UEN Homeroom

In the next installment of our Learn @ Home series, Jared and Dani connect with Hilary Linton, a 5th grade teacher at Oakwood Elementary, to discuss the impact of moving to an online curriculum.  Hilary shares her insights on the importance of letting students know they are cared for, working with your team to be successful and how to juggle working from home with helping you own family cope with everything going on.

As part of our special, Learn @ Home series, UEN Homeroom connects with Dr. Laura Rogers, Assistant Profession in the College of Education at the University of Utah.  During our distance conversation we talk about how she is managing her classes as they transition from in-person to online, the importance of compassion in dealing with this stressful situation and why you need to be prepared with Girl Scout Cookies.

As part of our UCET Live series, Jared, Dani, and Fernando participated in the Utah Podcasters Unite panel discussion.  They were joined by the hosts of three Utah education podcasts to chat about all things audio and education. Jake from the Teaching Literacy Podcast, Quin from Edtrex Rewind, and Tracy from Little Things First are all Utah educators who started podcasts to influence classroom learning.  

Lively discussion topics include:
Why they began podcasting
Why education podcasts should be an essential part of every educator's PLN
How podcasting can innovate educational practices
What these hosts have learned through podcasting
Tips for starting your own education podcast
Audience Q&A

As part of the UCET conference, Jared moderated a panel of Utah educators and leaders for a group of international education leaders.  Our panel of Utah educators including Robert Gordon (Box Elder), Justin Brooksby (UEN), Tonya James (Ogden), Dave Horan (Alpine), Pam Turley (Nebo), Rick Gaisford (USBE).  Topics include: Differences between Rural and Urban schools, the role of standardizing curriculum, what does distance learning look like, and how prepared is Utah for COVID 19.

In this episode of Homeroom, we're live at the 2020 UCET Conference with Ditch that Textbook's Matt Miller and UCET President Pam Turley.  We discuss topics such as creating a vision for your classroom, how to be brave when trying something new, and exploring your passions in learning.

Jared travels down South to attend Edcamp St. George.  During the camp, he sat down with Derek Larson, Library Media Specialist at Tonaquint Intermediate School,  to discuss the nature of edcamps, why edcamps are so popular in education, and the importance of professional development for teachers.

In this episode of the Homeroom, Camille Cole and Michelle Shimmin from Canyons School District drop by to discuss the impact of having structured classroom discussions with students, peers, and leadership.  We look at the role of using sentence starts, how to get started and help students follow guidelines, and the importance of being honest and open when sharing.

This week UEN's Rob Bentley joins Jared and Dani in the Homeroom to discuss how students can learn from games.  We discuss the difference between game-based learning and gamification, how games help students engage with content, and how to get started building your own educational games.

This week Fernando break free from behind the mixing board, as he joins Jared to host our conversation on creativity. We welcome our special guest, Tacy Trowbridge, Leader of Adobe's Global Education Programs. In our discussion we cover topics like: what does creativity look like in the classroom, how to help solve challenges using their personal creativity, and how Adobe tools can promote creativity for students.

Quin Henderson, Partnerships Manager of Future Design School, dropped into the Homeroom recently to share his thoughts on the importance of design thinking in our classrooms.  Included in our conversation is the need for teachers and students to innovate, how problem solving is an essential art in learning, and the need to build creativity into our schools.