This is the second in a four part series on how we can build stronger children and stop repairing broken adults. today Ji talks about the importance of accountability and responsibility and how when a child is left to themselves a negative attitude can begin to develop which can be carried over into adulthood. To accompany this podcast Jim is making his book "The Real 3R's: Respect, Responsibility, and Resilience available to his listening audience for just $2.99. Just click the link below. 

The Real 3R's 

What If The Frankenstein Monster Was Really A Nice Guy?

"It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Fredrick Douglas. How true, as a follow-up to my episode on the Frankenstein Monster I present to you a 4 part series on how we can build strong children and why it is far more difficult to mend children who lack the qualities of respect, responsibility, resiliency, and compliance. "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." Theodore Roosevelt. This content provides the listen with the content necessary to help our children/students developer respectful thoughts, words, actions, attitudes, and motives. In the episode description I am including a link to my book "The Real 3R's In Education: Respect, Responsibility, and Resiliency. The book is now on sale for 2.99. 

The Real 3R's: Respect, Responsibility, and Resilience

Sometimes in order to be supportive of our kids we need to listen more than we speak. Attention is a commodity and all kids want it but with that attention could come a host of socially related issues. Taking the time to help our children become more socially resilient will help them now and down the road. I have taken the time to curate the article that i have linked below and think that you will find this episode an excellent listen. 

I also speak in this episode about the importance of taking care of yourself and becoming more aware of your health and genetics. In my case i speak of the cardiac calcium score which has been proven to be a good predicter of a heart attack or stroke. Please pay attention to this section of the podcast as it could save your life. 

Article on Social Resilience

The Bully Proof Classroom

What If The Frankenstein Monster Was Really A Nice Guy

Cardiac Calcium Scan

It is very difficult for victims to forgive, but an angry victim may only seek revenge at a later time on his own. Bullies need to learn how to ask for forgiveness, victims need to accept it. We can be an example by asking for and receiving forgiveness ourselves.

Dr. Frankenstein creation was put together with used body parts from corpses that were buried in a graveyard. The head was that of a criminal who was just executed for his crimes by hanging and the brain used was referred to as abnormal. (It was from a murderer) The perfect head (maybe) and the brain they needed. Well suppose that brain wasn’t that of a criminal. Suppose it was the brain of a college graduate who was wrongly executed. Suppose the brain was from a father of three with an IQ of 140. Suppose the head was from a handsome Brad Pitt looking fellow that all the girls just went crazy for. This would make quite a story and today Dr. Frankenstein would be on the cover of Time Magazine showing off his newly created friend. I have created a lesson plan for you to use with this podcast and would encourage you if you are a teacher or maybe even a parent to solicit some answers and try and determine how your student's or children would deal with the differences associated with a laboratory creation today. 

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The Power Of Consistency

The Teacher's Survival Guide

The Peak Performing Teacher

 Kids are going to disagree whether we like it or not. Giving your students a voice helps to reduce anger. The idea here is that “attitude is everything.” Too often kids, when they disagree, will personalize the disagreement, resulting in name-calling or the berating of others. Often bullies will use their power to force their victim into submission. Teaching students the right way to disagree with each other builds confidence, boundaries, and maturity. It helps both the bully and the victim.

The Power Of Consistency

The Teacher's Survival Guide

Find Them Both At: The Bully Proof Classroom

It was my pleasure on Tuesday to interview Mike Kuczala. His bio speaks for itself; and I have had the pleasure of working with Mike for almost 20 years. Please click on the links below for information about Mike's new book and his website, as well as important Information about The Regional Training Center. 

Mike Kuczala has delivered keynotes, given presentations, facilitated professional development and taught graduate courses on 4 continents. His presentations, courses, books and videos have reached more than 100,000 teachers, trainers, corporate executives and parents.  He is also the coauthor of the Corwin Bestseller and Association of Educational Publishers’ Distinguished Achievement Award nominated, The Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning through Movement, a book and philosophy that has changed the view of teaching and learning around the world.  Mike’s 2nd book, Training in Motion: How to Use Movement to Create an Engaging and Effective Learning Environment, was released in 2015 (AMACOM) and Ready, Set, Go! The Kinesthetic Classroom 2.0 (Corwin) was released in the summer of 2017.  His 4th book, The Peak Performing Teacher: 5 Habits for Success (Corwin) was released in February of 2022. President of Kuczala Consulting and Academic Director for the Regional Training Center, Mike's SRO presentations have been experienced in such diverse settings as The Educational Collaborative for International Schools, The East Asia Regional Council of Schools, The Francis Marion University Center of Excellence to Prepare Teachers of Children of Poverty Summer Institute, The American Society for Training and Development, The Forum for Innovative Leadership, The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and the Society for Health and Physical Educators.

