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Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Ben Owens discusses his non-profit "Open Way Learning" and the book he co-authored - Open Up, Education! How Open Way Learning Can Transform Schools. This is episode 339 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Ben Owens is an education strategist and coach with experience helping schools create the cultural conditions that allow authentic, localized innovation to thrive in their own learning communities. He specializes in working with schools to retool their approach to collaboration and the free exchange of ideas and resources by applying the core elements of the open source movement - one of the primary drivers fueling our innovation economy. This “Open Way Learning” approach allows teams to develop, remix, adapt, and sustain a culture of authentic innovation that nimbly responds to the just-in-time needs of each student. Such innovative approaches include competency-based learning, project-based learning, distributed leadership, design thinking, true personalized learning, and high-quality STEM teaching & learning - all implemented with fidelity and sustained for the long term because they are rooted in the DNA of a school’s culture (instead of being short lived fads).
As an engineer who spent a 20-year career in manufacturing locations across the US, Ben saw first-hand the essential need to rethink student success so that it was less focused on siloed curriculum and test scores and more focused on the skills, knowledge, and dispositions needed for students to thrive in a rapidly changing world. He left the corporate world in 2007 to do something about this by becoming a public school teacher in Southern Appalachia. Ben taught physics and math for 11 years at Tri-County Early College and in that role was able to work with a dynamic team of peers to craft and scale an engaging approach to student-centered teaching and learning that blurs the lines between what happens in school and what happens in the real world.
Ben is the co-author of “Open Up, Education! How Open Way Learning Can Transform Schools,” a book that makes a compelling case for why our schools must be more open if they are to truly prepare students for a rapidly changing world. He was the recipient of the 2017 Bridging the Gap Distinguished Teacher in STEM Education; the 2016 North Carolina Center for Science, Mathematics, & Technology Outstanding 9-16 Educator Award; a member of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Teacher Advisory Council; a 2014 Hope Street Group National Teaching Fellow, and a former “Community TA” for the MIT Teaching Systems Lab. He is currently an Open Organization Ambassador and is a National Faculty member for PBLWorks, the world leader in Project Based Learning. He and his wife live in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina.
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https://www.openwaylearning.org/
https://twitter.com/engineerteacher
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-owens-0a8a9875/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/openwaylearning/
https://twitter.com/OpenWayLearning
https://www.facebook.com/openwaylearning
https://www.amazon.com/Open-Up-Education-Haigler/dp/1475842007
https://www.queticocoaching.com/blog/2020/9/16/getting-unstuck-123-opening-up-education
Length - 54:38
Monday Dec 28, 2020
Monday Dec 28, 2020
Centner Academy (from the outside), Miami, Florida
Centner Academy (from the inside)
Nicole Rivera, principal, Centner Academy Elementary School
Nicole Rivera is the elementary school principal at the Centner Academy. She talks with me about the founders, focus, and goals of the Centner Academy located in Miami, Florida. This is episode 338 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Founded by serial entrepreneurs and philanthropists David and Leila Centner, Centner Academy is a multicultural language immersion school dedicated to cultivating happiness, emotional intelligence, mindfulness and well-being in children. The curriculum is focused on a unique blend of diverse academic paradigms supported by key pillars: language mastery, leadership, character, mindfulness, philanthropy and life skills.
“At Centner Academy, we’re striving for every child to start school happy and excited for the rest of the year,” said Leila Centner, Founder & CEO of Centner Academy. “A positive school climate and culture promotes students’ ability to learn and succeed in life. Our goal is to transform the heart of education to ensure happy, confident, compassionate, mindful, empathic and connected children through a more holistic approach to teaching that responds to social challenges.”
Nicole Rivera is the elementary school principal at Centner Academy.
She is passionate about embedding social-emotional learning throughout the curriculum at all grade levels. In addition to the academic skills all students need, Nicole recognized early on that the landscape of education would need to shift significantly to prepare students properly for their futures. In a world where many traditional jobs are becoming automated, emotional intelligence and “soft” skills are more important now than ever.
Nicole saw this need and created her own business, the Academic Tutoring Program to help students achieve academic success as well as confidence and emotional resilience. Nicole’s expertise has empowered many students.
Nicole holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a specific focus on Developmental Psychology from Florida International University and is a business owner.
The Centner Academy, based in Miami Florida, is the first happiness school in the U.S. It will implement a happiness and mindfulness curriculum for students in preschool to 8th grade.
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https://www.centneracademy.com/
https://twitter.com/CentnerAcademy
https://www.instagram.com/centneracademy/
https://www.facebook.com/CentnerAcademy/
Length - 30:55
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Sara E. Rimm-Kaufman discusses her book SEL from the Start: Building Skills in K-5. This is episode 337 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Sara E. Rimm-Kaufman, PhD, is the Commonwealth Professor of Education at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development. She lives in Charlottesville.
She and her research group at the UVA Social Development Lab (www.socialdevelopmentlab.org) conduct research on elementary and middle school classrooms with the goal of developing roadmaps for administrators and teachers making decisions for children and youth.
Today, we are talking about her book, SEL From the Start: Building Skills in K-5 (Norton Professional Books, 2020).
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https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393714609
https://wwnorton.com/author/22834/saraerimmkaufman
https://www.socialdevelopmentlab.org/
https://wwnorton.com/selseries
Length - 39:21
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Cathy Fleischer & Antero Garcia talk with me about their book - Everyday Advocacy: Teachers Who Change the Literacy Narrative. This is episode 336 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Cathy Fleischer, a professor at Eastern Michigan University and special imprint editor at NCTE, lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Cathy Fleischer is a Professor of English Education and Writing Studies at Eastern Michigan University, where she co-directs the Eastern Michigan Writing Project and serves as Faculty Associate for the Office of Campus and Community Writing. She has taught courses, led workshops, and written widely about teacher advocacy for the past decade. Her other scholarship focuses on community literacy, teacher research, and writing teacher education.
Antero Garcia, an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, lives in Redwood City, California.
Antero Garcia is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University where he studies how technology and gaming shape both youth and adult learning, literacy practices, and civic identities.
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https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393714371
https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Advocacy-Teachers-Literacy-Narrative/dp/0393714373
@wwnorton
Length - 38:41
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
David Price talks with me about his book The Power of Us: How We Connect, Act, and Innovate Together. This is episode 335 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
David Price, OBE, is a global thought leader, learning futurist and author, specialising in how organisations learn, innovate and make themselves fit for the future.
He is a highly sought-after public speaker, entertaining and educating audiences around the world, in business, education and the public sector.
He is the author of two books ...
OPEN: How We'll Work, Live And Learn In The Future
And
his most recent book, The Power of US: How We Connect, Act, and Innovate Together.
David is also a highly experienced trainer, having spent 20 years running workshops and masterclasses in people development, organisational learning, innovation strategies, as well as a host of training events for schools, colleges and universities.
In 2009, he was awarded the OBE for services to education, by Her Majesty The Queen.
He consults and advises corporations, governments and education leaders on preparing for future shifts in work, leisure and the digitally connected world. He is passionate about helping people fulfill their true potential, most notably by tackling the global epidemic of disengagement - in the workplace, and in formal education.
As a former professional musician, and a native of Jarrow in the North-East of England, David is used to travelling to find work, spending two-thirds of the year on the road. When he isn't moving, he's to be found in Leeds, in the UK.
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Twitter: @davidpriceobe
Facebook: Engaged Learning Online
Facebook author page: David Price
LinkedIn: David Price OBE
Length - 48:08