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On Sunday, April 5, 2020, we hosted another live broadcast on our YouTube channel to facilitate a conversation around distance learning. In this episode, we focused on the impact that Spring 2020 will have on education going forward. Our conversation was driven by your participation.

We enjoyed taking your ‘calls’ during our live stream and people shared information in the chat as well. We are going to go live again on Sunday, April 19, 2020, at 8:30 PM EST.

Special thanks to the following people who appeared on the show:

• Jill Dobrowansky
• Bruce Reicher
• Al Speigel

On Sunday, March 30, 2020, we hosted another live broadcast on our YouTube channel to facilitate a conversation around distance learning. In this episode, we focused on the student perspective. Stacey was on special assignment and we welcomed Kevin Carroll as our guest co-host for the evening.

We spoke to three juniors from his high school who shed a tone of light onto distance learning from their point of view.

We enjoyed taking your ‘calls’ during our live stream and people shared information in the chat as well. We are going to go live again on Sunday, April 5, 2020, at 8:30 PM EST to talk with you about your experience with distance learning and teaching!

Special thanks to the following people who appeared on the show and talked about a variety of topics:

• Miles Nesi – 2nd Grader and host of the Vacuum Podcast with Miles – @VacuumPodcast
• Al Spiegel – @AlSpiegel
• Ron Grosinger – @RonGrosinger

On Sunday, March 22, 2020, we hosted another live broadcast on our YouTube channel to facilitate a conversation around online teaching resources and reflection.

We enjoyed taking your ‘calls’ during our live stream and people shared information in the chat as well. We are going to go live again on Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 8:30 PM EST to talk with students about their experience with distance learning!

Special thanks to the following people who appeared on the show and talked about a variety of topics:

• Al Spiegel – @AlSpiegel
• Ron Grosinger – @RonGrosinger
• Bruce Reicher – @breicher

On Sunday, March 15, 2020, we hosted a live broadcast on our YouTube channel to facilitate a conversation around online teaching and learning. Many schools throughout the United States and around the world are being forced to close in response to the COVID-19 virus. Educators who have never taught online or conducted virtual learning for students are being asked to use technology they’re not familiar with and provide instruction in a way that will be new for their students.

This episode is longer than usual and that’s OK because we took ‘calls’ during our live stream and people shared information in the chat as well. As a result of the overwhelmingly positive response, we are going to go live again on Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 8:30 PM Eastern to continue this conversation and provide an outlet for reflection and growth.

Special thanks to the following people who appeared on the show and talked about a variety of topics:

• Shivan Persaud – @ShivanPersadEDU
• Greg Bagby – @Gregbagby
• Kevin Carroll – @Kevin_Carroll_
• Nathan Nagele – @MrNagele
• Al Spiegel – @AlSpiegel
• Derek Larson – @lars3eb
• Ron Grosinger – @RonGrosinger
• Bruce Reicher – @breicher
• Dan Kreiness – @dkreiness

Back in December 2019, the New York Times asked students to weigh in on how to improve the American education system.

Their prompt received nearly 300 comments. Improving education was clearly a subject that many teenagers were passionate about. The student who were interviewed offered a variety of suggestions on how they felt schools could be improved to better teach and prepare students for life after graduation.

AJ and Chris comment discussed the following:

• Put less pressure on students
• Use less technology in the classroom (…or more)
• Prepare students for real life
• Eliminate standardized tests
• Give teachers more money and support
• Make lessons more engaging
• Create better learning environments
• Support students’ families
• De-emphasize grades
• Praise for great teachers

Chrissy Romano Arrabito is a career teacher and proud of it! She is currently an elementary teacher at Nellie K. Parker Elementary School in Hackensack, New Jersey and has over 26 years of experience as an elementary and middle school teacher. She graduated from Rutgers University where she studied Sociology and Psychology. She went on to complete the Teacher Certification program and earned a Masters Degree in Counseling from William Paterson University. Chrissy is dedicated to teaching the whole child, stimulating and supporting innovation in classrooms, and strives to provide authentic learning experiences for her students. Her true passion lies in nurturing the quiet kids, those that tend to fall through the cracks, those that truly need a champion to support and advocate for them. She is the author of, Quiet Kids Count: Unleashing the True Potential, Book 3 in the Lead Forward Series, which presents stories and strategies to make space for the quiet kids and find ways to amplify their voices and unleash their true potential.

We discussed the following with Chrissy:

• What is one thing people don’t realize about quiet kids? 
• What is the biggest challenge teachers have to overcome when working with quiet kids?
• What is the best piece of advice you can give for working with or being accommodating to an introverted student?
• How can we apply all these concepts when interacting with adults who may be introverted?
• What is/are the biggest takeaways that you want from the readers?

• @TheConnectedEdu
• Quiet Kids Count: Unleashing the True Potential of Introverts

AJ: How to Conquer Self-Doubt with Ed Mylett – “I am worth it!” “I deserve it!” This is what is going to be taught to believe YOURSELF!

It’s the feeling that creeps up on you when you need your confidence the most. That relentless voice that tells you, you’re not good enough, smart enough, fast enough, strong enough, beautiful enough. Doubt can be so crippling. It can stop you from achieving greatness in your business, in your faith, in your relationships… in EVERYTHING! I can tell you a million times that YOU ARE ENOUGH but if YOU don’t’ believe in yourself, that temporary boost of confidence will eventually wear off and the doubt will settle back in. Confidence has to be cultivated from within! But how do you do this???? In this episode, I’m going to teach you the exact skills that will allow you to conquer self-doubt and replace it with self-confidence!

