314 - Build School Podcasts - with Stevie Frank

There are several media outlets to share thoughts and knowledge today, but one that has continued to grow in popularity is podcasting! Guess what…you’re listening to one right now! Let’s jump on board with podcasting in schools - whether it’s educators or students podcasting can both be fun and valuable! Today we’ll discuss how instructional coaches can make a push for podcasting in their schools and how they can build future podcasters.

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Justin Thomas: 0:00

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Katie Ritter: 0:28

Aloha I'm Katie Ritter.

Justin Thomas: 0:29

And I'm Justin Thomas. And this is the restart recharge podcast, a podcast by coaches for coaches, we bring the tips and tricks to help you in your everyday work as instructional coach or whatever they call your school.

Katie Ritter: 0:39

So hopefully you're gonna leave this episode with us today feeling just a little bit less on your own coaching

Justin Thomas: 0:44

Island. Yes, and there are several different media outlets to share thoughts and ideas and knowledge today but one is continuing to grow in popularity is podcasting. And guess what? We're actually on a podcast right now, which means you're listening to a podcast. So if you didn't know if you didn't know, yeah, if you just randomly stumbled upon us here, but let's jump on board with podcasting in schools now. So whether it's the educators or student podcasts, they can both be fun and valuable. Today we're gonna discuss how instructional coaches can make a push for podcasting in their schools, and how they can build a future podcasting crew. So today, we have Stevie Frank joining us today and Stevie is a digital learning coach in her school in Zionsville, Indiana. Stevie has 14 years of education background and earned her master's degree in literacy education from Indiana University at Indianapolis. She has recently been named one of the EdTech Magazine's Top 30k through 12 influencers to follow. And when she is not learning to become an educator for all students, she's marking off the travels with her family. So welcome in Stevie.

Katie Ritter: 1:45

Welcome.

Stevie Frank: 1:46

Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, we

Katie Ritter: 1:48

are really glad to have you with us. CVX. And congratulations to on that recent recognition. It's top three to watch. So I feel like we're extra special to kind of have you on the pod now at this point. So congratulations on that. Okay, so let's jump in. We know because here we are on a podcast. But we're believers in podcast but Siva, give us just a little bit of background, like what got you interested in podcasting, and in particular, made you kind of extra passionate about helping empower students in our schools to embrace this media platform?

Stevie Frank: 2:24

Well, first of all, thank you so much for this opportunity to be able to speak with you. I love your podcast, and I have been a listener, I, I feel like I was on my own little coaching island. So when I found your podcast, I was like, getting on with these great ideas. And you really helped me so much in my personal craft. So thank you so much. fangirling. Very excited.

Katie Ritter: 2:48

Thank you.

Stevie Frank: 2:50

So yeah, so great question how I got started. So about four years ago, I would say my husband came home and he was like Stevie, I was listening to NPR. Were they going to be around here? We, my son is named Kai from Kira doll. I don't know if that rings to anybody. But yeah, so huge fans. And he was like, there was a thing that was called Student podcasting, podcast challenge. And he was like, that sounds really cool. And I'm like it does and, you know, sometimes he you know, everybody says things of like spouses or friends. And then if you hear it again, you're like, I'm going to do it. Well, then a parent emailed me and was like, you seem like you're kind of into tech. And so I heard this thing called the NPR student podcast challenge. And I was like, All right, like, it's time to do the thing. So I jumped in with zero knowledge base about I mean, I listen to podcasts love podcasts personally as I consumed them. But thinking about like, creating one was like, extremely daunting. So I am such a huge believer in a strong PLN professional learning network as known on Twitter, or is it x now? I'm not really sure what it's called today.

Katie Ritter: 3:59

I don't know. I can't keep I can't keep up. What are we

Stevie Frank: 4:02

calling it? Are we calling it twigs, alright. So through that knowledge base of people that were willing to reach out to me and meet with me on calls or any of that amazing things, that was really how I was able to build the base of like, to do the thing. So ever since I learned I was like, Okay, let me get back to the community that gave back to me so much. And so that's why I love getting on podcasts like this. I love presenting on podcasting, because for me, it was this beast of a project that I had no knowledge based on and so because people have helped me I want to continue to help others. I love that I

Katie Ritter: 4:42

so I also listened to NPR for years and years. And I heard I would always hear about them promoting the student podcast challenge and I always thought like, this would be amazing and I wasn't when I first heard about I wasn't necessarily in a position to like really move it along with a wasn't actively coaching necessarily in schools anymore. I was overseeing our team. But so will you tell people more about it. So if they're interested, and I know people are gonna get interested when they hear this podcast with us, so we give us just a little bit more of a rundown of what, what was involved with that project and kind of how it sort of turned out for you and the students that you are working with.

