RTOL: Rapid Transition to Online Learning
27 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -If you were told today that you had to start teaching all of your classes online by tomorrow, what would you need to know and do? RTOL brings you the proven and innovative new strategies educators are devising to make a rapid transition to online learning in response to the corvid-19 pandemic. In short, listen in to learn what works in making a rapid transitions to online learning.
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October 04, 2020 16:40Larry Ferlazzo with Dr. Sawsan Jaber, Dr. Nina Shoman-Dajani, and Abeer Shinnawi The number of Arab speaking ELL students has grown by 75 percent over the past eight years. Join us for a discussion on the evolving face and needs of English language learners and what every teacher needs to know. Follow on Twitter: @SJEducate @DrNinaShoman @shinram1 @larryferlazzo @bamradionetwork @effortfuleduktr @klrembert @dlshrum65 @jonHarper70bd
Managing an Unceremonious End to a Historic School Year
April 23, 2020 13:31 - 10 minutes - 20 BytesWe're coming up on the end of a school year that is unlike any we've ever experienced. This week we reflect on what an unceremonious close of this historic school year means to students, parents, and teachers. Follow on Twitter: @ideasforteacher @bamradionetwork @petersantoro @MrHabegger @DrBioTom @jonbergmann Jake Habegger is an 8th grade US History Teacher in Franklin, Tennessee. His goal in education is to invigorate student learning by meeting them where they are through the use of tec...
A Double Dose of Candor: COVID-19, Online Learning, and the Elephant in the Room
April 16, 2020 22:55 - 10 minutes - 20 BytesWe wanted to find out what education leaders are saying to each other about the challenge of making a rapid transition to online learning. Our guests were refreshingly candid and pragmatic in their recommendations for responding to the uncertainty of it all. Follow on Twitter: AASAHQ @AASADan @JimmyMinichello @efranksnaesp @NAESP @jonHarper70bd @bamradionetwork Daniel Domenech is executive director of the American Association of School Administrators. A native of Cuba who moved to the U.S....
This Week We Rediscovered Routine and How It Feels to Crave Face-to-Face Time
April 13, 2020 23:12 - 9 minutes - 20 BytesWe’re in week three of online learning and we're all feeling a growing need for the old-fashioned, non-digital face-to-face time. Will we get over it? Follow on Twitter: @jonbergmann @ideasforteacher @bamradionetwork @petersantoro @MrHabegger @DrBioTom @jonHarper70bd Jake Habegger is an 8th grade US History Teacher in Franklin, Tennessee. His goal in education is to invigorate student learning by meeting them where they are through the use of technology. Peter Santoro has been teaching high...
Is It Just Me or Are You Struggling to Get Your Students to Show Up for Online Classes?
April 04, 2020 17:27 - 11 minutes - 20 BytesThis week student attendance was a big challenge. Why is one of us getting 20 percent attendance while another just got 10o percent of his students to show up? Listen in to this ongoing series with four teachers from different schools, as they reflect, share experiences, and identify the big lessons they are gleaning as they make a rapid transition to online learning. It’s a virtual weekly happy hour at the RTOL Bar and Grill. Follow on Twitter: @jonbergmann @ideasforteacher @bamradionetwor...
Managing the Evolving New Normal In Education: Reactive Versus Proactive
April 03, 2020 17:01 - 3 minutes - 20 BytesWhat are we learning about digital leadership through this rapid transition to online learning? What best practices become less relevant? Which rules transfer despite the crisis we’re struggling to manage? Follow on Twitter: @ISTE @mrhooker @jonHarper70bd @bamradionetwork @DrJacieMaslyk #ISTE20 #ISTEturns40 #edchat #edtech #edtechchat Dr. Jacie Maslyk has served as a teacher, coach, principal, curriculum director and assistant superintendent. Maslyk has written on a number of relevant top...
Being a Lead Learner Online: What’s Different, What Stays the Same in a Crisis?
