Always A Lesson's Empowering Educators Podcast

Always A Lesson's Empowering Educators Podcast

By Gretchen Bridgers | Education Podcast NetworkEducation
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  • 136: Edu-Consumption Overload

    Information is at our fingertips these days, but that isn’t necessarily a good thing. It becomes too easy to over-consume information, leading to anxiety, depression, and overwhelm. Avoid the edu-consumption overload by following three simple steps outlined in this podcast episode.

    Quotables
    • The moment you go a mile wide and an inch deep in any facet of your life, you lose your effectiveness and sanity
    • Your brain and body need balance
    • When you consume too much information, your brain cannot sift through it to use it
    • Your kids need to see that there’s power in making choices that are best for ourselves and it might not always be the popular choice, but it’s what is right for our own development and self-improvement

    • Past Podcast Episode Mentioned
      • Don’t let FOMO Steal Your Magic

      • Join the New Teacher Support Facebook Group
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            • Book: Elementary EDUC 101: What They Didn’t Teach You in College

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              This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other educators remain empowered in a career that has a long lasting effect on our future.

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              20 min
            • 135: Importance of Movement with Suzanne Cresswell

              Suzanne Cresswell is an occupational and physical therapist who has worked with unique learners for over three decades. Suzanne works to educate and provide proven solutions and strategies to those that parent, instruct and work with unique learners. By creating an understanding of unique learners and their learning behavior, she helps parents, teachers and the students themselves find the ability in learning disability.

              Quotables
              • The heart is the brain behind the brain
              • Movement is necessary for cognition
              • Ask “How So?”
              • To educate you have to be slightly better than dry and boring

              Tip
              • Incorporate movement breaks into the learning day

              Connect with Suzanne
              • Website: UniqueLearnerSolutions.com
              • Email: [email protected]
              • Book: Unique Learner Solutions: Discover the Ability in Learning Disability 
              • Free ebook: uniquelearnersolutions.com/ebook

              Connect with Gretchen
              • Email: [email protected]
              • Blog: Always A Lesson
              • Facebook: Always A Lesson
              • Twitter: @gschultek
              • Instagram: Always.A.Lesson
              • Linkedin: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
              • Google+: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
              • Book: Elementary EDUC 101: What They Didn’t Teach You in College

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              Why?

              This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other educators remain empowered in a career that has a long lasting effect on our future.

              How?
              • Search for my show in iTunes or Stitcher.
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              33 min
            • 134: Go Slow to Improve Fast

              To truly become GREAT at something, it requires intention, practice, reflection, and time. Effective educators are no different. Tune in to hear 8 tips for how new teachers can transform their novice abilities into accomplished, effective talent.

              Quotables
              • Your hard work doesn’t always produce favorable results
              • “You have to go slow to go fast”
              • Effective teachers blossom in the most unusual of places
              • The process is the most important part
              • Get your head and your heart right and then put your ideas into action
              • You can’t get better if you don’t stop to think about how things are going
              • You want long-term greatness, not just a moment in the sun

              • Gretchen’s Stamp of Approval
                • “You are special today” red plate

                • Join the New Teacher Support Facebook Group
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                    • Connect with Gretchen
                      • Blog: Always A Lesson
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                      • Twitter: @gschultek
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                      • Linkedin: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                      • Google+: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                      • Book: Elementary EDUC 101: What They Didn’t Teach You in College

                      • Leave a Rating and Review:

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                        Why?

                        This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other educators remain empowered in a career that has a long lasting effect on our future.

                        How?

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                        20 min
                      • 133: You Don’t Need a Title to Lead

                        Don’t wait to step up to the plate and lead those around you just because you don’t have a title. The best leaders don’t have leadership titles because leadership is something you are, not something you do. Tune in to hear strategies for how to overcome obstacles that those who lead without a title face so that you can be your best while helping those around you become their best.

                        Quotables
                        • “Bring the deer back to the camp”
                        • “Step up to the plate”
                        • We had to work for it and working can’t happen if you stay stuck and still
                        • Leadership is action; it’s deliberate decisions; it’s in your mindset and in your muscles.
                        • Leaders are givers. Leaders are learners. Leaders are helpers. Leaders are doers.
                        • Don’t wait to be asked. Don’t wait until you have the paycheck. Don’t wait until you have the time.

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                          • Connect with Gretchen
                            • Blog: Always A Lesson
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                            • Twitter: @gschultek
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                            • Linkedin: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                            • Google+: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                            • Book: Elementary EDUC 101: What They Didn’t Teach You in College

                            • Leave a Rating and Review:

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                              Why?

                              This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other educators remain empowered in a career that has a long lasting effect on our future.

                              How?

                              Search for my show in iTunes or Stitcher.

