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Get an early bird discount by July 1st when you join the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Full Year program! The full transcript of this announcement is below.
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Hey there, it’s Angela, I just wanted to release a quick announcement letting you know that our 40 Hour Workweek programs are now open for early bird access for the 2024-2025 school year!
I’m going to share the updates first for those who are already familiar with 40 Hour or have enrolled in the past. If you’re brand new and have no idea what 40 Hour is, keep listening to the end, and I’ll fill you in.
We’re releasing a brand new membership called 40 Hour AI, which is designed to help you integrate artificial intelligence tools into your workflows to make teaching more effective and efficient.
It’s for folks who are worried about the ethics of generative AI and don’t want to just dive in and hope everything works out.
And it’s for folks who have tried GPT, but felt like they had to rework the output so much they might as well have written from scratch. (I get that–if you don’t know how to use AI well, it can actually take more time than writing something yourself.)
It’s also designed for teachers who like using AI but feel overwhelmed with all the possibilities. I get emails from all the Ai tools designed for educators and it feels like they release 10 new features every single week. If you’re working full-time in the classroom, there’s no possible way to keep up with all of that on top of everything else.
The curation piece is where I come in. It’s my job to shorten that steep learning curve, so AI can become like your own personal teaching assistant right away.
40 Hour AI is a brand new (and ever-growing) collection of video trainings to help you feel confident about using artificial intelligence to streamline your workload in an ethical, responsible way:
✅ Watch the on-demand trainings that show you only what you NEED to know to trim hours off your workweek. The foundational videos have no fluff or filler, and will help you quickly learn the basics of AI, an overview of the free AI tools available to teachers, and the ethical considerations.
✅ Learn to incorporate AI into your existing work habits so it's your go-to tool instead of an afterthought (without having to completely change systems that already work well for you).
✅ Utilize the ever-growing collection of 5 minute timesaver how-to’s anytime you feel stuck on how to complete a teaching task with AI. You'll know exactly which AI tool to use and how to get the results you want. The downloadable prompt resources will help you phrase your request for great AI output on rubrics, SMART goals, lesson plan ideas, text differentiation, and more.
✅ Discover new AI tools and uses that have been vetted by knowledgeable educators so you don’t have to spend hours on trial-and-error. You won't have to look anywhere else to feel up-to-date: new video trainings are added on a monthly basis so you always have the most recent information. I’m creating some of these myself, and others will be shared with you directly from our 40 Hour graduates who are current classroom teachers. They’ll show you exactly how they’re using AI everyday to save time.
✅ Use the private discussion community to stay updated even if you don’t have time to watch training videos. It’s held within the membership site (not on social media), and you can stay in the loop and ask questions there anytime.
As always with my resources, the goal is to help you avoid overwhelm and cut through the noise.
You don't need to know EVERYTHING that's possible with AI up front. (Who has time for that?)
You just need the MOST impactful ways to streamline your teaching workload now, and a way to quickly get answers when you need help with a task.
A free year’s unlimited access pass to 40 Hour AI is included when you enroll in the 40 Hour Full year program. I made the decision to do this because I’m going to be talking a lot about AI tools in the coming school year with the current 40 Hour Full Year cohort, and I didn’t want some of the cohort to have access to the AI recommendations and some not have it.
If you’re not ready to explore AI tools like MagicSchool, Eduade, Brisk Teaching, and so on, you can just utilize the core 40 Hour Full Year materials, which don’t discuss AI at all. I know some folks are apprehensive or just not interested in artificial intelligence, so I made the choice not to change the Full Year program, which doesn’t mention AI. Full Year is focused on classic productivity and organizaitonal systems which generally stand the test of time.
The awesome thing about keeping the AI materials in a separate membership is that I can update them frequently. The AI trainings are short videos around 5 minutes each, and other materials that I can quickly make changes to as the technology develops constantly.
I know that making AI trainings for teachers is going to be a major undertaking with lots of work to keep everything current. I’m committed to do that–to staying on top of the trends and dvelopemnets and curating them for you so you don’t have to explore everything yourself or feel overwhelmed with constant changes. I’m weeding through everything that’s out there and finding only the best stuff and the most effective, efficient ways to streamline your workload.
The way I chose to set up 40 Hour AI is as a membership rather than forever-access like the rest of my courses, including the 40 Hour Full Year program. If I can be really real with you…I’ve crunched the numbers, and it just isn’t financially viable for me to offer them as a one-time payment for forever-access.
So, 40 Hour AI is set up to allow you to purchase an unlimited access pass to all the trainings for $29/quarter or $89/year. I do have a discount code for folks who have taken other 40 Hour courses in the past, and those have been sent out via email (and will be sent again a couple of times, as well as listed in the 40 Hour course materials you have access to, so you can find it there if you missed the initial announcement.)
