21 episodes
Learning Through Uncertainty Brianna Hodges, Future Ready Schools
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We’ve never experienced shifts in teaching and learning quite like those happening now.
Finding ourselves without a playbook, Future Ready instructional leaders are adapting best practices, addressing digital inequities, adhering to rapidly evolving policy mandates while assuring wide-ranging variabilities in human needs, situations, and abilities each have equitable access to authentically discover, discuss, and demonstrate curriculum standards.
Hear from the nation’s top instructional leaders as they share their expertise, advice, and experience reimagining teaching and learning to better suit today’s learners with tomorrow’s tools.
Amid the constant change and countless uncertainties, one strategy has shown universal success: suiting up to redefine learning as a team.
Let’s team up to reimagine possibilities, renew communities, and respond with agility to our evolving uncertainties.
Together, we’re better.
Together, we’re Future Ready.
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Going All-In To Keep Kids Out
Marietta City Schools Leaders Dr. Brittney Wilson and Farhat Ahmad share how an all-in focus on human-centered learning is transforming the outcomes and lives of historically marginalized alternatively-placed students and disrupting the school-prison pipeline.
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Positive Signs of Learning
Joseph Case High School Principal Brian McCann (MA) sees evidence of learning all around him. Fully recognizing that school is so much more than test scores, McCann shares how a simply piece of paper and selfies combine to amplify learning, elevate inclusivity, and engage an entire community.
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Cultivating Feedback
In this episode Brianna Henneke Hodges speaks with Kerry Gallagher, JD, Assistant Principal for Teaching and Learning at St. John's Prep. Kerry Gallagher is an innovative teacher, school administrator, lawyer, TEDx speaker, keynote speaker, and education consultant. She is co-author of several ConnectSafely award-winning guidebooks for parents and teachers on topics that include social media, data privacy, education technology, copyright, and more. Accolades for her work include awards from the Family Online Safety Institute, MassCUE, SmartBrief, and St. Anselm College. She is on social media @KerryHawk02 and her website is www.KerryHawk02.com.
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Roll With What You Got
Minnesota Elementary Integration Specialist, Andy Leiser, is leveraging on-hand resources, a can-do mindset, and a learner-centered philosophy to elevate student voice and learning.
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What You Think About You Bring About
Director of Instructional Services and Future Ready Instructional Coaches Advisor, Dana Castine, reflects on how an appreciative mindset is fueling her grace-centered approach to navigating change.
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Developing Disciplined Learners
High school principal Dennis M. Williams, Jr. discusses the importance of viewing discipline not as a punishment, but as a focused intention for learning. He shares the litmus he and his faculty are using to evaluate instructional efforts and the impact that mindset has on student engagement and learning outcomes.