TOPICS WE EXPLORE

1. Who is Rafranz Davis?
2. What is her origin story from education to her new job?
3. How do we work to increase the opportunities to have someone take notice of us to make a difference?
4. What are some of the parallels and areas of focus we need to continue in education based on her experience working in education, her life experience, and now LinkedIn.
5. How do we connect community to education to help students become aware of the opportunities around us all?
6. How do we look back at our work and journey to move forward in a positive light?
7. The power of posting in a globally connected network.

YOUR CHALLENGE

Share ideas you gathered from the conversation with us on the socials.

What resonated with you?

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN SHOW

• Rafranz LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafranzdavis/ 
  • She also has a newsletter on the platform
• Pencils and Popcorn podcast she just launched

Just a few of my favorite ideas from the conversation!

TOPICS WE EXPLORE

1. Who is Dan Fitzpatrick?
2. What do we need to think about AI differently than just the latest shiny object?
3. How do we consider accessibility and equity with devices, access, and teaching of skills?
4. How do we go back to rethinking our media and digital skills?
5. How do we stop and pause to consider ethics to these tools?
6. How do we strike a balance of how to monitor or work with these tools?
7. Fun brainstorming future possibilities :)

YOUR CHALLENGE

Share ideas you gathered from the conversation with us on the socials.

What resonated with you?

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN SHOW

• OPEN: How we'll work, live and learn in the future https://amzn.to/3ZxJVnJ
• AI Educator website - https://theaieducator.io
• The AI Classroom: Teaching and Learning in the Artificial Intelligence Revolution (The Hitchhiker's Guide for Educators Series) https://amzn.to/3mpQnyr
• Follow Dan on Twitter and LinkedIn - https://theaieducator.io/#contact 

Just a few of my favorite ideas from the conversation!

TOPICS WE EXPLORE

1. Who is Zoe Weil?
2. What is her origin story that has brought her to this place of being so passionate about humane work?
3. What is a solutionary?
4. What are ways to create opportunities for students to be solutionaries despite the barriers of the K-12 education system?
5. What is the difference between a problem solver vs. solutionary?
6. To be solutionary needs to address the root causes and how this differs from humanitarian act(which is good to do) which does not solve a problem.

YOUR CHALLENGE

Share ideas you gathered from the conversation with us on the socials.

What resonated with you?

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN SHOW

• The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating a Generation of Solutionaries
• https://humaneeducation.org/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5HEV96dIuY

Just a few of my favorite ideas from the conversation!

TOPICS WE EXPLORE

1. Who is Jenahlee Chamberlain?
2. What is her origin story to find herself in her current role?
3. How does she process all the resources and materials to determine a clean concise flow for teaching and learning?
4. How to organize vertically K-12 and ensuring equity and access to be able to use lessons no matter the school?

YOUR CHALLENGE

Share ideas you gathered from the conversation with us on the socials.

What resonated with you?

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN SHOW

• Session recording explaining how she created, organized, and put together her computer science flow for elementary
• Slides from presentation above that contains her work discussed in the show
• Connect with Jenahlee on Twitter
• Join her webinar on graphic design

Just a few of my favorite ideas from the conversation!

Explore this show and so much more at www.coffeeforthebrain.com

In this episode of the podcast, I speak with the wonderful and incredible Jenny Buccos.

Jenny Buccos is a multi-award-winning director and producer. She is the founder and Head of Content of EXPLR Media, a multimedia education strategist, and an agent for global citizenship.She is the Creator and Executive Producer of Crash Test World- a family-focused TV series presented by Kari Byron (Mythbusters). (Available on Discovery+)

​​In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. She has directed and produced over 500 short films working with leaders and visionaries including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Belize’s First Lady Kim Simplis Barrow, Ziggy Marley, and Anthony Bourdain.

​An international specialist in video and media-focused curriculum design, Jenny provides consulting services for educational, cultural, and non-profit organizations focused on increasing student access and engagement.

Jenny has traveled to over 70 countries. When not traveling, she splits her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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• Find the this episode and all the previous episodes on Apple Podcast
• The episode and previous episodes of the show is also on Spotify!

