Ted Lasso Your Classroom: Smells Like Potential
Ted Lasso Your Classroom: Smells Like Potential
“Ted Lasso Your Classroom: Smells Like Potential” is an energizing, hands-on learning experience designed to help educators unlock the power of student voice, creativity, and authentic learning. Offered in two locations to provide greater access and flexibility for educators, this session explores practical strategies that empower students to inspire change, share ideas, and connect with audiences beyond the classroom walls.
Participants will discover how blogging, podcasting, storytelling, and discovery-based learning can increase student agency, collaboration, and engagement across content areas. Through real classroom examples and interactive activities, educators will explore how digital tools such as Google tools, Canva, and Screencastify can amplify communication, reflection, creativity, and public speaking opportunities for all learners.
More than just a technology session, this workshop challenges educators to rethink what learning can look like when students become creators, communicators, and leaders of their own learning. Teachers will leave inspired — and itching to redesign their favorite lessons — with classroom-ready ideas that build confidence, curiosity, and meaningful connections for students both locally and globally. By the end of the session, participants will walk away with a redesigned lesson or activity that gives students authentic opportunities to share their perspectives and make an impact.
Date: July 16, 2026
Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm
Location: Somerset, MA
PDPs: 4 Professional Development Points
Facilitator: Dr. Rayna Freedman
Cost: $195
Date: July 22, 2026
Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm
Location: Natick, MA
PDPs: 4 Professional Development Points
Facilitator: Dr. Rayna Freedman
Cost: $195
Rubric Alignment
II-A-3: Meeting Diverse Needs
II-B-1: Safe Learning Environment
II-D-2: High Expectations
IV-A-1: Reflective Practice
IV-C-1: Two-Way Communication
SMARTER Professional Practice Goal
Student Voice & Authentic Audience Goal
By June 2027, I will design and implement at least three learning experiences that provide students with authentic opportunities to share their ideas, perspectives, or creations with audiences beyond the classroom through tools such as blogging, podcasting, presentations, or digital storytelling, as measured by student work samples, participation data, and reflection artifacts.
Lesson Redesign Goal
By the end of the school year, I will redesign two existing lessons or units to incorporate student choice, inquiry, collaboration, and authentic audience engagement strategies learned through professional development, as evidenced by lesson plans, student products, and administrator or peer feedback.
Technology Integration Goal
By May 2027, I will intentionally integrate digital tools such as Google tools, Canva, Screencastify, or podcasting platforms into classroom instruction at least twice per quarter to increase student communication, creativity, and reflection, as measured through student-created artifacts and engagement data.
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