This Teacher Life

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Utilize THIS In Your Classroom to Guarantee LOTS of Learning for ALL Students (This is Fun for Teachers Too) Mar 17, 2024

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You are a unique teacher that is bringing awesome ideas to your classroom that help you crush it for kids.

The big question is, do you believe that?

Do you truly believe that your unique interests, skills, and strengths are making a positive impact on people?

In this week’s episode of the This Teacher Life podcast I’m diving into ways to make your classroom full of laughing, learning, and leveraging YOUR uniqueness to unlock new levels of awesome for kids.

I also explain a classroom game that my students LOVE and yours will too.

This episode is exactly what your teacher heart and head need right now.

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How to Build Relationships with Students Using This Classroom Game (This Will Help with March Madness) Mar 10, 2024

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Building relationships with students can be difficult these days.

Our students have changed, their communication has changed, their engagement has changed, and it feels like many of our students have walls.

But what if I told you we could bust down those walls with a brilliantly simple structure.

In this week’s episode of the This Teacher life podcast we talk about how brackets can create conversations, connections, and good classroom chaos.

If it feels like “March Madness” in your classroom, let’s turn that around with this competitive relationship building game that will get 100% of your students participating.

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How to Celebrate Education in Super Simple Ways (I Promise You Will be Clapping About This Idea) Mar 03, 2024

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Classrooms need more clapping than critiquing.

Do you agree?

Sometimes if we want to crush it for kids we need to simply celebrate education and celebrate our students more often.

But, how can we do that when we barely have enough minutes to get through our curriculum and all the other disruptions?

In this week’s episode of the This Teacher Life podcast I share how I use 2 things to boost the climate and culture of the classroom and connect with kids.

These silly, but easy ideas could totally be replicated in your classroom regardless of your subject area or grade level.

Let’s crush it for kids by celebrating education more often!

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How to Make Sure the Next PD Day in Your School is Awesome & Full of Meaningful Ideas (And Not a Huge Waste of Time) Feb 25, 2024

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Have you ever sat through school PD and thought, “This is not what I need right now!”

Have you ever been at a teacher workshop and said, “These ideas are even practical or realistic.”

Have you ever been to a back-to-school event and thought, “This was a waste of time.”

If you said YES to any of those situations, you are not alone.

Teacher professional development is essential, but what we need and want are:

Fun, effective, engaging, meaningful, awesome ideas that can actually be used in classrooms these days.

But how can schools and staff actually create that type of PD?

In this week’s episode of This Teacher Life we chat about how to get the attention of your principal or leader in 2 effective ways.

This positive, podcast episode is totally going to help with your proactive planning for the next PD in your school or district.

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Teacher Gut: Is it Guiding Us in a Good Direction? A Special Conversation with Jack Berckemeyer Feb 18, 2024

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Have you ever tried to make a decision in your classroom or with your students and started to question everything?

Should I say this? Should I try that? Should I go this route? Should I implement this idea?

Sometimes, as educators, we can start to question things and don’t feel empowered to make best practice decisions.

But you may have noticed that your “teacher gut” has changed over time.

Parents, principals, and displeased school boards can change the way we approach our passion and our profession.

In this week’s episode of the This Teacher Life podcast we unpack all of these things with special guest Jack Berckemeyer.

I promise it will was cause you to pause, ponder, and reflect in a good way!

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4 Super Simple Solutions to DECREASE Teacher Stress When Making Phone Calls Home Feb 11, 2024

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Is calling home one of your least favorite things because it creates stress, anxiety, and frustration?

If you said YES, you are not alone and this episode is going to help so much.

Is calling home one of your most favorite things because it creates connection, problem-solving, and solutions?

If you said YES, you are not alone and this episode is going to bring your next calls to new levels.

Calling home can be difficult, but sometimes all we need are a few simple, strategic sentences to save the day!

In this week’s episode of This Teacher Life podcast we explore how to make these conversations more comfortable.

I promise you will be picking up the phone more often (and without growing an ulcer) after you hear this one!

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How to Create HUGE Academic Growth in Your Classroom: STOP Doing This & START Doing That Feb 04, 2024

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Teachers is it time to completely ditch the directions?

Giving students support and help is essential to growth, but have we crossed the education line in how we do that?

There is a big difference between guiding kids into learning and giving kids the step-by-step directions on how to do or solve things.

What does that look like in your classroom?

In this week’s episode of the This Teacher Life podcast I give specific examples of major mistakes I’ve made to get students to give “good products” rather than create “great processes.”

Examples, solutions, and super fun strategies are shared to level up the academic growth in your classroom community.

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