Shift Your What?
Shift Your What?
The HDSB Shift Team
Shift Your What? is a podcast for educators, students and parents interested in innovating the game of school. We are well into the twenty-first century and school has some catching up to do. This podcast, a production of the Shift at the Halton District School Board wonders how we can use small shifts in how we do school that lead to big changes in how we teach and learn.
EP 18 - Shift Your Impact
In this final episode of season 1 of Shift Your What, we sit down with Rossana Bisceglia, Research Specialist at Halton District School Board, Nogah Kornberg, Associate Director of the I-Think initiative and Jacqueline Newton, Superintendent at the Halton District School Board with a portfolio in Innovation and Ingenuity. Together we reflect on how the year of Shifting and I-Think went, how we attempted to do things differently and what the impact of using Integrative Thinking as tools to Shift have made an impact on students, teachers and leaders in the school board.
Jun 27, 2019
36 min
EP 17 -  Shift Your Tools
In this episode of Shift Your What, we talk to English teachers Cait Fehir and Jen Plens about using new integrative thinking tools in their class and challenges and opportunities that come with experimenting and trying something new.
Jun 15, 2019
40 min
EP 16 - Shift Your Challenge
Shift Your What sits down with grade 7 teachers Christine Vanderwal and Michael Marchione, grade 7 students Satwika and Hasnain along with Nogah Kornberg, Associate Director of I-Think, to talk about the Peacebuilders Challenge, and the powerful moments created when using Integrative Thinking to creatively solve a real world problem, where student voice is not only considered, but actively sought out.
May 30, 2019
40 min
EP 15 - Shift Your Sharing
The Shift Team (and many others) are busy planning the Share Your Shift Conference, which is coming up on May 23rd. If you are interested, listen in about what's in store...but maybe register first, spaces are limited!
May 8, 2019
8 min
EP 14 - Shift Your Environment
Shift Your What talks Outdoor Education with educators Kelly-Ann Mattiaci, Margaret Williams and Stephen Jansz. They discuss the benefits of taking the learning outside, how to overcome challenges, as well as the changes they have seen in their students as a result of shifting the learning outdoors.
Apr 24, 2019
34 min
EP 13 - Shift Your Debrief
Shift Your What sits down with Melissa Hanmer and Pina Juresic, two elementary administrators who have just returned from the Deeper Learning Conference on the campus of High Tech High in San Diego. They talk about finding inspiration in the learning, their connections to what ways Halton is engaging in deeper learning and finding their mojo to inspire change in their schools, one incremental step at a time.
Apr 10, 2019
33 min
EP12 - Shift Your Deeper Learning
The Shift team sits down with Margaret Napier, Principal of Brookville Pubic School to talk about her upcoming visit to the High Tech High campus for the Deeper Learning Conference. She talks about what she is looking forward to learning, but more importantly, how she hopes to support her own staff as they dive into Innovation.
Mar 26, 2019
22 min
EP 11 - Shift Your Elephant
In this episode, Jamie and Matt sit down with Geoff Sheppard, a teacher in the Community Pathways Program at MM Robinson High School to talk about how to connect with community, leverage technology and help students of all abilities find a place in their community.
Mar 8, 2019
25 min
EP 10 - Shift Your Innovation
The winter weather is giving us some challenges to overcome this month, but that's not stopping us from talking about Innovation! In this episode, we are joined by Cindy Cosentino, the Instructional Program Leader for Science for the HDSB as we revisit our understanding of Innovation and ask ourselves, "Has anything changed?"
Feb 22, 2019
35 min
EP 09 - Shift Your Wicked Problems
Shift Your What changes format in this episode: The Shift Team, HDSB teachers, and Science program leads and Rotman I-Think Fellows all sit down with Taddy Blecher, educational entrepreneur from South Africa, who has been tasked to implement innovative entrepreneurship curriculum in every grade of school in South Africa. A discussion ensues about how to scale up innovative process, giving permission to teachers to experiment and how to change a system of education for the better.
Feb 5, 2019
55 min
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