Vrain Waves: Teaching Conversations with Minds Shaping Education

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Vrain Waves: Teaching Conversations with Minds Shaping Education episodes

June 04, 2018 Teaching Digital Natives with Screenwise Author Devorah Heitner
Connect with Vrain Waves
Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb
Connect with Dr. Heitner
Twitter: @DevorahHeitner | Website: https://www.raisingdigitalnatives.com/ | Book: ScreenWise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in their Digital World
Links & Show Notes
Virtual assistants (1:45) - Google conference virtual assistant preview video
Smarter Than You Think (from here on out known as “STYT”) by Clive Thompson (4:19)
The Audience Effect (4:40) - pattern study with little kids; also written up in STYT
How much more we’re writing with technology (05:50)
Introduction to Dr. Devorah Heitner (08:15)
Response to people panicking about technology (09:04)
Definition of digital natives (10:38) - still need mentorship
What they love: Access to content & diversity of content; sharing & creating content (11:35)
Dr. Heitner’s TEDx Talk: Empathy is the App
Mentoring > monitoring (15:10) (Blog post on this / Mentorship Manifesto)
Teaching Digital Citizenship (17:26)
Focus on the positive, share in smaller circles, show positive models on social media
Modeling good digital behavior (19:52)
Toby - google chrome extension to save your tabs
Tech savvy vs. Experiential wisdom (22:43)
What students have to say about tech in the classroom (24:40)
SAMR model
“App-enabled, not app-dependent.”(http://blog.yalebooks.com/2013/11/18/app-enabled-or-app-dependent/)
Thoughts on fears around screen time (27:10)
Consumption v. creation
Parent-Teacher digital communication (28:37)
Including parents virtually in class as mystery readers, guest speakers, etc (29:40)
Temper our expectations (30:17)
Connectivity Stress (33:58)
Setting up technology boundaries / Intentional Tech Habits (34:40)
Humane Tech / @TristanHarris / @adamleealter
Tips: Turn off wifi during deep work; Double / triple screening; give start and end times for distractions
Devorah on her successes and being flexible (37:48)
Rapid Fire (40:40)
Wrap up (45:05) - Cal Newport Book: Deep Work
48 min
May 28, 2018Dan Meyer: If Your Content is The Aspirin, How Do You Create the Headache?
Episode 011: Dan Meyer, Desmos
Dan Meyer has been revolutionizing math instruction for years, and in this episode he shares with us the importance of mentors in his life, a few of his favorite teaching mantras, mathematics as storytelling, and how to notice and develop perplexity.
Connect with Vrain Waves
Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb
Connect with Dan Meyer
Twitter: @ddmeyer | Website: blog.mrmeyer.com | Desmos
Links & Show Notes
Math is a (usually poorly told) story (02:22)
Put students in a place to experience new learning through a need
Dan’s math journey & mentors (4:20)
“Be Less Helpful” (6:58)
Let students do the interesting, important work of the thinking about the problem
Thanksgiving dinner task example - by giving all the information necessary you’re making the problem less interesting, losing the opportunity for deeper thinking, and blocking some students out
Discovery learning in the math classroom (9:52)
You can always add, you can’t subtract (11:08)
Once you add information, you change the nature of the challenge
3-act math (Dan Meyer’s spreadsheet; Dan Meyer’s ‘How-to’ / Graham Fletcher’s EL resources (12:39)
Bucky the Badger task / Blog write up
One 5th grade student: “While we were figuring it out, our ideas changed and it changed the question we were asking.”
Subtract stuff from the problems in your curriculum (18:38)
Popcorn container task
Benjamin Baxter (20:23)
“Never assume anyone even cares.”
Teach math as though it were an elective
Perplexity / Curiosity: Teaching as a science - reproducible (24:23)
“Developing curiosity in ourselves and capturing those curious moments and presenting them in curious ways for other people, that has to be an ongoing discipline.”
Benefits of being a connected educator (27:31)
Quick growth; posing open questions and semi-formed ideas
Memorization in math (30:26)
Driving analogy
Having as much as you can in your long-term memory makes more interesting work possible
Practice with purpose, mix frequently with purposeful activities (not memorization drills)
Offer them pictures of where their memorization will be used
Math assessment (35:07)
Break learning objectives down into smaller grains of learning and assess on each
Standards-based Grading
Talk to him more about this @ddmeyer
Desmos (38:04)
Free calculators
Polygraph game
If [vocabulary] is the aspirin, what is the headache?
