Episodes
Friday Nov 27, 2020
Friday Nov 27, 2020
Brian Buffington and Bucky Bush talk with me about EdTech, GIFS, Gifts for Non-Techies, and Gifts for Techies. This is episode 330 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Brian Buffington is an EDU pioneer, always sniffing out better ways to increase student engagement and learning through technology. He inspires thousands of teachers, admins, and students in regards to instructional technology strategies, professional media production, and digital living education.
Brian has presented at national, state, and regional conferences, highlighting EdTech and science education. His background includes teaching middle schoolers about science, owning music venues and vintage clothing shops, and writing songs about cheese and “8th Grade Mustaches”.
His most recent endeavors include: creating professional development specifically for teaching during a pandemic entitled, “Into The Unknown”, releasing new music with the songs “Rufio”, “Stretchy Pants”, and “Poo on my Shoe”, and cranking up the #buffmagic to make virtual learning fun and engaging.
Since 2017, he has broadcasted an annual cyber safety event on Facebook LIVE, “A Parent’s Guide to Raising Digital Natives”. In 2019, Brian directed and produced “Vape News”, a PSA video series aimed to combat student vaping.
When Brian is not playing with tech, he’s playing House Concerts and singing #happymusicforthemasses. Along with his wife Brooke, he owns a Creative Arts Company, Studio Blue. The Buffingtons reside in Northeast Georgia, where they raise 2 crazy kids and look for adventure.
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Length - 57:43
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Dung Duong talks with me about his book - Shifting Optics: A Life in Perspective. Awesome talk! Dung has a wonderful outlook on life! This is episode 329 of Teaching Learning Leading K12.
Dung Duong is an entrepreneur, investor, and optic engineer who’s dedicated to making our world a better place. He supports his wife’s nonprofit, Perspective Charity, which works to give children the opportunity to become impactful doers, contributors, and leaders regardless of their economic or social situation. Dung wrote this book for his three children—Anastasia, Athena, and Radiant—in the hope that they find comfort, snicker at the infinitely bad jokes, and get a different perspective.
As a child, Dung Duong fled a third-world country, lived in refugee camps, was jailed, and found himself homeless before immigrating to the United States, ultimately growing up in poverty. A strong student and gifted engineer, Dung eventually found success as an entrepreneur and investor. In telling his full story, Dung doesn’t dwell on what he lacked in his youth. Instead, he focuses on what he did have: intrinsic motivation, a strong will, and the desire to positively impact the world.
Perhaps, like Dung, you also have a desire to make the world a better place.
In Shifting Optics, Dung shares his stories and honest recollections so that you can take from them perspective, if you wish. Told with a wink and a smile, he offers up his life’s story to show there is always a light in the darkness, there’s always a tomorrow, and there’s always a way to move forward and improve the world in our own unique way.
Lots to learn today!
Dung was fun to talk with. I think you will have a good time listening!
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08J9LJHYH/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
https://www.amazon.com/Dung-Duong/e/B08JMF3J6Z/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1
http://www.perspectivecharity.org/
Length - 1:03:07
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Houston Kraft talks about his book - Deep Kindness: A Revolutionary Guide for the Way We Think, Talk, and Act in Kindness. This is episode 328 of Teaching Learning Leading K12.
Houston Kraft is a speaker, facilitator, kindness advocate and according to his Twitter account - a professional hugger.
Houston’s job is to practice kindness. In high school, he started an organization called Random Acts of Kindness, Etc. (R.A.K.E.) to create a more connected, compassionate campus.
In college, he created Our Kindness with a focus on service, community building, and reducing anxiety through intentional acts of care.
Over the next eight years, Houston spoke at over 600 schools, organizations, and events globally to over a half a million people. He has spoken in over thirty states, Mexico, Canada, and Uganda. In 2016, Houston co-created Character Strong, which provides curriculum and training for safer and kinder schools and has already worked with 2,000 schools internationally, serving over one million students with their message, daily. In 2019, Houston was featured by Lay’s for their Spreading Smiles campaign.
He has been featured on the Huffington Post and highlighted by the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation. His messages about character, leadership, compassion, and kindness resonate with audiences age 5 to 95.
Houston is the author of Deep Kindness: A Revolutionary Guide For the Way We Think, Talk, and Act in Kindness with a 30 Act Starter Plan, Journal Prompts, and Practical Exercises.
