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Bright’s Ideas

Bright’s Ideas

These episodes will mostly be my reflections on what I am learning about, especially in the area of Education Technology. This will also include other issues and thoughts about education.

  • 5 minutes 27 seconds
    024- How My District is Supporting the Teaching of Reading
    In this episode, I talk about how our district is training teachers in the five components of the five pillars of reading. These include phonics, pandemic, awareness, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.
    22 April 2024, 5:04 pm
  • 8 minutes 57 seconds
    023 Word of the Year- Growth
    In this episode, I share my word and focus of the year- growth. Hopefully this will be an encouraging message to you as you are growing in your position as an educator.
    17 March 2024, 2:31 am
  • 8 minutes 46 seconds
    022 White Supremacy in Math Class? Not for These Reasons.
    This is a more serious response to the idea that objectivity, right or wrong answers and a few other characteristics are examples of white supremacist culture. Short summary: I push back on the idea that these are inherently white characteristics and how this is ridiculous and unhelpful to the conversation about math and/or race.
    31 January 2024, 9:25 pm
  • 8 minutes 39 seconds
    021 Holderness Family- Introverts vs. Extroverts
    In this episode, I share a blog post about being an introvert. I also share about the Holderness Family podcast in the what I’m listening to section.
    11 January 2024, 7:36 pm
  • 8 minutes 27 seconds
    020 CMC -Eduprotocol- Math Rep/ Sketch and Tell/ Thin Slides
    In this episode, I share several eduprotocols, such as math reps, sketch and tell and thin slides.
    5 January 2024, 8:15 pm
  • 7 minutes 44 seconds
    019 CMC- Eduprotocols
    In this episode, I talk about a session I went to about stacking eduprotocols in a mathematics classroom, but just in general eduprotocols are awesome.
    4 December 2023, 6:42 pm
  • 9 minutes 57 seconds
    018- CMC South 2023- Part 1
    In this episode, I share some of my learnings from CMC South, and the presentation by Jo Boaler.
    13 November 2023, 6:48 pm
  • 7 minutes 37 seconds
    017 Knowledge vs. Skills- The Knowledge Gap- Ch. 2
    In this episode, I share my learning from Chapter 2 of of Natalie Wexler's book, The Knowledge Gap. I discuss how Natalie contends for the importance of helping students establish background knowledge versus just focusing on comprehension skills
    26 October 2023, 8:04 pm
  • 6 minutes 14 seconds
    016- The Knowledge Gap- Pt. 1

    In this episode, I share my learning from chapter 1 of Natalie Wexler's book, The Knowledge Gap. We look at some of Wexler's pushback on the way we have been teaching comprehension to students, usually using a skills-based model. She begins to suggest that that, alone, will not fill that learning gap between our low and high-level readers.

    19 October 2023, 8:52 pm
  • 7 minutes 31 seconds
    015- Child Driven or Data Driven. Can you be Both?

    In this episode, I reflect on a blog post by George Couros, titled Child-Driven or Data-Driven. Can you Be Both? The short answer is no. The long answer could be an interteresting conversation.

    2 October 2023, 9:37 pm
  • 5 minutes 53 seconds
    014 Thinking Classrooms- Types of Students
    In this episode, I talk about the different types of students that you might see in your classroom before you implement a thinking classroom.
    21 September 2023, 5:55 pm
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