139 episodes
Life Is The Future Scott Todnem
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4.9 • 17 Ratings
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Thoughts from the Health Education classroom, brought to you by Scott Todnem and his middle school students. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lifeisthefuture/support
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Is Racism Alive in Teenage America? - S6 E10
What is occurring with stereotypes during adolescence? Middle schoolers give insight on social life in the 21st century.
This week's 8th graders, Ayla, Alexis, John, and Roshann bring in classmates Addison and Amare. The group of teens take on the serious topic of social health stereotypes, in particular racism and other prejudice in their world today. They give their honest thoughts about racist jokes, about hurtful judgement and comments, about food, music, clothing, academics, sports, religion, income, neighborhood, life experience, and more. What does it mean to be “Black” or “White” or “Asian” or “Latino” or other labels and terminology? And what do our teenagers have to deal with growing up within that racial group they get placed into?
How did the students do? What are your thoughts on the impact of racial stereotypes on teenage life and beyond?
BOOKING & CONTACT
🗞️ Email Newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/LifeIsTheFutureNewsletter
🎙️ Partner Program: http://LifeIsTheFuture.com/Partner-Program
📲 Teaching insight, blog posts, books, and more: http://LifeIsTheFuture.com
RESOURCES
Gender Stereotypes from Teaching Tolerance
Racial Stereotypes from Simply Psychology
Breaking Stereotypes from National Women's Law Center
How Middle School Kids Reject Stereotypes from MiddleWeb
Talking About Race & Stereotypes in School from Edutopia
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Hot Takes - Overrated or Underrated? Teens Offer Insight on Pop Culture - S6 E9
What is on the adolescent mind? Middle schoolers give insight on teen life in the 21st century.
This week's 8th graders, Ayla, Alexis, John, and Roshann bring in classmates Keara and Sam. The group of teens take a short break from the serious topics from recent episodes to have a game/discussion… “Overrated or Underrated?” They give their candid thoughts about fame, technology and social media, fast food and snacks, clothing brands, sports, music, and more!
How did the students do? What are your thoughts on the impact of pop culture and other related influences on teenage life?
Make sure to subscribe to keep up to date on our podcast episodes throughout the 2023-2024 school year!
BOOKING & CONTACT
🗞️ Email Newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/LifeIsTheFutureNewsletter
🎙️ Partner Program: http://LifeIsTheFuture.com/Partner-Program
📲 Teaching insight, blog posts, books, and more: http://LifeIsTheFuture.com
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Drug Use In Teens - What Do Students Think? - S6 E8
Drugs and teens... is it inevitable the two will meet?
This week's 8th graders, Ayla, Alexis, Addison, John, and Roshann talk about substance use among young people. The group of teens take on the impact and influences on illegal drug use, focusing on family life, social media, fitting in, social image, education, coping strategies, sales to underage kids, recommendations for handling peer pressure, and more!
What did the students miss? What are your thoughts on the influences on drug and other substance abuse as related to teenage life?
Make sure to subscribe to keep up to date on our podcast episodes throughout the 2023-2024 school year!
RESOURCES
Youth Risk Behavior Survey
https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data...
CDC - E-Cigarettes
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/infograph...
Tobacco Free Kids
https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/what-...
Stanford Tobacco Toolkit
https://med.stanford.edu/tobaccopreve...
NIH - Underage Drinking
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/underage-dr...
Illinois Policy - Marijuana Legalization
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/what-y...
BOOKING & CONTACT
🗞️ Email Newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/LifeIsTheFutureNewsletter
🎙️ Partner Program: http://LifeIsTheFuture.com/Partner-Program
📲 Teaching insight, blog posts, books, and more: http://LifeIsTheFuture.com
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Are Teens Influenced by Pop Culture? - S6 E7
How are young people handling current influences on life?
This week's 8th graders, Ayla, Alexis, John, and Roshann bring in classmates Keara and Tori. The group of teens take on the topic of pop culture and outside influences on middle school life. They talk social media, clothing, sports, peer pressure, online comments, judgmental classmates, maintaining a healthy identity, effects on social image, and more!
What did the students miss? What are your thoughts on the impact of pop culture and other related influences on teenage life?
Make sure to subscribe to keep up to date on our podcast episodes throughout the 2023-2024 school year!
RESOURCES
Pew Research Study - "Teens & Social Media"
The Live Wire - Are Society's New Expectations of Teens Too Much?
Lowell Sun Opinion - We Are the Ones Failing Our Teens, Not Social Media
BOOKING & CONTACT
🗞️ Email Newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/LifeIsTheFutureNewsletter
🎙️ Partner Program: http://LifeIsTheFuture.com/Partner-Program
📲 Teaching insight, blog posts, books, and more: http://LifeIsTheFuture.com
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Are Teens Hopeful or Fearful of High School? - S6 E6
Teens look ahead to the new year -- what will 2024 bring?
This week's 8th graders, Alexis, Ayla, John and Roshann, approach the New Year by reflecting on middle school life and looking ahead at what's in store. The teens talk about finishing middle school and all the expectations of high school-- friends and different schools, sports and motivation, classes and grades, and the independence and maturity of growing up.
Tune in for the new year as our hosts take on new topics and bring in new guests. Make sure to subscribe to keep up to date on our podcast episodes throughout the 2023-2024 school year!
RESOURCES
Students:
MindBe Education - 30 Mindfulness Activities for Teens
Parents:
Parent Learning Center - Expectations That Your Teen Will Appreciate In The Future
Teachers:
Time - Teen Depression and Anxiety: Why the Kids Are Not Alright
Chicago Tribune - 'No worse fate than failure': How pressure to keep up is overwhelming students
BOOKING & CONTACT
🗞️ Email Newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/LifeIsTheFutureNewsletter
🎙️ Partner Program: http://LifeIsTheFuture.com/Partner-Program
📲 Teaching insight, blog posts, books, and more: http://LifeIsTheFuture.com
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Social-Emotional Learning with "Never Have I Ever" - S6 E5
"Never Have I Ever..."
This week, our 8th graders take a little break from their typical interview routine. They've been through some important topics already this school year and decided to have a little fun before Thanksgiving break. Listen in as they debate some great questions and laugh through random scenarios together. It's an entertaining episode and lets the teens speak candidly for a bit.
Continue to tune as our hosts, Ayla, Alexis, and John, continue Season 6 with new topics and new guests. Make sure to subscribe to keep up to date on our podcast episodes throughout the 2023-2024 school year!
RESOURCES
Edutopia - Students' input and expertise can help shape their own learning and growth.
VCU - Student Voice: A growing movement within education that benefits students and teachers.
Education Week - Raising Student 'Voice and Choice' Is the Mantra. But Is It a Good Idea?
BOOKING & CONTACT
🗞️ Email Newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/LifeIsTheFutureNewsletter
🎙️ Partner Program: http://LifeIsTheFuture.com/Partner-Program
📲 Teaching insight, blog posts, books, and more: http://LifeIsTheFuture.com
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Customer Reviews
Great Podcast
When ever you are bored and want some advice, definitely check out this podcast. Luke and Tadiwa are so engaged in the topic. My favorite episodes have to be episode 2 and 17 with yours truly.
This Is An AMAZING podcast!!!!
Even after listening to one episode, I already felt so engaged in the podcast. I recommend this, to anyone who cares about health, and your life overall.
Fantastic students!
Two amazing student leaders of a very large school! Well done Luke and Tadiwa!!!