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Jake Thompson is the founder of Compete Every Day and your Chief Encouragement Officer! A show designed to help driven people build a winning mindset, so they can build their winning life. 

Jake’s goal is to help you be GREAT! Join the Compete Everyday Podcast to help you re-discover a strong mindset as well as find the skills you need to win your career, training, and life. 

Topics Discussed:

What is GRIT and Accountability?

• Grateful, Reps, Inspire, Tenacity

Be mindful and focus on the PRESENT

Be intentional

Shift your thinking

• "Have to" vs "Get to"
• Busy vs Productive

How can Educators fit into the Compete Every Day model and mindset?

• Classroom Culture - We MUST be a team!
• Consider how we can support each other and be a team!
• How are you asking yourself questions?
• How will you respond?
• Are you a victim or a victor?

Toby Price is a VP from Mississippi who was recently fired from his position for reading the acclaimed children's book "I Need A New Butt."

Topics Discussed:

• Toby's story and where's he's at in the process with his former district
• Taking risks in education as leaders and teachers
• New opportunities
• The unplanned paths that life presents us

Resources:

• GoFundMe - https://gofund.me/2d206543

Chris - The GaryVee Audio Experience

AJ - The Compete Everyday Podcast

Toby - Partial Credit Podcast. Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, Canadian True Crime

Rich Czyz has written a new book and he joins Chris and AJ to discuss professional development and how educators can and should take more control over their growth in this profession.

Topics Discussed:

• Pushing the Pessimist - How do we reach those who are not engaged in their own professional learning?
• The Professional Development Championship Belt 
• Working with the Naysayers
• Staff Meeting Syndrome - Are teachers suffering? How do we fix it? Switching Up Staff Meetings
• Podcasts and Pedometers
• Administration support?

Resources:

• Purchase the book: Rogue Leader: Make the Rules, Inspire Others, and Take Control of Your Own Professional Development Destiny
• Book resources: https://bit.ly/ROGUELeaderBookClub
• Custom Championship Belts

Chris - Art of Manliness episode #784: The Secrets to Making the Perfect Pizza

Rich - LinkedUp: Breaking Boundaries in Education The Science of Writing for Busy People

Krystle Pearson currently serves as the Director of Technology for Brunswick County Public Schools in Lawrenceville, Virginia. Krystle has more than 15 years in education, she has served in the capacity of a classroom teacher, grade level team leader, school technology coach, instructional technology resource teacher (ITRT), and central office administrator. She has been honored with numerous accolades for her work with students, technology, and as a female leader in education.

Topics Discussed:

• What are digital badges?
• How do you organize an effective digital badging program?
• What does it take to maintain digital badges?
• How do you get staff to buy-in?
• What does badging look like with students?
• Administration support?

Resources:

• https://badge.design
• https://www.canva.com
• https://www.adobe.com/express/

AJ - Leaning into Leadership Hosted by Darrin Peppard - Episode 3: Leaning into Change

• Darrin's focus in this episode is leading leaders toward collective efficacy. How do we include more voices in the change process leading to more ownership of the necessary change?

More than ever our relationship with education is strained. Teachers are leaving the profession. Prospective teachers are choosing other majors and career paths in our colleges and universities.

Our relationship with education is rocky right now. But now is not the time to break up with or divorce education. In our conversation, we hope to rekindle the romance between you and your career.

We’re giving away Tech with Heart! Congratulations to our winner: Nikki Jones

Stacey Roshan is a Math teacher and Director of Innovation and Educational Technology from Maryland, and a well-respected #EdTech consultant. Stacey is also the author of “Tech with Heart: Leveraging Technology to Empower Student Voice, Ease Anxiety, & Create Compassionate Classrooms.”

Discussion:

• Tech with Heart - overview
• Perfectionism
• Flipping the Classroom
• EdTech to Empower
• Innovation in the Present

We’re going to give away Tech with Heart! All you need to do enter is the following:

• You have to be following @mrnesi, @AJBianco, @staceylindes,  @buddyxo, & @PodcastPD
• RT our contest tweet
• We will determine the contest results on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022.

• https://techiemusings.com/
• Tech with Heart
• Modern Classroom Project

Amber Harper is an educator, author, speaker, and Teacher Burnout Coach whose mission is to activate teacher self-empowerment to help teachers beat burnout and live a happy, fulfilled life.

Amber is the author of Hacking Teacher Burnout and she is the host of the Burned-In Teacher Podcast where she provides actionable steps, inspiration, and support for teachers dealing with teacher burnout.

Discussion:

• What’s the difference between feeling burned out vs just being tired?
• What can leaders do to better support teachers?
• Top tips for turning burnout into something else

1. Check your self-talk

• Victim mentality - Believe things are happening to you
• Knowing you will not get different results if you don’t do something different
• BE, DO, HAVE!

2. Check your habits

3. Breathe

• Blinkist App
• Burned-In Teacher Podcast
• Hacking Teacher Burnout (book)

We're always experimenting with new ways to bring you value. We've previously released 12 short episodes to recommend some great podcasts and podcast episodes for you to check out at the end of the year as the calendar flips but our careers go on.

This year we're trying something different and we've prepared one episode with 12 recommendations for you to hear us talk about and then hopefully go and listen to yourself.

Here are the recommendations for 2021:

• NPR Life Kit - How To Have Meaningful Conversations At Holiday Gatherings
• Cult of Pedagogy - 114: Let’s Give Our Teaching Language a Makeover
• On Purpose with Jay Shetty - Malcolm Gladwell ON: How To Communicate Effectively During Overwhelming Situations & Mistakes You Make Reading People
• Coffee Break Italian

• A Bit of Optimism - Raising Resilient Kids with Angela Duckworth
• The Art of Manliness - The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather
• The GaryVee Audio Experience - Stop Letting Outside Voices Define You
• Twenty Thousand Hertz - Ehh… What’s Up, Doc?

• Compete Every Day - Everybody Pulls the Tarp
• Unapologetic Leadership with Dr. Marcus Belin - School Culture Episodes
• Dare to Lead with Brene’ Brown - Brene’ on Armored Versus Daring Leadership
• Slow Burn - Season 3: Biggie and Tupac

We wonder through a conversation about the holiday season. We reminisce about our holidays of the past and we also discussed what holiday celebrations look like in our school and classrooms.

We spoke with:

• Alfonso Mendoza, host of the My EdTech Life Podcast
• Mel Aveling, avid Twitter user and friend of the podcast!

Chris: This American Life - Lights, Camera, Christmas! (2012) - This holiday season, we bring you a show filled with stories of people going to great lengths to throw a special Christmas for their families, including: tales of Luna the guinea pig, Bambi the reindeer, and Jeko the super-powerful (and somewhat-scary) Christmas elf.

The COVID-19 Pandemic taught educators many valuable lessons. Teachers all over the world were forced to change how they taught students almost overnight. For months educators implemented new strategies and refined old ones to maximize our time with students in a variety of situations.

But now, as the world and education begin to return to "normal" we find ourselves faced with the decision of what to do with our new learning as teachers or what place these new skills have in our face-to-face classrooms.

Topics Discussed:

• What did you do during the pandemic that worked and you're still doing or you've adapted to in-person learning?

Stacey - Planet Money: Origins of a Superhero - Comic book publishers like Marvel and DC sit on a treasure trove: thousands and thousands of comic book characters. Pieces of intellectual property. You know the big ones--Superman, Ironman, Captain America. They each make millions off of movies and merchandise. But for every marquee character, there are hundreds of others sitting unused.

We can't abide by that. Superheroes are meant to save the day, not be stowed away. So we thought: why not convince Marvel to sell us one?

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