Education Today Scott Nunes

Season 2 Episode 3 Brandon Levine: Digital Equity and Security


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In this episode I catch up with my friend Barbara Bray a talented speaker, author, educator, podcaster and more! Her love of people and for educators is infectious! JOin us as we go a bit tangential, but go deep with Barbara on life, relationships, and "Grow[ing] Our Why!"



Barbara is an author, speaker, podcaster, coach, and difference-maker who is passionate about transforming teaching and learning. She takes personal and professional learning deeper by empowering agency for all learners.

Follow her work at: https://barbarabray.net/ and listen to her podcast, Rethinking Learning on the podcast player of your choice! https://barbarabray.net/podcasts-2/podcasts/#posts4podcasts




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Education Today is back and better than ever after a hiatus due to the COVID 19 Pandemic! Today's guest, Bryon Carpenter is a friend, podcaster, and educator out of Abbotsford in British Columbia, Canada (gorgeous place)!

We dig right into Bryon's unique podcast and showcase the power of being connected to a PLN! Wherever you are in your education journey there is something for you. We chat about EdTech, life, the power of saying no, and self care--especially right now.



Shout outs to Jeff Gargas, Brad Hughes, Rae Hughart, Tim Cavey, Chris Nesi, Claudio Zavala, Livia Chan, Sarah Johnson, and more!



Resources: 

Bryon Carpenter on Teachers on Fire

Scott Nunes on Teachers on Fire

Bryon Carpenter and Chris Nesi live Coaching on how to start a podcast with Anchor




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Mike Lawrence is a former ELA teachers Journey that transition to CTO for his love of tech in the classroom then onto support his local and state Edtech community with CUE,. He gave back via ISTE and their global community and now with PowerSchool he leads and encourages a new team of educators--this time centered around a one stop shop shop of data, assessment, LMS, and SIS solutions with some of the best interoperability.

In business they used to say TEAM stood for Together Everyone Achieves More, and Mike has assembled a Team form a variety of PowerSchool's brands and tools to build upon a champions program to make it better than ever. 



Also learn about the California Student Media Festival @castudentmedia

- submit your student media at http://MediaFestival.org


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Bryon Carpenter (@BryonCar) is a former pharmaceutical researcher turned educator from Abbotsford British Columbia! Our journeys into educator are similar and we both really enjoy using Adobe Spark in the Classroom! Whether you are on a Chromebook, Windows, Android, or Apple device you can access and use this great tool! Also check out his podcast Fresh Air at Five (@FreshAirAtFive )!

We discuss how teaching in a virtual school is different now versus the pre-pandemic era. We share out some things that have worked for us and discuss the differences between good online/virtual teaching and bad teaching. 



So many tools and shout outs in this episode!



Adobe Spark: https://spark.adobe.com/sp/

Adobe Fresco: https://www.adobe.com/products/fresco.html

Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/



Teachers on Fire / Tim Cavey: @TeachersOnFire

The Staffroom Podcast: @StaffPodcast

Jeff Gargas / Teach Better Team: @teachbetterteam & https://www.teachbetter.com/

Claudio Zavala @ClaudioZavalaJr

Ryan O'Donnell: @creativeedtech 




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This dynamic Mother and son duo are amazing! Laura was one of my early followers on Twitter as I look back. Evan soon followed. These two compliment each other so well!

Evan is a middle school principal in Clarke County, Virginia. After 21 years as a building level principle he continues his commitment as an educator, progressive thinker, author, speaker, and fitness enthusiast.

Laura a prolific author, presently coaches teachers in reading/writing workshop at Powhatan School in Virginia and coaches teachers in grades K-8 in various parts of he country.



Their latest book: School full of readers is out now on Amazon!


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