Rebel Teacher Alliance

We are alone again this week and there was a lot to talk about! We both started teaching our content 7th Grade World History for @hofmannEDU and Hawaiian History for @findingmyaloha. We talk about how much time we are spending on creating content and how distance learning makes things a lot harder; Fabian’s experience with JamBoard (finally… jeez…); Fabian finds some joy in coffee; and so much mor...

What a blast we had with our guest Michael Matera (@MrMatera). We talked about his origin story, some tips for the classroom, and what kind of a pep talk and advice he would give himself if he started teaching now, and high end cheese powder! This episode is filled with gold that you can add to your inventory! As always, please join us on Twitter for our growing community. Follow us @findingtribep...

Welcome back! Glad to have you! Please, make yourself at home. Here is what we are talking about today: Fabian's first week back to school with students, we talk about Fabian's Choose Your Own Adventure Story (Google Slides), some routines Scott incorporated, taking attendance ideas, a workaround for breakout rooms with Google Meet, why having lunch together as a staff is important, why parent con...

Hi everyone! And we are back at work. Fabian started prepping for the new school year at this new school, while Scott already was able to interact with students and test out some new online classroom management ideas. In this episode we hear a little bit about what Canvas can do, a few things that Scott encountered during is first few days back with students, and so much more. Check it out! And, w...

Hi everyone! Again, excuse the sound quality. Fabian is still recording with his earbuds. This is it: Fabian is going back to work. But before that, he got a chance to watch a couple of Hive Summit videos and talks about Michael Matera's session. Scott talks about his experience  As always, please join us on Twitter for our growing community. Follow us @findingtribepod for our podcast, and al...

Hi everyone! Excuse the sound quality. Fabian is currently recording with his earbuds and Scott forgot his microphone at work. Anyway, here we go: Since Fabian is starting work next week, Scott has a lot to talk about and shares his experiences that normally would fill a week, but that happened to him in one day. He also shares a great resource for showing off his classroom. Find the link below!&n...

Hey everybody! Summer is almost over for most teachers, Scott is in the middle of prepping and attending meetings, while Fabian is a nomad podcasting from his father in law's cupboard under the stairs. Scott shares out his takeaways from a meeting he attended, Fabian shares what brings him Joy, and they reminisce about their last hike before Fabian leaves for California.  As always, please jo...

Hey everybody! This is a short one. Fabian is in the middle of a move and Scott just started his new job. Fabian talks about how not fun packing and moving is, while Scott talks about his experience going on campus the last couple of days. We also talk about a game that we think could be fun to play over Zoom/WebEx meetings. Enjoy! As always, please join us on Twitter for our growing community. Fo...

Welcome back and welcome to our new listeners! Our numbers are growing! So sit down, relax, listen to a fun episode, and become a member of our tribe! This week we talk about what treasures Scott found in his new school, a fun game to play with students for vocabulary review, what our schools' distance learning plans look like (subject to change...), what to do in the first two weeks of school, an...

Hello everybody! Welcome to another episode! We have lots of news to share this time. Then, Fabian talks a little about his opinion on on site teaching, Scott has some observations, and we answer a message we received from a listener with a great technique for solving confrontations in a productive way! Fun episode! Get into it! As always, please join us on Twitter for our growing community. Follo...

Thanks for checking in! This week we have Fabian’s good friend Rob Marsden on the show who is an amazing teacher at Le Jardin Academy, a private school in Hawaii. He explains why he became a teacher, talks about his experiences teaching in Indonesia, what it is like and what he thinks is important about teaching during the pandemic if you are lucky enough to be on site, and so much more! Fabian ta...

Welcome to episode 27! We have lots to talk about, so stop reading here and just listen, tribe member! Scott apologizes, talks about a CostCo excursion and why touching cherries is not a good idea when there is a pandemic, reflects on how he wants to change how he deals with his emotional reactions, Fabian answers a question about Boss Battles, and lots more! Thanks for listening every week! We lo...

