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137 - Media Mentor Month with Keri-Lee, Sandra, and Alex
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A conversation with Keri-Lee creator of the Media Mentor Month and Sandra and Alex co-collaborators share about #mediamentormonth which is a global education initiative designed to help parents/teachers develop a supportive relationship with their children/students around digital technologies and media. Together they share their approach, collabora…
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136 - Central Eastern European Tech Directors Roundtable
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A conversation in the heart of Europe, where we explore with 4 Directors of IT and international educators, the unique opportunities and challenges of living and working in international schools in Warsaw, Poland; Vienna, Austria; Prague, Czech Republic, Budapest, and Hungary. Our guests share their experiences of adapting to different cities and r…
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135 - A Conversation with Fred Mednick, Founder of Teachers Without Borders
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Join us for a conversation with Fred Mednick, founder of the Teachers without Border (TWB) organisation. We'll explore TWB's contributions to education and professional development. Fred will share stories and reflections from his new book, In The Small Places about teachers as central protagonists in global change. We'll also explore themes of edu…
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134 - Jeff Wiener: CERN Science education, gender and connections
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Join us for a conversation with Jeff from the CERN Teacher Training Program. We explore the evolving landscape of science education. We'll discuss the interplay between innovative teaching methodologies and the integration of Artificial Intelligence, examining both the challenges and opportunities AI presents in enhancing student engagement and add…
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133 - CIS Taskforce on Child Protection 10th year anniversary
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Join us for a conversation with members of The International Taskforce on Child Protection (ITFCP). As the taskforce celebrates its 10th anniversary, we take this opportunity to hear the story behind its founding and its mission to protect children across the international schools community and beyond. We'll explore how international schools have a…
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132 - Makerspaces with Sarah Woods and Elizabeth Perry
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Makerspaces: rooms filled with tools and gadgets or creative havens that are transforming learning in international schools? Join Sarah & Elizabeth: two Makerspace educators share their experiences and insights. We delve into pressing questions: Why are Makerspaces essential in today's education? What are the common myths and misunderstandings surr…
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131 - Kathleen, Eric and Michael - Online learning where now?
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Join Kathleen, Eric, and Michael for a conversation, as they share their extensive experience in supporting international schools, leaders, and educators, with a special focus on online learning. Together they share their insights into the diverse lessons learned from online and blended learning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Why some sc…
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130 - A conversation with John Nash, Director, Laboratory on Design Thinking
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Join us for a conversation with John Nash, Associate Professor, Director, Laboratory on Design Thinking and speaker on educational innovation and leadership. In this discussion, John shares his research from the University of Kentucky, focusing on the challenges and opportunities schools face in balancing structured curriculums with the need for ad…
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129 - Dale Plotzki on Bitcoin and living in Korea and Peru
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Join us for a conversation with Dale Plotzki exploring the case for why international educators should understand Bitcoin and its place in financial security. Dale and Dan share a breakdown of what this is, how it works, what are its benefits for internationally mobile professionals as well as their own reflections from their personal experience. W…
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128 - Julia Walker and Brogen Lund on being Third Culture Kids
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Join us for a conversation with Julia Walker, host of the Across Oceans podcast, and guest Brogan Lund. Julia, a child of international school educators, and Brogan, a Third Culture Kid (TCK) and international school graduate, share what it means to be TCKs, as young adults and professionals. Together they share how growing up in various countries …
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127 - AI in the classroom tips and strategies with Cora, Dalton, and James
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As artificial intelligence is being integrated in international schools more prominently, we take this opportunity to connect with three educators: Cora, Dalton and James to explore how AI tools are being integrated into the classroom. What are the dispositions, approaches and tools that are having the most impact with student learning. How do clas…
