Teacher Highlight: Shawn McCusker – EdTechTeacher

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 instructor and chief in public, non-public and various faculties.  Shawn’s guide Becoming Active Citizens focuses on creating extra significant citizen education schemes targeted on actual life experiences the place college students study citizenship by BEING residents. It was not too long ago named a finalist for the Foreword INDIES E book of the 12 months Award.

As a classroom instructor Shawn specialised in Co-taught and Full Inclusion settings that met the wants of various 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 pupil centered insurance policies and practices.  His classes and pupil merchandise have been featured within the Journal,  Instructional 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 Prime Trailblazing Educator on Twitter by eSchoolNews. 

As a college chief, Shawn has been a part of 1:1 applications with each iPads and Chromebooks. That work led him to work with a non-profit who supported faculties and academics in underfunded and underserved communities transitioning to 1:1 applications through the pandemic. 

Shawn can be an skilled author. Along with his guide, Shawn’s column “The Tech Savvy Classroom” shared methods for prioritizing digital storytelling, implementing focused differentiation and selling the concept that studying must be experiential. Whereas his experiences are various they’re tied collectively by a single concept: “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 in case you are 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 school.  Enjoyable truth… 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 by chance discovered the way to decide locks through the pandemic.  

Certifications

• Google Licensed Coach
• Microsoft Progressive Educator
• Adobe Inventive Educator 
• E book Creator Ambassador
• Newsela Licensed Educator 
• SeeSaw Pioneer
• Adobe Specific
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• And a complete bunch of others

Methods That Shawn Can Assist!

• Progressive Scholar Centered Work
• Digital Storytelling
• Experiential Studying
• Augmented and Digital Actuality 
• Venture Primarily based Studying 
• Civics Training Finest 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 hearken to what you want and assist you discover a path to get it!