EdCampOKC

What’s your first and last name?

• Brandi Green

What do you teach / what is your ‘title’ at school?

• HS Math

How are you involved in education?

• I am the high school math teacher at Sharon-Mutual High school. I teach Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Algebra 3, Geometry, and College Career Math Ready.

What does your ideal school or classroom look like?

• I prefer a more student lead environment with flexible seating. My classes can get loud sometimes with all the collaboration.

If you were to lead a session at Edcamp, what would it be about?

• I’m not sure, but probably something math related.

Do you have a website or blog?

• sites.google.com/smps.k12.ok.us/mrsgreen/home

Are you on Twitter?

• @mrs_b_green

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What’s your first and last name?

• Telannia Norfar

What do you teach / what is your ‘title’ at school?

• Math Teacher/Department Chair

How are you involved in education?

• I teach Algebra II and AP Calculus at Northwest Classen High School in Oklahoma City Public Schools. I am President of Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics and a National Board Certified Teacher. I help teachers understand project based learning as a national faculty member of PBLWorks.

What does your ideal school or classroom look like?

• Students co-manage and create the structures, environment and learning goals. The classroom is humming with students regulating their learning with the guidance of teachers.

If you were to lead a session at Edcamp, what would it be about?

• How to be an Anti-racist?; Ways we can better involve and inform the community about our schools; student centered learning methods

Do you have a website or blog?

• www.pbl-birdside.blogspot.com

Are you on Twitter?

• @thnorfar

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What’s your first and last name?

• Landry Underwood

What do you teach / what is your ‘title’ at school?

• English I Teacher

How are you involved in education?

• I currently teach at Tuttle High School. I am the English I teacher and one of the Career Exploration teachers. I also have the opportunity of co-advising our Tuttle High School National Honor Society. I love creating student engagement through learning based projects in my classroom. My favorite project is utilizing socratic seminars in my classroom book clubs!

What does your ideal school or classroom look like?

• Lots of involvement- students do NOT learn if they are not engaged/tied to the curriculum. There has to be a buy in for our students and intrinsic motivation!

If you were to lead a session at Edcamp, what would it be about?

• Integrating QR Codes into your lessons
• Leadership Development Mini Units
• How to integrate and implement Socratic Seminars into the classroom

Do you have a website or blog?

• Instagram: @litwithlandry

Are you on Twitter?

• @LandryUnderwood

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What’s your first and last name?

• Steve Gilliland

What do you teach / what is your ‘title’ at school?

• Asst. Principal

How are you involved in education?

• I currently serve as the freshmen principal at Del City High School after having previously served at Kerr Middle School as an AP for 3 yrs. I taught and coached at Jarman Middle School for 8 years prior to becoming an administrator.

What does your ideal school or classroom look like?

• Movement & interaction! The teacher shouldn’t be doing all the speaking. Know your students and build your lessons around them.

If you were to lead a session at Edcamp, what would it be about?

• Restorative discipline
• The Joy of Leadership
• Relationships

Are you on Twitter?

• @Stv_Gilliland

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What’s your first and last name?

• Shane Sanders

What do you teach / what is your ‘title’ at school?

• Assistant Principal

How are you involved in education?

• I support students, teachers, staff, and families as an Assistant Principal inside of Classen SAS at Northeast located in Oklahoma City Public Schools.

What does your ideal school or classroom look like?

• An ideal classroom to me consists of students and teachers involved in active engagement of the learning target. The success criteria may include instructional strategies that allow students to interact with the learning target in a way they reproduce, engage in dialogue or demonstrate in some way, what they’ve learned in their own way. We as the adult simply becomes the “facilitator” FOR their learning rather than the “orator”.

If you were to lead a session at Edcamp, what would it be about?

• “Breaking the barriers of peer observations, instructional rounds, and walk-thru’s.”
• “What I wish my administrator knew”- a Round table discussion.
• “How do you monitor the effectiveness of Formative Assessment in the classroom?”
• Leveraging positive relationships in the classroom: What’s your go to strategy?

Are you on Twitter?

• @edu_sanders70

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What’s your first and last name?

• Shari Gateley

What do you teach / what is your ‘title’ at school?

