Recess Duty

This week during Recess Duty we chat with PYP teacher, Megan Gless! Megan is an enthusiastic and passionate educator and learner who has just started an exciting and exhilarating career as a PYP educator at PREM located in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She has recently decided to continue her education through Endicott College‘s International Education Master’s program excited to bring this learning into her classroom to give her students a rich inquiry learning experience. She talks about the different ways to support her EAL students along with her journey as a newer PYP teacher. Check out what tips she has for you! Don't forget to follow Megan to continue learning! Twitter Don't forget to subscribe and review so you don't miss any future episodes of Recess Duty! Do you want to be heard in future episodes? Leave me a message here! https://anchor.fm/recessduty/message Continue learning everyone! Levi Allison - https://linktr.ee/levi_allison

This week during Recess Duty we talk with Louise Heard! We discuss early years teaching and questioning and how even our youngest learners are inquirers! We talk about her latest adventures in the classroom and how she keeps her classroom student-focused with bringing in their wondering and passions.  Louise is a passionate advocate for child-led, play-based and inquiry-driven education, that inspires and motivates children to develop and sustain their own love of learning. She is an early years specialist having taught children from 2-8 years old in London, Bangkok and now in Luxembourg.  She believes that our youngest learners' fingerprints should be on all aspects of their education - planning, assessment, and their environments. As a forest school educator, Louise is passionate about continuing learning in the outdoor environment and using this to foster and support students to be active global citizens.  She is committed to impacting all members of her school community, students colleagues, and parents. This has led to developing documentation not only to support student learning but to engage parents in an understanding of play and inquiry.   As a strong believer in collaboration, Louise is looking to connect with and learn from other PYP educators as she begins her PYP experience. Don't forget to follow Lousie to continue learning! Twitter Don't forget to subscribe and review so you don't miss any future episodes of Recess Duty!  Do you want to be heard in future episodes? Leave me a message here! https://anchor.fm/recessduty/message Continue learning everyone! Levi Allison - https://linktr.ee/levi_allison

This week during Recess Duty we talk with Aga Chojnacka-Al Atat! We discuss student agency and how she builds a stage for students to share their voice with the wider learning community. We also talk about loving our true selfs and how we can all embrace our own truth as we are enough.  Aga Chojnacka-Al Atat is a leader of learning, maker, play advocate, and SDGs goalkeeper. She holds a B.A in Teaching English to Young Learners and a Masters degree in Applied Linguistics - Teaching and Translation. In her life and work, Aga is driven by values of courage and kindness. Throughout her professional life, she has worked across Europe and Asia as a PYP Teacher (20 years), curriculum director and coordinator (14 years), professional learning coach, maker space facilitator, IB workshop leader, and consultant (9 years). Aga's professional expertise and inquiry focus on building culturally responsive communities, life-long learning, agency by design, play as a way of knowing and the environment as the 3rd teacher. She is a mom to two amazing TCKs (Nina 14, Zoja 10).  Aga and her family are currently based in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia where they are a part of the IGB International School community of learners. Don't forget to follow Aga to continue learning! Twitter Website Don't forget to subscribe and review so you don't miss any future episodes of Recess Duty! Do you want to be heard in future episodes? Leave me a message here! https://anchor.fm/recessduty/message Continue learning everyone! Levi Allison - https://linktr.ee/levi_allison

This week during Recess Duty we talk with Marcelo Staricoff! We discuss his new book "The Joy of Not Knowing" and the culture that this idea can help create. We discuss the origin of his philosophy and how we might help our own students develop their own growth mindset.  Marcelo Staricoff is the creator of the Joy of Not Knowing (JONK) approach, founder and director of JONK Thinking and Learning Ltd, a School Tutor in Education at the University of Sussex, and an educational consultant, speaker, and trainer working with schools nationally and internationally on applying the principles contained in this book. He is the author of Start Thinking and a former scientist who became a primary school teacher and headteacher. He is a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching (elected in 2019). Don't forget to follow Marcelo to continue learning! Twitter Website Don't forget to subscribe and review so you don't miss any future episodes of Recess Duty! Do you want to be heard in future episodes? Leave me a message here! https://anchor.fm/recessduty/message Continue learning everyone! Levi Allison - https://linktr.ee/levi_allison

