231: Getting Credit for Service Learning Abroad

231: Getting Credit for Service Learning Abroad

Sponsors:  Teacherwit.com Where teachers go to coonect! Kids Stories Podcast Guest: Bernie Weigand I’ve been on the planet a long time, by the human scale, so I have a lot to share, but I will spare you 99.9%. I’m a licensed teacher in California and Oregon with many endorsements, including Language Arts, Art, Spanish, French, Math and ESOL/Bilingual. I enjoy […]

230: Facilitating Meeting in K12 Education and Building Trust in Groups

230: Facilitating Meeting in K12 Education and Building Trust in Groups

Sponsor:  FlexiSpot.com Save $20 on the Pro Plus Standing Desk (E7) when you use offer code shifting20 at checkout. Guest: Nancy Lhoest-Squicciarini After 36 years of working in schools, I continue to wake up each day passionate, enthusiastic and proud to be an educator. My goal is to facilitate teams to elevate their collective wisdom to positively impact student learning. […]

Free Podcasting Webinar: Podcasting with Students and Teams

Free Podcasting Webinar: Podcasting with Students and Teams

Jeff and Tricia walk through their free Shifting Schools podcasting resources that can be found in the free resource area at shitingschools.com. They cover how to support and create strucutres for students to learn about podcast and how to create strucutures that support podcast PD in our buildings and districts.  You can download the presentation along with all the links […]

229: Data Visualization – Telling Stories with Data

229: Data Visualization – Telling Stories with Data

Sponsors: Flexispot.com Use code shifting20 to save $20 on the E7 Pro Plus Standing Desk at checkout Check out the Shifting Schools Pathway on Google MyMaps to start having your students create mapping stories today! Guest: Sriharsha Devulapalli Sriharsha Devulapalli joined The San Francisco Chronicle in 2022, after finishing his master’s degree in data journalism from Columbia University. Prior to this, he […]

Shifting Schools Update and a Surprise

Shifting Schools Update and a Surprise

Off script and off the cuff Jeff and Tricia hit record and then talk about some of the updates happening at Shifting Schools. New website layout, new logos, and new social media. Please a FREE give a way to the first 10 people who leave us a auido recording at https://podinbox.com/shiftingschoolspod tell us what you like about the Shifting Schoosl […]

228: The Intersection of SEL and Information Literacy

228: The Intersection of SEL and Information Literacy

Shifting Schools Pathways Our Guest: Jennifer LaGarde Jennifer LaGarde is a lifelong teacher and learner with over 20 years in public education. Her educational passions include leveraging technology to help students develop authentic reading lives, meeting the unique needs of students living in poverty and helping learners (of all ages) discern fact from fiction in the information they consume. Jennifer […]

227: Understanding the Pressure of Parenting and Playing Sports Today

227: Understanding the Pressure of Parenting and Playing Sports Today

Our Guest: Linda Flanagan LINDA FLANAGAN is a freelance journalist, researcher, and former cross-country and track coach. A graduate of Lehigh University, Flanagan holds master’s degrees from Oxford University and the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and was an analyst for the National Security Program at Harvard University. She is a founding board member of the New York City […]

226: Turning Data into Visual Stories

226: Turning Data into Visual Stories

Our Sponsor:  https://www.prideandlessprejudice.org/events   Our Guest: Gabrielle Merite Gabrielle Merite. Proper noun. Scientist-Turned-Designer powered by plants and activism. She is not: a graphic designer with 30+ years experience or qualified in fine arts. She is: a Science graduate, creative, analyst, advocate for humanity, cat lady and feeling awkward writing this at the third person. I specialize in provocative imagery that […]

225: Teaching Data Literacy and Telling Data Stories

225: Teaching Data Literacy and Telling Data Stories

Shownotes Guest: Allen Hillary Allen is a data storyteller who’s passionate about building community and curating articles that highlight the importance of data narratives. He has spent 20 years in Fortune 500 companies using data analysis and analytics to help sales and marketing leaders make informed decisions. What he’s learned is that numbers alone are not memorable and managers are […]

Bounce: 4 Media Literacy Routines

Bounce: 4 Media Literacy Routines

Media Literacy Routines: Check out templates and strategies to set up routines that help learners become more media literate. These routines are perfect for launching at the start of the year. Explore the free guide on this topic here: https://www.shiftingschools.com/free-pdfs Check out this episode of Shifting Our Schools