It’s almost the end of 2021, and what a strange year it has been! The pandemic has again been the main driver of changes to our work, along with a renewed focus on racial justice and equity, both in the larger education system and within KQED as a company. I feel so blessed that I …
So I just finished School of Chocolate on Netflix. I honestly had low expectations as yet another reality cooking competition. But I have to say I found a lot to like about the show lead / master chocolatier Amaury Guichon’s approach to supporting and teaching the competitors. Some of my observations: Amaury begins every challenge demoing for …
For the past few months I’ve been fortunate enough to be invited to participate in set of “Emerging Leader” professional development trainings at work. I feel honored to have been selected and have been really learning a lot. One of our sessions was about how to be your authentic self as a colleague and a …
I”m thrilled to announce that I am leading up a new professional learning community focused on Bay Area educators who want to earn the PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification by KQED. We’re calling it the Bay Area Media Literacy PLC (professional learning community.) Getting to work with and support local teachers is one of the …
For the last three weeks, I have been working out of the KQED headquarters in the Mission District of San Francisco. Despite several COVID-19 protocols put in place, such as mask-wearing required indoors, it’s been a mostly pleasant, productive, and even enjoyable experience. A lot of it has to do with how awesome our newly …
I was once at a meeting of various social media managers for different Bay Area non profits. Each manager was giving an update on their work and bragging about how many “impressions”, “clicks” and “millions of views” their stuff was getting. The social media manager at my organization got up and talked about how little …
As we get close to summer, this is a time when normally we would be prepping for educator workshops, seminars, and conferences. While in-person events are still a ways off, we are starting to get invited to speak at more virtual events over the next months. I’m honored to get to talk about our work …
In November, my manager Randy Depew and I gave a lightning talk for the virtual Open Education Conference. Our topic was “KQED Media Academy: Designing Open PD that is Open to All Educators”. It was a great opportunity for us to talk about how we have designed our KQED Media Academy courses to be as …
From a teacher friend. TLDR; even imperfect but heartfelt actions of compassion can effect your students in ways you may never know. The day after the Capitol Riots, I was sitting in my classroom before school, and I got a phone call from another math teacher. He wanted to know what I was going to …
As anyone who knows me for five minutes knows, dance is a big part of my life. But rarely does it leak into my professional life! Last week I has the pleasure of co-facilitating a workshop for 20 dance teachers on how to support youth-created dance videos for KQED Education. Specifically, my colleague Teresa and …