Rachael and Erick discuss the role of the library media specialist and how the relationships forged with teachers can be a gamechanger in your school. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-greater-educator/support

You've probably heard of a digital portfolio, but we were surprised by the kind of learning that takes place when you're intentional about how you execute them with your students. Also surprising - that late-winter, early-spring "peas and onions" snow. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-greater-educator/support…

Rachael and Erick discover Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) and discuss their thoughts on some next-level implications for our teaching careers after taking on the often misunderstood and highly stigmatized dongle subculture, some effective remedies for that annoying winter cough, and the impact of implementing e-sports in our public schools. --- S…

In today's episode, Erick and Rachael discuss the ethics of tricking people into giving an interview, "Live, Laugh, Love" and other terrible cliches, and a recent Forbes article about ten ways to make your classroom more innovative. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-greater-educator/support…

To all the teachers who might have had a less than motivated student grace their classrooms - whose job is it to motivate these kids to learn? We tackle this question and attempt to consider the ramifications of our answers.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-greater-educator/support…

Here are some of our favorite go-to instructional strategies that you can plug into your classroom right away.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-greater-educator/support

Check out the ISTE Standards for Students while we offer our thoughts on each of them.https://www.iste.org/--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-greater-educator/support

We have both been so lucky in our careers to be able to attend education conferences across the country. The opportunity to learn alongside and network with like-minded professionals is probably the most energizing experience a teacher can have. That’s a call to action for school leaders - find space in your PD budget to send teachers out to learn …

Ah, group work! For some of us, that phrase induces PTSD from projects in which we knew that we would have to drag our group members along, hoping they would carry their share of the load, only to take it all on the day before the due date and making sure we all don’t fail Mr. Smith’s American History class and ruin our lives forever.Yeah, this one…

Our recent conversations have been exploring the 4Cs of 21st century learning. I don’t know if it’s been as apparent to you as it has been to me, but the closer we look at the skills and talk beyond the buzzwords to figure out what they actually mean, the more I realize how interconnected and interdependent they really are. Today’s topic, skill num…

There’s a fantastic advertisement by Adidas called “Calling All Creators”. The ad features a group of professional athletes sharing a roundtable discussion with some other folks: musical artists, a fashion designer, and a supermodel are all present for a conversation about what it means to be a creator. Take a listen:[transcript from the ad]Calling…

For years now, I have been a huge believer in the power of a more personalized, student-centered approach to learning. I bought in to the philosophies of empowering student voices and forging past the factory model of school pretty early in my research, but, If I’m being honest, I struggled immensely to put my beliefs into effective practice in my …

Here at The Greater Educator, we’re kicking off the school year thinking big. I’m setting a vision for myself and my students that I think is a surefire way for any educator to improve, and it’s just two steps. If, at the end of each day, I can say that I’ve done each of these two things, then I think it’s going to be a pretty awesome year.So, with…

It’s the start of a new school year and many of the country’s greatest educators have been readying plans to kickstart new projects, goals, procedures, instructional strategies, and countless other fresh ideas in their classrooms. Many of us spend the summer months exploring our craft and searching for the something that might work just a bit bette…