Welcome to Connect FCS Ed, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and on today's episode, it's not just one episode, but we're doing a series on the importance of financial education, financial literacy, education... It's the month of April, and April is the month of celebrating financial literacy and education for our students when it comes to that. So today's awesome guest, her name is Tracy Godat. She is our financial education of public-private partnerships (FEPPP), Executive Director. Today we discuss OER Commons and the value of partnering with public and private entities for equitable and sustainable financial education for all.

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Welcome to Connect FCS Ed, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and on today's episode, I have a special guest with me. I have Rob Phelan, who is a Math and Personal Finance educator from Frederick County, Maryland. He is author and founder and creator of the simple start-up, which is a book geared towards entrepreneurship for 10 to 18-year-olds, and co-creator of the ChooseFI PreK-12, a Financial Education Curriculum.

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Welcome to Connect FCS Ed, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and today's episode is geared towards the high school National Barbecue association with Chef Mike Erickson. I'm really excited to have him on the show today. Chef Mike has 20 years of experience, working as an Instructor for Austin Community College, he was a cordon blue instructor, and he's has 12 years senior as a high school teacher for Culinary Arts. Chef Mike is going to share with us what the high school barbecue Association is all about.

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Today's, teacher spotlight is Maire Roberson. Maire is a teen living teacher out in Virginia, where she teaches at the middle school level, six, seventh, eighth graders, but she took the alternative route to teaching, she has a background in home economics, focused on clothing, textiles and design.

Her journey started in New York, which then took her all the way to San Francisco to San Diego, where she worked with an outdoor industry company, where she sourced fabrics and components for product developers. She has traveled all over the US, analyzing best fabrics for outdoor industries, as well as having internships with simplicity patterns and boutique fashion of Steven Sprouse.

On today's episode Maire talks about schedules and going from part time teaching to full time and filling the shoes of a 40 year FCS teacher and her legacy.

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Welcome to Connect FCS Ed, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and on today's episode I am excited to be sharing with you the 50th episode of the Connect FCS Ed podcast! I love doing the interviews, connecting with so many of you and sharing resources to make our job easier as an educators. Please listen in and celebrate this special day with me. Cheers to 50!!!

Welcome to Connect FCS Ed, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and on today's episode I am excited to introduce to you my personal friend, MKristo Bruce of Guild Mortgage, who is going to share his knowledge and expertise of buying a new home.

MKristo Bruce is a jack of all trades. He's got an extensive background. He's an owner of the Buffalo Fitness Gym in Maple Valley, Washington, which he co-owns with his beautiful bride, Nikki. And he has an extensive professional background with college football and professional football, he played for Washington State University, he was a defensive end for the Oakland Raiders, Arizona Rattlers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Florida testers, then signed to the Miami Dolphins. But we're not here to highlight his impressive football career, we're here to share information for our new teachers or ready to buy first time new homeowners. So, let's Talk Smart, MKristo is here to help my colleagues become prepared for the possibility of the biggest investment of their lives. They're home.

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Welcome to Connect FCS Ed, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and on today's episode I am doing a spotlight on an another amazing teacher. I am thrilled to introduce to you Michelle Semonelle. Michelle is a Delaware State FCCLA Advisor and Early Childhood Teacher Academy Teacher. Join us as we chat about FCCLA social media blitz for students, addressing mental health and giving strategies for engagement- gamify the leader, Preschool lab and a lesson walk thru.

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Welcome to Connect FCS Ed, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and on today's episode I have a brand new guest, her name is Wendy of Calico Jam, her background is quite extensive, and I'm really excited to have you listen and join in on the conversation. She has an electrical engineer background, then stay-at-home mom, a volunteer for a 4-H and junior high sewing instructor, and she taught alongside a family consumer sciences teacher for many years. Recently, Wendy created a YouTube channel with video instructions and lesson plans templates for new teachers, which are step by step plans on how to sew on a sewing machine.

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Welcome to Connect FCS Ed, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and today we are talking about Healthy and Toxic relationships. Creating a place for students, educators and community members where they can talk, share, and advocate with each other. My guest is Libby Gutschenritter, who is the engagement manager for the One Love Foundation, Founded in 2010, the One Love Foundation had a really tragic beginning with a young woman named Yeardley Love, a senior at the University of Virginia. She was smart, popular, athletic, funny and ambitious. Three weeks shy of her graduation, her ex-boyfriend killed her. Her family really didn't understand what happened, but when the trials came to be, they started to hear terms like domestic violence relationship abuse and intimate partner violence. As different family members, friends, coaches and teammates started to tell the story of the relationships that they had seen, the love family realized that the pieces were all there, but no one had the language to put it together, and no one knew that all of the little incidences, encounters and altercations that they had seen, were the puzzle pieces of an an unhealthy and ultimately abusive relationship.

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Welcome to Connect FCS Ed, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and today I am excited to interview a brand new first year interior design and principles of family educator from North Carolina, Mrs. Breonna Baker, and this months Teacher Spotlight.

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