The beginning of another school is upon many of us and some teachers do amazing things on the first few days while others either don’t know how or can’t or think they can’t make the first few days of school engaging and less about the rules and regulations.

In this episode, we discuss and explore a number of ideas you can implement at the beginning of the school year. Our conversation was inspired by an episode of StartED Up with Don Wettrick.

• The Toilet Paper Game
• Rock, Paper, Scissors
• 30 Circles

We also speak to special guest, Robbie Lindes about his own experiences on the first days of school from a student’s perspective.

Rather than recommend additional episodes and podcasts, these are the podcast episodes we’ve used so far in our Summer Podcast Listening Group:

• Cult of Pedagogy, episode 90 – OMG Becky. PD is Getting SO MUCH BETTER.
• Future Focused Podcast, episode 2 – Goal Setting Workshop: How to Set Goals to Change Your Life
• The 5 AM Miracle, episode 27 – Service and Selflessness at Work: An Interview with August Turak
• StartED Up – Promise Me You will NOT Start Your School Year Off with This
• Mindshift – Be the Change You Want to See
• Focus 3 Podcast, episode 39 – A Turning Point in Education