TOPICS WE EXPLORE

All profiles can be found here

1. Who is Jenny Buccos?
2. What is EXPLR Media?
3. How do you think through the stories for curiosity to lead us into conversation and education?
4. Real World, Relevant, Relatable
5. How do we weave these three R's into the story of the learning journey with time constraints and context of students?
6. What has stayed the same and/or what has changed over time when it comes to telling quality stories and creating sparks of curiosities?
7. Meet students where they are at and what is engaging them.
8. What are some of the greatest AHA moments?
9. How do you sift through all the ideas to determine which story to tell?
10. Exploration of careers and bring these opportunities for students?
11. What is her origin story?

YOUR CHALLENGE

Share ideas you gathered from the conversation with us on the socials.

What resonated with you?

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN SHOW

• https://www.explr-media.com/
• https://www.jennybuccos.com/ 

Just a few of my favorite ideas from the conversation!

TOPICS WE EXPLORE

All profiles can be found here

1. Who is Amanda Clark?
2. Who is Erin Starkey?
3. Who is Sara Lev?
4. How did the three of these awesome people come together?
5. Erin Starkey Misconceptions on PBL and Literacy
   1. Power words: Perception and Permission
6. Sara Lev Misconceptions on PBL and Integration
   1. Pressure of foundation skills and "catching students up"
   2. Three layers to consider
7. Amanda Clark Misconceptions on PBL and Sustained Inquiry
   1. Inquiry, Investigation, Experimentation
   2. Field Trips vs. Field Work
8. The power of being seen as an early childhood educator from the leaders
9. Power of not dismissing the misconceptions, but embracing and working forward to create solutions
10. Universal ideas from this work to all learners

YOUR CHALLENGE

Share ideas you gathered from the conversation with us on the socials.

What resonated with you?

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN SHOW

• PBL Works
• Book: Implementing Project Based Learning in Early Childhood: Overcoming Misconceptions and Reaching Success
  • Amazon
  • Routledge
• Website: www.earlychildhoodpbl.com
• Twitter: @ec_pbl
• Instagram: @earlychildhoodpbl
• Facebook: Early Childhood PBL (private group)
• Article: 30 PBL Ideas for Young Children
• Course: https://earlychildhoodpbl.teachable.com/

Just a few of my favorite passages from the book!

See more at https://coffeeforthebrain.com/

TOPICS WE EXPLORE

1. Who is Joey Cofone?
2. Issues with education system and why there is a disconnect to needs of ourselves and others.
3. Barriers of creativity built by invisible rules
4. What can Alexander the Great teacher us about creativity?
5. Power word "disruption"
6. Making things different vs. making things better
7. Activity to showcase our uniqueness mathematically
8. Why is weird accepted on a global scale, but not a local scale?
9. How did Joey use the Laws of Creativity to build a notebook company?
10. Language shapes how we think and how he coined the word "Thinkers"
11. Tale of Two Gloves: Power of belonging to a community
12. Creativity is misunderstood
13. Final thoughts from Joey

YOUR CHALLENGE

Share ideas you gathered from the conversation with us on the socials.

What resonated with you?

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN SHOW

• https://www.joeycofone.com/
• https://baronfig.com/ 
• The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius https://amzn.to/3XWFDFw

In this episode, I speak with Pernille Ripp.

Pernille Ripp is an expert in literacy and technology integration and dedicates her research and practice to developing engaged and empowered students and communities.

She is a teacher, speaker, author, blogger, and passionate advocate for education. She is the recipient of the 2015 WEMTA Making IT Happen Award; and the 2015 ISTE Award for Innovation in Global Collaboration.

In 2010, Pernille founded The Global Read Aloud, a global literacy initiative that began with a simple goal in mind: one book to connect the world. From its humble beginnings, the GRA has grown to connect millions of students in around the world.

She is the author of Passionate Readers -The Art of Reaching and Engaging Every Child and  Passionate Learners – How to Engage and Empower Your Students, now in its second edition, and Empowered Schools, Empowered Students, both focusing on creating learning spaces and communities where students thrive and all stakeholders are empowered and passionate about learning. She has also authored Reimagining Literacy Through Global Collaboration published in 2016 by Solution Tree.  Her work has also been featured in many print and online journals including Edutopia, The New York Times, School Library Journal, The Guardian, and MiddleWeb.

You can follow Pernille’s work on Blogging Through The Fourth Dimension, her personal blog and a frequent Teach100 top-rated education blog.

