StartEdUp Podcast

January- March is the LONGEST part of the school year.

Luckily Jamal is here with some advice for your mind, body, and spirit.

Also, he makes me feel guilty on my lack of organization.

Adam Geller is the founder of Edthena, a video-powered professional learning platform, and author of professional development book Evidence of Practice. He started his career as a science teacher in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 2011, Adam has seen Edthena evolve from a paper-based prototype into a research-informed and patented platform used by schools, districts, teacher training programs, and professional development providers around the world. To learn more about Edthena, visit www.edthena.com.

Learning how to fail.

Fail fast. Fail often.

In theory, it makes sense.

In reality, is sucks.

Jamal and I are proud girl dads. In this episode, we talk about Kobe, parenting, and being a girl dad.

Rob Bencal, Co-Founder and President of Adventure2Learning and is passionate about getting relevant video content to students. In this episode, Rob goes over the learning and pivots of starting an EdTech company, and how they've scaled to thousands of schools.

Adventure2 Learning "equips teachers with a wide range of content from educational producers of core curriculum subjects as well as timely topics such as SEL, mindfulness, and fitness."

For more information, go to: https://www.adventure2learning.com/

Rob has an extensive career in marketing and children’s media. Prior roles include

director of brand marketing at Fisher-Price, director of content strategy & distribution

at Mattel and senior director of corporate development for media & entertainment at

Mattel.

Also in the podcast, Rob highlights the work of classroom teacher

Quinlan O’Grady, who is a 3rd grade teacher at Schmid Elementary School on Chicago’s south side, where she has been teaching for the past nine years. During her tenure at Schmid she has successfully built meaningful school partnerships, connected mentors with scholars,

championed school-wide events and curricula that foster college and career readiness, and created a classroom environment that fosters growth, success, and the social well-being of all of

her scholars. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Special Education, as a member of Project SURGE, Special Education Urban Research for Greater Equity, at the University of Illinois at

Chicago. Her research is focused around the power of teacher-student relationships on student behavior, growth, and achievement.

A nation grieves, but we are also reminded to live life now.

What happens when you are a principal in your 20s?

For that matter, what does "leadership" look like when your seen as young?

Garrett Mintz is the founder of Ambition In Motion, https://www.ambition-in-motion.com/ a company that helps grow company cultures and engagement through mentorship. Garrett's vision is a world where the vast majority of people are excited to go to work, believe their expectations meet reality when they are there, and when they come home they feel fulfilled. Garrett started Ambition In Motion in 2013 as a sophomore at Indiana University with the initial idea to help college students gain a more realistic idea of their career paths through mentorship. Garrett still serves college students but has since pivoted his focus towards companies to connect their employees together for mentoring relationships leveraging the science around Work Orientation and its correlation to successful mentorships. If you are interested in learning more about mentorship at your company or learning your Work Orientation and how that would impact a mentoring relationship, go to https://ambition-in-motion.com/companies. Feel free to connect with Garrett on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrettmintz/.

Podcasting is hotter than ever- especially long format. Does this make people feel more connected? Or is podcasting just a different form of one-sided social media entertainment?

Esports, #FETC, and Daniel Pink by Don Wettrick