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It is difficult to be an effective teacher without developing productive and healthy relationships with students.  These relationships, along with the connections that students form with other students, serve as the basis for building a strong classroom community.  As educators, we need to make sur…

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Do you consider yourself a more traditional or modern teacher instructionally?  The truth is that our most effective teachers are both.  Our students need you to be both.  We need them to be able to learn from both.  If you find the balance, the learning will happen.  
Funding is important for the education system, but inside the classroom, budget should NEVER dictate the effectiveness of a lesson.  Effective teachers innovate, create, and build meaningful lessons no matter the obstacles.  The opportunity to learn should NEVER stop.  
When did differentiating students and speaking truth about where they are in the learning process become four-letter words?  As effective educators, we need to ensure that our process bolsters the individual.  We can't do that if we don't clearly communicate where kids are in that process…
I'm not sure when it happens for every teacher, but at some point, you will (or should) realize the incredible opportunity we have been given as educators.  We have the ability to positively affect lives every single day!  As part of this realization, we sort of "come of age."  We re…
Ever had a lesson go way south or messed up an activity so bad you wanted to run away and hide?  Well, congratulations you're a teacher!  The key is to adapt and improve.  The worst thing you can do is stop innovating or being creative.  Effective teachers know that botched executions can turn…
We're back on the podcast and back in school!  Start the year by investing in your students and yourselves.  The people must always come before the process, particularly in August.  Bring your best and carry that energy all the way to May!
Don't give apologies or make excuses when it comes to advocating for students.  Being an effective teacher means that we focus on relationships and creating a process and environment that are conducive to learning.  Sometimes, advocating means we have to also make tough and unpopular decisions…
I am asked constantly to name some common pitfalls educators make.  While the entire podcast is that list to some degree, this episode includes some mistakes regularly made by classroom teachers.  Becoming an effective educator means avoiding them (or learning from them after you make them).  If yo…
We've said it many times...teachers are superheroes.  In this episode, we discuss the importance of identifying and leveraging your unique superpowers as an educator.  What makes you effective?  What moves the needle?  What makes you and your process amazing?  Answering these questions will he…
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