EP. 03 Virtual Teaching Ideas To Boost School Culture

Meet Jimmy, a high school leadership advisor & VP implementing creative virtual learning ideas that creates stronger school culture, digitally. During this episode Jimmy will give actionable fun ideas to utilize social media, instagram, tiktok and even creative games to keep students engaged with their teachers and one another.

In addition, Jimmy will touch on the administration side of managing social behavior in this new digital classroom world we have been thrusted into.

Listen to today's episode and we promise you'll walk away with some amazing ideas.

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Transcript

spk_0:   0:05
What's going on, Everyone. My name is Brian Williams, and welcome to the rocks are teachers podcast. Let's rock! So teachers, administrators and counselors are just now coming back from spring break. But instead of going to their classrooms that they are jumping into the world of virtual teaching, facing huge learning curves challenges from managing zoom calls with over 30 kids teaching parents out to teach, creating and sustaining school culture and just, well, checking in on your kiddos. So today I decided to invite one of the most creative guys I know who seriously can make light of any adversity thrown his way. He is a leadership advisor in vice principal at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, and he also sits on our think kindness board of directors. His name is Jimmy Glitch. And let me tell you, this interview will leave you walking away with some amazing fun ideas to help make virtual learning and teaching fun. So if you like this episode, please be sure to subscribe to our podcast and also share it with others that you think would just benefit from Jimmy's creative idea bombshells that he is about to drop so without further delay. I'm your host, Brian Williams. Let's get started, Jimmy. Hailing all the way from the ghost town also known as Las Vegas right now. Thanks for jumping on the rock star teacher podcast.

spk_1:   2:03
Thanks, Brian. Yeah, it's Ah. It's a different look when you drive up and down the strip right now that people are used to here in Vegas. Oh,

spk_0:   2:09
I can't imagine. Are you gonna take some trips up and down down the streets with your kids?

spk_1:   2:14
Absolutely. No way. We're probably gonna head down there at night because they've turned off all the lights, so I usually drive down the strip All the lights are off to. So I mean, the only thing is the street lights and the stoplights. So should be a different experience when you, uh, for this

spk_0:   2:30
luck, sir. Is the bean still shining bright? No, they turned it on. Wow. You think that would be the one thing they like? Hey, way still got that? Even Vegas from the thought This is gonna be something your kids are gonna remember for the rest of our lives is a Vegas. Turn off the lights,

spk_1:   2:48
everything. Fremont's tree. Everything is off. It's, uh I mean, I guess I mean power The power will still gonna come if they leave stuff on. So they got everything turned off.

spk_0:   2:58
Well, I guess that makes sense. You know, one of the other silver linings, all this is a whole global warming. There's more cars off the roads, planes not flying as much. Cruise ships not moving well, so make it. Hopefully a tiny dent, no global warming. I also see more people like outside walking, riding their bikes, dogs now at the house, or probably loving this being like I get to go for walks every day. This is amazing.

spk_1:   3:26
Unless you have the world's laziest Labrador like I do who is very her naps have been impacted by, uh by us being home all day. Usually she gets a solid 8 to 10 hours of sleep each day, which she hasn't gotten.

spk_0:   3:42
Oh, too. Well, hey, let's give everyone a little bit of a background on on you. Um, so Jimmy's sits on our board at think kindness. Hey, actually traveled with us to Ghana and kind of fell in love with the mission there. Said he wanted to get more involved at the time, he was the leadership advisor at Bishop Minogue High School here in Reno, Nevada. And now since then, kind of ah, moved up. And you are the vice principal at Bishop Gorman High School down in Las Vegas. You still set on our board, and he plans all of our global Africa trips. And so he's kind of like the right hand man to think kindness, but really Heads up is the go to person for all of our global mission trips that schools across the country take part it. When I was thinking of someone wanted to bring on the show that have created some unique tactics and implemented some strategies to this whole virtual teaching world that's been thrust upon us. He was definitely one of the top people I wanted to bring on. So thanks again for jumping on taking the time out of your day. I appreciate it.

