3 essential characteristics of teacherpreneurs. If we want to innovate and progress in education, we need to level up a little every day, connect with excellence, and personalize learning. Opening presentation at Grand Canyon University.

1. with Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher

2. Our Hosts: Grand Canyon University

3. 21st Century Living & Learning:
Excite #1
@coolcatteacher
Vicki Davis
vicki@coolcatteacher.com
www.coolcatteacher.com/phm

4. Essential Questions: Excite 1
What is a teacherpreneur?
What are examples of
teacherpreneurship?
What are 3 essential mindsets of
successful teacherpreneurs?

5. “…you can’t just drop new
innovations into a classroom
and hope that the instructor
will invent effective ways to
use them. To fully utilize a
new teaching technology, you
often need to invent new
teaching practices as well.”
John Seely Brown, Visiting Scholar, University of
Southern California
Gamifi-ed Project:
An Intergenerational Learning Community
http://gamifi-ed.wikispaces.com
Westwood Students (9th graders) &
Masters Students from University of Alaska Southeast &
Gamifi-ed MOOC
Part 1: How has writing
been reinvented?
Reinventing Writing
Hashtag: #KCDTTL
@coolcatteacher

6. http://flickr.com/photos/prittibaby/477057343/

7. Teacherpreneurship
“Finnish teachers pick books and customize lessons as they
shape students to national standards… ‘. In Finland, the
teachers are the entrepreneurs," says Mr. Schleicher, of
the Paris-based OECD, which began the international
student test in 2000.’
“What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart”
The Wall Street Journal
By ELLEN GAMERMAN
February 2008
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB12042535506560199
7.html
Teacherpreneurship: Boost
learning in the classroom
p 45-47

8. years
To get to 50 million subscribers

9. years
To get to 50 million subscribers

10. years
To get to 50 million subscribers

11. years
To get to 50 million subscribers

12. days
To get to 50 million subscribers

13. days
To get to 50 million subscribers

14. How can we keep up in the face
of such rapid change?

15. Teacherpreneur Mindset #1

17. B
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19. The power of Three! Pick three

20. Eat a
watermelon

21. Not
whole!

22. Small
bites!

25. ITEMIZED BILL
For placing “x” on gauge $ 1.00
For knowing which gauge
to place the “x” on $9,999.00
Brian Tracy,
Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life,
Double Your Production and Achieve All Your Goals, p 8
Read

27. Will you be ok
with teaching the
same year 30
times
-or-
30 years with
each one better
than the last?

29. TEAMS
“Working with
people across the
world has challenged
me.”
“The majority of my partners
wanted to contribute
something
meaningful to the
project.”
Horizon Project Students
http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com

30. Classroom Wiki (2005) K12 Online Conference
Teacher Collaboration
Wiki (2006)
Flat Classroom™ Project
(2006-2012)
Horizon Project (2007-
2008)
Digiteen Project (2007-
2012)
Digiteen Island in Open
Sim (2008-2010)
Arab Israeli Conflict
Simulation (2009, 2011,
2013)
Flat Classroom
Conference – Doha,
Qatar (2009)
NetGenEd Project
(2009-2013) – with Don
Tapscott
Flat Classroom Live at
ASB Unplugged,
Mumbai (2010)
India Immersion Project
(2010)
Eracism Project (2009,
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Flat Classroom
Conference China 2011
China Immersion Project
(2011)
Hope for Slaves (2012) Gamifi-ed (2014) Physics of the Future
(2014)
A Global Project Journey

31. 1. Classroom Procedures to improve F2F
and electronic Classroom including better
integration with my LMS

32. Read
Hummingbird
Robotics Kit
Read Invent to Learn
By Sylvia Martinez &
Gary Stager
2. Makerspace
including:
Robotics

33. Read
Makey Makey Kits
Turn anything into a computer
Input!
2. Makerspace
including:
Robotics, Makey
Makey

34. 3d printer
2. Makerspace
including:
Robotics, Makey
Makey

35. Crescerance and MAD-Learn Program

36. Read
The Sphero
Programmable ball
2. Makerspace
including: Robotics,
Makey Make, SPRK
Learning & Creserance

37. Read
Technology Week
Led by my students
For the whole school
system

38. Read
Pixel Press
Video game programming
3. More positive multi
age learning
experiences between
upper & lower schools

39. Read
Minecraft EDU
3. More positive multi
age learning
experiences between
upper & lower schools

40. 4. Inflip teaching
method – “clone
myself”

42. Teacherpreneur Mindset #1

43. 15 minutes
2-3 times a week

45. FIXED MINDSET
A belief that you are
what you are right
now and can never
improve or change.

46. GROWTH
MINDSET
A belief that you
can grow, improve,
and learn

47. Goal Setting Tip #1:
Accurately assess your
strengths and weaknesses
 ““If, like those with the growth mindset,
you believe you can develop yourself,
then you're open to accurate information
about your current abilities, even if it's
unflattering. What's more, if you're
oriented toward learning, as they are, you
need accurate information about your
current abilities in order to learn
effectively.”
 Carol Dweck, Mindset

48. YOU MUST MASTER
YOUR OWN MIND
FIRST
Why we are calling this a global mastermind workshop.

49. Teacherpreneur Mindset #1

50. Teacherpreneur Mindset #2

51. Teacherpreneur Mindset #2

52. Mirror Neurons: Giacomo Rizzolatti et al.,
“Premotor Cortex and the Recognition of
Motor Actions,” Cognitive Behavior
Research, 3 (1996) 131-141.

