Laugh and learn with Johanna and Jared as they discuss how to be a successful life-long teacher while still having a life.
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Listen up, and listen in, this is about our children! Learn something today on the TeacherTalk segment of Ask Ivy. A special guest and I explore the importance on early childhood education and share some tips as to how you can better prepare your child to be successful in school.
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S2 EP23- Job Searching? The Do's and Don'ts of the Teacher Test
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S2 EP21- Interviewing? Do This If You Want The Job
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S2 EP20- Talking To Parents About Parenting
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S2 EP 18: The Best Time To Plant A Money Tree
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Johanna is Dyslexic and has two children who are dyslexic. In this episode, she shares what worked for her and her family to create successful readers. http://www.decodingdyslexia.net/ (find your State for specifics and resources in your area) Signs and Symptoms https://www.decodingdyslexiaiowa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Dyslexia-Signs-and-Symp…
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Your classroom in need of a behavior reset? Johanna and Jared discuss how to turn around behaviors in your classroom any time during the year. And, as promised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSryJXDpZoBy Johanna Russell
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S2 EP12- What If Your Administration Is Awful?
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Johanna says, as a teacher, if you need help you should ask for it but what if your administration is awful?By Johanna Russell
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Teachers might not like it, but subbing is a part of the teaching experience even if you have a full-time classroom. Time to take the anxiety out of subbing.By Johanna Russell
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S2 EP10- Future Teachers- How To Create Success
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Are you going to school to be a teacher or do you know someone who is? This podcast shares the real secrets to having a successful first year and it all starts by action done now.By Johanna Russell
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This episode is all about Early Childhood Education, and why in the world we should care about it! This week I welcomed a new expert to the TeacherTalk segment of the show. Listen in as we bounce ideas off of each other that both educators and parents can gain from. It takes a village to raise a child, will you help the young people in your life to…
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S2 EP9- Crying Or Angry At Work? Time To Fix It.
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Sometimes our teaching world slips away from us and we find ourselves stuck in a pit making us this think will be our last year. It is time to enjoy teaching again and here is how.By Johanna Russell
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S2 EP8- The Best Incentive System Johanna Has Ever Seen
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As a dyslexic (IEP) learner, years behind her peers, Johanna didn't have the grit or the skills needed to survive school (let alone consistently attend). Until she had a teacher who used this motivation system. Want to motivate the impossible? Here is how. As promised in the episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lhQP5CsH5r5f2kstkiBIaSa9Irtyk…
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S2 EP7- So, You're Using Incentives All Wrong... How Do You Fix It?
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Jared quizzes Johanna on how to tell if your incentive system is broken and how to fix it so that over time the act of learning becomes the reward.By Johanna Russell
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S2 EP6: Incentive Ideas With A Big Bang And Almost No Buck
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Johanna shares a menu of options for easy to use and do incentives ideas for students.
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S2 EP5- You Are Not Using Enough Play-dough
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Johanna shares some simple supplies that when added to your classroom can make learning and teaching more fun. These tricks work really well for times where there is just a lot of content that needs to be remembered/ understood.By Johanna Russell
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S2 EP 4- Cellphones Et Al. How Does One Teach?
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Teaching is hard enough, but how do we do it when all the students are constantly distracted by their cellphone?By Johanna Russell
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S2 Ep3- School Issued/ Required Technology
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So, your school issues or requires every student to have technology in the classroom and now how do you manage this school created behavior situation?By Johanna Russell
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S1 Ep2- Managing New Team Members (yourself or others)
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Newness in teams can be very challenging in teaching because there is no soft start. You have to jump in and instantly learn how to survive, together. Johanna and Jared discuss tricks for creating a positive experience with this process.By Johanna Russell
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The start of the year is full of anxiety for teachers and students alike. Johanna and Jared share how to make lemonade out of this lemon of an emotion.By Johanna
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S1 EP50- Listener Questions Answered in Season 1's Last Episode
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Johanna and Jared address the top asked listener questions/ comments in this last episode for season 1. Stop the Grading Grid: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s1-ep34-stop-the-grading-grind/id1430846141?i=1000433880384 Get Rid of Your Teacher Desk: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s1-ep-24-get-rid-of-your-teacher-desk/id1430846141?i=1000…
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S1 Ep49- So... You Are Going Back To Education.
