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Conversations from ISTE Live with Stephanie Howell · Integrate This! Ed Tech Podcast

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  Hey, welcome to the integrate this a tech podcast.
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  I'm David Byrne joined by Stephanie Howell very
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  excited to have Stephanie on Stephanie is the
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  education strategist for school AI Spent on the
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  podcast before I got a chance to talk And so
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  let's talk about is the first real quick because
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  it's the last day Last day we made it. Yeah,
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  and and while it was refreshing and and great
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  and everything We're hitting the downslope, right?
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  Yeah, but As you went through the conference
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  and everything, how was your experience the whole
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  time? My conference experience was amazing. It's
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  great to see people that you talk to virtually
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  or Marco Polo each other back and forth. And
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  so seeing those folks in person in real time
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  and like hugging them and touching them, that
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  sounds really bad. But, you know, just being
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  able to see people is a whole new experience.
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  And that's just what fires me up about ISTE is
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  those connections. And you know, a lot of people
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  are coming to ISTE. So this is like the conference
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  if you want to see all your people. Yeah. Yeah,
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  and that's like for us, too I mean we we only
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  met online. Yeah, so yeah, so it's nice to actually
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  be in person know that we're each real Like oh,
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  you're not AI. Yeah How many years have you been
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  coming to see us since 2018? Okay, so the first
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  one was Chicago So is that yeah, it was okay.
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  Awesome. And then we should call us overwhelmed
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  Yeah. Linking back and like the layout of Chicago
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  was a little different. Also the session rooms
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  would fill up and so I'd be waiting in line.
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  Where here, I felt like I was able to get in
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  most sessions which was really appreciated because
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  in Chicago you were waiting if you wanted to
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  go to like a session. It was just not fun waiting
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  in line. Yeah. And yeah. Yeah and at that time
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  were you doing sessions? No, okay. Yeah, I was
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  just attending Yeah, it was the year that we
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  won. It sees distinguished district and so we
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  were going to get the award My boss has gone
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  for years and I was new to the role. I was right
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  out of the classroom and so I was like What are
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  these people? And why are they so excited? Yeah,
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  right. And now you're doing sessions and you're
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  in the expo hall, right? Can you talk a little
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  bit about the sessions that you did while you
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  were here? Any that you want to highlight? Yeah,
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  some of the sessions that I did love the poster
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  sessions because you have a giant poster that
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  you get to make and we print it off at Walgreens.
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  And then you can present about it. So that session
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  was all about me, Ethan Malik's work and how
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  he's using AI. And so like the four different
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  phases of AI as a tutor, as a coach, as supporting
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  student learning. And so really talking with
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  people because posters are where they come up
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  to you, you have a conversation with them. And
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  we were able to just kind of say, what's going
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  on in your district with AI? And from there,
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  we were able to have conversations of, you know,
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  the prompting. You can make it a coach if you
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  prompt it this way. You can make it a tutor if
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  you prompt it this way, you know, in that kind
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  of language. So that session was really cool
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  just hearing from other people and learning from
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  others and not just me presenting, but listening
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  to what they're doing. And then I had a couple
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  of different playground sessions. So those are
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  kind of similar to posters, but you have a table.
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  And so I'm sitting at a table with Greta, who's
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  my co -present. and we're just kind of sharing
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  different resources about visible learning. We
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  talked about poetry and storytelling, which was
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  really cool. We had a lot of STEM folks coming
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  up and we were like, do you use poetry with STEM?
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  And they're like, no, but we want to. And so,
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  you know, that was kind of a cool way to kind
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  of think through poetry and talking through that
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  kind of work. Also had like the hour long interactive
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  sessions as well. So I did questions to creation
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  where we talked about how students will research
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  in a school AI space. And then they take the
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  research that they learned in that space from
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  interviewing somebody. and then they apply it
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  through creation using Adobe. So like Adobe Podcasts
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  or Adobe's newsletter templates or videos. And
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  so that was a fun one that I did with Melissa
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  Kincaid. And then I did a, I'm gonna say it wrong,
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  Hearts, Humor, and Hustle with Kat Crawford,
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  who's the lunch lady, if you don't know that.
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  And then Manny from Edpuzzle as well. And so
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  we were talking just about the heart that teachers
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  put into teaching and sharing stories from our
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  experience. And then we were kind of thinking
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  through what was the hustle that we had to do,
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  right? What was that hustle that we had to do?
