Episode 102: Back to School

In this episode, Spike and Jessica catch up on what they’ve been doing to relax in the final days of summer and had a discussion about how we welcome kids back to school. As we’re seeing awesome back to school ideas, like rolling out the red carpet (Click here for the time RM Bacon literally rolled out the red carpet for the welcome back and tied it to the You Matter movement by Angela Maiers), our discussion may challenge your thinking about grand events. A post that started some interesting discussion on Twitter was: Your Back to School Message is Hurting Teachers.

Jessica shared Greg Wolcott’s idea of the Significant 72 and how important the first 72 hours (or 3
days) of school should be all about relationship building. And that also goes for the first 72 after a
break. Read about the Significant 72 here: https://www.smore.com/ddc84-significant-72

If you’d like to pick up a Balance Like a Pirate shirt to remind yourself to stay balanced all school year, go HERE by September 10th. All proceeds will go to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in their mission to spread awareness and prevent suicide.

Theresa will be back with us on Episode 103 to discuss social-emotional learning.

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Episode 1-OH-1

In this episode, Theresa, Spike and Jessica catch up from the summer break. They each discussed how July goes so quickly and provides a much needed down time from the business of the school year. Now, as they are quickly realizing, is the time to make sure all of the Back to School lists are completed such as scheduling, organization of the school and the most important part... the first few days of the school year.

Over the course of the Podcast, you will learn about the following:

• Transformative Leadership Summit 2018 - Spike visited with Danny from #TLS18 to discuss How to Spread Gratitude Throughout Your School 
• The Principals Playhouse - Allyson Apsey (Author of the Path to Serendipity) and John Wennstrom. Search for #Principalsplayhouse on Facebook or check out their youtube channel.
• Challenges with Time Zones :) 
• Self Care and the book Balance Like a Pirate
• Social Emotional Learning - Jess is reading The Fire Within: Lessons from Defeat that have Ignited a Passion for Learning by Mandy Froelich
• Back to School Preparation
• If you're a faithful listener, then you know we usually just wing this, but we made a commitment to focus our next episode on Social-Emotional Learning...and we promise not to wait 2 months for it to happen!

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