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

Episode Highlights:

• Thinking strategically and stretching ourselves to reimagine education in the name of serving students
• Changing the narrative through curriculum,  course placement, discipline, and hiring practices
• Checking educational biases around assessment, the school day schedule, expectations for achievement, and pathways for success
• Creating seals (civic action, social justice, engineering, theater, biliteracy) to highlight student skills beyond usual transcripts

Connect with Henry Turner:

• Twitter, Instagram, Website, LinkedIn
• Purchase his book Change the Narrative: How to Foster an Antiracist Culture in Your School
• Subscribe to the Lessons in Social Justice newsletter

Episode Highlights

• Learning about education through many different lenses and contexts
• Finding a mentor and building upon your educational passion
• Implementing an action research process to collect data and fail forward
• Fostering mutually beneficial relationships and teams
• Overcoming fear and intimidation to achieve our purpose and passion

Episode Resources

• Connect with Jorge Valenzuela: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook Page, Resources,  Linktr.ee
  
  

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Story-weaving is finding inspiration in individual stories to embrace how our connection.
• Hold each other by leaning in and actively listening to one another.
• Each of us carries the gift of empathy, hope, and optimism.
• Your WHY is what should carry you through the storms that arise.

EPISODE RESOURCES:
Follow Barbara Bray: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn page, YouTube channel
Barbara's Resources: 

• Rethinking Learning Podcast
• Toolkit of Resources
• Competency Agency chart

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Aligning administrator, staff, and student perceptions of experiencing the learning environment
• Unpacking perception data to enhance dialogue about and support for student success
• Investing in building community and connection
• Leveraging empathy and curiosity to counter disconnection

EPISODE RESOURCES:

• Connect with Dr. Damion Lewis: LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter  
• Dr. Lewis' publications:
  • Secondary Student Experiences with Mandatory Enrollment in North Carolina Virtual Public School Courses: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Study
  • Postcolonial African American Female Writers and their Three-Way battle against Imperialism, Canonization, and Sexism: Developing a New Multicultural Feminism