"Best Year Ever!" or Bust! Helping Teachers Succeed
This 30-episode podcast series is designed to help Uplift, Motivate, and Empower YOU (and other teachers) to Adopt a Powerful Mindset and Mission to make every year in the classroom the “BEST YEAR EVER!”—for you and your students—despite any and all challenges you encounter throughout your teaching career. I will also provide you with a Winning Game Plan and Proven Strategies that will provide you with more time to TEACH and your students more time to LEARN each school day. Finally, I believe listening to this podcast series will help you maintain or regain your passion and fire for teaching.
Episodes
31 episodes
Bonus Episode: The Babysitter Story
This is the bonus episode that I promised to share in Episode 3. It tells the story of the first time I played on a winning team and discovered the POWER OF TEAM. That influenced his teaching to use the team approach in his classroom.
Episode 1: Best Year Ever! or Bust Overview
In this episode I give you a quick overview of what this podcast series is about and will describe what "Best Year Ever!" looked like in my classroom and have you start creating a clear vision of what you will want it to look like in you...
Episode 2: The Importance of Creating a Shared Vision/Mission With Your Students
This episode explains WHY it is important to think of yourself as a leader with a team to lead in your classroom. I will explain the necessary steps to convert your GRAND Vision into a SHARED Vision and Mission that will engage your team...
Episode 3: Tap Into the Power of Team
This episode will discuss the importance and power of using a Team Approach to tap into the power of team. This will help create a positive, safe learning environment where your students feel a strong sense of belonging that will help them thri...
Episode 4: Take Time to Build Your Team
This episode will discuss the importance of taking time to start building your group of students into a close-knit team by using games and icebreakers to get to know each other in fun playful way. This is the first crucial step needed in the pr...
Episode 5: Teach, Model, Practice Team Procedures
In this episode you will learn how well-defined procedures will help cut down on frustration and wasted time in your classroom which will give you more time to teach and more importantly, it will give your students more time to learn.
Episode 6: Establish and Enforce Team Rules
In this episode you will learn why it is important to establish and consistently enforce team rules and consequences in your classroom to help create a safe learning environment. This strategy will cut down on a lot of wasted learning time and ...
Episode 8: Teachers Make a Difference Every Day!
In this episode, I explain WHY I believe there should be billboards blanketing our highways nationwide driving home the powerful message that TEACHERS MAKE A DIFFERENCE EVERY DAY!! However, until that happens, I also explain why I believe it’s ...
Episode 7: Setting the Table for Success - 30 Day Challenge
In this Episode, l will help you create your own personalized plan and challenge you to implement it for 30 days to help set the table for success in your classroom.
Episode 9: You Snooze, You Lose...Why Good Attendance is a MUST to Succeed in School and Beyond
In this episode I share the first word in the 3-Word Doable Plan that will help your students make this and every year in school the "Best Year Ever!" I will explain some of the many benefits they will create for themsel...
Episode 10: Attitude (Part 1) - Attitude is Everything
In this episode I will explain Part One of the second word in the 3-Word Doable Plan to help your students create the habit to come to school each day looking for things to get excited and happy about.
Episode 11: Attitude (Part 2) - Believe You Can Achieve
In this episode I explain the importance of taking time daily to help your students develop a strong growth mindset.
Episode 12: Effort - Be Like Edison and Keep Trying Until You Succeed!
In this episode, I explain the importance of learning from your mistakes, not giving up too soon, and to keep giving effort until you reach your goals.
Episode 13: Don't Be an A-S-S! Tell Your Students You Care About Them!
In this episode I explain why it is important to show and tell your students you care about them throughout the year.
Episode 14: Showing Gratitude is a Big Part of Having a Great Attitude!
In this episode, I share a few strategies to help build a powerful gratitude mindset for your students and you in the classroom.
Episode 15: The Gift of New Beginnings!
In this episode, I share the importance of making your students understand that their past doesn't equal their future, and no matter their past in school, every year is a new beginning where they can work to make it their Best Year Ever!
Episode 16: Why It's Important to Complete the Powerful Trifecta!
In this episode, I explain the importance of partnering up with parents to make it the "Best Year Ever!" for your students.
Episode 17: Shower Your Students & Their Parents with Lots of Praise, Recognition, & Validation!
In this episode I talk about the importance of creating healthy relationships with students and their parents by consistently using Praise/Recognition/Validation.
Episode 18: Three Must Do's to Help Get Parents More Involved!
In this episode I share "3 Must Do's" plus three more strategies to help you create a positive and powerful partnership with your parents to make it the "Best Year Ever!" for all involved - especially your students.
Episode 19: Peeling the Onion - Layer 4 - Parent Participation Pays Off for Everyone!
In this Episode, I share three more strategies to complete this 4-part mini-series on how to get parents involved and stay involved throughout the school year which is a Win-Win for all.
Episode 20: Ride 'Em Cowboy! Don't Get 'Bucked Off' When Life Gets a Little Messy!
In this episode, I share some quick tips to not let any challenges that pop up throughout the school year knock you (and your team) off your mission to make it the "Best Year Ever!"
Episode 21: "Best Year Ever!" Would Be a Bust Without Having Some Challenges to Conquer!
In this episode, I share some of the challenges I had to conquer as a teacher that continually forced me to grow and made being a teacher a lot more exciting.
Episode 22: Challenges Today Can Lead to Victories Tomorrow!
In this episode, I will share the importance of embracing challenges today that will lead to Big Victories tomorrow - or sometime down the road!