Deep and Joyful Learning
08/19/20 • 32 min
Dr. Lori McEwen helps educators create classrooms and communities of deep and joyful learning.
Lori has served educators, students and families as a leader in urban, suburban and charter environments and as a teacher, researcher, consultant, and professor. Some of her proudest achievements include providing leadership, vision and strategic direction for meaningful change--including the creation of personalized, mastery-focused high schools.
Lori is skilled at helping partners explore what’s possible in classrooms and schools by asking tons of questions, providing lots of readings, supporting risk-taking and making sure there’s laughter along the way.
Show Highlights- How to develop and lean on your gut instincts
- The importance of a lengthy interview process when hiring
- Lori provides valuable resources to support the mastery movement
- The first steps to building a framework so students can be masters of their learning.
- Why you can’t cheat on authentic assessments
- Rigorous and social, emotional learning are not mutually exclusive, but inclusive
- Lori’s favorite strategies to fill the 3 buckets that ensure deep and joyful learning
“The better that you and I can communicate with one another, the better we can collaborate. Once we have a great collaboration, we can get to this place of synergy. This idea that the room is smarter than any individual in the room. We can construct meaning to get to that higher level of creativity together because we're riffing off each other.”
-Lori McEwen
Full Transcript Lori McEwen’s Resources & Contact Info:- The Grid Method
- Fair Isn't Always Equal,
- Thomas R. Guskey
- Never Work Harder Than Your Students
- Core SEL Competencies - casel
- Lori McEwen: Home
- Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
- Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
- Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
- Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)
You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/
School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.
Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.
Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC
Dr. Lori McEwen helps educators create classrooms and communities of deep and joyful learning.
Lori has served educators, students and families as a leader in urban, suburban and charter environments and as a teacher, researcher, consultant, and professor. Some of her proudest achievements include providing leadership, vision and strategic direction for meaningful change--including the creation of personalized, mastery-focused high schools.
Lori is skilled at helping partners explore what’s possible in classrooms and schools by asking tons of questions, providing lots of readings, supporting risk-taking and making sure there’s laughter along the way.
Show Highlights- How to develop and lean on your gut instincts
- The importance of a lengthy interview process when hiring
- Lori provides valuable resources to support the mastery movement
- The first steps to building a framework so students can be masters of their learning.
- Why you can’t cheat on authentic assessments
- Rigorous and social, emotional learning are not mutually exclusive, but inclusive
- Lori’s favorite strategies to fill the 3 buckets that ensure deep and joyful learning
“The better that you and I can communicate with one another, the better we can collaborate. Once we have a great collaboration, we can get to this place of synergy. This idea that the room is smarter than any individual in the room. We can construct meaning to get to that higher level of creativity together because we're riffing off each other.”
-Lori McEwen
Full Transcript Lori McEwen’s Resources & Contact Info:- The Grid Method
- Fair Isn't Always Equal,
- Thomas R. Guskey
- Never Work Harder Than Your Students
- Core SEL Competencies - casel
- Lori McEwen: Home
- Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
- Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
- Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
- Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)
You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/
School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.
Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.
Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC
Previous Episode
A Heart Shift Regarding Family Engagement
Clayton Reedie is the current Director for the Campbelltown Principal’s Network in Sydney, the equivalent of a District Superintendent in the United States.
He began as a teacher in 1991 and from there earned early promotion to Executive Teacher, Assistant Principal and then Deputy Principal. Clayton’s first Principalship was at Mount Hunter, a small country school of 58 students. Further principal positions followed at Chipping Norton, Hinchinbrook and finally at Dalmeny Public School.
In 2019, Clayton left the school-based role to become a Principal (School Leadership) a position which centred on providing support and professional development to principals and school leadership teams. Earlier this year he was successful in being promoted into his current role of Director.
Clayton was honoured to be elected by his peers to lead the Liverpool Primary Principals’ Association as President for three years from 2011 to 2014 and in 2016 he was awarded a full scholarship to study at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Clayton lives in south-western Sydney and his greatest love is spending time with his wife, Nikki, and five boys aged 6, 13, 16, 19 and 22. They entertain, enlighten, love and give... but most of all keep him very much grounded in reality.
Show Highlights- The original Ruckus Maker’s framework to open doors of trust that turns challenging parents into biggest supporters
- Avoid being closed minded to life changing opportunities
- Heart shifts are needed instead of mind shifts in the school of life.
- Only 12.5% of people are capable of change without these supports
- 90% of complaints come because of these two factors
- The pitfalls of quoting policy to your learning community
- How to share data, warts and all with parents to create curriculum allies
"We need a heart shift before a mind shift." And that's because when people connect with an idea, emotionally, they're moved to action. There's no amount of numbers or logic that can change what somebody thinks, but if they can put themselves in somebody else's shoes, just for a moment, maybe just maybe they'll have an epiphany and want to do what is right.
Clayton Reedie
Full Transcript Clayton Reedie’s Resources & Contact Info:- Dual Capacity Building Framework
- Everything Is F*cked: A Book about Hope
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck:
- Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
- Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
- Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
- Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)
You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/
School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.
Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.
Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC
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The Distance Learning Playbook
Nancy Frey is a professor at San Diego State University in Educational Leadership where she focuses on policies and practices in literacy and school leadership. Nancy is also a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College, an award-winning open-enrollment public school in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego that she co-founded in 2007. For nearly 3 decades, Nancy has dedicated her work to the knowledge and skills teachers and school leaders need to help students attain their goals and aspirations. Nancy just released The Distance Learning Playbook with co-authors Doug Fisher and John Hattie.
Show Highlights- Win the school year by using these plays from Nancy’s playbook
- How to pivot in a pandemic or any other crisis
- Tips to build, maintain and foster relationships when we're at a distance
- The loss of learning in times of crisis is counterintuitive
- Why national test scores increase during times of crisis
- This isn't crisis teaching. Create cohesion and consistency with these scheduling strategies
- Future proofing students
“What I want a Ruckus Maker to remember is that our job is to be a Ruckus Maker. As educators, I think that we sort of have a self concept that we maintain the status quo. Now more than ever, we need to disrupt. We need to innovate. Schooling has needed to be innovated for a long time. This is our chance.”
-Nancy Frey
Full Transcript Nancy Frey’s Resources & Contact Info: Looking for more? Show Sponsors- Organized Binder is an evidence-based RTI2 Tier 1 universal level solution
- Focuses on improving executive functioning and noncognitive skills
- Is in direct alignment with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework
- Is an integral component for ensuring Least Restrictive Environments (LRE)
You can learn more and improve your student’s success at https://organizedbinder.com/
School leaders know that productive student talk drives student learning, but the average teacher talks 75% of class time! TeachFX is changing that with a "Fitbit for teachers" that automatically measures student engagement and gives teachers feedback about what they could do differently.
Learn more about the TeachFX app and get a special 20% discount for your school or district by visiting teachfx.com/blbs.
Copyright © 2020 Twelve Practices LLC
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