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Optimizing Your Resume and LinkedIn Profile for Career Success

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 10 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000

• First, let’s talk about CTSOs or Career and Technical Student Organizations. These groups provide students with opportunities to develop leadership and technical skills that can be applied in their future careers. As an advisor of a CTSO, you’ve been instrumental in guiding students toward their goals. This is a great experience to highlight in your cover letter and resume.

• When writing your cover letter, include your experience as an advisor and provide specific examples of how you’ve helped students succeed. For example, you can mention how you provided support and guidance to a group of students struggling with academic performance, or how you’ve helped students plan for their post-secondary education.

• Focus on achievements, not just responsibilities: Instead of simply listing your job duties, highlight your accomplishments and how they have contributed to the success of your previous roles. Use quantifiable data and specific examples to demonstrate your impact.

For example: Served a low-income population, and an underperforming school (and school district). Helped move the graduation rate from 76% to 85%, through consistency, and implementing school-wide policies. Increased standards in discipline, teaching from bell to bell, and implementing the no cell phone policy. Participated in the PLCs. Completed the mentor-training program, so I could be a mentor to new staff.

• Keep it concise and easy to read: Hiring managers often have many resumes to review, so make sure your resume is easy to read and visually appealing. Use bullet points and clear headings to break up sections and make the information easy to digest. Additionally, limit your resume to two pages if possible.Formatting is key to success!

Example: The three most common resume formats are chronological, functional and combination. When deciding which resume format you should use, consider your professional history and the role you’re applying for. For example, if you have limited work experience, you might instead focus on academic work, volunteer positions or apprenticeships with a functional resume instead of a chronological resume, which prioritizes job history.

• Update your contact information and online presence: Make sure your resume includes your current contact information, including a professional email address and phone number. You should also review and update your online presence, including social media profiles, to ensure they align with your professional brand.

For Example Your LinkedIn profile to match your resume. Keep your headline and summary consistent: Your headline and summary on LinkedIn should be consistent with your resume. Use the same job title and description to describe your experience and expertise. This will help recruiters and hiring managers easily recognize your skills and experience when comparing your resume and LinkedIn profile.

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Closing Down Your FCS Classroom: Inventory, Maintenance, Communication, Storage, Surplus, and Grants.

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 3 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000

• Let's start with closing down your FCS lab/classroom. It's important to begin with inventory, taking stock of all your equipment, tools, and supplies. This will help you determine what needs to be repaired, replaced, or ordered for the upcoming school year. Additionally, proper maintenance and cleaning of equipment should be performed to ensure its longevity and effectiveness.

Inventory is an important aspect of closing down an FCS classroom/lab. It is essential to take an accurate inventory of all the items in the lab, including equipment, tools, materials, and supplies. This inventory will help you determine what needs to be disposed of, what can be stored for the next school year, and what needs to be ordered or replaced.

• OR your Sewing & Textiles labs- Sewing and embroidery machines in FCS classes should also be serviced and maintained before closing down the classroom. This includes cleaning and oiling the machines, replacing any worn or broken parts, and ensuring they are stored in a dry and secure location. It is also important to inventory these machines and any accompanying accessories, such as needles and thread, to ensure everything is accounted for and in good condition for the next school year. Additionally, if any repairs or replacements are needed, it's best to take care of them during the summer months to avoid any delays or disruptions during the school year.

• Now let's talk about grants and scholarship opportunities for FCS educators. There are several grants and scholarship opportunities available for FCS educators that can enhance their classroom experience. The USDA offers several grants that can help you enhance your classroom and provide hands-on learning experiences for your students. For example, the Resident Instruction Grants Program for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas and Agriculture and Food Sciences Facilities and Equipment grant can help you acquire equipment and resources that can enhance your students' learning experiences. The Renewable Resources Extension Act - National Focus Fund Projects grant can also help you develop innovative curricula and provide hands-on learning experiences for your students which supports innovative curricula and provides training and outreach to rural communities.

• Additionally, the Home Baking Association offers an award for FCS educators who focus on baking education and its interdisciplinary benefits to young people. The award includes a $1,000 prize and entries must be submitted by May 31st, 2023.

• These grants and scholarships can provide valuable resources and support for FCS educators, allowing them to enhance their classrooms and provide better learning experiences for their students. Educators should take advantage of these opportunities and apply for the grants and scholarships that best suit their needs and goals.

If you are looking for more grants and scholarship opportunities, visit https://www.fcsed.net/prepare/prepare-scholarships for a complete list.

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Integrating vocabulary tiers in the FCS classroom

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0000

To start off, I am going to give you a brief overview of what vocabulary tiers are and why they're important in the Family and Consumers Sciences classroom.

Tier 1 words are the most common words used in everyday conversations. They are words that students are likely to already know, such as "house", "food", and "clothing."
Tier 2 words are less common words that students may encounter in academic settings. These are words like "nutrition", "Sustainable", and "conservation."
Tier 3 words are the most specialized words used in specific career fields, such as "dietetics", "textile", and "interior design."

Again, vocabulary tiers refer to different levels of words, with tier 1 words being the most common and basic, while tier 3 words are the most complex and specific.

So, why is it important to understand these tiers? By understanding the different types of vocabulary words, teachers can better select the words they want to focus on teaching, and in turn, help their students build a stronger vocabulary. Now let's talk about some strategies for teaching vocabulary in your FCS classes. There are several strategies that teachers can use effectively integrate vocabulary tiers into your instruction.

One of the most effective strategies is to provide students with context. When students understand the context in which a word is used, they are more likely to remember it and be able to use it in their own writing and speaking. For example, teachers can use repeated exposure to the words in context through reading, writing, and speaking activities.
Another strategy is to encourage students to use new vocabulary words in their own writing. For example, you could have students write a journal entry using as many Tier 2 words as they can, or have them write a story using both Tier 1 and Tier 2 words. Teachers can assess students' understanding of vocabulary through formative and summative assessments.
Finally, using visual aids, such as flashcards, posters, and graphic organizers, can help students better understand and retain new vocabulary words. This is where students are provided with explicit vocabulary instruction by using direct teaching methods, such as defining and explaining words, using real-life examples, and creating visual aids.

As Family and Consumer Sciences teachers, you can integrate these strategies by incorporating hands-on activities and projects that allow students to use the words in context. For example, teachers can have students use semantic mapping to connect new cooking terms in their existing knowledge of food preparation. Teachers can also use word sorts to help students categorize different cooking techniques and ingredients. Finally, teacher-led discussions can be used to help students engage in meaningful conversations about the different aspects of cooking and food preparation where students engage in dialogue about the words and their meanings, which is also a powerful vocabulary strategy.

So, those are just a few strategies for teaching vocabulary in the Family and Consumer Sciences classroom. By incorporating these strategies into your instructional practices, you'll be helping your students build a stronger vocabulary and better prepare them for their future successes in their future careers.

Possibility thinking with Sandra Adams, PhD.

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000

• Will you describe your journey with career and technical education?

• Do you have any new exciting projects you are working on?

• What is your vision for CTE in the next decade wtih your new role as VP for the ACTE Admin Division?

• What are the names of the 3 books you have either co-authored or authored?

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• Email: sadams@mresc.org
• LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-adams-ph-d-559531b8/

BOOKS
• PLC in CTE: The power of professional learning communities to create thriving cultures of achievement within career and technical education
• But I am NOT a reading teacher!: Literacy Strategies for Career and Technical Educators
• Diving In to Strategic Thinking: A Teacher's Field Guide to Depth of Knowledge

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Elevate FCS with Toni Wiese

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 10:00:00 +0000

• Tell me about the over purpose of the campaign? The Elevate FCS campaign is a nationwide effort to raise awareness and recognition for the field of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) and the professionals who work in it. The campaign aims to showcase the diverse career opportunities available within FCS, as well as the impact that FCS professionals have on individuals, families, and communities.

• How can people get involved in the campaign? There are several ways that people can get involved in the Elevate FCS campaign. One way is by sharing their own FCS story on social media using the hashtag #ElevateFCS. Additionally, individuals can support the campaign by attending FCS events, advocating for FCS programs in their communities, and engaging with FCS professionals and organizations.

• Is it just for members of the association? While the campaign is led by the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS), it is not limited to AAFCS members. Anyone who is interested in promoting and elevating the field of FCS is encouraged to participate.

• What resources and/or materials are provided? Where can they be accessed? The Elevate FCS campaign provides a variety of resources and materials for individuals and organizations to use in promoting FCS. These include social media graphics, flyers, fact sheets, and more. These resources can be accessed on the AAFCS website.

• How do the FCS FRIDAYS connect into ELEVATE FCS? FCS FRIDAYS is a key component of the Elevate FCS campaign. FCS FRIDAYS is a weekly social media event where individuals and organizations share FCS-related content using the hashtag #FCSFridays. This content can include FCS success stories, resources, and other FCS-related information. FCS FRIDAYS help to promote and elevate the field of FCS on a regular basis, and connect with the larger Elevate FCS campaign to create a collective voice for the field.

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•Email: twiese@aafcs.org

•AAFCS Website: https://www.aafcs.org/home
•Elevate FCS Webpage: https://www.aafcs.org/elevatefcs

•Elevate FCS Library: https://www.aafcs.org/myaafcs1/communities/community-home/librarydocuments?LibraryKey=8a20396d-3825-4ad6-bf43-f13b611314fe
•FCS Fridays Page: https://www.aafcs.org/elevatefcs/fcs-friday

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Embracing AI in FCS Education

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 8 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000

• AI is changing the way we live, work, and learn, and as educators, it's our job to prepare our students for this rapidly changing world. By incorporating AI into the FCS classroom, we can help our students develop 21st-century skills, like problem-solving, critical thinking, and creativity. With AI, students can analyze data, identify patterns, and make predictions. This not only helps them understand how AI works but also helps them develop valuable skills that will serve them well in their future careers. After all, we are all about the 21st-century skillset!

• Another benefit of integrating AI into the FCS classroom is increased engagement and motivation. When students work with AI, they're not just passively receiving information, they're actively creating, testing, and refining algorithms. This hands-on experience is much more engaging than simply reading about AI in a textbook. It also allows students to see the real-world applications of what they're learning, making the material more meaningful and relevant.

• Are you curious on how you can integrate AI into your classroom yet? Well here are two suggestions on how you can use AI for a Foods class and/or Clothing and Construction class:

AI-Powered Recipe Recommendation System: In this activity, students will use AI to create a personalized recipe recommendation system. First, students will compile a database of recipes, including ingredients and cooking methods. Next, they will use AI algorithms, to analyze the data and make recommendations based on the ingredients the student inputs. The goal is to help students understand how AI can be used to personalize recommendations and make their lives easier.

• These activities are engaging, and innovative, and provide students with valuable hands-on experience with AI technology. By integrating AI into the FCS classroom, students can develop 21st-century skills, become more engaged and motivated, and prepare for the future. Embracing AI in education is not only important but necessary. By integrating AI into the FCS classroom, we can help our students develop valuable skills, increase engagement and motivation, and prepare them for the future. So let's embrace AI in education and start incorporating it into our classrooms today.

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why learning comes first, technology second

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 1 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0000

• Technology has become an essential part of our daily lives, and it's no different in the classroom. It has the potential to enhance student learning and engagement, but it's important to remember that technology is just a tool, and it's the teaching strategies that come first. As Family and Consumer Sciences teachers, we have a unique opportunity to help students understand the importance of using technology in their daily lives and careers. However, it's crucial that we prioritize student learning and use technology as a means to achieve this goal.

• Differentiated instruction: This approach recognizes that students have different learning styles and abilities and adjusts teaching methods to meet the needs of each individual student. At its most basic level, differentiation consists of the efforts of teachers to respond to variance among learners in the classroom. Whenever a teacher reaches out to an individual or small group to vary his or her teaching in order to create the best learning experience possible, that teacher is differentiating instruction.

• Inquiry-based learning: This approach encourages students to ask questions, explore topics, and make connections between new information and their existing knowledge. This helps students to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. By putting these teaching strategies first, we can ensure that technology is being used in a way that supports student learning and engagement. Technology should never replace good teaching, but rather enhance it.

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The Relevance of FCS Education in Public K-12 Education

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000

• FCS education prepares students for adulthood by teaching them how to make informed decisions about important life events, such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement, as well as how to manage their finances, maintain their health, and develop positive relationships with others

• Contribution to Society: FCS education helps students become productive citizens who are able to contribute to their communities in meaningful ways. By fostering positive relationships, good nutrition, and a balanced lifestyle, FCS education helps students develop the skills and habits needed to lead healthy, productive lives. This, in turn, leads to stronger families, communities, and a more robust and vibrant society overall. Additionally, by preparing students for the challenges they will face as adults

• FCS education is a vital component of public education that should not be overlooked. By providing students with essential life skills, preparing them for adulthood, and fostering their ability to contribute to society, FCS education helps lay the foundation for a brighter future for individuals, families, and communities. It is essential that we invest in this important discipline and recognize its value in preparing our students for success and happiness in all aspects of their lives.

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Exploring the Innovations and Impact of Career and Technical Education (CTE): Navigating the future with CTSO leadership

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000

• I will share and discuss on 3 topics supporting CTE programs in preparing students for careers in various fields of work.

Latest Trends in CTE:
The Importance of Keeping CTE Programs Relevant:
The Role of Career and Technical Education Student Leadership Organizations and the benefits of participating in a CTSO.

• One of the biggest trends in CTE is the increasing emphasis on project-based learning. Project-based learning is a teaching method that involves students in solving real-world problems by working on a project.

• One of the biggest challenges facing CTE programs is keeping up with the rapidly changing demands of the job market. With new technologies and advancements being introduced all the time, it is essential that CTE programs adapt and evolve to meet these changing needs.

• These organizations provide students with opportunities to develop leadership skills, network with industry professionals, and gain hands-on experience in their chosen fields. For example: Organizations like SkillsUSA, Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), and Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) provide students with opportunities to develop leadership skills, participate in community service projects, and compete in events that showcase their skills.

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The Importance of Celebrating Career and Technical Education Month

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 8 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000

• Every February, the CTE community comes together to recognize the achievements and impact of CTE programs and to raise awareness about their role in preparing students for college and career success. (00:30)

• CTE Month provides an opportunity for individuals and organizations to show their support for CTE programs and the students who participate in them. By hosting events, recognizing achievements, raising awareness, and engaging with the community, we can help to further the mission of CTE and ensure that all students have the tools and experiences they need to succeed. (1:30)

• 1. Host events: Organize events such as open houses, tours, demonstrations, or guest speaker presentations to showcase CTE programs and their impact. (1:50)

• 2. Recognize achievements: Celebrate the achievements of CTE students, educators, and partners through awards programs or other recognition initiatives. (2:00 )

• Raise awareness: Share information about CTE and its benefits through social media, local news outlets, or community events. By participating in these activities, individuals and organizations can raise awareness of the impact and importance of Career and Technical Education and celebrate its achievements.(2:30)

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How to market your FCS CTE classes

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 1 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000

• (00:31) Did you know that February is known for CTE month? CTE, meaning career and technical education, so that every single February, the CTE community celebrates CTE month to raise awareness of the role that CTE has in reading learners for college and career success.

• (1:50) Tip number one (1) is probably the easiest and by far the most accessible thing that you can do, how many of you are covering classes on your prep when you are on your sub-rotation, which I know you are because I am. Promote your classes while subbing! Talk about the fun things you do in each of your classes, TALK IT UP :)

• (2:02 ) Tip number two (2), create a one-pager talking about all the various aspects, family and consumer sciences classes that your school district and school has to offer for their students. Please see my free gift to you! Download Resource 1: FCS 1 pager

• (3:51 ) Tip number three (3), as you walk out of that classroom that you just subbed for, leave that one pager on the white board and who teaches what... Our students need that visual representation of what teacher teaches what subject. Please see my second free gift to you! Download Resource 2: FCS elective registration promo

I love being on this journey of learning, growing and excelling with you. You play a major role in motivating students and helping them build their self-esteem, especially during their most impressionable years. Thank you for all of the amazing work that you do, go out and promote your classes and have fun with your students as always, my friend. Let's continue leading student success with FCS. We are better together.

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EP 103 Dr. Katy Blatnick-Gagne, V.P. FCS Division at ACTE

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

• My mom was a Family and Consumer Scientist or Home Economist, as she still likes to refer to it for 27 years in Southwest Colorado, and out of three children, I was the only one that followed my parents in the footsteps of becoming an educator (4:29)

• Leadership has always been something I've been intrigued in. I love professional development, things going out, and just being able to better myself, and learn. I think that's really important as a Family and Consumer Scientist. Also, the content that we teach in classes is not stagnant, has to change as society changes, as our world changes, and I really embrace that. (6:37)

• The Vision Awards, it's actually pretty simple. If they have someone that they know that they're in, you're thinking, Gosh, I really know someone who has some outstanding contributions or they've really just gone above and beyond, they've always been a member of FBS, they remember of the national organization, they have the opportunity to actually nominate individuals through a Google Form. (12:07 )

• Scholarships are one of those that we were looking for individuals to apply for all the time, so if you know of a student who is interested in going into Family and Consumer Sciences education or is currently in any program, be sure to have them reach out, connect them to our undergraduate scholarships that have those run through at facts and they have a form in the awards portal to fill out, and those scholarships along with our graduate degree school ships will also be awarded during the national act conference, during our awards division (15:02)

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•Email: kabg1015@gmail.com •ACTE FCS Division Website: https://www.acteonline.org/about/structure/divisions/family-and-consumer-sciences-education-division/#toggle-id-1-closed
•FCS Division Awards Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBJb8mDc2091DHBiLJZUlW0r7PwCXS9P7j5FGXLs6mzIPy0A/viewform •FCS Division Fellowship: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRjfcnm3Fa3jkpfx8RTmmjgVjd3NvX_9rRTcDIXbYeoVQOMA/viewform
•FCS Division Roll of Honor: dawn.mallette@colostate.edu •Best Practices in FCS Showcase at ACTE CareerTech Vision 2022: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfC06zJdPOyN18USrhg7TRpa-_W9QFs2DAAO9HuE3UPdWZ5eA/viewform

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Ep 102 Baker 'Kristin Hoffman' Bettie

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

• I am a trained chef. I did go to culinary school, and I've worked at restaurants and worked as a private chef, but for the last 11 years, I've been creating content on my Baker Bettie website as an educational baking content creator. I started Baker Bettie as a food blog back in 2011. You know, I had never baked anything until I was out of the house. I was 19 years old, and I had never made anything, not even from a box mix until I was that old, so that is when I really started getting interested in baking. (3:25)

• I think I really started connecting with the FACS (FCS) community at the start of the pandemic. I have an online baking school as well, called The Baker Bettie baking school, where I have a bunch of virtual classes, and one of my courses is a free baking fundamentals class and it became a resource that a lot of people were using during that transition time. (6:37)

•I make bread literally multiple times a week, and it still feels like a magical process to me, but I love that you did that with them because I think understanding exactly what's happening and why we are doing things is such an important part of the building, making confidence because I don't know, I've just never been somebody that likes to be told what to do and then just accept it, like, Okay, we're just gonna do it. I wanna know why, why are we doing it this way? What is the purpose? And I think that really just helps you understand it better and feel more confident and be able to explore more in the kitchen (12:17 )

• I have always had a very Math and Science brain, that's always been the topics that were really interesting to me, and so the way he explained baking as a science really drew me in, I got very interested in that, and then I really started with cookies, I wanted what I thought was the perfect chocolate chip cookie in my head, and I could not find a recipe that created what I wanted it to be. And so I decided to start figuring out how I could make it the way I wanted it to be (15:02)

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•Email: bakerbettie@gmail.com •LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-baker-bettie-hoffman-50037274/
•Website: https://bakerbettie.com/ •TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bakerbettie •YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/bakerbettie

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Ep 101 Sharon Davis of The Home Baking Association

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

• I have a real history now with family consumer sciences, I actually started out as a home economist with what they call a vocational education degree. Now it's called Career and Tech. So that degree from Iowa State, and my continuing ed is with Kansas State University and the American Institute of Baking. So I keep learning, but I landed in home health care to start with, and in-home visitations loved it because I really wanted to learn more about consumers and home life and what people's needs were, and I always have that passion for making sure that the person at home, whoever it is, whatever each they are, is able to sustain light, not just sustain it, but really be well, be happy(7:48)

• If you go to our website, which is homebaking.org, and across the header there, you'll find our members. Just click on that and you will see our 32 members. They run the gamut from Sustainable Packaging For big goods that the teacher could use when they do a big bake sale, the cottage industry could use for selling or retail bakers, and then there's also Thermo Pops, which is offering you all a great deal on Half Price Thermo pops that you could really get your labs up to speed on temperatures and making, and then there's all the ingredients, sugar used, butter and weak flower, of course. (10:48)

• We actually sought out our partnerships very purposefully, because if you look at any kind of food preparation or ingredient knowledge, you know what social media is like right now, you know what the internet is like. It doesn't always have very well-vetted information, and we want teachers to have reliable recipes and formulas when they're working with baked goods, 'cause you really can't waste your time. I had 42 minutes in my classroom and I did not want to use a formula or a recipe with my students that didn't perform well (15:34 )

• Right now in the news, you're hearing about it, there's a nutrition conference that the President's Counsel just held, and a lot of times we view sugar as a problematic ingredient, but it's essential in baking and real sugar, which is made from sugar cane and sugar beets means it's not an artificial sweetener, and therefore, your body utilizes it quite well and has no risks with it, so if you use it within the moderation that is recommended and you control your portion size (21:02)

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•Email: hbadavis@gmail.com •LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-davis-00a50736/
•Website: https://homebaking.org/

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Ep 100 Hanna Kim of EverFI

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 5 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

• After graduating from EWU with her M. ED, Hanna Kim spent 5 years teaching 3rd, 5th, and 7th-grade math/science, I have developed a passion for finding ways to bridge the gaps in education that students face today. As the local EVERFI support in Washington, I'm excited to work with educators across the state to bring critical life skills to their classrooms with industry-leading resources with no cost attached. (3:47)

• EverFI is an EdTech company based out of DC. We're all about social impacts of thinking about in terms of how to bridge the learning gap in the schools, lots of Encore contact math, English, science that's been taught forever, over thinking more about life skills, so like financial literacy, making sure that's when students graduate high school that they're prepared and set up for success in their adult life, and then we also cover things like career exploration so that students aren't aware of what path they wanna take, how do they get there, being able to kind of plan that real life after high school along with communication skills, social-emotional learning, things like that, our mission and our goal is to provide these resources that are ready, made complete and ready to go in the classrooms at no cost, so we partner with lots of various sponsors and companies that work with us to be able to provide these at no cost for the teachers. (5:00)

• Over the past summer, we had two new courses that launched that were called build credit fundamentals, talking about how to build credit, what is credit? When would you use credit, what kind of behaviors kind of help you bump up the credit versus ones that ding your credit, and then we had one that was called to save up specifically for middle school students, where it talks and goes into the topic of savings, how to create a budget to make sure that you're not spending over your budget or how to balance the spending so that you're able to have some money saved for the month. (9:30 )

• Future smart, it's a middle school Financial Literacy Program, so our high school and our entire company started with the flagship course every financial literacy, when our founders were like, there's a big gap for financial literacy that students are needing. This is our version, but for middle school students, it is one of our biggest financial literacy programs in partnership with Mass Mutual Foundation, and it actually is a complete picture, we have a whole portal that time has family resources and scholarship resources. It actually has resources for educators as well, that include little videos that teachers do, different tips and tricks along with worksheets, and any students who complete the course, three lessons are more, is eligible to apply for the scholarship that they run. They give out 20 scholarship total throughout the entire school year (13:06)

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•Instagram: https://instagram.com/everfi?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
•Email: hkim@everfi.com •LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/everfi/
•Website: https://everfi.com/

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99-Season 3 Launch

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Episode Notes

• Why are we hiring more and more business and marketing educators to fill these roles when it's the family and consumer sciences classes that are constantly being targeted tracked and we have these long lists for student enrollment, so we really, subconsciously, we have to start thinking about what is our pipeline, what is it that our communities are needing right now from us so that we can prepare our students move forward once they graduate high school. (9:14)

• Next week's episode is gonna be episode 100. Can you believe that? My friends, I am just floored and bewildered at the same time going, How in the world have I recorded? And we combined listened to about 100 episodes of the Connect FCS and podcast, and I always have to go back and do just a little gratitude post of saying Thank you so much for growing with me, thank you for allowing me the space to learn with you. Every episode, it is my personal strive to become better than what I was before, and with that, I'm just grateful that you would allow me the space and the time for you to listen in, that is powerful in that his friendship and that is something that I hold on to (10:27)

• Starting October 5th, Wednesday, my birthday, we are going to have EverFI of Hanna Kim and she is gonna be talking to us about what EverFI has got going on for this coming school year, they have a lot of great valuable resources. So don't miss episode 100, you're not gonna wanna miss it. And on October 8th, keep that date in mind, October 8 at 9 AM Pacific Standard Time, we are gonna be doing a free giveaway on FCStips Facebook group. (21:02 )

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98-Enjoy a Guilt-Free Summer by Doing These 3 Things Before the School Year Ends with Khristen Massic

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 11 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

• I'm really tired because the school year's ending, but I get really excited about next year, so that's why this is a great time to get excited, get some stuff off your plate while you're still at the school, you're still in your contract hours, you're not worrying about what you're doing over the summer. And just get some stuff done. Now, so I've got three tips, and my very first one is to de-clutter, and you've got a few different ways that you can de-clutter, so there's declaring stuff, you may have accumulated some projects that students have done this year, and you may wanna save a few but my biggest recommendation would be, look at the classes that you are going to be teaching next year and de-clutter any resources that you are using for classes that you won't be teaching next year. (9:14)

• My second tip is to look at your current routines and systems that you're using, so whether it's how students are turning in their work or what you are doing for your clean up, and seeing like what works and what doesn't work, because right now it's a good time to take a step back, will you still have students and see what needs tweaking for next year, and make notes of those now, and you don't need to restructure those over the summer, but taking notes of those now will actually help you remember what it's truly like rather than kind of having this honeymoon phase at the beginning of next school year and like, Oh yeah, that worked really well, when really it didn't. Maybe you're checking to see if there are certain supplies that are constantly being left out, like the scissors that are never being put away, so you'll wanna come up with some sort of solution for scissors next year. So this is an opportune time to do that, and the key is, is that you still have students so you can still observe how those are functioning and what needs to change. (13:22)

• My third tip is to map out next year from a large bird's-eye view, and you're going to do it for each of the courses that you're taking because you want to have an idea of the units you're going to be teaching, but then you also want to schedule, decide how long you wanna spend on each of those units, then the really critical part is you're going to then compare that to your calendars. You need to look at your school calendar and see if you have a winter break or different holidays, and where does that land, because you don't necessarily want to have one day be after the break of your unit, you wanna have them all before the break, and then you want to look at it too when you're calendaring it, comparing it, all your classes to one another, because you wanna save yourself time, and if you end up having a whole bunch of projects or unit ending all on the day, and that could mean that there's a lot of work for you on one particular day, so try to spread it out- be intentional. (21:02 )

• When you're in the thick of planning and doing your teaching and you've got your lessons and your activities and you're going shopping so that you make sure that you have your food for your kitchens and all of that, you're not worried about whether or not you assigned 12 different projects to all be due on the day before homecoming. It's a great way to think about that now, and I think that's the key thing, think about it now so you don't have to think about it over the summer at all. You've already done the leg work, that way, when you come back in August, all you have to actually do is plan your lessons. So enjoy your lessons! (22:16)

