Synopsis
Shift Our Schools podcast is a twice monthly podcast produced by Jeff Utecht and David Carpenter. Each episode focuses on an Essential Questions around transforming our schools.
Episodes
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Bounce: Single Slide PD Pathway - Webinar
18/11/2022 Duration: 22minSponsors Quizalize.com sign up for your free account today! Find Jeff everywhere @jutecht Find Tricia everywhere @tricia-fried Make a coyp of the Single Slide Pathway
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236: The Secret of Multiple Languages and Getting Connected in Internships
14/11/2022 Duration: 41minSponsors 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
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Bounce Episode: Macbeth from Play on Podcast
11/11/2022 Duration: 36minPlay 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.
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235: Inviting Student Culture into our Classrooms with Social Media
07/11/2022 Duration: 26minCheck 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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234: Using Social Media in Schools: A Panel of Experts
31/10/2022 Duration: 36minSponsors: carneysandoe.com/institute Guests: Follow the social media for Nanjing International School as referenced by Kyle: https://www.nischina.org/join-us/follow-us Follow the social media for AES as described by Yiva: https://twitter.com/aesdelhi https://www.youtube.com/user/AESDelhiVideos https://www.instagram.com/aesdelhi/ Follow the social media for ICS as described by Chris https://twitter.com/ICSAddis https://www.instagram.com/icsaddis/ https://www.youtube.com/user/ICSAddisAbaba
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233: Social Media for Teachers and Students
24/10/2022 Duration: 32minSponsors: 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
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232: The Collaboration behind the Solar Podcast
17/10/2022 Duration: 45minSponsors: 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
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231: Getting Credit for Service Learning Abroad
10/10/2022 Duration: 20minSponsors: 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
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230: Facilitating Meeting in K12 Education and Building Trust in Groups
03/10/2022 Duration: 43minSponsor: 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
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Free Podcasting Webinar: Podcasting with Students and Teams
30/09/2022 Duration: 22minJeff and Tricia walk through their free Shifting Schools podcasting resources that can be found in the free resource area at shitingschools.com. They cover how to support and create strucutres for students to learn about podcast and how to create strucutures that support podcast PD in our buildings and districts. You can download the presentation along with all the links to resources here.
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229: Data Visualization - Telling Stories with Data
26/09/2022 Duration: 36minSponsors: Flexispot.com Use code shifting20 to save $20 on the E7 Pro Plus Standing Desk at checkout. Check out the Shifting Schools Pathway on Google MyMaps to start having your students create mapping stories today! Guest: Sriharsha Devulapalli Sriharsha Devulapalli joined The San Francisco Chronicle in 2022, after finishing his master's degree in data journalism from Columbia University. Prior to this, he was working as a Product Manager for Blue Sky Analytics where he helped build a mapping platform for environmental data. Previously, he was a software developer with Mint, where he was responsible for data visualizations for the newspaper’s daily data journalism page – Plain Facts. During his time there, Harsha wrote and produced data visualizations focusing on politics, development and economic issues in India. Devulapalli also brings with him experience outside of journalism. He had worked with the Urban Design Lab at the Earth Institute, Columbia University and the Hyderabad Urban Lab. He enjoys citi
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Shifting Schools Update and a Surprise
23/09/2022 Duration: 22minOff script and off the cuff Jeff and Tricia hit record and then talk about some of the updates happening at Shifting Schools. New website layout, new logos, and new social media. Please a FREE give a way to the first 10 people who leave us a auido recording at https://podinbox.com/shiftingschoolspod tell us what you like about the Shifting Schoosl podcast or if you have a recommendation for an episode you'd like to hear...we're all ears.... NYTimes article: Gen Z Tiktok Search Engine of Choice Find us on Tiktok at: https://www.tiktok.com/@shiftingschoolspod?lang=en Jeff at https://www.tiktok.com/@jeffutecht Tricia at https://www.tiktok.com/@tricia_fried
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228: The Intersection of SEL and Information Literacy
19/09/2022 Duration: 38minShifting Schools Pathways Our Guest: Jennifer LaGarde Jennifer LaGarde is a lifelong teacher and learner with over 20 years in public education. Her educational passions include leveraging technology to help students develop authentic reading lives, meeting the unique needs of students living in poverty and helping learners (of all ages) discern fact from fiction in the information they consume. Jennifer is the coauthor of the books Fact VS Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking In the Age of Fake News (ISTE, 2018) and Developing Digital Detectives (ISTE, 2021) with Darren Hudgins. Subscribe to their free monthly information literacy newsletter here! A huge fan of YA Literature, Jennifer currently lives, works, reads and drinks lots of coffee in Olympia, Washington. Follow her adventures at www.librarygirl.net or on Twitter @jenniferlagarde.
