Relationship Centered Learning

Here’s a special Mindset Monday with you, me, and the mic. This will also be our year-end special as I’m going to take a couple of weeks off to recover from a hip replacement surgery. Today, we will reflect on how we want to end 2020. As we have been talking about in the past months, we’ll focus not on the things that happened and we have no control of but on the things that we are proud of despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Before anything else, I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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In this episode of Mindset Monday, join me as I discuss topics that have come out on previous episodes of the podcast.

Today, I will share with you this interesting activity where we always get amazing responses. This activity involves asking people, usually students, about a word or a phrase that describes how phenomenal their teachers are. What kind of responses do we usually get? It’s rarely about the content of the curriculum.

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In this episode, Denise and I will talk with Alexis Collier, a senior college student at the University of Texas - Arlington. She’s studying finance and economics, hoping to be a financial analyst after her graduation. Today, she will join us to discuss how we can build trust between students and teachers. We will also know her thoughts about the qualities that make a teacher standout, the ways a school can be trustworthy in the eyes of students, and the pillars that Alexis envisions in her ideal school.

Main Takeaways:

Give teachers a chance

4 ways a school can empower its students

3 strategies to build trust within schools

Spark connections

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Building relationships one campus at a time. Adam DeWitt joins us in this episode to share his insights in leading multiple campuses. Currently, Adam is a leader in several campuses within the Oconto Unified School District. Aside from being an experienced administrative officer in multiple campuses, Adam is a husband, father, and a co-host of the Principal Leadership Lab Podcast. His main principle as a campus leader is simple: “if it’s best for the kids, try; if it isn’t, don’t do it again.”

Main Takeaways:

The Principal’s principle

Leading multiple campuses

The 3 people behind a campus leader that you should meet

The Significant 72

The most powerful tool of educators

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In this episode, Adam Dovico joins us. Adam is an accomplished teacher, principal, author, speaker, and professor. He began his career in North Carolina as an elementary teacher, then worked as a teacher and the school implementations specialist for the renowned Ron Clark Academy, where he traveled across the country conducting professional development and onsite training to schools. Adam returned to his alma mater, Wake Forest University, to train the next generations of teachers as a clinical professor. Most recently, he started as the principal of Moore Magnet Elementary School.

Main Takeaways:

Education from different perspectives

Leading with a hands-on approach

Teacher readiness

Resources for educators

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In this episode of Mindset Monday, join me as I discuss topics that have come out on previous episodes of the podcast.

Many of us grow up thinking that we are not enough, and today, with the sensitivity of Social Media, we tend to compare ourselves with others. We compare what we have from what you see in other people’s lives, and sometimes seeing other people having ‘better’ lives than ours, we tend to pity ourselves and think to ourselves that we’re never enough.

TODAY, I AM HERE TO REMIND YOU THAT YOU ARE ENOUGH. And I hope that from this, you’ll spread the positivity to others.

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In this episode, I am interviewing a student, Jaelin Su. Jaelin is a 15-year-old student at the Liberal Arts and Science Academy in Austin, Texas. She shares her passion for change and how it was derived from her 4th-grade teacher. Jaelin also shares how becoming a brave ambassador has given her an outlet and confidence to be the person that her teacher impacted her to be back in 4th grade.

Main Takeaways:

How students can make an impact on their teacher’s lives

How the BRAVE Ambassadors are making a difference together with BRAVE Communities

Barriers in creating genuine teacher-student relationships

The importance for teachers to make an effort to create relationships with their students

Teachers should see students as individuals, not just a name on a list.

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Mirella Campbell is a friend of mine, and we went to the same high school. She was an elementary teacher and administrator in San Antonio, Texas but recently moved to Georgia. In this episode, Mirella shares her life struggles when getting into college and how she ultimately stayed committed to becoming a teacher.

Main Takeaways:

Piloting a Relationship-Centered Approach in the Modern-Day School

Education in the New Normal

Vulnerability and Creating Genuine Connections

Don’t focus on being extraordinary. Focus on being ordinary. People resonate more with what they can relate to.

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Mark Horner is a high school AP US History and Psychology teacher teaching for 22 years in the Tallmadge City School District. In this episode, let’s hear Mark’s journey to molding a career in the classroom that was centered around relationships.

Key Takeaways:

Creating a Classroom Centered Around Relationships

Leading and encouraging vulnerability

Be intentional in everything you do

The Contagion Effect

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You can follow Mark on Twitter @THSMr_Horner.

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In this episode of mindset Monday, join me as I discuss topics that have come out on previous episodes of the podcast and my life that got me thinking. One that really struck me is talking about the word COMMITMENT. With all that’s happening, what I realized is that ‘commitment’ is challenged on a daily basis.

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