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97- AAFCS 113th Annual Conference with Nancy Bock Executive Director

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 4 May 2022 10:00:00 +0000

• They are connected to our educational experience, and they are literally the best example you can think of of a not-for-profit organization that's doing good sustainably, and so they are going to talk about sustainability and how they got to where they are and how they're actually saving lives with soap and water. And this is an issue that's not just here in the United States, but it's a global issue, so they've come up with a really incredible process that allows us to recycle and sanitize the soaps and the hotels, and then formulate them into a product that can be given away to people in need. So the title of that session could not be better, their team, their staff, their volunteers, or hotel partners, they are the best people on them, doing good. Doing good in the world of sustainability. So we're really excited about that one. (11:54)

• Our website is easy to navigate. Our registration site is very, very easy, if everyone just goes to the AAFCS.org website, you'll find on our home page, the registration banner you can't miss, there are lots of banners and words and points to take you to the registration site, so it's really a one-click process to get to that page. And so once you get to the registration website, there's so much more than we'll have time to talk about the same thing, but we have connected learning, we have our general sessions, educational sessions and more. (16:47)

• I was talking to someone recently that's gonna be a first-timer, and you know, we've all had experiences. Not everybody is an extrovert, some people are introverts, some people can walk into a ballroom and just work the crowd and talk to everybody and know everyone's name when they leave and others, not so much. And so we're actually looking at that very carefully this year too, because one of our student members raised the topic with us, and so we've got some of our various ops working with us to do some outreach to those first conference goers before they go to Orlando. So that there is somebody they can ask a question too, that they may not be comfortable or may not know who to go to to get the answers, so we're gonna do some pre-work and they're gonna do some special things on the property for this first time or so that they feel very welcome and a part of our group, and being included(24:02 )

• We wash our hands, we don't think about it, we turn on the water and we don't think about it, but in this case, we clean the world, seeing these people long for miles to get soap and then be so excited about a bar, so certainly makes us all stop and think a little bit more. And by the way, clean the world, as I said earlier, they're gonna be one of our headliners in one of our general sessions to tell the whole story to everybody, so that all of our affiliates, all of our members, non-members, all the folks in Orlando can learn about clean the world so that then they can start to think about how they can contribute and support this organization because they are just amazing (34:44)

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96-Briana Castro, FCCLA VP of Development

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:00:00 +0000

• I learned that VP of Development, it's a really important position as you are looking for new partnerships and you are helping the organization financially, and maybe sure that members are the opportunity, participating partner contacts, and the sales, the national or coalition. (13:18)

• So, are the executive council positions, are they rolling over every year; Are we gaining new student leadership yearly?. Yes, so every year, at the national leadership conference, I know it is a very long process where there's national series from across the nation, from Washington all the way a way. We have candidates in Texas, Hawaii, we have student leaders or passionate about our organizations, we have to go through this pass of interviews, there's a non-meeting committee that I want to each candidate. (3:47)

• Sometimes a question is, why did you join? But I think for me, the question is why not? I joined because my middle school had it which is what first got me interested. But, I stayed because of the friends and connections that I had made. The people I met and the force of good that was being made. I've been afforded opportunities that I otherwise would not have experienced, and because of that, I'm eternally just thankful. (22:02)

• if your school doesn't have an FCCLA chapter, it's easy to start one... I know, anything you start that you have no knowledge on, it's overwhelming, but it is easy to start. The advice I would tell you, find other teachers in your own community and reach out to them to find out what is it that they have done and you get a sponsor. Have another FCCLA chapter advisor as a mentor to help you start your new chapter. (29:44)

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APRIL 27th, 2022

95-M is for Money with Rob Phelan

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 10:00:00 +0000

• I got into personal finance about six years ago. My school asked me to teach this class, it was like a Math personal since hybrid, my wife at the time we were dating, we just moved in together, she was the one who was the money person in our house, and through our conversations, it became clear that I needed to learn more about money as well to become more co-partner in our decision-making, and like we talk about with couples all the time, we wanna make sure that everyone is a knowledgeable participant in the finances of the house (10:56)

• It's not something that you have to be born into a wealthy family to be able to do all these things so I became very passionate about teaching others what I was... I started with my own classroom, and then the ChooseFI Foundation, developed a pre-K through 12 Personal Finance curriculum that's free to use, and then the next step was my son was born. (12:13)

• I think there's so much learned from kids' books, particularly when you go back a sec with an adult or a teenage mind and look at them like some examples that come to mind, or like the goose that laid the golden egg, talking about the fishermen and the businessman, Jack In The being stock. Those are ones that if you approach that with an adult line, now you're like, What are the morals in here and how does it apply to finances, and there are some really cool conversations that can actually come from those (16:14)

• I first heard about it from a friend who took her probably two-year-old son at the time to a local bank, they opened a checking account for him, a junior saber checking account, whatever it was. And they got a little goody bag from the bank for the custodial account holder, and I was like, Oh, that's really cool. So I started approaching my local banks and credit unions, and three of them have signed up already to pick up copies of the book and give it out to the kids as they sign up for accounts (18:37)

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94-MoneyFit Everyday money for Everyday people with Todd Christensen

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 10:00:00 +0000

• Todd Christensen is an author podcaster, speaker, accredited financial counselor, certified HUD housing counselor, and Education Manager at the Money Fit by DRS. Todd has facilitated thousands of personal finance workshops and one-on-one counseling sessions since 2004, helping consumers of all backgrounds and income levels regain control of their finances, get out of debt, rebuild their credit and create a brighter financial future. He published Everyday Money for Everyday People in 2014, and it's on the 50+ on fire in 2021 (1:54)

• The money fit Show is all about the personal finance journey. So we interview people who have a story to tell, whether they got in a lot of debt when they were younger, or maybe they maxed out a credit card as I did in 36 hours, or they just dealt with overspending and then how they got out of that or overcame those challenges and hopefully some of the tools and resources that they used along the way that listeners can take advantage of or maybe find some motivation. And that's really the kind of the goal is to help people realize, Hey, no matter how bad it gets. Somebody's been there done that, and you can get through it. (3:47)

• I've been involved with Jump Start since almost day one. Back in 2004 when I started in this industry, I looked up who's involved in personal finance and started attending the Idaho JumpStart Coalition, called Idaho Financial Literacy Coalition, which actually developed about the same time, a little independently from JumpStart, but they are working together and got involved in leadership and have stayed involved with that organization for going on almost two decades now. It sounds like it has been very rewarding. Definitely, being a part of all of these different coalitions and leadership programs has been self-fulfilling and very rewarding. (5:02)

• But I love that idea that you used the word intentional, the idea of mindful living, it's been very popular over the last decade or so of mindful eating, you know, being aware of where our food comes from, a word, the impact we're having on our local and greater environment, so forth being a mindful consumer consuming, we have... Do we consume... That's being a human means we have to have food, we have to have shelter, we consume, but being mindful, being intentional, because if you think about What's the opposite, it's being mindless, a mindless consumer. And that's where we get ourselves into trouble.(9:44)

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93-International Federation for Home Economics World Congress 2022

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 6 Apr 2022 10:00:00 +0000

• We have been making plans for many years now, the International Federation For Home Economics World Congress, it's will be held in Atlanta, Georgia. So coming up right here in the southeast part of the United States, September 60th through 10th, 2022.(1:54)

• Georgia is in the top 10 universities nationally, the University of Georgia, and they have a very strong family consumer science education program but connected to the University of Georgia are our extension colleagues, and so our extension colleagues have been playing a significant role in the planning for the Congress as has our Georgia affiliates (4:22)

• The United States presenting itself to the world, but you'll also see this connection because they'll be presenting the flag and the movement of the Congress from the United States to its next destination. So that's a really cool thing packed into the in-between, you're going to see really rich and robust concurrent sessions, plenary speakers, and so on, that's going to help to build that intellectual space that we're so familiar with when we go to conferences to study within our discipline and so it's all very exciting. (8:13)

• Family and Consumer scientists in a world where everybody's thinking about where the money is coming from or who their stakeholders are, we belong to a discipline where our stakeholders are families and consumers that those are our stakeholders. We're responsible at the end of the day to those people, the people whose lives, we're trying to empower them to make their own lives better, and that's unique among many different disciplines, that we are responsible not to some agency, not to some industry but to the individuals, families and consumers that we are educating. Another thing, I'm always keenly aware of, is that home economics as a discipline was founded to give women access to science education, and more than that, recognized that science education was a way to empower people to protect their families from the damage caused by the industrial revolution, from pollution, from adulterated products, from mislabeling, from predatory financial practices, and so forth (40:14)

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92-Why Join the International Federation of Home Economics with Dr. Gwendolyn Hustevdt and Dr. Janine Duncan

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:00:00 +0000

• International Federation For Home Economics was founded more than 100 years ago in 1908, it was founded to basically help have a conversation about home economics as a discipline on a global stage across global hat forms. And so I got involved because it's just a chance to meet people who share many of our same perspectives, but maybe not all of our exact same concerns or issues, so depending on what country they're in, they're structured a little differently, they have support coming from different places, or they have a different position or status within their society, it can be easy sometimes for us to get a little bit defensive, we sometimes feel like we have to always explain, yes, we still exist, or this is what we do, or...It's a lot of things, but we're all together, and so it's really great to meet people who receive different kinds of support or have a different perspective on what should be included or how things should work. So just to put it simply, the International Federation For Home Economics is the only international organization that's designed to promote home economics across the world, that's what the organization is in a nutshell.(4:13)

• I was a second-year middle school teacher when I went to my first congress. It was something that was part of the culture of where I went to school at the University of Illinois, and we had a group of people who were going. And I thought, Well, you know, I had to make choices, and I attended that year, and it was a remarkable experience. I remember having someone ask me when I was there, "why would a middle school teacher come to the Internation Federation of Home Economics Congress? I was stunned by the question 'cause I thought, Well, why wouldn't we... And really what's to be gained, there's everything that we do as teachers of home economics, family consumer sciences, now that we refer to it, is about trying to connect people, and that if we're really trying to connect people and build Understandings cross-culturally, then the best way to do that is by working cross-culturally with our peers, and so the Congress gives us a great opportunity to do that (7:22)

• As Family & Consumer Sciences professionals and Home Economists, we're empowered to actually think through how we can manage those situations. Were in a really lucky position. I read a book about the first Earth day and talked about how he called them housewives, but I'd like to imagine that quite a lot of these quote housewives were actually home economics trained women who were really concerned about litter and water pollution and air pollution in the 1970s. The original Earth Day was actually focused on removing waste from our environment, and one of the kinds of sad things as I read that book, I realized that there was definitely this idea that we should solve our problems around ways of using market forces. If we will buy recycled products, then that will stimulate a market for recyclables and then the problem will be solved. And of course, one of the things I'd like to remember is that industries who are making money off of us want us to have conversations that are on their terms about how we can use them to solve the problem, just buy something recycled or recycled here, and that solves the problem, but the whole point of home economics is that what happens in our homes is our business, right, we have the power within our homes, and so we should be empowered through education and through options to actually have our home a place that reflects our values. (16:13)

• I love using the Sustainable Development Goals as a teaching frame within my courses, just laying out all 17 of the goals and then explaining how Home Economics aligns with all of the goals, and then also asking my students through the course of the semester, which of the topics that we're talking about today fits with which development goal, so that they can really understand that things like seeking justice or gender equality, or improving health and wellness are the things we're talking about aligning with this global conversation. (27:43)

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91-CTE teacher certification programs with Jill Perillo Clark

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000

• We have such a heart for CTE. So I'm really excited to have you with me and just talking about alternative certification programs, we need to fill that teacher pipeline, so let's just start right out the gate. What is CTE? Alright, well, CTE is an acronym that stands for career and technical education, and that is the current phrase that we use to describe what we used to call vocational education, so we're talking about hands-on, small groups, very structured type of learning environments, and that's essentially what CTE is. CTE tends to be your electives, your hands-on elective classes, and a lot of times they lead to potential certifications or things of that nature that lead into careers. So very career-driven curriculum(3:06).

• CTE or back as it was originally known, vocational education. It really came about right at the turn of the last century, and it started with farming. There was this need to incorporate some real tangible hands-on skills and techniques for students so that they could actually finish their high school experience and get out there and have a tangible skill set such as being able to farm. In the beginning, it was very ag-driven, and then from there, we ended up going into World War 1. That model ended up being used to teach teachers how to teach their students tangible things to help with the war effort, so things like how to drive, because again, we're talking about the turn of last century, so automotive skills and things of that nature, and so that's where CTE really got its foothold, and as we moved through the years and come up to where we currently are now... Really what CTE does is, again, it provides this type of education that really gives students these hands-on tangible skill sets to be able to enter into the workforce, so when that is our goal, we need teachers who come from industry to be able to deliver that kind of curriculum effectively. (5:17)

• How we work with teacher certifications is by offering an intensified course. This is open for people who have been in industry and have a certain number of hours in industry. These are individuals who want to get into the classroom, but they don't necessarily want to go the traditional academic route and put four years in for an undergrad and then get their teaching starts to get on top of it. So what we do is we look at their work history and we make sure that they have enough hours in that particular area, and then we enroll them in this very intensified program where we have short courses that really give them the background need to have... In how to write lesson plans, how to handle classroom management, and we put them right away into a teacher practicum, so that means they're in the classroom. Everything is very condensed and short and you can, depending on where you're at, you can get through the program within... One summer up to two years, just kind of depending on what route you want to take. (8:46)

• I am such a believer in CTE, I'm so glad that I stumbled into this field. Once I really started understanding what CTE is and how it can reach students, I had just never looked back I'm just such a believer in it. One thing I love about CTE is that it is hands-on education, these are the classes where you are actually making things... You are working in small groups. I used to teach Culinary Arts at Mount Vernon high school where I did my student teaching. That was my first teaching job were and where I taught beginning foods, Advanced foods, and I loved that. I loved that small group dynamic, and you see it in students, they enjoy that too. They really thrive in that type of environment where they're able to work together, work collaboratively, while they're working collaboratively, they are reading a recipe, they're interpreting it, they are delegating duties, they are working together, and then at the end of it, they have a product that they can share in this scenario, it's food, they're able to sit down and eat, so not only are they learning, but all of these basic needs are being met. (24:40)

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90-Dr. Dave family life educator and Utah extension specialist

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 2 Mar 2022 08:00:00 +0000

• Especially in our time right now, and there's so much stress going on. The simple science back to practices, these little things that people can do that can improve their personal well-being... I'll give you some examples, my two favorites probably are gratitude, just the power of the science of gratitude. Simply being mindful of others and expressing that gratitude to others, and the second one is kindness, just random acts of kindness. (2:58)

• One thing to make me happy, something I'm grateful for is something that day that I loved, and then I choose to do that. I encourage families to do that to end of their day. We are all wanting to end the day on a positive and happy note, and plus, you learn all kinds of things for your children about what made them happy and how they did on tests at school, or who they helped, or... Those are the things. So it's these little practices that we can do... It could be at dinner time, it can be right before they go to bed, but these little rituals can be really meaningful. (11:38)

• I got my Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from Auburn University in Alabama, and then I worked at the University of Missouri for nine years as an extension specialist. Extension specialist, is really it's about taking the research that's out there and developing into programs, such as parenting programs where my three areas of specialty are parenting, couples relationships and the kinds positivity, this Positive Psychology, this happiness. So those are my three areas positivity, parenting, marriage, relationships. (15:43)

• In fact, my AI surveyed over 1300 people when I was at the University of Missouri, I asked him, Is the two questions the shortest survey of my career, and it was, to me, life is all about... And then fill in the blank. I had people of all these one or two words, to me, life is all about from like... And if I were to die tomorrow, what I would miss the very most would be... And then fill in the blank. Overwhelmingly, it was family. It's the relationship to this life and most people. No, it doesn't mean that work isn't satisfying can bring fulfillment, but when it comes down to it... Man. It's about family relationships. (19:10)

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WHEN DOES IT AIR…
MARCH 2nd, 2022

89-National Partnership in Supporting FCS Educators with Karen Bergh, Ph.D, CFCS and Rob Van Dyke, CFCS

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000

• Traditionally, there hasn't been a lot of support for those current in-classroom FCS teachers other than what their state administrator provides, and so each state has some sort of state administrator employed by the entity of which overseas career in technical education, or at least somebody that kinda vaguely oversees multiple areas, and so I think they've provided a lot of different support pieces, so the grant has definitely provided more opportunities and more resources for the in-classroom teacher to really grow and be a retained right now. (7:43)

• we have really provided some guidance towards the grant with really making sure that the curriculum, whether it comes through an outside vendor, comes through teachers, comes from teacher educators or students that come through a family consumer science education program means a high-quality stamp on us so that way, we're turning out curriculum and which can be used that are tied to the National Family and Consumer Science Standard. So on the website, FCSed.net, under the support menu, there is the curriculum library but you could also see the evaluation rubric and which was developed to make sure that we are ensuring that the curriculum that is out there that I vetted is really validated, not only by educators but through some of the other networks that we provide through business and industry, really meet that high-quality CTE framework that's put out by act to make sure that our program has support. (11:00)

• What advice do you have for current FCS educators, because we've talked about the future, but how about for that current piece? Well, I think that it's really important to take advantage of all the resources that are available to people now and that there are so many resources on the National Partnership that people can use, and we really, at this point, are trying to make sure that we educate people to all the resources and opportunities are there on the national partnership. One of the things that we found when we started the National Partnership was that we were doing national leadership conferences and summits, but really needed to get that material down to the grassroots, so we developed state action teams to develop their own plans in their own regions for recruiting, preparing and supporting FCS educators. Presently, there's over 350 members of state action teams across the United States and also in Puerto Rico. (15:43)

• Current teachers are the best recruiters, they see their students, and there are lots of opportunities to say, You know that what? I think you have what it takes to be a great future FCS educator... Encourage them to look at FCS as a possible career. And of course, we also have new marketing resources that just came out, a playbook about really marketing your program. We have 30 seconds radio spot, and a three-minute PSA video. There are those things also, but I once heard someone say that the day you take your job, you should be looking for your replacement, and so we really have to be looking as we look at that pipeline that's getting smaller, that we all do our part to encourage people to look at FCS. (19:51)

CONNECT WITH THE NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
•Email: https://www.fcsed.net/contact-us
•Website: https://www.fcsed.net/about/about-national-partnership

CONNECT WITH KAREN BERGH, PhD., CFCS

•Email: berghkm@gmail.com

•Website: https://www.gpidea.org/program/family-consumer-sciences-education

CONNECT WITH ROB VAN DYKE, CFCS

•Email: Robert.Vandyke@dpi.nc.gov

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FEBRUARY 23rd, 2022

88-National Partnership in preparing FCS Educators with Susan Turgeson, EdD and Jane Walker, PhD

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000

• Can you ever really prepare to honor roll and feeling and Consumer Sciences? It is such a varied discipline and it is constantly evolving, but we do the best we can to give students lots of opportunities, helping them understand the family and consumer sciences body of knowledge is really key. The first piece of that is understanding that no matter what your role in Family and Consumer Sciences might be, we're all connected through that body of knowledge, understanding that our goal is to help me basic human needs, and as we work with individuals, families and communities across the lifespan. So just helping prepare individuals to understand that they have lots of opportunities in the field, I think is a big part of our role, and then giving them content experience and connecting them with other professionals. Doing that networking is so key. (7:14)

• The Body knowledge is the theory and the understandings that we have that bring all of our family and consumer sciences professions together, which again is meeting basic human needs, so when we look at the graphic that we have, we've got the circle in the middle with basic human needs, and then we surround that with the other content that's affecting the work that we do. And so when we look at globalization and well-being and research and the other aspects that we need to consider and how those all are working together, again, across the lifespan, there's so many great articles and there's also some great webinars that I would suggest for people to take some time to learn a little bit more about the body of knowledge, if it's not something that they're familiar with. (11:24)

• The National Partnership really facilitates collaborative relationships with educational institutions to provide online courses, which is what the course bank or the course repository is all about, and so people who want to teach either high school, middle school or FCS content areas, which would include Cooperative Extension, have access to this repository, which is a listing of courses that meet the FCS standards, so this repository is located FCSed.net, where it provides a list of the courses that meet licensure requirements for FCS educators and interesting enough, there are 11 states that no longer offer the licensure courses that are needed for FCS educators, and so for a student who is in a state that doesn't offer these courses, this is a wonderful opportunity for them to be able to find out where courses are offered and take a course that would help them gain licensure. (16:36)

• We have a number of scholarships available to help support individuals who are seeking Family and Consumer Sciences degrees, whether that's undergraduate or graduate level, and on the FCSed.net website, there is a place to access some of those scholarship resources and we absolutely encourage individuals who are seeking scholarships to check out those resources, whether they're local, regional or national scholarships. The partners for the Alliance for Family and Consumer Sciences, provide resources and scholarships, and again, we would encourage people to go to the website and check out those scholarship resources, it's great to have some financial support for the work that we do in addition to that moral support that we need. (19:57)

CONNECT WITH THE NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
•Email: https://www.fcsed.net/contact-us
•Website: https://www.fcsed.net/about/about-national-partnership

CONNECT WITH SUSAN TURGESON, Ed.D., CFCS

•Email: susan.turgeson@uwsp.edu

•Website: https://www.uwsp.edu/health/Pages/Major/fcs.aspx

CONNECT WITH SUSAN WALKER, Ph.D., CFCS

•Email: appvtuncg@aol.com

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FEBRUARY 16th, 2022

87-National Partnership Series with Future FCS educators Emerson Burroughs and Kevin Homan

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 9 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000

• I can't count how many conversations I've had with people out in the community, random strangers, even where they think that they should bring back home economics. But Home Economics has always been here. It changed the name 30 years ago. It's always been here. It's going to continue to be here. And they value that skill set, and they aren't teachers, but they value that skill set and they think it should be taught, and I also think it should be taught. So that's why I'm here. (7:43)

• The National Partnership for Family and Consumer Sciences education for recruiting, preparing and supporting an FCS educators. How did you guys go about finding out about this national partnership? Well, I think that Kevin and I both learned about the partnership through our professor here at Purdue, Dr. Carol Werhan because she was on an episode of this podcast, and before she sent it to us and encouraged us to listen, so naturally we did (14:16)

• I actually attended a signing ceremony myself, so when I went to the National Say Yes to FCS event, like the Star event, back when I was a senior in high school. Me and my teacher, we went to go to this event where we had to basically go up on this little board and sign her name saying we said yes to FCS... This was at FCCLA conference, I realized it's also at state levels as well (17:36)

• So there is actually a recruiting handbook guide called The marketing playbook, and it's a ready-to-use content library that you can download digital and social media, such as educator spotlights, podcasts, videos, print-ready, images and graphics, brand standards, and out outreach materials and you could find all of these materials on the website FCSED.net. Here is just a sampling of a 30-second recording PSA product that you can use right now. (19:18)

CONNECT WITH THE NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
•Email: https://www.fcsed.net/contact-us
•Website: https://www.fcsed.net/about/about-national-partnership

CONNECT WITH EMMERSON BURROUGHS

•Email: eburroughs.be@gmail.com

CONNECT WITH KEVIN HOMAN

•Email: homan4@purdue.edu

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FEBRUARY 9th, 2022

86-Introduction and Overview National Partnership for FCS Educators with Jan Bowers, PhD, CFCS and Lori Myers, PhD, CFCS

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 2 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000

• The National Partnership is a group of over 14 national level organizations that are all an integral part of family and consumer sciences education. All of them care about recruiting, preparing and supporting FCS educators. We found that these organizations were all doing great things among themselves for FCS ED, but we didn't have a way to organize and share the resources with each other so sometimes we had service duplication and service gaps. We formed the national partnership with the focus of working together to recruit, prepare and support FCS educators and to maximize the use of our resources. It has been really rewarding to work with all the different groups. We're working with K-12 teachers, post-secondary students and faculty, the Career and Technical Education Association, teacher educators, State Program Managers, AAFCS, FCCLA, FCS extension, and the National Coalition for Black Development. It has been really exciting and a great group of people to work with. (6:22)

• We created a national map of FCS educator preparation programs and identified state certification offices, so individuals can see where to go to get certified in FCS education. We provide scholarship and financial aid information and an online course repository, if individuals need to take online content courses for their certification. We also have a resource library that provides access to curriculum materials for quality instruction. Our webinar library has professional development opportunities on current FCS topics. These are just a few of the resources created by the National Partnership. It has been very successful in pulling together and providing free resources and tools to recruit, preparer and support FCS educators. (10:23)

• We created the National Partnership website to be a one-stop shop where resources and tools could be posted in one place for FCS educators to use. We also added some additional information such as on the February 16th Family and Consumer Sciences Educator Day. This day of FCS celebration is always held the Wednesday of FCCLA week. We've got great resources available for you to use to promote and celebrate the value and impact of FCS education. (15:10)

• We're also working on some new champion products. We're defining champions as alumni, school administrators, parents, and other people who can help us identify and promote the value and the impact of Family and Consumer Sciences Education on individuals and communities. You will soon see some new partnership products for public service announcements, podcasts, promotional ads, and spotlighting FCS educators. (19:32)

CONNECT WITH DR. JAN BOWERS
•Email: bowersjs@oneonta.edu
•Website: https://www.fcsed.net/about/about-national-partnership
•YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz5bYuXaZYr2ggaCoE9wAxw

CONNECT WITH DR. LORI MYERS

•Email: lmyers@aafcs.org
•LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lori-myers-phd-cfcs-86579b14/
•Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lori.a.myers.372
•Twitter: https://twitter.com/aafcs

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FEBRUARY 2ND, 2022

85-Phi Upsilon Omicron, National FCS Honor Society with Melissa Martin

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:00:00 +0000

• Phi Upsilon Omicron is the National Honor Society in Family and Consumer Sciences. We were actually founded in 1909 at the University of Minnesota, so we've got a long history there, and actually originally were designated as the honor society for home economics, (2:09)

• A membership and rotation invitation to a collegiate chapter through local honorary membership, and then we also have national honorary membership, which is bestowed upon someone in our biennial conclave, so lots of different avenues there to become a part of our efforts and to become a member.(4:51)

• Within the last year, Phi U launched a YouTube channel, so we even have had some members when chapter submit their own content to be featured on our YouTube channel, so that's been super fun to just watch them work and to be so inspired, so I encourage your listeners to check out, it's potential Honor Society are YouTube channel, and we have some professional project videos on there where the students talk specifically about their community service and the impact they've made through the organization, and that's always wonderful, and then we've got some recognition videos on there where you can kind of see the name or scholarships and fellowships and grants, and even alumni distinguished service awards that we've given through the years.(13:32)

• We have some eligibility information on what institutions could be considered for membership, but mainly we have a petition form that just seems to be filled out and signed off by different leadership levels at the institution and submitted to national counsel for vote, but a lot of times if they meet on that criteria, what we found is the biggest hurdle is just working with establishing a new student organization on campus, so if they have a sponsor or someone willing to help them navigate that and the rest is pretty simple. (19:52)

• Just because you're not active on our roster doesn't mean that we have struck through your name in the database, you're still a Phi U member, and we would love to welcome you back into the fold and reconnect you to the greek track; That's easier than ever. You can go on our website at PhiU.org and log in and set up your own profile, you can even add pictures, share about your family, reconnect with other members, so that's an opportunity there. (26:03)

CONNECT WITH MELISSA MARTIN:
•Email: national@phiu.org or www.phiu.org
•LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/phi-upsilon-omicron/
•Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phiunational
•Twitter: https://twitter.com/PhiUNational •YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPfOo4o02n9_ib2Yzct6Wxw

