When The Wind Blows

Black History Month

Welcome back to When the Wind Blows...an Epic podcast for parents, teachers, leaders and anyone vested in the world of education. 

Lee...for 30 years you have been a super hero...an educator. What keeps you in this world? 

You were born in 1959...this is the year Motown Records was formed, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, The Temptations...Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis finishes recording "Kind of Blue" and it becomes the best-selling jazz album in history..."A Raisin in the Sun," a play written by Lorraine Hansberry, opens on Broadway. This play is the first Broadway show to be produced by a Black woman and went on to be made into a movie a few years later. MLKjr and Malcolm X are alive and in the height of their civil rights teachings, speaking, and activating. Kind of an amazing year to be born. We can think back on these great things and romanticize this time in history, but the fact remains that you still couldn't sit next to me in a restaurant or drink at my water fountain

Ok, Its Black History Month. You’re black. Is having an episode set apart right now from the rest and you a black man as my special guest even appropriate anymore?

The last thing I want is for this episode to be a token episode that fills a BHM requirement. This is not the first time I have had you one the show nor will the next time be February of 2022. 

FACT: As recently as the 2016–2017 school year, East Side High School in Cleveland, Mississippi, was practically all black: 359 of 360 students were African-American.

Theoretical question: when will we ever be fully integrated? 

Research the Kansas City Star - 

Fact: President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976, calling upon the public to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”

Would the teenage Lee Roland be proud of the work that adult Lee Roland is doing?

Room 222

What advice would you give to the teenagers living through the movements of today? Wokeness & BLM

Research Ideas for teaching about BHM

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Online Fatigue and Burnout Busters

Welcome back to When the Wind Blows...an Epic podcast for parents, teachers, leaders and anyone vested in the world of education. 

Scott: Who are you? How long have you been involved in the world of Edu? 

You are now an eduLeader in the ivory tower, but you and I used to be the superheroes...teachers. You were flipping edu, tell me about that process.

What is the biggest struggle you are facing when your kiddos are not in the building? 

Zoom Sweet Spots:

Meetings between Ts and Ps are typically no more than an hour

Meetings between Ts and their Ss no more than 30 minutes unless…

HAVE AN AGENDA

Online Curriculum: 

Article from Oct 2020 https://medium.com/ideadeco/yes-online-fatigue-is-real-92288269117b

“For every minute spent online, you should have 5 minutes offline

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Making the most of your time

Welcome back to When the Wind Blows...an Epic podcast for parents, teachers, leaders and anyone vested in the world of education. 

Beth, Who are you? How long have you been involved in the world of Edu? What made you choose to come to EPIC?

Making the most of your time...day, week, month

Prime your day with happiness of breathing

Beth: You have an interesting approach to teaching this year due to the pandemic. Tell us what you were doing last year and how you have multiplied your time this year. 

I like to package lessons...cross curricular

Do things that excite me...or if its not a task for me or school adding spin or flare to the task. 

Take mental breaks. I like to have 1 min dance parties...gets the blood flowing, oxygen 

Staying positive

How do you instruct a family with multiple kiddos to navigate their Epic Essentials, curriculum, and Meetings with you. It can leave parents feeling like they are only teaching all day long.

Your focus is key in making the most of youR TIME. 

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Healthy Habits and Motivation

Welcome back to When the Wind Blows...an Epic podcast for parents, teachers, leaders and anyone vested in the world of education. 

Who are you? How long have you been involved in the world of Edu? What made you choose to come to EPIC? 

Book Atomic Habits, by James Clear

Noticing, Wanting, doing, liking.

Some good habits: Eat well, sleep, brush your teeth...But what are some healthy habits when it comes to work life balance?

Do you have any bad habits?

Hate to admit, but I had a habit of smoking. Started in HS and went through about 24 yrs old...quit the first time...trav laid off quitting the second time...SWEETS still haunt me

Do you have any really good habits?

What role do you think motivation plays in habit making?

The WHY is all important. $ is not a why, it is a result. Simon Sinek, infinite game.

Simple “results” do not drive behavior. The why does.

Do we lack motivation? Or lack clarity..? Take decision making away, and add “if not, then what?”

My girls want to be doctors...new habits for school

• Test anxiety, Study habits, Motivation, and performance

https://search.proquest.com/openview/108a26a3afbec228b3f9a5e3c85d91c3/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1056401

 Test anxiety and study habits were associated positively with academic success and there was no association with achivement motivation. 