53. Toxic
Waste
for
Teachers

54. We
mirror
the behaviors of those
we are around.

55. New Research
• Depression is contagious

57. GOOD GOSSIP:
SPREAD GOOD
NEWS EVERYWHERE
Share awesome stories…

58. Connect yourself!
Personal Learning Network / Media Diet!
– RSS Reader - Feedly ,Feedspot, Mr. Reader
– Flipboard, Zite, Pulse
– eBook Reader – Kindle, iBooks, Kobo
– Diigo, Delicious, Reddit
– Listen in – Bam Radio Network, Edtechtalk
– Join Twitter
– Online Conferences
– Networking Organizations

59. Teacherpreneur Mindset #2

60. Teacherpreneur Mindset #3

62. Do you see any
numbers?

63. Every snowflake is different
Wilson Bentley -
http://snowflakebentley.com/

64. “Santa’s Motto”
in my childhood
home
“If you
believe
you
receive.”

65. Study of Expectations
• 20% of students in the student were said to have “unusual potential for
intellectual growth”
• Three teachers selected were told they were selected because they were
the best in the school
Rosenthal, R., and Jacobson, L. (1968). Pygmalion in the classroom: Teacher
expectation and pupils' intellectual development'. New York: Rinehart and
Winston.
Read

66. At the end of the school year
• Led the school and district in standardized test scores
• Jumped 20-30% in academic achievement over previous year.
Rosenthal, R., and Jacobson, L. (1968). Pygmalion in the
classroom: Teacher expectation and pupils' intellectual
development'. New York: Rinehart and Winston.
Read

67. Guess what?
• The selections were RANDOM.
• Students were a mix of good/bad/ medium.
• So were teachers!
Rosenthal, R., and Jacobson, L. (1968). Pygmalion in the classroom:
Teacher expectation and pupils' intellectual development'. New York:
Rinehart and Winston.

68. You Believe, You Receive!
“In experiment after experiment, it has been demonstrated that
when teachers EXPECT their students to perform well, the students
work hard and live up to their teacher’s expectations.”
Brian Tracy, Maximum Achievement
Read

71. They are part of this
• Best Wiki in Education 2006, 2008
• ISTE Online Learning Award 2007
• TIG Best Online Project 2006
• WISE Shortlist Finalist, Pluralism
• Open Sim Pioneers 2009
• Finalist Best Wiki 2010
• Digital Youth – Edutopia Winner
• Wall Street Journal, WIRED, Boston Globe, Edutopia
• NCWIT Award winner 2011, 2014

72. The most important “A”
in your classroom
Att-I-tude

73. 2 kinds of people:
Transmitters
Transformers
Dale Carnegie,
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

75. Transformers
“Turn the negativity into
something positive.”

76. Examine
Data Streams
F - alse
E - vidence
A - ppearing
R - eal

77. “The budget
cuts have
become
opportunistic
because we are
having to think
outside the
box.”Jody
Kennedy, Teacher
White Plains Middle
School New York

79. “And you realize that the beauty of our flaws is to accentuate
our better features.

80. Meet Mrs. Adkins
Her secret to
finding
strengths:
3 folders a
weekend.

81. Teacherpreneur Mindset #3

82. 21st Century Skills
21st Century
CONNECTIONS

84. Horizon
Project
2008

85. Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher
9th Grade Students
Westwood Schools
Camilla, Georgia USA
Dr. Jeff Stanzler
Leah Stilman, Eliza Bivins-Fink,
Crystal LaBrosse
University of Michigan
Understanding the Middle East through a
Simulation
http://aic.conflix.org

86. Teacherpreneur Mindset #3

87. Pauline Roberts - Sciracy

88. Aaron Maurer – Map your Heartbreak

89. Classroom Champions

90. Sue Sadler –Traveling Rhinos

91. Gamifi-ed

92. Benefits of Collaborative Writing
 Fosters community (Elbow 373)
 Helps see problems from multiple viewpoints (Howard 10)
 Co-authoring impacts the writing of individual authors (Aghbar)
 Improves Learning Experiences (wolf 2010)
 “Ideal model for constructing, reorganizing and acquiring new
information” (Janssen et all 2010)
 Global collaboration is essential in today’s workplace (Friedman)
 Shorten time required to solve pressing world problems (Tapscott)
Hong Kong 2011
Students edit wiki with virtual partners
Part 1: How has writing
been reinvented?
Reinventing Writing
Hashtag: #KCDTTL
@coolcatteacher