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January 26th, 2022

84- 2022 kickoff and KP Compass Curriculum with Nai Wang

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 08:43:56 +0000

• At KP Compass Curriculum, our mission is to elevate education by basically thinking out of the box, so we develop so much the different technologies and techniques, and basically using the aspect of... We're coming in and looking from the outside to identify the needs of the teachers, and based on what people complain the most we put on in our thinking caps instead of doing like what most people do is just a technology augmentation of what is currently being done. (11:34)

• So at the time when we started online didn't really exist very much, so we did it on computers, so we wrote our own software. When you filled our own videos on hand-held cameras, not these fancy iPhones now do worry about lighting and contrast and all that kind of stuff, and actually it took 10 years to build the color curriculum because we did it in pieces. So we started out small and built, made it bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger, but we kept... We brought to market in 2000. It was a fraction of it, of what it is now, and actually funny story is text programs and technology didn't exist, so having a computer in a fax classroom was a very foreign thing. I went to a business or the computer lab. So when we first started, we actually shipped our software on computers so that the teachers actually were able to use it in the classroom, which is really unorthodox, but that's how we got started. (15:27)

• We are word of mouth-driven and during lockdown, one of the most amazing feedback I got was, even though the students are remote, they're still engaged, they learned the content, they were able to pass the safer manager certification, which is a very difficult certification, whereas compared to other products or other subject matter, which is just a flat content, what we call fly content is like you have a car point lecture video, it doesn't create that engagement that the students desperately need, and this basically, it was video game-driven society that we're in now. (21:02)

• I think the pandemic has proven the fact, because these kids were basically down to the dump, stuck at home and not really wanting to learn, so you have to... You have to meet them at their level. You have to meet them in the world that they're in, and having an intelligent system that provides targeted feedback and also give some rewards because just going back to the good old-fashioned stars on stickers that we use, we hardly love in the classroom, but us being more sophisticated using software and analytics, we are able to accomplish that, and mastery is the key. (22:31)

CONNECT WITH NAI WANG:
• Email: http://www.kpcurriculum.com/
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/naiwang1/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kpeducation
• Twitter: @NaiWang1

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January 19th, 2022

83-2021 Year End Review & FCCLA Series Recap

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 09:02:08 +0000

• Starting on Episode 79, we had on the show, Ashley Nelson, who shared, get your members, get your students excited, build relationships, reach out to your state advisors, join the FCC LA advisor Facebook groups. Even if you're not an advisor yet, it does not hurt to get involved and start learning from the best. (1:45)

• Episode 80, we have the dynamic duo, Alaina Tharp and Sherry Vogel. They shared, find a mentor in your area and learn all that you can from them, start small and keep growing, find those nuggets that benefit you and your members, participate attend district, state, regional and national meetings. Set boundaries. Don't burn out. Take care of yourself. Take it slow. Make it fun.(2:13)

• Episode 81, I was chatting with Christina Hollingsworth about competitive events, she shares, check out the portal, get the resources, make those connections, talk to your state advisors, integrate your FCS curriculum. So many opportunities to share experiences with travel, fund and scholarships. Students can do this. Start small, build success. (3:08)

• Episode 82, fundraising with Abigail Lee. Set realistic goals. She shares, what can you do right now? Start small, make a decision. What will your goals be? What are you working towards? Practice your pitch. It helps empowering and promoting personal growth, student support, fundraiser, encourage your Student Leaders to get involved and support that fundraiser that they had all agreed upon, finally, promotion and recruitment. (3:55)

• The past three years, I have focused on a specific word that would catapult me into the new year, 2020 was forward, be brave and trying something new. Even if you suck at it. Was kind of my motto. 2021 was Cultivate, create a community, and I believe within our FSC tips and Connect FCS-Ed community, we have done just to... So for 2022, my word is Polish. I want to become better. I know my recordings don't always sound the greatest, as my equipment is not the most high-tech, but moving forward into the future, I want to become more polished because I want to meet you where you're at, in your classrooms, at your workshops, at your conferences, and highlight the amazing work that you are doing because it is note worthy. (6:24)

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DECEMBER 22nd, 2021

82-FCCLA Series: Fundraising with Abigail Lee

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:32:32 +0000

• If you are starting out brand new, you don't have a chapter and you're interested in starting a chapter, I'd recommend first starting on our website, we have our join page that list out what it looks like, and then I also encourage you to check out the FCCLA advisors Facebook group. That's a great support group for those that... I know myself, sometimes I'm like, I see it, I understand what it says, that I need someone to walk me through it. And so we have a lot of advisors that are on stand-by and a lot of our staff members to help through that process, but that would be the first start step and then you'll affiliate through the portal. If your school has had a chapter before and you're a new advisor, there's some that might have a different processes, but then our staff members are happy to walk you through it, if you do need further assistance with that. (7:15)

• So we have our set numbers for what our affiliation costs are, and then you can find out what your state does, and then it'll be up to the advisor to determine if they wanna do a chapter dues. We do have some of our ones that they might have a goal of fundraising or to offset the cost, 50% for chapter members, or like we've done on the national level, we started this year was through our ultimate leadership fund, where we provide an affiliation support grant opportunity that chapter advisors can apply for. We have some chapters that maybe fundraise an amount to help those student members that can't pay for affiliation themselves, so that can be determined on that a lot, your advisors or your educators will know maybe how many of your students are low-income students, what percentage of that that's where your numbers in your data for your school that are specific to your school, what your demographics look like will really help you determine that number when fundraising. (9:40)

• How can we go about mixing it up so we don't have the same people helping fundraise? With that, I would say looking at what the students passions are... for some of them, you might have one that's very successful in your town, so I know in college we did bingo with the college organization I was in, and that was extremely successful every year you could count on those funds, so for that... In that way, I would say, keep going with that. So a lot of times when we see it takes like three years, if you're wanting to do a big community event as your fundraiser, it's gonna take three to four years for it to catch on with the community and start raising those funds. So I'd recommend if you're thinking, we do the same fundraiser every year, sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes if your community comes to expect it now, if you've seen you're in year three and you're not seeing a progressive increase in your fundraising funds or the amount of individuals participating, that's when you should rethink, maybe let's have a new idea come in, but if you're seeing a progression in that, that's a good thing because then you want your community to come to know. (14:38)

• I had a lot of community support and family members that donated and contributed, so she also let us know that if you hit your goal, if you want to choose to have the rest that you earn the split amongst the chapter. You could do that. And so we did, so I did do that. I had a lot of family members that wanted to donate because sometimes your family members feel good if they say, This is going to Barbara, I know I'm writing this check to support Barbara, but then our chapter, we're able to... (20:55)

• So as a recap, because that was a lot of great, five great tips. One set realistic goals to decide what you want to fundraise for, is that a conference or membership... Three, practice your pitch. And that is something I think we all are constantly doing when it comes to defending FCCLA as well as being a family and consumer sciences educator for student members on the same page. This is a student-led organization, so if they don't back it up, then we need to re-calculate and then finally, promotion and recruitment, open it up, and don't be afraid to ask for questions. (29:04)

CONNECT WITH ABIGAIL LEE:
• Email: Partnerships@fcclainc.org
• Twitter: @NationalFCCLA
• Pinterest: NationalFCCLA

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DECEMBER 15th, 2021

81-FCCLA Series: Competitive Events with Christine Hollingsworth

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 8 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +0000

• I like to think about FCCLA as kind of a menu at a restaurant, and no one in the right mind is going to go in and say, I think for dinner, I'd like one of everything to start off with. Instead you're like, I'm gonna try this this time, and maybe when I come back next week, I'm gonna try another entrée and I'm gonna see what I like. And it's kind of the same thing with CCI. You look at national programs that you look at competitive events and you say, What do we like, what works with our program... What works with what I teach in the classroom? And then those are the things we go back and forth to all the time, instead of trying to stop our program and stuff ourselves with everything that is available, because family consumer sciences is such a broad content area that there are many opportunities for students and rightly so but not every opportunity is for everything, so sometimes you have to think about it that way as well. (2:48)

• I think one of the best things about not just competitive events, but FCCLA activities and overall, is that we do encourage students to take leadership in this so that it doesn't all fall on the shoulders of the advisor, the advisor is the one who sometimes introduces it to students, but now that students can see things across the country in virtual ways, they're actually maybe bringing this up to an advisor saying, Hey, did you know we have skill demonstration events, did you know we have knowledgeable where teachers may not have had the opportunity to have experience with those, but students see them and then they can start taking the lead in researching what are they about, what are the requirements, and then really leading their own chapter into those areas. (7:01)

• That's why I always say ask the state advisor for some guidance in that, and usually they can also help pair you up with someone else maybe in your local area who is more experienced with FCCLA, and so that's... Again, I just can't emphasize enough the value of the state advisor in this. In the last 10 years. We've started doing online chapter service events for FCCLA. A little bit different than what we did was pandemic with virtual Star events, but if you really want to see what a chapter does, we have a virtual online event called FCCLA chapter website, we always need volunteers to judge that. And so what a great opportunity to be able to get on your computer, go to these websites, use the criteria, and then you really get to see what all these chapters are doing, so that's a great opportunity for, especially someone who is pretty overwhelmed and doesn't understand how all the pieces fit together quite yet. (17:38)

• One of the things that makes FCCLA, I think a little more unique is the way that we choose the evaluation teams for competitive events, our ideal team would be having one student leader being a member of that evaluation team without a student perspective, a chapter advisor is the content expert, so that they... They're the ones who best know family consumer sciences to that person, and then the third person is a business and industry person, so whether that individual is human resources, whether they're in culinary field or inter-design field, they're the ones who can bring in that business and industry perspective and knowledge of what's happening right now in that career field, and so that's really our ideal scoring and evaluation team, just having those three perspectives and voices. (25:50)

• We have some very significant scholarships available to students, and so the best really way to look at what's all available is to go to the FCCLA national website, there is a full section about competitive event scholarships, and then also some states have additional scholarships for students, so I think that brings us to number four. So maybe the number five take away is that your students can do this, and you as a chapter advisor, you can do this, it is start small, build success, and sometimes just combine and just do it. (28:107)

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• Email: national@fcclainc.org
• Twitter: @NationalFCCLA
• Pinterest: NationalFCCLA

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DECEMBER 8th, 2021

80-Integrate FCCLA into the classroom with Alaina Tharp & Sherry Vogel

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 1 Dec 2021 10:58:04 +0000

• Alaina, you were already bought in being a student, so... What made you want to continue doing FCCLA? Going into the classroom, I think one of the biggest reasons that I was so here to get started quickly, I was a four-year member in high school, but I really didn't take that full-on leap and really get extremely active until my senior year, and by that time... You were out of time. So I was just super exciting to be able to get back my first teaching job and FCCLA chapter was the chapter that I was a part of, it kind of fell dormant for a little bit and I was able to bring it back and just being able to share little experiences (3:01)

• My motto has always been, You wanna work smarter and not harder and I believe that FCCLA does that for our FCS advisors in the classroom. So I think one of the best place to start integrating is looking at maybe one of the national programs that you feel that reflects in your classroom the best, and maybe that's families first, there's eight national programs that you can choose from, and you can integrate probably every project from the national program into every one of your classes. And so I think that's a good way to be in, and you can begin small and then continue to build up every year with what you're doing (4:26)

• From my end, my kids love Star events, and that's kind of what we have focused on in the competitive events arena. But, I integrate the star events, again, there's so many different kinds of star events that you can do, and my students have always been really good about taking the bull by the horns and doing that... Those kind of things, by integrating star events into your classroom is probably one of the simplest things that you can do, for instance, professional presentation, we all do those in our classroom, and you're picking a topic in kids present on the topic. So you can actually use the rubrics from the competitive events guide and put that into your classroom. (9:41)

• We do a lot of peer education projects and that's a huge program in our state, and we focus on some different national programs with that, and our members are doing three projects throughout the year. These are projects that our officers, and the students come up with on their own, and then they get recognized at the state conference for that. Super simple kinds of things. We also have our own state competitive events and they're lots of fun, like a 15 wardrobe challenge or... Okay, decorating contest or a 10 meal challenge, as things like that. And it gets kids interested in that if the kids not really full on with the competitive kind of things, there's another opportunity for them, and so many states offer those kinds of things to look at what the state is offering too, and that's another kind of integration thing into your classroom, like my food and nutrition class is going to do the 10 meal challenge (17:17)

• I think probably one of the things that I would suggest that they get is find someone in their area that can be a mentor to them and learn all they can from that person, contact them if you have questions, such as, I don't understand this, can you help you with this or?... Those kind of things, I think that's important. And use those mentors as you can to ask questions, I would suggest also starting out small and growing. I guess one of the things I did not do, I jumped in with both feet. And sometimes you get a little stale as you keep going, so you have to find some new things, so... And I know Alana has mentioned to you, start small and just keep growing, find those things in FCCLA that are gonna be of benefit to you and to your members and keep going and participate (33:10)

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• Sherry's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sherry.vogel.18
• Twitter: @NationalFCCLA
• Pinterest: NationalFCCLA
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sherry.vogel.18/

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• Alaina's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alaina.tharp2
• Twitter: @NationalFCCLA
• Pinterest: NationalFCCLA
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laina.tharp/

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DECEMBER 1st, 2021

79-FCCLA Series: Affiliating FCCLA

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 11:29:17 +0000

• Where do we start, how do I begin? Maybe you are a classroom teacher who is just starting, never had it before, or maybe you are new to a current chapter, something that's already in existence, either way, you have to start somewhere. So I'll just start with my own story, I guess, 'cause that's the easiest for my perspective, when I enter in my classroom, I took over for a previous teacher who had a really strong FCCLA chapter, not like crazy award winning national officers or anything like that, but a strong, solid chapter who loved to do community service projects, and so as soon as I entered the classroom, they... This tight-knit group of FCCLA members came up to me and they're like, We're doing FCCLA this year, right?. Like Of course, of course we are. I don't know what that's gonna look like, but it's gonna happen. So my advice would be one, starting to start small and start with those student members, get them to be the leader, ask them what they wanna do... (2:28)

• We want it to be this easy part of what you're already doing in Family and Consumer Sciences, because all of our competitive events, national programs, projects, things that you could earn money, it's all stuff that you are already doing in family consumer sciences. Everything that we offer is tied to family and consumer sciences national standards, it's tied to our Career Pathways, it's designed to be easy for FCS teachers, and in fact, it's designed to make your program or robust as a family and consumer sciences teacher. So it really is a win-win. (4:26)

• Okay, so we've been talking about the set up and getting our students involved in these rubrics and in that integration, but if you're a new, a new FCCLA advisor, where are you getting these rubrics, is there some sort of portal that you're going?... Yes. Portal is the magic word. Yes, on the on the FCCLA website, so it's FCCLAinc.org. There is the portal, it's like this big huge red box that says Log in, and you actually have two options, you can log in as an advisor into the advisor portal, where you can log in as a student into the student portal, so all of your members once you are affiliated and we'll have access to their own part of the portal. (6:42)

• Affiliate tends to be this intimidating word, but it is not... It just means join, it's a fancy word for joined FCCLA. And so to do that, to be an official member or join member, you go into the portal, if you're brand new to it, you're an advisor, you creating a coach, you put in your usual name, school address, email, contact information, info, just like you would pretty much any other thing that you're joining and then you put your students info in, and this is their names, their email addresses, their grades, that important information, it's secure site, and then that is used to generate to their student pools as well. And then once you do that, you hit submit and then you pay whatever your affiliation rates might be, each state is a little bit different, each state charge is a little bit different, and then there's the National does as well. So it varies throughout the US. (8:17)

• Can you give five easy tips? A brand new FCC LA advisor going in. Just easy tips. Absolutely, number one, get members, those students that talk to you, that are excited, that are available, get those members, even if it's just like three core members, get your members is number one, number two, build a relationship with your state advisor, reach out to them, communicate with them, ask them questions, be aware of who your state advisor is, three, integrate your program, put it into what you're already doing in your classroom, you'd be surprised how many of our competitive events, for example, make amazing capstone projects in your classes. And that you might already be doing a version of it, and so you might not need to alter it a little bit, and now you have rubrics and standards and things that make it even better. Number four, network Join In The FCCLA Facebook group, talk to other advisors in your state, find a mentor, talk to other FCCCA advisers, we all wanna help each other and support one another, and it is an amazing network of advisors, and number five, finally is a tent attend your region meetings, attend state meetings, attend national leading, and when you're there at volunteer, you don't have to compete right away, you could jump in and just come as a volunteer and just see what nationals look like. (13:21)

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NOVEMBER 24th, 2021

78-Collaborating for Advocacy

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 08:25:00 +0000

• First, before starting this episode- I am acknowledging my gratitude to the trailblazing women who forged a path to which I may share my voice and passion, cast my vote, and hold a job which I am proud to serve in the classroom and various leadership committees where I can improve systems and policies. 2nd, I acknowledge the Men who have partnered and supported the women giving them the space and guidance to which they could break down the barriers. I also give thanks to the thousands of educators who have shared their resources on our community forums, FCS facebook group led by Sarah and the many admin who protect those resources ensuring they stay ‘free’ for FCS educators. I give thanks to Kim Graybill who shares and spotlights FCS teachers and their lessons on her website Family and consumer sciences.com, the Hyperdocs facebook page, the Instagram influencers, Tik Tok enthusiasts and twitter defenders as well as our associations, affiliates, and extensions who are all working hard to supporting all of us, so we may all have a unified voice.

• Which leads me to today’s topic: Collaborating for Advocacy: Dreamworks Shrek said ‘There are many layer’s to an ogre’, not comparing our profession to an ogre but Family and Consumer Sciences education has many layers offering support.As an outspoken educator, I am informing you that we all have the same goal: Not only sustain our programs but grow them. The resources I share here on the pod is designed for you to achieve those goals. Are you aware of how many professional organizations we have access to supporting one another?

• We must collaborate and work together to ensure our voices and content are future proof. I was recently chatting with Nancy Bock, AAFCS executive director who used this powerful word and it resonated with me. We must futureproof our content so students can continue to learn and be prepared for career or college in our classrooms. As much that we know how valuable and important it is to society and our students, the outside world, beyond our 4 classroom walls. Even our schools and our district, they are not informed. we need to partner with community members, key clubs, Kiwanis groups, Eagles club, mayors offices sharing what we are doing and why it’s relevant for today’s students as well as future students.

• When it comes to advocacy Melissa Martin from Phi Upsilon Omicron who will join the pod shortly recently shared this analogy from ‘Horton hears a who’ with me and hit’s the nail precisely with what our profession is going through. “Horton Hears a Who!”- adapted from the book by Dr. Seuss. At the end of the 2008 movie, Horton is working to convince his world that Who-ville is very much real and an important group of people living on the flower he is carrying around. In the effort to make themselves known, The Who’s yell at the top of their lungs in unison, “We are here! We are here! We are here!” I know that may be a silly example to share, but as some FCS departments are dismantling and funding for these programs slashed, I think it’s critically important that we keep sharing the message, “We are here!”

• I am proud to share with you that Nickie Pedeliski from CA who was on the pod in an earlier episode , and Tracy Way, NE and I have developed and will be hosting a live FCS Summit webinar December 9th starting at 4pm PST and broadcasted to my ConnectFCSEd Youtube channel and Facebook pages. This webinar is free for all. We are future-focused: Building resilient communities. We will have 4 outstanding speakers touching these 4 topics:

Sharing strategies for recruiting and retaining teachers.
Strategies for promoting FCS programs
Mental health spotlight with Rikki Cook, Counselor
Mentoring programs

Change is inevitable. As humans, we constantly grow throughout our lifespans, from conception to death but we know, the success of our profession is determined by us today. I hope you will join us celebrating our FCS Success and gain the tools you need for quick access and call to action.

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NOVEMBER 17th, 2021

77-Intervention and Support

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 13:00:00 +0000

• I've been on leadership committees and we've been talking about our multi-tiered support systems (MTSS), that's the multi-leveled system of tiered support groups for those interventions, so tier one, tier two, tier three interventions. Right now, we are all just trying to help those tier one students, because we want everybody involved. How are your schools doing when collecting this data?... I'm kind of curious to know what other schools, districts across the nation are doing when it comes to understanding and or reaching out to their student populations and communities and trying to understand what students are going through. How are you doing those social and emotional wellness checks-in's? (2:04)

• You've heard me in the past mention that my school district, we are a Microsoft school district, and with that we don't use Canvas, Google Classroom, or Schoology. There's a lot of other systems or LMS systems that you have access to, Blackboard is another one, I don't have that I use, just Microsoft Teams that is to implement and share, distribute all of my lessons. My assignments, I have weekly channels that I've broken down by week one, and right now currently we are in week 11, I am a trimester school, so we have another week and a half until... It's close to the end of the trimester. So there's a lot going on right now. Emotions are high. Stress is a most high, but what Microsoft just did was they rolled out a couple of weeks ago. It's an app called re-reflect. So for those of you who are a Microsoft School District, this little PD bytes, this is for you, for other schools or for other teachers here listening... I don't know all the other ways of how you implement social and emotional check-ins with your students, maybe you do surveys, maybe you have an actual system in your classroom where you do some sort of check-in with your students to see where they're at, but for me, which I'm really excited about, which is the reason why I'm sharing this. (3:54)

• We now have access to this app in teams called REFLECT. So much like the praise button, we now have this reflect app and it's in my general channel and I'm able to issue it out every day, and it gives six faces. And the question is, how are you feeling today? And then a student gets to choose which face icon best represents their mood, I love that. It's giving that visual, that visual look because I'm a visual learner. You're a visual learner. We're all visual learners in some way, shape or form, so... Great, there's no thinking really involved, except kind of thinking about, Okay, how am I feeling right now, then going in, diving a little deeper, so that's all the student has to do, the student just has to select to face what they like or what best represents them, and then me on the teacher's side, I'm able to quickly view those analytics right then and right there, I'm able to see a group overall, what students are feeling clumping, three students felt happy or excited, six students were a mediocre, one student was angry, and then you're even able to break it down that much more, and it then identifies each individual student and it says what they posted, so immediately, right then and there, if a student is having a rough day, I'm able to isolate them, go around to them privately, and pull them aside and have a conversation with them. (5:56)

• Its new learning. I love learning. Is there something... What do you do to fill your cup? There was a great image posted on Twitter earlier this last week. The image was posted by Dr. Bryan Pearlman, I don't know if I'm saying that correctly, but on Twitter, he's at DrP_Principal, and he says, "Fill your own cup first self-care. It's an image of a cup, and on the very bottom of the cup, that's first, learn something new. The second tier is take a moment out for yourself, the third tier, write down what you are grateful for, the fourth tier, get some fresh air, and finally five... Do something that brings you joy". So what I'm right now, this brings me joy, sharing my learning. Its new learning. It's also solidifying what I have learned if I'm able to summarize basically that new learning, that new knowledge, that brings me joy, and it also helps me continue to build on the why, why is my own learning, important. Because I don't wanna go stagnant, I wanna continue to learn to bring in new trends, so that way what I'm doing is staying relevant with what our kids are learning and what they're going through, if I'm struggling with the learning process that I'm trying to muddle through, gosh how are my students feeling (13:01)

• Sharing my resources and sharing this network of amazing individuals that we have within our Family and Consumer Sciences networking group, our organizations or associations or communities are professionals. We are truly better together, and I want to continue weaving and interlacing all of us together. My goal is that I am just a puzzle piece, bringing us closer together and giving you the resources that you need for right now, and maybe later with all of this content and all of this knowledge that you've received, that professional development... Because that's what this is. This podcast is bite-sized professional development that you can take what you need right now and shelf the rest for later, come back when you're ready for more, and that brings me so much joy. So much joy to practice what I've learned and to give away to those that need, because I wouldn't be where I am to if it wasn't for all of the other amazing resources that I have found on the internet or within my Washington Family and Consumer Sciences organizations who have shared and shared and shared, we are truly making ourselves better for ourselves in the future and our Students.(16:46)

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NOVEMBER 10th, 2021

76-Gio and Banks: Scarcity, Choices, and Tradeoffs with Pat Segadelli

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 3 Nov 2021 10:00:00 +0000

• Pat sent me a copy of his book, Gio and Banks: Scarcity, Choices and Trade-offs, and I read it to my financial literacy students today in class. I showed all the colorful pages to them and the illustrations and having a little bit side conversations as I'm reading your book with them. They loved it! Pat mentions, "it's reassuring to hear a high school senior really likes it, and finds enjoyment out of it, but also learn something from it to. We wrote the book and really targeted it towards the second or third grade audience, but there's proof that maybe it spans multiple grade levels for sure". (1:44)

• You brought up the great vocab word being 'scarcity', and I loved how you broke it down in the book where scare-city... Perfect timing for Halloween. I asked my students if they had heard of that word? and they were who are like, No, no, I don't even know what that word is, or... And then I even asked them, "can you come up with the definition without using your phones?" or "What does it sound like?" I did have a couple of students mention, "maybe it's not having enough of something". Okay, we're on the right track. Then, I continued reading your book which it is laid out perfectly for them. (4:43)

• With Family Consumer Sciences, one of our national standards is that decision-making. Decision-Making standard and economics is throughout all of our core classes, which that's always neat to see that crossover because a lot of times you don't even think about it, you just do it. Exactly, we just do it without necessarily giving much thought to it, but I guess that's one of the goals of economics, is to encourage people to analyze the decision-making process and really dig into the decision-making process, and I know you know that well with your students, that are juniors and seniors, and I have these conversations with my students because right now they're being faced with a major life decision. What am I gonna do next year? Am I going to go to college? Am I gonna enter the workforce? Am I gonna take a gap year? Am I gonna do this that... Those are all choices that they are confronted with, and ultimately, no matter what they choose, there will be sacrifices, there'll be trade-offs to come with that, and so I just think it's something that never goes away. It's always present with us. (12:33)

• I think that's kind of the choices that pop up in the book between Gio and Bank. There are of a lot less consequence and significance, I think about the story and go move from a small time to New York City, and he has to choose what things to bring and what to leave behind because they don't have enough room, they have a scarcity of room in their apartment, he is trying to buy lunch outside his mom's work and he can't get pizza, cookie and soda, so he has to choose what he's gonna get for lunch 'cause he has a scarcity of money and the scarcity of time and stuff like that, and those decisions that he's making in the book are really small and trivial, but if we're getting kids at young ages to recognize that they're making decisions constantly and recognize that process I think when they eventually get to more significant momentous life decisions, they can enter that process with a feeling of confidence no matter what the decision is, which is why you and I both know the importance of doing this early and often... Is so significant. (18:32)

• You can follow me on Instagram Instagram @Gio and_Banks. That's the best way to get in touch with me, that's where I do most of my marketing is through Instagram. You can contact me through my website, Gioandbanks.com. The website is where you can find the book, if you're interested in purchasing, it is $14.99. The website is also where you can find activities that are available for download for free. In addition to that, I also have access to Washington State Financial literary standards, and also the Council of Economic Education Standards, and Washington State in particular, I've connected them to the book. So you brought up the standards of decision-making, and really the second and third grade standards for decision-making are interwoven into the book, so that's the best way to get in contact with me and to support us through Instagram, through the website. (27:56)

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NOVEMBER 3rd, 2021

75-Financial Literacy Student Take Over

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 08:00:00 +0000

• I have been overhearing my students have a conversation and that they were also commenting on, "I could never be a teacher but they could be a second grade teacher, or maybe a fourth or fifth grade teacher, and then I said, Why not a high school teacher?" So we're high schools and we know how we are and how we act and not wanting to get a class and the procrastination and not wanting to get to class." (1:57)

