How to Rock the First Week of School: strategies, techniques, and activities for kicking off the school year right!

** How to Rock the First Week of School**
And we’re back!! Thanks for tuning in for Season 2 of Vrain Waves! In this episode Ben and Becky discuss and share activities to make this first week in your classroom the best one ever! Please share your ideas using the #makesomevrainwaves so that we can learn from each other!

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Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

Links & Show Notes

• The Power of Moments (02:20)
• Episode 5 Season 1 (03:06) - Dave Burgess
• Premortems with Daniel Pink (06:23)
• Show students what they’ll be able to do at the end of the year (08:28) - story from Allison Zmuda
• Episode 6 Season 1 (09:50) - Dan Ryder - recipes from Intention the Book
• Name tent paper dialogue example (10:30)
• Rewiring Education (12:41) - John Couch - What is the purpose of school?
• 5 numbers that tell your life story (13:42) - Here’s the tweet I saw this in - idea attributed to @Jeff_Zoul
• Co-create norms (14:38) - Episode with Dr. Carrie Holmberg & Dr. Brent Duckor