Episode 31: I’m Back!!!
Welcome Back! Thank you to those of you coming back to Shifting Our Schools and a big welcome to all you new listeners. This episode is made to help bridge the gap between our 2008-2009 show and bringing Shifting Our Schools back in 2018. It’s been quite the journey and Shifting Our Schools was a large part of my own personal journey into starting COETAIL and Eduro Learning. In this episode, I tell my personal journey starting from High School to restarting Shifting Our Schools and looking forward to the future of podcasting. Episode Notes:
Great to be back – that was a long break
Telling my story – my journey that has brought me back here to Shifting Our Schools
1994 – Elementary Experience – Mrs. Hubble
1994 – 95 – Olympic College (18)
1995 – 96 – Traveling Microscope Show (19)
1996 -97 – Graduate with AA Degree – go to EWU (20)
1997 – 1999 – Graduate with Elem. Degree (22)
– Play around with Windows 3.1
– Tech class Website and Projector
1999 – First job as 4th grade teacher (23)
– Get Married (22)
– AlphaSmarts
– Server room
– Website for school
– WeCareSports.com
Summer of 2000 – Pack up everything we own and drive to New York (24)
2000-2002 Robert Gray Elementary (26)
– Box of Apples
– School Website
– Technology in K-12 Education: Envisioning a New Future.
– Gates Grant
– Continue building for WeCareSports.com
– 9/11
– Earthquake
2002 – 2005 – Saudi Arabia (25)
– Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Technology
– 6 Grade Teacher
– 5th Grade Teacher
– Admin Degree in the Summers via WSU
– IT Director
– Moodle
– 1:1 Palm Pilot Program with 12th graders
– Wire School for wireless
2005 – 2008 (32)
– ’05 ES Tech Teacher – Start The Thinking Stick
– Offered VP position – turning point
– Install Moodle SARAs outbreak
– ’06 Technology Resource Facilitator
– Roll out Moodle across the schools
– Start talks of 1:1
– Middle School Tech Teacher
– Told the world I was Dyslexic
– ’08 – Plan 1:1 Roll Out
– ’08 start SOS Podcast – David Carpenter
– Start On Deck Podcast
– Start Gourmet Geeks.tv
– Start Presenting
– Wanting something different
– Google Time
– Move to ISB
2008 – 2012 (36)
– ES Tech Coach
– Workshops at Schools
– Plan 1:1 Roll Out
– 2009 stop SOSpodcast
– Stop Gourmet Geeks
– ’07 Start Learning2
2009 – Start COETAIL
2010 – Write Reach with 20% time
2012 – COETAIL Taking off
– Consulting every weekend
– Something has to give
2012 – 2013 (37)
– A year of free PD in the State of WA as I travel Internationally consulting
– COETAIL is growing online
– 2013 – 250,000 miles
2014 – 2017 (41)
– 2014 – Beyond COETAIL
– 2014 Start Eduro Learning
– Clint, Mads, Simon, Kim, Chrissy, Dana, Me
– 2014 – SUNY pulls out of COETAIL
– 2015 – Marysville Contract
– 2016 – Everett Contract
– 2016 – Start planning Micro-Credentials
– 2017 – Launch Micro-Credentials
– 2017 – Co-Author book with Kim and Chrissy
– 2017 – Restart SOSpodcast
– Stories from Educators
– Conversations with Kim, Chrissy,
– Our Advisory Team,
– COETAILers
– teachers we meet