Added to Professional Associations/Affiliations

Added 2019 designation as 2019 examiner to the Professional Association/Affiliation

This past year I have completed the necessary paperwork and training to be recognized by the Midwest Excellence Institute as a Midwest Quality Award Examiner.

Learn More about MEI and the Baldrige process here.

Featured in St. Louis Post Dispatch article on EdHub Fellowship

Seen Here: https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/at-new-edhub-stl-startup-entrepreneurs-and-teachers-work-to/article_91a23220-15b9-52c9-83ca-574e11d2dddd.html

"Still, Chris McGee, an administrator in Affton School District and himself a self-proclaimed tech geek, heard about the Venture Café gatherings early on and decided to check them out.

“I remember going and being dumbfounded that people were sharing expertise,” said McGee, who was a classroom teacher for 11 years before moving into school administration. “Thursday night gatherings of Venture Café were my first entrance into what the world outside education was and could be.”

McGee wasn’t the only one who saw the promise that a dedicated collaborative space could hold for educators.

About a year ago, Mathews began speaking with researchers, school district personnel and community leaders about what would become Venture Café’s latest effort: EdHub STL.

“We wanted to see if what was being done in the entrepreneurial space could work in education space. It’s a place for people to use — not to tell them what to do, but to support and facilitate people who are already doing the programming,” he said."

Featured Interview TLC Podcast: Deprivatizing Professional Learning

Keynote Speaker and Featured Presenter #AppleTeacher KC

Keynote: Building a Culture of YES!

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Workshops:

Appy Hour: Content located here

Keynote Workshop: Content Located Here

iMovie Workshop: Content Located Here

Conference Website

Keynote and Feature Presenter at Poplar Bluff

Presented to the Poplar Bluff School District

Keynote Presentation: "Building a Culture of Yes!"

Breakout sessions:

1.  Last Year Called They Want Their Lesson Plan Back
2.  BreakoutEDU
3.  Google Timelapse
4.  Powersearching
5.  Building your PLN

Completed Courses for "Apple Teacher" Certification

Presentations for Spartanburg Technology in Two Conference

Below are the resources shared at the Spartanburg 2: Technology in Two conference held on June 2 at Boiling Springs Elementary School.

8:30 - 9:30

What Happens when they Google you?

 Presented by Dr. Chris McGee, Connected Learning

Have you ever Googled your own name? Most people have at some point, and there's a good chance your students, colleagues and future/past employers have Googled your name, too. Make sure what they find about you in Google is what you want them to find.  Whether this workshop is for you, or will serve as a unit plan for helping students create their own online presence you will learn these key facts:

1. SEARCH RESULTS. How do they work? How can I impact them?

2. SILENT DIALOGUES. What do people think when they see your results?

3. IMMEDIATE ACTION. Are people compelled to click and explore you further? How can they?

4. CONTACT. After people have Googled you, reacted and taken initial action, this is the crucial component.

It’s when you compound attraction with outreach. Because ideally, you’d like people to email, call or reach out to you in SOME way. Building an online brand is no longer an option in our digital generation, search results speak loudly, are yours saying the right thing?

Slides:


9:45 - 10:45

Last Year Called They Want Their Lesson Plans Back, Transitioning your Classroom into the 21st Century 

presented by Dr. Chris McGee, Connected Learning

As teachers we plan units.  We plan units because that's the way we've always packaged our learning.  What if we did it differently?  Let's identify the things that are the problems that confine us in our units, identify key ways we can rethink packaging learning and provide amazing, unique, innovative experiences where learning is the focus and students drive classroom experiences.  Come to this session expecting to participate, be pushed and tap into amazing resources.  Last year called, they want their lesson plan back.

Slides:


11 - 12

Character & Digital Citizenship in the Classroom 

presented by Dr. Chris McGee,

Character education is a learning process that enables students and adults in a school community to understand, care about and act on core ethical values such as respect, justice, civic virtue and citizenship, and responsibility for self and others.  Often when we get behind a keyboard, those virtues disappear.  Let’s learn more about the online space and how to provide student opportunities to learn digital citizenship in settings that are supportive to learning.

Slides:

1 - 2

Tech Tools for School Leaders 

presented by Dr. Chris McGee, Connected Learning

School leaders have the difficult task of staying up to date with cutting edge learning technologies and systems, as well as leading a building.  At the core of those tasks is productivity.  This session will focus on increasing your productivity using tools and resources from the world’s top companies.  We’ll focus on managing your to-do list, email, funneling, tracking progress and the latest trends in educational technology.  Come ready to let go of old habits and build in new ideas to maximize your productivity.

Slides:

Coordinator Evaluation

Was recently evaluated for my role as a Curriculum Coordinator for Science and Social Studies.

Strengths Included:

To see the full report click here.

Kolbe B Results

Complete results located here

Takeaways:

I am best suited for a job that ask me to "manage rapidly changing priorities, testing the waters and taking qualified risks to succeed."  I am "not ideally suited for a systematic worker who needs to act according to standard procedures, but rather for one who willingly takes calculated risks."

My current role as Curriculum Coordinator for Science and Social Studies and Educational Leader Intern for Edgar Road School uses my strengths in the following ways:

Learn more and complete your own Kolbe Assessment here: http://www.kolbe.com/

Featured Speaker: Teaching and Learning with the iPad Conference

Seen here: http://www.tlipad.com/speakers.html

Sessions include:

FULL DAY: Formative Assessment using Google Apps

1 hour: Powersearching

1 hour: #Appy Hour

1 hour: Formative Assessment using Google Apps

Resources and slides posted on Programs and Presentations Page

Presented to Maryville University

I presented to Freshman as a part of their seminar class: "What would happen if they Google'd you?"

Updated Programs and Presentations

Presented 1/2 day and 1 hour workshop on "Ways to Rock Formative Assessments with Google Apps"

Blog post draft

Slides:

Updated Community Service Page

Serve on the "Teacher Education Department Advisory Board" for Webster University.

Kolbe Index

Completed Kolbe Assessment

Results below:

FULL results located here

Designation Changed from Google

In an effort to rebrand and streamline Google is changing the designation of "Google Certified Teacher" to "Google Certified Innovator"

See documentation here:

Posted on Webster University School of Education Blog

Recognizing the Outstanding Alumnus from the School of Education

See the blog post here: http://webstersoe.blogspot.com/2015/05/meet-school-of-educations-2015.html


Webster University School of Education: Meet The School of Education's 2015 Outstanding Al...: Meet The School of Education's 2015 Outstanding Alumnus: Dr. Chris McGee by Dean Brenda Fyfe Saturday, May 9th was Webster's 9...

Article Published on Edutopia

An Insiders guide to Edcamps!

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/an-insiders-guide-to-edcamps-chris-mcgee

Updated Awards and Honors: Champion for Democracy

Updated Awards and Honors page.

Named "Champion for Democracy" by the Citizenship Education Clearing House (CECH and MY LOGO) at UMSL for work created in 3rd grade local government

Updated Programs and Presentations - Keynote Speaker Gifted Association of Missouri

Keynote speaker

Maryville University
Gifted Association of Missouri

Topic: Putting Kids' Ideas First

Slides located here

Evaluation

Updated Programs and Presentations: Keynote Webster University

Added Keynote Presentation:

Presented on Leadership and my time at Webster University to Student Leadership Convocation.

@websteru alum @cmcgee200 speaking to student leaders today in sunnen lounge!
— Webster SGA (@STLWebsterSGA) February 6, 2015

Resources and Slide deck handouts found here.