Hello and welcome back to season two, January 19th, 2022 connect FCS Ed podcast kickoff. I am so glad to have you joining me. I am excited to share some really cool, exciting things coming up on the show. Today with me, I'm gonna have a phenomenal guest speaker or co-host, Nai Wang of KP Curriculum. He is sharing some really exciting new adventures that he is putting forth and hoping that will inspire you to join him in his cause, followed with next week's release with Executive Director, Melissa Martin of Phi Upsilon Omicron, which is a National Honor Society for Family and Consumer Sciences educators. Followed with February being CTE month and I will be doing a 4-part series with the National Partnership for Family and Consumer Sciences. Again, a lot of great current and upcoming conversations and resources to share with you. I am excited to have you learn with me!

Welcome back to the Connect FCS Ed, thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to join me for a fun chat. It's hard to believe that we are closing out 2021, it has been quite the roller coaster ride, it's been fun, but also challenging. In today's episode, I want to take a moment and share a quick recap of the past four episodes, and I also want give a shout out to all of our co-hosts who have joined alongside. I couldn't have done this without your help, support and your encouragement. Thank you.

In today's final episode of our FCCLA series, we will be learning about Fundraising, and with me today is our amazing co-host and FCCLA National Partnership manager, Abigail Lee. Abby, I'm so grateful to have you with us today, welcome!

Welcome back to the Connect FCS Ed podcast! Today, we are continuing our series on FCC LA. How in the world do we incorporate it into our classrooms? And with me, I have Christine Hollings worth, who is the national FCC LA staff member when it comes to senior competitive events manager. Christine has been a classroom FCS teacher, as well as the Missouri State FCC LA advisor. So thank you, Christian, for taking the time and joining us. Welcome!

Today, we are continuing our FCCLA learning journey, and with me today, I have 2 amazing co-hosts is Sherry Vogel and Alaina Tharp. Sherry is in her 33rd year of teaching, as well as 29th year of being an FCCLA advisor and Alaina Tharp, who is in her fifth year teaching along with fifth year FCC LA advisor, but she has a really neat background because she was a student in high school doing FCCLA. You will love learning from these two!

Welcome back to the Connect SS-Ed podcast. I'm so grateful to have you listening. Today, we are diving into our FCC LA series, and with me today, our amazing co-host is Mrs. Ashley Nelson, who is the Professional Development Manager for FCC LA. Ashley was a FCS teacher for six years before becoming the FCC LA Professional Development Manager. So Ashley, thank you so much for joining. For today's conversation, we are gonna be talking about affiliation...

Welcome back to the Connect FCS Ed podcast. November is known as the month of ‘gratitude’. We are reminded by giving thanks to our Veterans 11/11, and World Kindness Day 11/13 leading up to Thanksgiving. In today’s episode I will be talking about how we can collaborate for advocacy for all of FCS. As we all know, this is A major talking point for our profession, our leaders, and our programs.

We are in the first full week of November. Wow, it has been a busy... Two months, hasn't it? How are you doing? Have you done any self-check-ins with yourself, obviously, do you find yourself getting home and then immediately either showering or just getting into your pajamas or sweats and finding that weighted blanket to then binge TV, or maybe you're running around and taking your own kids to their... After school activities, no matter what... Whatever you are doing, I hope you're taking care of yourself. That's a really hard thing to do. Taking care of oneself when as teachers, we have always put others in front of our own needs, but right now with what is happening with schools across the nation, we are having to re-teach students how to be students, teach them manners, because they have been fed to the wolves for the last two years, they've had to learn how to do things on their own, no time management, not seeing the importance of certain lessons or assignments, there's a lot...

Welcome back to the Connect FCS Ed podcast. On this weeks pod we have an AP Macro Economics teacher from Gonzaga Prep in Spokane, Washington. His name is Pat Segadelli, and he is also a children's author to Gio and Banks: Scarcity, Choices and Trade-Offs. Welcome Pat!

Welcome back to the Connect FCS Ed podcast. Today's episode, or little PD is gonna be a student take over with my financial literacy class. This session is live during my class period. So there is background noise, but I have several of my students that I lovingly call the peanut gallery. I've been overhearing them talk about being a teacher and what being a teacher entails because they saw that I had my Excel spreadsheet up on the screen and transferring names over, and they were commenting, "Oh, I can never be a teacher because of the grading scale" and all of that so I thought this would be a wonderful teaching opportunity as well as the learning opportunity to have this fun conversation with this amazing bunch of students, so... Welcome fifth period!