This week during Recess Duty we talk with Jessica Vance! We discuss her new book "Leading with a Lens of Inquiry" our journey of becoming inquiry-driven educators in the classroom and how we guide students through their own inquiries in all subjects. With a professional teaching and leadership background in both private and public international schools (IB PYP Educator & PYP Coordinator), Jessica brings a unique perspective to her role as Enrichment & Environment Coordinator. Her passion for student-centered learning, collaboration, and coaching stem from the students themselves, finding inspiration in their natural curiosity as they authentically engage in learning experiences inside and outside of the classroom. Jessica strongly believes in the power of leading with a lens of inquiry, facilitating innovative professional learning opportunities and coaching sessions that provide the space for educators to collaborate and reflect while supporting their professional growth as inquiry practitioners. Her journey and experience as an inquiry educator in IB schools and Place-Based Education fuels her passion and global work in coaching both teachers and leaders in their roles, as well as supporting schools in implementing inquiry-based learning. Jessica understands the power of curiosity to guide the next steps, creating the space we all need as learners as we actively engage in reflective practice. In her newest publication, Leading with a Lens of Inquiry, she outlines the ways in which we, as leaders, need to support and facilitate our teachers in the same ways in which we want our teachers to engage with their students. Be sure to connect with Jessica here! Twitter Instagram Website Don't forget to subscribe and review so you don't miss any future episodes of Recess Duty! Do you want to be heard in future episodes? Leave me a message here! https://anchor.fm/recessduty/message Continue learning everyone! Levi Allison - https://linktr.ee/levi_allison

This week during Recess Duty, we talk with PYP Educator and Leader, Doreen Garrigan! We talk about leading change and how we can all be the change we want to see as well as her work during COVID-19 in Brazil and the ups and downs that led to her school submitting their PYP application. Doreen Garrigan is the Lower School Principal at Escola Americana do Rio de Janeiro and has been at EARJ since July 2020. Before coming to Rio, Doreen served as Primary Principal at the Western International School of Shanghai (China). Prior to Shanghai, she spent 5 years as the IB Primary Years Programme Coordinator at the American International School of Bucharest (Romania). Doreen spent the majority of her classroom teaching experience back in the U.S. as a gifted education specialist, writing curricula for identified gifted students in the state of Virginia. Originally from the state of California, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Studies at California State University, Fresno, and a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership from George Washington University, in Washington D.C.  Doreen has been partnering with teachers, students, and parents for 30+ years and consider it a dream professional to ‘pay it forward’. Doreen is an American citizen and has two grown daughters who she enjoys watching navigate adulthood.  In her spare time, you can find Doreen exploring local highlights and enjoying bright sunny days at the beach. She is an avid dancer and loves a variety of music. Be sure to connect with Doreen down below! Twitter Linkedin Don't forget to subscribe and review so you don't miss any future episodes of Recess Duty. Do you want to share your favorite Recess Moment? Leave a message here!  https://anchor.fm/recessduty/message Continue learning everyone! Levi Allison - https://linktr.ee/levi_allison

This week during Recess Duty we talk with Kath Murdoch! We discuss her new book "Getting Personal with Inquiry Learning" and how we all can grow in our understanding of inquiry and how students can grow their own inquiry learning through personal connections.  Kath Murdoch is an experienced teacher, writer, university lecturer and popular consultant who has worked for many years with teachers and students in schools throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Africa, Canada,The United States, The UK and Europe. Author of 15 books and numerous articles for teachers – including the best selling  ‘The Power of Inquiry’ (2015), Kath is widely respected for her work in the field of inquiry-based learning in which she has taught, researched and published for well over 30 years. Kath began her professional life as a classroom teacher in Melbourne, Australia.  Her fascination in how students’ constructed their understandings and her interest in the way questions and big ideas could drive curriculum soon lead to a passion for integrative and inquiry based methodologies. This passion has become a career long focus for teaching, research and writing.  The methodologies in which Kath specialises are now central to curriculum frameworks in many parts of the world – including the popular International Baccalaureate, PYP program. Critical to Kath’s success is her continued commitment to classroom teaching. Whether it is to demonstrate techniques, coach teachers or build her own repertoire of practices, Kath is committed to regular and ongoing work with students. Her classroom work and research feeds a dynamic and ever-evolving expertise in the area of integrative, inquiry-based learning. Kath’s professional development offerings are diverse. They range from intensive, ongoing partnerships with schools through to one-day workshops for beginning or experienced inquiry teachers. She is a popular keynote speaker and conference presenter. Whether in her home town of Melbourne or on the other side of the world, working with a team or speaking to a packed auditorium Kath’s style is refreshingly practical, inclusive and always connected to the real world of teaching. Kath lives in Melbourne, Australia. Be sure to connect with Kath here!  Twitter Linkedin Instagram Website Don't forget to subscribe and review so you don't miss any future episodes of Recess Duty! Do you want to be heard in future episodes? Leave me a message here! https://anchor.fm/recessduty/message Continue learning everyone! Levi Allison - https://linktr.ee/levi_allison

