Scott Le Duc

My name is Scott Le Duc. I am an autodidact. I have been a learner all of my life. So, I am in the right profession.

I am a National Board Certified educator currently working at Capital High School, teaching International Baccalaureate (IB) and Career and Technical Education (CTE) classes focusing on arts and technology instruction, specifically music, film, and game design. I have worked as an adjunct faculty at Lesley University, City University of Seattle, St. Martin’s University, and Wuhan University of Technology in Hubei Province, China.

Short Educational Biography

Scott has taught creative and technical arts for over 30 years. He supports students of all abilities to develop their creative voice and educational agency in a co-authored classroom learning community that Brian Eno calls a ‘Scenius’ or collective genius. Scott helps students engage in filmmaking, game design, songwriting, and audio production while encouraging iterative, productive workflows. He is a founding member of the Washington State-based non-profit Advanced Media Entertainment Society (AMES.team), which helps build community between high school students and professional storytellers in the media arts.

What I Do – (slightly snarky version)

I help students develop context-based learning grounded in student agency. What? I help students focus on the end in mind. What? Think problem-based learning. What? Try this … ask yourself, ‘what problem(s) are we trying to solve?’ Start with that, then build the learning experience. With this in mind, co-author the learning experience with students and develop what Brian Eno calls a ‘Scenius’ or learning community. This is what I do.

How I Do It…

I help teachers support students develop their own creative arts voice and agency in a co-authored learning community, or as Brian Eno refers to it, our Scenius or collective genius.  We do this through film, music, and game design, storytelling skill-building through practicing effective collaboration and production techniques. Brain research-based teaching philosophies are embedded in project-based learning (PBL) with techniques like Understanding by Design (UBD), Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Total Quality Learning (TQL), Getting Things Done productivity (GTD), developing a personal/professional learning community (PLN), Scrum small teams management with Trello, arts integration, memory building and recall, learning through mind mapping, storyboarding and pitching ideas, creativity on demand by setting time limits to constrict options, and other relevant techniques. Could I find more acronyms? Yes, I could. Don’t encourage me!

Furthermore…

I showcase tools and techniques for music creation, filmmaking, game development, student collaboration, workflow production, AI integration, podcasting, blogging, organizing online content, social bookmarking, and positive and professional online social media and network use. I support using media creation tools like YouTube, Soundtrap, Construct, Unity, WordPress, Adobe Suite, and more.

My Why

  • (WHY) Share stories to raise empathy and understanding
  • (WHAT) Love is power, power is story, story is sharing, sharing builds community, understanding, and compassion
  • (HOW) Learn effective story structures and use them frequently to connect people

M.K. Gandhi quotes I try to live by…

  • “My life is my message.”
  • “Faith is not something to grasp; it is a state to grow into.”

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  1. Sitting in your WITEA presentation and thank you for it. I have been looking for examples of good presentations so this super helpful. Do you have a resource that has a bulleted boring slideset reformatted into a slideset folllowing the SUCCES criteria? Thank you much for your work!

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  2. I was at your presentations that do not suck session in Wenatchee at the WITEA conference in March. I love!!!! the who am I student example you showed and am going to have my AVID students do that lessson. Do you have a lesson plan or student examples you could share for that amazing project?

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