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  And then we shared as a group of their strategies
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  that they were using too. So lots of different
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  sessions, a busy conference, but it was really
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  great just hearing from different people and
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  not just from the United States. There was a
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  very large international presence this year from
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  New Zealand and Egypt and the UK and all these
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  different places and so being able to hear their
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  barriers because one teacher we're talking about
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  parents and how they are working with others
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  and she's like I can't even talk to my parents
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  it's a mentor that she has to go through and
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  I'm like that's good and that's bad right like
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  that's that would be nice to not have to deal
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  with parents all the time as an educator but
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  Not being able to go directly to your parents.
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  That's something that's a dish issue for her.
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  Yeah. Yeah, that's super interesting. And I think
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  they said it was like over 60 countries. I want
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  to talk to you too about so we had Thomas Riddle
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  on as well. And you were doing some interesting
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  stuff with that. You had a book study that you're
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  doing and then the Epcot thing. Yes. Right. So
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  you talk a little bit about that and like what
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  you think of the book and all that. Yeah. So
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  we did a book study with Thomas Riddle and he
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  is incredible. And he does this whole imagineering
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  kind of world with Disney and he just loves Disney.
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  I am not a Disney fan. So I was like, okay, this
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  sounds cool, right? But then somebody on LinkedIn,
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  because we were at South By. So it's a conference
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  in Texas and we were at this conference. That's
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  where I met Thomas and so lucky for that connection.
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  And I think we took a picture with him and his
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  book and somebody was like, we should do a book
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  study on this. And I'm a doer. So I'm like, let's
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  do it. And so, you know, in a moment we had a
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  Google form, we had a WhatsApp group, we had
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  a Google group, Google classroom, everything
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  was all set up. And so what was really cool about
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  the book study is the WhatsApp group was like
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  the community where people could chat and share
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  like, hey, I'm trying this in my classroom, because
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  a lot of it started back in April. So some people
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  were able to still try what they were reading
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  live in their schools and districts and their
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  classrooms. And so We had some folks that could
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  attend the live session. So there was bi -weekly
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  sessions led by Tina. My kids were in soccer,
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  so kids come first, not Thomas Riddle. And so
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  with that, I was able to have an asynchronous
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  group. And so what we did is we created AI spaces
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  in school AI for people to process as they're
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  reading at the end of those chapters. And then
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  I was able to use the extension in school AI
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  and partner people up. And so then people had
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  to partner with talking points. So then they
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  would message each other separately in WhatsApp,
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  email, however they wanted to communicate on
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  a Google Meet. And then they could continue that
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  conversation with that other person. So it was
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  more intimate and not just like a, oh, everybody's
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  on this WhatsApp group talking. So it was kind
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  of cool to have the asynchronous piece, the live
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  session, and then again, like that ongoing WhatsApp
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  group with polls and everything to keep that
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  engagement high. Yeah. And then you did the Epcot
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  thing? I did not do it. the Epcot thing, I went
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  to Game Night. I wanted to do Epcot, but school
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  day I was sponsoring Game Night, so went over
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  there and had some, I did not play any games
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  though. I wish I did, but. I was too tired. That's
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  all right. Yeah. And can you talk a little bit,
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  too, just about your role currently at School
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  AI and the things you're working on? Yeah. So
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  at School AI, I'm an education strategist. So
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  I support districts all over the country and
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  world and region with AI implementation. So my
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  job is supporting with the professional learning.
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  But I also work with tech directors and curriculum
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  directors on how are we going to implement School
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  AI in their district. Every district is different.
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  In Texas, they have Huge districts in Ohio, they
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  have smaller districts. And so it's really trying
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  to just build relationships, figure out, okay,
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  what does this look like in our district? Where
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  are teachers out in this district? And kind of
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  customizing and creating an implementation plan
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  that is aligned with their curriculum, their
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  current resources. So it's not just one more
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  thing, but it's enhancing what's already in place
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  to support teachers with that personalized learning,
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  feedback, whatever they need in that district
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  to really support those needs. Okay, great, and
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  so I got one last question for you. What type
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  of things do you have coming, personally, events,
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  social things, books, anything that you have,
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  and socials to follow, what type of stuff do
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  you have going on? Yeah, I am on social media,
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  so feel free to follow me. I'm probably the most
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  active on LinkedIn. So feel free to reach out
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  on there. Thank you. Just search my name Stephanie
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  how And then I also have a book coming out with
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  Matthew Joseph and his like publishing crew So
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  working through that book getting all those writings
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  out of my brain onto paper and then also I'm
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  trying to think there's anything else. Yeah live
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  in life and Soccer is coming up again soon fall
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  soccer. So that's what's going on with the family
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  Well, thanks for joining us. We really appreciate
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  it Make sure you follow Stephanie on all the
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  socials and and check out the integrate this
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  podcast Also, we did a full episode with Stephanie
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  so you can listen to that right now. That's already
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  up. So thanks