Brad Shreffler
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chip Harbin – Episode 34
Hello, and welcome to Episode 34 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by a really good friend of mine, Chip Harbin. Chip is a former reading teacher, now behavioral dean. Chip is also one of the most personable, funny, and just…
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Chantal Larivière – Episode 33
Hello, and welcome to Episode 33 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Chantal Larivière, a 20 year educator out of Ottawa, Canada. Chantal is a phenomenal teacher, and just a generally fun person, and through hearing her on VoicEd, I knew…
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Dr. Lisa [NAME REDACTED] – Episode 32
Hello, and welcome to Episode 32 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by a good friend of mine, and my former boss, Dr. Lisa. She didn’t want her last name included on the show because apparently she is more concerned about…
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Lisa Corbett – Episode 31
Hello, and welcome to Episode 31 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Lisa Corbett, a mixed 2nd and 3rd grade teacher in Ontario, Canada. Lisa and I met through the Inquiry Based Learning Panel that Sarah Anne Lalonde hosted, as…
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Dr. Will Deyamport – Episode 30
Hello, and welcome to Episode 30 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. When I started this show in May, I didn’t think far enough ahead to plan out my year, figure out what weeks what episodes would release, or consider reaching the end of 2017. Yet, here we are.…
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Rola Tibshirani – Episode 29
Hello, and welcome to Episode 29 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Rola Tibshirani. Rola is a Grade 6 French Immersion teacher out of Ottawa, Canada. She is a regular on the #ONEdMentors show on VoicEd Radio, and I was…
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Joanna Bull – Episode 28
Hello, and welcome to Episode 28 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Joanna Bull, a Digital Literacy Resource Teacher out of Ontario, Canada. Joanna and I were together on an Inquiry-Based Learning Panel for Que Sera Sarah?, and I loved…
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Shane Lawrence – Episode 27
Hello, and welcome to Episode 27 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the show I am joined by Shane Lawrence. Shane is a teacher of drama, computers, film study, and film production out of Canada, as well as The Ed Podcast. As you might have guessed…
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Admin Balance Panel – Episode 26
Hello, and welcome to Episode 26 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the podcast, I have something a little different. Like I wrote about in my last post on the blog, I had one of my assistant principals ask me about how to provide feedback without…
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Chris Cluff Bonus Edition Part 2 – Episode 25
Hello, and welcome to Episode 24 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! If you’re listening to this episode on release day, and you live in the US, hope you aren’t out shopping in the craziness that is Black Friday. Just use Amazon.…
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Chris Cluff – Episode 24
Hello, and welcome to Episode 24 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week, I am joined on the podcast by Chris Cluff. I first heard about Cluff on VoicEd Radio, and started listening to his podcast Chasing Squirrels. He comes from outside education originally, as a classically trained…
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Noa Daniel – Episode 23
Hello, and welcome to Episode 23 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host Brad Shreffler. This week on the podcast, I am joined by the tremendously talented and brilliant Noa Daniel. I have been on shows a few times with Noa, most the panel show OnEdMentors on VoicEd Radio, and she never…
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Kasey Bell – Episode 22
Hello, and welcome to episode 22 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host Brad Shreffler. This week on the podcast, I talk to Kasey Bell of ShakeUpLearning.com and the Google Teacher Tribe Podcast. I’ve been listening to her show with Matt Miller, and I love their energy and excitement about the Google Suite,…
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Mike Arnold – Episode 21
Hello, and welcome to episode 21 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host Brad Shreffler. This week on the podcast, I talk to Mike Arnold. Mike reached out to me on twitter in response to a tweet I posted saying I was looking for guests, and especially college professors and math teachers, because he…
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Chuck Poole – Episode 20
Hello, and welcome to Episode 20 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. Wow, episode 20. That feels like a big deal to me, and I have a special announcement to celebrate it, but I’m going to save that for the end of the episode. This week on the podcast,…
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Derek Rhodenizer – Episode 19
Hello, and welcome to Episode 19 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week on the podcast I am thrilled to have Derek Rhodenizer. Derek is a Director of Academics at an independent school in Ontario, but I know him from his work on VoicEd Radio. He runs the…
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Ashley McBride – Episode 18
Hello, and welcome to Episode 18 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week, I speak with Ashley McBride, an Instructional Technology Facilitator out of North Carolina. Ashley and I met randomly at ISTE during a session for EdTech Coaches, and we quickly bonded over the fact that we…
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Sarah Anne Lalonde – Episode 17
Hello, and welcome to Episode 17 of the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom. I’m your host, Brad Shreffler. This week, I talk with Sarah Anne Lalonde, a teaching candidate out of Canada and fellow podcaster. I met Sarah in her role as the Community Manager for VoicEd Radio, and in the last few months, I…
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Beth Scanlon – Episode 16
Hello, and welcome to Episode 16 of the Planning Period Podcast, the #EdBreakroom, I’m your host Brad Shreffler. In this week’s episode, I talk to Beth Scanlon, reading, literacy and technology coach at a nearby school to me in Central Florida, as well as one of the founders of our local EdCamp conference, EdCampOrange. Beth…
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Brent Coley – Episode 15
Hello, and welcome to the Planning Period Podcast, your #EdBreakroom, I’m your host Brad Shreffler. This week, I chat with Brent Coley, elementary principal in Southern California, and host of the Teacher Tales podcast. As all my guests do, Brent answers my three questions, and the conversation goes off from there. In this episode, we…
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Tami Jimenez from Time To Teach – Episode 14
This week on the Planning Period Podcast, I talk with Tami Jimenez. Tami is the host of the “Time to Teach” podcast and pre-first teacher out of Mexico. We met through a Facebook group for educators who podcast that she started, and through her I’ve made a lot of great connections. I’m also a fan…
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Planning Period Round Table – Episode 13
On Wednesday, August 30th, VoicEd Radio did a 15 hour long, live radiothon. As a member of the VoicEd family, I was invited to join in, and I jumped at the chance. For an hour, I went live with some of my previous guests. I was joined by my dad, Bob Shreffler (Episode 10), Kristen…
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Vicki Davis, The Cool Cat Teacher – Episode 12
Welcome to Episode 12 of the Planning Period Podcast, the break-room of education podcasts. In this week’s episode, I talk to the one and only Vicki Davis, known online everywhere as the Cool Cat Teacher. She is an avid blogger, a massively connected educator, a podcaster, a classroom teacher, and a technology coordinator for a…
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Mandy Taylor – Episode 11
Hello, and welcome to Episode 11 of the Planning Period Podcast. I am so glad to be back with you guys every week again! This week, kids were back in school in my district, and it has been more than a little hectic, but things have been expanding on the podcast front too. The response…
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My Dad, Bob Shreffler – Episode 10
I’m thinking about Episode 10 as the start of Season 2, or maybe Season 1.5. Either way, I have had a blast making the first 9 episodes of this show, but I think my best stuff is definitely ahead of me. With that in mind, I thought that the best way to start out the…
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Evan Jones and Other Students – Episode 9
My summer break is over. In just a few days, I will be back to school again, with two weeks of work to be done before students show up at our school for the 2017-2018 school year. My summer has been full of professional development opportunities, conferences, amazing conversations with other educators, meeting new people,…