Latest Studentcenteredlearning Podcast Episodes
31. Short Film: "Reflections"
Ready to Blend - May 26, 2021 03:18 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsPatience Nyanway is an aspiring college students in Texas. A few weeks ago Patience used her phone to interview children and parents in her neighborhood. She wanted to give them a voice so that they could share their feelings about this past school year, an unusual one for its widescale cancell...
30. Online and Blended Learning Fundamentals: Learning from the Pioneers
Ready to Blend - April 12, 2021 19:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsAs the pandemic has required schools to innovate, including with online, blended, and hybrid models that are unfamiliar to them, too many educators have suffered from trying to reinvent the wheel. The alternative is to look at pioneering virtual and blended schools that have won hard-fought bat...
29. Helping Children Feel Safe to Share
Ready to Blend - March 16, 2021 02:51 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsIn this class, Heather teaches three ways to build bridges that help learners connect across any divide they might be experiencing so that they feel safe enough to speak up and express themselves, whether at school or home. You’ll learn to use digital tools to give learners a bridge into conve...
28. Using Games to Support Children Socially and Emotionally
Ready to Blend - March 09, 2021 16:14 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsI've restructured this podcast as a class, so that each episode going forward will teach a skill to help you blend online learning into school and home in ways that nurture all children. Today's class is on using games to improve children's well-being. You'll hear evidence for why students nee...
27. Where Do We Go from Here? with Atomi's Simon Hennessy
Ready to Blend - November 10, 2020 20:19 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWe are alive right at the moment when there's an opening of opportunity to retool the classroom for the end user. We have the will plus the disruptive innovations to do it. School leaders and entrepreneurs can make it happen. Today's show features the main excerpt from an interview Heather C...
26. Developing Student-centered Teachers
Ready to Blend - October 27, 2020 02:13 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWhat's the best way for school leaders to equip teachers with the skills they urgently need to transform their instructional model? For years many educators have longed for a more personalized, competency-based, student-driven learning model to replace the traditional classroom. This year, rem...
25. Hacks for Solving Esteem Gaps
Ready to Blend - June 05, 2020 23:38 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsChildren want to make progress. They crave achievement—even if they do not appear to be motivated—provided that the basic levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs are satisfied. The inequities in society grow worse for each day that children lack “flex” environments that are blended (online and fac...
24. Hacks for Solving Social Belonging Gaps
Ready to Blend - April 29, 2020 02:47 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsFeeling somewhat lonely and depressed? Small wonder . . . the world is locked in social distancing, and humans brains are wired to suffer as a result. We can’t fully solve for social isolation right now. But we can avoid pitfalls that make loneliness worse. This episode addresses level three i...
23. Hacks for Solving Safety Gaps
Ready to Blend - April 21, 2020 03:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsThe shifting pandemic and school closures are opening safety gaps for many families and children, including personal, financial, and emotional insecurities. This episode offers a few hacks, in the sense of scrappy efficient shortcuts, for governments, schools, and families who are working to c...
22. Hacks for Solving Physiological Gaps
Ready to Blend - April 21, 2020 00:28 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsSchool closures and lockdowns are causing major physiological gaps for some children in the form of food, exercise, and sleep shortages, while other children are benefiting physiologically. Caregivers and educators want to help solve for physiological gaps, but it's not always obvious how to do ...
21. How We Will #MindTheGap
Ready to Blend - March 31, 2020 12:05 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsIt might take a village to raise a child, but with school closures from coronavirus, parents/caregivers shoulder 99 percent of the work. It's on them for meals, schooling, recreation, church, and socializing—often while trying to work, deal with sickness, or solve for unemployment. Given these...
20. As Schools Cancel, Mind the Gap
Ready to Blend - March 22, 2020 05:38 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsSchools throughout the world are closing because of COVID-19. Millions of schools are rushing to post their lessons and assignments online. But there's a better way to go about it. Abraham Maslow's famous "Hierarchy of Needs" points to the way. Maslow said that people are motivated to meet t...
19. Hurricanes and Other Hurdles with Guest Roy Moore
Ready to Blend - March 03, 2020 22:22 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsGreat leaders help their organizations adjust. That's true for big events that require big adjustments, as well as for lesser events that still benefit from flexibility. Episode 19 features Roy Moore, principal of Notthingham Elementary in Texas. He adapted with ninja-like agility to succor hi...
18. Data-Driven Learning with Michael Norton
Ready to Blend - February 20, 2020 01:26 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsYou may have heard of Data-Driven Instruction (DDI). But what is Data-Driven Learning? Data-Driven Learning will replace DDI, I predict. Why? Because today's youth need to respond entrepreneurially to the abundance of data that surrounds them. To thrive in the Information Age, they must learn ...
17. How Clayton Christensen Improved My Life
Ready to Blend - February 05, 2020 16:20 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsOn Saturday I attended the funeral in Cambridge, Massachusetts of Clayton M. Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School who died on January 23, 2020 at the age of 67. Clayton Christensen is regarded as the father of innovation theory. His academic work shaped the principles of busines...
