Connect FCS ED

Hi and welcome back to the Connect FCS Ed podcast. I’m your host Barbara Scully and I am thrilled to introduce my special guest today, Jeff Utecht. Jeff is shifting schools across Washington State, and soon a district near you. This awesome individual loves to partner with organizations, helping them to understand the changing nature of learning by working together in long-term embedded professional development that prepares us all for the future. Not our past.

Jeff is a keynote speaker, conference master, and has been a podcaster since 2008. His podcast is called Shifting Our Schools.

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Welcome back to Connect FCS Ed, I am so thankful that you're able to listen in.

So, we have just embarked on our virtual journey into education, this week has been a week of many firsts. This week we have learned a lot, but this week, I have seen more collaboration and more people helping one another than I have seen in a long time.

I may only be in my fourth year as a public education servant, but my children have been in their career of education for years, and the amount of people coming together, extending their services and offering how they can help, and giving and sharing tips and suggestions and advice, it has been fueling my soul.

I am enamored and I am overwhelmed by kindness and generosity. I try really hard to look at the good when there is so much hardship and pain and struggles as we navigate this tight rope of a balance that we have to teeter on. But this week, we had our students for the first time, and we had to dig deep and we had to put in all of the knowledge and all of the resources and all of the preparation that we have been trying to muster and put together, we had to put it to the test.

We had to put that theory into practice, those methods, and let me tell you, it paid off. You can prepare and prepare and prepare as much as you possibly can, and you are never going to be fully prepared to take that first step off of the ledge. But you had to believe in yourself, and that is what I am so in awe of, you believed in yourself. Therefore, you could. You believed in what you had done was good enough, even if you didn't think you would be able to pull it off, but you did, and that is something to celebrate.

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Hi and welcome to the Connect FCS Ed podcast. I'm thrilled to have you listening, but always so grateful to have you joining me today. Today's episode, I have a powerhouse of a guest who is making it his mission to revolutionize the way people treat one another. His name is Houston Kraft, he is an author, speaker, advocate of kindness, which is my personal favorite because that's my philosophy. And he's co-founder to Character Strong. If you've not heard of that, that is an educational resource to help improve school safety and culture by implementing social and emotional learning, SEL.

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Welcome back to Connect FCS Ed, thank you so much for listening and being a part of the many adventures as we navigate going into COVID school year 2021. Today, I have an amazing guest with us, she is not only an author, she's a podcaster, she's also a doctor, and she writes blogs, she does keynote speaking, seminars, workshops, all sorts of amazing things. Her name is Dr. Monica Burns of ClassTechTips.com.

Dr. Burns has worked with educators on three continents, spoke at events like ISTE, SXSWedu, and EdTechXEurope, and has reached thousands of readers through her books, her website ClassTechTips.com, her podcast, and her social media accounts. She says, 'It’s been an exciting ride for sure, and I’m so lucky to spend most of my time with teachers and kids in classrooms, connecting with educators at conferences, and writing about EdTech.'

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Welcome to Connect FCS Ed, I am your host Barbara Scully and I have an amazing guest with me, her name is Luanne Wiles, and she teaches over at Tri-Tech Culinary Skills Center, based out of the Tri-Cities, Washington in Kennewick, Washington.

I've had the amazing experience of meeting her, actually this last February, I believe, at an Open House where I took my 16-year-old daughter to look at the the pre-veterinary classes offered through Tri-Tech. And that is how this friendship over food and teaching and education, was formed and...we've had some amazing experiences.

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Welcome to Connect FCS Ed, I am your host Barbara Scully. Today I am thrilled to share with you my interview with Ramona Hatch of Fresh FACS. Fresh FACS mission is stated as 'Family and Consumer Science is as relevant today as it was when it was first introduced into the American school curriculum as Home Economics over a century ago. Its core content areas of food preparation, nutrition, children and family, textiles and apparel, interior design and consumer economics have never been more important than in today's society.'

The resources that they provide on the web site have been created to enable FACS teachers to present core concepts through a variety of fresh strategies and instructional approaches.

Ramona Hatch is a retired FACS teacher and Fresh FACS is a small company dedicated to the creation of exciting and original resources for the Family and Consumer Science professional.

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Hi, and welcome back to Connect FCS Ed, I’m your host, Barbara Scully, and I just want to say thank you so much for listening.

I am excited, I am pumped, I am jazzed that we’re coming into the new 2021 school year. And a lot is happening. Our feeds are full of new and innovative creative ideas for remote learning. We’re in this COVID-19 era, where we do not know what is going to happen next, tomorrow, maybe sometimes minute to the minute. But I wanted to just kind of share with you an unexpected connection, and my FCS success story.

But before I go into that, I want to personally say thank you, I am humbled because earlier this week I announced that the Connect FCS Ed podcast has reached over 1000 downloads. That’s huge! I have just released my 17th episode, and I have already reached past that 1000 download mark. This is not a solo, or one person effort, it is a community. You are my community.

The FCS community is a live, vibrant, and we’re energized because we get to put all of our creative energy and juices into making the whole child, or a student, be successful in life. We’re giving our students, our parents, our community, the future with giving them these skills of cooking, nutrition, childhood education, nurturing, social and emotional learning, connections, relationships, knowing how to create and become somebody that is important. All of our students are important, everybody that we are associated with, are important. I feel like I am important to you, and with that, I’m humbled and I am so grateful that you are listening, you are listening to not only my voice, but you were listening to the so many amazing guests that I have had on the show. And that speaks volumes. So, this is not a podcast just about me or just about what I am experiencing, this is a podcast for you, and what you are experiencing.

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Welcome to episode 17 of Connect FCS Ed, I'm your host Barbara Scully. Today I am very excited to share my conversation with Kim Graybill, FCS Ed teacher and CEO of the FamilyConsumerSciences.com website.

Kim is a Penn State graduate (1987). She has been teaching for 30+ years. All but two have been in the same school.  She teaches at a small, rural school (600 students), grades 7-12.  The courses she teaches are jr. high grades 7-8 in six week rotations, senior high electives:  Child Development, Individual & Family Studies, Exploring Foods and Career & Consumer Sciences (adulting/financial literacy).  The electives are full year courses.  

Kim started contributing to the Family Consumer Sciences website in 2011.  In 2013, she wrote at least 2 posts/month and then in 2015 she took over the entire website as CEO and have been running it ever since.

When the website started in 2009, there were not a lot of FACS lessons available online. So, the website started as a way to help FACS teachers (especially new teachers) save time writing lesson plans and looking for new ideas. This philosophy continues today as we are better together!  Kims says, "I know I wouldn’t be the teacher I am today if it weren’t for others helping along the way!"

Welcome to episode 16 of Connect FCS Ed, I'm your host Barbara Scully. I can't express enough to you how excited I am to share with you my online tips and strategies that will set you up for success as we navigate this online instructional journey together.

These are just a few helpful tips for online instruction. For the past few years I have been both a student in an online class, as well as an instructor, so I have both an understanding and a clear perspective when it comes to online learning.

I do hope that you find that these four tips, to successfully teaching online, help you to expand your horizons, and provide new ideas on what else we could do for in the future, and share that with your students.

Welcome to episode 15 of Connect FCS Ed podcast. I'm your host Barbara Scully and today I had the pleasure of interviewing Catherine Hay.

Catherine hails from British Columbia, Canada, she is a Home Economics (Family & Consumer Science) 8-12 grade Fashion Design teacher, as well as University of British Columbia instructor and teaches Fashion Design.

Catherine has her own YouTube Channel and is passionate about teaching as well as the current trends. Listen to the podcast and also check out Catherine's videos on YouTube. Enjoy!