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                              15 min
                            • 132: The Classroom Countdown Conundrum

                              Using a countdown in the classroom can be extremely effective. However, teachers innocently misuse countdowns during instruction. Tune in to hear tips on WHEN and WHEN NOT to use a countdown in the classroom so that student learning is maximized.

                              Quotables
                              • Countdowns create urgency and keep the focus on behavior management so that we can get down to learning
                              • The best teachers empower kiddos to take charge of the momentum of class
                              • Countdowns should be used sparingly or they lose their effectiveness
                              • Going to school for kids is their job

                              • Join the Always A Lesson Newsletter
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                                • Connect with Gretchen
                                  • Blog: Always A Lesson
                                  • Facebook: Always A Lesson
                                  • Twitter: @gschultek
                                  • Instagram: Always.A.Lesson
                                  • Linkedin: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                                  • Google+: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                                  • Book: Elementary EDUC 101: What They Didn’t Teach You in College

                                  • Leave a Rating and Review:

                                    https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/always-lessons-empowering/id1006433135?mt=2

                                    Why?

                                    This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other educators remain empowered in a career that has a long lasting effect on our future.

                                    How?

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                                    11 min
                                  • 131: Slaying the Myth of Differentiation

                                    Differentiation is the latest buzz in education, but the reality of what it looks like in the classroom has yet to be solidified. Many new teachers struggle with providing personalized learning experiences to their students not because they do not understand what differentiation is, rather it’s the logistical, organizational part of differentiation that leaves them stuck. Tune in to hear what you can do today to begin differentiating instruction for your students!

                                    Quotables
                                    • Write everything in pencil
                                    • Differentiation really just means whatever you are doing to help students learn, make sure it’s applicable to where they are as a learner
                                    • Differentiation isn’t something we do for a short period throughout the day; it’s a mindset we have in reaching our kids.
                                    • It’s personalizing the experience so that kids can be successful
                                    • Learning is messy and a constant problem to be solved

                                    • Gretchen’s Tip
                                      1. Content- WHAT you teach the kids
                                      2. Process- HOW you teach the kids
                                      3. Product- HOW the kids demonstrate their learning

                                      4. Join the Facebook Group
                                        • Elementary New Teacher Group (Group 1872455209751203)

                                        • Connect with Gretchen
                                          • Blog: Always A Lesson
                                          • Facebook: Always A Lesson
                                          • Twitter: @gschultek
                                          • Instagram: Always.A.Lesson
                                          • Linkedin: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                                          • Google+: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                                          • Book: Elementary EDUC 101: What They Didn’t Teach You in College

                                          • Leave a Rating and Review:

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                                            Why?

                                            This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other educators remain empowered in a career that has a long lasting effect on our future.

                                            How?

                                            Search for my show in iTunes or Stitcher.

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                                            13 min
                                          • 130: Find Your Own Path with Corey Knight

                                             

                                            Corey Knight has extensive experience in the classroom with technology. After graduating from Indiana University with a degree in secondary education, he became a classroom teacher at an urban middle school in Indiana. After two years, he began working on my post graduate degree which he earned from Ball State University in Educational Technology and Curriculum.

                                            He was immediately offered a job to be a tech coach for the district he worked at, but he kindly rejected the offer in order to stay in the classroom and continue working with students. He has a real experience with students and applying iPad technology in the classroom. While working in the classroom, he found that there was a need for teachers to learn how to apply technology in their classrooms in a meaningful way. The development of Classroom Tech Made Simple is the direct result of that need being met.

                                            Corey continues to teach in the classroom today and enjoys working with students and teachers alike to help make the classroom a fun, challenging, and rigorous environment for learning.

                                            Quotables
                                            • Experience is the best teacher
                                            • Find your own path
                                            • Be flexible
                                            • See a teachable moment and capitalize on it
                                            • Make it relevant to students
                                            • Don’t be afraid to fail… it’s only a bad thing if you don’t learn anything from that failure
                                            • Celebrate small successes
                                            • “Every master starts as a disaster”
                                            • When we get complacent in education, our teaching is lacking

                                            Referenced Blog Post
                                            • Code Switching in the Classroom

                                            Corey’s Tech Stamp of Approval
                                            • Quizlet
                                            • Showbie
                                            • Google Classroom
                                            • Adobe Spark

                                            Connect with Corey
                                            • Website: https://www.classroomtechmadesimple.com/
                                            • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/classroomtechmadesimple/
                                            • Twitter: @coreyleeknight
                                            • Skype: coreyleeknight
                                            • Email: [email protected]

                                            Connect with Gretchen
                                            • Email: [email protected]
                                            • Blog: Always A Lesson
                                            • Facebook: Always A Lesson
                                            • Twitter: @gschultek
                                            • Instagram: Always.A.Lesson
                                            • Linkedin: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                                            • Google+: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                                            • Book: Elementary EDUC 101: What They Didn’t Teach You in College

                                            Leave a Rating and Review:

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                                            This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other educators remain empowered in a career that has a long lasting effect on our future.

