The Shift Show EDU

This week’s show is an excerpt from a conversation between Jesse Stommel and HDSB Educators on ungrading. In this section of the conversation, teachers and Jesse were discussing the many ways that teachers communicate with their students and in the absence of grades, how students seek to fill the void with any information they can glean from their interactions with their teacher.

Do you have an idea that you have wanted to try, but you need the time and support? Well, we have an opportunity for you and a team to try something incredible and innovative in your school: Ready, Set, SHIFT Innovation Grants!The big framing question for this grant is: How might we use innovative approaches to improve the student learning of transferable skills (global competencie

This week, we are talking about Yes, And! There have been a lot of NO’s or YEAH, BUT’s over the past couple of years, so we wanted to talk about a slight SHIFT in the language that we use to open ourselves up to new ideas and possibilities. In other words, we need more YES, AND in our lives, both personally and professionally, as we slowly emerge from COVID restrictions.So wher

This week, we are discussing the idea of using lesson classifications from the Modern Classrooms Project (MCP) in real life. In the self-pacing structures module of the MCP free course, lessons are classified as either Must Do, Should Do, or Aspire To Do. Here on the SHIFT, we’ve noticed that these classifications are infiltrating our life in everything that we do. We are finding

This week, we are chatting all about our recent Shift Pop Up event with the amazing Jesse Stommel and how we can focus on building quick and effective feedback into our everyday practices as educators. We discuss ways to leverage technology to save you time and build connections with your students, as well as having both students and families as active participants in the feedback

In this special episode of the Shift Show EDU, we share the audio from our virtual pop up event on Ungrading with Jesse Stommel. This episode includes Jesse's talk walking through the philosophy and some of the how tos of ungrading, as well as the Q and A session after the talk, with questions from participants in the session.For the video, slide deck and all resources mentioned in

We’re back! Welcome to our first episode of the 2021-2022 school year. AND… we’re so excited to be joined by a new member of our team this year, Rebecca MacRae. We’re trying out a different format for the podcast this year so we’d love your feedback. We are embracing the mentality of “Try-Fail-Learn” as we podcast and publish our raw, unedited conversations. It’s be

In this episode, we are super excited to be chatting with Stuart Miller, the Director of Education at the Halton District School Board. Director Miller has had a long and successful career with HDSB which began in 1984. Stuart is leaving the board at the end of this school year to begin his most exciting adventure of all - retirement!Detailed show notes for this episode can be foun

In the second part of this two part episode we talk to four secondary students who are learning in a knowledge building classroom, instructed by Pieter Toth, at Dundas Valley Secondary School (HWDSB) in Dundas Ontario. Alberta, Grace, Ruby, and Wasaal are all students in the Grade 12 business leadership class and they reflect on what it is like to learn in a knowledge building clas

In this two-part episode we talk to two educators who are using knowledge building in their classroom, Pieter Toth, teacher at Dundas Valley Secondary School (HWDSB) in Dundas Ontario and Christine Vanderwal, Viola Desmond Public School (HDSB) in Milton Ontario. Both educators bring their perspective of using knowledge building in their classroom, Pieter Toth in a secondary busines