In his role with Regional Training Center, Mike leads a cadre of about 100 graduate instructors who regularly provide graduate coursework to thousands of teachers across Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and beyond in partnership with The College of New Jersey and La Salle University. During his tenure, he has overseen the development of RTC’s online and virtual course offerings as well the design and implementation of new coursework, certificate programs and master degree concentration options. Mike also manages college and university partnerships.

For more information, please visit 

www.mikekuczala.com

www.thepeakperformingteacher.com

Mike - TEDx Ashburn

The Regional Training Center

Since the dawn of public education teachers and schools have focused on the academic achievement of students. All students were expected to leave school with basic reading writing and math skills. Some kids excelled and went on to institutions of higher learning, some were trained at a trade such as carpentry, or auto mechanics, and still others left school with those basics and worked at more labor related jobs such as factory or office work. Everyone who left secondary school did have the basics just at different levels. Every student may not have had the capacity to go to college but just about everyone finished school and had the ability to function in the real world. With the onslaught of state mandated testing in so many school districts throughout the country teachers are still pressured to ensure that students achieve but the landscape has changed and hitting the bull’s eye is far more difficult than it was say forty years ago. The bull’s eye is tough to hit because teachers are now being asked to hit a moving target. The target keeps moving because the levels of disrespect, and irresponsibility pervades our schools and basically you can’t hit something that won’t sit still, keep quiet, come prepared, stay motivated, and who really has taken no ownership for their own education.

Local and state boards persist toughen their belief that success is based upon achievement not on effort and character. The faulty philosophies that have come out of some of our colleges that focuses more on methods of instruction rather than behavior management has both young and veteran teachers alike trying to figure out how to hit that moving target. In schools right now we don’t need one more test, or in-service that helps teacher's understand how to teach to the test we need a comprehensive program that focuses squarely on student behavior management, teaching respect, and encouraging responsibility.  Our young teachers who have been in the field for between three to five years may not know any different and are hounded daily regarding the academic achievement of students whose behavior is out of control, and veteran teachers who have done a good job of reading the tea leaves are planning for retirement because the work load is increasing to the point that it is becoming unmanageable.

Our focus in education needs to be on steadying the target and improving student behavior ,not on improving test scores. If we begin to focus on behavior, character, and effort rather than achievement test scores will naturally go up because we will begin to develop willing learners.

Lecture Notes And Power Point

This is the third in a three part series on emotional maturity. In this episode Jim curates an article on emotional intelligence and explains how by being emotionally mature a person can be emotionally intelligent. He goes over some qualities that emotionally intelligent people display and why these qualities are important to teach to our children and students. 

The Power Of Consistency

The Teacher's Survival Guide

Katie Kuperman is a passionate writer, entrepreneur and mother. Situated in Toronto, Canada, she lives with her family and is the owner and principal copywriter of Striking Content, a content writing and strategizing business. Her life has been rich with a breadth of experience ranging from competitive sport and travel, to academics and entrepreneurship, to motherhood and the pursuit of dreams. Katie writes with intent and purpose to make her readers feel, learn and do. It is her hope and her vision that, through her writing, she may be the ink that dots the lives of others in a positive and meaningful way. An anti-bullying advocate and never one to shy away from voicing her opinion, Katie wrote this story to open the eyes of our youth today, not only to see what bullying and mental health struggles can amount to, but also what each of us is capable of when presented with an opportunity to talk.

I had the joy of interviewing Katie on my show and was really taken by her new book "The Only Way Out" and her knowledge base about bullying, and the dynamic between bullies and victims. The Only Way Out is a novel for youth and young adults. As motivational as it is emotional, the book addresses two important social issues: bullying and mental health. Written to touch hearts and inspire change, The Only Way Out is rooted in an empowering message to TALK. 

She dedicates the book to her two beautiful children – but also someone else very important: Amanda Todd. When she was putting her book into print, she sought out Carol Todd, Amanda’s mother, and asked for her permission. and she is now humbled and honored to have her book dedicated to Amanda. Amanda was a victim of bullying who unfortunately took her own life. Katie donates part of all book sales to the Amanda Todd Legacy Society. 

Visit Katie at:

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www.theonlywayoutnovel.com

The Only Way Out On Amazon

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