spk_1:   4:53
What? This'd he'll be busy for a little while. I'm happy.

spk_0:   5:03
Yeah, so all right, leadership. You are used. Thio. Bring on a level e type personality people. Throwing them on a room where the energy is infectious is inspiring. It creates all these ideas. The leadership team creates culture community Uh, if they create some of the things that kids literally remember about their high school years for the rest of their lives, from dances and pep rallies and assemblies. How are you Creek Still keeping that energy alive within your leadership team?

spk_1:   5:33
Uh, so in my role as so as the director of CIA activities in my role, my job is is basically in the day to day just student life. You know, it's it's getting kids, you know, excited to be at school. It's, you know, making sure the kids are having an enjoyable experience. So I could ask myself that question when we went to this virtual world like, how am I gonna continue to do these things, you know, through my phone screen through my computer screen, Uh, and what we have, what we came up with was the first thing we sat and was all the research that you know is out there when it comes to digital learning is you have to try and keep some semblance of normals. Keep kids, uh, you know, feeling like, yes, they're at home. They're not. This isn't but at least there's some things that it still feel normal to that. So what we started off with this week was our virtual spirit week. So just like we have a Spirit week for homecoming or for prom for having a virtual spirit beak. Yesterday was movie Monday where kids were supposed to recreate a scene from a movie and then tag tag us in it and we got a ton of submissions and we picked a winner. And today is Tic Tac Tuesday, where you know, Tic Tac's a big deal for kids right now. They love it. So now they're making tick talks with their friends via different online platforms, and they're sending those. And tomorrow we have wacky Wednesday where you're just supposed to show up to your online class and a ridiculous outfit. You know, we've had the teeth, we got the teachers involved, they're gonna show up in ridiculous outfits, and that just is that same feeling like you have during a spirit day. When you see your friends dressed up goofy Thursday, we're doing throwback. Thursday we could dress up in eighties or nineties, and then Friday we wantto have to take it from Spirit toe, maybe giving back a little bit. Some Friday is called Free to a good home Friday where were challenging our kids to least Philip. One garbage bag full of old clothes, shoes, things that you know. Maybe they don't need any more than they can donate and and post that as well. So in all of this nonsense, we could still, you know, show that our kids are doing some good things in the world. So that was our big thing this week. And in fact, one of the other cool things that we did this week was, uh, we voted for our prom court yesterday. Online. We would always do it online anyway, but we voted for it online, and then we had it released this morning. Ah, so that everyone can see it. Uh, one of the things that I do a Bishop Gorman, is we do daily announcements, and so the kids are used to hearing my voice in the morning going over, you know, different things that are going on different student activities. So every morning I've been doing instagram live announcements. All the kids can check in first thing in the morning before they start their first online class and there I am, and you know it all of my glory and going through our normal announcements So the kids get to hear what's going on like So this morning we announced the prom court. So we're trying to keep things as normal as we can with this situation. And that's I think that's the key in and keeping kids spirits up and keeping kids excited. Uh, you know, with the different online platforms ever used, Zoom with Instagram. They're ableto still talk to each other, still able to see what each other is up to. Um, not like they would at in a school environment during the school day. But you know, students these days live on their electronic devices anyway, so we need to embrace that at this time. Usually, if you were a school during a traditional day, you'd be all fired up. As an educator, these kids won't get off their phones, but right now that's where we need that. That's where we can meet them. That's where we can get through to them. That's where we can interact with them. So we're trying to do as much through Instagram Zoo Twitter, where our kids can really feel like there's still that sense of community that you know is it will help them get through this. You know, for us, way started this last weeks or in our second week of our mind school that we have next week. And then we have spring break and then we'll see what happens with spring break, maybe after spring break. You know, Corona virus starts to wind down. Our kids get to come back. But the biggest thing for us is in these next couple weeks is just making sure that they have that sense of community. Still, they still have that, uh, they know that we're still looking out for him. We're still taking care of that. You know, there were. Let them feel the love from muscles and administration.

