Shift Your What?

Shift Your What sits down with Kevin Kokerus, co-op teacher and William Baldwin, co-op student to talk about how to empower students in their own learning through a rethink of co-operative and experiential learning.

The Shift Team sit down together to reflect on the past year of innovating (dangerously) and look forward to the year of SHIFTING ahead in Halton District School Board.

Shift Your What? sits down with Amanda Williams-Yeagers and Mark Maunder to discuss their own journey through the power of making in their elementary schools and how we might infuse the energy of a makerspace into more facets of school.

Shift Your What? parachutes into a Halton District School Board Technology Conference to speak about Podcasting with students and teachers. Participants were surprised when we asked them to join us live, to speak about how models of Professional Development can be shifted.

Shift Your What? sits down with Stephanie Briggs, Math Teacher and Nicole Jarvis, Instructional Program Leader for Math. They discuss the merits of Peter Lijledahl's Thinking Classroom and how it has the potential to shift not only math class, but other subjects as well in positive ways.

Shift Your What? sits down with Katherine Compton-Morgan, English Teacher and Karamjit Sangha-Bosland, the HDSB Instructional Program Leader for Equity and Inclusive Education to discuss what drove them to realize that continuously building community with their classes was important and why you might putting community building in the centre of your teaching practice.

In this episode of Shift Your What?, we parachute into the middle of an active classroom to talk with Steve Tolton and Maggie Warneke about their integrated Math / Science program they have branded MMR Engineering.

By keeping the class learning by doing, and seamlessly integrating the math with the science, they have created something truly special that is good for students.

Steve and Maggie dig into why they built this program and give a little window into how they do it as well. More information on MMR Engineering can be found here:

1) Updates posted on twitter @mrtoltonphysics
2) Video Updates: tinyurl.com/mmrengineeringupdates
3) All files for the program: tinyurl.com/mmrengineering

With help from Stephen Hurley from VoicEd Radio, we sat down with Jacqueline Newton, Superintendent of Education for the Halton District School Board to discuss the genesis of The Shift."