• What is it that you liked about financial literacy because you come to class? Ryan comes to class, he's late, but he comes... And that's the important thing. I definitely love the environment, being able to talk about anything but there is so much relevancy to our everyday lives. It affects all aspects of our lives and helps us becoming aware and planned out. (5:52)

• Right now, we're just kind of wrapping up our careers unit. So what was the most impactful thing that you learned from this unit? Probably the resume practice helped me get a visualization of what it is. Being prepared for interviews is important. The questions you asked in our FlipGrid assignment isn't what was asked during my interview when I applied at the mall but I am prepared for the next time because every interview is different. Future Readiness (9:15)

• I also was over hearing how you guys talk about positive affirmations and that spoke to this heart of mine. I do positive affirmations all the time, 'cause you're not gonna get it from your peers or your friends, you'll get it from your family from time to time, but as a mom, my goodness, I don't get it nearly as often as I feel like I should. I think what you needed here can only come from you (13:53)

• In our class, we do podcast Thursday, or it's been podcast Friday, just when things are starting to lighten up and so tell me... Do you like that assignment? I do, I do like the podcast assignment. It helps me, 'cause you teach, but during a podcast it's from someone else's point of view or experiences. "I don't know, it's definitely harder for me 'cause I feel like my attention is... Unless it's like a contest or where it's two people having a conversation, I cannot focus if it's just one person has my mind wonder. Then I'll start talking to myself in my head, I'm like, wait, you can get back. And then I'm lost and I'm like, Oh, I need to start that one over again. I really helps that in this class we have class discussions, we're talking back and forth, and it's not you just talking and us listening. You're asking us questions, and we're answering, and we're actually getting the information that we need. (15:40)

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OCTOBER 27th, 2021

74-Recruit, Recognize and Advocate future leaders of FCS with Nicki Pedeliski

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:00:00 +0000

• We want to talk about strategies for retaining our FCS teachers because we love our teachers, don't we? Yes, we do. And we need them, we need them so desperately bad research says that teachers leave the profession within the first three years that they're gonna do so for that first three years is crucial. I think one of the number one strategies for keeping those new teachers is for them to find a mentor, and I think we need to step up as other FCs teachers and be that mentor for them, whether we know them or not, whether they're in our district, even our state, I think it's just really vital that we have that SCS teacher connection, that's instrumental for their success (1:25)

• Right now, the nation is experiencing the biggest wave of retirements ever, as teachers born in the baby boom era of 1946 to 64, they're gradually reaching the age of 65, the rate of those low-income schools is even higher, the number of college students planning to enter the teaching field is at the lowest point since 1970 according to The 2016 survey of University of California. How can we make a difference for tomorrow's future leaders? That is such a really great way to put it, because they are future leaders and we think teachers sometimes we don't necessarily think leaders, unfortunately, they're not tied together as tightly as I wish they were, but... What do we do? I think we as FCS specifically, we have to do a better job of identifying ourselves as what we are, we are not just cooking, you're not just sewing, we are no longer Home Ec... I know the words Home Economics has a really rich history and we need to keep that, but we also need to move forward. And I think identifying ourselves, each sector, interior designers, how many interior designers know that they fall under the FCS umbrella, I can't tell you how many do... And There are some that would say, Yeah, I took a FCS class in high school, that's where I was introduced to it. But would we go to a university now and realize that they fall under the FCS umbrella and could teach this to kids, I don't know if they would be able to tell you that. So I think identifying ourselves is probably part of the foundation. (11:57)

• How would you say we could go about providing various leadership opportunities to those? Good question. Providing those leadership opportunities. I think we have to work together to create some sort of continuity, that way we can make a bigger impact, so that could look like individual states or districts putting together initiatives, lesson plans to push out to their high school people also visiting with those people at the college level, the university level, getting people who are staff at college is on board with what we teach, what we do, I think is also instrumental to getting more teachers for our content.(13:41)

• How did you go about establishing a mentor program? So that's a good question. So mentoring, it's one of those things I just decided within myself, I wanted to give back to my network of people, and I felt like I had a good place, I was in a good place to do it, so I started being very present on the Facebook group specifically for the FCCLA advisor one. 'cause that's really where my passion lies. So from there, I was kind of, for lack of better terms, maybe targeted a little bit for a formal program that was put together by Nebraska FCCLA where they lumped teachers and advisors together. So I did that for a couple of years. Just kind of checked in, I had my select few of people who have a check-in with, and then California just recently last year, piloted program, we kind of revamped over the summer, and then, now really it is taking off with really good intentions and some really wonderful goals in place. On the personal level is just reaching out, making connections, it's all about relationships, and I think as an FCS teacher, we know that it's all about the relationships we build with kids, with our communities, with our teaching peers, so it's building those relationships and really being an advocate for them and standing in their corner and being their champion and their cheerleader, you can do this, you can do this, and let me help you do it, or let me show you how I did it... (20:33)

• How would you go about we meet the challenges within FCS education, because we are up against a lot of challenges right now? We are, and I hate to say it like this, but I feel like that's a little bit of a loaded question because there's so much when it comes to meeting the challenges. I feel like we have a really strong community, it's just we need some of those community members to step up, when I think about even my friend network, I have some really close friends who do amazing things, but just maybe for whatever reason, haven't stepped up to be the leader, the champion, they haven't grown their wings to be able to fly quite yet, so I think that's kind of where that mentorship comes in a little bit is that encouragement is, Hey, I think you would be amazing, I think maybe you just need to start small, but try... So I think meeting the challenges come with encouragement, we all know somebody who is a kick-butt teacher who knows what they're doing, who has it all together, and maybe they just need to be asked like, Hey, I think you need to... Have you thought about this? Or, what do you think about this? And maybe they didn't know the opportunity was there to step up, I think that would be a really great start to meeting the challenge of really anything... I could even say that to my kids. Have you thought about joining FCCLA? Well, no, nobody's ever tapped to me on it, let me tell you about it, getting them excited and then kind of just slowly pushing them towards that. Yeah. I agree, it's... The power of ask is really what it is. (30:58)

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OCTOBER 20th, 2021

73-Comedy in the Classroom with Leslie Rob

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 07:00:00 +0000

• Your specialty is comedy. Yes. You love comedy, I love comedy, but as I was saying before the fore show. I love comedy, but I can't give comedy because there are special people who can do it, and I feel this within my core and that... You're one of those special people and you bring it into the FCS community. And it is amazing. All of things I appreciate that. I just love it. Comedy breaks the ice with anything, any situation, whatever embraces joy because everybody can laugh and should. So I utilize that comedy in the classroom as much as possible, it keeps my kids go and it keeps me going. (5:41)

• I like how you said you showed the video because that's something that we talked about in that webinar, where some of the teachers that were present in the webinar, they had said, what if you're just not funny, that's just not something that your gift at then how do you put humor in the classroom... What he said was ingenious, and he said that literally, you use someone else's... Show a YouTube video, or you find something that's funny and then just share it with the kids, you're still incorporating humor, it doesn't have necessarily be your humor, you don't have to be this hilarious person, if you can incorporate it, then that makes it all the better. (8:01)

• I literally have this PD called greys teaching anatomy that I do... Yeah, I do something with that. So hilarious, because everybody's all about the whole greys anatomy thing. That's why I use the name because it's something that people would be like, Wait, what? And so what I do is I talk about how, alright, none of us, you know how to do it, right, it is what it is, we all have our good things that we can bring to the table. We all have our little expertise area. So teaching isn't about black and white, it is not black and white in any circumstance, who doesn't right... Who does it wrong? Who does it better? Who does it worse? No, it's not black and white. It is all grey, and that's mixing it all together... Everybody's black and white, if I am the grey, it works best for you and your students. So in that session, we talk about finding your grey. (9:13)

• Tell me a little bit about your comedy, What is your comedy style? Because as I said, we... We need to get you out there. Well, I do stand-up comedy and encouragement, so it's clean comedy, a clean comedy set, and then followed up with encouragement. So that's my style, it's like comedy with a message. I literally just find hilarious things in my life and that people are like, Oh my gosh, yes. So I try to make it as relatable as possible as well, because it just makes people be able to connect... (11:53)

• You also host your own podcast, which you shared with me prior to recording. Well, my podcast is called 'Leslie said What?' Yes, Leslie said What! And so I'm one of those people, I don't think... Not saying I don't have a filter is the word, but I just basically rip off the band-aid, and just talking about topics and just say what it is, and then most of the time people were like Leslie, she said that? Yep, she did. So 'Leslie said what?', what was just the perfect name for it, because I wanna help people to understand and embrace things, whether it's in the Christian realm and the encouragement realm, whatever anybody needs help with or whatever, instead of just talking around the bush... Let's just hit it head on and say what it is. (18:56)

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OCTOBER 13th, 2021

72-PBL in FCS for Interior Design and more

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 6 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

• I just wanted to take a minute and share the last few episodes have been incredible, listening to Kevin Reese Sr talk about his award and all the major happenings at New Bern High School in North Carolina, along with the tech twins who are business and marketing and educators who have turned entrepreneurs. They have a lot of great things going on, then we did a deep dive into the rich history of Ellen Swallow Richards, our foundation for family and consumer sciences education. I am so grateful for the knowledge from Joyce Miles. We then listened to Rachel Grabowski chat about Special Education in the Gen Ed classroom in episode 67. Rachel shares many amazing tools, tips and tricks that she's giving us to better meet the needs to all of our students, regardless of abilities. Then finally, Chelsey Farias, who happens to be my co-teacher who I share a classroom with during first period and second period. Chelsey talked about being a new teacher, and building cultural opportunities in the FCS classroom. For those of you who have listened to episode 66 and hearing her excitement and enthusiasm for starting off the new school year, let me just tell you, she is thriving and she's doing amazing work. I am so grateful to be able to partner with her and watch her flourish as a new teacher (00:31)

• I'm teaching interior design 1 & 2, financial literacy and maybe mental health and counseling sometimes this school year, but I just came up with PBL assignment on the fly the other day. For those of us who are not educators or not familiar with certain acronyms within the education field, PBL stands for 'project-based learning'. This is a hands-on activity for students to engage in for my interior design class, as we're just finishing up our principles and elements of design unit. I've gone and turn this activity into a interactive lap book. It's interactive, not digital. We love our digital interactive notebooks, but no, this is an actual hands-on book that students are creating, and I'm really excited to see what student's create. I will share this assignment on my website where you'll be able to download from free. I want you to use it, so if you have interior design and you're looking for an activity that meets standard and content along with buying you a little more time for a reprieve...Well, I got the stuff for you (2:26)

• Students are given a manila folder that you would have for your file cabinet, students are then instructed to fold it into thirds, so it becomes a mini presentation board for them. On the front for the title, I'm just gonna walk you through this assignment, so you have your front cover, so the book is folded and closed up with that title showing. For the title, students will write "what are the elements and principles of design" including their first and last name, and of course, what class period they're in. They have to include pictures of those elements of design that represents space, color, shape, form, value, texture and line, so students can draw a trace, use magazine cut-outs in. Or, if they have a colored printer at home or something, they can print those images out and I put that down as 10 points, then the title is done and they get to color it and make it as creative as possible. (3:39)

• Students will be focusing on the Elements of Design: color, value, form, value, texture, and shape. Students are including the definition and what are four benefits to each of those design elements. For example, when it comes to color, what are four benefits to color? 1. You are able to change the mood of a room... Great, there's a benefit. What's another benefit to color? 2. Color can also help reduce stress and anxiety, 3. Color can improve your sleep, and 4. it could improve focus. These are all areas of how various color can impact good design, so they're writing that down and then they include a picture of the color wheel where they draw or something along those lines, and have some sort of interactive 3-d element jumping out at us when we're looking at it, then finally on the inside right side panel of their presentation folder, they will focus on line and texture, and again, they're always including that definition first of what line is... Or texture, or any of those elements, they're including the definition first and then moving on to adding the four benefits to each of those designs. (7:06)

• My students are also lacking on their digital interactive notebooks... I love the digital interactive notebook as a teaching tool and pacer and I love but students are struggling staying engaged so, I'm trying to apply the hands-on projects and not making the digital interactive notebooks count so much, because I noticed within the last few weeks as we wrapped up our color theory unit, when we were doing our water coloring and creating their own color wheels and drawing, everyone was so relaxed. Students loved it. I was able to put them in pods where they were working together, and students who don't normally ever even talk to one another, all of a sudden, this lively conversation came about so organic and natural. It was amazing. And so that's what I'm trying to re-create but staying safe as we are still observing covid protocols. So, we start off doing individual work with our digital interactive notebooks, and then we come together for a big project, and then quiz. (9:04)

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OCTOBER 6th, 2021

71-Leading and Learning NC Everlene Davis 2021 Award Recipient Kevin Reese Sr.

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Episode Notes

• I'm beyond thankful. I was recognized as the 2021 Teacher of the Year for New Bern High School. I came in second in the district, which is still an honor, I lost a... I don't wanna say loss. A young lady who was absolutely amazing also of district, so I don't take it lightly, I don't take these things like me, I am extremely humbled at every twist on turn of his teaching career that I have all of a sudden. (1:56)

• New Bern High School is the home of the bears, and we just went with the Bear Den bistro, we will cook two or three times a week. My students have created the mission statement, our vision state and our purpose. We try to make sure that it's what I know. That every student that I have is not going to call in the arts. I completely understand that, but I also know that they will be productive to society, and the way we do that is making sure they have the job skills and the soft skills that they need in order to be productive to be able to go out and get a job, and the students literally do everything in class, I manage the money, but they oversee it, they do the panel, they create the menu, they send him in us out, they plan everything. I guide them, and I've been so, so, so blessed to have students that wanna do it, I've had students who graduated from Johnson Wales Culinary School and other Culinary Arts schools, and students go on to just do amazing things in college. (6:59)

• How many students are in your class? For the Bear den bistro, I have a state cap. I'm allowed 20 kids per class because I have a level one, which is like the beginning, my level two, which is an intermediate class, and I have a level 3, which is like an honors class that I've been very fortunate and I've had kids that once they take their level three courses. After they have passed their ServSafe, I promote to them to sous chef and I get them their own chef jacket with the Bear Den Bistro and their name on their coat. (9:20)

• My long-term goal is for us to have a food truck, it are able to do stuff on the weekends and get that work experience and make a little money. These classes, they come up with some of the most creative stuff. This is crazy, but we have our own seasoning line, where we've created our own seasonings. One of our lessons is Century and taste and smell. So we had a seasoning and taste competition where every student creates their own season, so the basalt is the one that I created, and oh my God, I can't keep it. It sells out, so is... And hopefully this year, we'll be able to introduce the two seasonings that our students have added, and it's been amazing. (11:45)

• Where I live here in New Bern. We're actually the birthplace of Pepsi which is what we're known for. It's a great place to raise a family. My wife's a principal, my kids at in public schools, all my friends and family kids go to public school, so it's just... It's a great state to be in play, this area is absolutely phenomenal as far as being close-knit and be a community and loving and supporting each other, it's just huge. (17.46)

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September 29th, 2021

70-Planning a course sequence for fashion design with Dawn Harrison

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 13:00:00 +0000

• Because you're a fashion educator and you have that industry background, do you have a favorite fabric or textile...Oh goodness, I have several. I love silk, and it's hard for me to come by because it's so expensive, but I love silk, I love just the way it's drapes, I love the way it keeps you cool in the summer and warm in the winter, but... Yeah, that's probably my absolute favorite would be silk, I try to steer clear of some of the synthetic fibers, it's hard with fast fashion, it's hard, but yeah, they're not as comfortable, especially here in North Carolina where it's hot in the summer, wearing some of those synthetic fibers there. Yeah, it's just not as comfortable, but... Yes, silk or rayon. That's another favorite of mine, just the way they drape, I love how that works.(2:21)

• When it comes to a fashion and clothing design, what are your first steps when you're looking at your new class... Well, the first thing I would say is, it depends. Like I come from a state that provides me with curriculum and the standards, all of it is spelled out for me, so I've kind of spoiled that way, there are other states that have to make these things up and make their courses up. I found that through the Facebook group that we all collaborate on, and I hear a lot of teachers struggle with that, and especially new teachers, when they're first hired and they're hired to teach all these courses and they're like, Oh my gosh, I have... Now, I don't know what to do, I don't know where to start. So that's what prompted me to write that blog post, because I think a new teacher needs to figure out a way to navigate all that, and so the first thing that you need to do, just kind of figure out, well, if you don't have state standards and you have to develop them yourself. Then you need to do some research, you need to look at... I would suggest looking at other states, reach out to... Reach out on those platforms that we have, the social platforms and just ask people, What are you doing? And once you look at other states, I still look at other states, I wanna know what other people are doing, because one of the constraints I feel when you have a state that gives you the curriculum is you don't have the ability to keep it up-to-date as much as you would like to, if that makes sense, because once a curriculum kind of launched, it's already outdated, especially for fashion, there's a huge area of technologies kind of missing, and it needs to be kind of integrated (6:59)

• An Advisory Board, What is that? Sure, and I will say when you're building a program, when you have an advisory board and you have that business and industry and colleges and universities behind you, it really gives your program some credibility and that's super important. We wanna make sure students are gaining the skills that they need for when they go on to college, or like I said, into a job. So I really think, and I've heard this from one of the professors at NC State, she was saying that students that learn sewing skills in our classes, they will go further faster than most students because at the university level, at least here in North Carolina, they're not teaching students, all of those skills anymore. So in high school, if a kid can come in knowing how to engineer a garment that's golden, and they're actually teaching their classmates, I think being able to have these people in your back pocket to ask questions, because every year is that things are changing. Fashion is so fast-moving, and if we want to stay current and we want to have programs that are relevant, and we need to have these people in our lives to help us build programs (16:44)

• Okay, so working in the high school setting, I always have to keep in my mind that our job is to really get kids excited and give them a taste or a sampling of the different topics or different career opportunities in the fashion industry. Funding is huge, and so in order to get, say, computer design programs, some of the leading ones in the industry like Lectra or Optitex, let's say, we can't afford them in the high school level, we just cannot afford them. So I've asked our advisory people, I said, Hey, what can we... What is important? They told us Adobe, Learning Illustrator, Photoshop, those things are going to be key. And those are skills that you can teach at the high school level that students are going to need in order to do some of this work in college or on the job, that's where I'm concentrating some of my efforts is learning some of those skills, so I'm able to do line sheets, let's say, or do some text style design and do some repeats and things like that, that's what I can do through Adobe. Now, Adobe is a beast to learn, and so I can't... can't devote a lot of time to that, so I have to bring in simple things and expose students to some of the simple concepts. (29:04)

• My big passion project, I just launched over the summer, and so I've had a couple of workshops, one on creativity and design, and one on garment Engineering, and my next move this fall is to offer some in the textiles of fibers, fabrics and finishes. And so I want to help teachers, I wanna empower them to be able to develop these programs, to develop opportunities for students to get the skills they need in order to be successful in this industry, but the first step is to empower our teachers... Right, and there's just not a lot of professional development around this area, and I found the things that they do have, they are not effective, and so I've wanted to share all my ideas and to empower teachers and bring professionals into the space provides some insight, an excitement around this area (35:23)

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

69-Portrayal of Ellen Swallow Richards with Joyce Miles

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0000

• My husband and I are both retired and we moved back to Lafayette, Indiana near Purdue University. We spend our time when students are here, working with students on campus as full-time volunteers. We have a number of advisory boards that we're on, we spend a lot of time with student life. Student life covers everything but sports and academics, so this is all the musical organizations, all of the housing units. We both lived in cooperative housing, these are small units, anywhere from 15 to 40 people living in one house and they share the duties and learn all the life skills that many of us learned at home. Today, too many are not learning these skills at home. We work with those students, there's about 400 students in 11 cooperatives, so we work a lot with them. The pandemic, of course, was a blip on our radar, like it was on everyone else's... We were not allowed to be on campus, the students were sent home the second semester in 2020, and then fall semester they came back, but we could not... So we learned how to zoom and learn how to connect vicariously. (3:00)

• Well, and when I look back, it was a question that hit my mind right off with a lot of people maybe questioning why we spend so much time looking at the history. Shouldn't we be looking ahead pushing forward? And there's some thought to that, but I think in our profession, particularly, we have such a rich history, and there are so many people practicing today who maybe don't even know that rich history, The fact that the science background was so grounded in... I think about the science courses I took here at Purdue, I could have been a science teacher. In fact, one of my roommates was a science teacher. That wasn't the way I wanted to go, but I certainly had the background to do that. I think the more I did the study in the history, the more proud I became of what I chose to do for a life skill, a lifetime of working... I don't know that I thought about that when I was practicing. I taught for a very short length of time and then spent all the rest of my time as a supervisor for Family and Consumer Science in a huge school system in Jacksonville, Florida (7:16)

• I'm with the Historical Society in New Hampshire, and they found an old trunk in a farmhouse, and once they finally opened the trunk and got around to looking to see what was in it, there was this journal in there. The journal was written by a woman named Eliza Hewins, she talked about Ellen Richards and she had pictures of Ellen Richards. So this person was asking me if I knew how that material got to New Hampshire for one thing. Who was the woman who was writing about Ellen Richards and publishing the pictures? So we did quite a little bit of research, it turns out this person was a neighbor of Ellen Richards, and they rode the trolley car together. Ellen lived in what was then a suburb of Boston, and would ride down to the Back Bay, which is where MIT was back in the late 1800s, and they rode together, and so Ellen invited her to go on weekend day trips, and this was a journal, a handwritten journal of those day trips. (15:06)

• Ellen is still at the forefront, she would have been practicing before we ever had labeling. There's the stories about her working in her father's store, and they would come in and they'd order saleratus or something, which was the same thing as baking soda. And then they would order something else over here, and she said, I get them out of the same bag, she said they're the same thing, and so she would have been hot on it for labeling and then teaching people to read the labels. We take for granted the labeling that is now on everything, and I have learned to appreciate the bar coding on it, now, I am a returning Weight Watchers person, and now with your little phone, you put the bar code up there and it tells you exactly how many points in that particular item. (24:12)

• Your question, did I ever have a clue about what I would get into? I had no idea. I mean, I literally turned one bedroom in my house into Ellen's room. All of my archives things, I bought a lot of period pieces, not furniture so much as small pieces, that I could set the stage. And then, in addition to the documentary, I did a 45-minute presentation in her own words, and I traveled all over the country and Europe actually doing that presentation. I had a 1911 costume made by one of your Washington AAFCS members, LynDee Lombardo. And actually, the whole room was turned into Ellen's room. (30:18)

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

68-Technology Infused Learning Resources with KS Tech Twins Samantha and Nichole

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 8 Sep 2021 07:00:00 +0000

• So you have 11 or so years within the education department, and you now have your administrator's certificate. We got our master's in Administration, Education Administration. I want to talk about your Teachers Pay Teachers, your business, because I think we need to promote with business and marketing and family consumer sciences, there's a lot of that over your technology education background. Yes, you're in the classroom, but you did a lot of coaching and mentoring, helping teachers bring their own technology skills up to speed. (1:31)

• We've mentioned this before to some people, but our parents were teachers, and so was our grandma. But then they became admin themselves, curriculum director and Technology Director. So that's kind of funny, we're like intermix between the two, and so we were just raised to talk about it, know about it, and then our brothers are in the IT world as well. So we all just kinda... That was what we talked about is just our lifestyle, honestly, we thought why not teach it to students because we want to make a difference and we knew what it took to be teachers. We love the technology of business classrooms in high school, we both were like, Oh, this is where we thrived, and we took off and we love just the different aura of the classroom than just the textbook and back then and writing. We got a vision for what type of teachers we wanted to be and change up the classroom and that's what we did. (4:12)

• That's one thing I think, as the tech twins, we want others to know, you don't have to be a computer or business or technology teacher to use technology. I think all educators experienced that because of the pandemic. But we want people to know like, Here's what you can do, it can work in any subject. We like to share tips and tricks to make it easier because we also know technology can be crazy overwhelming for how fast it changes, and I'm sure you can understand that, it's as little as an add on. Like you said, just watching a video and putting the caption, that makes your tech-savvy. Showing students that just little things, it could be recording a video of you lecturing and sharing it so they can re-watch afterwards. Or just adding a website into your activities that you do for the day, there you go, now you're tech-savvy, incorporating technology. (8:37)

• That's the whole point. We realize there's a need for teachers to... Yes, books give you your knowledge, but it didn't give you the break, you had to spend all the time and effort thinking, everything, out, figuring out different types of instruction and activities, and then making the test that goes with the book. So we realize we do that for ourselves already, why not share it with others? And then with the technology side, I feel technology, like I said, I can be super overwhelming. So why not simple it down into a little fun info graphic that you can save and use for later... I mean, I think the biggest tip for teachers is you don't have to be a tech expert, but like we said, throw a little thing in here. We use a little summarized infographic that you can share digitally or keep in your Instagram and revert back to when you need a quick little change up. Pretty much our plan is, if everything keeps going well, I don't know if we will return back to the classroom, any time soon, bcause this is like, we love being in the classroom, love or students in our school districts, that's why we didn't leave for so long, we were happy. But the balance of being a mother teaching a business that was growing so fast that we just ready to take something off our plate. (11:51)

• That's why we love teaching business and computers, because you don't have to go be in the business world, but you can learn your basics of finances or accounting, or how to have an idea and how to run with it. Or how to write an email properly, or social media, because that's a whole new realm of marketing. And how to get a job because, they could lose their jobs with social media, even have to get a house loan. We cover it all because these are just things kids need that maybe won't help them with their career but when they walk out the door, they're going to feel confident in themselves to make choices. My favorite is, we learned this from a co-worker and we talked about this with some teachers, how kids don't know how to make a phone call or leave a voicemail. (17:51)

• So favorite software. For me, I'm trying to think, well, it depends on which software you're using, but follow the big thing and say if it's Google or word... Follow people that are experts in that area. So you can kind of keep up with the news, like Google Apps. There's always new Google Apps and things like that with word, I'll actually follow Microsoft themselves just to follow what the newest things coming out, because they change things constantly on YouTube with software and anything. Go watch YouTube videos, there's a playlist. Yeah, if you follow Microsoft or Google themselves, there are actual tutorial playlist for anybody on any software, and you don't have to watch those yourself, you can literally send them out to your students. If you go to Excel, there are probably 50 Excel... Just short little videos like how you make a cell, a formula. The best one for that since we're talking about it is; GCFLearnFree.org. You can type in any software or any tests they have, how to use email. It is a free website, and it comes with the bridal instructions on the website for your students, or tutorial videos that they can watch on YouTube, and it will teach yourself or your students any software skills. (23:20)

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SEPTEMBER 08, 2021

67-Rachel Grabowski, Special Education in the Gen ED Classroom

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 1 Sep 2021 09:00:00 +0000

• I am going into my seventh year teaching, and I started off as an intervention specialist, mild moderate, which means I was in the inclusion setting. So you're an inclusion teacher, going into the Gen ED classes, elaborating with the Gen teacher, so those are the students that are given the opportunity to be with their typical peers in the educational setting. So I did that for five years at the middle school and high school level, battled it, and an opportunity came in front of me to transition into Family and Consumer Sciences, I really wanted to bridge the gap between intervention specialists and Gen ED teachers and still be able to advocate for my students. So I took a leap with the support of my principal, my administrator, he's awesome. So, I jumped into Family and Consumer Sciences. (1:23)

