Vrain Waves: Teaching Conversations with Minds Shaping Education

Vrain Waves: Teaching Conversations with Minds Shaping Education

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  • Dan Heath on the Power of Moments

    Connect with Dan Heath

    Website: heathbrothers.com

    **Connect with Vrain Waves

    Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

    Links & Show Notes

    • Dan’s intro to Power of Moments (3:01)
    • UPC scanner Bush surprise (4:15)
    • Power of Moments in the classroom (5:58)
    • Sign up for Heath Brothers Email Newsletter
    • Ed examples from Power of Moments (06:49)
    • What are peak moments (07:24)
    • Community College showcase (08:10)
    • What’s it like to be a 7th grader (09:03)
    • The call for more peak moments in the classroom (10:48)
    • Research on deeper learning (11:25) - not just for fun; reinforce and motivate the learning (Learning Policy Institute, AIR, more from AIR)
    • Example of Peak moment: Hillsdale High, San Mateo CA (12:21)
    • Susan Bedford (English) / Greg Jouriles (History)
    • Trial of Human Nature (Video of Dan telling the story)
    • “Beware the soul-sucking force of reasonableness.” (16:43)
    • Peak moments are rarely reasonable
    • Build peaks, don’t fix potholes (20:14)
    • Magic Castle hotel in LA
    • (YouTube Video of this story)
    • Instinct in our lives that we can improve things by fixing the problems with them (23:04)
    • Cool quote about this: “The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles.” - Oren Harari
    • In our schools, where do we prioritize efficiency over moments?
    • Elevation, Insight, Pride, and Connection
    • Flamboyan Foundation example at Stanton Elementary in DC; principal Carlie John Fisherow - Family engagement
    • Four questions during home visits:
    • Tell me about your child’s experiences in school, and about yours.
    • Tell me about your hopes and dreams for your child’s future.
    • What do you want your child to be someday?
    • What do I need to do to help your child learn more effectively?
    • A moment that triggered a change; relationships don’t progress in steady increments; some hours are more important than others
    • Curse of Knowledge (33:18)
    • Made to Stick is about communication; Power of Moments is about experience
    • HBR article from Heath brothers on Curse of Knowledge
    • Loudon academy of Science outside of DC - Functions example (37:02)
    • First chapter of both books we’ve discussed are free online at heathbrothers.com
    • Takeaways (41:33)
    • GREAT free resources at heathbrothers.com when you sign up for the newsletter
    • 47 min
    • Student Engagement with Allison Zmuda

      Connect with Allison Zmuda

      Twitter: @allison_zmuda | Website: allisonzmuda.com, learningpersonalized.com

      Connect with Vrain Waves

      Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

      Links & Show Notes

      • To skip ahead to the interview, go to the 8 minute mark
      • Out of Our Heads and Into the Classroom: (01:20)
      • Students keeping track of mistakes & analyzing errors: Student Assessment Reflection Template (uncommon schools); from Driven by Data (Santoyo)
      • Another example
      • A slightly different approach
      • Mardi Gras Napkins (3:31)
      • Annotating pictures with Markup (5:09)
      • Vrain Waves Episode with George Couros
      • Allison intro (08:20)
      • Allison’s books (08:44)
      • Allison on student engagement (learning is a voluntary endeavor) (09:00)
      • What is engagement (10:30)
      • Chart created with Robyn Jackson (Engaged or Compliant Learner)
      • Real Engagement book
      • Episode with Elizabeth Green (14:18)
      • Constraints of Time (15:28)
      • It’s not the topic, it’s the goals; what are you trying to go after?
      • Classroom management / student behavior (18:15)
      • Habits of Mind (19:16)
      • Restorative Justice (20:40)
      • Bena Kallick - Personalized Learning & Habits of Mind (21:17)
      • Art Costa
      • -ing verbs - we are all becoming
      • Measuring engagement (23:27)
      • Results-Only Learning Environment (26:49)
      • 4 Cs of Real Engagement (28:14) Clarity, Context, Challenge, Culture
      • Clarity = goal clarity; what are you aiming for? “The teacher is not the customer that the students are trying to make happy.”
      • Understanding by Design (29:20)
      • Challenge (30:07) Teacher modeling learning
      • Allison’s challenge with her stroke (34:15)
      • Professional Collaboration (41:05)
      • Allison’s favorite examples of engagement (44:43)
      • Learningpersonalized.com (47:40)
      • “It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of education have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry...”
      • Habits of Mind: Listening with Understanding and Empathy / Thinking Interdependently (51:20)
      • Bad advice (52:30) - micromanaging content & skills
      • Tools from Allison Zmuda:
      • 7 Elements of Personalized Learning
      • Using the sliders to personalize design
      • 57 min
      • Catlin Tucker on Blended Learning

