Teacher Tips and Strategies for the Multi-Prep CTE Teacher
Helping reduce the overwhelm so you don’t have to choose between being an effective teacher and prioritizing important relationships.
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I love efficiency and productivity as much as you love leaving school at your contracted time. (Okay, so those go hand-in-hand.) My passion is working with multi-prep teachers to create systems to simplify your job and allow you to focus on sharing your talents and student learning.
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Reduce Teacher Overwhelm with this Simple Trick: Applying Manufacturing Methods
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | STITCHER | SPOTIFY Whether you’ve already started school or you are about to start school, feelings of overwhelm are very real. Especially in the early months. In this blog post, we will discuss two strategies that come from the manufacturing industry that can help you reduce teacher overwhelm and ensure a successful and manageable classroom…

Motivate Students for Skills Tests: Insights from an Experienced CTE Teacher
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | STITCHER | SPOTIFY In today’s blog post, we’ll be addressing a question from Stacy, a dedicated educator from Utah. Stacy, an experienced CTE teacher, is seeking advice on how to get her students to take skills tests seriously. In Utah, standardized tests play a role in funding for CTE courses. So, it’s crucial to find…

Student Empowerment: One Easy Strategy to Conquer Classroom Management
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | STITCHER | SPOTIFY As an educator and teacher coach, I am always learning new strategies to help with classroom management. It’s a bonus when that strategy can also be used to level up my parenting skills. This week I attended a district-sponsored professional development. One of our conversations reminded me of my favorite classroom management…

Teacher Self-Care: How to Sustain Your Well-Being Starting During the Summer
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | STITCHER | SPOTIFY Welcome back to our Secondary Systems for Summer series! Today, we will be wrapping up our series by discussing the fourth S of the 4S System – Sustain. If this is your first time tuning in, make sure to listen to the previous three episodes starting at episode 100.33 to get the…

Student Empowerment: One Easy Strategy to Conquer Classroom Management
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | STITCHER | SPOTIFY As an educator and teacher coach, I am always learning new strategies to help with classroom management. It’s a bonus when that strategy can also be used to level up my parenting skills. This week I attended a district-sponsored professional development. One of our conversations reminded me of my favorite classroom management…

What to Buy to Conquer the Chaos and Find Small Equipment Bliss
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | STITCHER | SPOTIFY When I first started teaching, I found myself in a similar situation as Ryan, a physics and engineering teacher. I had inherited a stockroom filled with a mishmash of untouched items from the previous teacher’s 15-year tenure. It felt like I had stumbled upon a drafting museum! (Pretty sure the previous teacher…

Should You Stay at a Toxic School if You Love Your Team?
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | STITCHER | SPOTIFY This is the time of the school year when many start to contemplate the next school year. Especially if you are wondering if you should stay at a toxic school. As a teacher, there can be some flexibility in where your career takes you. (Where else do you let your employer know…

Feeling like Luisa: the Number One Tip for Getting Through the End of the School Year
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | STITCHER | SPOTIFY Are you feeling stressed out and overwhelmed? Today, we’re going to talk about how to combat those feelings as you get through the end of the school year. In Disney’s Encanto, there is a popular song called “Surface Pressure.” Luisa, the “strong” sister, sings about her stresses of being the strongest member…

How to Keep Promoting and Recruiting Now That CTE Month is Over
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | STITCHER | SPOTIFY CTE Month, February, celebrates CTE as well as can be used as a recruiting event for next year’s courses. Many schools are having students request courses in February or soon after. While you may be exhausted from all the CTE-ness, promoting and recruiting for your program is not over. Most schools will…