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126 - Finding Your Path as a Woman in School Leadership
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In this conversation, Kim and Christina, authors of 'Finding Your Path as a Woman in School Leadership,' provide invaluable insights for educators and leaders in international schools. Drawing from their experience as international school educators and leaders, they share the experiences that inspired their book. This discussion delves into the cha…
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125 - Technology Readiness Council: Building
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A conversation with Wolfgang, Brian, and Garland to gain deeper insights into their project, "Technology Readiness Council: Building". The TRC (https://technologyreadiness.org/) support schools with the capacity for Educational Innovation through Technology. This discussion focuses on Professional Learning and School Improvement Planning. We explor…
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124 - Graeme Chisholm on Accreditation and School Visits
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Graeme will talk to us about his experience facilitating and participating in school accreditation and inspection visits for the Council of International Schools, New England Associates of Schools and Colleges, and British Schools Overseas. We discuss the structures, rationale and how schools engage with the process, and the dynamics that take plac…
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123 - BONUS EPISODE: Swiss Tech Directors Round Table
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We take an opportunity to connect with a Swiss Roundtable of international school technology leaders sharing their perspectives, learnings and experiences working in Swiss international schools—both boarding and non boarding—and what it is like living in Switzerland as an international educator. About Wolfgang Soeldner Wolfgang is an experienced ed…
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122 - Digital Coaches | International Schools Coaching Collaborative
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We interviewed four members of the International Schools Coaching Collaborative to gain insights into their roles, coaching practices, and how they support educators and schools in implementing innovative pedagogical approaches. We also explore the challenges and opportunities they encounter and discuss how schools can effectively utilize their exp…
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121 - Saudi Arabia Tech Directors Roundtable Podcast
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An opportunity to learn and hear from 4 Technology leaders in Saudi Arabia International Schools. We take the opportunity to explore workflows, living in Saudi Arabia, the accelerated changes taking place in the country and how this is impacting International Schools. About Paul Collins Paul Collins has over 20 years experience in Senior IT Managem…
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120 - Int’l School Directors from Kyiv and Khartoun share their stories
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Join us for a unique conversation with Bridget and Trae, international school leaders currently navigating the complexities of leading their respective school in a region embroiled in geopolitical conflict. They share insights on leading and maintaining a school in these challenging circumstances. Listen as they recount their experiences, the chall…
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Dan and John spend time together reflecting on the past year and looking ahead for 2024. A conversation about what we have been up to in 2023, PD, branding, professional transitions, mentoring, and the wisdom and generosity of our guests. A special thank you goes out to the team behind the scenes Jane and X for all their work and making the podcast…
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118 - Podcast with Nancy and Helen, ECIS trainer in Middle School leadership
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Navigating the intricate maze of Middle Leadership in schools is akin to mastering the art of balancing on a tightrope. These leaders stand as vital bridges between their peers and senior leadership teams, spearheading curriculum development, championing pedagogic transformations, and breathing life into a school's vision and mission. Join Nancy an…
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117 - A conversation with Matt Harris Ed.D., Co-Founder and CEO ChildSafeguarding.com
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Matt shares the journey of founding and running ChildSafeguarding.com. The company’s Child Protection courses and bespoke eLearning platform support schools, educators, staff, volunteers, parents and organizations that work with children. We explore the challenges, opportunities and lessons learned in developing this platform and the critical impor…
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116 - Bonus Episode: Altman’s Exit & Bard’s Teen Leap
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Dive into a compelling one-hour live discussion that navigates the recent pivotal changes in the world of artificial intelligence, particularly focusing on the educational sector. This engaging session will shed light on the implications of major industry shifts, including Altman's notable departure and Bard's significant advancements targeting you…
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115 - A conversation exploring the importance and role of physical activity, physical education, and well-being in international schools.
