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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Just wrapped session one of Evidence of Inquiry book study & it was awesome. Reflective educators, co-constructed meaning, & a shared Learning Wall in progress. Looking forward to seeing how our thinking evolves. #EvidenceOfInquiry #LearningWalls #ReggioInspired #CulturesOfThinking

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I have always considered reflection to be an important piece of learning, but often placed it at the end of large learning experiences. These are not skills that should be held off until the end. These are ongoing in the process of inquiry. Thank you, Jessica Vance!

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I spent the day at @michiganvirtual.bsky.social with a group of Detroit Country Day colleagues thinking about AI in education with @justinbruno.bsky.social. Thanks for the provocations Justin!

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The Studios were busy on the last day of classes! Have a successful finals week everyone 🧠 💡 🧐#DCDSTheStudios

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I am super excited about the latest episode of Making School Matter. I had the privilege of chatting with a few Detroit Country Day School alum from the class of 1974 about how their DCDS experience shaped their professional lives. Listen to the episode here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

In the XR & Vodcasting Studio, our AP Bio students are creating final projects that blend personal meaning with scientific inquiry. Cancer, cloning, climate change—when science gets personal, the storytelling gets powerful. #StudentVoice #XRinEd #BiologyStories #ProjectBasedLearning

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I hosted Don, President of College for Creative Studies and Aki, Chair of College for Creative Studies-Fashion Design Program in The Studios last week — two visionaries in Arts Education. There are exciting things planned for the near future! #DCDSTheStudios

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I spent the last two days working with these two amazing 6th grade English teachers! 6th graders are researching the global water crisis and planning to share their findings with a narrative Podcast. #DCDSTheStudios

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

New Episode! Nurturing Curiosity: Teaching, Learning, and the Brain, is focused on curiosity, inquiry, and MBE, and was recorded after the last session of our MBE conference with Celeste Mahabir, Airica Clapper, Jessica Vance, and myself. Take a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Detroit Country Day alumni are amazing. I had the pleasure to meet, chat, & learn from Bill Snyder ‘74. Bill coauthored Cultivating Communities of Practice w Etienne Wenger & Richard McDermott. Bill, Harry, & I recorded 3 podcast episodes in 2 days & could have talked for longer! #DCDSTheStudios

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I had a wonderful few days with Detroit Country Day alumni from the graduating class of 1974. Harry Davis, joined us in the xR Studio to share his personal experience of the Detroit riots of 1967 to a student documentary. As a documentary film maker himself, I learned a lot from him. #DCDSTheStudios

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Hanging a few new lights in the xR Studio. Didn’t forget the safety cable! Safety first, everyone. #DCDSTheStudios

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I had the pleasure of dropping off copies of Jessica Vance’s book Leading with a Lens of Inquiry to raffle winners from Detroit Country Days Annual Teaching, Learning, and the Brain Conference. Jessica was our keynote speaker and lead breakout sessions for each division and for our leadership.

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Editing today. I had a great post NURTURING A CULTURE OF CURIOSITY: TEACHING, LEARNING & THE BRAIN CONFERENCE conversation with Jessica Vance and Detroit Country Day’s Upper School Academic Dean and 4/5 Grade Level Dean. A new Making School Matter Podcast episode coming soon! #DCDSTheStudios

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

“It’s not either or, it’s yes and more.” Enjoying my morning learning from Jessica Vance. It’s a good day :)

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Editing a short podcast of Detroit Country Day School student hosts and their exchange partners from Spain during their DCDS Global Community Program. Our students visited Spain a few weeks ago and now their partners are visiting Michigan. #DCDSTheStudios

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Project Claire is my premier as a Virtual Production Supervisor! If you are around to see the premier, it will be showing in Michigan at Emagine Novi on April 12 & 13 and again at Birmingham 8 on April 17th. Buy your tickets here: shorturl.at/lMXZ4

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Teaching friends, join me on March 28th at Detroit Country Day School for our 2nd Annual Conference! This year, my friend and Inquiry leader Jessica Vance will be our keynote speaker and clinician. Registration for the conference closes tonight, so if you are interested, act fast!

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Members of the Detroit Country Day School Sting Media team recorded an intro and outro in The Pod today! We are learning streaming skills using OBS. #DCDSTheStudios

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I had a great conversation with Liz Nussbaum today in The Pod. We talked about agentic learning, personal connections, and Harkness Discussion. New episode of Making School Matter is live! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... Listen, Like, Share, and Subscribe!

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

When I first came to DCDS as the Creative Technologist, I visited U of M Center for Academic Innovation to learn about LED volume, VP, and xR. It has been a great learning experience for me since then. Today, I was honored to host them for a visit of #DCDSTheStudios.

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Join me March 28th for Nurturing a Culture of Curiosity: Teaching, Learning, and the Brain Conference. I am excited to host Jessica Vance for the day! If you around Michigan, please join us for a day of thinking and learning. events.veracross.com/dcds/22-DCD-...

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Not every one of your ideas will work. The important thing is that you have people that will try them with you! Thank you @4salapro and @dcds_school_of_film for the support and collaboration! #DCDSTheStudios #gettingbettereveryday #VirtualProduction #LEDvolume #VPlighting #gaffer #gafferlife

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Part 2 of Running of the Bulls lesson invited our MS mathematicians to #DCDSTheStudios. We virtually visited Spain to join the bulls on their path to the arena while calculatingng d=r•t To collect data on themselves, we went to our indoor field house. Lots of excitement, joy, and math!

