Connect FCS ED

Hello and welcome back to Connect FCS Ed, I'm your host Barbara Scully. Do you remember your first year as a teacher? Were you hired as an afterthought?Meaning you are hired after the start of the school year. Are you a career changer in the education field? Or did you go to school to become a teacher? We all became teachers because we wanted to make a difference in the lives of the up and coming youth. We all have a teacher that impacted our own educational experiences, that made it all the better.

Welcome back to the Connect FCS Ed podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in, I'm so glad that you're here. A couple of weeks ago, we just finished up my Washington fall virtual FCS conference, and let me tell you, it was amazing! During one of my workshops, I was introduced to one of our keynote speakers, Dr. Randy Russell, who is author to the Three Ships relationships, leaderships and partnerships. Dr. Russell is a superintendent, an author, as well as a leadership consultant and he shares about self-care and the power of self-care, which doesn't go just for family consumer sciences, it goes across the board for all educators.

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Hello and welcome back. In today's episode, we're going to be talking about new approaches in e-learning and how to become a resilient teacher. So back to school, it loomed over many of our heads with so many unanswered questions about students, families and communities around these United States in the world, educators having to pivot school year and pave a new path in unfamiliar territory, completely adverse to what the institution of education has always looked like and felt.

As an educator, we are living in the most technology-advanced time period in history, we are capable of taking on this challenge in restructuring our diverse and content-rich curriculum and make it accessible to any student anywhere, any time, when it comes to synchronous versus asynchronous teaching.

Hello and welcome back to Connect FCS Ed. In today's episode, I'm going to be talking about teaching FCS with technology.

By teaching students virtually, I have been researching best practices since March. I have learned a lot about how to effectively create and implement digital instruction and self-paced learning. In this episode I will be sharing some of the resources that have helped me feel successful as a teacher.

Hello and welcome, I am so thankful that you're here today. In today's episode I have two outstanding educators from the California area, Mindy Trisko and Leah Batcher. They are both doing amazing things when it comes to zooming to share ideas in teaching fashion and interior design virtually. I found them when I applied on their form on the Family Consumer Science Facebook page, promoting their collaboration for fashion and interior design. I am excited to share their expertise with you.

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Hello and welcome, I am so thankful that you're here today. Today's episode is going to be kind of a bite-size episode, I just want to share some amazing resources that I have been utilizing over the past several months. This episode is about a few of the different groups that I'm a part of on Facebook, on Instagram, and the Twitter Universe. Oh gosh, there's so many really cool things out there. Ready to hear what I found?

Welcome back to Connect FCS Ed, I'm your host, Barbara Scully. Today I have an amazing guest with me, Mari Borrs, who is Professor at North Dakota State University, NDSU, and she teaches Family Consumer Science at the University, both Masters and Undergraduate. She has also partnered with the Great Plains Idea Program University, the Interactive Distance Education Alliance, and she is here to talk about what she does and how she does things remotely virtually and promoting online classes.

Welcome back to Connect FCS Ed, and thank you so much for joining me today. I'm doing a special series on universities with both FCS programs in undergraduate degrees and master's degrees. Today's guest is Sheree Moser, who is Professor at the University Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Education & Human Sciences. Sheree is a lifelong Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) teacher and is currently teaching and coordinating the FCS education program on campus at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Welcome back to Connect FCS Ed, I am your host Barbara Scully.

On today's episode, I really want to highlight gratitude and the power of gratitude. Gratitude and acts of kindness, or medicine for the mind and spirit. It's not a metaphor, it's science.

Recently, I was up to my husband's shop looking for my high school seniors photo to share with my school Yearbook teacher, who's completing this year's Yearbook alone due to covid 19. While I was up in the shop searching through boxes, I stumbled across a long journal from 2013... Immediately, I was transported back to a buried memory, whom I don't even recognize anymore, a mom who was trying to find herself, battling depression, raising four feral children, fighting for a marriage that had been fractured and the pressure to keep one particular person alive. The goal as being a parent is to keep all of your children alive, but I needed one to stay alive, and I was under dire emergency health.

This journal was from August 2013. it had food logs, corrective insulin dosages, carbohydrate counts and reflections from a tired Momma. As I write the notes for this episode, I can see myself standing at my kitchen counter with a pen in my right hand and my left hand holding up my head while hearing all the chattering of my kids voices in the background. I was making calculations, reading nutrition labels, if you haven't already guessed it, my seven-year-old daughter at the time was just diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.

Please join me on today's episode as I share a recording I did back at the beginning of quarantine...

Hello and welcome back to Connect FCS Ed, thank you so much for listening! Today I have an amazing guest with me from the Twin Cities, Minnesota Area, the one and only, Momma Bear. Or lovingly known as Ms. Michelle, who has a wonderful YouTube channel.

Michelle has been teaching for 26 years, and when she first started,she only had a budget of maybe $100. So at that point, she didn't have very many students, but enough that she was worried about her budget. Because of this, she started trying to create and recipes that we were able to spread across the whole year without breaking her budget.

Michelle started this model cheap and deep, making things at a cheap indeed. And so as the budget grew and the kids grew in a year after year, she still kept the model cheap and deep. Because most of us are in the same position where we don't have a huge budget, where we can just spend money on steak and shrimp and lobster... That's not reality.

Learn more about Michelle and her amazing YouTube Channel Cooking with Momma Bear.