Stevie Frank: 5:20

I would love to. So the NPR student podcast challenge is you there's a lot of I would say stipulations and kind of like hoops to jump through in order to even put it into there. So what they do and their mission and vision is to be like, you can have your kids create anything. Their website has a plethora of resources. And so that was another reason why I love to talk about them is because you go to their website, the NPR student podcast challenge, you can Google it, you can Bing it. And really what pops up is just this amazing resources that you can use, like tomorrow. So it goes over, it gives you graphic organizers, it gives you different presentations, it gives you like, here's some tips and tricks. They even have a student podcast about how to how to create student podcasts created by right I mean, so talking about like the echo of everything here, right. And so they just have such a great resources. And so then they have different categories. So they have like one for middle school, and then one for high school. And then they have another one for college. I think that they just started a year or two ago. And then it goes through this like rigorous amount of like people listening in and judges and it goes through a rubric. And then they come out with like the top winner. And then they have what are called honorable mentions. And so I have had a group of girls who actually received an honorable mention, like Easter

Katie Ritter: 6:48

deletions. What was their podcasts about?

Stevie Frank: 6:52

Oh, my gosh, was one of my favorite. I feel like every time I talk about a group of students with their podcasts, I'm like, This is my favorite, but this one was my favorite. And theirs was so they read a book called Star Girl by Jerry Spinelli. I don't know if anybody's read that. But it was about this, like anonymous little girl who wanted to spread kindness. And so she wrote letters and anonymous people and like, left him in certain areas. And so this group was inspired. And they wanted to do that as well. So they were completely anonymous left like little anonymous notes. And then they came out to say who they were totally three people in the building. And they were like, how did it feel? And like one of them was our principal. Another one was like our media specialist. And another person was just a student. And they were like, it was us were the ones that were given the get, you know, given the notes. And then they were just talking about why you should be kind to people, like you just don't know what they've got going on in their world. And so the times that we can take to the kind was their mission and vision, and they're still actually in the background doing it in classrooms today. And that was like three years ago. So such a cool group. Yeah,

Katie Ritter: 7:59

that's awesome. Yeah. Well, thank you for sharing that little bit of information. Do you remember CVX? About what time of it? Because I think they do it around the same time of year, every year. Am I mistaken? About what time of year so people can stay tuned and keep their eyes peeled this year?

Stevie Frank: 8:15

Yeah, great, great idea. So it's usually due, I would say around March. They have like the deadline, I think the one for college might be a little bit sooner than that. And then I feel like it's kind of fluctuated, it's usually just in the springtime is when their deadline is due.

Katie Ritter: 8:33

Okay, so good time of year when this episode airs in a few weeks. So whenever this airs, it'll still be false. So good time to get your podcast started so that you can then enter in the spring and have a few episodes maybe under your belt.

Justin Thomas: 8:52

Yeah, that'd be really good. Also, too, as we've talked, obviously, we mentioned with the NPR and there's so many great things about podcasting in general for educators and students. But how do we get started? That's the big question, right? Obviously, you had kind of those signs that continuously kept coming up. So you said, Okay, I'll finally do it. But how do we maybe get that push for educators to start getting students to podcast as the instructional coach in the district?