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

How far of a head start would I need to outrun a dog that was chasing me? This question lead Ms. Nash’s math class in an investigation in estimation, dependent and independent variables, and graphing coordinates. Ms. Nash prioritizes collaboration and values each learner’s thinking.

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

What an eventful beginning of the week! The xR Studios 2.9mm volume came down to make room for our INFiLED 1.9mm pixel pitch volume. Our new wall resolution is 4096x1280! Can’t wait for students to come back from break to continue storytelling and creating content in #DCDSTheStudios

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Virtual Book Club is back!! This has been a great group to talk about teaching & learning with. We have many international friends join & I always learn through their perspectives. I hope you will join us! @thinkchat2020.bsky.social @vidhyaganesan.bsky.social @yunisantosa.bsky.social

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

New playground, new headshots. Photo credit: Jay Vannatter #DCDSTheStudios

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Episode 2 - Monarchs & Monsters: Exploring Epic Literature in the Modern Classroom, of my podcast Making School Matter dropped this morning! Join Randy Kaplan and I as we explore how creative teaching methods can transform the classroom experience Listen Here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The xR Studio has been a learning experience for me. My latest teacher is Niannian, a freshman and Unreal Engine expert. He generated a 360° environment of a foggy forest in Unreal and together we enabled Renderstream in Disguise to get it up on the LED volume.

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I had the pleasure of co-teaching w Elizabeth Nussbaum, Upper School History teacher, this week. We guided her classes through evaluating effective presentations and intentionality behind slide design.

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Learning with friends from Detroit Country Day School in a webinar titled Belonging and the Brain: Creating Conditions for Student Achievement facilitated by the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning #MBE #CTTL

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I’m bringing my podcast back! I talk with teachers & school leaders about teaching, learning, and engagement. The first episode is w Chandler Tawney, Science teacher. She shares about scientific meodeling process and reinventing AP Biology. Thanks for listening 🙂 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Jessica Vance is joining this year's Teaching, Learning, and the Brain Conference! This year's conference is designed to extend the work of Mind, Brain, Education and align this with pedagogy & approach of Inquiry Based Learning. Please join us! Register here: events.veracross.com/dcds/22-DCD-...

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Jennifer Casa-Todd @jcasatodd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

LOVE the prompt to begin the prompt if you are interviewing AI as a guest in your class. Excellent modeling here as well as a good safeguard for your class. Lots of great learning and conversations with @ericcurts.bsky.social at #FETC

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The first official shoot in Detroit Country Day School #DCDSTheStudios ! I’m having a few growing pains using Disguise but I will get better. Thank you to DCDS School of Film for your partnership and mentorship. More to come!

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

So excited for Detroit Country Day’s xR Virtual Production and Vodcasting Studios to open…next week! #DCDSTheStudios

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Kevin Honeycutt @kevinhoneycutt.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

So we built a cool Minecraftarium out of cardboard and shared a video on TikTok! 4 Million views later... tinyurl.com/minecraftlai...

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I tried a few advanced techniques on a tray I gifted my father-in-law. The body is cherry. I made inlay from zebra wood, maple, & thin strips of paduk - glued into a routed channel. I added splines using black walnut & the same inlay. Sanded to 220 and finished with my favorite, OSMO PolyX-Oil.

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Eric Sheninger @esheninger.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Compliance vs Engagement esheninger.blogspot.com/2024/10/comp... #education #teaching #teachers #studentagency #pedagogy

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

These authors (among others) have shaped my Ed philosophy through my undergrad & masters. I continue to think about their contributions as I become a more experienced teacher. My mother-in-law gave them to me to add to my professional library. #constructivism #ZPD #EdLiberation #EduSky

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I never thought I would get this excited to get a network cabinet. Today marks the beginning of the hardware installation of the xR Studio at Detroit Country Day School #DCDSTheStudios

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

What a wonderful night celebrating Detroit Country Day School School of Film! The students were proud to showcase their short films & the community was excited to watch. Brett Salamin has grown a robust program. I am fortunate to learn beside these students w such creative & dedicated Arts faculty.

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

What a fun day of physics! I went curling with Dr. Hanlan’s Honors Physics class today. DCDS students experienced the phenomenon of friction through play and collecting data for a lab. #honorsphysics #experientiallearning #curlingcanada #coefficientoffriction

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The audio gear has arrived! I’m looking forward to integrating this audio system in Detroit Country Day School’s #DCDSTheStudios in a few weeks!

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Thank you, Becky Carlson for putting together a list of Inspiring Educators! #EduSky

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Ron Ritchhart @ronritchhart.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I've gotten several inquiries asking what the Inaugural Cultures of Thinking Summit will entail so I made this explanatory animation!

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Mike Medvinsky @mwmedvinsky.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I remember reading this article years ago and want to thank Jim Reese for sharing it again today. There are many contributors to a culture striving to create the most effective and accessible learning environments. #EduSky

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Special Topic / When Change Has Legs

Four key factors help determine whether change efforts will be sustained over time.

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