This week during Recess Duty we talk with Kasey Bell. We discuss Google Education in the classroom and how COVID-19 has impacted the world of education and how many of us turned to technology to shake up learning to help support our students from a distance. Kasey Bell is a former middle school teacher turned award-winning digital learning coach, international speaker, author, blogger, and podcaster with a Texas-sized passion for technology and learning. She is part sparkling smile, part witty personality and a whole heap of passion as big as a Texas–go big or go home, y’all! She is a disruptor of the boring. An engaging, innovative, from the heart sharer who inspires educators while transforming their teaching with original, timely, and use-tomorrow ideas for student choice, differentiation, and technology integration. Whether it is learning from home through online courses, professional development, conference workshops, or as a keynote speaker Kasey is a relentless innovator of ideas and a devoted transformer of classrooms and teaching. Through teacher empowering publications and award-winning educational resources at ShakeUpLearning.com, learner-driven workshops, and presentations, and hosting two weekly podcasts, Kasey proves why we should never settle for the boring when it comes to bringing out the very best in our students, and we should always strive to Shake Up Learning! Be sure to connect with Kasey Bell here! Twitter Website Linkedin Facebook Instagram Don't forget to subscribe and review so you don't miss any future episodes of Recess Duty. Continue learning everyone! Levi Allison - https://linktr.ee/levi_allison

This week during Recess Duty we talk with Misty Paterson. We discuss her work in Pop-up Studios and how we all can make adjustments in our own classroom to invite more student learning in a variety of ways and look out for those moments when learning just pops up.  Misty is a seasoned facilitator and certified concept-based teaching consultant with over 20 years of teaching experience. As the founder of Pop-Up Studio and author of the best-selling Pop-Up Studio book, Misty champions a creative approach to education. She empowers teachers of all kinds to integrate concepts, inquiry, and play into multimodal studio spaces at a kitchen table, around a microscope, under a tree, across a classroom desk-- anywhere really! Spanning dozens of countries and thousands of learners, Misty’s research and practice supports a global movement to ‘pop-up’ curriculum with hands-on experiences that inspire meaningful, memorable, and merry learning. Be sure to connect with Misty Paterson here! Twitter Website Instagram Don't forget to subscribe and review so you don't miss any future episodes of Recess Duty. Continue learning everyone! Levi Allison - https://linktr.ee/levi_allison

This week during Recess Duty we talk with Rachel Poff. We discuss her journey of diversity, equity, and inclusion and how we could help our school and classrooms be more diverse, equitable, and safe for all students. We also discuss the resources that she has come across to help support our own learning of what it means to be anti-racist and what we can all do today for our students of tomorrow and how we fit into a world that may not be as easy for some as it is for others.  Rachel is an enthusiastic and energetic educator with 20 years of international experience. She has been both a single subject and homeroom teacher, PYP coordinator, and principal. She is also an IBEN and loves connecting with teachers around the world. Rachel is currently focusing on becoming an indigenous ally and anti-racist educator. She has been reading, listening, and experiencing FNIM culture and history with a lens on truth and reconciliation. This journey has led her back to Canada. Since this episode was recorded, Rachel has completed a course on Truth and Reconciliation at the First Nations University of Canada and is currently enrolled online at Cornell University in a certificate for  Diversity and Inclusion education. She believes in lifelong learning and encourages everyone to follow their passions. Be sure to connect with Rachel Poff here! Twitter https://twitter.com/ttrpoff Email [email protected] Don't forget to subscribe and review so you don't miss any future episodes of Recess Duty. Continue learning everyone! Levi Allison - https://linktr.ee/levi_allison