April 03, 2020 16:59 - 13 minutes - 20 BytesWhat are we learning about digital leadership through this rapid transition to online learning? What best practices become less relevant? Which rules transfer despite the crisis we’re struggling to manage? Follow on Twitter: @ISTE @mrhooker @jonHarper70bd @bamradionetwork @DrJacieMaslyk #ISTE20 #ISTEturns40 #edchat #edtech #edtechchat Dr. Jacie Maslyk has served as a teacher, coach, principal, curriculum director and assistant superintendent. Maslyk has written on a number of relevant top...
Group Grades and the Future of Classroom Learning
April 03, 2020 16:57 - 11 minutes - 20 BytesThis month we discuss the importance of classroom discussion and consider strategies to make group discussions more meaningful and aligned with developing the skills students will need in the future. Follow on Twitter: @ASCD @a_rebora @bamradionetwork @AlexisWiggins #classroomstrategies Alexis Wiggins is the founder and director of the Cohort of Educators for Essential Learning (www.ceelcenter.org) and the author of The Best Class You Never Taught: How Spider Web Discussion Can Turn St...
What Teachers Need From Administrators While Shifting to Remote Learning
April 03, 2020 16:55 - 13 minutes - 20 BytesWe are all trying to figure out how to handle this unprecedented disruption of the school year. In this episode, we talk about what some teachers are saying they need from their administrators during these stressful and demanding times. Follow on Twitter: @jonHarper70bd @froehlichm @pfagell @bamradionetwork @Joe_Mazza Phyllis L. Fagell, LCPC is the school counselor at Sheridan School in Washington, D.C. and a therapist at The Chrysalis Group. Phyllis frequently writes columns on counseling,...
How Some Teachers Are Shining a Light on the Xenophobic Tone of COVID19
April 03, 2020 16:53 - 12 minutes - 20 BytesBias and social injustice take on a more malignant nature when associated with a deadly pandemic. In this episode, we look at how passive ignorance and intentional mislabeling of COVID-19 harm some Americans. More importantly, we look at what some educators are doing to try to shine a light on this problem. Follow on Twitter: @rosaisiah @drtommychang @bamradionetwork @jonHarper70bd Dr. Tommy Chang is an education leader who serves as the Senior Advisor for Strategy and Programs at Great P...
Lemons to Lemonade: 7 Positive Opportunities Educators Are Seeing in COVID-19
April 03, 2020 16:50 - 13 minutes - 20 BytesCOVID-19 is an unimaginable global disaster. Yet in the midst of this crisis, educators are seeing and seizing several opportunities to turn the lemon we’ve all been given into lemonade. Join us for a walk through the educational silver lining of the coronavirus pandemic. Follow on Twitter: @MsSackstein @tomwhitby @sgthomas1973 @HarveyAlvy1 @ShiftParadigm @bamradionetwork Starr Sackstein (NBCT) is a certified Master Journalism Educator through the Journalism Education Association (JEA). She...
The 7 Social-Emotional Needs We Discovered in Week One of Teaching Online
April 03, 2020 16:42 - 10 minutes - 20 BytesIn this ongoing series, four teachers from different schools, reflect, share experiences, and identify the big lessons they are learning as they make a rapid transition to online learning in different ways. This week they talk about the social-emotional needs that surfaced this week. You can listen in on their weekly virtual happy hour at the RTOL Bar and Grill. Follow on Twitter: @jonbergmann @ideasforteacher @bamradionetwork @peter_santoro @MrHabegger @DrBioTom @jonHarper70bd Jake Habegge...
Why the Two Most Important Online Teaching Skills Today Are Grace and Choice
April 03, 2020 16:40 - 11 minutes - 20 BytesAs schools around the world scramble to make a rapid transition to online learning, a highly respected education technologist is telling teachers to think twice about all the free new technology offers. Instead, she is encouraging educators to focus on a few more important priorities. Follow on Twitter: @micheeaton @ISTE @mrhooker @jonHarper70bd @bamradionetwork Michele Eaton is the director of virtual and blended learning for the MSD of Wayne Township in Indianapolis, Indiana. She focuses...