spk_0:   9:57
Nice. Now, how has the response been within the students?

spk_1:   10:02
The students love online announcements. It's funny. They they start popping off in the comments section with with silly comments, and we're also we're doing a movie of the day. So every day I cook a movie on Netflix that they watch it. And so and I start talking about the movie of the day I start getting thumbs up or thumbs down, whether they liked it or not. Uh, you know, and it's just it's something fun. Um, the kids like it. I mean, there they like the zoo meetings. They like being able to see their friends. They love seeing their teachers. Some of our teachers have really run with it. They've they do goofy stuff in the morning or they just have their pets. They'll have their dog. When when the kids check in. So easy to see the kids. I think it's really neat about this for, um, this situation. I really think it's humanized. Teachers and students eyes. They're seeing their teachers in a way they've never seen their teachers, you know, There you see their homes, their dogs, their kids. You know, they're they're close because, you know, everyone thinks teacher clothes, you know, it's like, Oh my God, my teacher doesn't just wear a polo and khaki pants every day. They have, you know, like style and personality. And so it's really humanized teachers. You know, I have a big soccer fans, so most mornings I come on in a different soccer jersey and my students will make comments whether or not they like the team that I'm wearing that day or, you know, if they've, you know, if they've sold off a player in the last couple of months that they disagree with. But so they're used to that just obsolete nous. I mean, but it really has humanized teachers. I think when this is all said and done, I think both students and parents like you're gonna have a name for respect for educators because they're seeing they're seeing the education will really scrap together band together to make this thing, to make this thing work.

spk_0:   11:49
Yeah, Now I want there's two questions that I want to ask One will probably, uh, what will have a jam session on. But the 1st 1 is all this amazing stuff that's happening, that you mentioned one red flag that I know that pops up, and I'm sure you see it as an administrator is how do you deal with the inappropriateness that might arise from the social media? Have you seen that, Papa? How do you control that? And war? Is it just something that you cross your fingers and hope it doesn't happen?

spk_1:   12:29
It's a little bit of all three. I mean, obviously, yes. First thing you do is you cross your fingers and you hope your kids are going to be respectful because, you know, this isn't they're not. This situation is extremely unique. We may never, ever see anything like this ever again. And we can live to be 100. So they're the first part. Yes. We cross our fingers and hope our kids will be respectful. Um, one of the things that we decided to do right off the bat was we had some of our dean's makes and videos just talking about proper online behavior. Proper online etiquette. One is how what is the right way to do this? And they even talked about that. They're gonna be monitoring classes. They're going to be monitoring, you know, the same things that we usually do. I mean, with with it. That's why we use instagram, because we could turn off commenting like on pictures and stuff. The only time we have commenting on is the live announcements. And you know, if a kid is silly enough to put something up there, we screenshot it. They're gonna get in trouble. So, you know we just we That's why we like Instagram because you could turn everything off. So basically they see a picture. They could like it, but they can't respond to it. They can't do anything, Do it. You know, if they choose to go on a different platform and do something that's outside of our realm of control. Truth be told of all the social media's schools tend to like Instagram the best because there are a few more safeguards than, say, Facebook or Twitter. And and we don't even talk about Snapchat because that's never good. Snapchat Snapchat sends a lot of people to the discipline office of Bishop Gorman High School. But so we spent a lot of time talking with the kids and preparing for this because, you know, honestly, we saw this coming, you know, was the staff. We saw this coming. We started making plans for online instruction. Ah, full week, uh, almost 10 days before we started, and so we just We just told the kids like, this is what we expect. You know, each morning I go on and I remind them that they're not in college just yet, so they can't roll out of bed and come in there. Zoom meetings. You know, they can't look completely rough. Clean up a little bit, Get get to your zoo meetings. And then we have a talk with our teachers. Well, it's proper. What's what their teachers needed. You too. So

spk_0:   14:44
now when you do when you host a zoo meeting what What rules you set in place from just managing that amount of people? Because I know in a conference call, you know, you could have someone with road noise and things like that going on. What do you do to kind of preference to telephone a mute, mute their mikes? You know, things like that.