Stevie Frank: 9:17

Oh, gosh, the million dollar question, right. I feel like so I just finished up professionally, I just did Microsoft coaching program. It was right before estate and out in Philly. And so I just finished that and I was like, Okay, well, what's my goal going into the year and I feel like right now in face of AI and then face of a lot of, you know, really just kind of rethinking assessments and rethinking, you know, how we're using technology moving forward. Something I really want to lean into with my teachers is if your assessment can be recreated by AI or you know, really thinking into those deeper, deeper levels of Samer, or a depth of knowledge and you're really started thing to think about if students could create or recreate or redesign something that can't be done by AI, then that's what you want to now assess, right? So if we're saying, Okay, well, if AI can do this, and you're asking it, can it create a podcast? It can't. So really kind of leaning into teachers and saying, you know, now we've really got to kind of rethink that assessment and their project and see, what are we assessing? I think is kind of a push for that as well, that kind of just leans into that deeper level. I think also looking at it of just saying, you know, how many of our teachers listen to podcasts? And so I think that's a big part, too, is do you enjoy podcasts? Yes. Would you enjoy with your students? And I feel like a lot of times, I've gotten the well, yeah, that would be so cool. But I don't know where to start? Well, I think that's where if you're listening, I always tell people that come in on my presentations, like, Okay, now we're friends, We're BFFs we're family. So you can always like connect with me and be like, Stevie, I need to be on I need to, you know, jump on a zoom, jump on a team's call, jump on a, you know, whatever. So that we can connect, so I can talk to you hear was my process, here's exactly what I did. On my websites, DB frank.com, I have an entire Resources tab that every single slide deck, I've used every single graphic organizer I use with students, it's all out there, and it's all free. So you know, go and grab it. And sometimes I knew I was that type of teacher, I was like, Okay, I need to see what am I going to do on day one? Day two, what does this look like? I know we're going to deviate from it. But I at least need an outline of what it looks like. And so I have that PowerPoint presentation out there, too. So if you're like, Okay, well, where do we start? I would just say, start listening with your students, you know, find a lot of student friendly podcasts again, I found a ton. And that's available on my website. And so have students listen to podcasts? What are podcasts? And then get them to start thinking about okay, well, would you want to create one, and then the students, you know, again, that really upset motivation, factor with them, that authentic audience piece, you know, all those buzz terms, you know, start Wow, kind of going out. So really, when you start to get your kids involved in it, you'll start to realize that that's something that they want to do, too.

Katie Ritter: 12:24

I love what I love your gold to about, I think it's a really cool way to bring to very like real authentic topics together with the goal you have like AI and Oh, podcasts. This is something I cannot just create for you. It certainly might help aid in the like content or discussion preparation process. But it's not something that kids would be able to just spit out a finished product with this paragraph or whatever it may be. So I think that's really cool. And then I just want to reiterate your website too, because it sounds like you have and we saw it a little bit looking at your website, but some really excellent resources specifically around this topic. So to spell it your first name is spelled s t e v i e, correct? Yes. Correct. And then Frank is F ra n k? to spell it for everyone? So Stevie frank.com. You said?

Stevie Frank: 13:21

Yes. Okay, great.

Justin Thomas: 13:22

We'll make sure we link that on this podcast

Katie Ritter: 13:24

on the show notes and all the resources, too, but yeah, just want to make sure if people not I know not everyone gets to the show notes. So sure to spell it out for folks. Go back and check it out later. So okay, Stevie. Before we dig in to maybe some recommendations about specific podcasts and then tips for coaches to help teachers create podcasts. We're gonna take a short break from our sponsor.

Justin Thomas: 13:48

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Katie Ritter: 14:21

Welcome back to the restart recharge podcast. We've got Katie Ritter, Justin Thomas, here is your co host. We are super excited to be digging in about a topic near and dear to our hearts, all about podcasts with our guests, CB frank here. So CVU have just been talking to us about some great tips and ideas to help teachers get started and really bring home the reality of why podcasts are really relevant right now. Everybody's listening to them. We know what they are our teachers connect with them a lot of times, and we're also faced with some interesting changes to critical needs to switch up our assessments. which makes podcasts really relevant right now? Maybe even more so than previously. But so you also mentioned before we took a break, you made a suggestion about listening to some really great student friendly podcasts. I know, you said that you have some recommendations on your website, but could you maybe give us a few great podcasts a, I'm gonna ask you kind of a two parter some great podcasts that are the student friendly versions that you are recommending here than I might say, just like educator podcasts that you listen to maybe you know, one or two that might be good to share the names of them. And then we'll just take some fun, like personal podcasts that maybe you listen to that you can tell us. So three parts student friendly, educator friendly. And then just general entertainment. three part question.