        Connect with Catlin Tucker

        Twitter: @catlin_tucker | Website: catlintucker.com

        Connect with Vrain Waves

        Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

        Links & Show Notes

        • Out of Our Heads and Into the Classroom:
          • Timesaving hack: Ctrl + Cmd + Shift + 4 = copy screenshot to clipboard instead of desktop
          • The Box of Awesome
          • Metaphorical Fashion - another great one from Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom - Design us a t-shirt!!
          • Catlin Tucker - Power Up Blended Learning (06:52)
            • Christensen Institute on Blended Learning (07:31)
            • Catlin’s definition of Blended learning: active, engaged learning in the classroom + active, engaged learning online; + more control over time, place, pace, and path of their learning experience; shift of control from teacher to student
            • Catlin’s journey to blended learning (08:40)
            • Fear of amount of time taken to move into blended learning (10:26)
              • “Everybody is experimenting, taking risks, and learning [in a classroom].” (10:44)
              • Students handling the extra work (13:17)
                • More challenging to be a student in a student-centered classroom, but the decision-making / agency trade off pays off
                • Assessment for learning (15:38)
                  • Grades as a carrot & carrots don’t work (+ our interview with Daniel Pink)
                  • Any assessment score can be reassessed in Catlin’s class
                  • Ongoing self-assessment station (18:04) & more info here
                  • Her latest book: Power Up Blended Learning
                    • 10 learning targets per unit (21:34)
                    • Station Rotations (22:49)
                      • Working with students during the day (26:18) instead of giving feedback at home at night
                      • Examples of stations (28:20)
                      • Hosting Online discussions (31:04)
                        • Bringing the momentum from online discussions back into the classroom (36:12)
                        • Schoology online discussions
                        • Backchannelchat as a replacement for Today’s Meet
                        • Four Corner Conversations routine (37:25)
                        • Shifting role of the teacher in the classroom (39:52)
                          • Students bring the meaning to the activities that she designs / then she is the coach
                          • Planning horizontally = turn your vertical agenda horizontal and break it into station rotations (41:43) (presentation, video)
                            • Vocabulary.com / noredink.com
                            • Tucker Time (46:33) = teacher-led station
                            • Power Up Blended Learning (47:35)
                              • Sustainable Infrastructure for Professional Learning
                              • Coaching / modeling / co-teaching / small Professional Learning Communities in buildings
                              • Catlin’s requests to leaders (55:40)
                              • Wrap Up (56:32)
                              • 58 min
                              • George Couros on The Innovator's Mindset

                                Episode 020: George Couros, https://georgecouros.ca/blog/

                                When it comes to innovation in the classroom, George Couros is simultaneously the man, the myth and the legend! He stops by Vrain Waves to discuss mindsets, guinea pigs, and what parents really want for their students...tune in to find out more!

