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TTT#353 Teachers Speaking Up-2 w/ Andrea Zellner, Katherine Schulten, Steve Zemelman, Jen Ochoa, Beth Sanders, Pat Delaney 6.19

A provocative conversation about Teachers Speaking Up w/ @AndreaZellner, @KSchulten, @StevenZemelman, @Ochoajen @MsSandersTHS, and Pat Delaney on this episode of TTT (Please subscribe with this link: http://www.teachersteachingteachers.org/feed/podcast/ (And BTW http://cloud.feedly.com is a great replacement for Google Reader. The App, BeyondPod now integrates with Feedly.)

On this episode of TTT, we are joined by:

Andrea Zellner's profile photoKatherine Schulten's profile photoSteven Zemelman's profile photoPatrick Delaney's profile photoJennifer Ochoa's profile photoBeth Sanders's profile photo

This episode is a follow up to TTT#351 Teachers Speaking Up w/ Jesse Hagopian, Diana Laufenberg, José Vilson, Steven Zemelman, Pat Delaney, Maribeth Whitehouse http://edtechtalk.com/node/5198 -- and we plan more on this topic later this summer.

Here are a few notes from the show:

Look at what happened in Michigan today, Andrea Zellner writes: Our teachers are passionate and outspoken: http://www.michiganradio.org/post/teachers-rally-lansing-more-support-pu...

Jen Ochoa's "Give Them an Apple, or a Hug: Help Teachers and Students Survive Testing" http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/schoolbook/2013/apr/16/give-them-an-apple-or-a...

Kevin Hodgson's blog: http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/

Be sure to follow up at Teachers Speak Up http://teachersspeakup.com , a blog, where Steve Zemelman is a co-convener.

Some of the interesting things going on in Philly for Teacher Voice -
http://facesofthelayoffs.org/about-the-project/
http://thenotebook.org/
http://www.educationvoterspa.org/index.php/site/take-action/
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/school_files/ (Kristin's live-tweeting of the SRC meetings is legendary and an amazing resource for the community)
http://www.tagphilly.org/

Brave New Voices -
http://youthspeaks.org/bravenewvoices/
Fundraising link: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/team-atlanta-goes-to-brave-new-voices-...

Lisa Neilsen's group on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/homeschoolingunschooling/
A place where parents, students, teens, and teachers frustrated with traditional schooling can come together to discuss the more effective options they are pursuing. Conversations often address things like opting out of testing and other traditional schooling issues.


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Teachers Teaching Teachers #261 - Monika Hardy and colleagues discuss Lab: a plan of disruption to redefine school - 8.24.11

Monika Hardy and colleagues introduce Lab Connections

For this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, Monika Hardy @monk51295 invited a few of her colleagues:

  • Thomas Steele-Maley @steelemaley
  • Roberto Greco @rogre
  • Mary Ann Rielly @MaryAnnRielly
  • Amanda Judd @venueX
  • Amy Lewark @fat4thought

to join Chris Sloan @csloan and me @paulallison to introduce why we need lab spaces to disrupt and redefine school (Lab Connections). The goal is to facilitate self-directed learning. Here’s how Monika and others introduce their work in an in-progress book they are writing:

Students in Loveland, CO crafted a four year plan of disruption to redefine school. We are just beginning year two. Year four has community/life as school, with the city as the floor plan. Who, what, when, where, how, and with whom you learn, per choice. The premise… nothing is for everyone. We’re redefining success per individual/community. We’re respectfully questioning everything, especially what public education deems as normal. Imagine if the 7 hours a day we currently call school would/could awaken indispensable people. It’s a quiet revolution.

There has been plenty of theory/research invested in what we are doing, and that will be ongoing. But mostly, we have had the privilege and delight to indulge in experimentation/failure/prototyping/etc. The following is our best attempt to capture the key elements learned from key failures. If you are so inclined, shuffle along with us. It’s a kick. You might just fall in love with it.

For more history of the lab, see this video set/documentation (reverse chronological order):redefineschool.tumblr.com

For current updates/info on the lab, see labconnections: http://labconnections.blogspot.com/p/about.html

This was a first, exploratory conversation, and one that we hope will inspire you to join as well. We'll be continuing our conversations with Monika Hardy and her colleagues in the coming weeks on Teachers Teaching Teachers. Join us every Wednesday at edtechtalk.com/live where you’ll hear and see a Livestream broadcast of our conversation, and be invited to chat and ask questions as well.


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