• Assistant Principal

How are you involved in education?

• I am currently an assistant principal at Irving Middle School in Norman.

What does your ideal school or classroom look like?

• My idea classroom is open, collaborative, and a little bit chaotic. Students are fully engaged in design thinking projects and the teacher is facilitating more than providing direct instruction.

  My ideal school is one that is safe for teachers to take risks, practices empathy, and provides educational equity for all students.

If you were to lead a session at Edcamp, what would it be about?

• What do we mean when we say equity?

Are you on Twitter?

• @ShariGateley

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What’s your first and last name?

• Michelle Waters

What do you teach / what is your ‘title’ at school?

• English Teacher

How are you involved in education?

• I am currently in my 9th year of teaching and have taught English from 6th-11th grades in rural and urban schools. I am also a student myself working towards earning my master’s degree in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum with a concentration in English Education at the University of Oklahoma, and I am working towards becoming a National Board Certified Teacher. I have been a member of the #oklaed Twitter community since 2014. I also own reThink ELA LLC, an educational publishing company that started out as a web design and hosting company in 2001. My goal is to not only help students discover and use their voices, but also guide teachers into a role of amplifying and developing student voices.

What does your ideal school or classroom look like?

• In my ideal classroom, students would know that they are valued and that they have a voice. Each student would have the opportunity to explore their interests through reading, listening and viewing. They would then be encouraged to evaluate and create content to express who they are in relation to the rest of the world, their peers, even themselves. Students would be free to explore without being fettered by high stakes tests and the apathy and resistance that sets in as a result of being told they’re not good enough for years. We would be noisy, but excited to work with each other in exploring the world through print and nonprint texts, and sharing our discoveries through our own creations. In my idea school, the administration and other teachers would all be focused on helping each student grow as an individual with strengths and talents valuable to the world. We would all work together to nurture students as they grow into successful young men and women.

If you were to lead a session at Edcamp, what would it be about?

• I could lead sessions about choosing curriculum and making pedagogical decisions based on knowledge of students, rethinking grading, and rethinking classroom management.

Do you have a website or blog?

• www.rethinkela.com

Are you on Twitter?

• @watersenglish

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What’s your first and last name?

• Ruth Haynes

What do you teach / what is your ‘title’ at school?

• CTE Business & AP Computer Science Teacher

How are you involved in education?

• I teach Fundamentals of Administrative Technologies, Administrative Technologies II and both AP Computer Science courses. I am on the school leadership team, the AP team, the Academy of Engineering team. I am a member of Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Association of Career and Technical Education. I was recently selected to become a member of the State Department of CTE curriculum team for Fundamentals of Technology to help realign the standards and curriculum requirements for the 20-21 school year.

What does your ideal school or classroom look like?

• My dream classroom would be at least twice the size of my current classroom. The computers would be set up in a U against the walls; we would have a work area for teams and a special area for programming our robots. I would have software that will allow me to see what the students are doing and I could demonstrate on my computer and they can follow along on theirs. The curriculum would be from Cengage and online.

If you were to lead a session at Edcamp, what would it be about?

• Since I am on the ODCTE teams for Business course curriculum and Computer Science, I would like to meet with teachers of these subjects to get their input for possible changes to the programs.

Are you on Twitter?

• @rehaynes91

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What’s your first and last name?

• Shawn Beard

What do you teach / what is your ‘title’ at school?

• Executive Director of Curriculum, Sand Springs Schools

How are you involved in education?

• I have been in education since 1996 and have worked as a science and history teacher, as well as Virtual Academy Director for Sand Springs Schools. Most recently I was the IT Director at Sand Springs and have most recently accepted the title of Executive Director of Curriculum at Sand Springs. I am also a Professional Development Trainer and Certified Google Trainer.

What does your ideal school or classroom look like?

• No desks in rows. Freedom for students to explore, collaborate, and create.

If you were to lead a session at Edcamp, what would it be about?

• Use of Google Forms for Common Formative Assessments or Creating 360 experiences for Google Expeditions.

Do you have a website or blog?

• www.techycoach.com

Are you on Twitter?

• @SBeard1

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