Let’s face it, not every topic or subject is something intrinsically interesting to young learners. This is why I have a special on-air coaching episode for you with Debra Copeland and Rebekah Munoz. 

Get ready to learn how you can start engaging students who aren’t interested in the content you’re presenting to them. 

I wish students would love our content as much as their teachers, but it’s just not gonna happen.

There will always be topics that interest different students, and there will always be struggles with skills that are challenging.

Writing is one of those challenges.

As a former language arts teacher, I’ll admit, I struggled with teaching writing. It’s not easy to teach, and it’s definitely not easy for our young students to master, let alone enjoy.

Let’s dive into this on-air coaching episode with two teachers who are always striving to improve and engage students in new ways.

But first…

Shoutout

Ryan Read called in on the SpeakPipe line to share ways he uses sketchnoting with his students. This goes back to Episode 48 with Carrie Baughcum as we discussed creative ways to use sketchnoting in the classroom.

Quick Tip of the Week: 

Check out this blog post from Jake Miller about a slides timer extension. Clay Smith is an educator in New York City, and he created a Chrome extension that allows you to put a live timer on your slides!

Engaging Students Who Aren’t Interested in the Content

For Debra Copeland and Rebekah Munoz of Rudder MS, this is especially true. Their school is primarily filled with economically disadvantaged students who speak over 30 different languages. 

They are both extremely busy heading different teams within their school to help bring in and train new teachers, build leaders, coaching sports, and helping with incorporating technology. If that weren’t enough, they teach ELA in a grade that is tested for STAAR. 

The Biggest Struggle 

When you teach in a school with students of such varied backgrounds and languages, it’s hard to help them hone their writing schools. For Debra and Rebekah, it’s especially hard because they are teaching their students to pass the state tests. 

Rebekah shares that one of her biggest struggles is helping her students understand that the first draft is not the final draft. They aren’t motivated to learn how to make their writing better in many cases, because they don’t fully understand the language, or just aren’t engaged. 

We dive deep in this call to see which tactics have worked best in Rebekah’s classroom. She shares that having the process displayed and represented in stages on her wall has helped her students visualize the process better. 

As they finish each section, they get to move their name down the line on the wall, and this has helped motivate more of her students, but there is still work to be done. While this process is improving, she wants more of her students to engage and understand the purpose.

Ways to Increase Engagement

Rebekah is already doing some amazing things with her students, but Debra and I help point out ways she could revise the lessons to make them more engaging. Rather than having to rely solely on self-revisions, she could allow peers to use suggesting edits in Google Docs.

In this same way, to promote reading work out loud to hear the errors, she could be using Flipgrid to allow another student to read the work out loud and give meaningful feedback. 

Debra has implemented both of these strategies, and they’ve helped both the writer and reviewer to level up their writing skills. 

Why Reflection is Important to the Writing Process

Whether a student is reviewing and reflecting on their own writing or someone else’s, their understanding of the writing process will improve. Going forward, Rebekah plans to use bits and pieces of Debra’s process and her own to help her students better understand the writing process. 

She’s going to give her students a rubric to fill out as the writer reads their work and records on Flipgrid. The reviewers will fill out the rubric, and after everything is done, they can then make comments on the work. 

This will all take place after they’ve done their mini-lessons on self-revision, and this will show them everything they missed. This will further show why revisions are so important to writing.

How Could These Changes be Measured? 

Rebekah would likely use modeling to reveal additional ways that students could reflect on their work. She wrote her own essay for this project, and in the future, would give the students the rubric to grade her work as well. 

Debra mentions that Rebekah is really good at using Screencastify. She could record the modeling lesson so that students would be able to review the lesson as often as needed, and any absent students would have access to the lesson.

Another way to use Screencastify would be to use the same draft and show the revision process over time. This way, Rebekah could point out why certain words were changed and why certain sections were re-written.

