Campaigning For Our Salaries: The Challenges of Referendums

Dr. Beth Niedermeyer, superintendent of Noblesville Schools discusses the trials, troubles, and misunderstanding of public school funding. We also get into the "awkward" discussion of how teachers must campaign for their salary raises. If you are a teacher, admin, or parent that has ever good through a public school referendum, this is an episode you'll want to listen to, and share.

from StartEdUp Podcast https://soundcloud.com/don-wettrick/campaigning-for-our-salarys-the-challenges-of-referendums
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098: Thoughts for Teachers: Do You 'Break Bread' in Your Classroom?

How do you 'Break Bread' in your classroom? If you are wondering what breaking bread has to do with your teaching, then I would encourage you to listen for the next few minutes and be encouraged to reflect on an aspect of our teaching that cannot go overlooked. Lets talk about it...

from Teachonomy Talks http://traffic.libsyn.com/teachonomy/ThoughtEight.mp3
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167: Even Out the Ingredients

Teaching can be a challenge when balance is lacking in the classroom, whether academic or behavior related. By evening out the ingredients of the classroom composition, teachers can sustain balance, sanity and happiness for all. Tune in to hear multiple strategies for problem solving the lack of balance in your classroom. Quotables I grew through pain and built up my game When our life is crazy and we are feeling all sorts of emotions, it’s usually because something is out of whack It’s a trial and error process Join the Always A Lesson Newsletter http://eepurl.com/lJKNn Join the New Teacher Support Facebook Group https://ift.tt/2Cm8FZk Connect with Gretchen Email: gretchen@alwaysalesson.com Blog: Always A Lesson Facebook: Always A Lesson Twitter: @gschultek Instagram: Always.A.Lesson Linkedin: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers Google+: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers Book: Elementary EDUC 101: What They Didn't Teach You in College Leave a Rating and Review: https://ift.tt/2a7MyX4 Why? This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other educators remain empowered in a career that has a long lasting effect on our future. How? Search for my show in iTunes or Stitcher. Click on ‘Ratings and Reviews.’ Under ‘Customer Reviews,’ click on “Write a Review.” Sign in with your iTunes or Stitcher log-in info Leave a Rating: Tap the greyed out stars (5 being the best) Leave a Review: Type in a Title and Description of your thoughts on my podcast Click ‘Send’

from Always A Lesson's Empowering Educators Podcast http://alwaysalesson.com/167-even-out-the-ingredients/
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ePortfolios and Google Sites - GTT058

Google News and Updates

• Real-time presence in Microsoft Office to become available October 17th
• Inbox by Gmail shutting down at the end of March 2019
• Gmail Offline Chrome app to be removed later this year
• Building the map of Canada’s north

Featured Content ePortfolios with Google Sites Matt and Kasey discuss the value and implementation of ePortfolios and how easy it can be to use Google Sites as the platform for students to display and preserve their learning over the course of a school year or their time in a school from year to year. Discussion points:

• Showcase portfolio v. growth portfolio
• Other ePortfolio tools: Seesaw, Canvas
• No templates yet
• Reflection
• Advantages of G Suite for portfolios
  • Google Sites integrates with all of the other applications
  • G Suite users already have accounts
  • Easily embed everything from YouTube to Google Slides
  • Drag and drop interface that is easy to use and professional looking
  • New features make it even better with buttons and layouts
  • Workaround for comments

Send us your examples! Resources

• Dynamic learning in action
• Your chance to get students sharing their work with the world (Go Global)
• Great checklist from Eduphoria (even though it’s from 2013)
• Physics Portfolios (Thank you to Mike Mohammed)
  • Jillian Rosenbecker
  • Hannah Peksa

Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag

• Bettina Franz (comment from the website)
  • Google Forms being used to create comment boxes on Google sites.
• Libby Knaggs (via SpeakPipe)
  • Classwork in Google Classroom
• Dan Curtis (via SpeakPipe)
  • What do you do when students don't have permission to install Chrome extensions?
• Sarah Fromhold (email)
  • Is there a way to make Form responses go to the top of the response spreadsheet instead of the bottom?
  • Here’s a script to try

On The Blogs

• Matt - Google Slides icon boards for low-prep, visual thinking
• Kasey - How to Organize Assignments in Google Classroom

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from Google Teacher Tribe Podcast http://traffic.libsyn.com/googleteachertribe/GoogleTeacherTribe058.mp3
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"Mid-Major" cities, Startup Culture & Our Schools

I've noticed that "mid-major" city's like Indianapolis, Nashville, Milwaukee, (among many others) have embraced the start-up culture. This past weekend, I got to work with some great college students at Carlow University in Pittsburg. While I was there I met several other young entrepreneurs and team members of smaller startups. Most agree: we wish we had "found" this culture when we were in high school. So- how can we foster relationships between the startups and school?

