Education Revival

Education Revival

By Haley JonesEducation
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Education Revival episodes

  • Episode 6: "Should I stay or should I go?" Talking Teacher Retention, Preparation and Everything in Between

    Specific Notes and Topics from This Episode:

    -Teacher retention and overwhelm
    -Lack of people wanting to come into the profession
    -Natural eb and flow throughout the school year of teacher satisfaction
    -What can we do as administrators and leaders to let people know their value
    -“Every teacher is overworked. Lets just be real about it.”-Dr. Bartlett
    -“A teacher that is overworked but feels valued and a sense of mission with the school is the normal teacher there.” “A teacher that is overworked but doesn’t feel valued is discouraged." - Dr. Bartlett
    -“What you are really doing is teaching kids not content” - Dr. Bartlett
    -Burnouts - round 1 - people there to teach content
    -Burnouts - round 2- people that almost care too much
    -Teachers having some of the highest rates of breast cancer
    -Teacher self care - promoting it through things like a gym area for teachers to workout at during their plan period
    -Is teaching an impossible job?
    -Making note of systems that promote and embed stress, and take action to address these
    -Encourage healthy boundaries
    -40% leave the profession within 3 years
    -Dan’s evaluation experience
    -Not feeling empowered
    -Mentor teachers around you able to point out what is (and is not) important
    -Not attaching your worth to your evaluation
    -Your worth has got to be grounded in something outside of education
    -“I teach within a broken system, and my job is to make good things happen inside a broken system.”
    -Teacher education programs
    -The least skilled people with the hardest kids in the building - something has got to change here. How did this start and how do we shift this?

    41 min
  • Episode 5: What would be your top 3 musts if you were tasked with building a school from scratch?

    Some of what you will hear in this episode includes:

    -What three things would you have to have in a school that you built from the ground up?

    -School environment for adults vs kids
    -Detour on rigor
    -What do you believe about learning and how does that impact our environment?

    -Parent involvement and schools being perceived as a safe and welcoming environment
    -Why Dan does not do bell ringers
    -Anna’s journey with her son in switching schools
    -Parents want what they think is best for their kids - no parent wants mediocre for their kid
    -band become like a circus?
    -Competency based placement & stigma

    This topis was inspired by an Edutopia article.

    34 min
  • Episode 4: ACE's - What does that even mean?

    In this podcast we discuss the following:

    -What is ACEs?
    -What would an ACEs informed school look like?
    -Where do GRIT and Growth Mindset fit in with all of this? As well as resilience and adaptation?
    -Healing through connectedness
    -Kids and connectedness… kids are doing more things, but having more shallow relationships than they have ever had before.
    -Steps to embed connection in a classroom even if you are not a connection person.

    37 min

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Anna, Dan, Haley and John are friends and colleagues on a mission to put people above all else in education. Listeners of Education Revival will hear these friends discuss their ideas and views on…