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SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Digital Learning Now Middle School Students

SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Digital Learning Now Middle School Students

This is the final week for our series on Computer Science in Middle School. In the previous weeks we heard from principals and teachers, this week we will hear from their students. I met with students from Zanetti, Kiley Prep and STEM Academy. Listen to these students’ experiences as they discuss their favorite parts of computer science in their classrooms. These students are just a small representative of the students who are loving Computer Science in their schools. If you…

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SPS Digital Learning Hour Featuring Middle School Educators

SPS Digital Learning Hour Featuring Middle School Educators

For this weeks episode we dive into a three part series featuring our Middle School Computer Science Students, Teachers, and Principals. I met with a few of our excellent Middle School teachers for this episode. I talked with Melissa Zeitz of Alfred G Zanetti Montessori School, Alva Laster, Jamie Carens and Gary Burgess of STEM Middle Academy and Lia Ashe Simmer of Kiley Prep Middle School. These teachers are are leading the way in bringing a great computer science curriculum…

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SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Middle School Principal

SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Middle School Principal

For this weeks episode we dive into a three part series featuring our Middle School Computer Science Students, Teachers, and Principals. I met with three of our principals for this episode. I talked with Principals Tara Clark of Alfred G Zanetti Montessori School, Luis Martinez of STEM Middle Academy and Julia St. Martin of Kiley Prep Middle School. These principals are are leading the way in bringing a unified computer science curriculum to our great middle schools, these interviews are…

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Creating Balance

Creating Balance

It’s Sunday Night. A year ago, you would have been finalizing your plans for the next week and finishing up your grading so you can give work back on time. For most of us, we would have had some time for ourselves to read or watch a show, maybe we would have gone for a hike, or had a nice dinner with family and friends. That would have been 12 months ago before we entered this uncertain time. In today’s world of teaching, we are isolated at our homes…

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Episode 104: Minecraft Full Teacher Interviews

Episode 104: Minecraft Full Teacher Interviews

If you missed it, in Episode 103 we meet with various teachers, students and parents from Liberty Elementary School in Springfield to discuss Minecraft in the classroom. When I was talking with everyone, I quickly realized that I needed to share the whole interview with the teachers, as they gave me so much good stuff, but I did not want to make a 2-hour episode, I’m not Joe Rogan. So, I am producing two separate podcasts with the full interviews…

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SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Kristyn Brannigan

SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Kristyn Brannigan

In the latest episode of the SPS Digital Learning Hour, I met with Kristyn Brannigan. She is a classroom teacher from Alice B. Beal Elementary School here in Springfield. With over 15 years of experience, you will learn all about what it’s like to be a teacher that has had the opportunity to teach in schools around the world. In this episode you will learn all about her journey, you’ll get to hear some great ideas on teaching remotely, including…

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SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Catherine Murphy

SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Catherine Murphy

That’s right, we are back with another episode of the SPS Digital Learning Hour. In this week’s episode we met with Catherine Murphy, a Kindergarten Teacher from Arthur T. Talmadge Elementary School. Catherine is doing some amazing work in the classroom. During this magical year, she introduces many students to what school is all about. As a CSForAll teacher, she integrates a lot of technology into her class pre-COVID, which excites her students throughout the year. If you have ever…

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Mike’s Top 5 Microsoft Edge Tools

Mike’s Top 5 Microsoft Edge Tools

Whenever a tool I like to use updates, it makes me so happy! When Edge moved to Chromium over a year ago, I jumped for joy. Literally, in my chair. One of our goals as a department is to make every program we use seamless with Single Sign-On  – and Chromium provides that. Unified Classroom and Schoology are going to work better for our students with the use of Single Sign-On. (you know, the whole not having to sign in more than…

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Episode 100: Arturo De Bourbon

Episode 100: Arturo De Bourbon

SPS Digital Learning Hour presents Arturo De Bourbon Community engagement, corny jokes, shout outs and general school announcements. For this week’s interview, we meet with Arturo De Bourbon, a Technology Teacher from Samuel Bowles Elementary. Through his work with students in the classroom, Arturo had taken morning school announcements to a whole new level. Learn how Arturo went from in person morning messages to remote messages and even expanded what the messages look like. Throughout the interview we learn how Arturo came to teaching,…

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