Students solve problems created by each other
Teacher.desmos.com for more free resources
Dan’s TED Talk
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Lots of other videos of Dan’s keynotes, ideas, etc…
Sign up for Dan’s newsletter on his blog
45 min
May 21, 2018 Jennie Magiera on EdTech, Personalized Learning, ISTE, and Courageous Edventures
Connect with Vrain Waves
Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb
Connect with Jennie Magiera
Twitter: @MsMagiera | Website: teachinglikeits2999.com | Book: Courageous Edventures
Links & Show Notes
Reflecting on Learning technology in classrooms (1:46)
Jesse Buetow - This 5th Grade Life Podcast
Jennie Magiera intro - book: Courageous Edventures (6:30)
Chief Program Officer at Ed Tech Team
ISTE 2018 in Chicago
How do I differentiate with technology? But not lose my personal life in the meantime (9:20)
I could transcend space and time by ‘cloning myself’ with videos
What are innovative ways we can approach the problems teachers face every day? → Courageous EdVentures book is a problem based approach to this
Innovation in the math classroom (12:07)
Jennie’s history with math
Learned that math is really creative & beautiful & inspiring
Explain Everything - ToonTastic - tell the narrative of the mathematical story
Other Math Heroes (16:40)
Dan Meyer - blog.mrmeyer.com - 3 act math - twitter
Mathalicious
#mathchat
NCTM conference
How to know your students really well (19:40)
Lunch in the cafeteria with students
Be careful to see your students as whole people, not people we need to save - changes the types of questions you ask them
One human being talking to another
“Instead of asking students ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ ask, ‘who do you want to be today?’ In this way, we are no longer asking students to wait to matter.”
Student agency (24:01) - empowering students so they are able to do things that will affect their own lives.
Make time in your day to exercise those skills (25:10) National Teachers Academy
5 to 13 yo at this school speaking at public hearings and city hall, etc… given students an education in social justice, equity, and voice - being involved in their own community
#giveNTAachance | @WeAreNTA | wearenta.com
Everyone in the building believes in the power of student voice
Preparing students for discussions in classrooms (29:49) -
Be aware of what voices are in the room first - never try to colonize our student voices - Dr Chris Emdin @ Columbia
Use your voice as a tool - different voices for different tools - mock debates - Today’s Meet (tutorial) - mock Twitter chats
Jennie Magiera’s TED (& other) Talks
Genius Hour (32:07)
Flopped the first time because teacher always knows the answer, creativity is not fostered, asked for a rubric, didn’t know how to get an ‘A’
Ken Robinson - Schools Kill Creativity
Teacher Innovation Exploration Plan (TIEP)
Problem-Based Innovation for working through using learning technology in the classroom
Select one challenge and then work systematically through to your solution
Favorite time saving hacks (38:05)
Use your inbox as a task list
Four D’s of productivity - do, delegate, delete, delay
Boomerang / Inbox by Gmail
Automating assessment scoring - gForms, Flubaroo, gClassroom
NPR Article - OK Go - Here it Goes Again (43:15)
bit.ly/studentsrule
Teachinglikeits2999.com
Billboard: Talk Less, Listen More (46:15)
How Jennie learned to say ‘No’ more (47:05) - notecard - say no to three things a month
Takeaways (48:40)
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51 min
May 14, 2018Daniel Pink and Harnessing the Power of When
Connect with Daniel Pink
Twitter: @danielpink | Website: www.danpink.com | Book: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Links & Show Notes
Daniel Pink Intro (00:46)
..* Drive (01:19) - Autonomy, Mastery, & Purpose
Prime your brain (2:50)
..* “Timing isn’t the main thing, it’s the only thing.” - Miles Davis (3:50) Biological clocks in every cell of our body
Time of day & standardized testing - Denmark study (5:21)
School start time for high schoolers (6:21)
..* Chronobiology / Chronotypes
..* American Academy of Pediatrics Report (don’t start school before 8:30)
..* Teen depression, teen obesity, lower test scores, more car accidents
..* Adults saying ‘don’t be lazy’ - remember how detrimental that can be from our discussion with Glenn Whitman!