                                Connect with George Couros

                                Twitter: @gcouros | Website: https://georgecouros.ca/blog/

                                Connect with Vrain Waves

                                Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

                                Links & Show Notes

                                • Episode 019 with Denise Pope (01:00)
                                • Episode 018 with John Hattie (01:30)
                                • Out of our heads and into the classroom (02:10)
                                • Last week: Classroomscreen.com
                                • Gamestorming.com / Atomize (03:10)
                                • Checklist co-creation (04:54)
                                • Atul Gawande: Checklist Manifesto book; articles (06:27) - concise, clear, collaborative
                                • #makesomevrainwaves
                                • George Couros Intro (07:05)
                                • What is an Innovator’s Mindset (07:44)
                                • Carol Dweck’s work on Growth Mindset
                                • Innovator’s Mindset definition: ‘the belief that abilities, intelligence, and talent are developed so that they lead to the creation of new and better ideas.’
                                • George on being innovative (11:16)
                                • Blog: https://georgecouros.ca/blog/
                                • Based on the Alberta Principal Quality Standards
                                • On balancing values / principles with fresh perspective (14:42)
                                • Writing to learn
                                • 360 view of ideas (15:42)
                                • Clive Thompson: “It’s easy to win an argument inside your head. But when you face a real audience, you have to be truly convincing.”
                                • Smarter Than You Think
                                • Uber driver story (18:20)
                                • Purpose of education (21:21)
                                • Strengths-based vs. deficit-based vs. data-driven vs. learner-driven (25:05)
                                • Strengths inside your own district, in your own colleagues
                                • RTI - Response to Intervention (27:57)
                                • Develop people instead of fix people
                                • Evidence-informed vs. data-driven (29:56)
                                • Compliance → Engagement → Empowerment (31:30)
                                • “Change never fails because it happens too early.” (35:51)
                                • Blog posts and trends in education (40:43)
                                • Stephen Covey - Speed of Trust
                                • Post on cursive / time for content
                                • Twitter: @gcouros | georgecouros.ca | Innovator’s Mindset Book
                                • Katie Martin | Vrain Waves Episode with Katie Martin
                                • George & Katie’s Podcast
                                • 58 min
                                • Social and Emotional Learning with Denise Pope

                                  Episode 019: Denise Pope, ChallengeSuccess.org

                                  Dr. Pope joins us on Vrain Waves to talk about the role that stress plays in our students lives, how we can work to decrease that cognitive takeover, and some digestible research we can both learn from and share with our parents. Enjoy!!

                                  Connect with Dr. Denise Pope

                                  Twitter: @chalsuccess | Website: http://www.challengesuccess.org/, https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/dpope

                                  Connect with Vrain Waves

                                  Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

                                  Links & Show Notes

                                  • Out of our heads and into the classroom (01:26)
                                  • Classroomscreen.com (01:45)
                                  • Google copy vs. edit url instructions (03:05)
                                  • Critical Creativity (04:29) - Resume Rationale
                                  • 4 Quadrant activity from Mandy Fernandes (06:38)
                                  • #MakeSomeVrainWaves
                                  • Denise Pope intro (07:51) - Challenge Success network | Overloaded and Underprepared
                                  • Denise on purpose of education and the way we do school (08:37)
                                  • Embracing change (11:15)
                                  • Curriculum Construction at Stanford (12:03)
                                  • Overloaded and Underprepared (14:23)
                                  • Challengesuccess.org (14:45)
                                  • Student academic stress, root cause (15:26)
                                  • SPACE framework (17:58) Getting students involved (21:07)
                                  • Stress & academic pressure
                                  • PBL (23:32)
                                  • Alternative & Authentic assessment (26:08) Choice, Voice, Revision, and Redemption, Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students (28:33)
                                  • Climate of Care (33:20); Advisory (35:39)
                                  • Stress in adults (37:25)
                                  • Block scheduling (40:02)
                                  • The Jared Project | The Dot Project | Relationship Mapping (41:01)
                                  • Educate Parents (42:39)
                                  • Resources on challengesuccess.org | Grade-level Research
                                  • Videos (44:41)
                                  • White Papers (45:39) - homework and elementary education white paper
                                  • Publications
                                  • Overloaded and Underprepared Examples / Case Studies (47:45)
                                  • Northern California, Wellness Curriculum in PE classrooms / mindfulness, meditation, stress, sleep
                                  • Ann & Nate Levine Academy, Texas: “Show what you know” boxes on quizzes and tests
                                  • Revision / retakes (49:51) (external article, opinion on Voice, Choice, Revision, Redemption)
                                  • Elementary research - Play time, down time, family time (“PDF”) (50:23)
                                  • Finland - 15 min recess every hour
                                  • Homework in elementary school
                                  • Denise Pope ppt on protecting PDF
                                  • Wrap Up (53:23)
                                  • Research for teachers (54:08)
                                  • 56 min
                                  • John Hattie on Visible Learning and Feedback

