THRIVE - Private Podcast Series for Middle School ELA Caitlin Mitchell

Does the thought of creating a lesson that students are engaged with stress you out? What about adding actual content that challenges student thinking? Do your students often get overwhelmed with lessons and shut down? If any of this sounds familiar, you are not alone. In episode 4, we debunk the thought that engagement and rigor cannot exist in a lesson together. You’ll walk away with clear strategies for how to include rigor in your engaging lessons - without the ad...

In episode #3, we not only introduce exactly how we define batch planning, but we also walk you through a few easy steps to get you started doing this on your own. We believe very strongly here at EB Academics that using the first part of your summer to batch plan is the single most effective use of 1-2 days of your summer. …to then be able to close up shop on all things teaching-related and 100% turn off your teaching brain until you head back to school for those teacher in-service...

In Episode #2 of your private podcast series, we dive into exactly how impactful a GOOD habit can be at growing you into the person (and teacher) you WANT to be. You see, habits are the cornerstone to impactful change in our lives, both personal and professional! If you WANT to see a lasting change in your work-life balance, one single change on one random day is NOT going to make that happen. (sorry to break the bad news)No, it is going to be adopting a new habit (or two) and stick...

When was the last time you enjoyed a Sunday evening?One free of anxious butterflies in your stomach. One where you didn’t even think about your lesson for the following morning or that parent-teacher conference on Tuesday. We would venture to say that it’s probably hard to remember when your Sundays weren’t filled with the “Sunday Scaries”. It is overwhelming how common this feeling is for most classroom teachers. At some point along the way, we began accepting that this feelin...