Use It or Don't Derrick Bright
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- Education
These episodes will mostly be my reflections on what I am learning about, especially in the area of Education Technology. This will also include other issues and thoughts about education.
I have found that I need a combination of time and a cool idea to try something new. Thus the rebranding of Bright's Ideas to Use It or Don't.
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024- How My District is Supporting the Teaching of Reading
In this episode, I talk about how our district is training teachers in the five components of the five pillars of reading. These include phonics, pandemic, awareness, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.
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023 Word of the Year- Growth
In this episode, I share my word and focus of the year- growth. Hopefully this will be an encouraging message to you as you are growing in your position as an educator.
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022 White Supremacy in Math Class? Not for These Reasons.
This is a more serious response to the idea that objectivity, right or wrong answers and a few other characteristics are examples of white supremacist culture. Short summary: I push back on the idea that these are inherently white characteristics and how this is ridiculous and unhelpful to the conversation about math and/or race.
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021 Holderness Family- Introverts vs. Extroverts
In this episode, I share a blog post about being an introvert. I also share about the Holderness Family podcast in the what I’m listening to section.
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020 CMC -Eduprotocol- Math Rep/ Sketch and Tell/ Thin Slides
In this episode, I share several eduprotocols, such as math reps, sketch and tell and thin slides.
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019 CMC- Eduprotocols
In this episode, I talk about a session I went to about stacking eduprotocols in a mathematics classroom, but just in general eduprotocols are awesome.