Welcome to Co-teaching With Parents Online: Here’s How to Make It Work
April 03, 2020 16:36 - 15 minutes - 20 BytesWhen you were planning this school year, did you ever think you would be co-teaching with every parent in your classes and relying on them to provide the structure for your classroom? Welcome to the adventures of a rapid transition to online learning. Our guests share what they are learning on the fly about how teachers and parents can step into co-teaching and do it well. Follow on Twitter: @jonbergmann @ideasforteacher @bamradionetwork @peter_santoro @MrHabegger @DrBioTom @jonHarper70bd ...
What Surprised Us, What We Learned in the First Week of Teaching Online
April 03, 2020 16:34 - 11 minutes - 20 BytesIn response to coronavirus, more schools are making a rapid transition to online learning. Most of us have never taught online. How should the process look and feel and how do we know that we are doing it well? Here’s what we learned in week one. Follow on Twitter: @jonbergmann @ideasforteacher @bamradionetwork @peter_santoro @MrHabegger @DrBioTom Jake Habegger is an 8th grade US History Teacher in Franklin, Tennessee. His goal in education is to invigorate student learning by meeting th...
12 Ways You Can Meet Students’ Social-Emotional Needs While Teaching Online
April 03, 2020 16:31 - 11 minutes - 20 BytesIs it possible to meet the social-emotional needs of students while teaching online? Yes and no. Tune in for a candid look at what we can do, what we can’t do, and what we should do to help students through this emotional period. Follow on Twitter: @jonHarper70bd @froehlichm @pfagell @bamradionetwork @Joe_Mazza Phyllis L. Fagell, LCPC is the school counselor at Sheridan School in Washington, D.C. and a therapist at The Chrysalis Group. Phyllis frequently writes columns on counseling, paren...
A Survival Guide for Teaching From Home: What’s Up With Your Teenager?
April 03, 2020 16:28 - 12 minutes - 20 BytesCovid-19 is turning teachers’ dining rooms into classrooms shared with their own kids. Our guest takes us inside the mind of teens and tweens who need you to be there for them while you are trying to be there for your students remotely. Loretta Jordan, Psy.D. is an AMFT- Associate MFT has been in higher education for 29 years and performing psychotherapy for 8-years, specializing in couples therapy. She created a high school program at Cal State Fullerton offering skills-building curriculum...
How Can We Manage Absenteeism During Distance Learning and Beyond?
April 03, 2020 16:21 - 11 minutes - 20 BytesGetting students to show up, engage and learn can be a challenge when students are within eyesight. What happens when teaching and learning go online? What anti-absenteeism strategies work both on and offline? Follow on Twitter: @janicewyattross @jAPMcDizzle @RhondaWaltman @larryferlazzo @bamradionetwork Maurice McDavid is serving as assistant principal at Cortland Elementary School, one of the bilingual schools in the DeKalb, IL school district. As a former middle school Spanish and soci...
Who Is Looking Out for the Remote Learning Needs of Special Needs Students?
April 03, 2020 16:19 - 3 minutes - 20 BytesIn the rush to move classrooms online in the wake of COVID-19, are the distance learning needs of special needs students being left behind? Follow on Twitter: @eduflack @bamradionetwork Patrick Riccards is chief communications and strategy officer for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. He is also the author of the nationally recognized Eduflack blog and its companion Twitter feed. PR News named Pat the Not-for-Profit Communications Professional of the Year for his work in te...
Shifting to Teaching Online Tomorrow? Here Are Some Things to Consider Today
April 03, 2020 16:17 - 13 minutes - 20 BytesNone of us started the school year thinking we would be teaching online before spring break. Then came COVID-19. If your school is making a rapid transition to online learning, here are some things you may need to consider. Follow on Twitter: @MsSackstein @tomwhitby @sgthomas1973 @HarveyAlvy1 @ShiftParadigm @bamradionetwork Starr Sackstein (NBCT) is a certified Master Journalism Educator through the Journalism Education Association (JEA). She serves at the New York State Director to JEA. Sh...
