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Sarah Thomas – Edumatch Founder
Hello, and welcome to Episode 71 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Dr. Sarah Thomas, technology coordinator, public speaker, and founder of EduMatch. I am connected with Sarah on twitter and Voxer, and have heard her on a couple other…
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Michael Ralph of the Two Pint PLC
Hello, and welcome to Episode 70 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Michael Ralph, a STEM Teacher Trainer within the UKanTeach program at the University of Kansas. Focuses on the scientific process for others to be able to bring that…
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Carol Salva of the Boosting Achievement Podcast
Hello, and welcome to Episode 69 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Carol Salva, educational consultant specializing in teaching English Language Learners out of Texas. Carol and I have met a couple times, and while she has been on a…
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Dr. Bob Walker – Accepting Everyone
Hello, and welcome to Episode 68 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Dr. Bob Walker. Bob and I work together at the school I joined this year. He is our academic dean, and is a well read and learned educator…
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Thomas Arnett – Jobs to Be Done with Change
Hello, and welcome to Episode 67 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Thomas Arnett, educational researcher and former middle school math teacher. Thomas is focused on disruptive change in K-12 education, and I recently heard him on the 10-Minute Teacher…
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Jennifer LaRocque – Culturally Responsive Classroom
Hello, and welcome to Episode 66 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Jennifer LaRocque, culturally responsive Kindergarten teacher. She was a fellow presenter at the Ignite session that I also presented at, and I knew she would be a great…
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Ramona Meharg – Special Ed is Never An Excuse
Hello, and welcome to Episode 65 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Ramona Meharg, an ESE teacher out of Ontario, Canada. She is also a podcaster and member of the VoicEd Radio family, so I was excited to have her…
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Kassi Gulliford – Progressive Band Director
Hello, and welcome to Episode 64 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Kassi Gulliford, a middle school band director out of South Eastern Virginia. She and I actually went to high school together, and played and marched in band together.…
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Getting Personal – A Story of Life Meets Classroom
My mom died last week. I had just finished story time with my son and was prepping a slow cooker lasagna for tomorrow’s dinner when I got the first call. 8:30 pm on a Tuesday, and it was Uncle Bill calling. There had been some kind of accident at work and she was bleeding internally.…
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Leanne Hanson – Healthy Skepticism and Koalas
Hello, and welcome to Episode 63 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Leanne Hanson, an educator out of Australia, or as she describes herself, a thinker who occasionally teaches. She has taught English, film and media, and now teaches career…
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Jonathan Spike – Going Macro with Game Based Learning
Hello, and welcome to Episode 62 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Jonathan Spike, former high school English teacher, and now college level instructional technology coach. He and I met at ISTE as he presented an Ignite session during the…
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Rolland Chidiac Part 2
Hello, and welcome to Episode 61 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Rolland Chidiac for Part 2 of his chat with me. Rolland is a classroom teacher, grades 4 and 5, and education podcaster out of Ontario, Canada and he…
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Rolland Chidiac – Transitioning and Change
Hello, and welcome to Episode 60 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Rolland Chidiac, a classroom teacher, grades 4 and 5, and education podcaster out of Ontario, Canada. He is passionate about integrating technology into his classroom. I’ve known of…
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Daniel Brennick – VoicEd RadioThon Live
Hello, and welcome to Episode 59 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Daniel Brennick. Daniel and I met at an EdCamp a couple months ago, and while I was looking for a guest to join me, so he jumped at…
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Students Will Never Understand Their Place
If you listen to my podcast, you’ve probably heard that I am going to a new school this year, and in my area, students are back on campus today. I have been lucky enough in my 10 or so years teaching to have some wonderful students. My last group of students at the high school…
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Randall Black – Edtech Extraordinaire
Hello, and welcome to Episode 58 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Randall Black, from West Virginia, a Technology Systems Specialist. He focuses more on the technology side, and getting it working, but still finds value in being in the…
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Educational Movie Review – Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
Hello, and welcome to Episode 57 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week is something totally different. Based off another podcast I love, Very Bad Wizards, I am going to be doing some movie reviews from an educational spin. The idea was to take the movies that are…
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ISTE18 Wrap Up