DEEP KINDNESS is a call to action, beckoning us to a deeper understanding that calls readers to move past the surface level ‘confetti kindness’ marked by cutesy phrases and empty gestures. Instead, Kraft reveals, deep kindness is an ever-growing skillset rooted in empathy, perspective-taking, resilience, courage, and forgiveness. Featuring a 30-act starter plan, journal prompts, and practical exercises, DEEP KINDNESS dives into the types of kindness the world needs most today, taking an honest look at the gap between our belief in kindness and our ability to practice it well.
Lots to learn today.
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https://www.instagram.com/HOUSTONKRAFT/
@careacter -twitter
https://www.instagram.com/characterstrong/
https://www.facebook.com/getcharacterstrong/
https://twitter.com/houstonkraft
https://www.characterstrong.com/houstonkraft
Length - 53:01
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Mauro Guillen talks with me about his Wall Street Journal bestselling book - 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything. This is episode 327 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Mauro F. Guillén is one of the most original thinkers at the Wharton School, where he holds the Zandman Professorship in International Management and teaches in its flagship Advanced Management Program and many other courses for executives, MBAs, and undergraduates.
An expert on global market trends, he is a sought-after speaker and consultant. He combines his training as a sociologist at Yale and as a business economist in his native Spain to methodically identify and quantify the most promising opportunities at the intersection of demographic, economic, and technological developments. His online classes on Coursera and edX have attracted over 100,000 participants from around the world. He has won multiple teaching awards at Wharton, where his presentation on global market trends has become a permanent feature of over fifty executive education programs annually.
As Director of the Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies between 2007 and 2019 he revolutionized the world’s premier graduate international program combining the Wharton MBA with a degree in International Studies by launching innovative learning experiences such as the Global Knowledge Lab, the Lauder Intercultural Ventures, and the first Africa-focused academic program at a major business school. These contributions earned him the Aspen Institute’s Faculty Pioneer Award.
His research, teaching, and speaking incorporates both numerical assessments of trends and illuminating examples from business, politics, and everyday life. He shows in accessible terms that one can accurately forecast trends by systematically following the babies and following the money into the future.
He is the author of the book Wall Street Journal bestseller...
2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything.
Lots to learn today!
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250268176?tag=macsupaduinstalpa-20
https://www.facebook.com/public/Mauro-Guillen
https://twitter.com/MauroFGuillen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauro-guillen-719baa1b/
Length - 55:23
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Raj Valli: Founder & CEO of Thinkster - 326
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Raj Valli: Founder & CEO of Thinkster talks with me about Thinkster Math, Thinkster apps, test prep, and tutoring. This is episode 326 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Raj Valli founded - Thinkster.
He is a data and statistics guy at heart. As a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, he helped multi-billion dollar companies save money by making sure that their products and services were of the highest quality. Six Sigma means having less than 3.4 defects per 1 million pieces of anything you produce - engines, coffee cups, your shirt...tutoring….anything! That’s outstanding almost defect-free quality!
He has worked for major multi-billion dollar corporations leading functional areas in marketing, finance, operations, strategy, and M&A, across Aerospace, Automotive, Life Sciences, Chemicals, Materials, Pharmaceuticals, Industrial Controls, BioTech, Services, and Software.
He spent 20+ years volunteering his time to help provide basic education for underprivileged children.
Several years ago, his daughters were using a worksheet based math learning program (like Kumon, Mathnasium) to help accelerate their math learning.
He was frustrated by the lack of progress they were having in truly understanding math concepts. They were getting really good in the process of solving math problems in a very formulaic way without really understanding why they were doing what they were doing.
He looked everywhere for a math program that would let his daughter’s learn math for life and not just for a test or completing homework.
He wanted a guaranteed approach to learning math. Not hope. But GUARANTEED! Like, Six-Sigma defect-free!
He knew that if they had a real strong foundation in math, it would take them places. He found nothing other than a few books on the topic or needed to hire an excellent math tutor for $100/hour.
He took matters into his own hands and looked for efficient and fool-proof ways of getting students to learn not only math, but to develop a strong foundation in problem solving skills and to help them improve their critical thinking and logical reasoning skills.
He wanted them to develop the capacity to unpack and solve ANY problems in life - not just math problems.
His strategy worked so well, that it got his daughters to ace math in middle and high school and eventually it also helped them into a top Ivy League University.
This strategy became Thinkster….
Lots to learn today.
Thanks for listening.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYJdwYjaKLSYovlcW8x_GHw
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajvalli/
https://twitter.com/hellothinkster
https://www.facebook.com/ThinksterMath/?fref=ts
Length - 46:03