64: Disrupting the "Same Old, Same Old" with Peter Verdin and Bruce Mansfield

<p>Today we are joined by two fantastic educators. First, I will be speaking with Peter Verdin, who is a "movement engineer" at Future Public School in Garden City, Idaho, which is a tuition free, progressively minded lottery-based school. Essentially, Peter is redoing the way we look at physical education with elementary students, and designing curriculum as these students grow older and the school expands.</p><p>Then, we have Bruce Mansfield, is an instructional coach in the Bellingham School District in Bellingham, Washington. Bruce has operated a gradeless system in a traditional environment, and showcases the structure of his course, as well as how he has used portfolios and student letters to obtain evidence of learning. It's a great look at how we can spread the practice of gradeless learning to even more educators.</p><p><br></p><h3>GUESTS</h3><p><strong>Peter Verdin, </strong>the Movement Engineer at Future Public School in Garden City, Idaho, who incorporates place-based and environmentally-focused learning into physical education; host of <a href="https://theotherliteracies.podbean.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Other Literacies</a>; founder of <a href="https://www.movementengineeringproject.com/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Movement Engineering Project</a>.</p><br><p><strong>Bruce Mansfield</strong>, an instructional coach in the Bellingham School District in Bellingham, Washington; former US history teacher of 14 years; a pusher for radical change in assessment via portfolio and student letters.</p><p><br></p><h3>RESOURCES</h3><ul><li><a href="https://theotherliteracies.podbean.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Other Literacies podcast</a></li><li><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1APUDMqBqoyPrvBT844fndPQ5B_4i8MUw?usp=sharing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bruce Mansfield’s course materials</a></li></ul><p><br></p><h3>FURTHER LISTENING</h3><ul><li><a href="https://shows.acast.com/humrespro/episodes/s3-e12-making-the-s