spk_1:   15:04
Yeah. We start with Mike's muted on the teachers, you know, just a lecture. Get a chance to review yesterday's work, get the opportunity to take some time in the being in class just to go over stuff. Because yeah, I mean, with if you are class sizes are between 25 30 kids. So if you have 30 microphones on with, you know the dog Barkin little sister Yellin, You know, whatever it could get really loud. So we start with that that quiet times that kids can actually hear the teacher focused on the teacher, not hear any background noise. And then once the teachers don't teaching their lesson, you know it zoom, there is the chat bar so students can type stuff in on the teacher can address that. So it's a teachers teaching, and I have a question about something. Just said I could take them to the chap our teacher season said so Hey, you know, Brian just asked a question about this last equation. Let me go back and talk about that, you know? And what I've been seeing a lot is educators using just the thumbs up, thumbs down. You don't need your your screen on here. Sound on for that, Guys, give me a thumbs up. If you get it, give me a thumbs down if you don't. If you if you have the thumbs down type into the chap are what your question is, why you put your thumbs down and we'll address it really quick. And then when you have, you know, everyone's getting it when you can move on to the next to the next thing. But, uh, you know that at the end of the class or the end of the segment. That's what you could tell people. Hey, if you have, if you have a verbal questions of anyone I asked you have a comment Turn on your microphone because, yeah, I mean, it could become classroom management. Digitally is just as important as classroom management. When you're sitting in a room with 30 people, I mean, you wouldn't let everybody just raise their hand and start screaming either. So, really, all we're doing is the same thing that we do in the classroom. We're just doing a little bit differently. Digitally. You would check for understanding in a classroom anyway. Rachel. Hey, I can't tell me. Times may raise your hand if you don't get this. Okay, Now we resident are moving on, you know? And actually, what's nice is I actually get a virtual environment because you can respond. Your teacher, I think kids are less afraid to ask those questions is the rest of the class can see it. I mean, if you're sitting there in class, uh, you know, in a traditional classroom and the teachers right to move on and you don't get it, but you're afraid to raise your hand because you don't want to be like the only person doesn't get it in the virtual classroom. You could just type the note to your teacher that only your teacher could see and say, You know, Mr Williams, I don't get this. Can you hit it? Go back to it for 30 more seconds. Can you show us you slow down again and that teacher? Hey, I'm gonna show you this one last time before we move on. So should be told. I think it actually helps some students that might be apprehensive even in class, in a traditional class environment to raise their hands to speak out. I know from a social aspect, you know, for your kids who don't always wanna get involved in stuff. They're loving this because they sit back and just watch. That's basically what they do at school right now. Anyways, they like to sit back and watch. They don't necessarily always get involved when they like to see what's going on. So they get that opportunity via, you know, zoom meetings, Instagram so they still feel involved. But it's on a level that they're comfortable with, because this is how they act at school because they're trying to keep it down, try to keep it a little more low key. So there, this is not the worst thing that's ever happened. Education. In fact, I think at the end of the day, it's gonna make educators a little bit stronger. I think it's gonna grow some respect for educators, both among students. And I think definitely parents, because you think about it. You know, parents way always say, is educators and love for your You know, your mom and dad Come see how you are in class that down when they are every day. Uh, so I think, actually, you know, while this has been a trying time for for everyone, I think education is gonna come out of this stronger and maybe than ever before. Uh, because people are now seeing how hard teachers work, Uh, the effort they're putting in to make sure these kids get the learning they deserve. I mean, it would've been very easy for once. They're right. Shut it down until May. Everybody graduates. But now I think it's important that teachers are doing their their their duty. You know, the thing that we all you know the reason we all became educators Because we love kids. We love learning. And so we're doing that. You know, it's not the most traditional route, but gives a learning. I mean, I know my son is 1/6 grader and he's doing his middle school. Simon's every day, and he's still learning. They're still active learning going on her house, which is their support. Yeah.

