Recess Duty Episode 016 - Brian Host

02/16/22 • 25 min

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Brian is a passionate educational leader, driven by the possibilities digital and physical technologies have for classroom practice. He is an advocate for students and teachers taking ownership in becoming lifelong learners that engage with their world as active citizens. Brian is a Google Certified Innovator, Google Certified Trainer, SeeSaw Certified Educator, Director of ICTENSW and holds a Masters of Educational Leadership with his research focusing on the leadership practices that foster the uptake and development of high quality, future-focused teaching and learning across the school. With particularly interested to him is the pedagogical impact of personalised learning, STEM, differentiation and transdisciplinary learning integration has on learner outcomes.

As a connected educational leader, Brian continues to research how schools are changing in order to accommodate the needs of today's learners, creating confident and discerning leaders prepared for a world beyond the school. He does this by prioritising genuine relationships, actively engaging and contributing to professional learning communities via face to face and online networking that helps him to interpret current and cutting edge educational research focusing on theory and practice.

Currently, Brian is a Coordinator of Primary and Middle School.

Be sure to connect with Brian here:

Website: http://brianhost.blogspot.com/p/about.html

Twitter: https://twitter.com/HostBrian

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianhost/

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Currently, Brian is a Coordinator of Primary and Middle School.

Be sure to connect with Brian here:

Website: http://brianhost.blogspot.com/p/about.html

Twitter: https://twitter.com/HostBrian

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianhost/

Don't forget to subscribe and review so you don't miss any future episodes of Recess Duty.

Continue learning everyone!

Levi Allison - https://linktr.ee/levi_allison

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Recess Duty Episode 015 - Kathryn Finch & Theresa Hoover

Thank you to our sponsor, Toddle, for sponsoring the premiere of Season 2 of Recess Duty! TIES is back for its third and largest edition yet. Designed to be a festival of learning like no other, TIES 2022 will feature 100+ phenomenal thinkers and doers across 10+ unique session formats.

Welcome to Season 2 of Recess Duty! This week during Recess Duty we talk with the Kathryn Finch and Theresa Hoover authors of "Pass the Baton", a stellar book on how music teachers might empower students within their own classroom in such content and skill heavy discipline. They come with decades of experience and knowledge to share with us a little bit about their journey so far!

Kathryn Finch has over twenty years of experience in the elementary general music classroom and currently teaches in a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois. She speaks passionately about the shift in music education from teacher-led activities to student-led activities and focuses on practical ways music educators can transform their classrooms to empower their students to own their learning. She joined the writing team at Activate! Magazine as a contributing author of general music lesson plans and has co-authored two teaching resources, Full STEAM Ahead: Lessons to shift instruction, empower students, and transform your music classroom and Everyone Loves a Story: Bringing books to life through music.

Theresa Hoover is a music educator, speaker, and writer. She is an advocate for student voice in the music room and works to empower students throughout their musical experiences and help teachers transform their classrooms to become student-centered learning environments. Theresa is a Google for Education Certified Trainer, Google Certified Innovator, and Noteflight Learn Ambassador, frequently working with teachers to help integrate technology into their music classes. She is a recognized presenter and clinician for local, regional, and national conferences.

Be sure to connect with Kathryn Finch & Theresa Hoover here:

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/Singingfinch1 - Kathryn

https://twitter.com/MusicalTheresa - Theresea

Website:

https://passthebatonbook.com/ - Pass the Baton

https://www.ponderingsfromafinch.com/ - Kathryn

https://musicaltheresa.com/ - Thersea

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/PasstheBatonBook?fref=nf

Go get your copy of "Pass the Baton" here!

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Recess Duty Episode 017 - Jay Leroy

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This week during Recess Duty we talk with Jay Leroy, an MYP Physical Education educator to share his journey in education and how he teachers more than just skills and drills. We discuss the process and journey of moving students from learning skills within physical education to learning conceptually and applying those concepts across multiple sports and activities.

Jay is an international school physical and health educator with experience spanning four countries over the past 14 years. 'Jay grew up in Ontario Canada where he was a student-athlete at the University of Western Ontario and a semi-professional lacrosse player in the Ontario Junior Lacrosse League'. Trained in Australia, Jay began his teaching career in primary classrooms of East London where he quickly realized his passion for educating through the specialization of PHE.

Jay has since become an Athletic Director and Head of Department at three different international schools in East Asia. Most recently he has been focusing his professional growth on promoting conceptual inquiry in IB PHE. Jay is also a certified youth trainer and exercise therapist who uses his expertise to help staff and students alike realize their health and fitness goals.

Be sure to connect with Jay Leroy here!

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