                                    Episode 018: John Hattie, Visible Learning

                                    We are so excited to share with you the conversation we were lucky enough to have with Dr. John Hattie - educational researcher, professor, Director of the Melbourne Educational Research Institute, and overall brilliant person. Please enjoy, and send your questions, comments, discussions to us @VrainWaves to keep this conversation going!

                                    Connect with Dr. John Hattie

                                    Twitter: @john_hattie, @VisibleLearning | Website: https://visible-learning.org/

                                    Connect with Vrain Waves

                                    Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

                                    Links & Show Notes

                                    • Out of our heads and into the classroom (01:18)
                                    • Graphic Jam / dual coding (02:15)
                                    • Everyone Can Create, Apple (03:45)
                                    • Show me your values (04:17)
                                    • Intro to John Hattie (07:11) | Hattie’s Meta-Analyses
                                    • Start of interview (07:49)
                                    • Hardware / software / inside - How we think (08:52)
                                    • What is visible learning & what problem does visible learning answer? (10:38)
                                    • 95-97% of what we do increases achievement to some degree
                                    • Above average effect = >0.4 effect size / List of influences
                                    • Know thy impact (13:59)
                                    • Professional development (15:25)
                                    • Moving from ‘how we teach’ to ‘how we interpret our impact’
                                    • Hattie’s visible learning team workflow: (17:30)
                                    • Teachers are to “D.I.E.” for
                                    • Diagnosis = Needs Analysis (16 to 20 factors) - ask staff, teachers, students
                                    • Intervention & Implementation
                                    • Make sure the intervention addresses the diagnosis
                                    • Implement effectively
                                    • Evaluation
                                    • Use a portfolio of evidence to change how we think
                                    • Evaluation vs. Research (20:03)
                                    • Evaluative mindset for educators
                                    • Graham Nuthall’s research | book: Hidden Lives of Learners |
                                    • Feedback discussion (23:28)
                                    • Feedback given v. feedback received
                                    • What type of feedback is received? (25:30)
                                    • Importance of where to go next
                                    • Amount of feedback the teacher receives about where to go next (26:40)
                                    • June 2018 EdWeek article w / Dr. Hattie on Feedback (2018)
                                    • 2011 article on feedback
                                    • Directions for Assessment in New Zealand | NZ Assessment for Learning
                                    • Visible Learning Feedback book, 2018
                                    • Assessment-Capable Learners (28:33)
                                    • Book: Developing Assessment-Capable Visible Learners
                                    • Teaching students to be interpretive about their test scores
                                    • Book: 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning
                                    • Assessment as helping the teacher
                                    • Nuthall: students know 40-60% of what is being taught
                                    • ASCD Article - Fisher, Frey, Hattie: Assessment-Capable Learners
                                    • Class Size Discussion (34:24)
                                    • 0.2 effect size
                                    • Same instruction in smaller v. larger classes (35:45)
                                    • Hattie’s 2015 Reports: What Doesn’t Work in Education: The Politics of Distraction | What Works Best in Education: The Politics of Collaborative Expertise
                                    • Gene Glass research
                                    • Andreas Schleicher: TED Talk - Use Data to Build Better Schools
                                    • Classroom relationships (39:32)
                                    • Henry Levin (40:52) - The Economics of Student Time | Mapping the Economics of Education
                                    • How do we make schools more inviting for students (40:03)
                                    • Science of Learning Center in Melbourne (42:23)
                                    • Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (43:20)
                                    • Strengths-based Education (45:56)
                                    • 57 min
                                    • How to Rock the First Week of School: strategies, techniques, and activities for kicking off the school year right!

