Pandemic Pedadogy: The Conversations

This page will feature videos and other content for teachers who are developing online learning experiences and reflecting on their practice during campus closures.  Please feel free to comment to this page, or email feedback to dpreston@smjuhsd.org. If you would like to participate in a dialogue or panel conversation, or if you'd like to suggests future topics or guests, please email dpreston.learning@gmail.com.

 

AUGUST 1, 2020: PANDEMIC PEDAGOGY WITH JULIETA DELGADILLO
Teachers, students, and parents will be doing things differently in the 2020-21 school year. Santa Maria High School English Department Chair Julieta Delgadillo & David Preston are getting a head start with a wide-ranging conversation about online learning, student engagement, & developing course content. Please see more detailed notes on the blog post about the conversation.






JULY 29, 2020: CONVERSATION WITH BERNARDO GONZALEZ

Teachers who have been in the game long enough know how great it feels to have students return after making their way in the world. In Joseph Campbell terms, this is the hero returning from the journey. One such hero is Bernardo Gonzalez (RHS '13). You can see his 2012-13 high school Open-Source Learning course HERE and the blog he created for it HERE. Bernardo emailed a couple weeks ago to say that, after earning his bachelor's degree at UCLA and his teaching credential at Cal Poly, he is starting his career teaching 9th grade Biology in Sacramento this year, and he wanted to talk about Open-Source Learning to see how he might use some of the principles and tools to help his students. Here is the conversation: