Synopsis
Edspiration provides practical tools, useful tips, and new motivation for anyone in education. Hear inspiring guests share bite sized, real-world strategies you can use immediately in your school, classroom, college, organization, and even at home! Each week, author, trainer, and school climate specialist John Linney interviews innovative, on-the-ground leaders and experts, and answers your questions from the Edspiration Inbox. Educators are heroes every day and deserve positive support and fuel year-round.
Episodes
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You are powerful! | Avoiding shaming ourselves or others | Jeanne Forrester
21/04/2015 Duration: 28minGuilt or shame we inflict on ourselves or others is never helpful. Guest Jeanne Forrester helps us learn how to avoid wounding and build the esteem of students to help them get back on track. Sometimes adults don’t know how to escape patterns of talking and teaching that can hurt a student, our peers or ourselves. Jeanne Forrester EdD has worked with schools for 40 years as a classroom teacher, a middle school principal at 2 schools in Mississippi, and spent a term as the Mississippi Governor’s Education Advisor. She is now the Student Wellness Manager with Albuquerque’s Public Schools and is an adjunct professor in the Educational Leadership Department, NM Highlands University/Rio Rancho. Jeanne Forrester, Ed.D. Email: forrester@aps.edu Make sure to share Edspiration with any teachers, administrators, or parents that you know. Also, it would mean so much if you could leave a rating AND a review over on iTunes - it would really help the show. For more information, please visit www.edspirationpodcast.co
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Turning “I Can’t” into “I Will” - Reaching Discouraged Students| Bob Bowman
21/04/2015 Duration: 24minDr. Bob Bowman, co-founder of Youthlight Books, provides inspiring tips to help discouraged and disengaged students and explains to how help troubled youth move from thinking, “I can’t,” to believing, “I will.” Bob started his career as a school teacher and school counselor and now teaches in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of South Carolina. He has written over 24 books and provided services in over 11 countries and territories primarily as a specialist in working with students when “all else fails.” Make sure to share Edspiration with any teachers, administrators, or parents that you know. Also, it would mean so much if you could leave a rating AND a review over on iTunes - it would really help the show. For more information, please visit www.edspirationpodcast.com. Recommended Resources: “Individual Counseling Lessons for Children and Adolescents” (2 books) by Robert Bowman & Susan Bowan “201 Amazing Mid Bogglers that can be used to teach kids critical lessons about lea