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                                            45 min
                                          • 129: Keep Healthy Relationships in Motion

                                            When life gets tough, we need the right people by our side to help us get through it. But in order for those right people to be there we have to do our part and invest in those relationships, regardless of how bad or busy our lives are. Tune in to hear 4 steps to keeping healthy relationships in motion.

                                            Quotables
                                            • Sometimes those friendships are just as necessary in our life as food and water
                                            • Choose your circle of influence wisely
                                            • You can’t expect people to show up for you if you have been putting them on the backburner

                                            • Connect with Gretchen
                                              • Blog: Always A Lesson
                                              • Facebook: Always A Lesson
                                              • Twitter: @gschultek
                                              • Instagram: Always.A.Lesson
                                              • Linkedin: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                                              • Google+: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                                              • Book: Elementary EDUC 101: What They Didn’t Teach You in College

                                              • Leave a Rating and Review:

                                                https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/always-lessons-empowering/id1006433135?mt=2

                                                Why?

                                                This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other educators remain empowered in a career that has a long lasting effect on our future.

                                                How?

                                                Search for my show in iTunes or Stitcher.

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                                                11 min
                                              • 128: Write Your Story

                                                Teachers face some tough obstacles on their journey in the classroom. But those circumstances don’t define who they are as a person or a professional. Tune in to hear 4 steps for how you can write your story so that it has the impact and ending that you dream of.

                                                Quotables
                                                • “Circumstances don’t make your life interesting. You make your life interesting. Write your story.” AMB
                                                • Do not let your circumstances take you down, turn you around or worse… eject you out of the game.
                                                • Your circumstance does not define you, you define you.
                                                • You have to become clear with what has happened and what is currently happening before you can even imagine a healthy path forward.
                                                • You can control what decisions you make and what behaviors you exhibit.
                                                • I didn’t want secrets. I wanted recipes for success.

                                                • Referenced Podcast Episode
                                                  • Bonus Edition- Interview with Nicole Turner

                                                  • Connect with Gretchen
                                                    • Blog: Always A Lesson
                                                    • Facebook: Always A Lesson
                                                    • Twitter: @gschultek
                                                    • Instagram: Always.A.Lesson
                                                    • Linkedin: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                                                    • Google+: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                                                    • Book: Elementary EDUC 101: What They Didn’t Teach You in College

                                                    • Leave a Rating and Review:

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                                                      Why?

                                                      This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other educators remain empowered in a career that has a long lasting effect on our future.

                                                      How?

                                                      Search for my show in iTunes or Stitcher.

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                                                      15 min
                                                    • 127: Classroom Management like PB & J

                                                      Classroom management can be tricky when we react to student behavior instead of setting up procedures. Oftentimes, we let the heat of the moment control our brain and we end up making decisions that hinder student learning. Tune in to hear two scenarios of classroom management struggles where tips are shared so that the problem and solution go together like a delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich!

                                                      Quotables
                                                      • One of the major reasons why teachers struggle with classroom management has little to do with their content knowledge or their passion to teach. It all comes down to clarity.
                                                      • Quiet is not the same as silent
                                                      • Your wording choice has a huge impact on the result of your classroom behaviors
                                                      • It’s not about winning a war of who’s right and who’s most responsible. It’s about helping kids. All day every day.
                                                      • If your solution is hindering learning, you are the problem
                                                      • Every decision we make impacts kids
                                                      • We have to design our learning space and vibe so it encourages students to show up and apply themselves
                                                      • Students need to love learning but more importantly they need to BE ABLE to love learning

                                                      • Gretchen’s Stamp of Approval
                                                        • “What to Do” Technique by Doug Lemov featured in Teach Like a Champion

                                                        • Connect with Gretchen
                                                          • Blog: Always A Lesson
                                                          • Facebook: Always A Lesson
                                                          • Twitter: @gschultek
                                                          • Instagram: Always.A.Lesson
                                                          • Linkedin: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                                                          • Google+: Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
                                                          • Book: Elementary EDUC 101: What They Didn’t Teach You in College

                                                          • Leave a Rating and Review:

                                                            https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/always-lessons-empowering/id1006433135?mt=2

                                                            Why?

                                                            This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other educators remain empowered in a career that has a long lasting effect on our future.

                                                            How?

                                                            Search for my show in iTunes or Stitcher.

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                                                            15 min

                                                          About Always A Lesson's Empowering Educators Podcast

                                                          From the publisher's feed

                                                          Educators, this podcast will leave you feeling empowered with actionable steps to implement into your role immediately. Gretchen shares stories, lessons learned and practical tips. Buckle up for a transformation unlike no other!

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