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Three educators from around the world, share their expertise, approach, perspectives, and guidance on how this area of learning continues to be an essential ingredient to supporting students and schools, and in some ways even more in an age of 24/7 connectivity About Leticia Carino PYP (Primary Years Program) PE teacher at the International School …
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114 - A conversation with Kirstin Coughtrie of Gaia Learning
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A conversation with Kirstin of Gaia Learning sharing her experience in supporting and mentoring neurodivergent learners. Kirstin shares how in her organisation they have been leveraging technology to create a nurturing and caring community of learners in an online school. With a personalised approach Gaia Learning supports students and parents arou…
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113 - Bonus Episode: Dan and John Chat About Teaching Internationally
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#internationalschoolpodcast Dan and John periodically get together and have a bonus episode on a topic or theme, and share some reflections. In this episode, we share and explore virtual over face to face events, teacher recruitment, different dynamics international schools engage with in this process and related thoughts. John Mikton on Social Med…
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112 - Ken Shelton: International Keynote Speaker, Education Strategist and Consultant, Learning Experience Designer, Diversity Equity Inclusion Expert, Anti Bias and Antiracist Trainer
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Ken shares his perspective, experience and work focused on supporting companies, educators and schools in building an inclusive culture that also supports meaningful cross-cultural connections and building a responsive service learning program that goes beyond performative gestures. Looking at how International Schools can include these perspective…
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111 - A conversation with Nalini Cook, Head of Global Research - ISC Research
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In this episode, Nalini Cook talks about the data, intelligence and trends on the international schools market gathered by ISC Research, the leading provider of English-medium K-12 international school data. ISC Research has been collecting market intelligence and data on international schools throughout the world since 1994. Nalini will explore so…
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110 - Admission and transition with Heidi Reid, Vasco Dimitroff, and Matt Craig
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Admissions and transition is a critical piece for international schools. How you approach these workflows, with the mindset of the school community and making it engaging is a complex and important process to juggle. We explore with our three guests some best practices and thoughts from their respective research and work in this area. We will also …
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109 - A conversation with four international school librarians from around the globe
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A conversation with four international school librarians from around the globe, looking at how libraries are navigating accelerated change, amplifying the importance of information literacy, promoting reading, DEIJ collections and the creative tensions brought about by AI and 24/7 connectivity. Together they share their learnings and different appr…
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108 - A conversation with LeeAnne Lavender
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LeeAnne shares learnings and reflections on Service Learning and Global Citizenship Education in schools. LeeAnne leverages storytelling as the vehicle by which educators can listen and learn from each other. Her primary focus is on helping individuals and communities use storytelling to create cultures that celebrate global citizenship and sustain…
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107 - A conversation with IT Directors Christina Devitt and Charlotte Diller
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Christina and Charlotte share their extensive experience as Director of Learning Innovation and eLearning and Director of Technology in International Schools in Asia, the Caribbean and Middle East. An opportunity to share their learning in these roles in an international school. Reflecting on the changing dynamics in the age of accelerated change a…
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106 - Carlos Davidovich Executive Coach Neuromanagement Expert - Speaker - Author - International TEDx Speaker
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Carlos shares his experience coaching and working with leaders around the world, in both an international school context and corporate setting focusing on "bully leaders". Carlos shares some of the learnings, experiences from his work, and combines this with his latest book "Five Brain Leadership". Exploring how our brains are wired to impact our d…
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105 - Small International Schools - Jeremy Majeski, Jimena Zalba, and Michael Hibbeln
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Small International Schools are wide spread around the world, with their size come different dynamics in the culture, structures, educator and leadership approaches, finances juggling the daily workflows and community building, Jimena, Jeremy and Michael who have started an ECIS (https://www.ecis.org/) "Intentionally Small Schools" special interest…
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104 - Valérie Besanceney and Jane Barron
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Valérie and Jane share their work, experience and learnings with the dynamics, challenges, and opportunities of transitions for students, parents, educators and schools. Together we explore the creative tensions many international educators and students experience with transitioning between schools and cultures, and how their respective organisatio…
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103 - A conversation with John Miller, Chief Empowerment Officer Agile Classrooms
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An opportunity to connect with John Miller of the Agile Classroom, a next-generation learning framework, with a student-centered approach, emphasizing collaboration, communication, self-organization, and social skills . We look at the Agile classrooms approach focusing on real-world approaches that the most innovative companies in the world use bro…
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102 - A conversation with Angela Newton and Peter Gravell Co-Founders of RealFastReports
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Angela and Peter educators and now entrepreneurs share their journey around the transition to starting a company focused on report writing and leveraging new AI technologies to save teachers time, improve workload and enhance the quality of feedback to students and parents. We explore why such a company, the challenges and opportunities of using ar…
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101 - Leveraging and understanding the power of Data with Chris Smith