..* We don’t take timing seriously (8:43)
Phases of the day based on chronotype (9:53)
..* 15% are larks
..* 20% are owls
..* The rest of us are ‘third birds’
..* Pattern of the day (Twitter, Daniel Kahneman)
..* Peak → Trough → Recovery
“Our cognitive abilities don’t stay the same throughout the day.” (11:20)
..* Peak: Analytic work - most vigilant at this time
..* Trough: increase in medical errors, decrease in handwashing in hospitals, more car accidents: Administrative work - not a lot of brainpower
..* Recovery: High mood but less vigilant - time for Creative Work
Scheduling (14:45) - Not just a logistical issue, it’s a pedagogical issue and a strategic issue
..* Only criterion we use is availability (rooms & people) when we schedule anything - we should give more weight to the ‘when’
..* Time of day alone represents about 20% of variance in how someone performs on the job (15:50)
..* We’re intentional about the ‘what’ - the curriculum, the ‘who’ - who’s in the room, the ‘how’ - the pedagogy, but the ‘when’ takes a back seat, which is a big mistake.
..* Study of 2 million students in LAUSD - student performance in math in the morning vs. math in the afternoon
..* Corporate earnings calls - NYU study (19:07) - even led to temporary stock mispricing
..* Communicate important messages earlier in the day
Taking breaks (22:02)
..* Breaks are undervalued
..* Something is better than nothing - even if 1 to 2 minutes, better than nothing; breaks should be social, even for introverts; moving is better than stationary; outside is better than inside; fully detached is better than semi-detached
..* We look at recess as a concession - recess is part of what we need to learn!
..* Denmark - 20 to 30 min break before those standardized tests, scores went back up
Temporal Landmarks (24:48) - trigger an interesting form of mental accounting
..* Try using fresh start dates or temporal landmarks for when you want students to try something new
Suggestions for School: (27:20)
..* More breaks for teachers and students alike, analytical classes (literacy & numeracy) in the morning, move art / music to later in the day, pay more attention to how well things are working and adjust accordingly - test and reiterate
..* Increase our chances of being successful; not guarantees
Premortems - Gary Klein (30:53)
..* Make mistakes in your head and come up with solutions before you make those mistakes, e.g. ask students: AP test is in 6 months, you get a 1, what went wrong?
Group Synchronization (34:46) Oxford research on prosocial effects of synchronous play with children (boosts our mood, increased collaboration, more open to playing with kids who don’t look like them, open minded, generous, etc.)
Motivation (37:57)
..* Autonomy, Mastery, & Purpose - Genius Hour & self-directed projects, student-led conferences, solve problems in their local community
Homework from Daniel Pink (40:56)
..* Be a better observer of your own behavior - how are you doing at different times of day? Observe and act accordingly
..* Beginnings, middles & ends - importance of the end of the year
Danpink.com / danielpink.com / email newsletter
Takeaways (43:52)
..* Quiz on Daniel’s website to learn your own chronotype
..* Make the end of year powerful!
48 min
May 07, 2018Brain Based Teaching and Learning with Neuroteach Author Glenn Whitman
Episode 008: Glenn Whitman, NeuroTeach
Today we talk with one of the authors of NeuroTeach: Brain Science and the Future of Education, Mr. Glenn Whitman. His dedication to understanding neuroscience and learning in order to effect change at the school building level permeates policy at the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland. Glenn speaks to us about the ways in which learning about the brain can enhance our instruction.
Connect with Glenn Whitman
Twitter: @gwhitmancttl | Website: thecttl.org | Book: NeuroTeach: Brain Science and the Future of Education
Links & Show Notes
Out of our heads and into the classroom
Memory Palace / Memory Journey (1:35)
..* Kevin Horsley, International Grandmaster of Memory
..* Priming (2:55)
..* Spacing (3:25)
..* Hidden Brain (3:49)
..* Thinking Fast & Slow / You are Not So Smart (4:11)
..* “The more you know, the easier it is to know more.”
..* Science of Success episode with Kevin Horsley
..* Storytelling (5:00)
..* Dreams as a story to create narrative from chaos
..* Broca’s Area (5:37)
..* Brain lighting up when hearing stories same as if action was happening to you (fMRI)
..* Stillmotion: touch the heart to move the mind
Intro to Glenn Whitman (6:50)
..* NeuroTeach
..* CTTL
..* Think Differently & Deeply
One educational truth: Every day every kid will bring his or her brain to class (7:54)
How do kids actually learn, never trained (8:37)
In 2007 - asked ourselves ‘What makes an Expert Teacher?’ (9:02)
..* Do we know enough about the organ of learning, the brain? Only 20% of teachers have been exposed to that sort of training, per Glenn’s experience
Mind Brain Education - train St Andrews Teachers in the Learning Brain + ongoing PD in Educational Neuroscience (10:17)
..* Denise Pope at Stanford
..* Dan Willingham at UVA
..* Rob Coe at University of Durham in UK
Mission-driven (12:55)
Teacher enthusiasm for working with research (13:41)
“Can you change the culture of a school through research?” (14:22)
..* We don’t intentionally use research enough in the learning space to improve instruction.