from StartEdUp Podcast https://soundcloud.com/don-wettrick/mid-major-cities-startup-culture-our-schools
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105: Voice of Witness: Bring the Power of Oral History to Your Classroom

Voice of Witness is an organization that curates oral histories, stories told by people whose voices are rarely heard: Migrant workers. Refugees. Prisoners. Factory workers in developing countries. Undocumented Americans. Their stories, in their voices. In this episode, I talk with Voice of Witness education program director Cliff Mayotte about the books and free classroom materials that can help you bring the power of oral history to your classroom

from The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast http://cultofpedagogy.com
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The New School Rules with Anthony Kim Transformative Principal 244

The New School Rules with Anthony Kim Transformative Principal 244

Social Media: We talk about failing forward, but we never set up the conditions for failure.

Anthony Kim is the founder and CEO of Education Elements, a consulting company that helps districts meet the needs of their students. He is also the coauthor of “The New School Rules: 6 Vital Practices for Thriving and Responsive Schools“

• Focusing learning for adults on what your school specifically needs.
• Where the experiments came from.
• We talk about failing forward, but we never set up the conditions for failure.
• From “failing forward” to “safe enough to try”.
• It’s obvious when you see that things didn’t. Doing things how we have been doing them really facilitates
• First milestone - classes in school buildings, then factory model.
• Comparing currency to education.
• Starting private schools
• What you know, what you anticipate.
• If you’re bringing it up
• Meeting Agenda - Could be chaotic.
• Jethro’s Blog Post about WeWork’s ]https://ift.tt/2rPX8tA
• Articulate what game you’re playing rather than arguing over it.
• People often don’t know how to construct the problem of practice.
• Brainstorming vs. decision making.
• People aren’t trained to work in ambiguous environments.
• leaders live in ambiguity. Teachers live in
• How to be a transformative principal? Internal monthly experiments in our company, nothing to do with our work, but trying to understand people’s habits. Meditation example. Finding something that will get people to take action.

 

from Transformative Principal http://transformativeprincipal.org/
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Holacracy - Self-Organizing with Alexis Gonzales-Black Transformative Principal 245 1

 

Alexis Gonzales-Black is a principal designer at IDEO.

• Holacracy - One kind of self-organization practice. Distribute authority into the hands of those that are doing the work.
• Series of circles that are self-running startups or businesses.
• Put the organization’s purpose above your own ego.
• Shift to Holacracy can be challenging.
• What are the self-advocacy skills that people need to be able to be successful?
• Where do you have influence over these structures?
• Managing ourselves in a really interactive way.
• We build stories around what might happen if we take a step out of our comfort zone.
• The story you tell yourself is so important. Storylines
• We’re never going to get it right!
• We are a flawed species and we need to give people the ability to try new things.
• Allow tension to happen. Tension is inevitable.
• Own your tension and be the one who is responsible for resolving that.
• My job as a self-manager is to deal with that.
• Our job title becomes a uniform we can’t take off, rather than being a value we bring to the school
• What do others expect of me?
• What do others need of me?
• What are some of the roles that I can offload to someone else?
• Role Marketplace - bring your roles to the marketplace and share the load!
• The workforce increasingly wants autonomy, mastery, and purpose
• Flexible approaches to budgeting and staff assignment.
• People points.
• It’s holding us back from experimenting, where we definitely need experimentation.
• How to be a transformative principal? Take one piece of yourself and offer it to someone else.

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from Transformative Principal http://transformativeprincipal.org/episode245
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Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap

Short and sweet show notes today --

I crossed off a major milestone on my bucket list this week. I wrote my first book for school leaders!!!

If you have gotten value from this show over the years I am asking that you purchase the book today: https://bit.ly/blbsroadmap (or search Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap on Amazon).

Thanks for listening over the years. I hope you enjoy the book as much as you enjoy the #1 downloaded podcast for school leaders.

from The Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast: Leadership Insights | Create Winning Cultures | Focus on the Essential | Lead with Courage & Integrity | Principal Radio | School Administrator | Danny "Sunshine" Bauer http://better.libsyn.com/better-leaders-better-schools-roadmap
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Learning Names of Self and Others

   

Hello Kinder Guardians! In this week’s podcast, we’ll be discussing some ways that you can teach your students their own names and the names of their classroom friends!

We also encourage you to try ESGI’s new program Dazzle to help you print your student’s names easily and in a variety of ways. Use code kiosk for a discount!

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from Podcast - Kindergarten Kiosk https://www.kindergartenkiosk.com/podcast/9/22/learning-names-of-self-and-others
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