3 Ps in a Pod: An Education Podcast

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Cognitive Moves for Success (Healthy and Thriving Environments for Strong Connections and Strong Schools, Part 1) Oct 03, 2024

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Welcome back to a new season of 3Ps in a Pod! This season we will deeply explore a focus on healthy and thriving environments for strong connections and strong schools.

Host Juliana Urtubey, NBCT, will be connecting you with various guests who will help us explore this idea from diverse perspectives and help us think critically about how we all work together to create strong schools that center our students. Through this series, you'll find both thought-provoking conversations and complimentary professional learning materials linked in our show notes.

In this first episode, we connect with Taryl Hansen, NBCT, and Mary Bouley to investigate how understanding Cognitive Coaching moves can help us reach greater levels of success in professional and personal relationships through improved communication and collaboration skills anchored in compassion. Discover how these ideas can help shift mental models and develop patterns and skills for listening and responding, and learn why communication is a way of being with one another, not just a skill.

Taryl and Mary share how we can further build trust and communicate to others that we believe in them. They discuss how we can support others to be more empowered and self-reliant and ask us to think about how we continue to show students and others that we honor their thinking and encourage a sharing of viewpoints. Mary and Taryl also encourage us to think about what we really mean when we talk about building capacity and what that looks like.

Continue your learning

After listening to this episode, use the reflection guide to explore this episode in a way that further impacts who you are and how you are showing up in your work and in your relationships. Find the reflection guide at this link.

Here are other related resources to today's episode:

"What's All the Hype about Cognitive Coaching?", an earlier episode with Mary Bouley and Taryl Hansen, NBCT, referenced in this episode
Registration for the next Cognitive Coaching Foundations series at the Arizona K12 Center
Learn about how to bring Cognitive Coaching Foundations, Advanced Cognitive Coaching, or customized Cognitive Coaching training to your school or district at this link.

Learn more about the Arizona K12 Center at azk12.org.

Talking Civic Engagement in the Classroom with Gina Roberts May 23, 2024

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It's another election year, and we're talking with Gina Roberts of the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission about the Civics Classroom Curriculum, a free and available resource to all Arizona teachers.

3Ps host Donnie Dicus welcomes Gina Roberts, the voter education director of the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission, to the podcast. The Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission is the state's non-partisan voter education agency. The commission helps people learn about the logistics of voting and the candidates and the roles they're running for. It also advocates for participation in the political process.

The curriculum includes lesson plans designed for grades 4-6, 7-8, and 9-12 with a variety of hands-on activities that can work in both an in-person or virtual setting. The curriculum is also aligned with Arizona State Standards.

Gina speaks to how the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission is a voter-created state government agency that is mandated by state statute to provide non-partisan, non-influencing voter education. The curriculum reviews the election processes, the roles and responsibilities of different elected offices, and media and information literacy skills. She also shares about ways students can become more civically involved aside from voting in elections.

Gina also announces that the commission will soon be releasing a comic book to supplement their Civics Classroom Curriculum. The comic book follows the conflict between the hero Captain Activate and the villain Doctor Apathy who aims to create apathetic voters.

Find this free Civics Classroom Curriculum at azcleanelections.gov/civics-curriculum.

Learn more about the Arizona K12 Center at azk12.org.

Reflecting on the First Year of Teaching with Rachel Martinez May 16, 2024

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Rachel Martinez is in her first year of teaching third-grade in Tolleson Elementary School District. In this episode, 3Ps in a Pod host Kathleen Paulsen talks with Rachel about the support she's received at her school and the learning she did at the recent Welcome to Teaching event with Dr. Doug Fisher.

She shares how struck she was by the six levels of engagement that Dr. Fisher shared and how he showed how even very young students can be aware of their engagement level and know what they need to do to be more ready to learn. She and Kathleen also reflect on the four types of learning: focused instruction, collaboration, guided learning, and independent learning.

Rachel shares about the support she's received in her school and district, including working with a mentor. Rachel's mentor is Michelle Doherty, who Rachel also had as a professor at Northern Arizona University. Rachel talks about how Michelle supports her and builds her confidence as she goes through her first year of teaching.

As Rachel nears the end of her first school year, she says she's excited to reflect and see the growth that both she and her students made during the year. She notes how important it is for her to reflect on her work and growth for herself but also to model the expectation and power of that for her students.

