Who’s Shawn McCusker?
Shawn McCusker is an creator and Senior Director of Skilled Studying at EdTechTeacher. He has 25 years of expertise as a trainer and chief in public, non-public and different faculties. Shawn’s e book Turning into Lively Residents focuses on creating extra significant citizen education schemes centered on actual life experiences the place college students be taught citizenship by BEING residents. It was lately named a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Guide of the 12 months Award.
As a classroom trainer Shawn specialised in Co-taught and Full Inclusion settings that met the wants of numerous learners. His ardour for this led him to make use of know-how in revolutionary methods. After his work was shared by way of social media, Shawn started to journey throughout the US to assist faculties create differentiated and scholar centered insurance policies and practices. His classes and scholar merchandise have been featured within the Journal, Academic Management and the Huffington Put up. In 2006, he was acknowledged as a finalist for the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Educating. In 2016 he was named a High Trailblazing Educator on Twitter by eSchoolNews.
As a college chief, Shawn has been a part of 1:1 packages with each iPads and Chromebooks. That work led him to work with a non-profit who supported faculties and lecturers in underfunded and underserved communities transitioning to 1:1 packages through the pandemic.
Shawn can also be an skilled author. Along with his e book, Shawn’s column “The Tech Savvy Classroom” shared methods for prioritizing digital storytelling, implementing focused differentiation and selling the concept studying must be experiential. Whereas his experiences are numerous they’re tied collectively by a single thought: “In the event that they aren’t actually doing it, they aren’t actually studying it.”
He has been a keynote and featured speaker at conferences throughout the US.
Do you know that…
- Shawn likes to journey and has labored with faculties in 35 completely different states throughout the US. (Let me know if you’re in New Mexico, Hawaii, Alaska, North Dakota or Oregon. These are 5 states I nonetheless want to go to!)
- Shawn used his army scholarship to attend faculty. Enjoyable reality… he was activated on his wedding ceremony day to go and struggle the 1993 Mississippi Floods.
- Shawn likes to hike, however when he can’t get out to the paths, he hikes throughout golf programs pretending that he is aware of what he’s doing.
- Shawn solves a Rubik’s dice in lower than 3 minutes and kinda accidentally discovered the right way to decide locks through the pandemic.
Certifications
- Google Licensed Coach
- Microsoft Progressive Educator
- Adobe Inventive Educator
- Guide Creator Ambassador
- Newsela Licensed Educator
- SeeSaw Pioneer
- Adobe Specific
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- And an entire bunch of others
Methods That Shawn Can Assist!
- Progressive Scholar Centered Work
- Digital Storytelling
- Experiential Studying
- Augmented and Digital Actuality
- Challenge Based mostly Studying
- Civics Schooling Greatest Apply
- Educating Historical past With Expertise
- Program Restoration- Figuring what to do when your initiative has misplaced steam or gone off the rails
How Can We Work With Shawn?
Contact me at [email protected] or speak to [email protected]. I’d like to take heed to what you want and assist you to discover a path to get it!
