The Shift Show EDU
The Shift Show EDU is co-hosted by the Halton District School Board's Shift Innovation Coaching team, Matt Coleman, Rachel Johnson, and Sarah Nykoruk. Our goal is to help stretch your edges as we try, fail, learn and SHIFT together.
Episodes
December 10, 2021 • 13 mins
This week’s show is an excerpt from a conversation between Jesse Stommel and HDSB Educators on ungrading. In this section of the conversation, teachers and Jesse were discussing the many ways that teachers communicate with their students and in the absence of grades, how students seek to fill the void with any information they can glean from their interactions with their teacher.
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Ranking, Evaluating, Liking: Sorting O...
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December 2, 2021 • 5 mins
Do you have an idea that you have wanted to try, but you need the time and support?
Well, we have an opportunity for you and a team to try something incredible and innovative in your school: Ready, Set, SHIFT Innovation Grants!
The big framing question for this grant is:
How might we use innovative approaches to improve the student learning of transferable skills (global competencies)?
We hope that this gives some like-minded teams t...
Well, we have an opportunity for you and a team to try something incredible and innovative in your school: Ready, Set, SHIFT Innovation Grants!
The big framing question for this grant is:
How might we use innovative approaches to improve the student learning of transferable skills (global competencies)?
We hope that this gives some like-minded teams t...
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November 24, 2021 • 13 mins
This week, we are talking about Yes, And! There have been a lot of NO’s or YEAH, BUT’s over the past couple of years, so we wanted to talk about a slight SHIFT in the language that we use to open ourselves up to new ideas and possibilities. In other words, we need more YES, AND in our lives, both personally and professionally, as we slowly emerge from COVID restrictions.
So where does Yes, And come from? It’s actually taken from imp...
So where does Yes, And come from? It’s actually taken from imp...
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November 17, 2021 • 10 mins
This week, we are discussing the idea of using lesson classifications from the Modern Classrooms Project (MCP) in real life. In the self-pacing structures module of the MCP free course, lessons are classified as either Must Do, Should Do, or Aspire To Do. Here on the SHIFT, we’ve noticed that these classifications are infiltrating our life in everything that we do. We are finding that we are using these classifications in our email...
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November 12, 2021 • 11 mins
This week, we are chatting all about our recent Shift Pop Up event with the amazing Jesse Stommel and how we can focus on building quick and effective feedback into our everyday practices as educators. We discuss ways to leverage technology to save you time and build connections with your students, as well as having both students and families as active participants in the feedback cycle.
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Did you miss our pop up event?...
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November 7, 2021 • 79 mins
In this special episode of the Shift Show EDU, we share the audio from our virtual pop up event on Ungrading with Jesse Stommel. This episode includes Jesse's talk walking through the philosophy and some of the how tos of ungrading, as well as the Q and A session after the talk, with questions from participants in the session.
For the video, slide deck and all resources mentioned in this event, check out this link: https://tinyurl...
For the video, slide deck and all resources mentioned in this event, check out this link: https://tinyurl...
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November 3, 2021 • 9 mins
We’re back! Welcome to our first episode of the 2021-2022 school year. AND… we’re so excited to be joined by a new member of our team this year, Rebecca MacRae.
We’re trying out a different format for the podcast this year so we’d love your feedback. We are embracing the mentality of “Try-Fail-Learn” as we podcast and publish our raw, unedited conversations. It’s been a busy start to the year so we are “going for done, not perfect”...
We’re trying out a different format for the podcast this year so we’d love your feedback. We are embracing the mentality of “Try-Fail-Learn” as we podcast and publish our raw, unedited conversations. It’s been a busy start to the year so we are “going for done, not perfect”...
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June 21, 2021 • 23 mins
In this episode, we are super excited to be chatting with Stuart Miller, the Director of Education at the Halton District School Board. Director Miller has had a long and successful career with HDSB which began in 1984. Stuart is leaving the board at the end of this school year to begin his most exciting adventure of all - retirement!
Detailed show notes for this episode can be found on our website at https://www.hdsb-theshift.com/7
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Detailed show notes for this episode can be found on our website at https://www.hdsb-theshift.com/7
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May 27, 2021 • 35 mins
In the second part of this two part episode we talk to four secondary students who are learning in a knowledge building classroom, instructed by Pieter Toth, at Dundas Valley Secondary School (HWDSB) in Dundas Ontario. Alberta, Grace, Ruby, and Wasaal are all students in the Grade 12 business leadership class and they reflect on what it is like to learn in a knowledge building classroom and their thoughts on the future of educatio...
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May 27, 2021 • 52 mins
In this two-part episode we talk to two educators who are using knowledge building in their classroom, Pieter Toth, teacher at Dundas Valley Secondary School (HWDSB) in Dundas Ontario and Christine Vanderwal, Viola Desmond Public School (HDSB) in Milton Ontario. Both educators bring their perspective of using knowledge building in their classroom, Pieter Toth in a secondary business class (Gr 9-12) and Christine Vanderwal in a gra...
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March 30, 2021 • 37 mins
In this episode, we talk to Lisa Galay, head of experiential learning for Grades 7-12 at the Halton District School Board, as well as Tara Bursey, associate educator at the Art Gallery of Burlington and Chloe Yang, Educator in the Halton District School Board.
We talk about how experiential learning opportunities enrich the learning in schools and open up a world of possibility for students and educators. We highlight the Studio Du...
We talk about how experiential learning opportunities enrich the learning in schools and open up a world of possibility for students and educators. We highlight the Studio Du...
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March 11, 2021 • 25 mins
In this episode, we talk about how tending to our wellbeing is also the best thing that we can do for our loved ones and our students. Our guests in this episode are Roni Habib, founder of EQSchools in Santa Cruz, California, and Michelle McCann, instructional program lead for student well-being at the Halton District School Board.
We are hosting a pop up webinar event next Thursday, Mar 18th, 2021 from 7-8:30pm. Anyone in the wo...
We are hosting a pop up webinar event next Thursday, Mar 18th, 2021 from 7-8:30pm. Anyone in the wo...
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February 25, 2021 • 22 mins
In this episode, we are talking to Muhammad Zia, the acting science department head at the Virtual Secondary School in HDSB. Muhammad shares his experiences with implementing a Thinking Classrooms approach in his chemistry classroom through a coaching cycle with one of the Shift coaches, Rachel Johnson.
To learn more about our coaching model and areas of coaching, visit our coaching menu on our website at https://www.hdsb-theshift....
To learn more about our coaching model and areas of coaching, visit our coaching menu on our website at https://www.hdsb-theshift....
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February 23, 2021 • 12 mins
In this first episode, get to know the Halton District School Board's SHIFT Innovation team, Matt Coleman, Rachel Johnson, and Sarah Nykoruk. We are going to dive into what the show is all about as well as who we are as coaches and humans… with a few shift puns to go along with it all.
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Connect with us on Twitter:
Rachel Johnson - https://twitter.com/dr_r_johnson
Sarah Nykoruk - https://twitter.com/SNykoruk
Matt Cole...
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Connect with us on Twitter:
Rachel Johnson - https://twitter.com/dr_r_johnson
Sarah Nykoruk - https://twitter.com/SNykoruk
Matt Cole...
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