Stevie Frank: 15:51

No, I was like, was prepared for the professional ones. So student friendly. There was a completely there's a website, and I'm trying to think of the name of it. Again, it's on my website, I can read to go find it. But it is one that has like so many different podcasts on it. So what I love about that website is like, you can click on it, kids can click on it, and then be like, Okay, well, this is kind of what I was thinking, but it has on there six minutes. And a lot of students really loved that one. A lot of kids like once I started introducing them to podcasts, they were like, now I make my my parents go home and like listen to it in the car, like whenever we call six minutes. It's called six minutes. And I'm gonna find and I will find it for us here. The actual name of the website because that was the police to I was like, Well, if I can find a website that houses a lot of different websites, I would be super helpful. And I also created a module as well in Canvas. So if Canvas is your LMS if you look at my name, Stevie Frank, you can just add that module because it's in the comments, you can add that module to yours, as well. And so then it's super easy. That's awesome. Stevie

Katie Ritter: 17:01

is that Canvas module? Is that that student facing to help teach students about how to podcast is that correct?

Stevie Frank: 17:10

So those are just kid friendly podcast. Oh, gotten that much. Yeah. So if you just had like a lot of different links on there. And so I, I was able to find this show. So it's called the ZGZ M shows.com. And that one has, like so many different webs are so many different kid friendly podcasts, like they have ones. I'm like going through there. And I'm like, like young Ben Franklin, for example. Like it talks about like a lot of the founding fathers and just some like secret tea kind of things about them. It has like the hollow on there. So those were just ones that some students I know really gravitated towards, in regards to ones that they really liked to do. So I like to just give them lots of options. Because as personally, I like to have a lot of options to you know, just because you liked this podcast, maybe I wasn't vibing with it. So I like to offer them a lot.

Katie Ritter: 18:04

That's great. And say the name of that website that kind of curates a bunch in one one more time.

Stevie Frank: 18:08

Yeah. GZ M shows.com.

Katie Ritter: 18:12

Okay. Awesome. And then do you have other? Like, maybe not the the kid friendly, but do you have any podcasts that you would recommend to other educators, coaches or teachers? But more on that like teacher side necessarily than to student side?

Stevie Frank: 18:29

Yeah, so those I have like, I have so many I like looked up on my Spotify, so I made sure I remember. Because there's so many Well, first and foremost, I love yours as a coach myself. I'm like, Okay, I need all of the help. And so I would definitely recommend yours and I have recommended yours to other coaches in the district. So and I love the digital learning podcast from Matt Miller and Holly Clark, that's very, you know, get a lot of information from theirs. I love also Monica burns, Easy Ad Tech podcast. I feel like she's like, here's a little bit of information and I just like how her style is a little bit more conversational. Teach hustle inspire Shawn Woodley is one that I really enjoy his podcasts that was more of like one that I kind of look to for more of like professionally if you will of like building my brand and how I was forward facing with people that was a great one. The doctor will show is amazing as well. My ed tech life is another amazing one. I could go on for days but those are like my main ones.

Katie Ritter: 19:34

Oh, those are great suggestions. Yeah, I hadn't heard of a couple of those. So that's great. And then okay, then just the fun side what about some like personal feel free you can like dish on all the smart that you may or may not listen to. So

Stevie Frank: 19:49

I'm actually have real housewives fan. So if there's anybody I've watched all the franchises and love those. So there's a couple of those that I like listening to And then I've also really enjoyed the minimalists podcast. So something of myself that I don't like just a bunch of stuff, and they had like a show on Netflix, and a documentary where they like, packed all their stuff up. And then if they didn't unpack it, within a year, they just purged it and got rid of it. And this was something I just, I'm the type person where I'm like, I'm going to throw the things away, I'm not going to keep them. And I was just like, oh, my gosh, this was so great. So it kind of like, leveled me up a little bit more where I'm like, do I need this thing? Or do I, you know, do I just want it?

Katie Ritter: 20:36

I'm a person who asked to keep it for a long time, and then ask myself if it brings me joy or not. And then struggle when I get rid of it.

Justin Thomas: 20:43

So I have like four corners in the house and moved into a new house like a year and a half ago, and it's still four corners of just stuff piled in me all around. Yeah, yeah. She's thrilled. Thrilled. Not really, but yeah.

Stevie Frank: 20:58

So I'm, I'm in the perjure. Like, it's bad. Like, even when my kids come home with artwork, and I'm like, like,

Katie Ritter: 21:06

you're my husband, like, what are you doing? Um, you know, yeah, we don't need it. Yeah, you're my husband. Anytime I can't find anything. I'm like, where is it? Did you get rid of it?