I also mentioned the Draftback Chrome extension could be handy for seeing the revision process come to life.

It would also help her better explain what she means by expecting their first drafts to “look” messy once revisions are done.

Why Publishing the Student’s Work Changes Their Perspective

Because of Shake Up Learning, Rebekah has been digging into expanding the audience that sees the students’ work. She’s been using Google sites to publish the final drafts of her student’s papers, and it has changed their willingness to perfect their work.

She shares a recent project that they did regarding writing an email. The students got to email another student or teacher in the district to share different subjects. One of those subjects was how the student felt they’d changed from the prior year to this year. 

The things the student’s shared really touched her. Students were proud to learn how to build their sites, and sharing how much their writing had improved. 

What Are Their Next Steps? 

Debra wants to offer more opportunities to allow students more creative ways to present their ideas. The district is moving toward using Choice Boards. She is working to make the writing more authentic and real world.

Rebekah completely agrees. She is trying to teach her students how to be engaged authentically and to take away the fact that this is not for a grade but for life. She wants to build life-long learners. 

About Debra Copeland

• 36 years teaching preschool, elementary, and middle school
• Teaching Fellowship for 3 years with pre-service teachers at University of Texas San Antonio
• Published Author in Curriculum Theory – De-Mythologizing Educational Reform (ROOT)
• Second year at Rudder Middle School as an Instructional Coach for ELA
• Debra on Twitter

About Rebekah Munoz

• 10 years of teaching experience- ELA grades 6-7
• Taught my first 5 years in South Texas- the majority of my students were ESLs/At Risk/Eco Dis from Mexico
• Have been at Rudder MS for 5 years- similar demographics 
• All my teaching experience has been at Title 1 campuses
• My passion is geared towards low performing and reluctant readers
• My goal is to motivate students to fall in love with reading and become lifelong learners
• I enjoy taking risks with technology and thinking outside the box with traditional lesson plans
• Rebekah on Twitter

Podcast Question of the Week: 

• What strategies do you use to better engage students in the content that doesn’t interest them?  
• Post your answers in the Shake Up Learning community or on your favorite social platform.
• Join our FREE Shake Up Learning Facebook group.

Get Google Certified This Summer!

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Coaching a coach is an exciting experience, but everyone has struggles that they need to mastermind one in a while. Alison Jalufka is a Learning Coach at an elementary school in her Central Texas school district. She started her teaching career in elementary education as a first-grade teacher and now has the opportunity to make an impact as a tech coach. 

Alison now supports technology AND learning on her campus, as well as coaching her teachers on best practices. She has been developing professional learning opportunities better serve her teachers and has questions about how to bring the expectations of her position to fruition. 

Kasey and Alison chat about creating actionable goals both for her individually and for her position. She already knows that she needs to find ways to better integrate the 4Cs into each workshop that she develops, but what else is needed? Kasey helps her talk through the process of creating her goals and how best to integrate learning and processes into each action and activity.

There are so many great nuggets of information in this on-air coaching session that you won’t want to miss. Many of the barriers that Alison faces each day are likely similar to yours. Listen in as they discuss strategies for better tackling the problems with teacher buy-in and why building relationships and creating open lines of communication are the keys to success for a Learning Coach. Alison is already doing so many things right, but with just little mindset shifts here and there, she could be smashing her administrator’s expectations.

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In This Episode:

[00:29] – Welcome back and get ready to meet Alison Jalufka, a Learning Coach.

[01:24] – Shout out to Daniel Island School for having me out to deliver the Dynamic Learning Workshop. Special thanks to Pam Hubler for making it happen.

[02:54] – What is a digital learning coach, and how do they help teachers? 

[04:53] – Learn what the vision for Alison’s position within her district was meant to be.

[05:39] – When they removed the word “digital” from her title, did they change her expectations? 

[06:45] – Alison shares the technology map for her district and the barriers she faces with integration.