To sum up so far: if you previously enrolled in our 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Full Year program, you get the unlimited access pass (quarterly or annual) for a discount. If you never enrolled in 40 Hour before, 40 Hour AI is open to you now, so you can start learning about artificial intelligence right away. You can just get the AI stuff is that’s all you want.
The other option for folks who have never joined the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Full Year program is to enroll with the latest cohort, and you’ll get a free year’s unlimited access pass to 40 Hour AI.
As a podcast listener, I’m guessing you’ve heard me mention the program here on the podcast but maybe you’ve never gotten around to checking it out thoroughly with everything else going on.
You might have assumed 40 Hour is for new teachers, or really disorganized people, or those who want to work ONLY their contractual hours.
And it is–we have lots of members who fit one (or more) of those descriptions and find the solutions they need in 40 Hour.
But, 40 Hour is also designed for experienced educators who are highly skilled at their craft, and questioning whether the increasing demands and pressure will allow them to stay until retirement. These members have witnessed so many changes to the profession that they barely recognize it from 10, 20, or 30 years ago. They need practical advice about how to make everything work (and support figuring out what they can realistically take off their plates.)
It’s also for folks who love organization and enjoy learning tips and hacks to be more efficient. These teachers join to make small tweaks to their existing systems, and collaborate with other like-minded educators to streamline even more and keep their teaching feeling fresh and creative.
And, 40 Hour is for teachers who don’t mind working a bit on their own time, but are tired of giving up ALL their evenings and weekends to do documentation, data collection, and other tasks that feel far-removed from helping kids. They want to do more meaningful work and less busywork. Also, some of our members know that working contractual hours isn’t realistic in their personal situation, and they’re just looking for ways to take 10 or so hours off their workweek. Others aren’t paying attention to hours at all: they just want to feel more effective at their jobs and less frazzled and exhausted.
It might seem impossible for one program to differentiate for alllll of these different needs, but…
There’s one thing all 40 Hour members have in common:
They’re educators who love the job and want to find a SUSTAINABLE approach, so they can stay in the field WITHOUT burning out.
So, 40 Hour provides a broad range of tips, strategies, editable templates, and other resources so you can find ideas that work for YOU and your teaching context.
Download only the resources that feel relevant and helpful to you each month, and take a few weeks to experiment with them. You can share ideas and troubleshoot with other members.
You’ll never lose access to the resources, so you can go back to anything you skipped in future years (or try out different ideas if you change grade levels or subject areas later on.)
Because of the wide variety of materials, there really is SOMETHING for EVERY K-12 teacher in 40 Hour. And if you join and find that it’s not a good fit, you can get a complete refund through Sept. 15th.
There are 4 sets of summer planning bonuses included with 40 Hour Full Year which are all about using your summer to get rested and re-energized. You can use them to make a plan for everything you want/need to do during your break, create healthy habits, get organized at home, and more.
But, you don’t have to start right away. The cohort kicks off July 1st, but lots of members take a break from everything work-related over the summer, and then look at all the July and August materials for back-to-school when they’re ready to begin planning. Start whenever it’s most convenient for you!
This is not a formal course. You don’t have to “keep up” or submit any assignments to us (unless your district requires you to). Use 40 Hour as a resource and community to give you ideas and support for managing your workload. Check in whenever you’d like and see what’s new.
And, it’s designed so you don’t have to spend a lot of time learning in order to get results. You’ll need about 30 minutes a month to explore the Core Concepts (most important ideas). You can either read the PDF or listen to the audio version. If you’d like, you can explore the 3 extension choices, but those are optional. You can create better systems and work habits just with the Core Concepts in 30 minutes a month.
With 40 Hour Full Year, you never lose access to the materials and can come back to things you skipped anytime. Revisit the optional extension choices later in the year, or even in future years. This program is designed to help you throughout your teaching career, no matter what, where, or how you’re teaching later on.
And remember, as a special bonus when you join this year’s cohort, you’ll receive a FREE 365 day unlimited pass to our 40 Hour AI trainings. The short videos in 40 Hour AI will help you feel confident about using artificial intelligence in an ethical way to help you streamline differentiation, lesson planning, assessment, and more.
So, if you teach K-12 general education, I’ll hope you’ll join us un 40 Hour Full Year or 40 Hour AI, or both! You can enroll on your own, and we accept school purchase orders, gift certificates, and DonorsChoose.
40 Hour Full Year is a professional development program worth up to 104 CEU hours, and will help you adapt and develop new pedagogies in the coming school year. Your job is changing: don’t be afraid to ask for the support and training you deserve.
So, that’s the update on 40 Hour this summer. I’ll be back on July 7 with a new Truth for Teachers podcast episode for you. Thanks for listening, and for supporting my work.
