virtual school

Over the course of the episode, we touch on the following questions:

• What is your 30 “elevator pitch” for how you envision using technology in your classroom? What do you want students to be able to do with technology?
• How do you prepare students to communicate in a 21 century world?  
• What opportunities do you have to collaborate with other teachers in an online school? How can you best maximize the potential of technology for learning together?

Don't forget to tune in to the end of the episode for our Pitstop Segment where we shout-out something awesome happening in Jordan School District: 🏁 🏎💨 🏁

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One of the high-quality virtual learning platforms that I am especially enthusiastic about is Great Hearts, which is expanding this year into a national online private academy with a Classical education focus. 

A network of public charter and tuition-based private schools and microschools, with both brick-and-mortar and virtual offerings, Great Hearts is the largest provider of liberal arts classical education in the country, serving more than 26,000 students at 33 schools across the US. 

Our guest today is Kurtis Indorf, Chief Innovation Officer for Great Hearts America, and the Founder and President of Great Hearts Nova.

Apply here for the 2023 Ed-Prize Awards for education entrepreneurship and innovation! 

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Today's guest is Michael Strong, a longtime education entrepreneur and innovator and now founder of The Socratic Experience, an online school that emphasizes personalized and purpose-driven education, which I highly recommend.

Michael is the author of the 2009 book, Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems, which includes a Foreword by John Mackey, the cofounder and former CEO of Whole Foods Market, with whom Michael has collaborated on initiatives related to conscious capitalism and entrepreneurship. Michael is also the author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice, and we’ll hear more about what that looks like in his new online school focused on Socratic principles. 

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In this episode, we are diving into the topic of what virtual schools could be post-pandemic. We'll share some ideas on how virtual schools could work going forward and how we should plan for it effectively. This stemmed from a post on Twitter where the Ontario Government is proposing that virtual models are here to stay.

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• Twitter - Virtual Schools announcement/rumours
• Current Model - too much synchronous time, no flexibility/options
• Needs - purposeful staffing, models of feedback/coaching/mentoring
• Beware of imposter syndrome
• Effective planning/learning is needed to support virtual learning models and de-streaming
• Start it small to build effectively and leads to questions around the student selection process
• Course offerings - there are some interesting ideas to approach schools
• Build a Credit - Student Success (WRSDB)
• Possibility of partial credits - currently done in Section Schools in Ontario
• UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Modern Classrooms Project - PBL Webinar
• HEADRUSH Learning Management System - supports PBL, partial credits, mastery based grading
• Self-Paced/Mastery Based learning model would support virtual learning very well
• Modern Classrooms Project (MCP) - Free Course and Virtual Mentorship
• How to Create and Use Labels in Gmail - Rachel's Video submission for MCP (made with OBS Studio)
• Should Rachel teach summer school?
• OBS Studio (Open Broadcaster Software) - record videos, stream, or use a virtual camera; available for MacOS, Windows, and Linux
• Steven Fotheringham - Blog Post on OBS Studio
• Studio booths for teachers with green screens, tech, sit/stand desks
• Community is still important and needed - a place for students and staff to gather, complete hands on learning, etc.
• Flexibility in schedule
• Combined/co-taught courses and team teaching

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Whether you are doing school virtually, in-person, or hybrid, you probably have certain things you want your kids to do in the morning. Anne will share some ideas on how this might work for all ages, including your youngsters who aren’t reading yet. This will pay off for you, as well as giving your kid a sense of accomplishment and boosting their self-esteem. [Sound effect courtesy of Zajjman]

Whether you are doing school virtually, in-person, or hybrid, you probably have certain things you want your kids to do in the morning before school. Anne will share some ideas on how this might work for all different ages, including your youngsters who aren’t reading yet. This will pay off for you, as well as giving your kid a sense of accomplishment and boosting their self-esteem. [Sound effect courtesy of Zajjman]

 (This episode does NOT include the added activity for kids. If you are interested in that option, see previous episode #31B.)

When a snowball the size of the moon falls from the sky, school goes virtual and Seb is bored until a visitor arrives and changes everything.

On today's episode of Raising The Nuts, Trevor and Jody are having a rough day. Virtual school is not going well and Jody talks about the conversations she had to have with the administrators. She also talks about a psychiatrist intake and how that went and they get back to basics with a funny kid story.

On this bonus episode of Raising The Nuts, Jody and Trevor continue their conversation from yesterday and talk about the frustrations of virtual school and sports, among other things. There is plenty of ranting in this episode!

Donald's goal is to be the most welcoming school in America. If kids know they are wanted and welcome, they will be socially and mentally better and happier.

Teachers, by nature, are planners, but with the times right now, the country is early in the virus and late to be planning the fall schedule of virtual and in-person classes.

How do we allow visitors to our school, keep kids protected and safe, and still be welcoming?

Donald walks through the "how" we do things may change, but the "why" we do them is what matters.

The amount of use of screen time by students could have some long term effects of having it readily available without a purpose of using it. How often are we intentional with our time when we are using screens?

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Misty, Lindsey, Caitlin and Prism Virtual parent Jessica Hankerson get together to talk parents through how to talk to their children about the COVID-19. They also provide pro-tips to parents who will be working from home while their kids school from home during the Coronavirus shutdowns.