Shifting Schools: Conversations for K12 Educators

This week Chris Butler and I chat with Pat Zuniga a High School Teacher who calls his classroom "tech inclusive'. A great conversation on the power of technology to transforming learning for students.

This week Chris Butler and I chat with Ern Dickey a High School teacher digging into the idea of true student lead learning in her classroom. A fantastic conversation about inquiry and student ownership of learning.

This week Chris Butler and I chat with Taylor Newman a Middle School Teacher from Texas who is flipping her classroom using a whole host of tools.  A great conversation on using technology to transforming learning for students.

A conversation with Middle School Teacher Kaci Presnell about her relationship with students, cell phones in the classrooms and Project-Based Learning in her classroom.

Links: 

Kaci's Instagram: @blendedcoffeeandclass

Kaci's Twitter: @kacisunshine_

Chris's Twitter: @TechTeachTravel

This week I reflect on some conversations that I have had recently and how that had led me to believe you can be a paperless classroom or a blended learning classroom but you can't be both. 

This week Chris Butler and I have a chat with Tyler, Cassie, and Chris from the Sunnyside School District. A rural school district here in the central part of Washington State. Last November I was invited to be a part of their first Leveled UP conference and was so excited by the experience the participants had I wanted to have them on to share with you how they went about making it happen.

Starting off the new year with a great conversation about school leadership and setting the culture that you want as a leader starts with servant leadership. 

Chris Butler and I reflect on the 2019 and set the stage for 2020 as we record the last episode for 2019. We'll be back every Wednesday starting January 8th, 2020. 

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Ordinary to you Amazing to others (video)

This week Chris Butler and I chat with Collin Gibbs a Social Studies teacher who shares his system for success he uses with his students. Collin also shares his “technology checklist” with all of you. You can find a link to it in the show notes to this episode. It’s a Google Slide so you can make a copy of it for yourself…if you do use and update it for your specific classroom please share your with the community as well. We all learn when we all share. A great episode with some really powerful nuggets of knowledge.

Links:

Technology Checklist: http://gg.gg/gibbstechcheck

Twitter: @collinjgibbs

This week Chris Butler and I chat with new tech coach David Stiner and talk about the ups and downs of being a coach and coaching strategies when you are the only technology coach in the district.

Links:

Twitter: @madtechteacher

CodeCombat: https://codecombat.com/

TikTok Education in India:  https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/17/tiktok-education-edutok-india/

TikTok as a High School Club:  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/style/high-school-tiktok-clubs.html https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/11/13/tiktok-powerful-teaching-tool-or-classroom-management.html