338 episodes
Manage episode 426384333 series 94753
Get an early bird discount by July 1st when you join the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Full Year program! The full transcript of this announcement is below.
----
Hey there, it’s Angela, I just wanted to release a quick announcement letting you know that our 40 Hour Workweek programs are now open for early bird access for the 2024-2025 school year!
I’m going to share the updates first for those who are already familiar with 40 Hour or have enrolled in the past. If you’re brand new and have no idea what 40 Hour is, keep listening to the end, and I’ll fill you in.
We’re releasing a brand new membership called 40 Hour AI, which is designed to help you integrate artificial intelligence tools into your workflows to make teaching more effective and efficient.
It’s for folks who are worried about the ethics of generative AI and don’t want to just dive in and hope everything works out.
And it’s for folks who have tried GPT, but felt like they had to rework the output so much they might as well have written from scratch. (I get that–if you don’t know how to use AI well, it can actually take more time than writing something yourself.)
It’s also designed for teachers who like using AI but feel overwhelmed with all the possibilities. I get emails from all the Ai tools designed for educators and it feels like they release 10 new features every single week. If you’re working full-time in the classroom, there’s no possible way to keep up with all of that on top of everything else.
The curation piece is where I come in. It’s my job to shorten that steep learning curve, so AI can become like your own personal teaching assistant right away.
40 Hour AI is a brand new (and ever-growing) collection of video trainings to help you feel confident about using artificial intelligence to streamline your workload in an ethical, responsible way:
✅ Watch the on-demand trainings that show you only what you NEED to know to trim hours off your workweek. The foundational videos have no fluff or filler, and will help you quickly learn the basics of AI, an overview of the free AI tools available to teachers, and the ethical considerations.
✅ Learn to incorporate AI into your existing work habits so it's your go-to tool instead of an afterthought (without having to completely change systems that already work well for you).
✅ Utilize the ever-growing collection of 5 minute timesaver how-to’s anytime you feel stuck on how to complete a teaching task with AI. You'll know exactly which AI tool to use and how to get the results you want. The downloadable prompt resources will help you phrase your request for great AI output on rubrics, SMART goals, lesson plan ideas, text differentiation, and more.
✅ Discover new AI tools and uses that have been vetted by knowledgeable educators so you don’t have to spend hours on trial-and-error. You won't have to look anywhere else to feel up-to-date: new video trainings are added on a monthly basis so you always have the most recent information. I’m creating some of these myself, and others will be shared with you directly from our 40 Hour graduates who are current classroom teachers. They’ll show you exactly how they’re using AI everyday to save time.
✅ Use the private discussion community to stay updated even if you don’t have time to watch training videos. It’s held within the membership site (not on social media), and you can stay in the loop and ask questions there anytime.
As always with my resources, the goal is to help you avoid overwhelm and cut through the noise.
You don't need to know EVERYTHING that's possible with AI up front. (Who has time for that?)
You just need the MOST impactful ways to streamline your teaching workload now, and a way to quickly get answers when you need help with a task.
A free year’s unlimited access pass to 40 Hour AI is included when you enroll in the 40 Hour Full year program. I made the decision to do this because I’m going to be talking a lot about AI tools in the coming school year with the current 40 Hour Full Year cohort, and I didn’t want some of the cohort to have access to the AI recommendations and some not have it.
If you’re not ready to explore AI tools like MagicSchool, Eduade, Brisk Teaching, and so on, you can just utilize the core 40 Hour Full Year materials, which don’t discuss AI at all. I know some folks are apprehensive or just not interested in artificial intelligence, so I made the choice not to change the Full Year program, which doesn’t mention AI. Full Year is focused on classic productivity and organizaitonal systems which generally stand the test of time.
The awesome thing about keeping the AI materials in a separate membership is that I can update them frequently. The AI trainings are short videos around 5 minutes each, and other materials that I can quickly make changes to as the technology develops constantly.
I know that making AI trainings for teachers is going to be a major undertaking with lots of work to keep everything current. I’m committed to do that–to staying on top of the trends and dvelopemnets and curating them for you so you don’t have to explore everything yourself or feel overwhelmed with constant changes. I’m weeding through everything that’s out there and finding only the best stuff and the most effective, efficient ways to streamline your workload.
The way I chose to set up 40 Hour AI is as a membership rather than forever-access like the rest of my courses, including the 40 Hour Full Year program. If I can be really real with you…I’ve crunched the numbers, and it just isn’t financially viable for me to offer them as a one-time payment for forever-access.
So, 40 Hour AI is set up to allow you to purchase an unlimited access pass to all the trainings for $29/quarter or $89/year. I do have a discount code for folks who have taken other 40 Hour courses in the past, and those have been sent out via email (and will be sent again a couple of times, as well as listed in the 40 Hour course materials you have access to, so you can find it there if you missed the initial announcement.)