                                      ** How to Rock the First Week of School**

                                      And we’re back!! Thanks for tuning in for Season 2 of Vrain Waves! In this episode Ben and Becky discuss and share activities to make this first week in your classroom the best one ever! Please share your ideas using the #makesomevrainwaves so that we can learn from each other!

                                      Connect with Vrain Waves

                                      Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

                                      Links & Show Notes

                                      • The Power of Moments (02:20)
                                      • Episode 5 Season 1 (03:06) - Dave Burgess
                                      • Premortems with Daniel Pink (06:23)
                                      • Show students what they’ll be able to do at the end of the year (08:28) - story from Allison Zmuda
                                      • Episode 6 Season 1 (09:50) - Dan Ryder - recipes from Intention the Book
                                      • Name tent paper dialogue example (10:30)
                                      • Rewiring Education (12:41) - John Couch - What is the purpose of school?
                                      • 5 numbers that tell your life story (13:42) - Here’s the tweet I saw this in - idea attributed to @Jeff_Zoul
                                      • Co-create norms (14:38) - Episode with Dr. Carrie Holmberg & Dr. Brent Duckor
                                      • 19 min
                                      • Make Some VrainWaves Summer Challenge

                                        End-of-Season Call to Action

                                        This time around, instead of standing on the shoulders of more giants, Ben & Becky reflect on the season with their simple next steps for action and invite you to do the same. #MakeSomeVrainWaves with us this summer and share your plans @VrainWaves on twitter or Facebook, or on our website at www.vrainwaves.com.

                                        Connect with Vrain Waves

                                        Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

                                        Links & Show Notes

                                        Knowing-Doing Gap (01:00)
                                        Devorah Heitner episode (01:40)
                                        “The gap between knowing and doing is more important than the one between doing and knowing.” The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action (02:18)
                                        Challenge for our listeners (06:00)
                                        Easy-to-implement action steps & share with #MakeSomeVrainWaves
                                        Ben & Becky’s action steps (07:08)
                                        Peak-Trough-Recovery calendar color coding - Daniel Pink (07:30)
                                        Giving clear feedback - Kim Scott - reminder with Momentum: “It’s not mean, it’s clear.” (08:09)
                                        “Talk Less, Listen More” on the syllabus - Jennie Magiera - ask participants / students to hold you accountable (08:50)
                                        Say no to projects you can’t handle - Jennie Magiera / Tony Wagner (09:30)
                                        Journaling & reflecting, capturing ideas - Tony Wagner / Dan Meyer (10:30)
                                        Preheating the grill - teaser clips for new episodes - Dave Burgess (11:04)
                                        Control your state - Dave Burgess - 5 minute journal app (11:42)
                                        Share your ideas! #MakeSomeVrainWaves - tweet out your action steps from any professional learning so we can learn from each other.

                                        THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!!!

                                        14 min
                                      • Formative Assessment Strategies and Moves with Dr. Duckor & Dr. Holmberg

                                        Episode 014: Dr. Brent Duckor & Dr. Carrie Holmberg, Mastering Formative Assessment Moves

                                        In the foreword for this book, Dr. John Hattie describes the work of Dr. Duckor and Dr. Holmberg as “[bringing to life] how to think of one’s self on a trajectory of powerful practices that unite instruction and assessment.” In many conversations, we tend to separate the two and don’t think deeply enough about the intersection of instruction and assessment. A highly recommended read from the 2 authors with publisher ASCD. Our conversation with them should give you a good idea of what their perspective before or after you read.