spk_0:   19:34
Now, for your sixth grader, Dizzy Conquer school like the regular school day quicker and then a regular school day. Do you see him working more efficiently?

spk_1:   19:43
Oh, yeah, he fly. I mean, I want to say flies through because that gives you the impression that he doesn't try, but yeah, he logs in the morning. He has 64 to 6 classes that'll post each day. And he just gets to work, you know? And there's no distractions. He sitio we just off here in your room started 9 a.m. And you're in your room to you, Doc. And there's some days he's down to 10. 15. There sometimes is down 11. There's some days he's down that new. But you know, I think what's important is is he is he's doing it, you know, he's he's getting is getting his brain turned down because it's so easy right now for kids to just pull off their cell phone, get on the Xbox and become slaves to the screen. So the fact that he's doing work makes me really happy. Uh, yeah, I think taking out the taking of the distractions is great. Uh, you know, the people around you trying to talk to you, You know, God knows what's going on in the room. I mean, it's it's nice sometimes, especially myself. It was to middle school, and he is about 30 32 kids, a class on big class. That's says that's not huge. I mean, I know there's people out there probably listening, who are like, 32. I'd sell my right arm for, but you know, he's he's he's giving his work done, and then he comes down and, you know, I checked for understanding with him. I asked him, you know, what did you learn? Tell me what you did and he couldn't do. You can tell me, and he can respond to me, and you could give me, you know, background. Why? They learned it. And ah, it's not support me. And I think hopefully that's happening nationwide. I'm sure it's not everywhere, you know. I'm sure. In some rural areas in America where technology isn't as well utilized, it may be a little more difficult. But I feel like you know, his long as everybody's doing what they can. I don't actually see CSD, which is the public school district down here, and they're doing a thing now where you can stop by think. There's like 15 different sites and you just pick up educational materials batting on the age of your kid so you could pick up some worksheets. You can pick up math work. Uh, just bring it home, your kids. So if you don't have Internet ability, your home where you don't have a computer, there's still opportunity for you to come and pick up worksheets and books. And so I think that's important. And I'm glad school's we're doing that because that's, uh, you said the last thing we want our kids doing is sitting at home for the next 34 weeks, twiddling their thumbs.

spk_0:   22:07
Yeah, now I want to kind of challenge you to step in the flow of an elementary school teacher, and then they're working with students that might not be as social media savvy. Maybe the parents are what would be your tip, sir, or thought questions or ideas that you would have to an elementary school teacher to create the same level of energy amongst their their virtual teaching, to create that community to make it fun. So off the top of your head, what are some ideas you'd have to the elementary school teachers?

spk_1:   22:45
Well, I have to start with with two of the subjects that I guess, quote unquote the fun period of each day. Kindergarten P Teachers could easily record themselves doing stretches, doing warm ups, doing activities and send those out for kids to just mimic. In fact, my daughter she's for her dance teacher has been, uh, doing dance is sending about to the parents. And then we just plot the iPad down on the couch of Kennedy, follows along and does the dance so you could do the same thing with with physical education art. You know, art teacher could draw something new, seven color something. Um, and the kids could follow along with it, you know, reading, there's, you know, there's nothing that ah teacher could actually read a book with their students. You know, uh, it's very possible. I mean, you go, you know, teacher record themselves reading a book with their students. You know, math. You could have white boards and do math problems. I mean, so I feel like you just have to adapt this to your your students. If I was teaching 1st 2nd graders, we were starting to do, you know, simple addition, simple subtraction, things like that. I just find a whiteboard. I do it at video myself. Teach a lesson. I mean, I think like I said, I think the biggest thing is you just you're taking yourself out of your classroom. But you're not taking yourself out of teaching. You're just doing it in a different way. So what you would do in terms off, you know, in terms of a day to day, you could still do that. It may be a little more difficult. You may not be able to get the same reach because yeah, like you said, there's some parents that may not have Internet capabilities, may not be able to get the lessons But you know right now, because we're unprecedented times, I think the goal is to reach as many kids as possible, knowing full well that you may not be able to get 100%. But if you think about it on a day to day, you never get 100% anyway, because kids are absent. Kids air. You know, Miss school kids are sick. I think right now, though, you just have to. As a teacher, you have to adapt whatever you can thio to make it work for your particular grade level to your particular particular subject. You know, if I think the school district's obviously have toe, have to give a little direction on that, are have to help out with that from a technology standpoint. But you know, Google Classroom is a great thing. I mean, I know their elementary schools that use grew a classroom because my son used it like 3rd 4th and fifth grade, where teachers can post stuff. I think there's things out there. Uh, may take a little research may take a little time for parents to find it, but there's definitely things out there that kids could do to make sure that learning is taking place in the home