10 Ways to Help Students Cope With How COVID-19 Is Disrupting School Life
April 03, 2020 16:15 - 11 minutes - 20 BytesKeeping up to speed on education technology is challenging during normal times. What will teachers and students need to get and need to know to come up to speed on online learning fast. Follow on Twitter: @debbyatwater@jonHarper70bd @kylehamstra @froehlichm @bamradionetwork Debby Atwater is the Director of Digital Learning and Libraries for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. During the past 22 years, she has been a District Administrator, an elementary and ...
Essential Tech Support for Teachers Switching to Online Learning Overnight
April 03, 2020 16:13 - 13 minutes - 20 BytesKeeping up to speed on education technology is challenging during normal times. What will teachers and students need to get and need to know to come up to speed on online learning fast. Follow on Twitter: @debbyatwater@jonHarper70bd @kylehamstra @froehlichm @bamradionetwork Debby Atwater is the Director of Digital Learning and Libraries for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. During the past 22 years, she has been a District Administrator, an elementary and ...
Maslow Before Bloom’s: Clarifying Our Priorities As Teaching Goes Online
March 30, 2020 02:47 - 13 minutes - 20 BytesCovid-19 has disrupted the best-laid district plans, school plans, and lesson plans of educators worldwide. As more schools, teachers, and students are upended by the rapid transition to online learning, what should our priorities be? Follow on Twitter: @barberchicago @CathleenBeachbd @AmyRoediger @larryferlazzo @bamradionetwork Lorie Barber is a 5th-grade teacher in Illinois and a National Board Certification candidate. She works through an anti-oppressive lens and believes in getting hig...
Covid-19: Is Closing School Really the Right Thing to Do?
March 20, 2020 11:25 - 12 minutes - 20 BytesDr. Brad Gustafson and Ben Gilpin Many school leaders are struggling to calibrate the right response to the coronavirus outbreak. We feel stuck between a rock and a very hard decision. To close or not to close? That is the question we'll unpack in this episode. Follow on Twitter: @gustafsonbrad @benjamingilpin @bamradionetwork Brad Gustafson is the principal and lead learner at Greenwood Elementary in Minnesota and author of Renegade Leadership: Creating Innovative Schools for Digital Age...
Rapid Transition to Online Learning: 7 Big Questions, 3 Epic Hurdles, 1 Silver Lining
March 20, 2020 11:24 - 13 minutes - 20 BytesTom Whitby with Adam Yankay and Harvey Alvy This week we unpack the rush to use remote learning in response to Covid-19. What questions do we need to consider? What unknowns lie ahead? What challenges will we face? When all is said and done, what impact with this historic event have on the future of education. Follow on Twitter: @ItsAMrY @tomwhitby @sgthomas1973 @HarveyAlvy1 @ShiftParadigm @bamradionetwork PSA: aalasinternational.org Adam Yankay has 20 years of teaching experience, 13 o...
Coronavirus: Switching to Teaching Online Overnight? Here’s What to Expect
March 20, 2020 10:59 - 11 minutes - 20 BytesDan Jones with Maureen O’Shaughnessy, Ed.D, Jake Habegger, and Peter Santoro In response to coronavirus, schools and universities are preparing to practice extreme social distancing. They are closing down and transitioning to online learning. But what’s involved in moving your teaching from your classroom to distance learning overnight? Join us for a discussion with three teachers and a school administrator about what to expect, what you’ll need to know and what you’ll need to do. Fol...
Coronavirus: Do Our Schools Need to Cover Up, Mask Up or Hide Out?
March 20, 2020 10:51 - 13 minutes - 20 BytesWhat do school leaders need to know about the coronavirus and more importantly, what should we do in or schools to manage the threat? Follow on Twitter: @gustafsonbrad @benjamingilpin @bamradionetwork Dr. Nick Gilpin is the Chief Medical Officer at Beaumont Hospital in Grosse Pointe, MI, and he is an assistant clinical professor at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is board certified in Internal Medic...