SHAPE Shorts Podcast

Play is not just for early childhood. On this episode, we welcome Jed Dearybury!

Jed began his education career in 2001. He was featured in GQ Magazine as Male Leader of the Year, met President Obama as the South Carolina honoree of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching, and was named top 5 finalist for SC Teacher of the Year. Since leaving 2nd grade in 2015 he has been leading professional development across the country, and training the next generation of educators through teaching in Higher Ed. He published his first book, The Playful Classroom, in June 2020. His second book, The Courageous Classroom, just released in July 2021.

On this episode we dive into his take on holistic education! 

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Have you ever thought about how easy it is for us to form our beliefs and opinions before we even enter a secondary school classroom? On this episode, one of the SHAPE Shorts founders, Professor Tony Pitucco, walks you through a fun exercise that will help you understand how your early beliefs can make or break you and how education has the power to shape and change those beliefs when taught in a creative way.

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This episode features our two main podcast stars, Professors Tony Pitucco and Stew Bar!

Listen in as Stew interrogates Tony on the past, current, and future state of Mathematics & Physics. This conversation lays some of the foundation as to why Shape Shifters came to be.

The goal of SHAPE Shifters is to revitalize and reintegrate the sciences and humanities across all levels of education. To do that, we need to understand the current state of BOTH!

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Help us welcome Allen Rogers, Superintendent, Principal and School Resource Officer for Picacho Elementary School District in Arizona!

The word passion only scrapes the surface of explaining the way Allen has shown up in and for his career, students, faculty, and staff over his career. On this episode, we will discuss what it takes to run a successful school district in a very rural area of Arizona.

You will hear this common theme: It's all about the students.

Who agrees?

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Like so many things we do in education, we teach them as cold and dry. We talk about a culture defined as A, B, C, or D, then we try to fit cultures into it. We never give them life. And I have to say, I look at some of the students and I understand what they're thinking... BORING. Culture shouldn't be taught as assembly-line education. Culture should be fascinating!

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The topic of today is language. How do we use words? How are they used in the public? How are they used by politicians? We see words like "justice" thrown around every day. But what does it mean? How is it used? Now I'm not going to go into definitions and long-term philosophical debates. The point of this is to say are we using these words cheaply? If "justice" is different for everyone and has no objective meaning, then it's a meaningless term. When we use words and we don't know what they mean, we're lying to ourselves and we're lying to everyone around us.

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This may be our funniest episode yet. Today we have Calculusious AKA "Mathy Cathy". All jokes aside... this is Jenny Shawley and she is a high school math teacher in Western Pennsylvania. She teaches Algebra and AP Calculus. Two and a half years ago she made a math-related Tiktok to get her students excited for a new unit in calculus. They loved it so much, they convinced her to create a math meme account on Instagram and Tiktok. Since then she has created a math help Discord Server, where volunteer tutors answer questions that range from pre-algebra to college-level math courses, and a Youtube channel where she teaches calculus lessons. Jenny's biggest inspiration has and always will be her students. Her goal is to help students around the world not only understand but enjoy and appreciate mathematics. Take a listen to learn how she got her name and how her students inspired her along the way.

Find Jenny on Instagram, Tiktok, Youtube, Discord @calculuscious

LinkedIn: Jenny Shawley

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Having taught in both the humanities and the sciences areas at the college, I had several classes in many disciplines. I found it very interesting that if I had done my job correctly, my students really wouldn't know who I was by the end of the semester. Professors bring ideas to students, and then students have to decide how they feel about those ideas. Is this something they believe is credible or incredible? Is this something that is worthy or unworthy? Whatever has gone on in my classes over the semester, the ideas and concepts that were covered meant something to all of the students. Even if they rejected the idea, that is significant. And that's as close as I can get to who I am, and if I've done my job correctly, you'll not know how many cookies I ate today.

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How do you keep philosophy interesting to non-[philosophy majors? Many professors find this challenging because it is commonly regarded as boring and not modern. There is also a large disconnect today between psychology and many of the science disciplines despite their close origins. Listen in as Tony explains his “Aristotle Walk” in which he helped demonstrate the impact of Aristotle’s teachings and ideas on the physical sciences and offer students an alternative perspective on their everyday interactions with nature.

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Do you think you or your children are spending too much time staring at a screen? Do you sometimes use the phone as a pacifier to keep your kids calm and quiet? Ever wonder what long-term effects too much screen time may have on your future? Today's Shape Shorts guest, Nicole Rawson, is the founder of Screen Time Clinic, an international network of digital wellness educators empowering families and businesses to reach their ideal level of functioning by clarifying priorities and creating healthy habits. She is a lifelong advocate for education, a former teacher, a children's book author, and a single mother of two teens. With 22 years of teaching and being a parent and step-parent, Nicole knows all the challenges of the different stages of life. She has a passion for helping families reconnect through reduced screen time and is on the podcast today to share with us how appropriate limitations of screen time can lead to some huge gains in social emotional learning, self-regulation, and problem solving for children of all ages, and adults too!

@screentimeclinic

@screensmartsam

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https://screensmartfamilies.org/

Screen Smart Sam - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/screentimeclinic/screen-smart-sam

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