Hello, and welcome to Episode 56 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by a ton of people from my area as we do our ISTE 2018 wrap up. Throughout the International Society for Technology in Education 2018 conference, we tried to…
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Brad’s IGNITE Talk at ISTE – #TheBigQInEDU
Hello, and welcome to Episode 54 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show, I’m bringing you the audio from my IGNITE talk at ISTE this year. I will be bringing you more ISTE content in the following weeks. For now, sit back and enjoy my…
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#ISTE18 – IGNITE Round 2
Kyle Bowen kicked off the session talking about Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching. He had some great points about what AI really is, and ultimately shared some experiments he is working on with others at Penn State. The huge takeaway is his slides! The graphic work was excellent, from the Maslow’s Hierarchy with…
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#ISTE18 – IGNITE Presentations, Round 1
If you have followed my ISTE journey over the past few years, you know that I am obsessed with IGNITE sessions. This series of 5 minute presentations are fast paced looks at ideas presented quickly and effectively. In these 5 minute presentations, the presenter has 20 slides which advance automatically every 15 seconds. This first…
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#ISTE18 – Top Tech Tools for Teachers with Dan Kreiness
It is officially ISTE 2018, and that means I get to start learning from some amazing educators! My first session of the conference is Top Tech Tools for Teachers presented by Dan Kreiness. Let me start with that ISTE does not have its organization on point this morning. These are the People’s Choice sessions, which…
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My Time on A Word In Progress
After I asked him to be on my show (Episode 19), Derek Rhodenizer asked me to be on his show, A Word In Progress. This show is all about talking in absurd detail about specific words that educators throw around, but often we don’t have a solid definition of what those words really mean. Ultimately,…
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Andrew Jackson – My New Principal
Hello, and welcome to Episode 54 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by my new principal Andrew Jackson. I have started at a new school, and I couldn’t think of a better way to start my new journey than to sit…
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Kristen Warskow – Art Teacher Perspective
Hello, and welcome to Episode 53 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Kristen Warskow, a middle school art teacher out of Central Florida. She is a friend of Sara who was on the anniversary episode, and when Sara told me…
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Nicole DeLuca, History Teacher Extraordinaire
Hello, and welcome to Episode 52 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Nicole DeLuca. Nicole is a teacher at my school, and is constantly blowing me away with the things she does in the classroom. I always know that I…
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Rick Wormeli, Author of Fair Isn’t Always Equal
Hello, and welcome to Episode 51 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Rick Wormeli, among other things, the author of Fair Isn’t Always Equal, the quintessential book on the differentiated classroom. He is an educational researcher, presenter, and just educational…
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Edcamp West Orlando Wrap Up
Hello, and welcome to Episode 50 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This past Saturday, May 12th, I hosted my first ever Edcamp, Edcamp West Orlando. It was many months of work between me and my two co-planners Kristen Iannuzzi and Nicole DeLuca, and a genuine labor of love.…
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Dan Kreiness, Host of Leader of Learning Podcast
Hello, and welcome to Episode 49 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Dan Kreiness. Dan is an instructional coach out of Connecticut, and also the host of the Leader of Learning podcast. Dan and I are connected through Voxer and…
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#MADPD Building Staff Morale as an Instructional Coach
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of presenting a session on building morale during #MADPD. MADPD (or Make a Difference PD) is an full day online conference for professional learning put together by Peter Cameron and Derek Rhodenizer. This year, over 100 teachers presented either a session on a topic they were interested in, or a…
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Anniversary Special, Featuring Me and My Friends
Hello, and welcome to Episode 48 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. It is really hard for me to believe, but as of May 5th, my show has been around for a full year. It has been an absolutely unbelievable journey through the last year, and I have been…
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School Board Member Pam Gould – Episode 47
Hello, and welcome to Episode 47 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Pam Gould. Pam is the School Board Member for District 4 in Orange County, Florida, not far from me. She has served on the school board since 2012,…
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Pursuing Survival… Guest Post by Kristen Iannuzzi
“For decades, terrorists and mass shooters trod their separate paths. Then Columbine. Eric and Dylan fused them. School murders had been done; Eric envisioned a school catastrophe. A new template was born. The spectacle murder. Performance without a cause. Just demonstration of personal power.” -David Cullen, Columbine I was a freshman in high school when…
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Meg Jones – Critical Literacy – Episode 46