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So... You Are Going Back to Teaching.... the contract is signed. The Deal is Done, but you are wondering, "What if I made a big mistake."By Johanna Russell
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S1 Ep48- Lies! Why You Need to Wait on Getting Ready for the School Year
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Feeling the pressure to go back to your classroom? Learn what effective teacher's do instead.By Johanna Russell
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S1 eP47- So, You Are Day Dreaming About Your Classroom
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What if your classroom is all wrong?By Johanna Russell
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S1 EP46- What If Enjoying Teaching Really Was This Simple?
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What if the exhaustion from teaching day in and day out thas nothing to do with the students and everything to do with what we do during our time off the clock?By Johanna Russell
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S1 EP 45- Must Have Secret for Avoiding the "Teacher Pit"
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Johanna shares how she proactively avoids the "teacher pit" by doing this over the summer.By Johanna Russell
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Do teachers have it so easy with summers off? If so, why is there a teacher shortage?
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S1 EP43- It's Summer? Getting the Biggest Bang for Your Buck
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What if the secret to your teaching happiness rests on what you do at the start of summer?By Johanna Russell
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S1 Ep42- Managing People Leaving: Whether You Love Them, Hate Them, or You Are The One Saying Goodbye.
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Jared makes Johanna cry.By Johanna Russell
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S1 Ep41- What if You are Causing the End of the Year to be Hard?
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What if you are the one causing the end of the year to be challenging?
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S1 EP40- Making the End of the Year Enjoyable for Everyone
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Johanna and Jared dive into ways to prevent the end of year drama that happens as summer approaches.By Johanna Russell
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S1 Ep39 How Do You Find a "Right Fit" School?
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Whether as a teacher or as a parent it is important to know how to gauge the quality of a school. How do you do that from the outside looking in?
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How do we make sure that test retakes don't turn A's into the new participation ribbon?By Johanna Russell
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Everyone has opinions on whether you should or should not got into teaching. Johanna shares a surprisedly easy way to tell whether teaching is the right fit for you.By Johanna Russell
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Johanna shares how teaching students specific habits prevents baggage from outside of the classroom influencing learning inside the classroom.By Johanna Russell
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A teacher doesn't have to lose their sanity to help students who act like they are above the learning expectations.By Johanna Russell
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What if your life wasn't ruled by the burden of grading?By Johanna Russell
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S1 Ep33 Homework- To Assign or Not to Assign, that is the question
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Jared tries something new, writing things down.
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Jared finds joy in Bull Durham references. "Sometimes you just have to throw the fastball and announce your presence with authority." Johanna brings us back to reality and shares when and how to do this in the classroom.By Johanna Russell
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S1 EP31- Head Lice- How to Prevent the Gift that Keeps on Giving
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Johanna shares that she is not a doctor. She does, however, have the secrets for preventing the gift that keeps on giving: Head Lice. Per Jared's request: Link to Terminator Lice Comb https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000HIBPV8/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_XXxGCb6E9V
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In this episode, Johanna learns the difference between a Gisele and a gazelle.
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S1 Ep29-Field Trips-Stop being a Travel Agent
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What if field trips were as much fun for the teacher as they are for the students?By Johanna Russell
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S1 Ep 28- How to Control Your Students with Music
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Magically influence student behaviors with music however elementary versus secondary need drastically different approaches.By Johanna Russell
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Us helping you to help parents to be the education captains of their students.By Johanna Russell
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Johanna explains how to create win-win experiences with administrators.By Johanna Russell
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