Beth Sanders

TTT#354 Birmingham Brave New Voices/Real Life Poets w/Beth Sanders, Al Elliott, John Taylor, Chaniya O'Bey, Chase, Ebony, Justin

On this episode of TTT, enjoy @MsSandersTHS @ellication @reallifepoets Chaniya O'Bey and three youths, Chase, Ebony, and Justin from the Birmingham Brave New Voices and Real Life Poets.

Young Alabama poets competing... for Brave New Voices festival in Chicago

http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/06/young_alabama_poets_co...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Birmingham poets age 13-20 have a chance to participate in Brave New Voices 2013, a festival that will be held in Chicago in August. BNV is a network of more than 70 organizations that hosts a HBO series that "captures teenager picking up the pen and taking hold of the microphone with passion, intelligence, creativity, honesty and power," according to the BNV web site.

We celebrate poetry with young poets from Birmingham, Alabama on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers.

Along with the youths, we are joined by:

Beth Sanders @MsSandersTHS
Educator working on making a ruckus. Social justice, technology equality, educational equity for everyone. Youth Converts Culture Co-Founder. ADE Class of 2013.
Birmingham, Alabama

Al Elliott @ellication
Dad. Educator. Learner. Currently serving as a 5th Grade Teacher + Green Valley Elementary | Hoover City Schools | Real Life Poets, Inc. [Board Member]

John Paul Taylor @reallifepoets and Chaniya O'Bey
The Real Life Poets Inc. is a 501 c3 non-profit community service organization that uses and encourages communication using spoken word poetry and the arts.
Birmingham, Alabama http://reallifepoets.org

You don't want to miss this one!

TTT#353 Teachers Speaking Up-2 w/ Andrea Zellner, Katherine Schulten, Steve Zemelman, Jen Ochoa, Beth Sanders, Pat Delaney 6.19

A provocative conversation about Teachers Speaking Up w/ @AndreaZellner, @KSchulten, @StevenZemelman, @Ochoajen @MsSandersTHS, and Pat Delaney on this episode of TTT (Please subscribe with this link: http://www.teachersteachingteachers.org/feed/podcast/ (And BTW http://cloud.feedly.com is a great replacement for Google Reader. The App, BeyondPod now integrates with Feedly.)

On this episode of TTT, we are joined by:

Andrea Zellner's profile photoKatherine Schulten's profile photoSteven Zemelman's profile photoPatrick Delaney's profile photoJennifer Ochoa's profile photoBeth Sanders's profile photo

This episode is a follow up to TTT#351 Teachers Speaking Up w/ Jesse Hagopian, Diana Laufenberg, José Vilson, Steven Zemelman, Pat Delaney, Maribeth Whitehouse http://edtechtalk.com/node/5198 -- and we plan more on this topic later this summer.

Here are a few notes from the show:

Look at what happened in Michigan today, Andrea Zellner writes: Our teachers are passionate and outspoken: http://www.michiganradio.org/post/teachers-rally-lansing-more-support-pu...

Jen Ochoa's "Give Them an Apple, or a Hug: Help Teachers and Students Survive Testing" http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/schoolbook/2013/apr/16/give-them-an-apple-or-a...

Kevin Hodgson's blog: http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/

Be sure to follow up at Teachers Speak Up http://teachersspeakup.com , a blog, where Steve Zemelman is a co-convener.

Some of the interesting things going on in Philly for Teacher Voice -
http://facesofthelayoffs.org/about-the-project/
http://thenotebook.org/
http://www.educationvoterspa.org/index.php/site/take-action/
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/school_files/ (Kristin's live-tweeting of the SRC meetings is legendary and an amazing resource for the community)
http://www.tagphilly.org/

Brave New Voices -
http://youthspeaks.org/bravenewvoices/
Fundraising link: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/team-atlanta-goes-to-brave-new-voices-...

Lisa Neilsen's group on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/homeschoolingunschooling/
A place where parents, students, teens, and teachers frustrated with traditional schooling can come together to discuss the more effective options they are pursuing. Conversations often address things like opting out of testing and other traditional schooling issues.


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TTT#339 Youth Converts Culture - Technology and Empathy in Alabama w/ Beth Sanders and Daniel Whitt along with Al Elliott 3.6.13

Teachers +Beth Sanders @MsSandersTHSand +Daniel Whitt  @WhittMister join us on this episode of TTT to talk about Youth Converts Culture youthconvertsculture.com along with their Alabama colleague, Al Elliott @ellication.

Youth Converts Culture (YCC) is an Alabama-based initiative combining technology with empathy to push education forward.  YCC believes that empathy, student voice, and social awareness should drive instruction in the 21st Century.  The YCC panel (brought to you in partnership with IDEA—the Institute for Democratic Education in America) will focus on constructing new, responsible, and engaging learning strategies designed to empower our youth to grow, communicate, and learn in a way that is congruent to who they are at their root: global citizens connected to the world as pioneering digital natives. 

Daniel Whitt is a teacher, a digital media specialist, a filmmaker, and a social activist living in Madison, Alabama.  He is Co-Founder/Co-Director of Youth Converts Culture.

Beth Sanders is a teacher, a technology consultant, and a social activist living in Birmingham, Alabama.  She is Co-Founder/Co-Director of Youth Converts Culture.

Enjoy!


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TTT#322 Reclaiming the public in public education (IDEA) w/ Allie Desmet, Beth Sanders, Sam Chaltain, Gregory HIll - 11.07.12

Learn more about the Institute for Democratic Education in America (IDEA) democraticeducation.org on this episode of TTT , with our guests:

From the IDEA site:

Democratic education is not a type of school or research-based practice. It isn’t one kind of learning program or philosophy. It is a frame. It’s a way of gathering together a vast and powerful set of ideas, philosophies of learning, research, school models, teaching practices, policies, and community visions so that a powerful story can be told that reclaims the “public” in public education—that is, education owned by all of us.

This is an ongoing discussion on TTT and we invite you to join us any Wednesday evening to reclaim the public in public education. Come on over to TTT edtechtalk.com/ttt at 9PM ET/6PM PT

Until the nuanced story is clear, truthful and told by and large by those who are experiencing the greatest suffering (ie: young people), the solutions generated will not be the ones our city needs. —Jayeesha Dutta


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TTT#323 - Reclaiming the public in public education (part#2)

Teachers Teaching Teachers #323
Reclaiming the public in public education (part#2)

November 14, 2012

Participants

Jeff Lebow's profile photomonika hardy's profile photoCristian Buendia's profile photoGregory Hill's profile photoerika auger's profile photoBeth Sanders's profile photo



Links Mentioned

The Disruption Department:  http://thedisruptiondepartment.org/

Gregory's Cookie Cheat Tweeter:  http://thedisruptiondepartment.org/node/148
“People need to have the power to solve their own problems” - Kosta Grammatis
Kosta Grammatis believes if you provide a person with a mobile  device and access to the internet their learning space can be anywhere.  Support a person’s curiosity to question, reason and create within whatever space they are in and their learning can become anything.  Learners of the 21st century need these things: a space, a device, a  connection, a facilitator, a motive. Yet over 5 billion people on this  planet don't have internet access.
 
 
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