To sum up so far: if you previously enrolled in our 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Full Year program, you get the unlimited access pass (quarterly or annual) for a discount. If you never enrolled in 40 Hour before, 40 Hour AI is open to you now, so you can start learning about artificial intelligence right away. You can just get the AI stuff is that’s all you want.
The other option for folks who have never joined the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Full Year program is to enroll with the latest cohort, and you’ll get a free year’s unlimited access pass to 40 Hour AI.
As a podcast listener, I’m guessing you’ve heard me mention the program here on the podcast but maybe you’ve never gotten around to checking it out thoroughly with everything else going on.
You might have assumed 40 Hour is for new teachers, or really disorganized people, or those who want to work ONLY their contractual hours.
And it is–we have lots of members who fit one (or more) of those descriptions and find the solutions they need in 40 Hour.
But, 40 Hour is also designed for experienced educators who are highly skilled at their craft, and questioning whether the increasing demands and pressure will allow them to stay until retirement. These members have witnessed so many changes to the profession that they barely recognize it from 10, 20, or 30 years ago. They need practical advice about how to make everything work (and support figuring out what they can realistically take off their plates.)
It’s also for folks who love organization and enjoy learning tips and hacks to be more efficient. These teachers join to make small tweaks to their existing systems, and collaborate with other like-minded educators to streamline even more and keep their teaching feeling fresh and creative.
And, 40 Hour is for teachers who don’t mind working a bit on their own time, but are tired of giving up ALL their evenings and weekends to do documentation, data collection, and other tasks that feel far-removed from helping kids. They want to do more meaningful work and less busywork. Also, some of our members know that working contractual hours isn’t realistic in their personal situation, and they’re just looking for ways to take 10 or so hours off their workweek. Others aren’t paying attention to hours at all: they just want to feel more effective at their jobs and less frazzled and exhausted.
It might seem impossible for one program to differentiate for alllll of these different needs, but…
There’s one thing all 40 Hour members have in common:
They’re educators who love the job and want to find a SUSTAINABLE approach, so they can stay in the field WITHOUT burning out.
So, 40 Hour provides a broad range of tips, strategies, editable templates, and other resources so you can find ideas that work for YOU and your teaching context.
Download only the resources that feel relevant and helpful to you each month, and take a few weeks to experiment with them. You can share ideas and troubleshoot with other members.
You’ll never lose access to the resources, so you can go back to anything you skipped in future years (or try out different ideas if you change grade levels or subject areas later on.)
Because of the wide variety of materials, there really is SOMETHING for EVERY K-12 teacher in 40 Hour. And if you join and find that it’s not a good fit, you can get a complete refund through Sept. 15th.
There are 4 sets of summer planning bonuses included with 40 Hour Full Year which are all about using your summer to get rested and re-energized. You can use them to make a plan for everything you want/need to do during your break, create healthy habits, get organized at home, and more.
But, you don’t have to start right away. The cohort kicks off July 1st, but lots of members take a break from everything work-related over the summer, and then look at all the July and August materials for back-to-school when they’re ready to begin planning. Start whenever it’s most convenient for you!
This is not a formal course. You don’t have to “keep up” or submit any assignments to us (unless your district requires you to). Use 40 Hour as a resource and community to give you ideas and support for managing your workload. Check in whenever you’d like and see what’s new.
And, it’s designed so you don’t have to spend a lot of time learning in order to get results. You’ll need about 30 minutes a month to explore the Core Concepts (most important ideas). You can either read the PDF or listen to the audio version. If you’d like, you can explore the 3 extension choices, but those are optional. You can create better systems and work habits just with the Core Concepts in 30 minutes a month.
With 40 Hour Full Year, you never lose access to the materials and can come back to things you skipped anytime. Revisit the optional extension choices later in the year, or even in future years. This program is designed to help you throughout your teaching career, no matter what, where, or how you’re teaching later on.
And remember, as a special bonus when you join this year’s cohort, you’ll receive a FREE 365 day unlimited pass to our 40 Hour AI trainings. The short videos in 40 Hour AI will help you feel confident about using artificial intelligence in an ethical way to help you streamline differentiation, lesson planning, assessment, and more.
So, if you teach K-12 general education, I’ll hope you’ll join us un 40 Hour Full Year or 40 Hour AI, or both! You can enroll on your own, and we accept school purchase orders, gift certificates, and DonorsChoose.
40 Hour Full Year is a professional development program worth up to 104 CEU hours, and will help you adapt and develop new pedagogies in the coming school year. Your job is changing: don’t be afraid to ask for the support and training you deserve.
So, that’s the update on 40 Hour this summer. I’ll be back on July 7 with a new Truth for Teachers podcast episode for you. Thanks for listening, and for supporting my work.
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