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227: Understanding the Pressure of Parenting and Playing Sports Today
12/09/2022 Duration: 35minOur Guest: Linda Flanagan LINDA FLANAGAN is a freelance journalist, researcher, and former cross-country and track coach. A graduate of Lehigh University, Flanagan holds master’s degrees from Oxford University and the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and was an analyst for the National Security Program at Harvard University. She is a founding board member of the New York City chapter of the Positive Coaching Alliance and a 2020–21 advisory group member for the Aspen Institute’s Reimagining School Sports initiative, and her writing on sports has appeared in The Atlantic, Runner’s World, and on NPR’s education site MindShift, where she is a regular contributor. https://twitter.com/LindaFlanagan2 Link to Book on Amazon
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226: Turning Data into Visual Stories
05/09/2022 Duration: 29minOur Sponsor: https://www.prideandlessprejudice.org/events Our Guest: Gabrielle Merite Gabrielle Merite. Proper noun. Scientist-Turned-Designer powered by plants and activism. She is not: a graphic designer with 30+ years experience or qualified in fine arts. She is: a Science graduate, creative, analyst, advocate for humanity, cat lady and feeling awkward writing this at the third person. I specialize in provocative imagery that ignites imagination, inspires and sometimes shocks. Deeply passionate about social justice and our responsibility as humans to be there for one another, I choose to communicates analytic findings with honesty, rawness and compassion. My mission is simple. To help ethically-driven organisations uncover important truths and share stories with intention. In my work, the faces behind behind the figures matter. In places where numbers are usually found, I use faces. Because subjects aren’t dots. Quite often, they’re people. Like you (and me). Offering a collaborative approach, I become a
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225: Teaching Data Literacy and Telling Data Stories
29/08/2022 Duration: 28minShownotes Guest: Allen Hillary Allen is a data storyteller who’s passionate about building community and curating articles that highlight the importance of data narratives. He has spent 20 years in Fortune 500 companies using data analysis and analytics to help sales and marketing leaders make informed decisions. What he's learned is that numbers alone are not memorable and managers are not making decisions solely based on them. Empathy and communication are key in getting the work done. Allen created Data Heroes to spotlight notable figures who used data to make an impact on society. In reading these stories it’s his goal to inspire others to appreciate the art of telling their own. https://twitter.com/AlDatavizguy http://www.datastories.cc/ Data Stories is planning to launch Community Training Boot camps for educators later this fall. The boot camps will be a weekend session where educators can bring storytelling into their classroom and have a new way of showing my students how to look at the world that is
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Bounce: 4 Media Literacy Routines
26/08/2022 Duration: 20minMedia Literacy Routines: Check out templates and strategies to set up routines that help learners become more media literate. These routines are perfect for launching at the start of the year. Explore the free guide on this topic here: https://www.shiftingschools.com/free-pdfs
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224: Unlocking the Potential Hidden in Your Student Data
22/08/2022 Duration: 11minShow Notes: Check out our latest free guides Webinar link: Magnifying Metacognition Webinar link: Spotlighting Softskills The podcast on Youtube Our new Instagram for the podcast: @shiftingschoolspod Our new TikTok for the podcast: @shiftingschoolpod Guest: Matthew Courtney Matthew Courtney helps schools help kids, and he wants to show you how to leverage the power of education research and data to drive continuous improvement in your districts, schools, and classrooms. https://www.matthewbcourtney.com/ Twitter: @mbcourtneyedd LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbcourtneyedd/ Direct Book Link: https://www.matthewbcourtney.com/edaintheclassroom Book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3w7XH3T (Affiliate link)
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Bounce Episode: Spotlighting Softskills
19/08/2022 Duration: 20minSpotlighting SoftSkills: Learn about six different tried and trusted methods for embracing, celebrating, and rehearsing different soft-skills. Explore the free guide on this topic here: https://www.shiftingschools.com/free-pdfs Slide Deck here: http://gg.gg/softskillsshiftingschools
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223: Being Efficient with our Technology and Time
15/08/2022 Duration: 30minShow Notes: Check out our new series of courses on being efficient with Google Workspace. Our Guest: Dr. Monica Burns Dr. Monica Burns is a curriculum and edtech consultant, author, and founder of ClassTechTips.com. She works with schools, districts, and organizations to provide actionable and engaging professional development. Monica started her blog in 2012 to help make edtech easier for fellow educators and launched the Easy EdTech Podcast to support educators who want to simplify and streamline technology integration.” https://classtechtips.com https://www.edutopia.org/article/5-questions-help-you-make-edtech-decisions https://classtechtips.com/2022/07/26/educators-save-time-173/ https://www.edutopia.org/blog/tech-tips-for-parent-newsletters-monica-burns