[07:38] – How are the teachers responding to training and expectations? 

[09:26] – Do the teachers on her campus understand her purpose is to help them in a variety of ways? 

[11:22] – What does communication with her teachers look like? 

[13:21] – Is Alison given guidelines from her administrator on how to approach her role? 

[13:47] – How does she communicate and meet with other Learning Coaches in her district?

[15:42] – Does she meet with the principal of her school and set goals together? 

[17:46] – Is she meant to be involved in professional development with her teachers? 

[19:18] – Learn why teacher buy-in is one of Alison’s biggest struggles and how she is working to overcome it.

[22:02] – How has Alison approached the 4Cs in the past, and what has she implemented this year?

[26:33] – What is the best way to present the 4Cs for professional learning? 

[29:38] – Alison shares the best workshop she attended as a teacher for professional learning.

[31:54] – Has she delivered any professional learning workshops since being in the coach position? 

[35:07] – What goals would Alison like to accomplish before this semester is over?

[40:03] – Learn one of the best ways to help teachers understand that we’re not adding to their workload, we’re altering it.

[42:26] – Don’t forget to share the time-saving hacks that you use in your newsletters.

[45:24] – Alison shares some of her final takeaways and next steps.

Podcast Question of the Week

[47:48] – Kasey shares the podcast questions of the week: 

How can you use the ideas from this episode to make an impact as a coach? 

Post your answer to your favorite social media platform using the hashtag #ShakeUpLearning, or share it in the Shake Up Learning Community on Facebook!

[49:09] – Thank you for listening! Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review on iTunes. (Bonus points if you use  the word “y’all” in your review!)

About Allison Jalufka

Hello!  My name is Alison Jalufka.  I am a Learning Coach on an elementary campus in Central Texas.  I previously taught first grade for ten years. See my journey as a first-grade teacher here. 

My passion is to help teachers transform learning in their classrooms.  I want to help teachers incorporate elements of communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity into their lessons.  Right now, my favorite lesson is connecting classrooms across the United States to play Mystery Skype (a learning game in which classes ask each other yes or no questions in order to guess the location of the other class).  I am a Level 2 Google Certified Educator, Nearpod Certified Teacher, and a Seesaw Ambassador.

I live with my husband Brian, and our three children on a small farm in Central Texas.  Our family loves to spend our free time outside. One of my favorite things to do is take care of our flock of chickens and ducks.

Links and Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

The Shake Up Learning Show

The Shake Up Learning Community on Facebook

GetGoogleCertified.com

Alison on Twitter

Alison’s website: Transformational Learning

Other Tech Coach Resources

• Top 10 Secrets of an Awesome Tech Coach – SULS019
• Google Tips for Instructional Coaches and Tech Coaches

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It’s time for another on-air coaching session!

My guest on this episode is Vicki Huepel, a high school science teacher from Montana, and member of the Shake Up Learning community, who is trying to create meaningful collaboration in the classroom.

Listen in and we breakdown an entire lesson to see where it can be elevated and updated. 

Vicki has put together a lesson in which her students complete a variety of tasks dedicated to researching and explaining the digestive system.

In the past, she has mostly lectured the students and then they would complete labs.

She shares the changes she has already made to the lesson and then the coaching begins.

Putting yourself in the hot seat of on-air coaching takes courage and Vicki did an amazing job, I ask her to dig deeper into her lesson as well as her overall teaching style to find the ways in which this one lesson can be elevated.

The best part is hearing her realize that the steps we take in this episode are applicable to the classroom as a whole.

Don’t miss out on this fantastic deep dive into assessment, collaboration, and using tech to uplevel your lessons. 

In This Episode:

[00:29] – Welcome back! Today’s guest is science teacher Vicki Heupel, in the hot seat for on-air coaching. 

[01:31] – Shout out to Gail Falewicz for her super sweet email about my book. 

