Presentations

Creating a Game from Scratch

This fireside chat-style conversation intends to dig into Richards's experience in supporting teachers to teach coding in an elementary setting and how Edpuzzle and Scratch were the right tools for the job. 

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Legendary Customer Service for Administrative or Academic Support Staff and Teachers

Customers are traditionally defined as buying a product or service from an organization based on its perceived value or reputation. The value and reputation are directly affected by how everyone connected to that organization is treated.

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A Group-Theoretical Approach to Number Sense

This presentation proposes a re-framing of the way educators see and teach numeracy in primary, middle and high school mathematics courses.

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Act Like A Brand: A Practical Guide to Improve Teacher Resumes

Some of the most amazing, transformative and nurturing teachers we know are also the most humble.

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Using Machine Learning as a Way to Think About Cognitive Bias

We carry around different cognitive biases and assumptions about the world around us, but how do these biases affect us.

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Financial Well Being for International Educators

The international ex-pat teaching life is a great one with many advantages; one being a better lifestyle with a lower cost of living.

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Engaging Students in Difficult Conversations About Race and Politics

How do we help students have difficult conversations about race and politics when the adults can barely seem to do so?

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Leveraging Clubhouse and Twitterspaces for PL

In April 2021 a group of educators, using the social media app, Clubhouse, got together and decided to try run a global conference on the audio only app within 7 weeks.

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Creating a Japanese Language curriculum for a student with ASD

I created a customized 1-to-1 Japanese learning curriculum for a child with autism spectrum disorder who had displayed interest in Japanese culture but failed to achieve in the Japanese language program at the school.

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3 routes to R&J

There are three ways students in my class can choose to learn about Romeo and Juliet: Lit Crit, Investigator, or Director's Cut.

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