Episode Highlights:

• Working with ambiguity through the golden rule of improv that honors everyone’s contributions via collective storytelling and the iterative development of ideas
• Setting the environment and building the capacity of educators to innovate
• Leveraging the “experience economy” for developing agency and personalization of learning
• Embracing the idea that there is more than one way to get an answer - and that answer is based on the "non-zero mentality"

Episode Resources:

• Connect with Mike on LinkedIn and Twitter
• Check out the books that Mike recommends: 
  • Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
  • Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business by Luke Williams

Episode Highlights:

• Working smarter to accelerate our workflow and regain time capital
• Intentionally leveraging technology as part of the thinking and learning processes
• Maintaining social emotional learning skills while integrating technology
• Connecting ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence to creativity and engagement in the classroom

Episode Resources:

• Connect with Monica: [email protected], Website, Instagram, and Twitter
• EdTech Essentials: The Top 10 Technology Strategies for All Learning Environments (ASCD)
• Tasks Before Apps: Designing Rigorous Learning in a Tech-Rich Classroom (ASCD)
• Class TechTips: ChatGPT Replay
• Class TechTips: Chat GPT Book

Episode Highlights: 

• Cultivating positive identity within ourselves and students
• Separating the mistake from our identity
• Reframing negative self-talk into opportunities and new actions
• Introducing wellness into the climate and culture 

Episode Resources:

• Connect with Jessica on Twitter
• Read Jessica's articles:
  • Promoting Educator Well-Being: What Is a District to Do? (ASCD Express)
  • Improving Lesson Planning with Pre-Work (EL Magazine)

Episode Highlights:

• Shifting our mindsets to focus on student advocacy
• Exploring the three types of equity advocates and 
• Acknowledging the privilege of a social network for support, guidance, and resources
• Strengthening classroom connections through tweaks in language, invitations to converse and participate, and student interests

Episode Resources:

• Connect with Dr. Sheldon Eakins via Instagram, Twitter, and his Website

Episode Highlights:

• Be the Flame process - Sparking, Kindling, Igniting, Stoking, Catching, Fueling, Spreading… Ablaze! to foster relationships and community
• Striving for greatness and demonstrating leadership
• Building trust in small moments, through actions, and over time
• Examining the collectivist and individualistic mindsets in the U.S. educational system
• Explicitly introducing a common SEL language into the learning experience and associating it with prior knowledge

Episode Resources:

• Connect with Shane on Instagram and Twitter
• Purchase Shane’s book: Be the Flame: Sparking Positive Classroom Communities

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Leveraging a Self-Determination Learning Lab class for engaging students authentically and fostering all five of the SEL competencies
• Creating space that meets students where they are
• Amplifying student agency and interests to enhance communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, reflection, and self-assessment
• Connecting explicit SEL skill development across content areas

EPISODE RESOURCES:

• Connect with Abby on Twitter 
• Read Abby’s publications: 
  • How Administrators Can Help Prevent Teacher Burnout
  • Her Champion

Episode Highlights:

• Implementing practical, actionable strategies when facing massive burnout
• Finding five minutes to give yourself permission for self-care intentionally
• Embracing the 5 S’s - stillness, silence, space, subtraction, and slowing down 
• Providing the gift of stillness and silence to students

Episode Resources:

• Connect with Dan Tricarico: Website, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Courses
• Read more from Dan:
  • The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the Classroom
  • Sanctuaries: Self-Care Secrets for Stressed Out Teachers
  • Write Here and Now: The Mindful Writing Teacher's Guide to Finding the Zen in Their Pen

Episode Highlights:

• Evolving to meet the SEL needs of students after COVID
• Building a connected community vertically through grades 4, 5, and 6
• Empowering staff and students to lead, redesign, and refine the system 
• Embracing fun and organized chaos with creativity, intention, and purpose

Episode Resources:

• Connect with Ian and Heather on Twitter at Shaler Area Elementary School
• Email: [email protected] and [email protected]
• Welcome to the House System (ASCD)
• House Systems in Schools (We Are Teachers)

Episode Highlights:

• Promoting a mentality of continual growth and betterment
• Setting a doable progression of steps toward achieving big goals 
• Fostering an environment where taking risks and asking for help is encouraged and honored
• Developing life skills that honor our humanity and core values
• Introducing the “Teach Pos(itivity)” movement, which is built on the power of shared ownership and divergent perspectives

Episode Resources:

• Connect with Craig: Website, Instagram, Twitter, Blog Posts on EduMatch
• Teach Pos twitter chat on Sundays at 7:30 PM Eastern

Episode Highlights:

• Fostering SEL skill development through four art forms: drama, music, dance, and visual arts
• Developing confidence in art forms to connect with students and integrate SEL skills into the learning
• Adapting and naturally differentiating instruction in all content areas
• Breaking through perceived boundaries and barriers to focus on self-care and re-engage again at 100% with students
• Creating teacher-centered professional learning to build confidence with integrating SEL

Episode Resources:

• Connect with Elizabeth: Website, Facebook Page, Instagram, Youtube
• Resources
  • Edutopia Articles
  • SEAL courses
  • 5 Ways the Arts Integrate with SEL