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In this replay episode from June, 2022 the number one listened to episode of the the year. Jeff reflects on the past year of shifting schools and how this conversation about cell phones is a microcosm for the educational shift at large we find ourselves in.  Jeff shares a snipet from his 2019 conversation with Microsoft around cell phones in the classroom and education at large. You can watch the full interviwe with jeff at this link. This has been an incredible year for Shifting Schools. We went through a lot of transitions this year. From new album art and website logos from Chrissy to Tricia becoming a full time co-host on the podcast and taking on the role of Creative Content Extraordinaire. I'm happy to announce that Tricia and I will continue working together in 2023. How she finds time to do everything she's involved in still blows me away. From her own podcast and newsletter Be A Better Ally to her new podcast Unhinged Collaboration. Her dedication to educators, education, students and the LGBTQ+ comm

On this special episode, Jeff and Tricia sit down with a listener of the show: Joe Taranto. Joe reached out to Jeff and Tricia about his experience podcasting with students. Joe shares what he has learned over the years of launching and sustaining a podcast that is truly student-led. This episode is great for fellow educators who are curious about what a podcast might bring to their community as well as for educators reimagining student agency and student leadership. We discuss practical strategies for sustaining a podcast and avoiding a few hurdles along the way. Ready to learn more about Joe's student-driven podcast? Check out The Eagle's View here Connect with Joe on Twitter: @JoeRayTee School  Learn more about the school he works at: https://www.emerson-school.org/ Are you looking for more support in leveraging the power of podcasts? Check out one of our recent free webinars for more ideas here. Hoping to do more with podcasts as part of your professional learning? As always you can find all of our free g

The Port Townsend School District Website for the 2022 Salish Coast Elementary Children's Film Festival This year the Library/STEM program at Salish Coast Elementary hosted the 2022 SC Children's Film Festival! It was created by our K-5 citizen-scientists as a "Call to Action for the Future of the Salish Coast Ecosystem" and our students are excited to share their voices to tell their stories to ask our community: "What Will You Do to Help?" https://sites.google.com/ptschools.org/sc-childrens-film-festival-22/home Novel Effect is a Seattle-based company that created a fantastic free app that follows along as you read aloud books and uses voice recognition software to respond at just the right moment with music, sounds, and character voices to help make storytime magic.  They also have premium plans with educator discounts. https://noveleffect.com/educators/ WeVideo is an easy to use, chromebook compatible, cloud-based editing platform that allows teachers and students to work collaboratively on creating gifs

On this episode we are so excited to bring you words of wisdom from Eva Murray. Eva Murray is an international speaker on the topics of data visualization, data culture and data communities ,she's a published author, and is a driving force for women's empowerment in the technology industry. You can learn all about her work at:  evamurray.co.uk Three questions are on our minds after learning with Eva: 1) What might we do to better tell stories with data and why might data visualization be a skillset to lean into more in 2023? 2) How are our learning organizations fostering listening skill sets: specifically putting greater emphasis on how we can best listen for understanding? 3) What's the relationship between data analysis and curiosity? Connect with this week's special guest online Via LinkedIN Via Twitter If public speaking is something you are working on for your new year's goals be sure to also give her book a look! You can learn more about it here. Have you checked out our latest free guides? Learn more

About Swapna Krishna Swapna Krishna is a science and technology communicator specializing in the geek space. She regularly creates science videos on TikTok and contributes to Wired, NPR, StarTrek.com, New Scientist, and Engadget. Krishna's writing has appeared in outlets such as The Verge, Polygon, Fast Company, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Business Insider, and Slate. She is currently writing a book on stargazing for Chronicle Books (Fall 2023). You can find her on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. Subscribe to Swapna's brand new show Far Out on PBS Far Out explores the future of science, technology, and culture and how these changes may affect humanity and life on Earth. With pop culture and sci-fi references, the series will be humorous and fun, but unafraid to ask tough questions and explore unknowns. Far Out is the inaugural show in a lineup of new STEM-related content coming to PBS Terra with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Advancing Informal STEM Learnin

On this episode, Jeff and Tricia bring listeners an abundance of news. Up first they let listeners know that the 3rd annual collection of protocols is now available to download free. Jeff and Tricia talk about the many ways protocols have been helpful to them as facilitators of professional learning, as well as for their own learning, reflection, and creative processes. That free guide puts an emphasis not only on collaboration but also on ways we can seek to lead with belonging in mind. Tricia and Jeff then move on to explore and discuss the brand new podcast playlists that listeners can explore. So far there are three playlists: one on storytelling, one on the future of work, and one that looks to expand a school's professional learning library. Jeff also lets the community know about the new offers page where the Shifting Schools podcast family can learn more about special offers made possible through sponsors and partners. This is the time of year that the Shifting Schools team would love listener feedbac

In this free webinar from Jeff and Tricia we talk about using a backwards chaining approach to scaffling learning for students and why right now is a great time to introduce students to podcasts before the winter (or summer) holiday break.  - A list of podcasts for studnets - What does it mean to "read" in today's world? - How we can use podcasts to scaffold creativing writing for students Watch the free webinar on Youtube here and make sure to subscribe to not miss any of our upcoming webinars.  Make a copy of the presentation here Thank you to Quizalize for being a sponor of the podcast. You can get 1 month free of their premium subscription when you visit this link. 

