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Sweat to inspire

by Todd Bloch

7th Grade science teacher sweating to inspire the next generation ...ideas about education to inspire thought and action.

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Episodes

  1. Listen to hear!

    We need to make sure we hear others

  2. There are opportunities in learning

    What are opportunities in our situation for learning

  3. Schools closed? NO shifting!!

    Our schools aren’t closed! The building are but the staff is working diligently to shift services!

  4. Is it graded?

    Stop worrying about the letter on a piece of paper and focus on learning!

  5. The New Normal

    Education is changing to a new normal.

  6. Our moment to shine

    In this every changing world Now is the time for educators to shine, inspire and help move students towards the culture of learning

  7. Strange days

    Reflections on the world today!

  8. Kobe, legacy and me

    Thoughts on #24

  9. Is the teaching profession sustainable?

    Pondering a twitter question

  10. Time to Shift EDU

    We need to shift education into the 21st century.

  11. Do we take ourselves too seriously?

    As I watch my 15 yo loose passion for education due to homework over the holiday I wonder: do we take ourselves too seriously?

  12. Focus on steps to the goal not the goal

    Students so often focus on the end result that they don’t worry about the steps to get there. Help them focus

  13. Basketball tryouts

    Reflections after day 1 of my son’s basketball tryouts

  14. 3- Levels of PD inspirations, perspiration and Grind

    Talking about types of PD

  15. We are talking Homework!

    Rethinking homework

  16. Tardy

    Why are students late

  17. Money in education

    Seems like so many fund raisers in schools today, are we limiting opportunities due to economics?

  18. Recruit and retain educators!

    Ideas to recruit and retain best and brightest in education

  19. Teachers forced to act like porn stars? #clearthelist #equity #thisisamerica

    There are huge inequities in funding for classrooms so many educators have gone to social media to publish lists of their needs. Time to fix educational funding this is sad!

  20. Edutwitter reflection

    Reflection on attack’s on edutwitter

  21. Developing a making mindset

    It is important to allow our students the opportunity to develop a making mindset

  22. Teachers aren’t saviors ....

    Teaching is a hard challenging job. Many feel teachers are saviors but we aren’t. Sure saving happens from great teaching but that is a side effect.

  23. Kathy Dooley Thank you! #queereye #netflix

    Watched Netflix Queer Eye season 4 episode 1 and saw a familiar face. I grew up in Quincy IL. And Kathy Dooley was my choir director in church.

  24. Innovations by teachers

    Remember many innovations fail, how do we support innovations in our schools

  25. Need for diversity of instruction

    One size doesn’t fort all, remember tos mix up instructional styles for your students

  26. Extra credit? Time to be a thing of the past!

    Why do some thrashers give extra credit? Is this practice outdated l, shouldn’t it be part of the past!

  27. What! You’re not going to college?

    Perceptions and ideas around college/ career training

  28. Acknowledging that I am Old and White!

    Pondering diversity being old and white.

  29. Debt free college education?

    There are many question around the 2020 political platforms that propose debt free college.

  30. Red for Ed Rallies

    Present in spirit today

  31. Message to my departing 7th graders

    Last day message to my students

  32. Data-that 4- letter word

    Data is important but be careful how we use it!

  33. Class size matters!

    When we are talking about classroom instruction, class size matters!

  34. Advice to School of Education Graduates

    Advice to recent school of education graduates on finding the best fit for them

  35. Teaching is difficult, but amazing things happen

    Considering how many different starting points exist in a classroom it is amazing what is accomplished in a classroom

  36. High stakes test thoughts

    As PSAT and SAT are upon us, a few thoughts on high stakes tests

  37. Are Siloes in education creating us vs them mentality?

    Rethink Ed structure

  38. Equity in funding please

    My reaction to DeVos budget

  39. Day 1 reflection #macul19

    Reflecting on my day 1 experience of #macul19

  40. #macul19 3 quick tips

    3 tips for those attending MACUL

  41. The struggle with choice in the classroom #tlap

    Is choice good? Not always ! Students often struggle with making right choices and can have anxiety over them

  42. Teaching: hard but rewarding #mschat

    Teaching is a very hard job that has many rewards.

  43. Going from good to great?

    Is this common expression around education helpful?

  44. Working against free will of students

    How can educators get past students who use their free will not to learn content?

  45. #Loveteaching

    Shout out to teaching on Valentine’s Day

  46. Let’s take learning off the clock!

    With all these snow days in Michigan it has many worried about extending the school year. What if learning was it measured in days and hours but targets meet!

  47. Learning is hard work!

    Lets remember that learning is hard work and students have free will whether to learn or not learn.

  48. Language matters

    The words we use when talking about education matters. We need to stop the use of superlatives.

  49. Thoughts about this twitter tool!

    Twitter is so powerful for connections but be careful with judgements

  50. Snow day thoughts #miched

    Tough decisions are made around snow day calls by districts.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

7th Grade science teacher sweating to inspire the next generation ...ideas about education to inspire thought and action.

HOSTED BY

Todd Bloch

CATEGORIES

education

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