The Arizona K12 Center is also having Dr. Fisher back for another event based on his book Welcome to Teaching this fall! You can learn about and register for that event at azk12.org/24BTS2.

Learn more about the Arizona K12 Center at azk12.org.

AI in Education, Part 4: Ready, Set, Go May 02, 2024

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In the final episode of this podcast series on AI in Education, Dr. Chad Gestson and Dr. LeeAnn Lindsey chat with Lauren Owens and Lindsey McCaleb about where teachers can go from here — where to begin, where they can find guidance, resources, and additional professional development for using AI with confidence.

Dr. Gestson and Dr. Lindsey are both a part of the Arizona Institute for Education and the Economy, a part of Northern Arizona University, while Lauren Owens is the director of information technology for Agua Fria HS District and Lindsey McCaleb is the principal of an online school in the Balsz School District.

Lauren and Lindsey share how they have started to work with AI in their schools and districts and the discussions they've had with school leaders and teachers to move toward using AI. They reflect on the process of planning, implementing, and assessing when integrating any new technology or change initiative.

Today's episode also focuses on how policy creation, at the state or district level, can be much slower than how quickly technology is developing. Dr. Lindsey shares how only nine U.S. states have developed some guidelines for AI use in schools. The Arizona Institute for Education and the Economy has been working to add Arizona to that list of states and will soon be releasing an AI guidance document to help inform state, district, and school policies.

That guidance document will be available on May 13 at nau.edu/aiee/azai with a corresponding webinar, "GenAI Guidance for Arizona K-12 Schools," on May 15 from 3 to 4 p.m. To sign up to receive the webinar link, click here.

Learn more about the Arizona Institute for Education and the Economy at this link and about the Arizona K12 Center at azk12.org.

AI in Education, Part 3: Best Practices for Teaching and Learning Apr 25, 2024

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Ready to see how AI can improve your work and impact student learning? In this third part of our series on AI in Education, we'll dive into some AI tools you might consider trying in your teaching.

In our last two episodes, we explored a bit of history of artificial intelligence and contemplated if using AI is cheating. Today, we look at what we can actually do with AI.

Guest host Dr. Chad Gestson focuses on the heart of teaching and learning. He and Dr. LeeAnn Lindsey chat with Dr. Michele Wilson and Alec McDaniel about best practices for using AI to impact student learning. Dr. Wilson spent 38 years working within education systems and is now an education consultant. Alec is an educational technology specialist in Florence Unified School District.

They both share about what makes them excited about AI and talk about what "good use" of AI in the classroom looks like before they explore several of the tools they encourage educators to check out and consider how they might support their work. They also discuss the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and Arizona Technology in Education Association (AZTEA) as great resources to learn more about using AI.

Here are links to the tools and resources referenced in this episode:

T-PACK Framework
SAMR model of technology integration
MagicSchool AI: magicschool.ai
Diffit for differentiating: diffit.me
Forbes article, "The Hot, New High-Paying Career Is an AI Prompt Engineer"
ChatGPT
Other large language models like Gemini, Google Bard, or Copilot
SchoolAI: schoolai.com
Curipod: curipod.com
Canva's Magic Tools
Adobe Express
Khanmigo: khanmigo.ai
Skipit: skipit.ai

Learn more about the Arizona K12 Center at azk12.org.

AI in Education, Part 2: But Is It Cheating? Apr 18, 2024

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In this second part of our four-part series on AI in Education, guest host Dr. Chad Gestson asks the question that is on many educators' minds: "Is AI cheating?" He and Dr. LeeAnn Lindsey talk to Dr. Punya Mishra about academic and professional integrity, and why AI should be a catalyst to rethink "plagiarism" and "cheating."

Dr. Gestson and Dr. Lindsey are both a part of the Arizona Institute for Education and the Economy, a part of Northern Arizona University, while Dr. Mishra is associate dean of scholarship and innovation and professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University.

Dr. Mishra broadens the conversation to talk about what cheating is in general and how we approach assessment. The discussion about AI and cheating is an opportunity to talk deeply about how we evaluate learning, he shares. That connects to a larger conversation about the purpose of the preK-12 education system, he explains.

The three also talk about the role of agency and autonomy in learning. They also discuss the need for a class like the Theory of Knowledge class that is a part of the International Bacalaureate program for students to better understand the creation and sharing of ideas.

Learn more about he Arizona K12 Center at azk12.org.

