This episode of “evolving with heart” is a master class in teaching during the Covid 19 pandemic
and beyond. Award winning educators and authors Stacey Roshan and Lainie Rowell share
their years’ of experiences with online learning. You will gain insights into how to build
community and to create compassionate learning communities that empower students. It is both
inspiring and practical for ALL educators! Their approach of “evolving with heart” is the
healthiest and most productive way forward!

Stacey Roshan: Director of Innovation, Math Teacher, Bullis School, Potomac, Maryland and
author of Tech with Heart: Leveraging Technology to Empower Student Voice, Ease Anxiety, &
Create Compassionate Classrooms.

Lainie Rowell: Educator, author, podcaster, and international speaker. She is the lead author of
Evolving Learner: Shifting From Professional Development to Professional Learning From Kids,
Peers, and the World.

Supporting online learning

Michele Freed, General Manager of Microsoft Education Experiences Group, Michelle leads one of the most creative teams in the world around designing new tools to help more students access and excel at learning.  My own mind has been blown many times while visiting Michelle’s team at Microsoft. I felt compelled to share some of that excitement with you.

Supporting online learning

Stacey Roshan: Director of Innovation, Math Teacher, Bullis School, Potomac, Maryland

Stacey began teaching online years ago and has amazing lessons learned; practical inspiring stories from the field  I can proudly say I have met with Stacey’s students and I wrote the forward to Stacey’s new book, Tech with Heart: Leveraging Technology to Empower Student Voice, Ease Anxiety, & Create Compassionate Classrooms.

Survival Guide to Helping Students Feel More Connected

Lainie Rowell was a contributor to the National Standards for Quality Online Teaching. She has worked with schools all over the world to build capacity for innovation with teaching and learning. Lainie is a co-author of the recently published book, “Evolving Learner”, which is available for purchase here, bit.ly/evolvinglearnerbook, with more information available here, EvolvingLearner.org.

Supporting online learning

Eric Mazur, Harvard Applied Physics Chair, shares his pioneering work supporting online learning.  Eric is a true seminal thinker about expanding the boundaries of learning by empowering students. Think Socrates meets the Internet!

Four articles and four podcasts with thought leaders!

The original articles and podcasts can be found below:

Articles

• How Making Thinking Visible Helps Teachers and Students
• Inviting Global Perspectives into the Classroom
• Networks for Lifelong Learning: A Tale of Two Students
• Crafting a Vision for Empowered Learning and Teaching: Beyond the $1,000 Pencil

Podcasts

• Lee Ann Potter – Primary Source Documents and Media Across the Curriculum
• Dr. Eric Mazur – Moving from Paper to Digital
• Dr. Rob Evans – Managing Change
• Dr. Michael Fullan – The Role of a School Leader

Only listen to this podcast if you want your mind blown about how we can re-think motivation and achievement, especially for our lowest performing students. Get ready to unlearn! Dr. Zoran Popović is a seminal thinker and researcher who leads the game learning group at the University of Washington and we are proud to announce will be keynoting BLC17 in Boston July 26th.