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Ep.053 -- Dr. Matthew Rhoads -- Pandemic & Beyond: The Toggled Term & The Future of EdTech

1/17/2021

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ClassCast Podcast Ep.053 features Dr. Matthew Rhoads, a leader in edtech, blended learning, data utilization, and pandemic responses; he's also the author of Navigating the Toggled Term: Preparing Secondary Education for Navigating Fall 2020 and Beyond.  Matt shares insights into how teachers can leverage technology to adapt to ever-changing pandemic scenarios while also preparing themselves and their students for the future of education. From "moneyballing" school to "navigating the toggled term," from pandemic adjustments to the future of distance learning, this episode connects current contexts to on-going innovations in ways that will help listeners understand the effects on every student and teacher. If you have any interest in school now or in the next decade, Dr. Rhoads shares ideas and predictions that will cement the value of edtech and adaptability into your priority list. Don't miss Matt's second book,  Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders, which will be released later in 2021. 

Contact Dr. Matthew Rhoads via Twitter @MattRhoads1990 and www.MatthewRhoads.com. 


Table of Contents (Highlights **)
  1. 0:00-6:15 -- Intro to Pandemic Schooling*
  2. 6:15-9:28 -- Dr. Rhoads' Education & Experiences
  3. 9:28-17:49 -- Engines of Innovation & Pandemic Effects
  4. 17:49-24:21 -- Matt's Preferred Edtech & Data Tools
  5. 24:21-35:30 -- Moneyballing School: The Role of Data in Modern Schooling**
  6. 35:30-55:44 -- Navigating the Toggled Term: In & Out of School during the Pandemic**
  7. 55:44-58:26 -- Matt's Ideal School
  8. 58:26-1:02:14 -- The Future of Online School
  9. 1:02:53-1:08:51 -- Concerns about Concurrent Hybrid/HyFlex in K12** 
  10. 1:08:51-1:12:05 -- Book #2
  11. 1:12:05-1:15:14 -- Matt's Book & Movie Recs
  12. 1:15:14- End -- Wrap Up

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Ep.049 -- Craig Randall -- Improving Education by Improving Teacher Evaluations

12/6/2020

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​ClassCast Podcast Ep.049 features innovator, writer, and former principal Craig Randall sharing his ideas about improving teacher observation and evaluation processes to increase the quality of teaching and of school in general. Craig is the creator and author of Trust-Based Observations, a new framework for evaluating teachers while encouraging innovation, risk-taking, and growth. His system is, as the name indicates, based on building a trusting, growth-focused relationship between teachers and evaluators; it is the culmination of a long, successful career teaching, counseling, coaching, and administrating in schools on four continents.  This episode offers food for thought AND practical solutions for anyone concerned with improving the quality of instruction of in schools, from teachers to students, from principals to parents. Listeners with less time should check out highlights in the starred sections below.

The ClassCast Podcast is available on all major streaming platforms, plus YouTube and ClassCastPodcast.com.  Be sure to like, subscribe, share, follow, and leave a positive review wherever you listen. 

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Table of Contents
  1. 0:00-6:18 -- Intro/Craig as a Student
  2. 6:18-12:32 -- Craig as a Guidance Counselor, Coach, & Teacher
  3. 12:33-16:49 -- Working in International Schools
  4. 16:49-27:35 -- Becoming a Principal & Revolutionizing Teacher Observation w/ Trust-Based Observations**
  5. 27:36-36:49 -- Can We Really Make a Good Teacher Great?
  6. 36:49-47:41 -- The Evolution of Teacher Evolution Over Time
  7. 47:42-52:47 -- The Reality of Teacher Observations & Evaluations, plus "Fantasy" Teachers**
  8. 52:47-59:18 -- Craig's Ideal School**
  9. 59:19-1:05:11 -- Action Research
  10. 1:05:11-1:09:51 -- Students' Voices in Teacher Evaluations**
  11. 1:09:51-1:20:48 -- Craig's Book/Movie Recommendations & Wrap-Up 

Contact Craig Randall at www.trustbased.com, on Twitter @trustbasedcraig, and via email @ craig @trustbased.com.  


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Ep.048 -- Tibbens -- How to Work Well w/ Others: Reserving Judgments (Gatsby)

11/22/2020

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 ClassCast Podcast Episode 048 features host Ryan Tibbens sharing insights and advice on reserving judgment (and passing it), building patience, and keeping an open mind.  As a teacher, he has developed a deeper appreciation for patience, optimism, and open-mindedness than most people (and certainly more than he had earlier in life); this quick solo episode includes ideas to help teachers maintain strong relationships with students and coworkers as well as advice to help families and friends overcome personal, political, and moral differences as we head into the holiday season.  Tibbens uses a line from F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby to anchor these insights: "Reserving
judgments is a matter of infinite hope." (To read the full opening passage referenced in this episode, look at the bottom of this page.)  Before you give up on a student, "unfriend" an old friend, or uninvite someone from a holiday celebration, think long and hard about hope, possibility, and patience.  

You can find this and every other episode of the ClassCast Podcast on all major streaming platforms, including Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Pandora, YouTube, and many more.  Be sure to subscribe, like, follow, share, leave a positive review, and tell your friends.  Happy holidays! 

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from the opening of  The Great Gatsby: 

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

He didn't say any more but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought--frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon--for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.


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