Season 12

In this season Kathryn and Laura are inspired to learn and inspired to share. Each week they discuss the ongoing story of their learning as they engage in reflective practice to connect their ideas and continuously grow. In this bonus episode Kathryn and Laura reflect together and share some of their favorite things of the year!

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Top 10 Favorite Things from Laura and Kathryn:

1. Book: L: Evolving Education: Shifting to a Learner Centered Paradigm & Cloud Cuckoo Land; K: Building a Second Brain & Find Your Unicorn Space

2. Tech Tool: L: Accessibility Color Checker; K: Form Mule + Creating Follow-Ups with Form Mule (recorded webinar)

3. Learning Leader: Elena Aguilar; K: Michael Bungay Stanier

4. Planning Protip: L: Mini Reflections with Sentence Stems; K: Launching the Learning with People, Purpose, and Logistics

5. Facilitation Protip: L: W.I.N. Time; K: Purposeful PD: Primed for Learning

6. Workflow/Productivity: L: Notion; K: Turn Problems Into a Curiosity Engine

7. Reflective Practice: L: “How can I feel healthy, connected, purposeful?” from Karen Walrond on Accessing Joy and Finding Connection in the Midst of Struggle; K: DO52 Intention "sticks"

8. Self-Care: L: Disconnecting with Do Not Disturb mode; K: Yoga with Adriene

9. Wildcard: L: Kuju Coffee; K: Better conversations wall calendar, Kat Vellos

10. Word of the Year: L: connection; K: introspection

In this season Kathryn and Laura are inspired to learn and inspired to share. Each week they discuss the ongoing story of their learning as they engage in reflective practice to connect their ideas and continuously grow. Since it’s the final episode of the season, Kathryn and Laura take time to reflect on inspirations shared throughout the season.

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Resources:

• The 4 C’s Thinking Routine, Project Zero 

• Inspired to Learn site 

In this season Kathryn and Laura are inspired to learn and inspired to share. Each week they discuss the ongoing story of their learning as they engage in reflective practice to connect their ideas and continuously grow. This week’s inspiration is shared from Laura as she discusses The Power of Protocols.

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Resources:

• Taking Book Notes, Tiago Forte with Alex & Books

• Charrette Protocol, School Reform Initiative  

• EduProtocols 

In this season Kathryn and Laura are inspired to learn and inspired to share. Each week they discuss the ongoing story of their learning as they engage in reflective practice to connect their ideas and continuously grow. This week’s inspiration is shared from Kathryn as she discusses Reimagining Career Growth.

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Resources:

• How to Increase Accessibility with Alternative Text (Alt Text), Lindsay Foster, TCEA TechNotes Blog 

• Redefining Career Growth episode, Curious Minds interview with Julie Winkle Giulioni

• Multidimensional Career Assessment

• Choose Your Own (Career) Adventure, ATD article by Julie Winkle Giulioni

In this season Kathryn and Laura are inspired to learn and inspired to share. Each week they discuss the ongoing story of their learning as they engage in reflective practice to connect their ideas and continuously grow. This week’s inspiration is shared from Laura as she discusses ideas from the article “Can We Still Find Joy in Teaching?”

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Resources:

• Self Care for Educators podcast: One Small Thing, Tina Boogren

  • One Small Thing site, University of Vermont Health Network

• Can We Still Find Joy in Teaching?, Jen Schwanke and Tracey R. Deagle 

• 5 Ideas for Crafting a Joyful Work Environment Infographic

• Living Into Our Values, Brené Brown 

• The Aesthetics of Joy, Ingrid Fetell Lee

In this season Kathryn and Laura are inspired to learn and inspired to share. Each week they discuss the ongoing story of their learning as they engage in reflective practice to connect their ideas and continuously grow. This week’s inspiration is shared from Kathryn as she discusses PKM, Curation, and CODE.

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Resources:

• The PD Book: 7 Habits that Transform Professional Development, Elena Aguilar & Lori Cohen 

• Building a Second Brain, book by Tiago Forte

  • How to Generate Your Own Favorite Problems

  • Database of Second Brain tools (and see the description above the table about the note taking styles)

  • CODE takeaway tweet by Tiago Forte

In this season Kathryn and Laura are inspired to learn and inspired to share. Each week they discuss the ongoing story of their learning as they engage in reflective practice to connect their ideas and continuously grow. This week’s inspiration is shared by both Kathryn and Laura: the book Design Thinking for Training and Development.

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Resources:

• Design Thinking for Training and Development, Sharon Boller and Laura Fletcher

• Solve in Time! | Demarginalizing Design, Dee Lanier

• d.school Design Thinking “bootleg” deck

• FigJam empathy map templates

• Season 10.1: Solve in Time! episode

In this season Kathryn and Laura are inspired to learn and inspired to share. Each week they discuss the ongoing story of their learning as they engage in reflective practice to connect their ideas and continuously grow. This week’s inspiration is shared from Laura as she discusses ideas from Dr. Catlin Tucker’s ebook, Understanding Teacher Engagement in Blended Learning Environments.

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Resources:

• Understanding Teacher Engagement, ebook from Dr. Catlin Tucker 

• Kat Vellos (quick win about webinar facilitation to #AdmireAndAcquire) and her We Should Get Together work

In this season Kathryn and Laura are inspired to learn and inspired to share. Each week they discuss the ongoing story of their learning as they engage in reflective practice to connect their ideas and continuously grow. This week’s inspiration is shared from Kathryn as she discusses ideas from Plus-One Thinking .

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Resources:

• Teach Digital Citizenship with Dilemmas and Thinking Routines, Common Sense Education (shared by Sarah Phelps)

• Teaching In Higher Ed podcast, Back to School episode

• Thomas Tobin’s website

• UDL Guidelines from CAST

• Teaching for Student Success podcast, UDL episode

• Would You Rather: Design for Choice, Dr. Catlin Tucker

In this season Kathryn and Laura are inspired to learn and inspired to share. Each week they discuss the ongoing story of their learning as they engage in reflective practice to connect their ideas and continuously grow. This week’s inspiration is shared from Laura as she discusses the 7 Essential Coaching Questions.

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Resources:

• What Are Famous Fictional Examples of My “Four Tendencies” Framework?, Gretchen Rubin

• Gmail Filtering to Organize Inbox (video) from Dr. Desiree Alexander

• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever, Micahel Bungay Stanier

• Michael Bungay Stanier's Website

• 7 Essential Questions to Kick-start Your Instructional Coaching, Allison Peterson 

• The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching, Jim Knight

• My One Best Question | Box of Crayons 

In this season Kathryn and Laura are inspired to learn and inspired to share. Each week they discuss the ongoing story of their learning as they engage in reflective practice to connect their ideas and continuously grow. This week’s inspiration is shared from Kathryn as she discusses ideas from Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies.

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Resources:

• Loom: how to create an animated GIF Preview

• Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies Hub and quiz

• Gretchen’s recent podcast episode about The Four Tendencies

• Better Than Before book, Gretchen Rubin

In this bonus episode Kathryn and Laura use Elena Aguilar's 3 Bs framework for transformation to reflect together on their summer learning.

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Resources:

• The PD Book: 7 Habits That Transform Professional Development, Elena Aguilar and Lori Cohen

• It’s Time for New Leadership Tools, post that describes Aguilar’s 3 Bs Framework for leaders