Perspectives In Education

Episode 3: Lead Like a Pirate

Our guests for episode 3 were Shelley Burgess and Beth Houf.

Shelley has served as an award-winning teacher, principal, Director of Student Achievement, and Assistant Superintendent of Educational Leadership. Her highly respected work focuses on building leadership capacity through coaching, collaboration, and building a positive culture of change which leads to dramatic improvements in teaching and learning. She now works as a full-time partner in Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc. and is the co-author of P is for PIRATE: Inspirational ABC’s for Educators and Lead Like a Pirate.

Beth is a middle school principal passionate about innovative and transformational leadership to maximize school culture and student and staff learning. Beth is an eMINTS (enhancing Missouri’s Instructional Networked Teaching Strategies) trained educator. She is a facilitator for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Leadership Academy, providing monthly professional development to state educational leaders through the integration of 21st century learning skills.  Beth is also passionate about developing schools that encourage high levels of learning and empowerment for all… schools where students and staff are running to get in, not out!  She is the co-author of Lead Like a Pirate.

In this episode we discuss:

Why being a LEADER is so important

Strategies to improve leadership

Quotes and inspirations from the book

What Shelley and Beth learned from writing the book

What their perspectives on education are

Leadership… The Biggest Issue in Education by Jimmy Casas

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Episode 2: Evangelist and Change Agent

Our guest for episode 2 was Jon Bergmann.  Jon is an educator, evangelist, and change agent who is one of the pioneers of the Flipped Class Movement.  He is the author for 7 books including the bestselling book: Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student Every Day and is the founder of the global FlipCon conferences.  He also has a new book coming out in April called “Solving the Homework Problem by Flipping the Learning“.

In this episode we discuss:

Flipped Learning – how it got started and where it is today

The power of relationships

17 Deadly Sins of Selecting Your Flipped Learning Technology

How to get certified in Flipped Learning

Flipped Learning 3.0: The Global Initiative

Research, Research, and more Research that validates the power of Flipped Learning

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Episode 1: Student Perspective

Our first guest for our podcast was Miashanti Smith.  She was a student of mine who had an amazingly positive attitude on life.  Miashanti dreamed of playing professional football and I remember laughing, in my head of course, because she was a young woman.  Little did I know that their was a professional football league and now, she is a significant role player for the Pittsburgh Passion.  Outside of her dream she also faced a variety of other hurdles to tackle: oldest of 12 siblings, living in a dangerous neighborhood, being identified as having special needs, and just being a teenager trying to fit in.

In this episode we discuss:

The power of LISTENING

Growth Mindset

Dealing with Adversity

Urgency in Education – How that influences the learning process

The POWER of Building Significant Relationships

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Perspectives in Education, each month, will provide you with a different view on education.  Our goal is to offer you a platform to hear stories that will inspire you, open your eyes to new ideas, and remind you why we joined the profession!