                                        Connect with Vrain Waves

                                        Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

                                        Connect with Dr. Duckor & Dr. Holmberg

                                        Twitter: @BrentDuckor, @CarrieHolmberg | Website: http://validitypartners.com/ | Book: Mastering Formative Assessment Moves (Amazon | ASCD)

                                        Links & Show Notes

                                        • Skip to Minute 7:55 to get to the Interview with Drs. Duckor & Holmberg
                                        • Out of Our Heads and Into the Classroom (03:51)
                                        • Two Truths & A Lie (04:07)
                                        • Create a meme (4:44)
                                        • Analogies (05:26)
                                        • Introductions to guests (06:47)
                                        • 7 moves: Priming, Posing, Pausing, Probing, Bouncing, Tagging, Binning
                                        • Priming: Preparing the groundwork; establishing & maintaining norms; acting to acculturate students to learning publicly
                                        • Posing: Asking questions that size up the learner’s needs in the lesson and across the unit
                                        • Pausing: Giving students adequate time to think and respond as individuals or in groups
                                        • Probing: Asking follow up questions that use information from actual student responses
                                        • Bouncing: Sampling a variety of responses intentionally & systematically to better map the terrain of student thinking
                                        • Tagging: Publicly representing variation in student thinking by creating a snapshot or a running record of class responses
                                        • Role of Formative Assessment (08:52)
                                        • National Research Council, 1999 book: How People Learn: Mind, Brain, Experience, and School (free pdf download)
                                        • “Kids are better served when we build the bridges from where their own understanding is to the content than when we ignore it and pretend that they’re a blank slate.”
                                        • Why do Formative Assessment (10:57)
                                        • Identifies the gap between what we think we’re teaching and what the students are understanding
                                        • Teacher decision making and the formative assessment moves (13:32)
                                        • Sound principles in educational assessment (14:23) - 2001 National Research Council: Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment
                                        • Observation and interpretation
                                        • Priming & visibility of thinking (15:36)
                                        • (From the Book: “...priming can help make not only learning visible, priming can go a long way toward making students visible”)
                                        • Practical uses of priming (16:43)
                                        • “We all have the right to be wrong.” “We all can risk an explanation.” “Our voices should be heard.”
                                        • Habits of Heart / Habits of Mind (18:15)
                                        • Dr. Holmberg on being a better listener, having language for the moves to get better at them (19:27)
                                        • Pausing (20:50)
                                        • Essential to processing time
                                        • Mary Budd Rowe on Wait Time; another
                                        • Kenneth Tobin
                                        • Pauses of 3 to 5 seconds are where the magic happens
                                        • Inside the Black Box, Black & Wiliam (impact of FA on student achievement)
                                        • Balance between efficiency and authenticity with follow up questioning
                                        • Tagging (26:38)
                                        • Visual representations of student responses
                                        • High tech or low tech
                                        • Releasing control & embracing anxiety (29:49)
                                        • “Teachers, like artists, are often dealing with the complexity of the moment.”
                                        • Tagging around the room or virtually, what do we do with tagging after the process (32:57)
                                        • Bouncing as a precursor to tagging (34:05)
                                        • Assessment triangle - p 44 (Cognition, Observation, Interpretation), how students develop competence (34:18) from Knowing What Students Know, NAP
                                        • Synchronizing the 7 moves & using common language (36:08)
                                        • Targeted bouncing on student writing (37:24)
                                        • Binning to make instructional decisions (38:20)
                                        • How do we get better at the 7 moves? (39:40)
                                        • STEM & misconceptions (41:10)
                                        • Predict → Observe → Explain routine from Stanford (41:30) - use for your teaching
                                        • Dr. John Hattie
                                        • Dr. Lorrie Shepard, University of Colorado
                                        • Jim Popham
                                        • Robert Linquanti, WestEd
                                        • Assessment-Capable Learners; student role in formative assessment (43:52)
                                        • Transparency with students with FA (45:35)
                                        • To learn more from Brent & Carrie: validitypartners.com (free resources & email links)
                                        • Takeaways with Ben & Becky (47:55)
                                        • Tweet us @VrainWaves with your Formative Assessment Moves!!
                                        • 50 min
                                        • AJ Juliani on Genius Hour, PBL, Design Thinking and Student Inquiry