Pernille’s current research interest is in creating passionate literacy environments within the restriction of our current educational systems to helping students fall in love with literacy again. She uses her own classroom as a laboratory, as well as learns from the many educators she works with across the world.

Pernille is now also part of The Author Village, a collective of forward-thinking children’s book authors and educators available for school and library visits, conferences, festivals, panels, and professional development opportunities.  To see her page there, please go here.

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The show is on Spotify!

TOPICS WE EXPLORE

1. Who is Pernille Ripp? And what does she have going on?
2. What are some AHA moments in the transition to living back in Denmark after being the US for a long time?
3. What are differences in education between US and Denmark?
4. What are similarities in education between US and Denmark?
5. Why are we going backwards since COVID?
6. Power of moderation, not thinking in extremes told through lens of the recent reading wars
7. Third edition of her book, Passionate Learners, is about how do we let go in a system that teaches us that control is the best way to manage?
   1. Dealing with our own control demons
   2. Power of trust
   3. How do you start off the year co-creating community with students?
   4. How is power at the core of classroom about power and positional control?
   5. And how you do you this in the daily class, not just a one activity lesson

YOUR CHALLENGE

Share ideas you gathered from the conversation with us on the socials.

What resonated with you?

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN SHOW

Instagram

Twitter

Patreon community

Blog

And pre+order of my her edition?

• https://linktr.ee/PernilleRipp
  • all the goodness of her website AND more!
• Pernille Ripp Website 
  • Her website contains everything you would ever need to find all of her work!
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TOPICS WE EXPLORE

1. Who is Jeremy Utley and how did he find his way to education from business work around the globe?
2. Young people need permission to not know
3. Not asking a young person what they want to be when they grow
4. The Einstellung effect where we cease to search when we think we have a plausible first answer AND how Ideaflow works to push through this issue of thinking.
5. Connection of creativity and an arm splint
6. We are not practicing what we are saying we are saying in education? How do we do this type of work of Ideaflow and the space for it?
7. What do we mean by creativity?
8. Don't always evaluate. Simple challenge going, "Oh good! and fill in with a response" Start with a gift of good and the try a gift of bad.
9. What if we couldn't do, then what would we do? Repeat this process for your first new idea to work to get past our first idea.
10. Power of framing a prompt or challenge where it is more on the approach vs. the answer.
11. "Curiosity can pull you where discipline and willpower would otherwise have to push"

YOUR CHALLENGE

Share ideas you gathered from the conversation with us on the socials.

What resonated with you?

RESOURCE MENTIONED IN SHOW

Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters

• Blog: jeremyutley.design
• Twitter: @jeremyutley
• Stanford's Masters of Creativity
• Leading Disruptive Innovation
• LaunchPad
• Astro Teller who is the head of Google X

TOPICS WE EXPLORE

1. Who is Laura McBain in case you don't already know!
2. How might we best deliver content to young people? AND...
3. How do we bring an asset framework and mindset to our young people and educators?
4. How do we solve the sticky issues that we not yet addressed in our education system?
5. How do we separate the topic of failure from the larger issue in the education system that is so focused in a deficit framed mindset?
6. What happens when a teammate of yours loses their way and fails in front of you? What is our responsiblity when each of us fail?
7. Missed opportunity when we don't have a process to unpack the moments when things don't work.
8. Michael Pryor story of compliant engagement (do as I say, and THEN we can have a great time)
9. Misconception that when we pivot to a new idea means that our previous work is "wrong"
10. Page 63 – Part of the mystery behind failure is this opportunity to surprise yourself. (my favorite line in the book!)
11. If everything is prescriptive, then the magical moments of learning and a strong sense of learning to learn won't happen.
12. Curiosity is what sustains us through moments of failure.

YOUR CHALLENGE

Share ideas you gathered from the conversation with us on the socials.

What resonated with you?

RESOURCE MENTIONED IN SHOW

• My Favorite Failure: How Setbacks Can Lead to Learning and Growth 
• d.school profile
• Laura on Twitter
• Laura on LinkedIn
• 119: The landscape of questions and listening in education with Laura McBain from d.school https://coffeeforthebrain.com/119/
• A video Laura provided as we explore Authentic Learning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbvn0KjtNag&feature=emb_title