..* Teacher as researcher
..* Ready-made research (15:25)
..* E.g. Memory (16:00)
..* Spacing effect, active retrieval, dual coding, flashcards being misused
..* Action Research (17:01)
..* Original Research studies (17:25)
Unconscionable List (18:12) - “detrimental pedagogy”
..* Labeling students (19:15)
..* Surprise quizzes that count for substantial points (19:51)
..* Wasting the beginning and the end of class (20:34)
..* Ebbinghaus Curve of Forgetting (21:55)
..* Exclusive Content: add 2 more to the list
..* No high school should start before 830 am (22:42)
..* No more than 4 subjects a day (23:20)
..* Other unconscionable list items:
..* Balance between project-based learning and the content knowledge necessary to be successful in those projects (23:38)
..* The Myth of Learning styles (24:34)
..* Howard Gardner
Start and end of class (25:31)
3 questions every Monday from one teacher - one thing you remember from last week, 1 thing you remember from last month, 1 thing you remember from September (28:19)
..* Primacy recency effect
Labeling (29:09)
..* What labels do to our mindset (29:57)
..* Create a fixed mindset & a self-fulfilling prophecy
..* Neuroplasticity (31:09)
The Mindset Scholars Network (31:40)
..* Belonging Mindset
..* Purpose & Relevance Mindset
Study - Reminded participants of race before a math assessment (33:34)
..* Hardiman out of Johns Hopkins
..* Downshifting (33:55)
12 Things Teachers should do for every student every day (35:16)
..* Choice Final Exams (35:38)
..* Low stakes Formative Assessment (37:08)
..* Connection between emotion and learning (37:37)
..* Rick Wormeli “Fair is not always equal.”
..* Spacing / active retrieval / dual coding
..* Exclusive Content
..* Teaching students the neuroanatomy behind learning (39:37)
Making the podcast better (40:03)
..* Think Differently & Deeply - authors podcast (40:25)
..* Acknowledging prior knowledge
Teaching is a learning profession for the adult (42:03)
..* You should be better in June than you were in September
..* Project Zero’s Thinking Routines
..* Ron Ritchhart
..* CTTL - Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning
Mind, Brain, Education (44:10)
..* Twitter is a great lifeline - the Learning Scientists - subscribe!
..* @gwhitmancttl
..* “NeuroTeach Global” being released in January 2019 (45:01)
Multitasking (46:41) - think about the pace and the amount of activities we’re giving our students
Self-testing is the million dollar strategy (49:00) - how much do you know without referencing anything, then build upon the gaps
We want doctors that have studied the organs of the body; we want teachers that have studied the organ of learning (50:47)
..* Studying the learning brain should be the foundation in our professional learning for improving at other pedagogical techniques
Takeaways (53:21)
55 min
April 30, 2018Learner-Centered Innovation: Spark Curiosity, Ignite Passion, and Unleash Genius with Dr. Katie Martin
Connect with Katie Martin
Twitter: @katiemartinedu | Website: katielmartin.com | Book: Learner-Centered Innovation
Links & Show Notes
Marigolds & Walnut Trees / companion planting - an analogy from The Cult of Pedagogy (02:05)
..* Check out our show notes for each episode at vrainwaves.com
Katie Martin Intro (5:57)
..* Buck Institute of Education
..* Learner-Centered Innovation
Why Katie went into teaching (7:03)
Learner-Centered Innovation, the book (8:33)
..* Started with blogging
Why be social on Twitter / blog, etc. (9:50)
Buck Institute for Education (BIE); Examples of PBL (11:17)
..* Kim Cawkwell (@mskimcawkwell) - 4th grade
..* Most engaging lessons happen when people get to solve their own problems (12:46)
..* Gold Standard Essential Design Elements, BIE (13:28)
..* Dr. Martin’s 10 Characteristics of Learner-Centered experiences (15:11)
Teachers create what we experience (17:15)
..* 25 hour learning challenge (18:19)
What does your ideal classroom look like? And the ‘knowing-doing gap’ (20:03)
Adaptability and evolution of practice (22:28)
What should we be calling those skills? (24:55)
..* World Economic Forum - Future of Jobs Report (Top 10 2020 Skills)
Katie Martin’s top 3 skills (26:20)
Inspired by Research / Informed by Practice (27:38)
..* Book Recommendations:
..* Creativity, Inc. (Ed Catmull)
..* The Power of Moments (Chip & Dan Heath)
..* Originals (Adam Grant)
Jeff Bezos - stay focused on the customer (30:10)
Coaching on strategic abandonment and letting go of things that don’t work (33:56)
Developing a culture of innovation (38:41)
What is the purpose of public education? (40:02)
Katie’s TED Talk (42:14)
..* “I hope they’re just as in love with learning when they graduate high school as they were when they started kindergarten.”