• Once you get to that high school level or above at age 14, there is a section, Section Five of the IEP that focuses on transitions and future planning. And what do we do as Family and Consumer Science teachers, right? That's where you're touching on those independent living skills and helping them explore what is life going to be like after college. A lot of the students that we see, especially those ones from the resource room, they're not necessarily going to go to a college or university, they're working with independent skills, they can go and be in the school until they're age 21, until they age out. (4:49)

• Special education, so that relationship in that bridge between intervention specialists and Gen ED teachers is so important. Which is, again, one of the reasons why I love Family and Consumer Sciences, so I can be that support to the Special Education teachers in my building, because it's hard. Our intervention specialists have insane case load numbers, work loads that are just completely unrealistic, but they're doing their best and to meet the needs of our students. There's gotta be that collaboration and those communication pieces between us to make sure that we give those students the services that they deserve. (11:25)

• So, one thing that I would really like to share is the importance of modifying different assessment for your Special Ed population giving the same test, and I'm not talking like if you do an A-B version because you mix up the numbers, that's not a modified task, right? Modify means that you change it to meet students needs and to measure what exactly you are hoping that they are able to master it from what you're teaching them, right? Because when we have resource room students in our classroom, we are not expecting them to be able to convert different types of measurements, right? But, being able to identify and measuring up versus a dry measuring cup or what one cup looks like versus a tablespoon looks like, that's more realistic for them. So, making sure that you do that and again, collaborating with that intervention specialist because that's going to help them, and I know from being in that Special Ed, I would get these tests the day before the period that these students were supposed to take them. (15:34)

• Okay, so I have my students, they bring them into my foods classroom for the very first time. I break them up into groups of four. So in my home, my home kitchens, I have a home-style kitchen, six units in my classroom, and we're only able to have up to 24 students safely in our class. It's kind of an ice breaker, but also an assessment, because we've talked about the different measurements and the different tools that we have in the classroom. Then they bring them over into the culinary kitchens, they then are broken up in two groups of four, they all go into the kitchen and go through all of the drawers and everything, they come back after, I don't know, five minutes of looking around, seeing where everything is. And then, I may get a race where they then have to take everything out of the kitchen and put it on top of the counter, and then I put them in a line of four for each of the groups, and each of them are, they have to put one draw away the correct way. So let's say Susie has the top drawer because there are four doors, Susie as the top. Terese has to run, find where these special items are for that particular draw and put it away, and then she has to run back tag, and then the second person goes and does the second drawer and does the same thing, tags for the third and forth. They're getting used to where the tools all belong, but also they're learning how to identify... Tell me, how can I improve that? (23:46)

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SEPTEMBER 01, 2021

66-Chelsey Farias: Building Cultural Opportunities While Being a New FCS Teacher

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 08:00:00 +0000

• I just graduated from Central Washington University. I am a new teacher, this will be my first year I did my student teaching, which was an awesome thing. I mean, it was mostly primarily online because of COVID and everything, so it was a little challenging, but fun. Everyone says that it was their hardest year of teaching, so I started off that way, so it can only get easier from here. Yeah, I just got hired and I cannot wait to go back and serve the community where I was served. I know the school is primarily Latino students, so I'm just super excited to go back and serve the students that you know, that come from the same upbringing for me. (2:11)

• 75% of the population are Latino students. So that's another connection. I came from the east side, that's another connection, so it's just kind of counting the connections that you make with the students and being more relatable and especially with family consumer science. I'd be teaching Food and Nutrition, how can we incorporate our culture to what we're cooking in a custom, just different ways like that. I think it means a lot just because there's more ways that I understand the students struggle and I'm able to empathize with them. (5:00)

• That was really exciting, and it was also kind of a testament of going how deep and how far this project actually went because it was implemented in the classroom. It was executed at home where students actually talked to their family or friends about this. And then all of a sudden coming back to the classroom, not being afraid to kinda push the envelope a little bit when it comes to sending a project like that home. (9:43)

• I learned, that there are so many ways to cater to the students that need a little bit more help in writing things down physically, and literally say, Start typing out the steps of what they need to do and go into detail and really reiterating what you said, so that was something that was a good thing that I learned that I didn't realize that I wasn't really catering to these students before. I wasn't through covid, I was like, Yeah, I need to be better at that. I need to know, even if I feel like I'm repeating myself a million times, that is okay, because that millions time is when I click to the student, and so I got that student and that student had that a-ha moment. (14:40)

• Go to the bathroom before you come into class, but that's the good thing too, like you didn't let one person ruin it for the rest of the students, it was just that one student, and so I've had instances in classrooms too, where it's like one student abused it, so now we're all screwed basically, now we all have to deal with the consequences. And so definitely taking nuggets, I have learned to take nuggets from every single teacher of things that they do that I really like, and implementing it to my class and seeing like, Okay, this is my teaching style, or maybe this grading style I like, and the other grading skill, I don't really like just literally borrowing or taking stuff, teachers and implementing it, and that's just the thing, we're always learning a new trick from another teacher acting it as our own, so don't reinvent the wheel or just for that pride, learn and adapt and grow from that I want. (23:31)

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AUGUST 25, 2021

65-Mindset Matters

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 10:00:00 +0000

• Do you live in a state where you have canned curriculum, or did you have to create your own curriculum from scratch to virtually present it? Did you do your student teaching virtually? How was that? In my state, I do not have canned curriculum, therefore I had to create everything, and I collaborated across the nation with other interior designer teachers and foods teachers. I have to admit the positive result from the shutdown is that everyone was willing to share anything and everything. (1:48)

• Your class could be the only welcoming classroom your student has or feels like themselves because we teach real life skills. And the irony from Adam Grant says, the irony of soft skills, which are the skills that our classes focuses on, is that they're often the hardest to master. Leadership, communication, collaboration, creativity and adaptability may not be technical, but they're increasingly vital. Behavioral, social and emotional skills are what makes humans indispensable. So we are preparing students for life. (3:22)

• I have students write me something, and this is what I call what I wish my teachers knew. I always preface to every student that I am a mandatory reporter. So that means if someone writes me something that could potentially be harmful or has happened to them, I have to report it. The health and safety of each student is my number one, so with that, I tell students they have to write me something... It could be that they struggle with reading or they are poor test takers, or they're even getting their driver's license. It could be anything. I love this activity because it gives each student the freedom to share with me however much or little. (5:53)

• Set those boundaries, be sure to set your I am away from the computer schedule on your email to focus on what you can control, you are in charge of how you spend your free time, your priorities, and your mindset, focus on what you can control. I know for me, it's my cell phone, I can turn it off, I can put it on vibrate, I can turn it on silent. And when on Facebook or any other social media, I can continue scrolling. Or I can engage, but those are the things that I can control and in my own house, what I can eat, what my family eats, focus on what you can control. (8:27)

• Your social connection is crucial during times of hardship, so lean on your support group, text your teacher besides contact a friend from maybe your college days or a neighbor, check in with somebody, keep up with self-care, make sure you get at least seven hours of sleep. Nutritious diet, spend time outside, and exercise regularly. But I also want you to think about self-care, we are always talking about self-care and reflection and all of that, but you know, sometimes self-care just means going and getting a haircut, or getting your nails done, or maybe going for a drive or binge watching a certain Netflix series. (10:03)

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AUGUST 18, 2021

64-A Look Back and Forward - Season One Finale!

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 07:48:00 +0000

• Listening to my early podcast releases, I hear my trepidation, I feel my fear, but fast-forward to today, I can say that I did it with the help of my podcast editor and mentor, Jody Colvard, and all of the collective voices of our FCS community, we have all made an impact. We truly are better together. So my advice to you and myself moving forward, do not be afraid of your own voice. (2:24)

• There are so many people that I have leaned hard into this past year, and it's only growing myself to become better, and I am so thankful to everybody who has been a part of my journey, my mentors and who I have sought counsel, is everyone who has joined me on an episode and future guests. Thank you for building me, leading and guiding me with that, this episode is the season finale, episode 64. (5:11)

• I'm excited to continue my journey with you and bring the Connect FCS Ed podcast back to you in the beginning of September with the new website look. But I will always do my best to help you be a better teacher and how to help students learn. My goal is to outdo myself every week helping you. To give you the best I need to replenish me. I want to produce episodes that you want to listen to and help you grow and inspire you to help lead and mentor others. (6:43)

• I hope you have an amazing summer and you're able to reconnect and reflect all of our learning from this past year. The future is exciting. Ready? Together, we are better. Let's make an impact with FCS storytelling. I look forward to bringing back the Connect FCS Ed podcast to you this coming September, but always, you are more than welcome to reach out to me, share whatever you want, because we want to hear from you, we all have something powerful to share. (8:58)

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JUNE 23, 2021

63-Dr. Shelley McGuire: FCS and COVID Research on Breastfeeding Babies

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 12:00:00 +0000

• At the University of Idaho, were the oldest department at the university, and we were the first Home Program in the West, and we're still going strong. Almost 125 years later, and we're a one-stop shop for Family and Consumer Sciences, we have degrees in apparel, textile and design, we have a couple degrees in nutrition, one leads to dietetics career, the other one leads to medical school or the likes. We have a human development, family studies program, and we have a child development program and another program, early childhood education, so you're certified to teach through third grade. (1:50)

• They have, I think, very minimal teacher preparation programs when it comes to Family Consumer Sciences educators or education programs, there's a huge push in Illinois, Texas, South Dakota, Nebraska, and here in Washington and Idaho. We have these hot spots for Family Consumer Sciences education and the teacher preparation program in what you're talking about, but we need more of these programs because it's the vitality and the longevity for our legacy. (4:49)

• This has probably been the most difficult and important study that we've ever done, and I think like everybody else, when the pandemic hit, we all wanted to do something. It's like, Well, what can we do to help? And everybody wanted to help and people who knew how to sew made masks, you did what you knew how to do to help your fellow human being, right? Well, I studied breastfeeding and I study breastfeeding with my husband, actually, he's my partner in crime, Mark McGuire at the University of Idaho. In our research group, and this is what we study, so I think it wasn't a big surprise that we had this immediate idea when this pandemic started, we wondered if the virus could be transmitted from the mother to the baby via breastfeeding. (7:52)

• COVID-infected moms from across the country who were so passionate about helping us get the information that they were willing to be in a study for us. And we shipped them milk collection supplies and to even take blood samples from their babies. They do heel prick from their babies and themselves to help us get the answers. And they worked with us over the phone, and we ended up recruiting 60-some moms who were just amazing, and we ship them all the supplies to their homes, they collected the samples, did the surveys on the phone with our research support people here in Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Washington. (11:43)

• Women make up about half of the world, and a lot of them are in their child-bearing years. So this is what I'm talking about. Let's have a plan in place, because this took individual researchers trying to find the money, trying to find everything, trying to put everything together, trying to reinvent the wheel, rather than having a government agency like the CDC take it on from the start to answer the question to start a better way to do this. There is a better way, but it's putting the right people in those certain places, has everything to do with the right place at the right time, and of course, money talks. But I tell you what, when you got a lot of passionate people that want to answer a question to get it done, so regardless, will get it done is in the definition, the very definition of perseverance. (20:30)

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JUNE 16, 2021

62-Dr. Kyle Roberson: Educational Opportunities for the Incarcerated

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 9 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000

• While I was in the military police, I met somebody who worked in corrections, and so as a reservist, I was looking for full-time work while I was doing my reserve time. When I applied for the Bureau of Prisons, I got hired as a correctional officer and once I got hired as a correctional officer, I met another guy who was in the Reserves who... This is all part of the happenstance part of it. Now, this was not planned. All these people came into my life. Made an impact, gave me an opportunity. (2:41)

• Because as Family Consumer Sciences educators, we have a great skill set. Not only do we work with content literacy, not only do we work with math and all of our content, the reading aspect of it. When you're dealing with the incarcerated, and a lot of them were in need of their GED, and at least in the Federal Bureau of Prisons system, the only requirement is that you have a teaching certificate, so as long as you're a certified teacher, you can get hired. (10:18)

• Mr. Roberson, please don't ever quit your job. And right there, I just like, I've made an impact, I've made a difference, and it's all because I chose to get into Family Consumer Sciences and come work in the prison system and in the education department, and I knew right then that I had a life-long mission of helping inmates better themselves so they can give back to society, get re-introduced and re-connect with their families. (16:42)

• A completely different spin on how I think of things, just mentioning the differences, but yet the similarities with the incarcerated versus the deployed... I think, honestly, I've never even considered from the incarcerated side, the supports. I know there are numerous supports for the deployed families, but I never even considered what kind of support system there are in place for the families of the incarcerated. (39:50)

• And that's that human connection that we need to make with our students, and I tried to make with the inmates that I work with, and it just goes a long, long way for them to see the potential in themselves is If somebody cares about you, you want to please that person and make them happy as well, and so by just making those human connections, you probably made an impact on that kid that's going to affect him, and he's gonna wanna make you happy as a student. (48:49)

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JUNE 09, 2021

61-Dr. Carol Werhan: The Alphabet Soup of FCS Organizations

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 2 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000

• So when we think about the FCS alphabet soup, we know we have several organizations that support educators, teacher educators and extension. I would like to focus, particularly on those that are about the secondary educator and the University educator, and one that I would bring up is the Association for Career and Technical Education ACTE. (6:10)

• This is a sub-group of ACTE FCS division. That's the middle school high school teacher. They focus on the information and needs of the middle and high school teacher, then another sub-grade is called NATE FCS, National Association of Teacher Educators, of Family Consumer Sciences. Those are the people working at Universities and preparing FCS teachers. I think the term teacher educator is sometimes confusing to people. I think sometimes people think, Well, that's the same thing, the teacher and educator is the same thing, but the teacher educator is someone at a University preparing people to be teachers. (12:06)

• In my interior design class, I put on a tour of homes at the end of the trimester, where they're showcasing their 3D model of their home that they have created out of a cardboard box and everything. They created a generated model, 2D. A floor plan they wrote up, it's kind of following along the rubric, the star rubric of interior design is very similar. (29:27)

• Yes, there's so much support, there's support for people who have gone through traditional programs and support for those people that had been alternatively licensed. This is your team, and I'm not completely sure there's any other secondary content area that has such a team, professional people that want to help you be successful as Family Consumer Sciences. (41:35)

• So we have so many ways for people to make connections, if you're in the high school or middle school and you're the only FCS teacher, sometimes you need your people, and you can get your people through these various organizations and then also give back. You've got great things to talk about with their classrooms. Right now, there are ways for you to present at state conferences and national conferences. (49:51)

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JUNE 02, 2021

60-Taylor Key: FCS Teacher Sharing Personalized Learning Strategies

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 26 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

• So a couple of years ago, I was selected by my administration to be on our county-wide personalize learning team. I had seen some of the different really personalize learning strategies that I was already incorporating in smart classroom, so they selected me to be part of this team. (3:37)

• Genius Hour is just an extended learning opportunity for students, and so that way you don't have students sitting on your kitchen counter tops or causing distractions for your learners who are still finishing up their lab. (7:15)

• I actually did my learning menu as a menu, which was really cool. They had an appetizer main core stage and a desert. So they had to complete something, an advertiser section, the main course, the sodas, and then the dessert was completely extra credit, and it was just really for those kids who finished early and wanted to do another aspect of their project. (12:17)

• They could either make a restaurant menu or they can make a social media page for their restaurant. I actually had a couple of people that made Instagram pages for their restaurant, which was really cool to see. They could have made an advertisement, where they could have interviewed someone that lived in that region. (14:07)

• I think one of the best things about being an FCS teacher is our content, we can implement all of these strategies. Maybe it's a little bit more difficult than some, but I feel like we are so fortunate to be able to offer such a wide range of strategies where I have instructional coaches, much like you, who are constantly asking, Hey, what do you do in your class that benefits our English language learners, and it's like, Oh well, we have word walls, we have technology, we're constantly focusing on different vocabulary and repetition to really understand, which also helps all language learners. (19:42)

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MAY 26, 2021

59-Alyssa Maddux: FCS teacher Wishlist

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 19 May 2021 13:00:00 +0000

• So I grew up in Nebraska, I went to university there. Actually, my senior year of college, I decided to become a teacher, and so I started when I was 23, 24, two years in Nebraska, and I was living with my parents, and I just needed to get out and explore the world, become an independent adult, and I kind of just picked a spot on the map, packed my car, drove three days and moved to Seattle. (4:05)

• The biggest thing that I mean personally, to be a great teacher is to be working in a community that's supportive, I feel like so many other things fall into place. It might be nice the first day to get a tour of the school, it might be nice to know who's who within the first couple of days and to really be integrated that way, but if you're in a school where there's no support or it's a negative vibe, or you just feel alone or you feel like you're not part of the school community. (6:50)

• It's paying it forward, isn't it? That is a... Yes, yes, when it comes to your classroom wish list as you are starting to a new district and we can... It's like speed dating, right? It's a courtship of looking at a district, seeing what they got going on. And like, Oh, what does your CTE budget look like? Right? That's a big deal. Will be supplied the adequate materials that you're going to need or are you going to have to pay out of pocket for things that should be supplied. (19:51)

• There are a couple of things that I've really reflected on this year that I thought I was doing well, and then virtual teaching just kinda came and said, This could be better... We could do this in a better way. And a couple of things I started doing. So at the base level, my slides, which this might sounds so not important for a lot of people, but for me, I like my classroom to feel homey and kids are coming to school, so we don't have that, so my slides this year, I always have a starter slide and there's music or there was a fire place during the winter. It's welcoming, it's inviting. It's a little bit of who I am. (26:12)

• I think every teacher is going through it, we are all learning how to survive, it really is just a year of survival, and not only just for us, but we're about 30 kids in every class, potentially in a regular year, we're managing their lives too, we know whatever they bring into our class, but now they're bringing all those teenage things, plus everything that comes in with a pandemic. So I think us teachers, deserve a pat on the back because it's been a rough year, but I think now that we're kind of coming towards to the end. We still can't quite see the end of the tunnel, but we know it's there. It's there, better be there. (34:35)

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MAY 19, 2021

58-Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 12 May 2021 13:00:00 +0000

• If you want families to be involved in to partner with educators, that expectation needs to be shared through dialogue, conversation, emails, letters. So after we had our discussion, we then we're just kind of brainstorming of better ways on helping students who do transition back to in-person school and their families, and we came up with the idea she should do a welcome back newsletter where she is laying out her expectations for classroom norms, how her classroom management is, and what that style is. (7:24)

• Because math is a foundational effort where if you miss a step, it's hard to recover. So my thoughts on this is if we want our families and our community partners to be involved and feel invited into our education system, which is very complex, when you agree. We as educators need to make space be transparent, host virtual open houses, which I will be hosting a virtual open house or just my classes in the middle of April for families to jump on. (9:59)

• Have you figured bringing a real world example into the classroom? Through trial and error, I was able to figure out, and this has a lot to do with collaboration at its finest. I use calendly.com, that is how people are able to join me and sign up on my calendar for my podcast. (11:57)

• If you use Microsoft Teams, it will even integrate with your Microsoft Teams calendar, it's a great resource and very valuable. I strongly encourage you to check it out. So, over-communication is a culturally responsive teaching strategy, again, when parents feel a partnership, kids show up, make an increase effort working with your IEP, your case manager teams, so you won't have a kid coming up to you three days before trimester in addressing their grade. (13:44)

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MAY 12, 2021

57-Book Study: The Secret History of Home Economics with Author Danielle Dreilinger

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 5 May 2021 11:00:00 +0000

SHOWNOTES:

• The founders wanted home economics to be a professional field that gave women career opportunities in business and in science and then teaching and that it helped housewives and women working in the home to do their work more quickly and more efficiently and to focus on what they actually needed to focus on with housekeeping so that they would have time to do other things, whether that be studying or a paying job, or taking care of their children. (5:55)

• I looked up in the 1960s, the 1950s and 1960s when the feminine mystique and post-war World War II era of repression was really under way. It's just extraordinary how young women got married and then for that matter, and how many women, did not continue that. They just didn't continue their education at all. I forget the exact numbers, but tons of women just dropped out once they got married, and yeah, for some of them, it was voluntary, but there were also just, in countless careers, that would not let married women work there. (10:19)

• The value was appreciation of their clothes, is really what it came down to in the beginning. Well, it was midway through the semester, I found a video, I think I found it on YouTube or something, but it was about the cost of clothing, and it was so impactful for not just for me, but for all my students, that's all that they can talk about for a couple of weeks going, they were able to look at their clothes and go, Oh my gosh, the clothes that I just bought is doing to the world what it's doing, it's tearing apart a community because there's so much waste, and it's destroying water because there's so much water that is used and waste that it's not recycled or up-cycled anymore. (25:47)

• That is, we do now that is using Google, using YouTube, using all of these technology technological tools that we have at our fingertips at all times. Now, we are constantly inundated with new information and being able to streamline new things and to utilize old understandings with new concepts, and it's a beautiful marriage between the two, and being able to use YouTube as your learning platform, I think that's innovation right there, and being able to finally be able to figure out what the correct terminology was for that be coil or your stove, to being able to properly identify tools and components, it's important. And it just kinda goes on with what you're talking about, it's important to be able to have that foundation. (40:54)

• I think that the field, this is a great time for the field to revive. In fact, when I first got the idea to write this book, even before I knew anything about, even before I knew about Ellen Richards attending MIT, I said, Wait a second. Home Economics. What happened to Home Economics? Shouldn't it be back by now? And this was 2016. I had this idea. So this is pre-pandemic, this was just me thinking about HGTV and the Food Network, and all sorts of the revival of interest in knitting and all sorts of DIY stuff and nutrition at so many topics like parenting and growing emphasis. Push away from standardized tests or discomfort with standardized tests, I was like, Shouldn't this be back by now? So I think that now, after the covid experience, is all the more reason to the field to come back. (51:24)

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• Book: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324004493
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MAY 05, 2021

56-How You Can Use NGPF to Fill Your Financial Literacy Toolbox with Kathey Hatfield

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000

SHOWNOTES:

• Well, I am an NGPF guru and my official title, I'm an NGPF fellow, meaning that I have the opportunity to be one of a small select group, the first year about costs been like four years ago, to attend a completely expense-free, almost week-long workshop hosted by NGPF to share their materials, to show what they have to offer. And then their goal for us was to share this information with our colleagues and others, and next generation personal finance. (3:45)

• Basically you take a test, and if you pass with a certain percentage, you earn the badge. And what was great about it is not only did you get the content knowledge, but you learned how to use their curriculum in that particular unit and got to share and be a small group with other educators across the state, sharing ideas and so forth. (9:36)

• I love seeing the questions that are posted and then if I comment on any of them, then all of a sudden I'm part of all those notifications that I get, and it really is, it's sometimes overwhelming with the amount of feedback, but I swear you're able to sift through all of that feedback and be able to say, Okay, this applies to me, or you could follow that thread, if it's proving to be like, Okay, I got what I needed and... Yeah, absolutely, they are. It's such a community, and that's something that I have to say, that's the reason why I love Facebook so much being part of so many various groups is because of that community because... Yeah, who wants to recreate the wheel? (12:41)

• When you get approved to have an account through NGPF, they will send you a link for the Answer Keys, and I just pin that email to the top of my email list and it'll be there… I have noticed that recently, some of the assignments as you download them will have a link immediately to the answer key, so I think that might be a change over that we're doing… Do you have that? So most of the things are Google Docs, so if you use Google docs, you're able to access everything or you can download them as your own file. (18:07)

• Some of you the job world has changed now, there's going to be a lot of jobs where students can work remotely from home or their home office. So you need to make sure our students are comfortable with the technology, and I think we always say, Oh, kids know technology. They know their cell phone, but do they really know technology? And I think as a teacher after COVID, we know where our students are lacking with technology, and I don't care if you teach Math or English, Science or Health, whatever it is you teach, you can continue teaching our students about technology, how to use it and how to transfer those skills from our business ed class, or a family consumer class, into their work world. (26:42)

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April 28, 2021

55-Junior Achievements with Lynn Carlson

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000

• Junior Achievement is actually in 21 countries across the world. Wow, okay. So we support students individual success and academic success in two ways, the first is all of the Junior Achievement curriculum is mapped to common core requirements, so every program that is age-appropriate, so we have programs for the elementary level, the middle school level, and the high school level every program specifically maps to common core in math, reading, writing, arithmetic, as well as the social-emotional skills, so educators can very easily blend these programs into their classroom curriculum. (3:17)

• The third pillar is entrepreneurship, so we honor that not everyone is College-Bound, some folks might want to go right into the workforce by owning and starting their own business. So much of our curriculum focuses on what the entrepreneurial journey, like, what skills are required to be an entrepreneur, what to expect, running and owning their own business 24/7. And even things like personal branding and business branding, how to attract and find customers, how to develop market share, all the things that future business owners need to learn to operate a profitable and successful business. (5:17)

• Many of our programs will explore 16 career clusters, so if you are interested in STEM careers, if you're interested in, for example, food services and food industry careers, we have a lot of curriculum and a lot of tools that help students explore an individual career. So, if I want to be a chef, what does a day in the life of a chef look like? What kind of education is required? What are the day-to-day job roles and duties? What are the expectations that an employer has of me as a chef? And what are the tasks and responsibilities outside of cooking that chef is required to do? (7:20)

• So all of JA's programs are based on experiential learning, the traditional delivery model has volunteers going into the classroom with a kid. Now that we've pivoted a lot of things to virtual, all of these experiential programs are now in simulated online environments, and what you're mentioning is the physical facility, that is a full immersion simulation. This town is where students show up and literally take over a town, they elect a mayor, they run TV commercials, they run businesses. Every business has a CEO, a CFO, a salesperson. The students get to run payroll, they get to issue debit cards at banks, and the students also get to go shopping, so they get an opportunity to learn how earning their pay translates into very tangible things like paying your utility bills, or going in and buying groceries. (10:57)

• So the curriculum is turnkey, anybody and everybody, even high school students, college students, whether you're a parent, whether you're a business person, anyone can sign up to deliver this curriculum. We provide new volunteer training, you walk you through how to engage in the program guide that breaks down each lesson for the volunteer, how to use the materials, how to log in to the learning management platform, we make it easy to learn how to deliver the JA curriculum. There is also a ton of free resources available online for parents to use themselves if they want to use the curriculum. Everything is absolutely free, they can go online, download activities, use the content delivery network, use the learning management system, lots of ways for stay-at-home parents to use the curriculum to deliver to their own kids, and definitely tons of resources for helping volunteers get ramped up. (18:28)

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• Website: https://jawashington.org
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April 21, 2021

54-Financial Education Public-Private Partnership (FEPPP) with Executive Director Tracy Godat

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000

• A legislatively created program that back in around 2004, some legislators got together and said, We need to make sure that we are forcing the state superintendent to make financial literacy a priority because it's one of those small content areas that often don't get attention, like some of the higher stakes content areas like Mathematics and Science and ELA and so on. And so they created this based on the governor at the time, they had a task force that was going on, and it was a financial literacy taskforce, and combined with that, they created this public-private partnership that is very well-balanced with legislators and educators and our private sector partners as well. (2:05)

• These professional development opportunities, the one you attended was what we consider our master's training, so we started out doing a few days of what we call the novice training, and what we realized really fast, several years ago, we've been doing these for about 11 years, and we realize teachers that are assigned some of these personal finance courses or courses that include financial literacy did not have the background or the training for it, so we actually have kind of a two-pronged approach where we bring in content experts and deliver content, increase teacher content knowledge. (6:10)

• And if I can say that what we've learned from the pandemic, if we want to go there and talk about the pandemic, if you can imagine when we all first got sent home and the whole world shut down. I was in a position of feeling like, How can I stay relevant for this financial education conversation because one, on one side, we've got teachers that were trying to figure out this new platform of instruction, and they're stressed and parents are stressed, and they're at home, and they're trying to work and trying to do school, so how can I fight to say, This is still important, because we know now that it was even more important because a lot of people weren't financially prepared for that emergency . (10:47)

• I want to make sure that your listeners understand what the benefit of going to a platform like that is. The fact that these are all open licensed resources, meaning that teachers don't have to pay for them if there's any copyrights, it's very clear on there, the attributions are clear. And the idea is so they get free resources to take them and use them however they need. And that is what we, as educators need. We need to have these resources that were not bound to by a contract or having to follow in such a way. We can have this as an extension, the opportunity for a student, for student learning and engagement, or we can follow the curriculum as is. (17:16)

• And even just something simple like with that new partnership made us realize how we had them at one of our meetings and we had a presentation and we just did the close caption on a YouTube video. Well, we hadn't gone back and made sure that the words that it designated were the words being said and it was confusing this community of hearing people that are deaf and hearing loss, and I learned from that, but that's harder for them, because then they can't read the lips and then the words aren't matching, and we really learned about that, that we need to make sure we've got close caption, and we need to make sure it's right. (20:40)

• We put one up that we use in our trainings, and we have some of them that are, not just Washington State. We use the financial fitness for life, it's not free, but we have found that after even 10 years, teachers are still using the same curriculum that they've had. Why is that? It's just that good. Really? It's that well received, and you probably got a little taste of it during the master's training you were at,, if you've got the little thumb drive that we hand it out. (24:30)

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LEARN MORE ABOUT TRACY…

• Website: FEPPP.org
• Follow us on Twitter: FEPPP@WA_FEPPP
• Address: 600 Washington St SE | Olympia, WA 98504-720
• Phone - Office: 360-725-6260

https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/feppp/pdf/Financial_Education_materials2020.pdf

https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/1/browse?f.search=financial+education&__hub_id=1

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April 14, 2021

53-Rob Phelan - Financial Literacy Teacher

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 7 Apr 2021 12:45:00 +0000

Through his classroom work and Simple StartUp Virtual courses, Rob has helped beginner entrepreneurs form over 250 new businesses, across all different types of industries. The ChooseFI Curriculum has been used by hundreds of teachers across the United States and helped bring free financial education to many underserved populations when it comes to personal finance.