Learn more about the book at https://shakeup.link/book

Want to Work With Kasey? Check out how! – Bring Kasey to your next event!

[02:35] – Kasey answers a question she received on SpeakPipe from an anonymous listener:

“What are the best ideas for the evaluation lesson you do for your principal?”

Have a question for Kasey or an idea you want to share? Maybe you just want to leave a shout out! Visit https://www.speakpipe.com/ShakeUpLearningShow and leave a message!

[05:56] – Vicki shares a bit about her background and her experience with The Google Certification courses.

[10:32] – Hear Vicki describe her classroom and the devices and applications she and her students use.

[15:33] – Why did Vicki pursue on-air coaching?

[19:14] – Learn why Vicki wants to revamp her digestive system lesson and increase collaboration.

[23:25] – Kasey asks a series of coaching questions about changes Vicki has already made to her lesson and classroom.

[27:40] – If the lesson were a 10, how would it have changed? What would the students be doing? 

[30:41] – What pushes the lesson to a level 10? 

[34:31] – How can the lesson efficacy be assessed before and after the changes? 

[36:39] – Would assigning roles help build collaboration more quickly? 

[39:18] – Kasey digs deeper into what could be changed to make the lesson great.

[43:31] – Keep in mind that every lesson has to adjust to the students in the room.

[44:08] – What is the goal of collaboration within this particular lesson? 

[48:47] – How could Vicki make the group assessment process work time over time?

[51:55] – Would Flipgrid enhance the assessment process? 

[53:18] – Can the changes for this lesson be applied to Vicki’s classroom as a whole? 

[54:14] – What is the next thing that Vicki needs to do to get ready?

Podcast Question of the Week

[58:07] – Kasey shares the podcast questions of the week: 

How can you make collaboration more meaningful and purposeful in your classroom? 

Post your answer to your favorite social media platform using the hashtag #ShakeUpLearning, or share it in the Shake Up Learning Community on Facebook!

[58:58] – Interested in Google Certifications? Head over to getgooglecertified.com and check out all of the free resources.

[59:48] – Thank you for listening! Please subscribe to the podcast, and leave a review on iTunes. (Bonus points if you use  the word “y’all” in your review!)

Followup Episode with Vicki

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to listen to the results in our followup episode:

About Vicki

Twitter: @33heupel

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/heupel/home

Location: Kalispell, Montana, United States

Title: High School science teacher

School District/Campus: SD #38/ Bigfork High School

My name is Vicki Heupel (hi-pull). I am a high school Science teacher in Bigfork, Montana. My husband and I have been married 20 years & have 2 high school boys. I have been teaching for 23 years and I currently teach high school Biology, Forensics, and Astronomy. I love teaching. I originally got into teaching because I wanted to create high school science classes that gave students to more opportunities to engage in the doing of science. More experiments, more building, and more hands-on learning. Google Certified Educator Level 1

Links and Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

The Shake Up Learning Show

The Shake Up Learning Community on Facebook

Join the Shake Up Learning Book Study!

The Shake Up Learning Show Episode 6: [On-Air Coaching] Staying Focused on the Learning Goals, Not the Assessment

The Shake Up Learning Show Episode 10: How to Choose a Digital Assessment Strategy

Flipgrid

Screencastify

Questions & Comments

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These days it’s easy to find fun and engaging activities for your students online.

Heck, you may have even found something on this blog that sparked your interest.

But just because you like the activity doesn’t mean that it will assess the skills you NEED to assess.

Choosing a digital assessment strategy is not easy, but it is critical to success!

In this episode, I have another amazing guest who shares a lesson and assessment that didn’t work out as planned.

Carly Black is an eighth-grade language arts teacher in Ashland, Ohio. She and her teacher husband also have toddlers at home, so she’s well-versed in handling kids of various ages!

Carly is here to share some classroom struggles and some projects that she’s tried. We can all be guilty of finding cool, engaging projects and forgetting to make sure they align with our purposes.

