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The Schoolhouse, Your House
Listen This year, we’ve all been lifted out of the familiar spaces we’ve enjoyed teaching for so long and are having to set up a home office that works well for both recorded lessons and live instruction. All the while, many of us have to think of the most important...
The Most Important Piece of the Virtual Classroom Puzzle: Re-Engagement - Laura McDonell
Listen Imagine this. You are a 10th grader. Week one, you are coming off summer break to find out that your parents signed you up for virtual learning. Frustration is an understatement as you beg and beg to go to school in person. In an effort to show...
Book Review: The Distance Learning Playbook
Listen I was mowing the yard, listening to some education podcasts a couple of weeks ago, and listened to two different podcasters interview the authors of The Distance Learning Playbook: Teaching for Engagement & Impact in Any Setting. First, it was Justin Baeder of Principal Center Radio interviewing Douglas Fisher....
Tips for Virtual Teaching for Lower Elementary
Listen Introduction Teaching elementary students online is a difficult prospect, but a necessary one given the circumstances of the world today. There are naysayers who will say that teaching online at this age is impossible, that the difficulties and barriers make virtual teaching ineffective.This is not true, but it is...
7 Questions With Sandra Ladipaolo
Listen Watch Can you tell us about yourself? My name is Sandra Ladipaolo. I teach at Dunlap High School and Dunlap, Illinois, and I've been teaching. This is my 17th year, mostly teach upper-level Spanish honors courses. What they consider a Spanish three pre-AP four pre AP and five AP....
Reformation: Adjusting Responsibilities of Learning and Control
Listen In the past, both the responsibility for learning and classroom control rested squarely on the shoulders of the teacher. If your students were loud and misbehaving, or if they failed a standardized test, you were not only held responsible for it in a figurative sense. Instead, you could lose...
7 Questions With Michelle Joyce
Listen Watch Can you tell us about yourself? Hi, my name is Michelle Joyce. I teach at Carthage Junior High. I'm a special education teacher. Sorry about my voice. It's in Carthage, Missouri. I have been with the Carthage district 14 years. My last name is Joyce. Why did you...
Reformation: Identifying Sources of Inspiration
Listen One of the purposes of this series of articles was to talk about schools, leaders, administrators, philosophers of education, technologists, architects, and teachers who were visibly succeeding in education and making an impact. But our eleven schools are notably only a small sampling. Since beginning this series, we’ve heard...
What if You Were Really Honest? By Laura McDonell
Listen I remember running my 14th Marathon in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I finished, but it was one of my worst experiences running. There was nothing out of the ordinary that happened that day, and honestly, I cannot blame too many things on the race. I thought about quitting a few...