SHOWNOTES:

• Financial independence is a point at which you can say, I no longer need to work, and I'm not talking about traditional retirement, it can apply a traditional retirement here, hit 65, like, Okay, I'm done. I better have enough money left to get me through the rest of my life, that is technically financial dependence when you have enough money to get you through to the rest of your days, whenever that happens to be. (3:57)

• So I'm a teacher first and foremost. I still teach full-time Math and Personal Finance. I love working with kids, and in particular, I love educating kids about personal finance, so it's one of my favorite things to do is why I love getting up in the morning, going to school. I also love working on creating these curriculums, to talking to people like you and telling everyone else out there like, Hey, there is a way to do better with your money. (8:14)

• I'll give you a prime example that a second, but we have assessments that are about the financial literacy side, but also how can we measure, how do the kids attitude towards money change, do they feel they are good managers of money, do they cost by themselves as saviors or spenders, what would they do if they're presented with different scenarios and we start measuring like? (12:58)

• That's again, going back to personal finance education, I see the kids that I know their situation at home is not ideal, and they're the ones who are paying the most attention and taking that home to their family, mean like, Oh, we can do this to... Save some money, or here are some ways we could earn more or... One, just ask me a question like, Okay, my family is going to refine their mortgage, because their mortgage just too much. They're drowning in the mortgage. And do you know some ways that we can do that? And it's like, Well, I'm glad you're asking these kinds of questions, because you're realizing this is what's causing that problem, the housing cost is too much of the take-home pay, and we try and figure out ways to change that up. (26:45)

• At the high school level, that's probably the one where you do see potentially a full course that is just personal finance, so the way we set it up was we're assuming that nobody is lucky enough to actually have a full year-long personal finance class, so instead we create units, we created individual lessons, and each of those could be taken on their own and insert it into a classroom. So if you take the whole thing, it would cover an 18-week semester-long course for a 60 to 90 minute class. If you wanted it to be a year-long course, it's very easy to take most of those lessons to divide them and a half and stretch over two days because you can extend these activities very easily through the conversations that you have, extending the projects a little bit longer. 29:47)

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LEARN MORE ABOUT ROB…

• Website: https://www.thesimplestartup.com
• Website: https://choosefifoundation.org
• Email: rob@choosefifoundation.org

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April 07, 2021

52-Head Principal Chef Mike and the National High School BBQ Association

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:00:00 +0000

• I grew up in Central Texas, and barbecue is part of our state. Obviously, we love beef, but then you've got all kinds of other barbecue all over the United States and in the world. And I thought, what better way to teach meat cookery. We all teach it. I taught it in college, I taught it in high school, when I was in culinary school, they taught us about meat cookery. So why now use the good old fashion American tradition of BBQ as a teaching methodology and use project-based learning to bring groups of kids together around a live charcoal fire or a wood fire fit, and learn how to cook different kinds of meat. (2:54)

• I've developed a curriculum and a website, and now the National High School BBQ Association to show other school districts and other teachers, how easy this is to implement into your community and make money for your own kids, for your own program. Engage your kids, once they eat barbecue and they try it for the first time, they're hooked. (7:27)

• These high school kids go out and cook, and they can go out and feed their community and help nourish first responders. In a big way, high school teams now in America are using this. They're feeding their campus, they're feeding administration, they're holding competitions. They're working at a local soup kitchen or a homeless shelter, they use it as a fundraiser. I think it brings more money back into their educational program and gives these kids a better learning experience, and they get to eat. (12:16)

• Well, for my knife skills workbook, I have a butcher as the career, where they have to actually go into the Occupational Handbook and look up like how much does a butcher on average make and what is the job entail? Do they have to have any certificates or endorsement and educational background? And I thought it was just a perfect pairing with knives and a butcher and everything. (21:03)

• Whatever your family recipe is, that's how it starts, we want kids to have positive learning experiences, we want to promote them and build their self-esteem. We want them to become amazing human beings, and I see barbecue as a way to do that because it brings all the people together, their grandparents, their teachers, their administration can all come. And believe it or not, this is going to sound crazy, and I would say it's nuts talking about it even now, but we actually were able to film a television show that was for the Food Network on the Discovery Channel called Varsity Barbecue, and it was filmed at my high school. (35:31)

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LEARN MORE ABOUT CHEF MIKE…

• National High School BBQ Association, Inc. (NHSBBQA)
• National Director / A.k.a – The Principal
• Website – www.HighSchoolBBQLeague.com
• Facebook – www.Facebook.com/HighSchoolBBQ
• Motto – COME EAT OUR HOMEWORK!
• #ProjectBasteLearning
• Also Founder of the Bitmoji CTE BRIGADE Facebook group –Facebook.com/CTEBrigade
• Email: principal@highschoolbbqleague.com

SERVICE GROUPS:

• Team BBQ
• Operation BBQ
• Mercy Chefs
• United By BBQ
• World Kitchen
• Feeding America

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March 31, 2021

51-Teacher Spotlight: Middle School FCS Ed Teacher Maire Roberson

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:00:00 +0000

• So she knew that I had a textile background, so she had me join her on the sales calls for the fabric vendors, and I just took that to heart and I just soaked in everything that she was teaching me about the sales side. And taking in what I had learned about in school, all those silly organic chem classes about what the polyester was doing and the nylon was doing, and you want this for your liner and the cortex and so, that's what I love about it the most. (7:44)

• So the 30 student per class, five classes, and grading is a huge learning curve, and it was a brand new learning platform. We were a Google classroom up in Stafford, and then I had to learn Schoology. It was just a rude awakening as to what I was dealing with as a full-time, brand new full-time teacher. Then you have to be on a committee and you have to attend these meetings. It's a crazy amount of things. Teachers have two full-time jobs. Teachers have to do way above and beyond just the academics of it. (12:32)

• I spoke with my CTE coordinator, she's our art teacher on special assignment, and we were having kind of the same conversation, just talking about how the evolution of hybrid choice boards, for all of my classes, because I don't know about you, which I'm sure we're very, listeners included, we're all along the same lines, our curriculum was never designed for a digital age, we have to create everything digital-wise in every single district, every single school does something different. (17:13)

• They get this little kit, they pick them up at the school, but I can't do food labs. I see these family consumer science teachers all over the country, they put together food kits and the kids, come pick them up at the schools, and I'm like, No, I can't do any of that. I don't know that my students have a working oven, I don't know that they have parental vision or supervision to do that. We got approval for doing microwave, so we can do microwave cooking labs at home. (20:57)

• I want to set up an online tax-free account with Walmart, so I don't have to go to Walmart at 7 o'clock in the morning, with the car that I've got the night before. How do I do that? So the money that you need, that person, your bookkeeper will help you alleviate a lot of headaches and a lot of unknowns. And your mentor at other schools or maybe in your school, if you're not a Singleton, she will help you navigate the district. So that's what I say, that would be my advice; is to find your mentor, join a Facebook group and just listen to as many people as possible in the industry. (27:44)

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March 24, 2021

50-The Connect FCS ED Podcast 50th Episode Celebration!

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000

• I love hearing people's stories and their perspectives, because it helps me have a better understanding of what other people go through. It's a completely different background than I have. And being a singleton of working, all of a sudden with the team, I never worked with the team before, so I didn't know what that was like, so moving from being completely isolated, being in a silo, I had to re-learn how to work with people, so... When I say if I sound ignorant, when asking questions is only to help gauge a conversation, to bring it down to a place that may be educators all understand. But then we also have the Community building up the partnerships that we have within our families, the network of families, our school board, our directors are superintendent, I want everybody to be able to understand what we go through as educators and the lingo. So 2020 was the year of growth and understanding, 2021, this is the year of innovation and excelling, be proud of yourself and how far you've come. (4:23)

• It gives the skills to be able to apply certain lines and textures of design, it gives the skills to be able to make wise financial decisions, to be able to decide that is a long-term goal, or I need to handle this right now, it encompasses the body of the lifespan, and at 50 episodes. We're just skimming the top. So thank you for coming along this journey with me, thank you for helping me level up and excel. I want to innovate, I want to lead, I want to excel. And our collective group. We're doing just that. So cheers to 50. I'm just thankful for the listeners and for all of the interactions that I've been getting. (7:46)

• I might be a small but mighty voice, but I am here because I want to spotlight what you are doing in your classes, maybe let's hear from your students, let's hear what your programs are doing. This podcast is all about showcasing what family consumer sciences is really all about. We in our field, we don't get recognized, we are constantly getting thrown aside saying, Oh, Home Economics, it's no longer part of our curriculum, Oh, I wish our students were learning this, or back in my day, we didn't learn that... Well, I'm here to say you were probably taught it, but we were probably talking to our classmates in class, but such an amazing journey. (9:34)

• So in today's staff meeting, we were just talking about our digital due now of what is one word, one word that you can describe how you're feeling right now. Take a moment. Think about that. What is your one word? I can tell you my one word that I wrote in the chat box is confident, I feel confident in my abilities to be able to pivot, which I know it's not a funny word anymore because we're all tired of it, but I do, I truly feel confident in my abilities as an individual, as a mom, as an educator and a professional right now, because my gosh, I know you've been working hard all this past year, and because we have put so much time, effort and energy. (14:36)

• Please take a step back and talk to yourself, why are you not asking for their student input, their student voice, because they are the users, they're the reason why they're not turning something in, let's say. I would love... Please ask for student voice. And I know for a lot of us as family consumer sciences educators, we thrive on relationships, thrive, so take care of that then. Oh my gosh, something else that I've done this past trimester, which I'm really excited about for my podcast for this past year, which I can't believe I've been doing this podcast for a year now, and it's slowly growing, it's catching on, and I love that. (21:04)

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March 17, 2021

49-Extended Learning Opportunity: A Home Buyers Guide with MKristo Bruce of Guild Mortgage

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:00:00 +0000

• Let's talk a little bit about home buying, because that's why we're here. So as far as the process goes, the number one question I would say I would get is, I don't have 20% down, so I can't buy a home. Have you heard that before? Oh yes, all the time. I think that's the biggest thing. And the cool thing that a lot of people don't know is you just have to have a credit score about a 600 and you if you're above a 620, you can put as little as 0% down. (3:38)

• And this down payment assistance program is specific to each state, so our program has specific guidelines, but each state has their own down payment assistance program. They might have little nuances or different things with that, but all the states are going to have a program. So I have connections, if you want to know a loan officer in your area, just reach out to Barbara or myself. Email and we'll be able to get that for you. (5:30)

• That's not a requirement now, to put 20% down, but man, what a blessing to have, you know, a family, that are able to do that for you, because with 20% down, you don't have multiple insurance, so it's going to help you probably buy a little bit more home. Guys, I think the biggest thing I would point out is the simple fact that we're also going to get that kind of game... I'll tell you my wife, in the first house, we bought... There was a special rule loan... called a USDA loan. It's zero down, but basically in your outskirts outside of the city limits, you're allowed to use this loan in very specific areas. (13:09)

• I don't know if you remember your first interest rate, but my first interesting was close to four and a half. In interest rates right now, are at about 3%. So, a huge savings for buying more of a house. At four and a half. my max approval might be 300,000, but at 3%, it might be 400,000. And those of you who are shopping out there, know that a difference between a 300,000 and a 400,000 house is a big disparity. There's going to be a lot of differences there. So that's a great point, is knowing what your interest rate is. (15:53)

• I'm just thinking of all the hoops that I had to jump through just a couple of years ago, even though I have this... Both my husband and I have stellar credit, we've been home owners, but that was just a new scenario that I had never had to jump through. So, giving more options, more insights on... Okay, helping prepare educators for a huge investment in their families and legacies life, I just felt like that needed to be shared, that there are ways to get around harry situations. (26:19)

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LEARN MORE ABOUT MKRISTO "MK" BRUCE…
https://teambrucemortgage.com

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March 10, 2021

48-Teacher Spotlight: FCCLA Advisor & Teacher Michelle Semonelle

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 3 Mar 2021 14:00:00 +0000

• And so at the end of the week, all of the hashtags that they’ve used will enter them into a drawing for a $100 VISA gift card, so they’re super excited. The more they do, the more they get the opportunity to enterprise, and of course, it gets the FCCLA name out there so that everyone is aware of who we are, what we’re doing, and how important we are. (3:47)

• I am 100% virtual. So it is definitely a challenge. We have a pre-school lab within my school that is also virtual, so the little kids are on Zoom, and it’s quite interesting actually, because the preschool kids on Zoom are the total opposite of what high school kids look like on Zoom. Pre-schoolers don’t mute themselves, and so there’s constant action, there’s constant chaos, everyone’s talking at the same time, and it’s just loud and no one has their cameras off, and it’s lovely, and then high school classrooms are totally different. (8:37)

• And that’s an opportunity that we would have never had in the classroom because you wouldn’t be going on a scavenger hunt in your home, so it’s a challenge. But at the same time, we’re making it work, and I think the kids are thriving, like you said, they are getting out of virtual learning something, even if it’s not in person, not the most ideal situation. We’re still doing our best. (13:09)

• In the summer time between when COVID started and when we started this new school year, educators professionals really came together on social media. I’m on the teacher side of tiktok. We really just started sharing as much as we could with one another, and that’s one thing that I really hope continues post-covid, let’s stop being in our own little silos and really just open up and share things. (20:20)

• I’m friends with so many different teachers across the nation that my tiktok page is really filled with teacher stuff. That’s why I called it the teacher side of tiktok, and I’ve gotten so many ideas from other people. FCS, teacher CTE teachers. Just even kindergarten teachers, I’m like, Wow, that’s a really great idea. I’m going to do that next week. So it’s funny where we can find resources, they’re everywhere, you just gotta look for them. (23:41)

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LEARN MORE ABOUT MICHELLE…

#DEFCCLA #MiddletownHSFCCLA @MiddleTown_Cavaliers @mtown_Cavs

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March 03, 2021

47-Beginners Sewing Guide with Calico Jam

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0000

• We taught together for a few years, and we had four classes of sewing kids each semester, some were around 20 kids on sewing machines at the same time. I just learned a lot through that process. And this year, we did not have sewing as usual with the coronavirus, so I used the time to put some videos together that would help us in the classroom. (4:39)

• We did do some hand stitching in our junior high, but I don't have that in part of the video series, this is really for the machine part of the sewing, I do mention sewing needles in the sewing tools video, but beyond that, we don't cover it in the lessons here. (8:23)

• And one of the issues we would run into when people would be done with certain parts of the project and be ready for the next part, but I didn't have time to teach them the next part because we were trying to get everyone else caught up. So, then we were trying to have other projects that they could go to and work on in the meantime, but this would almost turn it into kind of a self-guided pace. (9:51)

• I do reference in the video description, some videos for threading different types of machines, but that's something that would have to be taught based on the machine that you're using. And then once you're threaded then we carry on with sewing onto the fabric, and then the last one, they're sewing a hem by using the guides on the throat plate to sew a proper seam allowance and they're pressing it open, and so that would get them to the point that after that they could start making a very simple project because they would understand how to cut out pattern, how to pin fabric together and how to follow a seam allowance properly. (11:37)

• I think everyone can benefit from working on a project, and that's one of the things I think I love the most about teaching kids to show is that they all seem to enjoy doing something with their hands. And even the kids that came into our classroom that we were told could be possible problems or difficult kids, I never saw it because once they got their hands working on something, they were just the best kids and worked hard, and I think they enjoyed being trusted with a sewing machine and just having that ability to make something. (21:30)

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LEARN MORE ABOUT CALICO…

• Instagram: Calico_Jam
• Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/CalicoJamShop
• Store: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Calico-Jam
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMLA8VrLH8bJHxmgB5XLpNQ

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February 24, 2021

46-The One Love foundation with Libby Gutschenritter

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:00:00 +0000

SHOW NOTES:

• They'll try to do anything that it takes to be able to have that, and if that means having an unhealthy relationship, they'll do it because it's some form of connection. Absolutely, and I think something that I think about a lot in the work that we do is relationships aren't just romantic relationships or friendships. Relationships are the dynamics, we have relationship with our siblings, with our co-workers, with our neighbors, with... We have a relationship with our parents. There are all different types of dynamics in our life. (3:55)

• One Love's educational tools are all based around films, and the reason that we do that is because we want to give the young people characters to care about, and so it can be really hard to talk about our own relationships. A lot of our conversations happen in schools, and so I remember back in... Yes, in high school, if I had a teacher to say, Hey, let me talk to me about your relationship, I'd be like, No, I don't feel comfortable. It would be really challenging to start the conversation, so instead, we use films and we use narrative films that show the story of different couples and how their relationships progress. (6:47)

• Social capital is so important. That's how we navigate the world, if you have people who think that you have this happy, healthy, strong, secure relationship, but really it's crumbling inside, you don't know how to speak up, and you do not reach out. That's what happens to young women and young men across the country. (9:18)

• You gotta trust that inner gut, and that's something that I'm constantly trying to share with my own kids, but also with students. You gotta trust your gut, because nine out of 10 times your gut is always going to be right. Absolutely. What resources do you have that educators and our community members can become actively engaged with One Love? (13:59)

• But if you don't know what to say, you can't say anything. And so I think that's, to me, is just the power of One Love, it's is the language and the tools and the strategies of what to say and what to do, and how to help yourself and those that you love and care about. (23:10)

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…

• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com
• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed
• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed
• Libby's Email: libby.gutschenritter@joinonelove.org
• Education Center: http://www.joinonelove.org/education-center
• Instagram/Twitter: @join1love
• Facebook: @OneLoveFoundation
#thatslove #thatsnotlove #LoveIsLearned

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February 17, 2021

45-Teacher Spotlight: Breonna Baker 1st Year Educator

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:00:00 +0000

SHOW NOTES:

• How are you doing today? I am definitely that type of person to get to the root of the person, just to get to know them, when I do the same thing with a lot of kids, how's your day today? And I feel like even though they're high school, I gotta bring my voice down a little bit with them, but the same principles occur get into the heart of the matter, and that's making sure we understand that they're focused in their minds and in their hearts, where it's shared with me. (4:02)

• I believe they need that assurance that it's okay, especially with this pandemic, it has really shifted the mental health of the students that we see. Because we are now used to doing what took us a quick, maybe two or three days, we're having to stretch it and try to re-teach it because somebody missed it. We were re-teaching before, but it's on a whole other level now. (5:43)

• I love how she did it on the computer, but I was able to really show the students how to manipulate the elements through a platform called Canva. And now, the kids are able to set the tone. We talked about how color has a little tool in the culture behind the board, and so with all of that together, the students have actually developed their own boards recently, that was one of their projects and they turned out very well. (7:27)

• I don't know how it's done in North Carolina per se, but is your class able to offer certifications in any sort of way? At this time, no. But my goal is to hopefully re-commit with the first interior designer and see if this summer she would allow, maybe two to three students to be under her as interns. Because I have three students who seriously want to go in to interior design. (17:54)

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February 10, 2021

44-Susan Turgeson, FCS Educator at University of Wisconsin

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 3 Feb 2021 14:00:00 +0000

SHOWNOTES:

• It's definitely a journey and one that if I have to say, it really started back in elementary school. I had a younger brother and sister who I always played school with, my sister is a medical doctor and she still credits me with making her so smart. But we used to play school all the time, and so I wanted to be a teacher. (2:38)

• The idea of planning and organizing. The other thing that adds to that is we're never just planning for the day, we're planning for the next week, we're planning for the next year. I never know what day it is, because I'm always doing something for a future project or another class or... Most people are probably thinking about working on their budgets already for next year, and it's only January right now, so it can be a lot to kind of juggle and manage that's for sure. But what we love doing it and if we didn't love it, we wouldn't be doing it. (10:15)

• It's about progress, not perfection. It's in like what we were talking about earlier when talking about just your educational journey, it's about the journey, and that's the thing that I love so much, and especially when it comes to our content. And nothing is set in stone. I'm able to put my own spin on things, I'm a very creative individual when it comes to what technology and having fun, and that's what I love, to have fun with my students and it helps me just kind of tap into my playful side. (16:14)

• But I think that that's the best part about being an FCS teacher, as you know, you do impact students and on any given day. Whether you have a class of 3 or 30, there's one person who you've really had an influence on and have an impact that day, and you don't always know who that is. Sometimes they come back and share with you, sometimes they don't, but everything we do is so relevant and affects individuals, and I think that's so exciting. (26:42)

• And so for teachers who might be that one person in their whole district that does family consumer sciences, sometimes that can be a little isolating and scary. And now they can just reach out so easily to others to help them, so no one has to suffer in silence alone. If you're struggling, if you're needing some ideas, if you just need someone to give you that pep talk, and sometimes that's my role at the university, as well as I just have to occasionally talk people off the ledge. (44:01)

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February 03, 2021

43-E-Portfolios and Online Learning with Gencie Houy, Texas Tech

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:00:00 +0000

SHOWNOTES:

• I'm preparing students to be family consumer sciences teachers. And one of the things I do in the freshman level course is I actually have them compile a live binder of all of the resources that they have found, and they actually have to collect some sort of document or website or media for five different content areas in family consumer sciences. So, maybe they're going to have a tab that's on culinary arts, or maybe they're going to have another tab that's for child development, maybe one for your food and nutrition, and then underneath those tabs, they have all of the resources that are going to help them and guide them into becoming that professional educator.(3:58)

• There's a lot of different platforms that you can use for e-portfolios, and the one I love is live finders, that's the one I focus on. There's also things like web quests that you could put together, and I would definitely, as a professional family consumer science is educator, I would put together a live binder that maybe has your credentials in it or use some sort of a portfolio that way, (7:56)

• My husband, he's a secondary educator, teaches high school engineering, and of course, when it moved to all virtual, it was extremely difficult for him as well to move his stuff virtual. We has since gone back face-to-face, but it's face-to-face and virtual at the same time, so those students who don't want to come face-to-face can log and virtually. My husband is teaching face-to-face at the same time that he's teaching virtually, and for the first, like you said, until October November, he just is exhausted. (30:28)

• Those reflective journals have really helped me, as an instructor, to reach out to students individually and just connect with them on our normal FCS mentoring way that we always do in our classroom. So I've been able to make those connections with these post-secondary students and some of them, they may not ever get that. Texas Tech is a large school. You could have a major where there's hundreds of people in your classes and you never find that cohort group, so I think it's important that they do make those connections. (37:09)

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• Live Binders: https://www.livebinders.com

• Family and Consumer Sciences Education: https://www.depts.ttu.edu

• Family and Consumer Sciences Curriculum Center: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/hs/ccfcs

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January 27, 2021

42-Recruiting of Male FCS Educators with Rob Van Dyke

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:00:00 +0000

SHOWNOTES:

• So gender competence is a very fancy term for how do we understand how each gender fits within a current structure. So, what we're looking at is how does the two different genders really work within family consumer sciences? FCS was founded for females, and it's predominantly been a female-dominated field in the profession, and that's just because of by nature and history and just where we were in society at that time. The home and all of the things that went around it in the early 1900s, when we were formed, was really relegated to females, and then throughout the last century, it's been really re-emphasized that this is just for home, and especially with the name home economics, it really got that connotation that it was just for girls. It really wasn't until the 60s and 70s when feminism took over and Title 9 came about and specifically called out home economics for not having male students and being open to male students. (1:54)

• One of the big misconceptions about male FCS teachers is that we only came into the profession to teach Culinary Arts, that's our only way into this profession is because we just want to eat or we just want to show students how to cook. But that's not accurate. We have a lot of our male professionals that are coming in through FCS and really want to work with our students to learn how to be future EC educators or work with young children themselves or really just help with that parenting perspective, because that's something that they're super passionate about. We also have males that are coming in in the fashion and interior design side as well, so yes, the idea is that they're coming in to just teach culinary arts, but that's not correct, and that's one of the big stereotypes that male FCS teachers really fall into when they come in. (6:17)

• So my doctorate is in Family and Consumer Sciences education through Texas Tech, and one of the big areas of emphasis and research that I was really drawn to was male inside this profession. Because my experience has been varied, and as I talked to other male teachers throughout the US and kind of mentored several of them as I was in the state administrator role, there seemed to be some common themes that are coming out in my mind about the experience that we were having inside of this profession, and so I really wanted to dig into that to see, if there any validity to this, is it just relegated to just the use people and just a phenomenon only happened by stance over here? But what I'm really finding in my research, and that's part of what I'm writing my dissertation on them, still getting to that dissertation phase, but luckily, I had the opportunity to start writing pieces and researching things for my dissertation, as well as a textbook chapter that I've been offered the opportunity to write for preparing future FCS educators about males inside of the classroom. (10:53)

• The positive thing about FCS is, Yeah, we're dealing with strengthen the home and the working life of individuals, families and communities, but we all come with different backgrounds, and so how are we working to tackle those problems to come up with those solutions? So that way we can make sure, that the new generation of students can effectively take on those problems and solve them for themselves, because that is something that we need to do in that varied background is something that always excites me, and that's the other part of my research with men is, what is the value that they're bringing to family consumer sciences? A lot of my research has been around the academic and social motivation side of the benefit of having a male teacher, and from what I found in my research is that being a male or a female teacher has no effect on your academic achievement as a student, and that's good because that means a teacher... As a teacher, it doesn't matter if they're male or female, but male teachers actually help. (19:52)

