chris and Lee are joined by Karen Irwin and Marc Fauldner to discuss the idea of student voice within the context of online learning and in the classroom. 

Karen is a foundation stage teacher and ICT coordinator from Northern Ireland. In her role as an Apple Distinguished Educator, Karen is involved in the Ignite Edu newsletter and her latest project, Blend Ed, supporting teachers in Northern Ireland in implementing a blended learning approach. 

Marc is a reception teacher based in Nottingham, England. Marc is a prolific creator of inspiring content for EYFS teachers. His latest projects include The Rainbox Project, Monkeycow, and his Stories of a Lifetime global collaboration project.

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🇬🇧 Marc Fauldner on Twitter

💬 Student Voice #AppleEDUchat summary

👩🏻‍🏫 Blend Ed on Twitter

🌈 Marc's Rainbow Project

🙊🐮 Monkeycow

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Chris and Lee welcome Graham Andre as this week's guest for a show that explores the role of gender in education.

Graham Andre is a primary school teacher working on the Isle of Wight. He is currently a Year 4 teacher and phase leader at Lanesend Primary School. Graham is a patron of the Gender Equality Charter, a not-for-profit organisation that hopes to promote gender equality in schools, homes and businesses. In 2017, he was part of the BAFTA-nominated documentary, No More Boys and Girls. In 2019, he co-authored The Equal Classroom, exploring life-changing thinking on the role of gender in education.  

Graham on Twitter 

🏳️‍🌈 The Equal Classroom 

⭐️ GEC - Gender Equality Collective  

👫 No More Boys and Girls 

🧩 Let Toys Be Toys 

Interesting Reads 

🏫 Gender Inequality in the British Education System 

👕 Proof that gender-neutral school uniform is a bad idea. - Dad Blog UK 

What is the Man Box? — A Call To Men 

OECD Report on gender in education 

Sexism in children's literature 

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Chris and Lee are joined by their first guest from South America, Mark Webber. This week's show is all about international teaching. Mark shares his experience and knowledge in working in four different continents as a teacher and recruiter. He talks about the benefits and challenges of international teaching, creating a teacher brand, and shares some of his top interview tips. Mark is also a passionate debate coach and he discusses why debate is a valuable skill. 

About Mark 

Mark Webber is originally from Texas, where he began his 23-year career teaching Theatre, Debate and Public Speaking. Mark has since worked in Venezuela, Malaysia, Sudan and Mexico as an international teacher and Fine Arts Administrator. He has founded and supported debating leagues in each of those countries as coaching international debate is his passion. His accomplishments include leading Team Sudan (2010) and Team Mexico (2011-2017) to the World Schools Debating Championships where his debaters have won many top accolades. He has also served on the board for English Speaking Union (ESU) - Mexico from 2010 to 2017, as well as currently serving as a founding Board Member for Asociación Mexicana de Debate AC. Mark is currently living in Barranquilla, Colombia, from where he can easily visit client schools and oversee the day to day operations of Webber's Ed - Teacher Talent and Consulting. Mark's passion continues to be all things education. 

Links 

🇨🇴 Mark on Twitter 

🔗 Webber's Ed Website 

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Chris and Lee reflect on another two weeks of online learning and discuss the tools they have been using to ensure teaching and learning continue effectively. An international panel of callers share their own experiences and tools for assessment, feedback,  instruction, and keeping in contact with students.

Callers

🇨🇭 Hannah Saks 

🇪🇸 Marcus Ward 

🇪🇸 Karine Longman 

🇬🇧 Jacob Woolcock 

🇬🇧 Jon Neale 

🇮🇹 Monica Sandri

🇮🇹 Serena Zanotti 

Links

👩🏻‍🦲 Rate your quarantine experience - Britney Spears image

🔥 Inquiry by the Fire

🎬 The Movie Trilogy Bracket 

👨🏻‍🎓 Cindy Kardaal - Who I Am As A Home Learner 

📮 Kevin O'Shea - Open Letter to Parents 

📹 Eric Curts - Google Meet

🗒 Jon Neale - Blog on Google Classroom

Lee and Chris are back for the second part of the Online Learning Rollercoaster trilogy. This week, we start by reflecting on the beginning of our own online learning journeys. The topic for this week is well-being and balance. How can you maintain your welfare when your home becomes your classroom? What can teachers do to support their students? We also share a number of listener messages from around the world.  

Callers 

🇨🇳 Kevin O'Shea - Connect on Twitter 

🇯🇵 Nate Gildart - Connect on Twitter 

🇦🇪 Shahnaaz Omarjee - Connect on Twitter 

🇳🇱 Rhea Flohr - Connect on Twitter 

Links 

🏃‍♀️ Run Educator Tweet 

✍🏻 Simon Pile - 30 Days of Doodle 

😀 Alice Nutt - Emoji Quiz 

🏚 Marco Arment Tweets on working from home 

👨‍👩‍👦 Carl Hendrick Tweet

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Lee and Chris are joined by a worldwide panel of guests for an online learning Open Door Debate. In this first of a two-part show, we discuss the evolving situation with school closures around the world and the impact of this for teachers, parents, and students. We take a deep dive into how to keep contact with students, maintain relationships, and ways to provide equity and differentiation in an online learning model.

Guests and Links

🇭🇰 Melanie Cherry

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🇮🇪 Christopher O'Flynn

🇻🇳Justin Oullette

🇯🇵 Bart Miller

🙇🏻‍♂️ Southbank tweet on student action

🇺🇸 Ben James

🇻🇳 Cindy Kardaal

🐦 Cindy's tweets

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