Chris: Throughline (NPR) – “Becoming America” (2/13/2020)

When the United States of America was founded, it was only a union of a small number of states. By the beginning of the 20th century, the United States had become an empire; with states and territories and colonies that spanned the globe. As a result, the country began to not only reconsider its place in the world, but also its very name.

Stacey: Hidden Brain-When Things Click: The Power Of Judgment-Free Learning

This week on Hidden Brain, we explore an innovative idea about how we learn. It will take us from the Russian laboratory of Ivan Pavlov, to a dolphin exhibit in Hawaii, to a top teaching hospital in New York. It’s about a method to quiet the noise. The sort of clutter that can turn learning into a minefield of misery. Students care more about getting praise than learning.

Not all learning can be gamified, and not all learning can be broken down into a series of steps

Welcome to the next installment of the ongoing series we’re calling “Why Podcast?” In this and future editions, we speak to podcasters in and out of education about their podcasts. We will get into their why and talk about how they podcast.

Our next guest in this series is Gabriel Carrillo, host of the EdTech Bites Podcast. Our conversation with Gabriel dives into his passion for education and food.

Gabriel Carrillo is an Educational Technology Specialist. He’s been in the educational field since he graduated high school and has served as an instructional assistant, substitute teacher, teacher, dean of students, and assistant principal.

He is also a foodie and loves to cook and chow down on food of all sorts.

These two passions have come together in his EdTech Bites podcast. He gets to share these two topics with the world in each episode. He believes that the best conversations are had at the table then you break bread together.

• https://edtechbites.com
• https://twitter.com/EdTechBites
• https://www.instagram.com/edtechbites
• https://www.facebook.com/edtechbites

AJ: The Innovator’s Mindset (The Podcast) – George Couros is a leading educator in the area of innovative leadership, teaching, and learning and is the author of the book, The Innovator’s Mindset; Empower Learning, Unleash Talent and Lead a Culture of Creativity. 

This podcast, based on messages from the book, tackles the biggest barriers to innovation, why big institutions are so resistant to change and how to become the ripple effect of innovation inside your organization.

Chris: Brains On! – A science podcast for curious kids and adults from American Public Media. Co-hosted each week by kid scientists and reporters from public radio, we ask questions and go wherever the answers take us.

Recent episodes:

• How do pianos work?
• Flavor facts: Why food is so delicious
• Bigfoot, Unicorns and Dragons: Making Sense of Myths, pt. 1

(T & IG) – @brains_on // (FB) – https://www.facebook.com/BrainsOnShow/

Stacey: Student Podcast Challenge Teachers and students, got something to say? Put on your headphones and get ready to hit record! The folks behind NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge made this handy guide on how to make a podcast in the classroom. We’ll talk about how to gather good sound, ask great questions and conduct smart interviews. Plus, we’ll hear from the contest’s judges, last year’s winners and feature some pretty inspiring stories of students and teachers. It’s everything you need to make an amazing podcast!

Gabriel: The Empowering Parents Podcast – If you’re looking for real parenting advice that works, you’ve come to the right place. Empowering Parents has been giving our readers “straight talk and real results” since 2007, and our podcast aims to do the same. Not only do our experts tell it like it is, but they also give you honest, practical, effective advice that you can start using today. On our blog, in our article comments section and on our Facebook page, you’ll find other parents who are dealing with the same issues you’re dealing with right now. When you become part of the EP community, you’ll experience what many of our parents say: “It’s like you’ve been looking in the windows of my house and know my family. I am starting to parent differently and my kids’ behavior is finally changing. And best of all, I don’t feel alone anymore.”

Welcome to 2020! Stacey, AJ, and I are back and ready to bring you another year of PodcastPD! In this episode, we speak about our goals and goal setting in the new year.

We discussed:

• Setting Goals as an Educator:
• Why Set Goals?
• How to set goals?
• Don’t Plan the Whole Year, Yet (5 AM Miracle)
• Reflect on Your Past Successes (5 AM Miracle)
• Take Your Health Seriously (5 AM Miracle)
• Keep it Simple (5 AM Miracle)
• Our 2020 Goals
• AJ → GO Embrace work/life balance, Be a better leader, Workout 4-5 x week, read 12 books, CREATE.
• Stacey → One Word- COMMIT…Commit 30, Hyperdoc
• Chris → Stop worrying about other people…2 parts.

Resources:

• https://commit30.com/
• Stacey’s remixed One Word Hperdoc

AJ: The Wired Educator Podcast w/ Kelly Croy – Episode 151: Resolutions Every Educator Should Make for 2020.

In this episode of The Wired Educator Podcast, Kelly shares 20 resolutions for 2020 that he believes will help every educator, administrator, and school district to level-up and impact lives. This episode is based on a blog post that Kelly shares every year at www.WiredEducator.com.

This podcast episode contains 20 Resolutions Kelly believes will help you and your school level-up and make an even greater impact.

Which resolutions challenge you? Which ones are you crushing?

Chris: Podcast Talent Coach with Erik K. Johnson – Have you ever had the desire to start your own podcast? The itch to spread your message to the world? Many people get ready to record their podcast only to discover the impostor syndrome. They hear that little voice inside their head asking, “Who do you think you are?” They feel like the kid trying to sit at the adult table during the holiday feast. They feel like they are playing dress-up.

Podcast Talent Coach is dedicated to the art and show business of podcasting. Our coaching style is personal. We treat every client as if we are part of the show. Other companies may offer services that teach the technical side of podcasting. Podcast Talent Coach is the premier coaching service focused on the personal side of the art of podcasting.

Stacey: Life Kit – Do This Today To Sleep Well Tonight – Don’t Count Sheep: Better Bedtime Rituals Think Your Way Out Of Insomnia