Hello and welcome to Top Tenn Teaching. We are your hosts, Derrick Crabtree and Kelsey Cansler, and this is the podcast where we discuss all things teaching.  As we promised in the last episode, we are now coming at you with weekly episodes and cannot wait to share some awesome new content with all of you. Be sure you are subscribed to the show so that you can get first dibs on downloading the new episodes each and every Friday. Today in honor of the new year, we are sitting down to talk about our goals for the year. Some are personal, some are professional, and some are somewhere in between, but we hope that this episode will get you inspired to set your own big goals for this year both in and out of the classroom. 

Top Tenn Teacher Tips

• Derrick: Screencast videos - (Screencast = recording video of your screen with audio from a microphone to create a video presentation.) Use a screencasting tool. Screencastify’s Chrome extension works well. Students can create a presentation in Google Slides and then record themselves presenting it. Screencastify uploads the video directly to their Google Drive and YouTube accounts, so the video can be shared with a link or embedded on a website.
• Kelsey: Rock, Paper, Scissors for end of day dismissal.

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Recommendations

• Derrick: Instinctive Influencers podcast. Podcast by two military men who discuss what it means to be a person of influence and leadership. Episodes are available. First two are amazing. Great conversation. Good content for anyone. 
• Kelsey: First Chapter Friday-I’m starting this this week

Quote: “Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” - Mother Teresa