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85. Rev-Up Your Leadership: Featuring Jorge Valenzuela
FromAspire to Lead
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29 minutes
Released:
Jan 26, 2020
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Podcast episode
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What if someone came to you and offered you a job that was different than what you had planned for your leadership journey? This week’s guest, Jorge Valenzuela, shares how one job offer changed the trajectory of his leadership career forever. Tweet ThisIn this Episode, we discuss:Important skills our students need to possess How robotics is for every subjectThe importance of joining a teamThe Teach Better NetworkAnd Rev Up RoboticsFollow Jorge Valenzuela:Website: https://www.lifelonglearningdefined.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/JorgeDoesPBLInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jorgedoespbl/?hl=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LifelongLearningDefined/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgedoespbl/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpFCeG0NRHLcReqg9cdZEjg/featuredTeach Better Speakers Network: https://www.teachbetter.com/speakersnetwork-jorgevalenzuela/About Jorge Valenzuela:Jorge Valenzuela is an adjunct professor at Old Dominion University and the lead coach at Lifelong Learning Defined. He’s also a national faculty member for PBLWorks, a publishedresearcher, and an avid blogger, with his work featured in USA Today, Mediaplanet USTA, Edutopia, ISTE, eSchool News, Tech & Learning, PBLWorks, and on Medium. His work helpseducators and learners understand and implement computational thinking, computer science, STEM/STEAM, and project based learning. Valenzuela is a recipient of the ISTE Computer Science Excellence Award and STEM Excellence Awards. He also earned the Lynn Barrier Engineering Leadership Award for his contributions to STEM education in the Commonwealth of Virginia.Book: Rev Up Robotics: Real-World Computational Thinking in the K–8 Classroom Go Community![caption id="attachment_2270" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Better Leaders Better Schools[/caption]This community is one of my favorite one-stop-shop tools to engage with other amazing school leaders. I use this online resource to gain insight, gather resources, and develop my leadership capacity.The #1 Leadership Online community is generous and authentic, an antidote to the clutter and noise that other social media sites have become.What makes this community different is that it is:An investment, not freeA private community with the same goalA conversation, not a variety of self-promoting presentationsEvergreen, not...
Released:
Jan 26, 2020
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Podcast episode
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