Rebel Teacher Alliance

Full speed ahead on this week’s pod. Fabian discusses how he’s onboarding his class with his Blast Off game and his Boardgame Club redesign. The crew also talks about getting students excited with welcome letters and Scott has incorporated rubber chickens into his classroom. Plus, our ever popular segment, “Whatcha been playin’” features ET the board game. 

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Things mentioned on the show:

- E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial - Lightyears from Home

School has (almost) officially started for the pod. The crew shares ideas to Smart Start our classes with Eduprotocols such as Frayer a friend, random emoji and  things that rock. We also discuss how important it is to arrange the classroom in a way that creates a nice flow for learning and moving around the room. Plus, our ever-popular segment, “Whatcha been playin’” featuring  Shut the box and Cobra Paw.

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Things mentioned on the show:

- Shut the box

- Cobra Paw

We are slowly transitioning back to reality and the start of a brand new year. Scott shares how he plans to kick off his new game. Jamie started her year off teaching teachers at the EDUProtocol Academy and at her district PD Day. Then Fabian shares some great news about Fall CUE. Plus, Fabian shares a game in our ever-popular segment, “Whatcha Been Playin’...?” 

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Things mentioned on the show:- Trial by Trolley - Fun game for discussions, CER, and in general arguing and pleading for your life

Take a gander at this supersized episode before we head off to summer. This week, with Jamie on vacation, the crew invited their favorite cool substitute Jeremy Sederquist to fill in. We talk about how things are going in summer school, how Fabian is using Jamie’s workshop idea to create a mini-unit and how Jeremy inspired him to gamify his son’s chores. Jeremy talks about his plans for the summer and what he planned for the new school year as he heads into teaching a math intervention class. Finally, Jeremy shares a video game in the ever popular segment, “Whatcha been playin’...?”.

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Things mentioned on the show:- Legend of Zelda - Tears of the Kingdom- Pixelmator - Affordable photo editor for the Mac, iPad, and iPhone

This week, Fabian finally makes it to the finish line and is now starting his summer break. He shares the ups and downs of the final week of school including a virtual lightsaber competition. Scott is making preparations for his summer school STEM class by testing projects with his four sons. Jamie and Scott attended one of Shaun Moriarty’s graduate course sessions to sit on presentations created by the educators taking his course. Plus, Scott shares a cool game in the ever popular segment, “Whatcha been playin’?”.

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Things mentioned on the show:

Vader Immortal by Oculus

Rolit

This week, Fabian discusses the difficulty of getting students to turn in his final assessment project, Jamie is in recovery mode but is thinking about her 4th/5th combo class, and Scott breaks down what he’s learning from the book Explore Like a Pirate; posing questions about theming a gamified class. Plus, Jamie finds a mystery item in her curriculum and shares a game in the ever popular segment “Whatcha been playin’?”. 

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Things mentioned on the show:

Explore Like a Pirate

Ubongo 3D

This week, Scott shares how he prepares for his summer school STEM class, Jamie breaks down the end of the year Darth Vader boss battle, and Fabian copes with the reality of creating a design class from scratch. Plus our ever popular segment “Whatcha been playin’?”.

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Things mentioned on the show:

- Aqualin

- Brown Dog Gadgets Sample Pack

This week, the crew talks about Scott's acquisition of probably the books that best describe him, Fabian's adventures in Advisory Olympics, and Jamie's boss battle experience. There is another great game in our ever popular segment “Whatcha been playin’…?”.
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Strap in! This is a long one! This week, Fabian’s voice is on its way out but he still can’t stop from sharing how he created a suspenseful arc for one of his history lessons for the middle ages and how his grade level organized a bio poem recital across Advisories and how this turned into an advisory olympics. Scott talks about how he not only awkwardly asked Peter Liljedahl out to grab some food, but also how he got the CEO of Brown Dog Gadgets to talk to him for half an hour. Jamie talks about how she uses the 3 x Genre EDUProtocol we talked about on our sidepod with Josie Wozniak. Check it out here. She also talks about she used emc2learning’s Sundown Showdown activity. A jampacked episode! To top it all off, we have a great recommendation in our ever popular segment “Whatcha been playin’…?”.

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Things mentioned on the show:- Coconuts Boardgame- Pizza Party Throwdown- browndoggadgets.com