Cajon Valley School District (42:57)
..* David Miyashiro, Superintendent
..* Ed Hidalgo, Innovation & Engagement Officer
..* World of Work for K-8 students
Rapid fire (44:53)
To learn more: katielmartin.com
Takeaways (47:35)
..* Give us feedback!
50 min
April 23, 2018 Critical Thinking and Creativity in the Classroom with Dan Ryder
Connect with Dan Ryder
Twitter: @wickeddecent or @intentionbook / #dtk12chat | Website: danryder207.com | Book: Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom
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Links & Show Notes**
Out of Our Heads and Into the Classroom (02:30)
Phrankenword: vocab mashup
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6-word story: Hemingway origin story (04:21)
Dan Ryder Intro (06:25)
Mt. Blue High School, Farmington ME
Education Director for new Success & Innovation Center at Mt. Blue
#dtk12chat on Twitter (09:22)
Dan’s Favorite Design Challenge (10:40)
How might we design a tiny house for the 4 main characters in Of Mice & Men?
Empathy Maps (12:36)
Intention the Book (14:35)
Amy Burvall, co-author - @AmyBurvall
Academic Knowledge + Critical Thinking + Creativity = Edusymbiosis
Dan’s Top 3 favorite ‘recipes’ from the book (17:40)
Intention Oreo - #IntentionOreo
Potent quotables - #IntentionQuotes
One Word to Rule them All - #IntentionOneWord
Color Palette Activity #IntentionColor (19:27)
Colourlovers.com
Unpacking standards (24:50)
How do you get better at being creative? (28:51)
Podcasts Dan listens to: Uncivil; Code Switch; Reply All; Design Matters; All Songs Considered; WTF with Mark Maron; Across the Hall; Radio Zamunda
By being curious! & having access to information. & by having co-conspirators
Book that changed Dan’s practice: A Whole New Mind, by Daniel Pink (32:24)
Be the thinking classroom: teach students how to think, not what to think (34:35)
Failing at providing timely feedback (35:57)
Audio feedback on gDrive
Don’t grade everything (41:30)
Only assess what students deem their best work (42:55)
Intentionthebook.online | @WickedDecent (Twitter, Instagram, Medium)
Takeaways (46:00)
48 min
April 16, 2018 How to Teach Like a Pirate with Dave Burgess
Get ready to sail the seven seas with this week’s guest, Mr. Dave Burgess. Using magic, humor, and a trademark level of enthusiasm to augment his already stellar content, Dave is a sought after speaker, well-known author, and high-quality publisher followed by educators around the world. In this episode we discuss how good teaching relates with good coaching, some of Dave's favorite hooks, and why a costume can't cover up for boring learning!
Connect with Dave Burgess
Twitter: @burgessdave | Website: daveburgess.com | Book: Teach Like a Pirate
Links & Show Notes
Out of our heads and into the classroom: “Hook” hacks with Ben & Becky (1:34)
Snowball Fight (1:34)
Dance Party (2:26)
Cue YouTube videos to certain spot
3 Act Math (3:56)
Dan Meyer - Secondary 3 Act Math (Explanation / Background)
Graham Fletcher - Elementary 3 Act Math
(Not familiar with Dan Meyer? Watch his video, ‘Math Class Needs a Makeover’)
Alphabet aerobics (5:21)
Dave Burgess Introduction (6:31)
Dave Burgess Publishing & Consulting
Other pirates mentioned: George Couros, Alice Keeler, John Spencer, AJ Juiliani, Jimmy Casas
How Dave got into teaching (7:30)
Teaching / Coaching overlap (8:45) / John Wooden
PIRATE acronym and how it applies to teaching (10:00)
Passion / Immersion / Rapport / Ask & Analyze / Transformation / Enthusiasm
Digging deeper into passion (12:30)
3 circles of teaching (14:20)
Content / Techniques & Methods / Presentation
Getting better at Presentation (16:40)
Questions are the key to creativity (17:41)
Dave’s recommendations for authors to learn from (18:45)
Seth Godin (Linchpin)
Anthony Robbins (Awaken the Giant Within / Unlimited Power)
“Questions are the laser of human consciousness.”
