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SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Alyson Santerre

SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Alyson Santerre

We’re back! In the latest episode of the SPS Digital Learning Hour I met with Alyson Santerre from Milton Bradley Elementary School. Come and learn all about her journey with technology in the classroom and her growth as a classroom teacher to be a leader in her building with the use of technology. Hear some great ideas for teaching reading remotely and ways that you can continue to use best practices developed through COVID that you can use even when…

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Episode 105: Digital Learning Playbook Module 3

Episode 105: Digital Learning Playbook Module 3

With this week’s episode we jump into module three of the very popular book, The Distance Learning Playbook, Grades K-12: Teaching for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie. With the SPS Digital Learning Hour podcast, we are talking our learning out loud. If you do not own this book, get it now and join us on the journey of discovery. You will also hear my thoughts and takeaways from each module.  This week’s…

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Episode 104: Minecraft Full Teacher Interviews

Episode 104: Minecraft Full Teacher Interviews

If you missed it, in Episode 103 we meet with various teachers, students and parents from Liberty Elementary School in Springfield to discuss Minecraft in the classroom. When I was talking with everyone, I quickly realized that I needed to share the whole interview with the teachers, as they gave me so much good stuff, but I did not want to make a 2-hour episode, I’m not Joe Rogan. So, I am producing two separate podcasts with the full interviews…

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SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Kristyn Brannigan

SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Kristyn Brannigan

In the latest episode of the SPS Digital Learning Hour, I met with Kristyn Brannigan. She is a classroom teacher from Alice B. Beal Elementary School here in Springfield. With over 15 years of experience, you will learn all about what it’s like to be a teacher that has had the opportunity to teach in schools around the world. In this episode you will learn all about her journey, you’ll get to hear some great ideas on teaching remotely, including…

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SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Catherine Murphy

SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Catherine Murphy

That’s right, we are back with another episode of the SPS Digital Learning Hour. In this week’s episode we met with Catherine Murphy, a Kindergarten Teacher from Arthur T. Talmadge Elementary School. Catherine is doing some amazing work in the classroom. During this magical year, she introduces many students to what school is all about. As a CSForAll teacher, she integrates a lot of technology into her class pre-COVID, which excites her students throughout the year. If you have ever…

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Episode 100: Arturo De Bourbon

Episode 100: Arturo De Bourbon

SPS Digital Learning Hour presents Arturo De Bourbon Community engagement, corny jokes, shout outs and general school announcements. For this week’s interview, we meet with Arturo De Bourbon, a Technology Teacher from Samuel Bowles Elementary. Through his work with students in the classroom, Arturo had taken morning school announcements to a whole new level. Learn how Arturo went from in person morning messages to remote messages and even expanded what the messages look like. Throughout the interview we learn how Arturo came to teaching,…

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Episode 99: The Distance Learning Playbook

Episode 99: The Distance Learning Playbook

Module 2: The First Days of School With this week’s episode we jump into module two of the very popular book, The Distance Learning Playbook, Grades K-12: Teaching for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie. With the SPS Digital Learning Hour podcast, we are talking our learning out loud. If you do not own this book, get it now and join us on the journey of discovery. You will also hear my thoughts…

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SPS Digital Learning Hour: Episode 97

SPS Digital Learning Hour: Episode 97

In this week’s episode we met with Sumner Ave Elementary Teacher Liam Bevan. Liam teaches Science to the entire school. Being the teacher responsible for 500+ students science learning can be challenging, especially in this time. Learn how this former Geologist came into education and the ways he is finding success in the classroom. Liam also gives us a couple of things to think about regarding taking caring of ourselves. We list all the tools mentioned in this episode below….

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Episode 96: The Digital Learning Playbook

Episode 96: The Digital Learning Playbook

Module 1: Take Care of Yourself In this week’s episode we jump into a hot new book, The Distance Learning Playbook, Grades K-12: Teaching for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie. We decided here at the Digital Learning Hour we wanted to discuss what we are learning with you, or as I like to think of it, Mike talking out his thinking. If you couldn’t guess it, I verbalize my thoughts for processing….

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