Justin Thomas: 21:21

I don't know. Awesome. Well, as a avid listener of the show, you know that we do like to finish our show with our top three tips. I didn't get to do like the little fun microphone thing.

Katie Ritter: 21:34

But now we have space we can bring in like actual drums or something. Oh, you're right.

Justin Thomas: 21:39

space for activities around here. Now. We got to usually just use like a table. And now we got like the whole, like chairs set up and everything. And Jordan went on bought the core for a table.

Stevie Frank: 21:52

Between Two Ferns.

Justin Thomas: 21:53

Oh, yes. Yeah, it was Zach delfont. Just started doing things like that. Just wild off the CUSP questions, and you got to figure out how to answer it.

Katie Ritter: 22:06

Okay, maybe that'll be the happy hours.

Justin Thomas: 22:08

Okay, that might be a happy hour show. I like I like the way you're thinking Stevie, because now we might have more might branch out on that. But alright, let's get back to real topic here. What are your top three tips for any of those instructional coaches that are looking to try and get some podcasting going with their teachers with the students as well,

Stevie Frank: 22:26

I would say and this is true with just anything, build that relationship first, if you come in, if you come in cold or super high, or somebody and you're like you need to do this, what you're doing, it's not gonna go anywhere, it has to be authentic, it has to be organic. And it has to start with that relationship based. So if you have that relationship with your teachers, and you know, you're like, Well, hey, I kind of did this in my classroom. If that organically starts to ask to have them ask questions, you've got a great window into it. So I would say building those relationships with them. And not trying to force it. So I send out newsletters every two weeks to my teachers. That could be a topic right? So you could just throw it in there and say, Hey, this, you know, I did student podcasting. Maybe student podcast challenge is coming up for NPR, if you're interested, let me know. I would then I have like, put one of my like, one of my student created podcasts, and they're just to kind of get some, you know, so they're like, Well, what does that sound like? And then if they listen to one, they're gonna be like, Oh, wow, how powerful is this? Yeah, I love

Katie Ritter: 23:28

that adding the student example. I think that's great.

Stevie Frank: 23:32

Yeah. And that is like, you know, we can talk about it for days, but unless, you know, like, hearing a kid, like forward facing, I think, yeah, start where they are, that would be my second part, where if they're not ready for it, or if they're just like, well, let's kind of see how this goes. I've had some teachers just use flip. So they're not really going into like the nitty gritty of like, here's different tracks, and here's how to add music. And then here, you know, I didn't get into that with them, I just said, well, let's create a flip, you know, let's take a look at an assessment or something that you're like, This is boring, I'm not looking forward to teaching this, I'm not looking forward to grading this. And then they created a flip it was very, very quick two to three minutes and that was you know, with persuasive, for example. So just starting where they are is going to kind of help you to you know, push that in anytime I go into a teacher's classroom, I always want to make sure that I am adding value, whatever that looks like to them at that moment. If I had a goal of mine that I wanted to reach with that teacher, but that wasn't what will really happened at the end. I need to think of okay, well, I went into this conversation really wanting them to use like Soundtrap or student podcasting, and that just didn't work out because the teacher was not ready for it, then how am I going to add value to their conversation because teachers is time is such a precious commodity. They can never get back time ever. And so I need to make sure when I leave that conversation that I've added some sort of value to their day.

Katie Ritter: 25:01

I love that those are great, too. I have a couple of questions. Have you ever or you've done a lot of presenting and talking about, you know, this topic at different conferences and on different podcasts? Have you ever heard of anyone doing it? As you know, because I think you're right, I think you hit the nail on the head, like, yeah, as a coach, we may see like the value that this could bring. But we also don't have our own students to necessarily do it with. So we're kind of leaning and waiting on the teacher who's willing to give it a try to hopefully plant the seed and then let it grow around the building. But in the in the meantime, if you don't necessarily have teachers who are willing to take a bite on a project like this, have you ever seen anyone or again, done it yourself? Do it is almost more like a student club? Where it's kind of like an after school activity? You know, maybe it's around the project of the NPR podcast challenge or just its own kind of club. Have you seen that workout in any way? And if so, could you speak to that a little bit what that might look like?