Ed Tech integration (22:20)
R. Buckminster Fuller - “Don’t fight forces. Use them.”
Student-centered classroom & TLAP complementary texts (24:56)
Learn Like a Pirate, Paul Solarz
Explore Like a Pirate (Gamification), Michael Matera
Play Like a Pirate, Quinn Rollins
“You teach what you know; you teach who you are.” (27:35)
Maya Angelou & storytelling (28:50)
It’s about the power of your presence.
The most important thing in the world is courage.
Teaser hook (30:47)
Always preheat the grill; creating anticipation / curiosity / buzz before the lesson
Ted Talk - Teach Like a Pirate (33:10)
Dave on Failure (33:33)
Progress happens outside of your comfort zone; if you’re not uncomfortable, you’re not growing
Failure as feedback (36:54)
Pirates turn their sails to the wind (41:08)
Enthusiasm (42:03)
Control your state - 1) what you focus on; 2) your physiology
If they didn’t have to be there, would you be teaching to an empty room? (45:00)
@burgessdave / #tlap / daveburgess.com /daveburgessconsulting.com
Get connected!!
Ben & Becky Take-Aways (47:21)
Joe Biden quote
Medici Effect
49 min
April 09, 2018Kim Scott (Giving and Learning from Feedback, Radical Candor, and more!)
Links & Show Notes (please note, some language bleeped using a horse sound)
Out of our heads and into the classroom: Feedback hacks from Ben & Becky (2:01)
Errors & Misconception videos (3:15)
Adaptive assessments with google forms (5:20) (Written Steps | Video)
Real-time feedback during performances (6:50)
Free up your time for face-to-face student conferences (8:55)
Video yourself (9:50)
Kim on the book, Radical Candor - how to be a good human being, parent, manager, leader (11:44)
What is Radical Candor? (13:18)
Mostly about collaboration
Care Personally & Challenge Directly
Ruinous Empathy (15:05) - ‘Bob’ Story (15:45)
Manipulative Insincerity (17:35) - “the desire to be liked is the path to hell for a leader.”
Radical Candor in student-teacher relationships (19:53)
“It’s not mean, it’s clear” story (21:45)
Order of Operations in Radical Candor
Be willing to solicit feedback first (23:50)
Focus on the good stuff. Give praise first - focus on success (25:00)
Offer criticism (28:20)
Feedback is a gift -
Be Humble (you may not be right) (29:23)
That’s why it’s called ‘candor’ and not ‘truth’. You may be wrong.
Be helpful (31:00)
Do it immediately (32:53)
Do it in person (33:10)
80% of communication is nonverbal
Respond to their reaction
What does this look like when it’s done successfully? (35:15)
Situation - Behavior - Impact (not about personality traits)
How do we get better at receiving and learning from the feedback we receive
First practice asking for feedback. “What could I do or stop doing that would make it easier to work with me?” - What’s your go-to question? (40:00)
Embrace the discomfort. Don’t get defensive. “Listen with the intent to understand, not to respond.” (41:49)
Reward the candor. Publically. (45:25)
Coaching in Kim Scott’s life (47:15)
Rapid Fire (48:50)
Billboard: Radical Candor framework in congress
New belief, behavior, or habit: Getting good sleep
Kim thanks teachers (51:15)
Kim’s novel, The Measurement Problem
To learn more:
Kim’s Podcast
Radicalcandor.com
@kimballscott | @candor
Takeaways: (52:48)
Don’t take it personally - Kim Scott video demonstrating this with her sister
“It’s not mean, it’s clear”
Science of Success podcast, episode with Adam Grant
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57 min
March 31, 2018 Elizabeth Green (Chalkbeat, Building a Better Teacher)
Join us as we learn from Chalkbeat founder, journalist, and teacher advocate, Elizabeth Green. She talks with us about developing educational infrastructure and supporting teachers across the country.
52 min

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