These episodes will mostly be my reflections on what I am learning about, especially in the area of Education Technology. This will also include other issues and thoughts about education. I have found that I need a combination of time and a cool idea to try something new. Thus the rebranding of Bright's Ideas to Use It or Don't.
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Phil Toke is a Sydney based DJ, producer, event organiser and co-founder of music networks, Soul of Sydney and Sunday Sanctuary. Soul of Sydney is a collectively run Soul & Funk music network including, DJ’s, musicians, producers & break dancers working together to support and promote soul based music throughout Sydney. Phil is also founder of Sunday Sanctuary, a regular event dedicated to Gospel based music, Deep Soulful House and underground disco. The launch of Sunday Sanctuary has marked ...
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024- How My District is Supporting the Teaching of Reading
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In this episode, I talk about how our district is training teachers in the five components of the five pillars of reading. These include phonics, pandemic, awareness, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.
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In this episode, I share my word and focus of the year- growth. Hopefully this will be an encouraging message to you as you are growing in your position as an educator.
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022 White Supremacy in Math Class? Not for These Reasons.
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This is a more serious response to the idea that objectivity, right or wrong answers and a few other characteristics are examples of white supremacist culture. Short summary: I push back on the idea that these are inherently white characteristics and how this is ridiculous and unhelpful to the conversation about math and/or race.…
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021 Holderness Family- Introverts vs. Extroverts
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In this episode, I share a blog post about being an introvert. I also share about the Holderness Family podcast in the what I’m listening to section.
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020 CMC -Eduprotocol- Math Rep/ Sketch and Tell/ Thin Slides
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In this episode, I share several eduprotocols, such as math reps, sketch and tell and thin slides.
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In this episode, I talk about a session I went to about stacking eduprotocols in a mathematics classroom, but just in general eduprotocols are awesome.
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In this episode, I share some of my learnings from CMC South, and the presentation by Jo Boaler.
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017 Knowledge vs. Skills- The Knowledge Gap- Ch. 2
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In this episode, I share my learning from Chapter 2 of of Natalie Wexler's book, The Knowledge Gap. I discuss how Natalie contends for the importance of helping students establish background knowledge versus just focusing on comprehension skills
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In this episode, I share my learning from chapter 1 of Natalie Wexler's book, The Knowledge Gap. We look at some of Wexler's pushback on the way we have been teaching comprehension to students, usually using a skills-based model. She begins to suggest that that, alone, will not fill that learning gap between our low and high-level readers.…
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015- Child Driven or Data Driven. Can you be Both?
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In this episode, I reflect on a blog post by George Couros, titled Child-Driven or Data-Driven. Can you Be Both? The short answer is no. The long answer could be an interteresting conversation.
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In this episode, I talk about the different types of students that you might see in your classroom before you implement a thinking classroom.
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In this episode, I talk about not expecting your kids to be just like you and growing as an educator. Also, I wrap up the seven teaching mistakes from our Whole Brain Teaching series.
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In this episode, I talk about working more after class to make your class a success. And I push back a little.
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011- Common Mistakes- Disorganization and Dislike
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In this episode, you’re going to learn common mistakes about being disorganized in your classroom or disliking teaching as a way to help your class become more disruptive.
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In this episode, you will learn about the importance of having consistent procedures, and having variation, or variability, to those procedures using Class Yes as an attention getter.
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Instead of trying to reason with a child with big emotions, try using the 3 R’s. Regulate, Relate, then, Reason
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008 Common Mistakes- How to Help Your Students be More Disruptive Pt. 1
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Yelling and punishing are 2 mistakes we can make when helping our class be more disruptive.
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Can we transform kids by transforming how we interact with them?
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Whole Brain Teaching quote
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Reintroducing myself and stretching out of my comfort zone.
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Phil Toke warming up for John Morales @ Soul Of Sydney Feb 2020
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LIVE MIX: an hour of DISCO & BOOGIE goodness in the mix at the SOUL OF SYDNEY Funk Fundraiser jam back in Feb, warming it up for NYC Disco legend JOHN MORALES (M+M Mixes, BBE Records)By Phil Toke
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Just a pre conference consideration. Still working out how to do this podcasting.
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I share a couple thoughts from Donalyn Miller’s book, The Book Whisperer. How we can limit the amount of test prep while helping our students do well on a standardized test.
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How using Accelerated Reader is not always the best way to encourage our developing readers. Can we do better?
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Phil Toke - 30 min Disco Funk set on FBI radio Sydney 9 - 8-15
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Phil Toke's live recorded 30min set on Stephen Ferris' 'Souled out' show on FBI radioBy Phil Toke
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Phil Toke Deep House Mix for DHA Radio - Recorded Live
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Phil Toke LIVE recorded mix for Deep House Australia Radio show. Recorded at Bondi Beach Radio studios.Catch the full recording of the show and interview at https://soundcloud.com/deephouseau/dhaw-091-phil-tokeBy Phil Toke
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