This week, Scott and Fabian are talking about some of their favorite childhood movies that might not be super appropriate to share with your little ones, what Scott is reminiscing and reflecting on while he is off for the summer, what Fabian was up to teaching summer school, some tweaks to an activity (@meehanEDU's Anchor Chart Keep Away) to make it work for a (kind of) distanced classroom, and a...

Today, Scott quizzes Fabian about his first week of summer school. He talks about what it is like to teach elementary kids, then move on to high school students, and then back to middle school students in one day; how he started to re-think his classroom game; what it is like to wrangle third graders into social distancing and keeping their masks on; why having a TA is amazing; and more. It is an...

In this episode we finish talking about gamification and discuss a little how it will have to change in the post-COVID classroom. Fabian talks about his summer teaching job and Scott is finally a real teacher. At least on paper.  As always, please join us on Twitter for our growing community. Follow us @findingtribepod for our podcast, and also individually @hofmannEDU (Fabian) and @findingmy...

This week, Scott and Fabian talk about gamification. What is it? Why do it? Where can we find it? This is the first part of a two part series about gamification in which Fabian tries to answer specific questions Scott has about this topic. We also talk a little bit about Classcraft and why it is a great tool to start getting into a gamified classroom. As always, please join us on Twitter for our g...

In this episode, Scott and Fabian talk about the end of the their school year, a neat way of having kids say thank you to their teachers with @flipgrid, feign surprise that middle schoolers cannot give feedback, announce that there is some cool stuff coming down the pipeline pretty soon, and more. Check it out! It's a fun one! As always, please join us on Twitter for our growing community. Follow...

As we are winding down the school year, Scott and Fabian talk about what it is like to be switching departments and starting to plan for next school year, why Netflix Party is a great tool for distance learning to bond with students, the joy and luxury (in a way) of dedicating more time to family, and why Remind is such a great tool for parent communication. As always, please join us on Twitter fo...

Episode 20 guys! Can't believe we have made it this far... I mean we do break up over creative differences every other week, but still... We hear the calls from our fans! So we are back this week with some stories from our current teaching life. We talk about how weird it was to clean out our  classrooms, why this pandemic might make it easier for us as teachers to get guest speakers via Zoom...

Hi everyone! Thanks for joining us and spending time with your two hosts stuck in quarantine in Hawaii. This week we talk about why texting Scott heartfelt messages of appreciation is a mistake, why Vooks is awesome for our pre-school/elementary kids, how to keep kids engaged during distance learning even if it is not a Hyperdoc, how to keep kids engaged during distance learning with a Hyperdoc, w...

This episode, Scott and Fabian talk about what has been going on in their virtual classrooms, some ideas about how to engage your own kids at home, some podcast stats, what a hyperdoc is and ask how we are going to finish out this year.  As always, please join us on Twitter for our growing community. Follow us @findingtribepod for our podcast, and also individually @hofmannEDU (Fabian) and @f...

Surprise! We recorded an episode with Eric Cross (@sdteaching) last Saturday and wanted to drop it early! We are still releasing another regular episode on Friday. Eric and Fabian worked together at Albert Einstein Academies in San Diego and Eric tells us in this episode why the transition from in classroom instruction to distance learning, while bumpy, was relatively successful - hint: meaningful...

Thanks for listening this week! We are in week 5 of distance learning at our school and in this episode we talk about some strategies we are using, websites that work, why geckos poop everywhere but are a welcome resident in Hawaiian homes, and so much more. We can't wait to hear from you, so please interact with us! Here is how: join us on Twitter for our growing community. Follow us @findingtrib...

Hi everyone! Thanks for joining us this week! In this episode we are talking about what is great and not so great about distance learning, why Fabian moved away from his choice board for now, why 5 year olds are a roller coaster of emotions, how to take care of yourself a little bit, why memes are not funny without pictures, what a PIRATE is, and what books to score on Amazon at the moment! ...

Week 2 of running our online classes. Things are starting to become easier. In this episode we are talking about how crazy it is to juggle meetings with sick wives and kids. We also talk about how we brought back our co-teaching class shenanigans to Zoom Meetings, an attempt at motivating students through an "Escape the Death Star" game, and why Scott's fish are plotting to murder him. Tune in, we...