powerED Up

powerED Up

By Ken EhrmannEducation
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  • Bonding a Classroom as a Team through Service Projects
    • As a coach, Brett has learned it is okay to fail and he brings that into the classroom.  He also loves the team atmosphere to the classroom.
    • Patience
    • Creating service learning projects where the entire class can band together and become a part of the team
    • Teaching specific standards and objectives through service learning projects
    • Reflecting on past practices and looking at how to improve our classroom for the future
    • Don’t be afraid to start small, mess up, and take risks
    • Give our best to our students everyday, the best we can offer each and every day.
    • Take a risk
      • 1 hr 14 min
    • Teach Better Conference Part 2

      We recorded LIVE at the Teach Better Conference 2022 in Akron, Ohio.  This conference is affiliated with our podcast network.  Ken had an amazing experience attending the conference, meeting teachers, networking with presenters, and finding inspiration for keynote speakers.  This episode is part two of two where Ken sat down to talk with three amazing educators.

      43 min
    • 94: Teach Better Conference Part 1

      We recorded LIVE at the Teach Better Conference 2022 in Akron, Ohio.  This conference is affiliated with our podcast network.  Ken had an amazing experience attending the conference, meeting teachers, networking with presenters, and finding inspiration for keynote speakers.  This episode is part one of two where Ken sat down to talk with three amazing educators.  

      Featured In This Episode:

      • Steve 
      • Eric Guise of the gotteched.com podcast follow him at @GuiseGotTechEd
      • Mike
        • 46 min
      • 93: Helping Students Dream One Lesson at a Time

        Ramon Benavides is a dedicated father, husband, and educator.  He is committed to providing opportunities to students who normally wouldn’t see them.  Most of all, he is dedicated to showing his students, who see themselves in him, that they too can dream.  Ramon brings an approach to his biology classes that pushes the standards forward, while focusing on the experiences of students.

        In This Episode We Cover

        • Utilizing relationships to build rapport, connecting with their personal lives.  Sports, family businesses, mutual respect
        • Teaching beyond the test
        • Ramon was hooked on biology to switch majors because his professor provided real world experiences.
        • Focus on the learning experiences and sprinkle in some small test prep lessons to ensure the success of your students.
        • Create experiences for students that start in the classroom and extend beyond.
        • 25 minutes great sound bite
        • The challenges of living and teaching on the border
        • Creating collaborative work experiences to build relationships for students peer to peer
        • Recognizing student backgrounds and incorporating that into the classroom
          • 1 hr 15 min
        • 92: All in on Student Connections

          Matthew Tatur is an educator committed to making his students feel scene, heard, and welcomed in his middle school classroom.  His trajectory towards teaching middle school history is one that didn't start the way you would think.  His entrance into education shaped his mindset about what classrooms should be and how teachers can best serve students.

          In This Episode We Cover:

          • Strategies to establish meaningful connections with students.
          • Creative ways to engage students with whole group instruction.
          • Using TikTok to create classroom community
            • 1 hr 12 min
          • 91: Empowering Teachers and Students as Risk Takers

            Cory Henwood is an experience, well versed, passionate educator focusing on empowering learners. Cory is out there providing practical strategies, great content. He is focused on creating personalized learning experiences for students and replicating those experiences for teachers. Cory provides thoughtful ideas, systematic approaches, and goals for every educator to aspire towards.

            In This Episode We Cover
            • Creating environments that are as student-centered as possible.  Teachers want to do it, they just don't know where to start.
            • Strategies for handling situations where we as teachers are forced to following scripted programs and how we can be slightly more innovative in our approach.
            • Creating experiences for students to process the content and emotions to reach new learning targets.
            • It is okay to be a risk-taker in our instructional approach.  It's also okay to not be and need to see the results from some trusted colleagues first.
            • Lessons can flop, and if it's a traditional approach there are no positive gains.  If we take a creative risk and the content flops, students still gained so many more positive qualities.
              • 1 hr 15 min
            • 90: Teaching from the Heart and Trusting Students to Perform

              Time with Anthony Swann, is time well spent.  He is incredibly knowledgeable in the field of best teaching, and leads with an open heart. He is passionate about giving up control and giving ownership to the students. It requires us to trust them whole-heartedly. Anthony unapologetically will always do what is best for students.  He teaches from the heart and trusts his students to perform.

              In This Episode We Cover
              • When students transition from learning school to learning content.
              • The idea of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs before Bloom's Taxonomy.
              • Trusting student's to handle themselves in their basic levels of needs.
              • To be a great teacher, sometimes you have to be a habitual disrupter.
              • Evaluate your classroom structure and decide how much the students feel trusted.
                • 1 hr 20 min
              • Show 89: Journey of a Student Teacher Part 2

                He's BACK! We had the opportunity to have Anthony Wiggins, Matt's student teacher, back on the show to talk about his first few weeks of experience in the classroom. Anthony is coming into his own as a teacher.  Learning through experience, wisdom of others, and making his own mistakes. Anthony is more reflective, more confident, and brings a new energy.  He also asks thought provoking questions to Matt and Ken to learn more.

                In This Episode We Cover
                • Get involved in the school community so students who don't have you know you.
                • Establish consistent, clear, concise routines and expectations in the beginning of the year.
                • Be very explicit in your directions and relationships with students.
                • Anthony shares aspects of the classroom he sees with Matt that he wants to emulate, and aspects he wants to change.
                • Anthony questions Ken on small group instruction and how it can be most effective.
                • Advice on classroom management and how to have clear expectations while maintaining individual relationships and treating each individual on a case by case basis.
                • Advice for graduating pre-service teachers for pursuing and finding a job.
                  • 1 hr 37 min
                • Show 88: Investing in Teacher Leadership

                  Mike Azzalina is a centered, calm, and inspirational leader for teachers to learn from and grow with. Mike is all in on growing the teachers in his building, empowering them as instructional leaders, and sharing the fire throughout his staff. Mike is always aligning systems to create opportunities for his teachers and his students.

                  In This Episode We Cover
                  • Strategies to grow your own leadership and leadership opportunities in your own building, while you are still a teacher as you prepare to move into being an administrator.
                  • Strategies for developing teacher leaders and helping them find their passions.
                  • The development of a three-year new teacher program to support their professional growth.
                  • Five-minute PD sessions run by teachers for teachers.
                  • A story of him empowering a teacher to become a nation-wide restorative practices trainer.
                  • The place for SEL and how intentionality places a vital role in success.
                  • The value of being explicit with teachers and students in our goals and educational decisions.
                  • A brief definition of the restorative classroom.
                    • 1 hr 18 min
                  • Show 87: The Value of Goal Setting and a New School Year of Goals

                    Ken and Matt reconnect after a long break from recording together over the summer.  The journey of Ken's new studio continues with a twist! It is a new school year and a new opportunity to set professional goals for ourselves and our classrooms.  We need to create goals, to create purpose, to create action.  This is what can create change and growth in ourselves and our classrooms.

                    In This Episode We Cover
                    • Matt's 2022-2023 goals for his students, and mentoring his student teacher.
                    • Involving students in the conversation of our own professional goals.
                    • When the students are aware of the teacher's goal, they can more actively work towards those expectations.  They are aware of why we have the expectations we have for their behavior and the structure of the classroom.
                    • Ken's 2022-2023 goals as an instructional coach and public keynote speaker.
                    • Strategies to evaluate the success of goals, when a large majority of it is anecdotal.
                    • Supporting teachers to creating empowering experiences.
                    • Matt's and Ken's podcast goals for the new school year.
                      • 46 min

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