Stevie Frank: 26:03

Absolutely, yes. So Becky Barrett, actually, she is in the Twitter ex Twix world right now. And so she did that with her students. She created a I believe it was a semester long, or maybe it was a quarter long class. And she worked with students, it was an elective, and then they created their own podcast through that. And so she found a lot of success with it. I think, also, when you have a club like that, you get automatic buy in which is nice. So then that way, instead of just being like, Okay, well, this is the assessment. It's like, okay, the kids chose to come into that club. I host a student group as well. They we call it Zeke squad, we're putting Zionsville and you know, Indian or Zionsville and Geek Squad together to Zeke squad. And so within that, we just were like, Okay, we're gonna have this Zeke squad, so per se, and just say, Okay, well, we're gonna have that little group, create a podcast. And so that's my mission and vision with them coming into the new year. So we always kind of tackle something like at tech world, or, you know, technology based. And so that's kind of my goal for them. And I have seen it go really well.

Katie Ritter: 27:09

I love that. I think that's just a cool way that like, you know, also maybe that a coach could get in and help make an impact with podcasting a little bit in a very no threat way to any teacher that also might make them see like, you know, if kids are talking about it, right, a lot of times teachers are willing to do stuff, because the kids are talking about what they did in a previous class. So that just might be another thing. And then I also had an idea, as you were talking that I think this is a bit more of a heavy lift, but I'm curious, like what this would look like, if a school maybe more of like a high school, maybe junior high, but I feel like it'd be more of a high school thing, where you almost, you know, so many places do video announcements, could you flip it and do podcast announcements, right? Or it's just like, you know, a little five minute update. I mean, announcements aren't ever read like that long, but they're typically read at the beginning of every day, is there a way that, you know, schools might be able to record it and publish a podcast, as you know, that even the like community and parents could subscribe to? I don't know. So I don't know, if you've seen anyone do anything like that? I definitely feel like it's a much bigger lift on from like, a daily perspective, to seems like maybe a cool way to bring our schools into like, you know, more modern times.

Stevie Frank: 28:23

And especially creating that bridge from school to home. Yeah, I think is important. Anytime that we can create opportunities for students, or for parents to kind of tune in to what their kiddos are doing. I think that's, that's gold, you know, anytime we can create those opportunities is huge. I've seen somebody do that. And I've seen great success with it to really have Yeah, I have heard wonderful stories about everything. I feel like, you know, presenting on podcasting for so long. It's like, I feel like we're all kind of

Katie Ritter: 28:53

Yeah, garnering some great. So then, if somebody was kind of interested in doing something like that, or something on a more like larger school scale, what maybe advice or information have you gleaned from talking to other people who have done maybe that intensive like a daily or multiple times a week type of engagement?

Stevie Frank: 29:11

It would definitely have to be from a coach perspective, a coach has to do it if they're, you know, as long as they're not in the classroom. I have also seen like, somebody was like, Oh, well, I was a classroom teacher, or I am a classroom teacher. And I'm doing this and I'm like, That's too much of a heavy lift. And creating that availability time, because as you know, with podcasting, the editing process is very extensive, right, that's where all of the time comes in. Just as in writing, and so I think that's one of the parts where if it's like a coach, or maybe even like an admin, if they're of interest into it, I feel like you've got it is one of those roles would be a lot easier to get that up and rolling and then good. You've also if again, if it's like an elective sort and kids want to come in and know then you're kind of going through this process of say Okay, well, these students are super, you know, responsible. And so working with them on that will help that process go a little bit easier on the at the back end, high school, a lot of kids are looking for those extracurricular things. And that would be a great portfolio builder, right. So if they're trying to get into a certain college or you know, trying to add something to their resume, that would be a great incentive for them to kind of build that on to.

Unknown: 30:25

Awesome, great.

Katie Ritter: 30:26

Well, CV, thank you so much. Is there anything else that you want to share before we kind of wrap it up that you'd like to share about the topic of podcasting in schools with our students or just anything about what you're doing in your work right now?