• Note cards with vocab, definitions, and examples

Learning to play the guitar around a campfire was something that motivated me...I began learning and without thinking the process became habitual. High motivation makes the habit loop easy to happen...nearly unconscious. 

William James (father of American Philosophy)- “Belief in the ability to change is the foundation of the ability to change.” 

Talk to me about self buy-in when it comes to motivation or habit making/breaking. 

Tony Robbins/Sara Blakley podcast episode: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tony-robbins-podcast/id1098413063?i=1000467901109

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Living in Confusion

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Confusion. the state of being bewildered or unclear in one's mind about something.

Since March I believe we have all probably been living here. Adley Stump is a FB famous influencer and made the funniest video… Woman makes a parody announcement about Coronavirus safety

Let see if we can make a parody of our own. You need to do your core and EE

EE and homework help, that all you need to do…

Write this paper and read this book...and mindplay and Dreambox

Make sure you log into Google Classroom and work that PLP

Did you do your mastery Connect? Where is the work in your core???

Add to that the things that are added in the home...well, dishes are gonna be home ec lesson today

Bible study is our history lesson today

Go outside and play...I need you to go outside and play...its PE!

Its no wonder we...kids included are living in this state of confusion and appear as they are not going with the flow. 

9 yr school schedule. 10:10, 11:30, 1:30

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v2rPr11dmKcMkS__pBM8P-siphaiK_FqK2kJY_lrbAM/edit#gid=0

“The time and energy required for effective vision communication are directly related to the clarity and simplicity of the message. Communication seems to work best when it is so direct and so simple that it has a sort of elegance. The challenge of simple and direct communication is that it requires great clarity of thought plus more than a little courage. It’s much harder to be clear and concise than overcomplicated and wordy.” 

- John Kotter, Leading Change

• Psychological Safety - a climate in which people feel free to express relevant thoughts and feelings. 

• A benefit of psychological safety is that it enables clarity of thought. 

• When the brain is activated by fear, it has less neural processing power for exploration, design, or analysis.

 - Amy Edmondson, Teaming

According to Deloitte, decision paralysis brought on by the inability to choose between options is typically the result of cognitive overload and fatigue.

Students- I don’t even know where to begin (EE, Core, PLP, Google Classroom, Shmoop)

Parents- So many kids, jobs, appointments, precautions, emails, calls, texts…

Teachers- Benchmarking, Zoom Calls, Grades, Meetings, Grades, Reports, Grades

Admin- MPRs, Meetings, Data Management, Parent conferences, Emails, Texts, Calls

Confusion….result of cognitive overload and fatigue (and 2020). Where do we even begin...decision paralysis has reared its ugly head across the board this year. 

What do we do? We need clarity. Clarity from our leaders, teachers, parents, within ourselves. 

• Prioritize (Consistently)

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Being Coachable and teaching Coachability

Welcome back to When the Wind Blows...an Epic podcast for parents, teachers, leaders and anyone vested in the world of education. 

Who are you? How long have you been involved in the world of Edu? What made you choose to come to EPIC? 

Our topic today is being coachable and teaching coachability.

Google defines this as: Coachability, quite simply, means that a person is receptive to feedback, to receiving constructive criticism, and will use that feedback and constructive criticism to improve her or his workplace performance. 

Why is being coachable so important?

How much of being coachable is a mindset issue?

What are some strategies you have used to become more coachable?

Now, you coach coaches...has this changed the way you now approach coachability? 

How quickly can you tell if a person is going to be easily coached?

Can coachability be measured?

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Welcome back to When the Wind Blows...an Epic podcast for parents, teachers, leaders and anyone vested in the world of education. 

Who are you? How long have you been in Edu? And what brought you to EPIC?

We do not turn away students, but are we inclusive and diverse

It seems as if there is a never ending quest for diversity and inclusion, where are we already meeting these needs? 

https://www.cnn.com/videos/sports/2020/06/27/duke-coach-mike-krzyzewski-black-lives-matter-granderson-nr-sot-vpx.cnn

What is the plan to improve EPIC from where we are to where we need to be?

• Consider equivalent experiences and projects 

Ok rural schools and maybe even some suburban districts arent very diverse, What is your biggest piece of advice for getting started with diversity and inclusion?

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