In this episode, Carly and I work through coaching questions to help her discover something very interesting about her assessments, and possibilities for improvement going forward.

After Carly describes her struggle with the choice board part of her lesson, I’ll push her to figure out answers for herself. 

Don’t miss this conversation! Every teacher can learn something from this very special on-air coaching episode.

In This Episode:

[00:28] – Kasey welcomes listeners back to the Shake Up Learning Show, and introduces today’s guest!

[02:16] – Before digging into the meat of the episode, Kasey gives a shoutout to Sarah Ackerman-Hale, who shared an amazing project with all of us in the Shake Up Learning Community on Facebook.

[04:26] – Today’s question comes from Sarah Fromhold, who wants to know how to integrate the dynamic learning framework within the parameters of the reading/writing and math workshop model.

[08:10] – Kasey explains how her on-air coaching episodes work.

[09:02] – We hear a bit about a typical day in Carly’s classroom, as well as why this year was particularly challenging.

[11:51] – Carly talks about the kind of technology and devices that she has available to her students in her classroom.

[14:46] – What’s going well in Carly’s classroom this year? And what tools does she use for her class blogs?

[18:11] – Carly tells listeners about a lesson that she wants help in revamping to reach all the students in her classroom.

[22:25] – Kasey responds to the points that Carly has been making.

[23:37] – On a scale of 1-10, how would Carly rank the choice-board part of the activity that she has been talking about? What would she have to change to move it closer to a 10?

[25:52] – Carly muses that maybe she should have left some choices blank to let the kids come up with ideas.

[27:47] – What would Carly’s students be doing differently if her project were a 10? How would she be able to measure the change in her students?

[29:32] – We learn about how Carly made her initial assessment at the beginning of the year, and what would have brought the assessment closer to a 10.

[32:02] – Did Carly’s original assessment align to the learning goals that she had for her students?

[34:44] – Now that Carly has explored the answers to Kasey’s questions, she talks about what her next steps would be in reshaping and redesigning this lesson.

[38:19] – Kasey responds to what Carly has been saying, and shares her appreciation for Carly’s willingness to participate in the conversation and exercises.

[41:37] – How can other teachers get in touch with Carly?  She suggests visiting her site Teach Mom Repeat or visiting her on Twitter or on Instagram.

[44:19] – Carly shares her biggest piece of advice for teachers: talk to each other!

[44:51] – Kasey takes a moment to share her thoughts on the conversation with Carly.

Podcast Question of the Week:

[46:51] – Here’s the podcast question of the week: “How do you ensure that your assessment strategy is aligned to your end goal?” Post your answers in the Shake Up Learning Community on Facebook, or on your favorite social media platform with the #ShakeUpLearning hashtag. (You can see all podcast questions for each episode on this page.)

[47:44] – Have you thought about getting Google Certified? Kasey can help! She helps educators get certified through her three online courses:

The Google Certified Educator Level 1 Academy

The Google Certified Educator Level 2 Academy

Become a Google Certified Trainer Online Course

If you’re interested in taking more than one of these courses, get a bundle to save big! Enrollment only opens twice a year, so sign up when it opens on May 21st or you’ll need to wait until November. If you’re ready to learn more, head to this link!

[50:12] – Thank you for tuning in! Kasey shares some final thoughts on her conversation, and invites listeners to subscribe and leave a review for the podcast (bonus points if you use the word “y’all” in your review!).

Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• The Shake Up Learning Community on Facebook
• Join the Shake Up Learning Book Study!
• Shake Up Learning: Practical Ideas to Move Learning from Static to Dynamic by Kasey Bell
• Education Podcast Network
• Carly Black on Twitter
• Carly Black on Instagram
• Carly’s class blog
• Teach Mom Repeat (Carly’s site)
• Teach Mom Repeat on Teachers Pay Teachers
• docAppender
• Orca Books
  Flipgrid
• Edublogs
• Edcamp

About Carly Black

Twitter: @teachmomrepeat

Website: https://teachmomrepeat.com  

Carly’s class blog

Carly’s TPT Store

Location: Ashland, Ohio, USA

Title: ELA teacher

School District/Campus (or Employer): Ashland Middle School

Bio: Carly Black spends her days encouraging eighth graders in Ashland, Ohio to believe reading and writing is totally cool. At night she chases toddlers with her teacher husband and in the morning repeats the process all over again. Find the lessons and ideas she uses to encourage her students and tame her toddlers on the blog www.TeachMomRepeat.com.

Get Google Certified This Summer!

If you have ever thought about getting Google Certified, but are unsure where to start, or overwhelmed with the content, I can help!

I have three online courses to help you reach your Google Certification goals.

1. The Google Certified Educator Level 1 Academy
2. The Google Certified Educator Level 2 Academy
3. The Google Certified Trainer Academy

These courses are designed to walk you through the process and give you everything you need to know to pass the exam.

I have helped THOUSANDS get Google Certified, and I want to help YOU!

But don’t miss this opportunity! These courses only open twice a year.

Enrollment opens on May 21st for a limited time.

If you miss this window, you have to wait until November!

Learn more at GetGoogleCertified.com

Questions & Comments

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Many inspiring educators are regular guests of the show. Currently, this type of guest is INVITE ONLY.

Please do not ask to be on the podcast.

On-Air Coaching with Kasey Bell

I love to help teachers with one-on-one coaching on the podcast, called, “On-Air Coaching.”

Are you struggling with one particular lesson? One piece of content or skill that’s just hard to teach or doesn’t seem to work well with technology?

Let me help!

Using this On-Air Coaching Application, tell me about yourself, your students, and your struggle. You may get to be on the podcast!!!

Do you know a teacher that is a good candidate? Feel free to send them the link to the form.

Student Interviews

We will also feature some student interviews on the podcast.

Students are windows to the reality of school.

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We’re doing something different today! This episode features my very first on-air coaching guest, Jasmine Saab.

Jasmine is a second-year fourth-grade teacher at Marrington Elementary School near Charleston, South Carolina.

She loves integrating movement and technology from her classroom. Originally from California, Jasmine fills her time with a wide array of hobbies ranging from tandem bike riding to volunteering to singing in foreign languages.

Jasmine’s awards and accomplishments list is so long that I need to include it separately, so check it out below!

As you can probably guess from that impressive list, Jasmine is an excellent teacher who’s doing some truly amazing things in her classroom.

As you’ll hear today, she also has some struggles, specifically around technology.

She’s inspired by technology without always thinking things through to the end in terms of planning and her learning goals.

And that’s why she’s on the show today! I’ll coach her through this struggle and help her think of some new ways to think of her lesson design.

One of Jasmine’s coolest projects is her robotic water cycle lesson, which involves all kinds of skills from her students.

As she’ll explain, though, the lesson didn’t go perfectly. In our conversation today, we’ll focus specifically on this lesson, and I’ll ask her a series of questions that will help guide her through ways to make it better.

We also talk about Jasmine’s new classroom toy, a 3D printer and how she can design meaningful learning experiences for her students using this device.

These questions should help her (and you!) figure out how to improve various other lessons too.

Listen in for some advice on how to make sure that tech fits your learning goals, and to hear about why it’s so important not to get distracted by the fun, shiny objects in technology.

In This Episode:

[00:28] – Kasey welcomes listeners to today’s episode and explains what it will be all about.

[02:11] – Before we dive into this episode, Kasey gives a shout out to the Shake Up Learning podcast launch team!

[03:38] – Jasmine introduces herself and talks about the students and parent involvement at her school.

[08:58] – We hear about what Jasmine’s class looks like on a day-to-day basis, specifically in terms of technology.