AI in Education, Part 1: AI and Workforce Development Apr 11, 2024

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As artificial intelligence tools have become far more accessible in the past year, "AI" has become a major conversation for not just schools and education but in all aspects of life. That's why we're diving into discussions about AI in education in this four-part series with guest host Dr. Chad Gestson, executive director of the Arizona Institute for Education and the Economy, and Dr. LeeAnn Lindsey, strategic planning director of the Arizona Institute for Education and the Economy.

In this episode, Dr. Gestson and Dr. Lindsey set the stage about how they became personally interested in this work, the discussions they've heard across Arizona, and why the new Arizona Institute for Education and the Economy is focusing on AI.

Dr. Gestson also gives an overview of how AI came to be where it is today, where it's going, and what that can mean for Arizona schools and workplace development. Alan Turing published the first significant paper on AI in 1950, launching a focus on this new field before it entered an "AI winter." Then, an influx of new AI tools and robots launched in the 2000s and has continued momentum. He also references the seven stages of artificial intelligence and talks about four branches of AI that listeners should be aware of:

generative AI tools like ChatGPT
Natural language processing like Alexa, Siri, or other smart speakers
AI-powered robotics like Roombas
Robotics process automation like Timely for creating school master schedules

Vince Yanez, the Helios Education Foundation's senior vice president of community engagement and strategic partnerships, then joins the podcast to discuss the role of AI in workforce development. He and Dr. Gestson discuss how AI will eliminate or alter some jobs while also introducing new jobs. They also discuss what it looks like to prepare students in the midst of this emerging future.

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Learn more about the Arizona K12 Center at azk12.org.

National Board Pulse on Education with NBPTS CEO Peggy Brookins Apr 04, 2024

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It's been an exciting last few months for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Today, 3Ps in a Pod host Juliana Urtubey talks with CEO Peggy Brookins about recent National Board news and conversations.

Peggy shares about the vision and work of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and the benefits of National Board Certification for educators and their students. She also reflects on how both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate introduced resolutions in January 2024 that recognize "the importance and contributions of National Board Certified Teachers" (NBCTs) and reflects.

More than 3,500 educators certified as NBCTs in December 2023, more than 700 than the previous year. Peggy talks about some of the dynamics that have led to that increase, including expanding the process to newer teachers and incentives at the state and district levels.

Peggy also talks about the need to better retain quality teachers and how National Board Certification can be a part of addressing that need. She speaks to how networks of NBCTs across the country are helping both advance National Board Certification and also lead in addressing the current challenges in education.

In this episode, Peggy references the Learning Policy Institute's research and tool that calculates the cost of teacher turnover in a school or district.

If you're interested in starting your National Board Certification journey, visit azk12.org.

Professional Learning Together with Dr. Jennifer Robinson Mar 28, 2024

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When Dr. Jennifer Robinson first attended the Arizona K12 Center's annual Teacher Leadership Institute, she was the only one from her district but connected with other "lone wolves." She learned there but has since found even more value in bringing a team to this annual summer conference.

She shares with 3Ps host Paula about how she brings a variety of personnel from her school with her to Teacher Leadership Institute and how they synthesize their learning together and also share with the rest of their school together. Dr. Robinson reflects on the power of stepping away from the usual routine and connecting with other districts and those outside of education to transform your thinking about your work.

Learn more about this year's 19th Annual Teacher Leadership Institute at azk12.org/TLI.

Learn more about the Arizona K12 Center at azk12.org.

Don't Burn Out, Burn In with Julia King Pool Mar 21, 2024

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Julia King Pool joined us last season to talk about the psychology behind the concept of burning in rather than burning out. In this episode, she continues that conversation by sharing specific strategies for approaching some difficult scenarios you might have encountered.

Hosts Juliana and Marlys ask Julia several questions about stressful scenarios educators often find themselves in. These include difficult conversations with a student's parent, balancing creativity and autonomy with a scripted curriculum, and not feeling supported at school.

Julia provides research-backed steps for these situations and also talks through strategies to help educators' wellbeing all around. She references Sabine Sonnentag's work around recovering from the workday in talking about how educators can work toward balance. Sonnentag outlines four aspects to help recover from a workday, including psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery experiences, and control. Julia talks with Juliana and Marlys about the variety of ways those might look for an individual.

This episode also references this RAND research report and also Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.

Learn more about Julia King Pool's work at BurninMindset.com or by connecting with her on LinkedIn.

Learn more about the Arizona K12 Center at azk12.org.

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