Sponsors:  Quizalize.com Get started with 1 mont free premium subscrption when you visit bit.ly/SHIFTINGSCHOOLS Guest: Francisco Cervantes Francisco Cervantes is the Director of Creative Learning of the Scratch Foundation. Francisco has extensive experience researching, designing, and implementing educational resources in K–12 computer science. https://scratch.mit.edu/ https://www.scratchfoundation.org/ ScratchEd's Creative Computing Curriculum Guide

This is an audio recording of the free webniar Jeff and Tricia did on YouTube.  Watch the webinar on YouTube and don't forget to subscribe to catch more live free webinars.  Make a copy of the slide presentation to keep Sponsor:  Quizalize.com Save 80% by signing up for a yearly premium subscription when you use the code SHIFTINGSCHOOLS at checkout. Good through December 4th. 

Sponsors:  Quizalize.com  Save 80% on a yearly premium subscription when you use the code SHIFTINGSCHOOLS at checkout.  Join Jeff at the NCCE23 conference happening in Tacoma, WA. Stop by and say high or be on an episode of Shifting Schools as we record live from the conference on March 23rd, 2023 Today's Guess: Aaron Reiss Aaron Reiss is a freelance researcher, journalist, and cartographer based in New York City. He publishes work in places like The New Yorker, The New York Times, This American Life, The Atlantic, NPR, The Pulitzer Center, and more. Aaron's Twitter Getting Started with Podcasting Learning Series Google Earth adn Google MyMaps Professional Learning Pathways

Sponsors:  Quizalize.com Save 80% off a 1-year premium subscription when you use offer code SHIFTINGSCHOOLS at check out! Nanjing International School is seeking a PYP Coordinator Interested applicants can learn more and apply online at www.nischina.org/employment Education Concierge Podcasthttps://justteachbasics.wixsite.com/globaled Today's Guest: Dr. Sarah Lamdan Sarah Lamdan is a professor at CUNY School of Law. She also has a master's degree in library science and legal information management and a law certificate in environmental law. Her research focuses on information law and policy. When she's not teaching, she works on data justice projects across the spectrum from open government to personal privacy. She researches and writes about information access, surveillance & privacy, and informational capitalism. She's written a book about data analytics companies called Data Cartels (Stanford University Press). Data Cartels (Stanford University Press) Amazon Link

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Sponsors Quizalize.com sign up for your free account today! Our Guest: Fredrik van Huynh Fredrik van Huynh is the co-founder and director at Absolute Internship, a leading global internship program placing university students with top companies online and in global cities around the world. e. Frequently covered by The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek and BBC News as a career expert, van Huynh is recognized as one of Sweden's top entrepreneurs under 30, having built a multi million-dollar business from ground up. Absolute Internship High School Internship program One of the tips Fredrik TikTok   Find Jeff everywhere @jutecht  Find Tricia everywhere @tricia-fried

Play On Podcasts -- epic audio adventures that reimagine Shakespeare's timeless tales, featuring original music composition and the voices of award-winning actors. Each episode explores plays from Macbeth to A Midsummer Night's Dream, in a way that you can actually understand, created specifically for the podcast form by some of America's most exciting playwrights, directors, and composers, and performed by stage and screen's best. Look out for their new series, Measure for Measure, and hear Shakespeare like you've never before.  Subscribe to Play On Podcasts wherever you get your podcasts.

Check out Play On Podcast to hear Shakespeare like never before! Guest: Ana Maria Torres The Puerto Rican Miss Frizzle. Your favorite pop culture concierge. Design and BTEC Creative Media teacher at ISZL https://twitter.com/MsTorresAbroad

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Sponsors:  The Journalism Salute Podcast #NCCE23 Register for the conference here Guest: Andréa JonesAndréa Jones is  the creator and lead social media strategist at OnlineDrea.com They help businesses create an impact beyond their brand through authentic social media marketing strategies that focus on building a community of real and engaged followers She is the founder of the Savvy Social Podcast and at the Savvy Social School.  https://onlinedrea.com/ Savvy Social Podcast Episode 200

Sponsors:  FlexiSpot.com Save $20 on the E7 Standing Desk when using the code Shifting20 at check.  The Journalism Salute Podcast Our Guests:  Stephanie ArakelianStephanie is a senior podcast marketing & audience development executive at CurtCo Media, developing marketing campaigns, promotions, and features for all podcasts in the CurtCo Media catalog. Jenny CurtisJenny is a podcast producer, host & creator with CurtCo Media. Shows include: SOLAR  (Director/Producer/Voice of AL), Hollywood Unscripted (Host/Producer), A Moment of Your Time (Creator/Producer), and When Last I Left (Host/Producer). Solar the Podcast

Sponsors:  Teacherwit.com Where teachers go to coonect! Kids Stories Podcast Guest: Bernie Weigand I'm a licensed k-12 teacher in California and Oregon with  endorsements that include Language Arts, Art, Spanish, French, Math and ESOL/Bilingual. I enjoy writing, making art, and homesteading.  Creativity is a human trait to express in many ways. Writing, actually seeing one's thoughts, is a distinctly human, wonderful tool, an expressive outlet that breaks the time barrier.  I am writing an adaptable "template" curriculum, Ambassador Service Study, AmbaSS, to facilitate earning academic credit for doing student-centred, service learning projects while living with local people abroad, anywhere. Writing and reflection are integral parts of AmbaSS. I'm convinced that learning is deeply relational, based in the sharing of experiences, language and culture. Young people today need the perspective of other languages and cultures in order to perceive and understand their own, especially in this ever-shrinking, more c

Sponsor:  FlexiSpot.com Save $20 on the Pro Plus Standing Desk (E7) when you use offer code shifting20 at checkout. Guest: Nancy Lhoest-Squicciarini After 36 years of working in schools, I continue to wake up each day passionate, enthusiastic and proud to be an educator. My goal is to facilitate teams to elevate their collective wisdom to positively impact student learning. I am a motivated and personable professional who has the ability to successfully implement and facilitate a range of learning opportunities and experiences. Links: Nancy's Twitter Nancy's LinkedIn