16. Flexible Learning Environments, part 1 with Michael Norton
Ready to Blend - January 22, 2020 21:05 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsOur guest today is Michael Norton, manager of blended learning and academics at KIPP Texas, a network of 55 charter schools in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin. Michael helped these classrooms transform into flexible learning environments where students have multiple options for how to m...
15. Moving Beyond "Tech Integration," with guest Lisa Adams
Ready to Blend - January 08, 2020 20:47 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsCaution: If your school has embarked on “tech integration,” that’s a red flag. Often that phrase is code for cramming devices on top of the traditional instructional model. Multiple studies show that approach to be a waste of effort. In this podcast episode, Heather talks to Lisa Adams, assist...
14. Districts Can Support Principals, with guest Micha Villareal
Ready to Blend - December 10, 2019 03:09 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsBringing about a major shift in teaching and learning might seem impossible in a large, urban school district. Processes tend to hold firm. But Ysleta Independent School District in southern Texas is bucking that pattern. Now in its fifth year of implementing a system-wide blended learning pro...
14. Districts Can Support Principals, with guest Micha Villarreal
Ready to Blend - December 10, 2019 03:09 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsBringing about a major shift in teaching and learning might seem impossible in a large, urban school district. Processes tend to hold firm. But Ysleta Independent School District in southern Texas is bucking that pattern. Now in its fifth year of implementing a system-wide blended learning pro...
13. Finding Time to Transform Your School, with guest David Medina
Ready to Blend - November 06, 2019 19:24 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsIf you walk into a Pasodale Elementary School classroom, you’ll see students scattered everywhere, each working on an independent or group objective. To someone unfamiliar with the model, it might look chaotic. But each student can explain what she’s working on and why. A growing number of tea...
12. You Can Get Good Grades
Ready to Blend - October 22, 2019 20:29 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsDo you know how to get good grades? Did you know that it's possible to get good grades even if you don't feel smart in some of your classes? This podcast episode is talking to students—to high school, middle school and even elementary school students who might be worried about how to get good ...
11. School at the Atomic Level, featuring Prenda School
Ready to Blend - August 15, 2019 15:56 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsPrenda School is becoming the largest network of America's tiniest micro-schools. According to Kelly Smith, founder of Prenda School, sometimes tiny things can cause outsized effects. A former student of nuclear engineering at MIT, Kelly says that operating a micro-school reminds him of split...
10. Opening a School, featuring Slope School
Ready to Blend - August 08, 2019 03:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsImagine you're in charge of building a new school from the ground up. You've worked on it all year and now it's time to open the doors to your first class of 4-13 year olds. What is your life like right now? In this podcast, we'll hear from Matthew Clayton as he faces this exact scenario. Matt...
9. Shorter School Days, featuring Tesla Academy
Ready to Blend - August 01, 2019 00:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsHow much time should teenagers spend in school? Is your teen over-served by the nonstop schedule at your local comprehensive high school? This podcast features guest Brad Barber, founder of Tesla Academy, who takes us on a tour of his program in Orange County, Calif. Tesla Academy is a low-cos...
8. What School Could Be, with guest Ted Dintersmith
Ready to Blend - July 17, 2019 18:05 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWhat could schools be? Best-selling author and film producer Ted Dintersmith contends that the 20th-century school design does a disservice to children today. Schools should be retooled, starting by de-emphasizing testing. “Low-level tests prepare children to be good at exactly what artificial...
7. Competency-Based Learning
Ready to Blend - July 04, 2019 04:07 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsTime. It's so valuable. Often we feel we don't have enough of it. How can schools make the most of their learners' time? This podcast focuses on competency-based learning, an idea whose time has come. In a competency-based system, learners move from one level to the next based on their own cho...
6. Summer Phone RAPS
Ready to Blend - June 26, 2019 01:35 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsSummertime can mean more cellphone time for kids, and that can mean more anxiety, depression, and emotional distress. In this episode, Heather shares four strategies for how to set up kids for success with their phones during the summer. She shares the four-part RAPS system: Relationships — D...
5. Personalized Learning with Shawn Rubin
Ready to Blend - June 18, 2019 20:47 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratings"But plain old classrooms worked for me!" That's one of the common objections adults raise to the idea of replacing the factory-based classroom with a personalized model. In this episode, you'll hear a discussion between Heather Clayton Staker and Shawn Rubin, Chief Education Officer of the High...
4. Digitizing Classrooms
Ready to Blend - June 05, 2019 20:32 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsThe effort to digitize classrooms is often fraught with expense and disappointment. Schools have spent well over $100 billion on computers, but often find their investment does not pay off. The good news is that it's possible to use technology to create school designs that were completely unim...
3. Disruptive Innovation
Ready to Blend - May 25, 2019 19:59 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWhat's the future of schools? Is online learning a fad or will it transform teaching and learning? What essentials do schools and individuals need to know? This podcast introduces the Theory of Disruptive Innovation, a brilliant theory that Professor Clayton M. Christensen of Harvard Business ...
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