Episodes
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Jason McKenna - What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom: Improving Student Problem Solving, Collaboration, and Engagement. This is episode 638 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
In the book What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom: Improving Student Problem Solving, Collaboration, and Engagement, author and educator Jason McKenna describes how teaching STEM education in his elementary school changed his classroom and his life, improving his students’ and his own approaches to problem-solving, collaboration, and general motivation to learn. Offering examples, tried and tested classroom projects, and collaborative strategies, this innovative resource opens up STEM education in K–6 classrooms in exciting and expansive new ways.
Awesome conversation!
So much to learn and use in your classroom!
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Length - 59:58
Thursday Sep 10, 2015
Episode 69: Dr. Ruby Payne & Understanding Poverty
Thursday Sep 10, 2015
Thursday Sep 10, 2015
Dr. Payne is the author of more than a dozen books, a speaker, a publisher, and a life-long educator.
She is also the founder of aha! Process, Inc.
Her most famous work, at least for educators, is A Framework for Understanding Poverty: a Cognitive Approach.
Her book has sold more than 1.5 million copies and is the 2014 winner of the Revere Award-The Golden Lamp!
This summer she spoke with the teachers, administrators and school staff of all of our member systems.
Dr. Payne talked about how poverty situations impact learning and affect the children and families who the schools serve. She explained the Hidden Rules among classes and talked about the differences between men and women and why they are important to know and understand.
She addressed the importance of relationship building between the staff and families to encourage participation in classes as well as the school as a whole.
Dr. Payne was inspiring and encouraging. After speaking for the day, I was able to talk with her about her work.
I hope that her thoughts will encourage you to learn more about how to work with children and families who are impacted by generational poverty.
Wednesday Jul 29, 2015
Episode 63: Ava Kofke-The Financial Angel
Wednesday Jul 29, 2015
Wednesday Jul 29, 2015
Ava doesn’t just offer this advice by talking about it, she has written a book called The Financial Angel. The book is filled with powerful suggestions about dealing with money and activities to help the reader practice having and using money.
All of this and –wait for it-she is going into the 6th grade!
As I talked with Ava, I knew that she must really be a 45-year-old financial planner.
Enjoy the talk. I hope that you will share with your children and adults who need help with understanding the good and the bad of money.
Thanks Ava for sharing your great thoughts about managing money.
Length: 27:10
Friday Jul 10, 2015
Episode 61: Preparing For Backup
Friday Jul 10, 2015
Friday Jul 10, 2015
- If you don't know how to backup files, find a youtube video, instructional web page, ask a friend or pay someone to set up and show you how. It's that important!
- Even if you work in an environment that does backups, make your own! Remember, it is your data, you are responsible for it, and you will be the one crying if everything is lost!
- Test your backups. A backup isn't any good if you can't use it.
- Periodically review your backup policies. You might need/want to tweak them. Update your bookmark backups, etc. You might have old files that can be archived on CD/DVD and deleted from the hard drive.
Wednesday Jul 01, 2015
Episode 60: Vicki Davis-The Cool Cat Teacher
Wednesday Jul 01, 2015
Wednesday Jul 01, 2015
Vicki is a teacher and an IT Director in a small school system in Camilla, Georgia, but she is connected through her writing, speaking, podcast, and social media content throughout the world!
This is her 13th year teaching.
She writes regularly for the website Edutopia and Vicki can frequently be found as a national keynote speaker presenting on a multitude of topics.
She is a published author and has her own podcast on the BAM Radio Network called Every Classroom Matters
I subscribe to her podcast on iTunes and look forward to every episode.
Her books are Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step At A Time and Reinventing Writing: The 9 Tools that are Changing Writing, Teaching, and Learning Forever
She has an amazing blog, http://www.coolcatteacher.com/, where she expresses her thoughts about many different areas associated with teaching from technology to classroom management and many topics in between. She also connects the readers to many resources for helping with better teaching and school leading.
She also is very active on social media, especially Twitter, where her handle is @coolcatteacher
https://www.pinterest.com/coolcatteacher/
https://www.facebook.com/coolcatteacher
https://www.youtube.com/coolcatteacher
Vicki is engaging and overflowing with incredible ideas for making the classroom experience unforgettable.
After talking with Vicki, I couldn't stop talking to my team members about her inspiring words!
I think that you will get just as energized.
Enjoy!
Length:
40:45