• I chose to work in a school, or with a teacher that was teaching Child Development, and she had me come in and teach the menstrual cycle. So here I am this 18-year-old male teaching the 16, 17-year-old girls, because the class of all girls about the menstrual, they're sitting there with their hands-crossed like you have no idea what we're talking about, and I'm like, Yeah, I'm like five minutes older than you trying to teach you about this. But you are going to be talking about some of the subjects that, why is a male student teaching or a male teacher teaching female students about the metro cycle or sexual reproduction, or how to be a parent, or what does it mean to be a mother or just any topic? So you have to develop some things to make sure that you have the right relationships, so that way in case, and when it does happen, you get a question, you are able to defend yourself on, I know these students, I have these background and your students are able to stand behind you and not put it into any sort of bad areas, so understanding your passion, knowing students names and really getting to know your students are things that you have to do as a male teacher that yes, a female teacher has to do, but you have to do right away, you don't have the opportunity to develop that. (29:05)

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January 20, 2021

41-State and Local Extension Programs with Margaret Viebrock

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 09:00:00 +0000

SHOWNOTES:

• So ours is called Washington State University Extension and Oregon State University Extension, Kansas Extension. It just depends on the state that you're at and how they put the words together, but they all have the word extension. Sometimes they're called Cooperative Extension, depending on the area and what they're called, but they all drive back the land grant university, in part Washington. Our land grant university is Washington State. So as extension people, employees are faculty at WSU, but located in a county rather than on the campus at home. (3:30)

• A grant to teach people who have the potential symptoms or have the symptoms for the probability of having diabetes later in life, so how do we help people prevent that? So we can talk about prevention signs and things that work that way. And so I would encourage FCS teachers to reach out to their local extension office and find out what is it that you offer that you could share with my students and career-wise or subject matter wise. (8:52)

• Another program that we have that's across the state in a lot of areas is called Strengthening Families. And that it's kind of a parenting program, but it works with the kids and it works with the families. When we bring them together, the kids go into a session, the adults going to the session, then they come back together for a third session together, I'm learning about why we have rules, why we're parents and what we're trying to do, what your responsibilities are. And as a contributing member of his family, as a child, and so it's helping families develop some new parenting patterns to help them make their family successful, particularly if they've had some issues. (13:59)

• I got my genetic counseling report back and it says I don't have any of the genetic markers that is of high risk... Yeah, I know, right? It's thumbs up. But, that doesn't indicate that I am within that high risk category, so it's truly fascinating, and being able to see what science and technology are doing with that is going to be impacting our lives, and I can see the true value of extension programs and being able to incorporate those into your personal life.(29:56)

• I'm really not very text-savvy, but I'll tell you one that I've discovered in the last year on my computer. It's not a program, it's a tab that's called Read Aloud. And you know when you write papers and you write your progress report and everything all sounds good, and then you read it over the second time you say, Oh my gosh, how did I miss this or, that sounds really weird, but Read Aloud, you can turn on on your computer and it reads back to you what you've written. (36:10)

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January 13, 2021

40-2020 Year End Review & Reflection

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 6 Jan 2021 13:39:56 +0000

SHOW NOTES:

• We've been teaching everyone to stretch, breathe the dance, play music and sing and rejoice amongst our ZOOM classes or hybrid classes, our flex classes are face-to-face classes. 2020 may not have been the year many of us asked for, but as I look in my review mirror and reflect on this relentless year, 2020 has taught me some valuable life lessons, never be complacent and to always be planning for change. (3:11)

• You have stretched my mind, you have given me so many inspirational ideas on how I could bring into my classroom for my own teaching, my own craft. Early this last year, I took a huge leap of faith when I came up with the idea that I was going to create a podcast for my culminating project to earn my master's degree. Let me tell you, it was scary. Putting my voice out there, for many of us, who all have social media, yes, we can text and we can edit, and we can share pictures, but putting your voice out there, that's something else, that's scary in a completely different area. Because now all of a sudden, we're human we can't edit our words that we say, unless we erase the entire recording, but putting your voice out there, you become human, and your voice can tremor, and you can hear fear, you could hear intrepidation, but you can also hear excitement, rejuvenation, passion. (8:21)

• But I took that giant step into the unknown, and you've been helping guide me by informing me what you're wanting to listen to. I love statistics, and so with those statistics, I see all the data and the trends, and I'm able to see what episodes are ranking higher than others, and I'm able to take that information and I'm able to create a new podcast episode because of that information. Or, maybe you send me a private message through a messenger. I read everything. I love it. And thank you. All I can say is thank you, I'm better because of you. (12:00)

• So many amazing people who have come onto the podcast to share their stories and the resources, because of them, I believe we're all the better for it. So I'm really excited for the future of connect FCS Ed. I am so excited for what is yet to come. In the beginning of this journey, I didn't know where this podcast was going to take me. And let me tell you, I still don't know where it's going to take me, but I'm excited about the journey. The journey is what makes it fun. (16:14)

• I look to you, my leaders, everybody within the FCS community, you are a leader, and I look to you and you have allowed me to become my best. Thank you for listening. Thank you for helping me pivot my own online learning with you in real time. Thank you for allowing me to struggle, thank you for giving me the encouragement to persevere, I am all the better because of it. And I'm all the better because of you. I am excited for the future, I am excited for 2021, I'm excited to meet each and every single one of you. So, my call to action for you is to join me on the podcast this year, join me, share and let's make this year best yet to come. (23:28)

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January 06, 2021

39-Incorporating FCCLA Into FCS Classes With Alaina Tharp

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 14:00:00 +0000

SHOWNOTES:

• I'm working on gamifying my global foods class. So, I'm working with a couple of other teachers in Ohio.. One I'm working with today, we know we both love Tricia Richmond, and we've taken some of her ideas and have kind of sparked a hopefully new change for global food. So that's the one that I feel like I struggle with the most teaching. I don't have a lot of trial experience, so being able to give the kids opportunity to travel virtually or in our classroom is really exciting to me, try new things. (1:23)

• So we are sort of blended, I have designated remote learners and designated face-to-face learners. We do have a unique situation where our kids can go remote as needed, so we do have kids are face-to-face, and then the next day they're remote and then maybe the next day they're back. So we're definitely trying to make this so that it is kind of fluid that it goes hand-in-hand, just if your remote learner, you're able to connect with the kids that are in class, so we're hoping that it includes everybody, and if we have to go remote for some reason, it's easily to transferable, just strictly virtual learning. (4:26)

• I've given them a little kind of prompt where I want this food to be vegetarian-friendly, so pick a recipe and make it so that someone who follows a vegetarian diet of tailor to them, and they have to look at the packaging, they have to look at the processing, they're looking at cost analysis, so essentially, I would typically normally assign that one food innovations in that class, which just this year, we're just kind of falling behind a little bit, that I've given the kids the option. (14:17)

• I've caught myself before kind of getting frustrated when we have lots of late work, and then you have to kinda look at it like, Hey, these kids are 14, 15, 16, some of them maybe 13, maybe you're even teaching middle score, you have 12-year-olds in your class, and we're expecting them to perform how they perform it help or here at school. But sometimes they're at home, and I've learned from my own children that they have remote Mondays and the past couple of weeks they've been remote, they're not in that school setting, they don't have that mind frame and sometimes we are expecting a lot more out of them, so kind of relaxing yourself, relax in the kids, making it so that the kids can come easily talk to you. (27:48)

• I think I got this quote from you or someone that came from your podcast. If you can't find your purpose, find your passion. I think I heard that from you. I think I heard it from here. I just really know I'm actually really fortunate and I am teaching in the classroom that inspired me to be an FCS teacher. And when I went to go to college, I was going into family consumer science education, and in my area, the jobs in the job market was not great and I knew that I wanted to stay close to family, and so I ended up coming back home and switching majors, but I always knew every day I would search the school website for FCS jobs. (30:16)

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December 30, 2020

38-The Power of Ask With Melissa Litherland

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 14:00:00 +0000

Melissa's education includes a B.S. in Zoology and a M.S. in Biological Sciences (Neuroscience) from Eastern Illinois University. She loves how FCS naturally encompasses a lot of interests (food, baking, child development, science, learning, agriculture, basic life skills) and allows her to teach and prepare a future generation for the game called LIFE!

SHOWNOTES:

• I'm in the district with just one, I'm the only family consumer sciences teacher. And it's a small district. Fall River High School has a middle school, high school and elementary. So we have, I think high school class sizes are about 40 total, also 120 high school students, so pretty small. My class sizes are about anywhere from eight to… I try to cap them at 16, just because we have four kitchens. With that, I have got a great administration that supports family consumer sciences, and they gave me a chance, I came in as a long-term sub and last year, so I was at eight weeks in before the state shut down and we had to go virtual, so I was literally learning on the fly. (2:22)

• That was a blessing with the covid break, is that we were able to actually be home, we didn't have kids that had activities to go to, so we could plant and harvest and we whenever we wanted to, and that was a big blessing to be able to do that. But yeah, we have a 20 acre farm out in the middle of South Eastern Wisconsin, about an hour from Madison, hour from Milwaukee, and it's a great little community to raise our children and nice to have the quiet with it. (4:31)

• I'm really interested in and bringing into all the culinary classes and teaching is the farm to table movement. The farm kids don't know where their food comes from. They think it comes from the store. And so that's what I've been really trying to just implement. I learned you can grow vegetables from kitchen scraps, that was one of my covid tips I learned. And so we currently, we have have carrots, turnips and lettuce growing in our classroom right now. (7:45)

• This is fantastic because it's nice because I can do rotations like centers, we can actually get a lab for bread. I was almost in a panic. How am I going to do yeast with a 44-minute class period? It's going to take an entire week to make one loaf of bread. But it's been good, I really like it. The students, the biggest challenge is to not lecture for the whole time, because you lose them after about 30-40 minutes, so I try to keep that in mind, make it 30-minute lecture and then an hour of either we're doing some type of project, or some type of in class, either they're researching something like menus, or doing some articles or recipes. (16:31)

• What you're demonstrating also is grace, when you are open, honest, transparent with your students saying, Hey, I don't know how to do this, but I'm going to learn here right alongside with you. Can you help me as much as I'm going to be helping you? Holy cow, all of a sudden you have zero or you have a passive learner to 100% engagement. And that is something that I learned in my first year of teaching four years ago, stepping foot into sewing, sewing and textiles class. It was the blind leading the blind. But I was just open and honest with them, and they knew I was a first year teacher and man, they could have steam rolled me, they could have… It was a hard school, but they didn't… They were like, Oh, she's being honest. She has no idea what she's doing. We don't know what we're doing. Hey, okay, let's try and… Wow. Just from the whole class, not being enthusiastic about being in a sewing and textiles class to all of a sudden they're like, we're all helping each other. We have our own community. (37:46)

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• Melissa's Website: https://www.fallriver.k12.wi.us/o/fall-river/teacher_pages#/teachers/28670/bio

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December 23, 2020

37-FCS and Cyber Bullying

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 11:53:16 +0000

I was talking to my own kids about this, my own daughters saying, you don't understand how much you mean to so many people. You might think, Oh, these are my core group of friends, and this is my family, and beyond that, I don't make an impact, or I don't make a difference. We have to figure out a way to get through to their brains that they make a difference. So I have been doing some research just within the last 24 hours, that I would like to share with you on this episode...

SHOWNOTES:

• But I do go through my daughter's phones. And my youngest, my freshman age daughter, she's gotten her phone taken away from her quite a few times, just because the way she interacts through text messages to various friends, and then she doesn't have mental health issues per se, but she does struggle with self-esteem issues, that awareness factor and also, she's a type 1 diabetic, so that has another little layer added to it. (5:46)

• They don't have the experience, they don't have the experience to say, this is hard right now, but I can get through it, tomorrow is a better day. For a lot of these kids, my goodness, tomorrow hasn't been better, and they just see the same pattern from previous generations and they don't see a way out. We need to figure out how to give them a path to a way out, that's why we need these mental health classes. We also need to talk about these types of issues more often, have more authentic and transparent conversations with our students while in class, either face-to-face or virtual. (8:40)

• Because the grief cycle is a cycle, you don't know when it's going to crop up. You can be watching a movie, and then all of a sudden a movie can trigger that grief and you don't know where you're going to land, it's like Russian roulette. Honestly, you could start off in the angry session, or you could be just sad, so sad, but that's the thing about grief, you just don't know where you're going to land and when a trigger is going to come up. She still sees this counselor from time to time via Zoom and just talking. And that's what our kids need, they need to be heard. We are in a powerful position as teachers, we can tear down a student with the shortest bit of feedback, but also at the same time, we can lift them up to where they feel like they can move mountains. (12:43)

• But we need to figure out a way to combat cyber bullying and talk about mental health. We have to, because if we don't, nobody else is going to. So, I shared with my class about the tragic incident of this beautiful red-haired, blue-eyed fair skin child, and it was pointless, the loss of life due to cyber bullying, it's a waste. But her life was not wasted because through her tragedy, I'm standing at the mic talking about her. And I'm sure many of you who have experienced something like this are now thinking of maybe a student that you've had and how your school was impacted by it. There are resources out there to help. There's a resource for parents called sptsusa.org, and it's a valuable resource helping you talk to your kids about suicide. It's called the Society for Prevention of teen suicide, and it gives useful facts in the many national crisis resources and contacts, to be able to give you the support system that you need to be able to pass that on. Because we do have to talk about this. (19:16)

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• Society for Prevention of Teen Suicide: sptsusa.org

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December 16, 2020

36-Lauren Quint of CTE Family and Consumer Sciences - Teachers Pay Teachers

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 9 Dec 2020 14:00:00 +0000

Lauren worked as a Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher, teaching courses in Education & Training, Human Services and Hospitality & Tourism. She now puts on the website, Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT). Which is the go-to platform created by teachers, for teachers to access the community, content, and tools they need to teach at their best.

SHOWNOTES:

• So, I actually left education completely for a while, and I worked for child protective services for five years, which was a great experience and actually ended up being important when I became a Family and Consumer Sciences teacher, So I reinstated my teaching certificate after that, and I decided to get certified in Family and Consumer Sciences as well, in Texas, once you get your teaching certificate and you have the PPR, which is what we call in Texas, is professional pedagogy and responsibility for whatever grade levels. I was certified for Early Childhood through 12th grade, so I could teach any grade level. (2:32)

• So I've probably taught 15 or 20 different courses within family consumer sciences, so that's my history with teaching, and then as I became a stay-at-home mom, I found that when I created these resources and put them up on Teachers Pay Teachers, I was getting good response and found that this was becoming kind of a side hustle to my stay-at-home mom life, so it's just grown over the last several years, and I'm just trying to help the teachers in the classrooms the way that I wanted that help when I first started. (4:59)

• It started with just posting the things that I would make in my classroom, so when I first started, I couldn't find very much on the internet as far as resources, I was pulling from textbooks, and there was never a textbook that matched what my class was actually teaching it was all. I'd have to pick and choose and kind of puzzle piece it together, so I started making my own things, and then when I first found Teachers Pay Teachers, I would put those things on there. (9:41)

• I want to really balance trying to make this my job really, with also helping teachers and giving them what they need. Because they need it in the classroom, but I also need their ideas on what to make for them, and try to find a balance between those two things. But, there's a lot more ways that I could expand this, and I hope to do so in the future. I could create other products for family consumer sciences teachers that I've been looking into on Etsy, there's more ways to expand on social media that could help spread the word. (19:51)

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December 09, 2020

35-Partnering & Promoting your FCS programs with Anna Hall

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 2 Dec 2020 13:56:34 +0000

SHOWNOTES:

• I was really involved in my college and decided to go off to graduate school for that. I actually was the house mom for a fraternity for three years at the University of Maryland, so it was me as a graduate student and 50 underclassmen men living in one house together. And then I worked in resident's life at some colleges for a little while, so I lived in campus housing for 10 years. (3:06)

• But I feel like I've been able to cut out so much fat in our face-to-face curriculum that we were doing to move things into this virtual environment where my students are getting all of the meat within our assignments. And, yeah, my classes, my foods classes, there's no cooking, so I'm not able to send out any pre-made food kits or anything like that. I know there's a lot of districts where a lot of the teachers have been able to make food kits for their students for single servings. (8:28)

• Yeah, and just like sharing the pocket full of primary, that YouTube channel, I'm sure she's going to drop some amazing stuff that I can take into my own classroom. And like, Oh, I'm going to pull this because I think this is beneficial for everybody. So, yeah, think outside of the box, I think is the best way, just because it's not FCS or CTE-related doesn't mean that you can't pull a nugget from the gold mine. (15:10)

• So how are you going out and contacting local support to come in to talk to your students? How do you do that? Well, a couple of different ways. So number one, just obviously networking, so the people that I know, asking them who they know, and also I have been trying to partner with local restaurants and other food industry businesses. So, at the start of the school year, I send out letters to… Last year, I think I sent out 70 letters to different restaurants and other businesses in the area introducing myself and asking if they were interested in partnering to help support my foods-related students in one of three ways. So one way was to help sponsor students to take the serve safe handler certification test, one way was to come in and be a speaker in the class, and the third way was to allow students to come into a field trip and see behind the scenes at their business and this was a great success. (30:03)

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December 02, 2020

34-Phases Of A First Year Teacher

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:30:25 +0000

For me, it was Mrs. McDade, who was my study hall and Life Skills teacher. And Mr. Vanni, who was my English teacher, as well as athletic director at my school. Mr. Vanni was not only an athletic director, but in his former years, he was a professional boxer, which means his nose was much larger than the average nose, and he also talked in a nasal pitch, only because he got punched so many times.

They poured so much time energy and into me. And it's because of them, I wanted to give back by paying it forward. Their legacy lives on in me, and I know your experiences and the people who dedicated their time into developing you…you are honoring them. Being a teacher is hard, but it's for the love of the craft and the relationships formed, that we always go above and beyond for others.

Listen in...

SHOW NOTES:

• I have a degree in Information Technology administrative management, but in order for me to have a certificate in family consumer sciences and to be able to be a certified teacher in that area, I had to go back to school and get my master's degree in family consumer sciences. (02:46)

• Many of us have seen the graph, Phases of a First Year Teacher, A Roller Coaster of Emotions. The first phase starts in July through September with the anticipation, the gearing up, the excitement, followed with October falling into that survival phase. Then November through January is the point of disillusionment or the pit of despair, as I refer to it as, it is the lowest point on the emotional roller coaster of a first year teacher, and we're currently at this point right now in the year. (04:51)

• I look forward to March where your feelings will start to change from disillusionment to rejuvenation, tell yourself that things will get better and look for things which you can be grateful for. Gratitude snaps through Tisha Richmond right now, be grateful for what we are and where we are at today. I am grateful for Saturdays, Saturdays for which I can smile and relax and not have to worry about the compounding of emails that I have had to sift through all of this week. Enjoy the holiday break with your family and remember to unplug, we are all on this roller coaster together and we are headed to an upswing. I promise. (08:20)

• I've benefited by spending the past months discussing ideas, learning from others and putting those ideas into practice. My recommendation to you is to create your own PLC and join online webinars, learning new skills for this year, as well as future years to come. Virtual teaching is not going away. So pivot. (9:38)

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November 25, 2020

33-Dr. Randy Russell, Speaker, Author and Consultant

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:00:00 +0000

Randy discovered that by fine-tuning your focus on the 3 areas that matter the most - Relationships, Leadership, and Partnerships - you are able to not only navigate successfully through life, but you can help grow and develop others on their life's journey.

SHOWNOTES:

• I've been very fortunate to be in education, this is my 33rd year and I started like many of us, as a teacher and as a coach. And then I got a chance to get into administration. I'm currently the Freeman School District Superintendent, I've been here for 10 years, and just having a blast. I just really love it. I'm married to a great teacher, Shauna, she's a family consumer science teacher, and she does a fantastic job. (3:13)

• I was actually with my classes today, I was just talking to them kind of candidly. They're asking, How do I like being a virtual teacher? And I took a moment and I said, you're probably not going to like my answer. And they're like, Oh...because I actually am really loving it. Yes, of course, I miss you guys like crazy, and I want to see you in person and not just read your names on the black tiles of zoom, but there is something to be said with the lessons that I have created to take it a step further and beyond and to become better than if we were in our classes. (8:34)

• We have a self-care webinar that's offered in December, and it's with my good friends, Dr. Michelle Price, Tim Rypien and Kelly Amos, MS. We're going to team together, and it's going to be absolutely fantastic. We're developing a truly repeatable program to help people with their social, emotional, their mental, their physical and their spiritual wellness, and Kelly is going to talk a little bit about bio-hacking. Tim's going to talk about a steady approach for success. We've got Michelle talking about self-care and what that looks like in each of the different components. And then I'm going to tackle a little bit about the three ships. (15:32)

• And when you're a seasoned veteran, you can figure out how to navigate this. But if you're a first year teacher or a first year principal or a first year superintendent, and this is the world that you're living in, boy, that is challenging. So we've gotta stay together because everybody's going to be frustrated at some point in time. From the superintendents, all the way through any certificate classified or leadership team member. (23:10)

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November 18, 2020

32-New Approaches in E-learning and How to Become a Resilient Teacher for Tomorrow

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 14:00:00 +0000

According to Brene Brown, who is my absolute favorite...'there is no innovation and creativity without failure.'

SHOWNOTES:

• I'm taking this on, this is my own challenge for myself because... Holy cow, I have been stressed and I have been stretched, but I'm learning to give myself grace, and if you need to have somebody tell you to give yourself permission to slow down... I'm giving you that permission. You don't need me to say it, but if you need somebody to please give yourself and allow yourself the permission to slow down. Your mental health is important. (3:06)

• For the first time, the boy is using Google Drive, he doesn't know anything about that, so all of a sudden I'm going, Oh my gosh, I didn't prepare him for this. So quickly, I pivot and I'm like, Okay, this is what we're going to do. So, you say you don't know where your camera is on your home book, and he's like, No, I don't. Okay, so I show him exactly where his camera is on his Chromebook, and then all of a sudden we're taking pictures, and I'm showing him how to crop images and then saving them to his Google Drive. (7:55)

• Yeah, we were in the same boat, because honestly, I feel like an island at times when it comes to this kind of stuff, so that was my own personal experience this last week. Now, second, change is hard, yes, but it's also inevitable. It doesn't have to be painful though, or impossible. You do, however, need to set a positive example for those around you, observe and listen, create new learning activities, explore solutions and communicate, communication, it's two ways, talking and listening. Share your perspective, explain your reasonings and your fears, then sit back and listen to the input from others, listen to their solutions. (10:28)

• Educational leaders are at the center of a community-driving student teacher, school and even district-wide success, lean on your colleagues as a new teacher, both starting by career and moving schools. I've leaned heavily on my building professionals by asking questions and observing master teachers to demonstrate multiple instructional strategies, giving me new ideas. How to bring back to my own classroom? Lean on your professional community for support, this gives you the ability to learn from one another. (13:57)

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November 11, 2020

31-Teaching FCS with Technology

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 4 Nov 2020 14:00:00 +0000

All teachers across the nation have really pivoted their pedagogy and methods to embrace the future by becoming virtual educators during this unprecedented and relentless time of covid 19 pandemic. I teach foods and nutrition one, and interior design this school year. But I have really had to tap into my creativity and also my tech side to become innovative with my content. From creating video lectures for my asynchronous learning and providing meaningful and engaging sessions for my synchronous class, time has been a challenge. But we are becoming better for it, planning, organizing and optimizing lessons, it came easy for face-to-face, but virtually that bar is now raised.

SHOW NOTES:

• Everybody has to be engaged because this is another way that I'm utilizing for attendance. So if you are not engaging in the chat or a meeting yourself or trying to show that you are here, I'm counting you absent. And all of a sudden my chat box, it lights up and the kids are un-muting themselves really fast and it makes it really a fun and engaging way to keep everybody's attention. (05:08)

• With Google Classroom campus, it's awesome stuff. So, I tell you to go check out quizzes, there's a bunch of stuff for me, in particular for foods and nutrition and interior design. I'm able to just quickly do an instructor look up for principles of design, and then there will be a bunch of already pre-made quizzes from other teachers . (07:00)

• I'm just finishing up safety and sanitation, and I did 11, 12 and 13 of safety and sanitation, and my last workbook was 13 food borne illnesses. Students were able to click and drag, show how food is cross-contaminated. They talk about what the differences in cutting board colors, and then I had them go search the internet for pictures of eight different types of food-borne illnesses and what they look like under a microscope, and then they had to copy that image and paste it into their workbook. (09:55)

• For interior, my students, they've been learning values and color schemes, students are creating their own values with monochromatic schemes and their digital paint brushes, so finding Digital interior images demonstrating analogs. (13:45)

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November 04, 2020

30-Fashion & Interior Design PLC with Mindy Trisko and Leah Batcher

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:00:00 +0000

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October 28, 2020

29-Facebook Group Resources

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:00:00 +0000

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October 21, 2020

28- Mari Borrs, North Dakota State University Professor

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:24:19 +0000

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• GPIdea: https://www.gpidea.org/program/family-consumer-sciences-education

SHOW NOTES:

• Usually, we have somewhere between 60 to 10 people who student teach per year. I think right now, our numbers are a little bit smaller, so we need to start working on that recruitment again. A lot of times we get more people who change their majors, an actual freshman who comes in majoring in the program, but yeah, around six to 10 a year is pretty much our average, and that might be a little bit more than that too, if you include our students who are in the Great Plains Idea Program, who are working on getting their license through that. (4:35)

• And I love teaching that class too, and of course we had to take it to a whole new level this year, not knowing what types of technology the teachers would be needing during this upcoming school year, if there would be any. We talked a lot more about teaching online than I have in previous years, just because in previous years, it wasn't really thought of this being necessary, or even possible. (9:53)

• Some of the things that I find help students the most are being as organized as possible, as far as having on, whatever learning management system they use, having assignments in the same place, so students can go and find them easily. Having the assignments submitted in the same way, each time. If you post something weekly and haven't had the same format or like a checklist type of format or something like that, if it changes a lot, the students are going to get a lot more confused. So make the technology part of that very, very organized and easy to follow. (12:09)

• I really enjoyed teaching them how to sew. Because you got to work with them more one-on-one and watch them struggle through things and watch them get frustrated, but then watch them be successful at the same time. And it was just a little bit more of a relaxed time. It was relaxed but at the same time, they were very engaged because they could all be doing something with their hands, which they don't always get to do in all classes. (15:26)

• I'm guessing that maybe in their countries, sometimes economics doesn't have some of the same stereotypes, connotations that it did here in the United States. And so, that's why they were more comfortable keeping their name, just more communication globally within the groups, with no international Home Economics Association. We just need to keep working globally, no matter what they call it, it's still the same thing, it's helping people to live their lives in more productive, more satisfying ways. (22:00)

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October 14, 2020

27-Sheree Moser, Mentoring New FCS Ed Teachers

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 7 Oct 2020 13:00:00 +0000

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• Sheree Moser @Nebraska-Lincoln: https://cehs.unl.edu/cyaf/faculty/sheree-moser

SHOW NOTES:

• I'm in about my 35th year of teaching, I actually graduated with a bachelor's degree in home economics education in 1982, a full-time job in 87, taught middle and high school for 20 years. Then I went to the district office as a curriculum specialist for Family Consumer Science in 2003, and then stayed until 2009 full-time. I ran Family and Consumer Science, Health Sciences and the student parent program for Lincoln Public Schools. I got my job at UNL 10 years ago as an abject because I wanted to go back to teaching and move out of administration. (1:22)

