Summary: <p style="text-align: justify;">The gang opens the episode with a little PARCC chatter. Like so many educators it’s not all sunshine and roses when it comes to testing.</p> <h4>Featured Content</h4> <p style="text-align: justify;">Mike Andriulli joins us as our first-ever guest on the podcast! In this episode, we’re talking all about ASCD Empower 2017, as well as conference attendance benefits. Mike shares his experience at the west coast conference, highlighting a session with education power-house, Baruti Kafele, one of the most sought-after educational speakers in the country. Other conference highlights include using math performance tasks, which Mike plans to turnkey to his district in the near future, as well as personal conversations had during down times. Mike’s biggest regret/criticism was his inability to attend all the sessions he wanted to attend; the offerings were so robust that he could have easily attended more than one offering per session — <strong>we should all have that problem!</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Mike goes on to discuss his role in bringing new strategies to the teachers of his district and passionately shares his views that it is NOT ok for teachers to say, “I’m just not a math person.” We hope you enjoy our conversation with Mike as much as we did.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Mike Andriulli is the Supervisor of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, at Hillsdale Public Schools (NJ). </b><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A former elementary and Math teacher, Mike has degrees from both Rowan University and Ramapo College. He is a well-respected educational leader with experience in curriculum design, staff development, and technology integration. Mike is also a member of the North New Jersey Chapter of ASCD.</span></i></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><a class="twitter-follow-button" href="https://twitter.com/MikeAndriulli">Follow @MikeAndriulli</a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-351 size-large" src="http://podcastpd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/podcastpd-sketchnote-006-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="705" height="529"></p> <h4>Links and Resources</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.ascd.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ASCD</a></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Baruti K. Kafele – <a href="https://twitter.com/principalkafele" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@PrincipalKafele</a>, <a class="u-textUserColor" title="http://www.PrincipalKafele.com" href="https://t.co/ZVTCkhfLmG" target="_blank" rel="me nofollow noopener">PrincipalKafele.com</a></span></li> <li> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Mathematical Mindsets – </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2ooHulL"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://amzn.to/2ooHulL</span></a> </li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Denis Sheeran – <a href="http://twitter.com/MathDenisNJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@MathDenisNJ</a>; <a class="u-textUserColor" title="http://denissheeran.com" href="https://t.co/OqWAgLxv2O" target="_blank" rel="me nofollow noopener">denissheeran.com</a></span></li> <li><a href="http://alwaysalesson.com">Gretchen Bridgers – Always A Lesson’s Empowering Educators Podcast</a></li> </ul> <h4>What We Are Learning</h4> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>AJ</strong> is continuing to research and learn about ways to help students create a growth mindset and change the culture of the middle school social studies classroom. He is also taking the time</p>
