The Smart Thinking Podcast Ted Neitzke IV
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Join Ted weekly for lessons in leadership and reflective practices that will allow you to grow both personally and professionally. Every other week there will be guests to help you build a greater understanding on a variety of topics that are relevant to everyone and anyone who cares about kids.
Ted Neitzke is a professional educator and believes that anyone who has influence over another person is a leader. Ted has dedicated his life to paying back the high school teachers who changed his life by believing in him and inspired him to teach and lead in schools.
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Episode 303: Finish Strong (Leadership and Process)
How will you remember this school year? Take a listen as Ted explains a process to use to help you and your system reflect - with intention - in an effort to create a realistic memory of the year. Learn how to identify the peaks, the pits and the transitions so that you can celebrate and acknowledge the real journey and use the information to better serve your classroom, school or system in the future.
Describe how you can increase the awareness of others while on the journey.
List who would benefit from reviewing the peaks, pits, and transitions.
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Episode 302: A Conversation with Neuroscientist Dr. Jared Horvath: Emotions, Reading, Parenting, AI & More! (Reflection & Leadership)
Ever wonder how memory is impacted by emotions, or how the amount of books in your home informs your child's intellectual skills, or how electronics are impacting development or what AI is doing to the brain? Wonder no longer -- these and many more questions are answered in this conversation with Jared as we explore the brain and his newest research and discoveries.
Find him: https://www.youtube.com/@JaredCooney
Song: Andrew Hoyt - Dance with Somebody
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Episode 301: Leadership AND Followership (Reflection)
We all need to be both leaders and followers and we can do that if we CARE. Listen as Ted explains the need for us each to be in two lanes at once - lead and follow. CARE is a simple way of explaining what a good follower does.
Collaborate
Accept responsibility
Resilient
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Episode 300: Celebration of 300 “You Should Absorb The Nudge” (Reflection)
Listen as Ted reminds us of the power of listening to the "nudges." This is the 300th episode of the podcast and Ted walks through how important it is to listen to the ideas of others and shares a simple process to support coaching yourself to higher levels of engagement and happiness.
Song: Sunflower Bouquet by Anderson Coates - Golden Bear Studios
Reflections:
List the "should’s" you heard this past week.
Describe who in your life nudges you towards excellence.
List the people and the nudges that have changed your life.
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Episode 299: The Real Narrative: "Our Story" (Reflection & Tool)
Too often in our organizations, we forget to provide the leadership so that we have a strong cultural understanding of our journey. As a result, we need a process. Join Ted as he explains why and how to create a unified story(narrative) so that more people can celebrate all they've done together so that you can end the year together!
Process prompts:
Celebrations (Internal)
Celebrations (External)
Grow my engagement
Professional development WE need
Elephants in the room
Recognitions
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Episode 298: Your Individual Advocacy Plan (IAP) (Leadership & Process)
What is your process for advocating for yourself and your strengths? Too often other people judge us and do not understand us so we need a process to help others see our strengths. Join Ted as he shares a process to employ for you to create your own self advocacy plan or IAP.
Identify your strengths and soft strengths.
Describe who in your world needs to be coached to self-advocacy.
List ways in which you can support others through their strengths and weaknesses.
Customer Reviews
Great reminders
This podcast is a great way to level set your thinking and prepare to contribute to a culture at work that has the potential to change our world. Keep up the great work Ted. UWO Foundation
Buffalos
Everything I listen to an episode, I’m encouraged to be a better leader and person. Thank you Ted!
Uplifting
This podcast is uplifting. I enjoy how Ted refers to everyone as leaders. He gives practical leadership tips. I’m also now a fan of the Well Pennies!