SchoolWork: Recent Episodes
Amarillo ISD, Amarillo Independent School District
A podcast from Amarillo Independent School District. SchoolWork is an effort to give insight, to inform and to hopefully show you the heart behind why all of us in AISD make our work about school.
In this episode, we're having an honest conversation with Superintendent Doug Loomis about talk of an enrollment loss and what that means for jobs. And, he's here to set the record straight.
In this episode, we chat with Anne Grady. She’s a resilience expert, best-selling author, and two-time TEDx speaker. Anne has spent the last two decades teaching resilience as a life skill. In part two of our conversation, we learn more about emotional intelligence and how it can transform the dynamics in your classroom.
In this episode, we chat with Anne Grady. She’s a resilience expert, best-selling author, and two-time TEDx speaker. Anne has spent the last two decades teaching resilience as a life skill. We covered a lot in our conversation, so we broke it up into two parts. In this episode, we talk about gratitude and mindfulness, their importance, and how they can be integrated into the classroom.
In this episode, we chat with George Couros. He’s an author and speaker with over 20 years of experience in education, and he's got lots of great stories. In his new book "Because of a Teacher" and in this podcast, George will make you laugh, cry, and think about your own journey in education.
0:01 – Welcome and Overview of Episode.
01:30 – Update on Amtech Career Academy.
02:29 – Jeremy Spielman, Assistant Director at the National Paideia Center: Introduction and bio info.
07:20 – Jeremy discusses his Paideia Seminar involvement with Wolflin Elementary School
12:52 – The idea of failure, when things don’t work the way we want them to work but how that leads to an opportunity to shape and form growth: “Calculated risk is essential for growth.”
16:30 – Jeremy describes what Paedeia is and what it can lead to according to the research: “Teaching how to think, not what to think.”
20:23 – Aryn Erwin, 4th Grade teacher at Wolflin Elementary, shares her classroom Paideia experiences and observations: “They’re learning critical thinking skills.”
29:14 – “...microwave solutions to crock pot problems.”
35:26 – Round-table discussions of the ripple effects that occur.
40:17 – Closing thoughts.
You have questions about our “July Jump Start” and our school-year alternative plan for the Texas Reading Academies. We have your answers in this episode of SchoolWork.
0:01 - Welcome and Overview of Episode
01:50 - Round-table discussion with AISD Elementary Teachers Erin Miller and Roxanne Jenkins.
25:00 - Round-table discussion with AISD Secondary Teachers David Price and Heather Blythe-Yaws.
0:07 Welcome and Overview
1:40 - Chris Tatum on COVID testing at the District
6:37 - Personnel and substitutes in our Schools
15:50 - The most frequently asked questions with Doug Loomis
0:15 - Welcome and Overview
2:30 - Update on Virtual Learning
8:20 - Exercising Your Right to Vote
14:30 - Tracey Mormon
16:15 - Taking Care of Others by Taking Care of Yourself
21:15 - Getting Through COVID-19
27:25 - Can't Let It Go
1:00 - Welcome
6:30 - In-Person Learning
11:00 - Doing both, In-Person and Virtual
18:00 - Canvas
36:35 - COVID-19 Update
39:40 - Adding Staff + District Enrollment
0:00 - Introduction to SchoolWork.
0:51 - A Message from Doug Loomis.
2:10 - What is SchoolWork?
5:24 - Episode Overview.
6:28 - COVID-19 and the 20-21 school year.
24:48 - What happens when we get a positive COVID case?
33:23 - Staff safeguards if they were to test positive.
38:55 - Canvas; the new Learning Management System.
48:15 - Update on the Intercultural Development Research Association efforts & closing the learning gap.
1:01:15 - Wrap-up.