Welcome to Connect FCS Ed, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and today I am excited to share my special guest with you, Susan Turgeson. Susan has been a member of the faculty at University of Wisconsin, Steven's Point, since 2012. She has completed at her doctoral program in Educational Leadership in 2015, and currently an associate professor at the School of Health Sciences and wellness. She primarily works with pre-professional family and consumer sciences students and graduate level students, she has been recognized as the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, that's our AAFCS sister organization as the National Teacher of the Year in 2009. She also received the AAFCS new Achiever Award in 2005, and the AAFCS leader award in 2017. Prior to working at WSP, Susan has taught for years at the middle school level, and 12 years at the high school level, so she has a wealth of information, so I'm so excited to have her on, so that we could all learn from her.

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Welcome to Connect FCS Ed. I'm so glad that you're back, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and today I have an amazing guest with me, Gencie Houy. Gencie has over 15 years of professional experience within family and consumer sciences education. This experience includes sixth through 12th grade FCS classroom instruction. She has CTE administration, writing curriculum, and post-secondary instruction and administration. She has a bachelor's degree in FCS from Texas Tech University, and a Master's Degree in Educational Administration from Lamar University. She is currently in the FCS doctoral program at Texas Tech. So Gencie, along with all of this, her experience and her expertise is in coordinating, mentoring and supervising students and student teachers, building one of the most effective ways of producing highly qualified FCS educators to fill in the in-demand education pipeline.

Welcome to Connect FCS Ed. I'm so glad that you're back, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and on today's episode I have an awesome guest with me, Rob Van Dyke. With 10 years experience in various teaching and administrative positions, Rob has authored several classroom integration methods, lesson plans, leadership activities that have promoted Student Leadership literacy skills and membership development for classroom teacher use. Currently, Rob is pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Texas Tech University while being the FCS educational consultant for North Carolina CTE, as well as serving on two executive boards with lead FCS Ed and a AAFCS.

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Welcome to Connect FCS Ed. I'm so glad that you're back, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and on today's episode I have an awesome guest with me, her name is Margaret Viebrock, she is a Washington State University faculty professor and WSU extension in Chelan and Douglas County as a director.

In addition to administrative responsibility, she manages a three-county SNAP-Ed nutrition education program, and a six-state project for women involved in agriculture, teaches food safety and administers a diabetes prevention program, and provides a risk management education for farms and families.

Margaret has served in a variety of leadership positions in a national and state organization, and is well known for her enthusiasm for her work, outstanding educational programs and national recognition.

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Welcome to Connect FCS Ed. I'm so glad that you're back, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and thank you so much for listening. So, now we can officially say hindsight is 2020, and a quote that I came across as I was composing my family's Christmas holiday newsletter was, life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. We have been living in the forward this whole past year. We have been living life in the fast lane as well as learning on the fly. We have gone from the fear zone, where grabbing food, toilet paper and medications that you don't need, and emotions spread related to fear and anger. Getting mad easily. That's the fear zone. Then we went into the learning zone where we were able to start identifying emotions, become aware of situations and think how to act. We've been able to evaluate information before spreading something false, and most importantly, recognize that we've all been trying to do our best. Let us move forward into the growth zone where thinking of others and figuring out how to help them live in the present and focus on the future.

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Welcome to Connect FCS Ed. I'm so glad that you're back, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and thank you so much for listening. So, today with me, I have an amazing guest. and she lives in Cambridge, Ohio, but teaches at Tri Valley High School in Dresden, Ohio. She teaches personal finance, career and college readiness, Child Development, culinary fundamentals, food science and global foods. She is an FCC-LA advisor and jack of all trades, Alaina Tharp.

Welcome to Connect FCS Ed. I'm so glad that you're back, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and on today's episode I have an amazing guest, Melissa Litherland. Melissa is a brand new first year family consumer sciences teacher. She actually has a master's degree in Biological Science. She took 14 years off to raise her three amazing and beautiful kids, came back to subbing long term. And now she has a FCS position in her neighboring district of Wisconsin.

Welcome back to the Connect FCS Ed podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in, listening and sharing. I think our stories are most impactful when we share our resources and secrets and trades and tricks and strategies, just because we are truly better together. And with that better together in mind, I want to talk about a heavy subject, mental health.

So, we are in full swing of the holidays and what does that mean for our students? What does that look like? I know with you listening in your homes, in your cars, folding laundry, going grocery shopping, or lesson planning for future lessons, we are all impacted by our students and what choices they make. I have the unfortunate experience the other day where I got an email from my daughters, both of my daughters' high school, sharing the tragic news that a peer in my youngest daughter's freshman class had committed suicide. Unfortunately, I know with you, my audience of amazing teachers, probably several of you have been impacted by the death of a student due to suicide, and with that, I am so sorry, and I'm sure you carry them in your heart and wishing there was some small way that maybe you could have made a difference. But with this young woman over the weekend, I don't know the specifics, but the fact that they're ruling it as a suicide, my heart broke. My heart broke for the students, family, the student, and that ripple effect.

Welcome to Connect FCS Ed. I'm so glad that you're back, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and on today's episode I have the amazing Lauren Quint. Lauren is an educator, author and social media guru. She puts on the CTE Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers Pay Teachers website. She's all over Instagram and Facebook. She's just a wealth of information and resources, that she willingly shares all of the time on her website.

Welcome back to Connect FCS Ed. This week, I have an amazing teacher, she is a singleton from Yellow Springs, Ohio. Her name is Anna Hall and she teaches Family And Consumer Science at Greene County Career Center.

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