The Chey and Pav Show: Teachers Talking Teaching

For our 4th Bonus Episode, we are featuring authors Gary and Greg Goelz and their book “What’s in your Core?: An Educator’s Guide to Plugging into Purpose and Perspective.” In this great talk, we talk to Gary and Greg about the core principles that help educators get back to their core with teaching.  Twitter: @GoelzBrothers To purchase "What's in your Core": https://www.amazon.ca/Whats-Your-...

In Episode 58 of The Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav talk about the importance of creating a questioning culture in our learning spaces.  Chey and Pav welcome Lindsay Titus, Behaviour Specialist from Rochester, NY for their 3 Enlightened Minutes Segment.   Check out Lindsay in all the following space:  Twitter: @ltitus828 Web: https://www.defineyouniversity.com Facebook: https://www...

For our 3rd Bonus Episode, we are featuring author Craig Randall and his book "Trust Based Observations: Maximizing Teaching and Learning Growth." In this awesome conversation, we talk to Craig about his experiences with teacher observations. We have a fantastic discussion with Craig about the importance of building trust with teachers prior to effective evaluations. Twitter: @TrustbasedCraig Webs...

In Episode 57 of The Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav talk about Creating with Technology. They discuss the many ways that students can go from being consumers of information, to those that interact with content, to those that create content. They make lots of connections to other parts of their lives that seem to have a similar path - such as the SAMR model.  For their 3 Enlightened Minutes segmen...

In Episode 56 of The Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav talk about Inquiry based learning - more specifically, how we can start our units and learning experiences with inquiry exercises.  Chey and Pav provide lots of great anecdotes and ideas on how they have used inquiry based learning in their classrooms. After the 3 Enlightened Minutes segment with Pirate Teacher, Chey and Pav wrap up the epi...

In Episode 55 of The Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav talk about coding, as it is now included in the new Ontario math Curriculum. Coding is something that not many teachers have had the opportunity to be able to teach their students, especially in the younger years. Chey and Pav thought about the ways in which they are able to start teaching students about coding and programming, when they likely...

In Episode 54 of The Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav talk about the stigma of having Covid-19. As a response to an incident that hit close to home, Chey and Pav discovered that there are some unintended consequences to teaching face-to-face during the Coronavirus Pandemic. One of these situations surrounds the scenario of stigmas that get associated with students that might have had Covid-19.&nbsp...

In Episode 53 of The Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav talk about Math and Social Emotional Learning (SEL). The new Ontario Mathematics Curriculum includes SEL as one of the 6 major strands, and therefore there needs to be more of a conversation about what that could look like when embedded in math programming.  Chey and Pav talked about a few different resources they used to direct their conversati...

In Episode 52 of The Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav talk an article that they read on Flipboard called, "New Study SHows Children Learn Better While Studying Outside," by Matluba Khan. The article discusses the importance of students spending more time outdoors while engaging in their learning, whether it's face to face or online.  Chey and Pav talked about how they have, in the past, taken...

In Episode 51 of The Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav talk about the value of professional development that many teachers go through during their summer months. They talk about the shift they experienced from their summers in the past to this particular one that just came to an end. Their summer was so filled with valuable professional development, which has already helped them with the return to s...

For our 2nd Bonus Episode, we are featuring Author Hal Roberts and his book "Make Waves! Be a Relentless, Radical, and Ridiculous Leader of Significance" In this awesome conversation, we speak with Hal about his experiences that led him to write this book, as well as become an amazing leader in the educational setting. He gives us lots of tips and ideas on how to achieve these great leadership goa...

In Episode 50 of The Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav talk about Sir Ken Robinson. Sir Ken passed away earlier in the week, and his passing left Chey and Pav very reflective with his teaching philosophies and ideas towards education. He was a British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts. Most educators would know him from his inspiring Ted Talk entitled, "Do Schools Ki...

Chey and Pav participated in the Back-to-School edition of The Daily Drop-In, with Jeff Gargas & Rae Hughart from the Teach Better Team in early August, and this is the recorded audio from that awesome conversation!  There was some great discussion about going back to school with respect to the Covid-19 pandemic, and there was an epic Border Battle that took place between the two Dynamic...

In Episode 49 of The Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav talk about an article they read called "The Curse of Helicopter Teaching" by Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher. In this article, the authors talk about this concept of "Helicopter Teaching" - the act of teaching involving a lot of coddling of students, providing them with explicit lists and step-by-step instructions with regards to writing, speci...

In Episode 48 of The Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav discuss the need for teachers, administrators, students, custodians and families to Collaborate during this unprecedented time of going back to work. In Ontario, Chey and Pav are preparing to go back to school face-to-face, with no real reduction in class sizes (as of yet). No one has experience with this task and therefore it will be increasing...

In Episode 47 of The Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav discuss their best practices as teachers. They talk about what their fallbacks are, whether it is a certain pedagogy, a certain book or resource that they like to draw upon time and time again, or a particular style of teaching that they tend to extrapolate from subject area to subject area.  They discuss some of the different resources tha...

In Episode 46 of the Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav talk about Sketch Notes! They discuss their experience, or lack thereof, with respect to Sketchnoting prior to learning more about it through individuals on Twitter. They talk about some of the benefits to Sketch Noting, deliberate doodling, visual notetaking, and how it can be embedding into their teaching practice a little better.  Chey a...

In Episode 45 of the Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav discuss some of their concerns about what the return to school might look like. They start the episode by talking about how they should be planning for the start of the new school year, when they don't quite know how they will be returning. Many districts and areas have not received notification on whether or not they will be back in the schools...

In Episode 44 of the Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav explore some of the amazing blogs written by teachers that they have used to help them learn about all things "education."  Chey and Pav highlight the benefits of using teacher voice to express their own thoughts and feelings, but in this episode they focus more so on teachers that are sharing their blogs, and how much we have learned from...

In Episode 43 of the Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav talk about where they find sources of inspiration for their Podcast episodes. They discuss two particular sources, a current events curating app called Flipboard, and an app that allows for easy borrowing of ebooks and audiobooks from the public library called Libby. Chey talks about his use of the Flipboard app. With this app he is able to sele...

In Episode 42 of the Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav talk about The Power of the Book Talk. Chey and Pav participated in a fantastic Book Talk meeting with a group of educators and the author of the book "From the Ashes," Jesse Thistle. During this conversation, Chey and Pav both learned a tremendous amount about the major themes of the book, as well as many other perspectives surrounding the memo...

In Episode 41 of the Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav talk about Moving On ceremonies for students that have graduated during the Remote Learning experience. They discussed how they set up their Virtual Graduation for their students leaving from Grade 8 to transition to Grade 9. The experience of the virtual graduation went from being a very simple presentation for the graduates, to an elaborate li...

In Episode 40 of the Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav reflect on the past school year, and all that it brought forth. They started the conversation by discussing what it was like for them as educators to start their own podcast. They discuss that they have they have connected with teachers all over the world, been invited to participate in conversations and chats that have led to some of the most h...

In Episode 39 of the Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav reflect on the conversations in the past week, in regards to anti-racism and equity. They discuss some of the dialogue and discourse that they have engaged in, coupled with the real pain and emotion felt by so many people in their professional learning networks. Chey and Pav talk about this range of emotions, as well as what it has been able to...

In Episode 38 of the Staffroom Podcast, Chey and Pav reflect on the events of the past week, starting with the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and how it really changed the course of conversations in many spheres, including within education. Chey and Pav touch on many subtopics, starting with the discussion about Voice; specifically their own voice. Chey and Pav recognize that th...