spk_0:   25:28
now Really quick before we wrap it up. What random crazy fun ideas have you guys come up with to just make it fun? Like you said, the movie days, the, you know, dress up days. What other ideas do you have that just want to throw out there that other people might be able to implement or that you guys have already done?

spk_1:   25:47
Uh, next week we're gonna play a minute to win eight games where kids can. Each day we have one minute to win it. Challenges. And they could videotape themselves trying to do it. Uh, one of my favorites that we're gonna do next week is where you lay back to put the oreo on your forehead and you have to try and get it into your mouth without hitting the ground, stacking up three golf balls on top of each other. I could always get two. I could never get the third place admitted to winning games. We're also gonna figure out how to d'oh coot for each class. So, Coot, is this online trivia game, eh? So we're gonna put out the code and kids could play. Kohut. We may have to broadcast it on Zoom. I'm not sure how we're gonna do it. Maybe Instagram live, But we're gonna play Kohut, which is this online trivia game where kids can longing and play. We've been giving out prizes, too, for kids that win stuff. So you can Ah, you can email gift cards to people. So, like this morning, the girls who won our movie Monday recreations, I e mailed them each a $5 gift card to target. Um, so, uh, we're blessed that we could do that. Not every school could do that, But we definitely are. Just trying. Thio have as much fun through. This is possible. And then, honestly, we're talking about it. The day that we finally get back on campus, we're gonna have ah, huge blowout. I mean, we're not going to do an assembly, you know where I could be on safe and all the kids back on top of each other. We'll be right back in quarantine, but we're do some fun stuff. Maybe it's, uh, you know how the band out when the kids come in or just play music loud in the hallways the hold the whole day and during passing, uh, do something like give away free Rice Krispie treats something. But the day we get back, man, we're gonna make sure that it's Ah, it's a party. Ah,

spk_0:   27:37
yeah, I see. That is someone that goes around and speaking. You know, I was talking to a group. I said, This will probably be the most important back to school year we've ever had. Some students might have literally gone six months from seeing their friends, their peers. School culture has been like It's just it's where they can start fresh right out of the gate. And if it's done right, we could actually make come out of this a lot stronger.

spk_1:   28:10
I like I said, I totally agree. I think that this while it's unfortunate and it's sad and I miss my students and I miss being at work every day. I truly feel like this is gonna make education across America stronger. It's gonna show the importance of, you know, of community. It's gonna show the importance of of just being strong and kind and looking after people, and I feel that, uh, it's gonna change. It's gonna change the way we that kid's approach each other, that adults approach each other both inside and outside schools. This is gonna is gonna have ripples that are gonna last a long time.

spk_0:   28:50
100%. So let's end with this. I was like to ask the people who come on the show what is one song that when you hear it, it exemplifies who you are as a human being or just when you hear it makes you jump up Smile. It's like you're ready to rock out and have a great day.

spk_1:   29:10
Oh, man, that's a tough one.