93. Audience is Important
“Technology creates opportunities for students to do meaningful
work that has value outside school, receive feedback on their
work, and experience the rewards of publication or exhibition.”
Peck & Dorricott, 1994
http://caret.iste.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=evidence&answerID=9
&words=audience
Read

94. IT DOESN’T HAVE TO
BE HARD
You can join things already out there.

98. Connect with authors

100. www.edmodo.com
Free, blogging, assignments
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive

101. http://www.epals.com/

102. www.iearn.org

103. ©Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay
Taxonomy of global
connection p 54-56

104. NOT
What are you keeping out?

105. What are you bringing
in?

106. How are you
connecting?

107. Teacherpreneur Mindset #3

108. Read
#geniushour
The Passion Driven
Classroom by
Angela Maiers

109. Read
#invent2learn
Invent to Learn
By Sylvia Martinez and
Gary Stager

110. Hour of Code
Code.org

111. http://gamifi-ed.
wikispaces.com

112. Relative Influences on Learning
District Demographics
School Policies
State Level Policies
School Demographics
Program Demographics
Out of Class Time
Student Demographics
Classroom Impl/ Support
Parental Involvement Policy
Curriculum and Instruction
Tchr/ Admin Decisionmaking
Psychomotor Skills
Community Influences
Classroom Assessment
Stdnt/Tchr Academic Intxn
Curriculum Design
Classroom Instruction
Classroom Climate
School Culture
Quantity of Instruction
Peer Group
Motivational/ Affective Attr
Social/ Behavioral Attributes
Stdnt/Tchr Social Intxn
Home Env/ Parental Inv
Cognitive Processes
Metacognitive Processes
Classroom Management
Wang, Haertel, Walberg, 1997
“What Helps Students Learn?
Spotlight on Student Success”
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED461694.pdf
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

113. Let’s Look at #1
1. Classroom Management
• teacher uses questioning/ recitation strategies that maintain active
student participation
Wang, Haertel, Walberg, 1997
“What Helps Students Learn?
Spotlight on Student Success”
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED461694.pdf

114. PRACTICE DOESN’T
MAKE PERFECT… IT
MAKES PERMANENT
Classroom Management

115. Essential Procedures
• Entering Room
• Exiting Room
• Paperflow
• Being Excused from the Room
• Essential Positions for Teaching and Interacting

117. Today’s Procedures
#1: When I need to get your attention
1. Index Finger: STOP
2. Middle Finger: LOOK
3. Ring Finger: LISTEN
4. Spread the fingers apart: WIN
So, when I say: “Give me a WIN!” What do you do?
I call this “teaching position”

118. Today’s Procedures
#2: Signal for Your State of Mind
• Put your name on your solo cups
• Green solo – EVERYTHING IS GOOD
• Red solo – I need help

119. Today’s Procedures
#3: When you Must Exit
• Put your cup on your chair. If you’ll be right back – green on top
• If you have an emergency and may not be back soon – red on top.

120. Let’s practice interacting
• Turn you chairs and make sure you can face everyone in your group.
This is interacting position.

121. Activity Instructions
• INTERACTING POSITION
• 1. Use your sharpie to write on your cup and put it in the Green
position.
• 2. Introduce yourself by tweeting your name, school to #gcuglobal
• 3. Learn the names of the person to your right and to your left
• You have 4 minutes and then we’ll WIN
• TURN YOURSELF BACK TO TEACHING POSITION

122. What do we do in teaching
position?
• Take notes. Especially things you want to do or learn more about.
• Might send a little Tweet. #gcuglobal

123. Mindset #2

124. Connect with Excellence
 YOU ARE HERE!!!
 Exchange emails and twitter handles

125. with Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher

126. Be a Teacherpreneur
 Today you will:
 Design a project idea with your tablemates.

127. Mindset #1

128. You’ll pick 3 things

129. Mastermind Meetup #1
• INTRODUCTIONS: 8 minutes
• Interacting Position
• Share:
– 1. Your name
– 2. What you teach
– 3. One way you’ve already connected your
classroom –or- one way you want to.

130. Mastermind Meetup #1
• BRAINSTORMING: 10 minutes
• Select a Brainstorm collector
• Your goal: come up with at least 20 ideas
of how students can connect with each
other and the world to learn in an authentic
way. (Can you hit 50?)
• FOCUS ON COMING UP WITH
CREATIVE UNIQUE IDEAS

131. MasterMind Meetup #1
• ACTION STEP 1: Select one idea
– Select one idea that you wish to pursue
– Start filling out the wiki page on your table
number for your idea. (It will guide you
through the steps.)

132. Let’s look at our wiki
• http://gcuglobal.wikispaces.com
• To JOIN:
• https://wikispaces.com/join/MT7CR4J