“FACILITATING POSITIVE CHANGE”
Tomorrow’s classroom is here today. Schools and classrooms are all being flattened and expanded into a global learning community where no resource, expert or lesson is out of reach. Guest Jerry Blumengarten, known world-wide as the Cybrary Man, shares his “one stop educational shop” and how you can tap your students’ techspertise to engage them in problem based learning that will excite and energize your schools and classrooms.
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We might think we’re engaging students but they could be pretending. Adults must learn how to be more engaged with students than they are with their content. Neuroscience now tells us if we use creative ways to engage students they’ll learn and retain more. In addition, if you utilize these fresh ideas and resources from Dr. Todd Finley you will enjoy teaching more too.
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Self-injury in young people is growing with an alarming number of boys and girls who deliberately self harm. Their pain on the inside is being expressed on the outside and every adult needs to know how to help these young people. There are a number of critical do’s and don’ts when it comes to approaching the issue with students. Professional counselor Susan Bowman explains why they self-injure and shares a number of creative methods for helping them start and continue the healing process.
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The root of kindness is empathy. It gives kindness the fuel it needs to be acted out. It’s important to help students by giving them the voice and choice they need to express empathy. Energetic author Barbara Gruener shares her tips and practical ideas to weave empathy into the lives of young people and gives important advice regarding how we can express empathy for ourselves too. Empathy works so spread it like confetti!
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How can we help difficult colleagues act more respectfully, challenging parents be more supportive, or make rigid policies more flexible? Dr. Allen Mendler offers strategies to help us cope and cooperate with challenging people whether they’re peers, parents, or supervisors. Using his ideas will help you build your resilience when teaching gets tough to reduce stress and experience more freedom.
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It is the quality and impact of our conversations that produces the results we see in students and in the world. . We have to notice when we slip into judgment and positional authority and instead do things “with” rather than teach “over” students. Best selling author Judith Glaser offers brilliant advice for altering our own chemical state to increase bonding and even help students increase their IQ through connectedness.
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Cassidy McMillan is the director & producer of “Bullies & Friends,” an award-winning movie documenting the tragic story of a girl repeatedly mistreated by other students until she took her own life. Schools and others can be held accountable in civil and criminal courts. Listen to this important interview to get valuable tips for both educators & parents to prevent tragedies like this in the future.
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Rewards are about manipulation but students thrive on appreciation and encouragement. Behavior is not a commodity to be bought and sold. There are many default strategies & sayings adult educators must avoid, but what do we say instead to improve behaviors & motivation? Richard Curwin delivers key insights and strategies to meet students’ basic needs of identity, connectedness & power.
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Is your school debating whether to let students use their devices in class? Technology is tearing down walls and it isn’t going anywhere so how you can become more tech savvy? Anyone can be a digital leader as a teacher, administrator or student. You don’t have to be fearful, it’s easy if you know where to start. Guest Katrina Keene offers great tips such as the Tweechme app, leveraging Twitter Chats and Skype Classroom, or creating a Parent University to learn in easy, bite size chunks.
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Join our PLC – PASSIONATE Learning Community and reignite your drive to educate and serve others. No successful person went without suffering before triumph. It’s your personal fire that lights up learning in students and inspires those around you. Tap into your PQ – Passion Quotient to be a passion driven educator in this energetic conversation w/ guest Angela Maiers.
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