• How to Get Fit, Eat Right, and Protect Your Teacher Fire with Eric Nelson

    🔥 How can today’s teachers eat well and care for their bodies?

    🔥 How can we fit movement and fitness into our hours at school?

    🔥 What are some simple strategies we can follow to improve our nutrition?

    Join me for this conversation with Florida PE teacher Eric Nelson as he responds.

    About This Guest

    Eric is a K-5 physical education teacher and the Director of Member Success at TeacherFit. TeacherFit provides proactive wellness solutions that focus on physical and mental health for teachers and students.

    Connect with Eric

    Tune in for my regular Teachers on Fire interviews, airing LIVE on YouTube every Saturday morning at 8:00am Pacific and 11:00am Eastern! Join the conversation and add your comments to the broadcast.

    In This Conversation

    • 0:31 – Who is Eric Nelson?
    • 1:30 – How Eric learned to say no to requests for his time
    • 3:00 – Challenges teachers face in 2024
    • 4:47 – Ways to fit in quick workouts during the school day
    • 7:31 – Advice for the teacher who feels like exercise is torture
    • 9:58 – How to cook nutritious meals with little time
    • 13:11 – Dig it or ditch it? Eric’s take on popular fitness practices
    • 16:31 – The TeacherFit newsletter
    • 18:39 – Eric’s mental health hacks: detaching from email
    • 20:38 – An edtech tool pick: Canva
    • 22:10 – A book recommendation: Are My Kids on Track?
    • 23:01 – Someone to follow online: Dr. Don Parker
    • 23:58 – Where to connect with Eric’s work online

    Connect with Teachers on Fire and Host Tim Cavey

    Song Track Credit

    • Tropic Fuse by French Fuse
    • GO! by Neffex

    *All songs retrieved from the YouTube Audio Library at https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/.

  • How to Turn On Notifications for Any Edits Made to a Particular Google Doc

    At my elementary school, we tend to use rolling agendas for monthly staff meetings and committee meetings. Sometimes, it occurred to me, I would appreciate a heads up whenever someone else goes into the Doc to make additions or changes to it.

    There IS a way to do just that. Let me show you how here in this 46-second tutorial!

  • Lead Your School from Where You Are with Dr. Joe Sanfelippo

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    🔥 Can you describe the vision of your school?

    🔥 How can teacher-leaders raise up the people around them?

    🔥 How can schools and districts better communicate with their communities?

    Join me for this conversation with national superintendent of the year, Dr. Joe Sanfelippo, as he shares his insights on these and other critical questions.

    About This Guest

    Dr. Joe Sanfelippo is a celebrated educational leader and author. During his tenure as superintendent, his Wisconsin school district was twice recognized for innovation by the International Center for Leadership in Education. Joe was named one of the 100 Most Influential Educators by District Administration Magazine, and in 2019, Education Dive (now K-12 Dive) awarded him National Superintendent of the Year. 

    Connect with Dr. Joe Sanfelippo

    • on LinkedIn,
    • on X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube @joe_sanfelippo, and
    • at his website, www.jsanfelippo.com.

    Tune in for my regular Teachers on Fire interviews, airing LIVE on YouTube every Saturday morning at 8:00am Pacific and 11:00am Eastern! Join the conversation and add your comments to the broadcast.

    Clickable Timestamps from This Conversation

    • 0:27 – Who is Dr. Joe Sanfelippo?
    • 2:35 – Story time: When the work eclipsed his family relationships
    • 5:07 – How to acknowledge the great work of teachers in your building
    • 8:52 – Narrowing the focus of a community on a collective goal
    • 13:09 – How can teachers lift up the teachers around them?
    • 18:44 – “I don’t have time to prioritize my school’s brand.”
    • 22:03 – How can we protect teacher fire in 2024?
    • 25:23 – How can schools communicate better with their communities?
    • 29:25 – A daily habit: starting and ending the day with encouraging text messages
    • 30:08 – A favorite edtech tool: CapCut
    • 30:38 – A book recommendation: Power of Moments by Dan Heath
    • 31:15 – Educators to follow online: Jimmy Casas, Tom Murray
    • 31:39 – Where to connect with Dr. Joe Sanfelippo online

    Connect with Teachers on Fire and Host Tim Cavey

    Song Track Credit

    • Tropic Fuse by French Fuse
    • GO! by Neffex

    *All songs retrieved from the YouTube Audio Library at https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/.

  • How to Switch Between Tabs in Google Sheets (Hotkey for Mac)

    This one was bugging me for a while. I spend so much time in Google Sheets … there HAD to be a way to switch quickly between tabs at the bottom.

    Turns out, there IS a way!

    Timestamps

    • 0:08 – How to switch between tabs in Google Sheets (Option + ⬆ ⬇)
    • 0:33 – How to switch between tabs in Google Chrome (Command + Option + ⬅ ➡)
    • 0:59 – How to switch between Chrome profiles (Command + ~)

  • How to Engage and Empower Students in a World of Digital Distractions with Dr. Marc Isseks

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    🔥 How can media creation activities support student learning?

    🔥 How should we think about student phones in today’s classrooms?

    🔥 How can we captivate, engage, and empower our students in a world of digital distractions?

    Join me for this conversation with New York assistant principal, author, and podcaster Dr. Marc Isseks as he shares his insights on these and other critical questions.

    About This Guest

    Marc is a third-generation educator with 30 years of experience. He has served as a teacher, curriculum coordinator, and building administrator in Brooklyn and Long Island. 

    Marc is passionate about sharing strategies to increase student engagement and ensuring that schools cultivate the nurturing and invigorating learning environment that every student deserves. A self-proclaimed educational pyromaniac, he is dedicated to lighting fires under people who work and setting fire to systemic conventions that do not. 

    Dr. Isseks is the author of Forward Fast: Making Sense of Education in an Era of Rapid Change (2019) and the recently published Captivate: Engaging and Empowering Students in a World of Digital Distractions.

    You can connect with Dr. Marc Isseks

    • on LinkedIn
    • on X @marcisseks
    • on Instagram and TikTok @edupyro
    • and on his website at marcisseks.com.

    Tune in for my regular Teachers on Fire interviews, airing LIVE on YouTube every Saturday morning at 8:00am Pacific and 11:00am Eastern! Join the conversation and add your comments to the broadcast.

    In This Conversation

    • 0:30 – Who is Dr. Marc Isseks?
    • 2:09 – “What the F was that?”
    • 5:06 – The challenge that teachers face in 2024
    • 6:17 – Hope for the struggling teacher
    • 10:13 – “But this is how we’ve always done it!”
    • 14:07 – How assessment can play a role in student engagement
    • 17:56 – How media creation can support student learning
    • 21:35 – Can student phones possibly be a win in the classroom?
    • 24:37 – One thing to realize about student motivation
    • 28:55 – The State of Ed Podcast
    • 30:40 – A powerful personal habit: daily walking
    • 32:03 – App recommendations: Canva and TextToImage.AI
    • 33:01 – A book suggestion: Unconscious Bias in Schools
    • 33:48 – Someone worth following: Libo Valencia
    • 34:36 – How to connect with Dr. Marc Isseks online

    Connect with Teachers on Fire and Host Tim Cavey

    Song Track Credit

    • Tropic Fuse by French Fuse
    • GO! by Neffex

    *All songs retrieved from the YouTube Audio Library at https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/.