Hello, and welcome to Episode 46 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Meg Jones. Meg and I met at Edcamp St. Augustine where she started a conversation about Critical Literacy. I was really impressed with what she had to say…
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House of Edtech’s Chris Nesi – Episode 45
Hello, and welcome to Episode 45 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Chris Nesi. If you listen to any other education podcasts, you almost definitely know Chris. He is the host of the House of Edtech, co-host of PodcastPD, creator…
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Disconnected Day
Anyone who know me, knows I’m a technophile. I’m an instructional technology coach, a constant Twitter user, and podcaster. I Snapchat most of my life, text friends, have multiple active Voxer groups, and take tons of pictures of my son. My phone is in my hand constantly. Last week, I popped into my friend’s office…
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Taylor Mali of What Teachers Make – Episode 44
Hello, and welcome to Episode 44 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Taylor Mali. As I’ve talked to people about Taylor Mali, they usually reply “Who’s that?” Then I say, have you heard of What Teachers Make? Then they say,…
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My Time on the Personal Playlist Podcast
I had the amazing honor of being asked to be on Noa Daniel’s Personal Playlist Podcast (BTW, notice I didn’t say “recently”. Because this post is 4 months past due. Because I’m awful). While Noa is a phenomenal and inspiring educator (if you doubt me, check out Episode 23 of my show with her), her…
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Matt Miller – Episode 43
Hello, and welcome to Episode 43 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Matt Miller. You may know Matt Miller from his successful book Ditch That Textbook, from his podcast with Kasey Bell Google Teacher Tribe, his online conference Ditch Summit,…
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Chip Harbin – Flip the Script – Episode 42
Hello, and welcome to Episode 42 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show, I am the guest. During the VoicEd Radiothon last month, I invited Chip Harbin from Episode 34 of the podcast to join me for a live episode of my show. Our idea…
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Kristen Iannuzzi – School Safety Plan – Episode 41
Hello, and welcome to Episode 41 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week is a little different. Just over a month ago as I release this episode was the Parkland Shooting. As I write this, much of the restrained hope I felt that change was truly coming has…
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Google Add-On: Class Folder Creator
As a teacher at a one-to-one school who uses G Suite and Canvas as an Learning Management System (LMS), few things are more annoying than the “You must request permission” screen. This happens a lot for my teachers and I. You give an assignment description on Canvas, the student creates their work in a Google…
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Stephen Hurley – Episode 40
Hello, and welcome to Episode 40 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by a man who really needs no introduction on this podcast, Stephen Hurley. Stephen is the creator of VoicEd Radio, a retired teacher, and a generally awesome guy. He…
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AJ Bianco – Episode 39
Hello, and welcome to Episode 39 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by AJ Bianco, self-described Father, Husband, Teacher, Leader, Tech Nerd, Weekend Athlete, Sports Enthusiast. He is also one of the three hosts of PodcastPD, one of my personal favorites to listen…
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On a Field Trip with My Son
My son’s kindergarten class went on a field trip to a farm recently, and I had the chance to chaperone the trip. First of all, it was really interesting being a chaperone for another school, another group of kids. With kindergarten field trips, the ratios are something around 5 kids to each chaperone. With that…
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Teachers Speak Up Live – Episode 38
Hello, and welcome to Episode 38 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the podcast I’m doing something a little different. Just over a week ago as this releases, the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas occurred in my own state of Florida. As these always are,…
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Jethro Jones – Episode 37
Hello, and welcome to Episode 37 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Jethro Jones. Jethro is a principal in Fairbanks, Alaska (where they sometimes get as much as 4 hours of sunlight a day!), a fellow podcaster as host of the…
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I’m Done Holding My Tongue In Class
It only seems fair to start this post with an admission. I am a gun owner. In the past, I was even a member of the NRA. I was born in Georgia, have family that still lives on hunt-able land there, have gone hunting myself. I’ve made the arguments myself that people having guns makes us…
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Trevor MacKenzie – Episode 36
Hello, and welcome to Episode 36 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by the final member of the Inquiry Based Learning Panel, and by the man who literally wrote the book (or as he would say, just a book) on IBL,…
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EdCamp Orange Live Special – Episode 35
Hello, and welcome to Episode 34 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show, we’re going to do something a little different. I recently had the opportunity to attend a local EdCamp. When the day of learning wrapped up, I invited participants to join me for…
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