Connecting Through Corona with Mathew Portell (Ep 25)

04/07/20 • 22 min

Mathew Portell has dedicated over a decade to education in his role as a teacher, instructional coach, teacher mentor, and school administrator. He currently serves as executive principal of Fall-Hamilton Elementary, an innovative trauma-informed pilot school in Nashville, Tennessee, which was recently featured on Edutopia. In 2008, he combined his passion for literacy and cycling and founded the double award-winning nonprofit Ride for Reading. The organization promotes literacy and healthy living through the distribution of books via bicycle to underserved children. Ride for Reading has donated nearly 500,000 books to children nationally. Follow Mathew on Twitter @principalest and visit his website at paradigmshifteducation.com.

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Trevor Muir is a teacher, author, international speaker, and project-based learning expert. At the heart of all of Trevor's work is the ongoing discovery of how to make learning engaging and transformative. Trevor is a professor at Grand Valley State University, a former faculty member for the Buck Institute for Education, and is one of the Andrew Gomez Dream Foundation educators. His writing has been featured in the Huffington Post, EdWeek, and WeAreTeachers. He gave a TEDx Talk titled, “School Should Take Place in the Real World,” at TEDxSanAntonio. Trevor’s Facebook page, The Epic Classroom, has inspiring videos for educators that have been viewed over 26 million times. In Trevor's books, videos, keynotes, workshops, and classrooms are the conviction that every student has the potential for greatness and every teacher can be equipped to unlock that potential. Follow Trevor on Twitter @trevormuir and visit his website at trevormuir.com.

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