Stevie Frank: 30:41

I just want to say thanks for tuning in, they used to listening, you know, time is up, such as precious precious commodity. So thanks for taking the time to listen to my journey. Like I said at the beginning, you're we're besties now, so if you ever need anything along your podcasting journey, and you need some help and support, I have zoomed in teams meeting Google mates, I've done it all with people that coaches that have been trying to do this into their district, and I will, I will get granular with you, we will be like here's how here's exactly the products that I use. Here's the EdTech tool that I use. Here's the graphic organizer, I had students create, you know, to get to the thing, so we are all better together, I think.

Katie Ritter: 31:20

Awesome. Yeah. And don't forget, check out her website at Stevie frank.com Stevie with an eye E. And CV. Thank you so much for being with us today. Yeah, I really enjoyed it. And I will

Justin Thomas: 31:33

say that it is true. We met at San Antonio and Steve was like, Oh, by the way, there's like a happy hour social thing going on going on tonight too. So it's very true that we were best friends with Stevie once you once you

Katie Ritter: 31:45

got reconnected now.

Justin Thomas: 31:46

Yeah, yeah,

Unknown: 31:47

I am like I am the connector. That is that is what I do.

Justin Thomas: 31:52

That's true, any, any conferences or anything, obviously this comes on like September, but anything in the fall or, or beyond, like if etc, everything like that, that you'll you'll be at.

Stevie Frank: 32:05

Um, so I will be going through a couple of. So this is going to be back in July. If you're listening to this later, I'm actually going to be presenting at Ignite conference, which is located in Lafayette, Indiana, and that's going to be on Tuesday and Wednesday. And then I'm going to be presenting at an ice conference which is also located in Indiana Franklin, Indiana in October. And then which I suppose is the affiliate. So here in Indiana, I'm excited to be a part of that experience. And then I will be going to heck, which is the Indiana based edtech conference for the state. And then I will be going to that's in

Katie Ritter: 32:43

November I want to start is in October, October. Okay. Yes. Thank you. It's called.

Stevie Frank: 32:50

It's called HEC H ecc. Exactly. Exactly, yes. So excited to join there. I'm hoping I just put a couple proposals in so I'm hoping to get in to hack as well. And then TCE. I put in a few proposals but I will also be attending to that because I love to TCA last year it was I felt like it was big, but it was small enough to where I could build really good relationships with people and so I really enjoyed that. That I don't know that vibe. So yeah, turning

Katie Ritter: 33:23

we had was it this season. We did TCA recap earlier before the break, but so there's

Stevie Frank: 33:29

you guys did because I heard it, it was great.

Katie Ritter: 33:33

So and that is like end of January beginning of February Nish when that conference is for anyone looking for their conferences.

Justin Thomas: 33:41

Perfect. Yeah. Well, Stevie, thank you again for joining us here. And we really appreciate you coming on talk a little bit about podcasting.

Stevie Frank: 33:49

Well, thanks for having me. I was so appreciate it, guys. So it's great to chat.

Justin Thomas: 33:52

Yeah, absolutely. So obviously another great episode coming in your ways. We're in the second half of our season three here. So just stay tuned. And two weeks. We'll have another one coming up.

Katie Ritter: 34:04

Okay, awesome. So in the meantime, while you're waiting, be sure to subscribe to restart recharge, wherever you listen to podcasts and follow us on all the social media at our our coach cast and you can check out our website at restart, recharge podcast.com to get the show notes.

Justin Thomas: 34:20

Yeah. And always feel free to reach out to us and let us know what any of the topics you want to have us discuss it whether it's on Twitter or x or whatever the heck they're calling it now or if you see as a conference flag us down and come say hello and talk about what are some topics you might want here

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attack coach collective All right, we did

Unknown: 34:52

it and we only have one only one major with the you guys were super seamless through that I'm like oh, so that just pops up over here at least it wasn't the one that was the one device

Justin Thomas: 35:06

that wasn't recording anything so that's that's good. We still have both recordings so are your ears okay though because that was something I would have totally done like get up to go and just

Katie Ritter: 35:16

yes they popped out it wasn't like when I get my belt caught on a door handle I can't tell you how many I get my belt loop caught on like the like the handles that you have to like, like this literally like sling shot and whiplash Yeah. Like how am I not learn hips away from what's going on but

Justin Thomas: 35:55

yeah like,

Katie Ritter: 35:58

it just feels better when I say it in like

Justin Thomas: 36:01

photography tips. I was like Bruce buffers

Unknown: 36:12

sorry, okay. Katie out