Growth Over Grades: LIVE From IDEAcon Episode 3

The Growth Over Grades Podcast

Listen to our third LIVE episode from IDEAcon in Schaumburg, IL. This exciting episode features Victoria Thompson, Becky Keene, and Andre Daughty.

Victoria Thompson a.k.a. "Victoria the Tech" is an educator, author, speaker and Education Strategist at CDW. She shares about her sessions, which highlight cross-curricular teachers working together, interdisciplinary learning and planning, and a Women of Color in EdTech Panel. Victoria is also known for sharing that "IDEAcon is the Disney World of conferences." You can regularly find her at Disney World, so she knows what's she's talking about!

Becky Keene is an author, speaker, and Director of Operations at insight2execution. She shares about her sessions and gives meaningful insight on using AI that we often don't want to think about. Becky is also an esports champion and shares about how it lends itself to students to find belonging. Becky is known for telling it like it is and you can trust the advice and wisdom she shares. The advice she shares in this episode will change your life!

Andre Daughty, educator, speaker, and creative genius also joined us. Andre was an IDEAcon Featured Speaker. He's the one with the bow-tie if you Google him! Andre shares about his sessions and the climate and culture surrounding this conference. Andre also reminded us that we can never go back to pre-pandemic teaching. We have to find a way to go beyond "learning loss" and move forward. This was such an inspirational episode. These three leaders are experts in their fields and the wisdom they share is valuable. And...it was just a good time to be with good people.

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Victoria Thompson

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