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Data and information have become a critical component to leading and managing international schools. Understanding the data and more importantly getting it into a format and visual representation that all stakeholders can understand and engage with comes with challenges and opportunities Chris Smith shares his experiences supporting schools, the te…
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100 - 100th episode conversation with Dan and John
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100 hundred conversations, 100+ guests who have come to share their story, learning, challenges and interests. Dan and I spend a few moments reflecting on how this podcast started in June 2019, some of the themes, focus areas, and reflection of the podcast and the times we live in. Thank you to the generosity and kindness of our guests. A huge shou…
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99 - Conversation with Brett Gray, Director The Ostrava International School
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Brett shares his journey founding and leading a small international school in Ostrava in the eastern part of the Czech Republic. As Director of the first IB Continuum World School in the country, Brett gives us insights to his struggles with the Czech state school system, and what he has been fighting for as a teacher and educational entrepreneur f…
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98 - A conversation with Stefan Pasternak and Matthew Welling, educators, international school teachers, and musicians and producers
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Stefan and Matthew are second generation international school educators, their parents were international school educators, they both currently are international school educators and their children are in international schools The fascinating part is this is all within the same international school. We explore their experience, anecdotes, learnings…
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97 - Special topic Podcast Cyber Security with Dan and John
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Dan and John spend time exploring the topic of Cyber Security with Dan's work with schools and organisation and John's workshops and trainings on the topic. Dan shares his presentation on Cyber Security with thoughts, reflections and strategies on a topic that often is under the radar for educators and school leaders in International Schools. With …
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96 - A conversation with Safa Ghnaim Associate Program Director and Louise Hisayasu Senior Project Coordinator from Tactical Tech
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Safa and Louise from Tactical Tech showcase a few of the projects and resources focused on exploring and mitigating the impacts of technology on societies. The programs and events they organise raise awareness and encourage people to take control of their digital privacy, security, and wellbeing, with further resources to train on verification skil…
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95 - A conversation with Jamie McKenzie Publisher, FNO Press, writer, speaker
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Jamie McKenzie who has supported schools around the world as consultant, speaker and keynote, and written about education technology and information literacy . Jamie is Editor of From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal, a Web-based journal published online since 1991 and was the Director of Libraries, Media and Technology for the Bellingha…
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94 - A conversation with Jeff Utech (Big Dreamer & Founder) shiftingschools.com
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Jeff has worked in International Schools, consultant, founder Learning2, COETAIL, Edurolearning and now Shifting Schools. In this podcast we take the opportunity to learn about Jeff 's new professional interest as a property investor http://www.g3-homes.com/ in the Seattle area . In this podcast we explore the new workflows, how to juggle the educa…
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93 - A conversation with Pete Kennedy Senior Associate at Search Associates
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In this conversation with Pete Kennedy we take the opportunity to delve into the dynamics of international school recruitment for both educators and school leaders, how recruitment has changed since COVID, what are recruiting organisations doing to engage with DEIJ, and strategies to consider as a candidate. Pete comes with extensive experience as …
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92 - A conversation with Dr. Helen Kelly Author, researcher, speaker, consultant
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Dr. Helen Kelly shares her latest book "School Leaders Matter." which explores why the school leaders’ role has become so demanding and what governments, schools and leaders themselves can do to support their wellbeing. We together unpack the different areas of the book, the relationship between stress, workload, community and well being and the si…
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91 - Conversation on education technology integration with Aisha, Dania, Cora and Kim
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Four educators having worked in Africa, Asia and Europe in education technology in different roles, share their insights and perspective from their respective learning journeys with the question “Does technology integration work in an international school setting, does it enhance student learning and how impactful is it”. An opportunity for us all …
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90 - A conversation with Atul Temurnikar Co-Founder and Chairman, Global Schools Foundation (Singapore) https://www.gsf.info/
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Atul shares his professional journey as a prominent member of the education industry in ASEAN, North & South Asia & Middle East. Now he serves as co-founding trustee and Executive Chairman of Singapore-based Global Schools Foundation (GSF), a not-for-profit organisation. Atul shares his role as a Education Technology facilitator, Coordinator, and L…
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89 - A conversation with Scott McLeod, Professor, Leadership for Educational Organizations @ University of Colorado Denver, and Founding Director, CASTLE
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Author and professor Scott McLeod shares reflections, learnings ,and provocations based on his last two books, Leadership for Deeper Learning and Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning. We explore the different approaches to technology integration, the challenges and opportunities connected to how school leaders frame these conversations, and wh…
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88 - Greg, Warren and Wolfgang with Dan and John look at #ChatGPT3 in Education
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In this special edition podcast Greg, Warren and Wolfgang with Dan and John look at #ChatGPT3, its impact, what it might mean for schools and learning, and a chance to share some ideas on ways to juggle GPT3 , support staff, students and school to cohabitate with #ai in an International School setting. Guests: Greg Clinton, Ph.D Director of Technol…
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