                                          Connect with Vrain Waves

                                          Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

                                          Connect with AJ Juliani

                                          Twitter: @ajjuliani | Website: http://ajjuliani.com/ | Books: AJ Juliani on Amazon

                                          Links & Show Notes

                                          • Skip to Minute 9 to get to the Interview with AJ Juliani
                                          • What is Genius Hour? (01:33)
                                          • Out of Our Heads and Into the Classroom (02:07)
                                          • Structure (02:30)
                                          • Getting Started with Genius Hour
                                          • Genius Hour Blueprint
                                          • Numbers app template
                                          • Inspiration (03:45) | Kid President on Empowerment | Jack Andraka TED Talk | Caine’s Arcade | Genius Hour Examples
                                          • Authentic Audience (05:17)
                                          • Three N’s (06:46) - What did you learn that’s new, what do you need from me, what are you going to do next?
                                          • #20time / #geniushour
                                          • AJ Juliani Intro (9:07) - Director of Technology and Innovation at Centennial School District
                                          • Genius Hour, what it is, how AJ started with it (10:40)
                                          • Read Daniel Pink’s book Drive - Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose
                                          • The 20% Project blog post | #20Time
                                          • Joy Kirr, Gallit Zvi, Hugh McDonald, Denise Krebs
                                          • The Genius Hour Manifesto
                                          • Examples of Genius Hour projects (15:28)
                                          • How Genius Hour works (17:42) Planning → Topic Selection → Pitch → Research → Making → Presentations → Reflection
                                          • Topic Selection: March Madness Bracket for ideas
                                          • Shark Tank Pitch - 1 minute
                                            1. What they’re going to learn / make
                                              1. Why they’re going to learn / make it
                                                1. How they’re going to learn / make it
                                                  1. What will success look like
                                                  2. Mapping to Standards (21:12)
                                                  3. Managing Time (22:53)
                                                  4. Getting started with Inquiry-based learning (25:35)
                                                  5. Get kids comfortable talking without the teacher asking a bunch of questions: Discussion games, sentence stems, fishbowls, symposiums, etc
                                                  6. Genius Hour / Passion Projects for teachers (28:34)
                                                  7. Teacher Innovation Pitch in Centennial SD
                                                  8. Student Innovation Lab / Centennial X
                                                  9. Design Thinking (31:50)
                                                  10. Launch book | co-authored with John Spencer
                                                  11. Chris Lehmann quote: “If you assign a project and get back 30 of the exact same thing, that’s not a project, that’s a recipe.
                                                  12. HBR Article on Design Thinking
                                                  13. Stanford d.school
                                                  14. IDEO
                                                  15. Failures to watch out for with Design Thinking & Genius Hour (36:08)
                                                    1. Managing expectations & building early
                                                    2. Project Global Inform
                                                    3. Prototype early
                                                      1. Trust & Relationships - be self-reflective
                                                      2. Compliance - Engagement - Empowerment Continuum (42:34)
                                                      3. Empower book
                                                      4. Developing choice & decision skills (44:47)
                                                      5. 14,000 hours with students - how much of that time do we give them practice making choices and decisions?
                                                      6. Other podcasts / interviews with AJ
                                                      7. Cult of Pedagogy | AJ’s podcast, Inside Innovation | TLTalk Radio
                                                      8. Homework for teachers (47:46)
                                                      9. What were the last 5 things you learned and why were you excited about learning them? Then, think about how you learn best, and then think about your classroom
                                                      10. Ajjuliani.com - @ajjuliani on all social media
                                                      11. Post interview takeaways with Becky & Ben (49:34)
                                                      12. 53 min

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