spk_0:   29:14
Always takes people rise The price

spk_1:   29:16
Maybe not the most appropriate. But I I'm a eighties rocker man. So give me some motley crew and I'm the horns. Go up. I'm ready. I love it. I like Motley Crue. Anything a loud and fast. You bought the crew Metallica. If those things come on, the the stereo gets turned up to 11th

spk_0:   29:38
that is often that is awesome. 01 last question. What are any books podcast? YouTube's that you want to recommend with that service a source of inspiration for you. Where gives you a bunch of creative ideas? Are there any online blog's of forums just to put on people's radar to check out.

spk_1:   30:02
Oh, Johnson's renaissance is really good what they need. If you're just in school, you have free access to Justin's. Renaissance is good. A lot of good stuff for recognizing kids. Maybe not just recognizing the athletes and the scholars, recognizing everybody for for their own individual talents. Justin's renaissance is really good. Um uh, book wise. You know, I just read a book called Legacy versus Likes, uh, by Mike Smith, who's, Ah, youth Speaker. And it talks a little bit about the idea that you know who you are. It's more important to you are in Life is more important than who you are online good one to share with kids because, you know, they're so you know, kids kids will delete a picture that they put on instagram within five minutes. If it doesn't get enough likes, they don't feel that people like it. So, uh, that was a good read Shorts Really easy. Get on Amazon. I don't think Amazons delivering much other than paper tells these days, but, uh, you get the book, go for it, but yeah, those are two things that I use a lot, just as I use a lot my day today. And then I just read that book and I took a lot away from it, and I'll probably end up using

spk_0:   31:17
Now, where can people find you? Connect with you, Um, and, you know, reach out. If they've taken in your ideas and we're like, Yes, this is awesome.

spk_1:   31:25
Uh, my email is Jake bleached J g l e i c h at bishop Gorman dot or ge uh, instagram at Glee T. Which is G l e I C h Y, um, and, uh, e mails. The best way. I get a lot of emails. I do a lot of advisor training, leadership, teacher training throughout the year, so I get a lot of lot of e mails, people asking for ideas. In fact, I've got a lot just recently, so I usually get back to people. So I was fan blocker will get stuff, and it might take 48 hours. Get to me. But I always respond. But yeah, if anybody's questions, I'd be happy to help out. Especially high, especially high schools.

spk_0:   32:04
And as a plug to Jimmy and someone, it's known him now for several years. If you are a school administrator or leadership adviser and you know he does fly around and do some workshops with other teachers and in leadership advisors around the country s o. If you want to have someone come in that ah, just gonna leave you guys walking away with your mind's blown and a notebook full of ideas and resource is and unique tactics to relate to. Students build culture 100% reach out to him. Yeah, so with that, Jimmy, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. I know this is a last minute request get you on because all of our episodes that we recorded are really not is pertinent now a cz they were. So I just wasn't thinking for for coming on the public cast sharing everything. I would like to invite you back. You know, when the school year is kicking back. Started on ideas on how to build that that school community. Because, like I said, this back to school year is going to be, uh, one words. We're gonna have a lot of opportunity to start fresh and to build a foundation for the future so thank you so much for jumping on the show. I appreciate it and stay positive. Wash your hands. Thanks. Appreciate it. Okay. Spirit shirts, minute toe winning games. Tic TAC challenges lots of creative ideas to share. We created a quick download of some of the biggest takeaways from today's episode that you can print or share with your colleagues. Just check out today's episode at Think kindness dot or ge slash podcast. Now we're going to continue this virtual teaching Siri's with a couple other expert interviews. In addition, with some great projects that you can use to help create a more fun virtual teaching environment for your students, we're going to take a break from weekly publishing. Just publish them episodes more quickly so you can implement ideas right away. So be sure to hit that subscribe button on iTunes or Spotify or Google podcast or stitcher or wherever you're listening to today's episode. And if you want to reach out with any ideas for the show or if you have anyone that we should interview for the show are just wanted to a staff shout outs or just some good old inspiration, you can leave us a virtual message at the rock star teacher recorder at 18449770073 That's 8449770073 You can also reach us at think kindness dot org's slash podcast and fill out one of our online forms. So thanks for listening to today's episode. I'm your host, Brian Williams, have an amazing and kind rest of your day.