[16:54] – Kasey shares her response to all of the awesome things that Jasmine is doing in her classroom.

[17:44] – Does Jasmine have any videos of the projects she’s been talking about?

[18:35] – Jasmine explains why she wants Kasey’s help.

[20:14] – Kasey starts off her coaching by asking Jasmine some questions specifically about the water cycle lessons.

[21:48] – On a scale of 1-10, how would Jasmine rank her water cycle lesson?

[24:57] – Kasey responds to Jasmine’s rating of her lesson, as well as the issues that she struggled with in her classroom

[26:05] – How much time did Jasmine originally plan for this lesson?

[27:44] – We hear about what would have made Jasmine’s lesson a 10 instead of a 9.

[30:50] – Kasey points out the importance of having an end goal in mind.

[32:31] – Jasmine talks about the 3D printer project that she’s working on right now.

[34:50] – Kasey takes a step back and offers Jasmine a piece of advice: always start with the learning goal!

[37:03] – Was there a learning goal that Kasey had in mind with all of this?

[41:38] – We hear Kasey’s advice on adding in tech only when it will lead directly to learning goals.

[43:25] – Jasmine replies to Kasey’s advice and talks about where her thoughts are now and what she is realizing from this conversation.

[45:48] – Kasey makes a suggestion for Jasmine.

[47:31] – What Kasey has been saying is related to the fail-forward concept, Jasmine points out.

[48:29] – We learn more about Genius Hour and how it works.

[51:40] – What are Jasmine’s next steps, and what does she think she’ll work on next?

[54:51] – Here’s this week’s podcast question: have you ever tried to integrate too much at once, like Jasmine? How do you ensure that your enthusiasm doesn’t distract from the purpose of the lesson? Share your answers on your favorite social media platform using the #shakeuplearning hashtag, or post it in the Shake Up Learning Community on Facebook!

[56:06] – Kasey has three Google Certification courses, for which enrollment is opening on May 21st for a limited time! These are:

The Google Certified Educator Level 1 Academy

The Google Certified Educator Level 2 Academy

Become a Google Certified Trainer Online Course

If you want to take all of the courses, you can save by buying the bundle! And if you’re interested, don’t hesitate, because enrollment won’t open again until November. Head to this link to learn more about the courses!

[58:34] – Thanks for listening in! Don’t miss next week’s episode, where I’ll chat with Richard Byrne from Free Tech 4 Teachers. Subscribe to the podcast to make sure you get notified when that episode comes out, and please leave a review of the podcast! (Bonus points if you use the word “y’all” in your review.)

Podcast Question of the Week:

• Have you ever tried to integrate too much at once like Jasmine? How do you ensure that your enthusiasm doesn’t distract from the purpose of the lesson?
• Post your answers in the Shake Up Learning community or on your favorite social platform.

Google Certification Courses Open May 21

If you have ever thought about getting Google Certified, but are unsure where to start, or overwhelmed with the content, I can help!

I have three online courses to help you reach your Google Certification goals.

(1) The Google Certified Educator Level 1 Academy

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(3) Become a Google Certified Trainer Online Course

These courses are designed to walk you through the process and give you everything you need to know to pass the exam.

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But don’t miss this opportunity! These courses only open twice a year.

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About Jasmine

Jasmine Saab is a second-year teacher, who graduated from the College of Charleston. She currently teaches 4th grade and loves integrating movement and technology in her classroom. Jasmine is originally from California but now considers Charleston her home. When Jasmine isn’t working or at the beach, she is usually traveling, taking online courses, rollerblading, tandem bike riding, cooking, shopping, walking around downtown Charleston, singing songs in foreign languages, or volunteering at the Medical University of South Carolina in the Children’s Atrium.

Marrington Elementary School Rookie Teacher of the Year 2018

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Education Podcast Network

DonorsChoose.org

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The Google Certified Educator Level 2 Academy

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Get Google Certified

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