• First of all, as a recruiting tool, a lot of my teacher candidates that are coming in at the freshman level have been officers or very involved in FCA, like very close to their Family Consumer Science teacher, and a lot of the time, because they have those programs that you can do career exploration or you can say yes to SCS, those kids come to the university already declaring that they want to be a Family and Consumer Science teacher, and I love it. (4:35)

• I didn't feel like any of us were doing enough to support new teachers, so we started a new teacher workshop last year, and that was really exciting because we have 16, 18 students, first second, third year teachers come, and then we had people do presentations, we provided them with transportation and lunch and all kinds of gifts for them to take home to their classroom. But we did it for a whole day in November, and it was really successful. So we're going to continue to do that too. (9:22)

• it's also a privilege that we get to influence the lives of these children and communities in such positive ways... Absolutely, that has always been most important to me is what can I do to make my community and this program better and so I'm pretty rigorous, because I think my total this last week or so was about 135 students, I started with four in 2011, I have about 42 right now, in my Master's degree program. (23:33)

• I think there's a lot of very kind and caring people, so that is always refreshing when you go to a national conference and the FCS people are always very welcoming and very supportive and they're very excited about what you're doing and how things are going in your state. I did a presentation last year at aafc for the Say Yes to FCS group, and it was only about six minutes, but I shared all of the things that we're doing in Nebraska, and that didn't even include the new teacher's workshop. So we've added since then, but just the way that we keep track of the people that are majoring in FCS and where we recruit, where they come from, and what we're doing to get new teachers. (34:52)

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October 07, 2020

26-Gratitude

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:35:53 +0000

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September 30, 2020

25-Cooking with Momma Bear, Michelle Brown

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:00:00 +0000

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• Michelle Brown's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiNoh_4RorT44IBGLbotV9w

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• How am I going to teach cooking? But I'm at home. And so I thought about doing a YouTube channel, and I have a 12-year-old. She's like, Mom, I can help you with all of that. Editing, some thumbnails, you name it, I know how to do it. I went baby, how do you know? But yeah, she knew how, she had to train me. It was so free, I'm like, Baby, I'd wake her up. Mommy needs to get this video out, How do I edit this, how do I add the title? And so she's been my little assistant, which is so awesome. (7:18)

• When I first started, I wanted it to be just like I was doing a demo in front of the students in the classroom, the physical classroom, so I'd lay all this stuff out, but I'm like, Okay, you're going to need this, this, this, this, and... I have all the tools and equipment and all the ingredients, and then I wanted to go step by step, so if a kid had to pause it and go find it, or I break in egg and then they break egg and they pause it, and then they can follow along without feeling like they're going to get lost. (9:21)

• I think all of us got thrown into this, and nobody could have ever imagined that we find ourself in 2020 in this kind of position. And so I think everybody's scrambling trying to figure out, what am I doing?... I think some teachers were just, had a better or easier... We're able to slide into it at a better pace... I know, I'm probably not saying this right. But, other teachers are like, What? What's YouTube or what's a Schoology, or what is a puzzle!... Oh my gosh, it's like a whole new lingo out there. (13:57)

• So I'm always trying to be one step ahead. Yeah... During the spring, I had my students, I would go... I want you to go out, look in your pantry, or you're cupboards, whatever it is, and I want you to pull out five ingredients that you can actually make something, and make it from scratch. (20:17)

• I just have an iPad propped up on a tripod, and it actually works really slick, so I don't use my phone, but I might, but I really like the iPad. And then, I can get it right off the iPad and have the apps right on there, so that's nice, I like it. Well, you're giving me ideas and you've given me some hope that I can do this, I can cross over and to making stuff in the kitchen. (28:07)

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September 23, 2020

24-Jeff Utecht - Host of the Shifting Our Schools Podcast

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 12:40:53 +0000

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• Shifting Our Schools Podcast: http://sospodcast.org

• Jeff Utecht: https://www.jeffutecht.com

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• The state of Washington reached out and said, Hey, can you support us? And long story short, we're just settling into September here where we've taken over 10000 teachers across the state of Washington through our trainings, not including districts, like your district and other districts across the state who I've worked individually with. I'm hoping that in the conversation today we've got a lot of data around what works in 2020. A year now, where we have this thing called Zoom, we've got Schoology or Google classroom, I mean just the incredibleness of what we have to be able to do this really, really well. And do it with the passion that is needed for families and kids, and I think that's really where it's at, so yeah, so we've got a lot of data. (5:08)

• Let's start with the synchronous side of things, right? And first of all, I think the first thing to understand, and this is research-based, that there is no research around synchronous content delivery with K-12 kids, and one of the worst things that we can do is believe and understand that when we are in our synchronous, and when I'm talking synchronous, I'm talking, right, this is where our time and space continuum match. And so, we've got 35 kids in front of us or 150 kids in front of you, whatever your class size is. We need to understand that we have to use that time to the best of its ability. (7:52)

• They take the poll and I give them like, I wait a good five minutes, honestly before I even start a lecture, which I wouldn't even classify as a lecture at all. I'm just kind of going over what is in our teams, because my district, we are one of the 15% here in Washington and Microsoft district. And it is painful, but they take the poll and then we just kind of have casual conversations and welcoming everybody as everybody's coming in, and then we kind of carry on, and then in the middle of my 45-minute or now it's actually even reduced to a 35-minute class time with my students. I do attendance, and I did attendance in the middle of my class today because I'm like, I want to bounce all over the place. I don't want them to ever feel like... I want to keep them on their toes. (13:10)

• We'd have been taking time to get to know our kids, and I think there's a lot of different frames, I like to call them frames, right? There are different frames that you can use, and if you are in a situation where kids are in a lot of Zoom meetings, and one of the things, and I can't say this enough about your school district is you only have 30 minutes with your kids, that's all you need... You can't do an hour. Nobody likes an hour zoom, everybody's going to have Zoom fatigue. So, we want shorter time periods inside our zoom, and then within that, especially at the beginning the year, what we're doing is, we're building routines. (14:47)

• You can go back and you can start reading our articles about this disruption, I mean, I've been writing about this since 2005, that this disruption was coming to education, I didn't know it was going to take a pandemic to actually get us there, but we saw this coming in. The fact that what was happening, and we were seeing this, what was happening is their view was coming a larger and larger disconnect between the way that schools ran, and the skills, attitudes and dispositions kids needed. Our job is to prepare kids for college, career and life. (21:16)

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September 16, 2020

23-Dear Patience

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 9 Sep 2020 12:21:40 +0000

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KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• I had my students for the first time, September 3rd, but this morning, Saturday morning, I woke up and all of a sudden I could feel every single muscle in my back, in my shoulders, in my head. I've had this low, mild headache for over a week, just because of anxiety and stress. But this morning, I woke up feeling all of the feels and going, what is happening? That is emotional trauma. Which is now physically ailing me. But my daughter, my 16-year-old daughter, in fact, as I was journaling, she came down and she's like, Mom, you need to listen to the song. And I'm like, No, I'm journaling. Not now, Not now. She's like, No, Mom, I insist. You need to listen to this song. (4:16)

• This school year, I have been sharing with my students, my colleagues and my friends, it is all about patience, grace and flexibility. And let me tell you, because I'm sure many of you are like me. we don't give ourselves and of grace or patients, nor the flexibility, because we strive for that excellence because we want to put out our very best foot forward. Because not only do we want to share what we can do and be, but we want to hold our students to high standards as well. (10:07)

• And I know we can't be our best selves if we are carrying the weight of the world, the virtual world on our shoulders. But you will rise and you will figure out a new normal, because this is what it is, we're all figuring out these new normals, and you're going to have to learn how to say no, and you're going to have to learn how to give yourself boundaries when you've always been the go-to person with people asking you questions. (11:31)

• I know we are getting slammed with emails and trying to get caught up in trying to stay organized and it is hard, but give yourself the grace, give yourself the flexibility, give yourself the patients, and give yourself boundaries. I'm so thankful for my teacher squad, who I was over at their house last night, and there was about eight of us, and we're just in the kitchen, just going, deep breath, exhale, and then calm yourselves and say, you know what, I am so thankful to have my teacher squad. (13:22)

• So if you don't have your teachers squad, count on me. I'll be your teacher squad and I will cheer you on because we are all in this together, from teachers who don't teach family consumer sciences and who are part of the core 24, or whatever else they have. We're all first-year teachers for the very first time, those of who have been in the field for 20 plus years, you guys are amazing, and you have such a wealth of knowledge, and then we have our first year teachers who are… Let me say, you guys are entering the educational realm in such a unique time in history, we're in that fourth revolution, Industrial Revolution is the digital revolution right now. (14:37)

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September 09, 2020

22-Houston Kraft of Character Strong

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 2 Sep 2020 12:38:35 +0000

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• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

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• Houston Kraft of Character Strong: https://characterstrong.com

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• Before we get into today's topic, I wanted to share with you some similarities that we have. I know we both grew up in the same area. You grew up in the Snohomish area, but you had a short stint living in Issaquah. I grew up in Issaquah, Washington. Super fun. I grew up from across the street from the salmon hatchery. (1:31)

• We started talking about that and having it as part of all of our classes in the home economics realm years ago. So, we love focusing on the whole child and nurturing all of those wonderful attributes that Character Strong is focusing on. But today I would love to share what strategies teachers, or you can give teachers, to optimize student engagement. When we, myself included, as teachers, we're so zoomed out. Which is precisely the need for social, emotional learning, right? (4:48)

• I always have music playing whenever people come into a virtual room and I try to say as many names as possible. I try to comment on backgrounds. If cameras are on, I believe deeply that cameras don't need to be on to create a sense of engagement. So using all the dimensions, I think a lot about dimensions and online learning is, the chat box is one level of engagement. But as soon as you get video on, you have a lot of different new opportunities to play with. You can do things where people get closer or farther away from the camera to show how well they understand something. You can do camera on, camera off,o show people have things in common or people who are on one side or another side of an issue. You can use virtual backgrounds with students, that have different colors or categories, and they can physically move on their screen to show how comfortable they are with material or how well they understand something. (7:18)

• So for me personally, anything that I do persistently, I have a very clear purpose on why I do it. And so if I can get clear on that, the why for myself as an educator, then I'm going to show up with much more consistency, much more stability, which we know from a trauma informed lens. One of the critical things we can do for our students is just create consistent routines and habits, and a sense of stability in our classroom, whether it's in person or virtually. So purpose fuels persistence, purpose fuels, discipline, and let's make time for that which is most important. (10:20)

• How do we deem anything important in our life, in our schools? Dr. Clayton Cook has a great line, he says, 'you show me your schedule and your budget, and I'll tell you what you think is important.' It was pretty much as simple as that. What we allocate our resources, our energy and our time to is what we've decided is important. And, people might say they believe in doing a thing, but I can't believe in doing a thing and have no tangible actions or changing of priorities to make that thing actually important. (25:11)

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September 02, 2020

21-Dr. Monica Burns, EdTech and Tools for Educators

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 13:00:00 +0000

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• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

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• Class Tech Tips: https://classtechtips.com

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• Now they’re realizing that maybe they want to explore some other digital tools and resources or platforms. If their students are going to continue learning on a distance, or they’re anticipating that might be on the schedule at some point this fall. Yes, well, we’re all trying to figure out how to pivot from the face-to-face setting to that virtual setting and then possibly go into that hybrid setting. And then order to get into that face-to-face setting, there are so many different transitional pieces. All educators right now are really trying to pick up and move, just to be able to interact with their students, it’s really a very challenging time period right now. (5:18)

• And then I’ll name the three tools. You could do this in CS, you can do this in teams, you could do this in your pod, don’t get caught up on that. This is what we really want to do here. But we need to have something in our tool belt to make it happen, and so just like you asked, how do I keep up? Well, early on, it was really a searching situation where I was going out searching through the App Store, what’s new today? What’s that? And then it kind of has evolved for me into a balance of… So, that still happens, right? I’m still mindful of what people talking about, what is all this energy around flip grid that was happening a couple of years ago? Or, everyone’s really excited about Wake, let’s take a closer look at what is jumping out for them. (9:12)

• I often am sharing the term open-ended creation tool, and this idea, that if you have this great tool that you can use it to make book trailers, math tutorials. If you can give kids a tool that becomes a blank canvas for them, that they can use in lots of different ways, that’s also a really good way to support them at a distance and doesn’t need to limit their creativity. That is great. I personally will be putting a lot of that information into my backpack because yeah, we’re… For my district in particular, we don’t have an LMS, we were strictly using just Microsoft in the team’s platform, which I think it’s a great platform, but it does have a pickup, so that’s where I’m struggling, and I know the district is saying, Hey, we need you guys to… We wanna make it easier for our students and our parents and our community members with gaining that access, please do not share another system. Let’s stick with what we have, and I believe in that. (13:45)

• What would happen if I was a senior citizen or I was someone who wasn’t used to being in these spaces or didn’t speak English as a first language? And so I think about that a lot, just navigating the world and how tough things can be. And it’s definitely true when we look at these spaces, and I’m not excusing anyone’s frustration or the not so nice Facebook post, or all the things that I think are happening right now. We’ve all seen come across where people are feeling like they just want things to go back to normal or they just want everyone back in school and all those things. I do understand that it’s been a very tough time for family’s. And that part of our reflection includes streamlining, communication, lining platforms, coming out ahead of anything that we anticipate as being challenges, as well as making sure that those supports are there as much as possible. I think that is something that will make everyone’s life a lot easier and therefore save us the time and energy to get to what it is we want to get to, which is really supporting students no matter where they are. (18:48)

• The other option that I love, and I love the Adobe Spark tools, I do some work with their team, I’ve got books about Spark activities, so definitely a spark focus and they’re free too, which is great. Mark Page and Spark page are single landing pages, you could connect them if you want to. But it’s really, it’s not like a Google site, where you might have a hierarchy of things. It’s really about that single collection or single landing page, and so that is one where you can pull together a whole series of links, you can embed YouTube videos or Vimeo videos if you wanted to, you can make buttons, you can write a paragraph that says, ‘This is why this resource might be good for you’, and then put the link right below it. So, I like that also for building a single website or page, you don’t need to have any sort of coding or HTML. (25:45)

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August 26, 2020

20- Luanne Wiles: Culinary Arts Chef Instructor

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 13:00:00 +0000

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• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

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• Luanne Wile's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyg-6WaCv3SH-bObvKPKh5w

• Luanne's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luanne-wiles-9592a6112

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• We have 23 programs, I believe at Tri Tech, and so they're all vocational programs, all taught by teachers who have been in the industry and usually experts in their field. So, from dentistry, nursing, radio broadcasting, automotive, diesel, auto body, law enforcement fire, and the culinary arts. Lots of programs at Tri Tech, and so students can come for one to two years. If they start as a junior and they are successful, then they can apply to come back for a second year, and it's really preparing them to be job ready. (3:27)

• So I was really scrambling, as many of us were in March when things for shut down, we were in shock, and I don't think that we had a good game plan. And we weren't all on the same page. So, knowing what I know now, serve safe is going to be difficult to teach online, but it can happen. How will I do it differently? Just like this, I will have synchronized meetings with the students where they can see my face, we didn't have that in the beginning of our shut down, we weren't allowed to use Zoom. So, we had no face-to-face with the students, and you have to have that to get engagement. (6:42)

• I'll be starting my ninth year doing this, and over the years, I've looked for videos online, and there's a lot of technique videos and things that you don't want the students to learn the wrong way from. Once they develop the knowledge base, they'll be able to recognize that themselves, so I can just pull in other people's videos and so yeah, I have had to learn to edit video, and that has been more challenging to me than anything. (10:19)

• It's more like a 2-inch binder that I provide for them and their picture is on the front of it. And it's a professional portfolio, I try and tell the students, I try and get them to engage, that it's not just an assignment, even though they get a technical English credit in the class, and that's a lot of where that comes from. They do a professional resume, we teach them how to do a resume, a mission statement, a cover letter. And oh my gosh, there's 10 components, we do six evidence of best work, which is through photos that they take of their best works and what they learn, so any artist, whether it's a culinary artist or a musician, or whatever industry you're in, you have a professional portfolio and it shows your best work. It's a project that we work on all year. (21:17)

• I was a Catering Operations Manager of Renton Technical College, and I had a crew of probably 30 or 40, they were on-call part-time, so depending on what our catering gigs were, we could have the three or four crews. We could do four weddings in a day. It was very high volume, and safety was paramount to me, but I noticed that people didn't come to me having been taught safety in the kitchen, and a safety as we know now with COVID-19, is more than just not getting cut with a knife, it's about food safety and pathogens and just operating on a high level of alertness that things are being done right in the kitchen. So, that was really important to me when I came to teach young people and I feel like we've been successful. I'm just hoping I can make that translate now to the computer...that online version. (32:30)

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August 19, 2020

19-Ramona Hatch - Fresh FACS

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:51:44 +0000

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• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

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• Ramona Hatch's Website: https://freshfacs.com

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• I guess right now, the biggest initiative we have going is creating activities that enable teachers to easily and somewhat effortlessly bring steam into the classroom. Again, this is something that is... It's expected of all teachers right now, we want the science, technology, engineering, art and math. And I think the art piece was the thing that made it all click for me, made it so that I could devise and come up with activities for family consumer science to emphasize these areas. (3:21)

• I also love bringing fiction into the family consumer science classroom, and so I'm always reading young adult novels, and if teachers are not reading these novels now, they really should be. First of all, they're some great, great books at their grade stories, so we have three resources on bringing fiction and reading into the FACS classroom. But I'm so excited about the book I just finished last night and... I'm not going to get the title exactly right, it's something about left doers, what about leftovers, and it's a wonderful novel about family and food and just so many different aspects, and I used to use novels in my classroom in place of textbooks. (7:28)

• I love hearing your passion for this because I think the best thing about for all of us being educators, family, consumer sciences, and entrepreneurs, we're all creative, and that has been probably my favorite thing throughout this whole COVID-19 experience, I've been able to really release and unlock my creativity and coming up with some innovative projects to keep my students engaged. (13:00)

• I really wish that there was some way to have that conversation with just maybe a variety of teachers from different areas of the country, but all in family consumer science, and just let us have a conversation about, what has worked for you? What has not? What are you looking out for the next school year? Because that again, is such an unknown, even though I think most schools probably have something of a plan in place, but you don't know what the outcomes are going to be. (19:25)

• We're better together is my motto, and learning from one another, talking to one another, because if you're doing something in your classroom and I hear about it, all of a sudden it gets me thinking, Oh, I wonder if I could able to incorporate maybe a piece of it, into what I'm doing, and not make it better, but make it better for my group of students. (25:51)

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August 12, 2020

18-Unexpected Connections, My FCS Success Story

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 5 Aug 2020 09:06:37 +0000

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• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

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• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• I want to share your stories, I want to listen to your stories because we are better together, and I keep saying that. That's been kind of my mantra throughout this whole thing, and I hadn't even considered it because it was an unexpected outcome, reaching 1000 downloads!(3:03)

• I am going to be defending my Master's degree project, August 18th. My program director, she just emailed me this morning, and I'm so excited. And this podcast, the Connect FCS Ed podcast, your podcast, it was birthed, it was conceived out of meeting a project for this Master's degree. But, I have been supported and guided along the way throughout this whole project. I needed a project and I had no idea what I wanted to do. It wasn't until I was listening to a girlfriend's podcast, that she had just released, and then all of a sudden, all the gears in my brain, all of a sudden started turning going, oh, my gosh, this is something that I want to do. (4:23)

• I know that my journey is not ending, it's only beginning. The Connect FCS podcast is a collection of stories, inspiration, motivation, adventures, best practices, classroom management, labs, it's full of our collective stories, and stories matter. You matter, I want you to join me on this podcast. I want to have you share your stories, your research, your adventures. Do you have a story like mine, where you never thought that you would graduate college, let alone get a master's degree? (7:53)

• The more we share our stories, the more relatable we become and the better off that we can recruit the future. So, I thank you so much for listening, thank you so much for downloading. I thank you so much for continuing to support this project, which has become a passion, I am passionate about hearing your stories, sharing your stories, because we are better together. (8:45)

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August 05, 2020

17- We Are Better Together With Kim Graybill

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:00:00 +0000

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• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com

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• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed

• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed

• Kim Graybill's Website: https://familyconsumersciences.com

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• I continue to share new ideas and try to stay current with teaching strategies and technology and content, and just trying to help every teacher, not just the new teachers. Because in today's world, school districts are working with restrained budgets and they need... We don't all have classroom sets of textbooks and resources, and so I wanted to have or continue her philosophy that this was a source that would be free for all teachers, that they could come and get new ideas or share new ideas with everyone else. (3:20)

• I'm a one person department in a very small rural school, and so it's nice in one respect because I can pretty much plan my curriculum anyway that I want. And I know what I'm doing in my other classes, so I can figure out how to teach the same topic three different ways if necessary, without overlapping too much. And it's nice in that respect, but it's also challenging because I do have six preps every day, and I'm teaching a new course, then it's planning and developing and creating. (7:15)

• I've also found that over the years the content pretty much stays the same, but how I deliver it, or what I expect my students to do varies. And so, what may work really well with one group for years, doesn't work the next year, and so I feel like I need to go back to my file cabinet and you're, okay, this one isn't working, what can I do instead? Because there's been some years where, for example, I've had classes that are just super artistic and can draw everything and they want to illustrate, and they want to create visuals, and are wonderful at it. And then the next year I've got a class that can't draw. (11:47)

• I love integrating technology in my classroom. I'm always introducing new apps and different ways of how we could utilize it. They have the eye rolls that I get from my students when they're like, Oh... So I'm like, Yes, this is fun, we need to explore these things because honestly, this is the future, and you need to be prepared going into your careers later on so that you are flexible and you are showing adaptability... Yeah, when things are hard, you are showing perseverance. So I love integrating technology just because it's both for home and career. (23:26)

• Sometimes I have gone to teachers specifically and said, hey, would you be willing to share this, this is such an awesome idea. And sometimes they agree and sometimes they don't. And so, they have to feel comfortable in doing that. But I would love to feature more teachers, and I know Facebook is a huge platform that people share and I think that... Well, as I shared on Facebook, maybe it'll reach more people and it might, but a lot of people... I have a lot of traffic on my website too, and so it would just be another way to get that resource out there, and we're all helping each other, we're all in this together. (42:13)

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July 29, 2020

16-Online Teaching Tips

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:20:58 +0000

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• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

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KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• So with organization, this has been a little pet peeve of mine, when I have been a student, I am not sure about you, but for me, I live by my calendar, my calendar dictates what I am doing throughout the day, the week and the month. So please, when you are creating your content, make sure you put dates and you synchronize it to your platforms calendar, so that way it is shared on the calendar. (2:14)

• Another thing is, we all have busy lives. We all have our own personal agendas, motivations and priorities, and look at your students, no matter how young or how old that they are, they could be in college or in high school, even down into the elementary age, they all have a different mindset of what is important to them for right now. (4:15)

• Spend the time. You need to learn online details for your classroom, because what will end up happening, when you are investing into yourself, your personal professional development, which then is going to trickle down to your students, and they're going to be held to an expectation of what you are hoping that they will achieve and get out of your class. (6:48)

• And now with the learning curve that everybody is going through, you then need to cut it in half, so your expectations are high, but understand the realities of what you are going to get. So when it comes to online situations, especially in establishing deadlines, send out constant reminders, due dates saying, hey, remember this assignment was given to you last Thursday, today is Tuesday, you have two more days until this assignment is due. (9:07)

• So both as a student and an instructor for online, it makes a huge difference when you show the human side of you, but you're also expressing your flexibility, so that is a major policy that I have. (11:24)

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July 22, 2020

15-Catherine Hay, Fashion Design teacher

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:00:00 +0000

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• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

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• Catherine Hay’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR3kvKM0dxtdWpzGyQk56JA

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• We're always trying to keep up with the current trends in industry, but we're also not a part of that. And my training goes back quite a ways now. So in addition to having that connection to us to get and keep in contact with them, doing their program and then teaching a course in it, and most of our student teachers come out of UBC, so that also builds that connection. (3:53)

• It's a fantastic job, and there's a lot of work, but if you're able to teach what you love, then it's even more of a privilege. Very few of the student teachers coming up right now know how to sew, and very few are passionate about it. (7:35)

• I love when my students go on to YouTube and they find there's some really great creative ideas, people have recycling garments, which I love, but the techniques are not there, and these creative young people recycling things and nothing's properly finished on the inside and the fit is not great, and if I can come in, so I was like the matriarch, I can give some good techniques. (16:38)

• Definitely there's going to be more theory than usual, and less sewing, but I do want to make sure that they get a good balance of hands-on work with the theory, so we'll all be starting with illustration, which that can actually work great online, getting them to use a fashion croquis, the fashion figure, but they may do some research about sewing tutorials and how to evaluate them. (23:36)

• My high school is the largest comprehensive high school in the state of Washington, where we have roughly 3000 students in over 200 certificated staff members, and then we have another high school in our district, and I honestly was flabbergasted by it, and it was a huge honor for her to remember me, I was thinking, I need to step up my game when it comes to remote learning and trying to figure out how I can make an impact virtually with my own students. (29:47)

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July 15, 2020

14-Importance of Family & Consumer Science Education

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 8 Jul 2020 09:42:32 +0000

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• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

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KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• Many of these individuals who are leading this discussion, range from medical doctors, cardiologists entrepreneurs, dieticians, and financial planners. The motivation for such requests comes from the evidence that our society is faced with many perennial issues that negatively impact individuals, families and communities. (1:39)

• Family and Consumer Science curriculum brings to life academic disciplines, such as science, technology, engineering, math and the famous acronym, STEM. And connects students to real world applications. (2:52)

• By hands on experience, our classes allow our students to develop teamwork and leadership technology skills that enable them to become high level critical thinkers in order to meet family, personal, career and community challenges that they will face throughout their adult life. (4:14)

• Our classes also allows students to plan for possible careers, develop practical skills for employment, understand the importance of nutrition and learn about appropriate childcare practices, financial literacy, resource management parenting, and the art of positive communication. Family and Consumer Science courses offer all students valuable learning experiences and career opportunities. (4:41)

• I personally believe that Family and Consumer Science courses, may be among the best investment for improving the quality of life. And I know you do too, because today you are in the classroom and you are working towards improving each and every one of your students' life, and all of their future lives, that will come through your classroom. (5:22)

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July 08, 2020

13-Best Practices and Classroom Management With Kelsey Harvey

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 1 Jul 2020 12:59:28 +0000

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• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed

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• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed

• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed

• Andrew Chamberlin: https://wafacse.org

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• They can either make a picture ornament, or they can make an ornament out of popsicle sticks and different art supplies. So, I get my child development students involved with that, and my FCC students involved with that activity. And I would say that would be probably our most, one of our biggest fundraisers, but also one of our biggest community events. (5:56)

• I'd say those are two of my probably better classroom management procedures, and then the other thing is, is I teach a lot of foods classes as well, so I would say entry in the classroom is one of the things we practice, because I don't allow bags in my lab. I have them put them on a shelf when they come in, and then they just grab their pencil or grab whatever they need. They've got their laptop and they have a seat and they get started on their end to task. (8:40)

• It was a class that I'm pretty fond of. It's called life on your own, but it's also independent living, so we would touch base on basic cooking methods, we do a section on laundry care, do a section on financial management and resume building, so it was a all-around awesome class that I really wish that we can have in my district now, just because it touches just a little bit on all of the areas of family consumer science. (12:34)

• A learning target should be measurable, it should be attainable, there should always be something that the students are doing. And so examples would be, students will be able to explain and describe, that's the language. Three different ways the eggs can be cooked, that's the content by a written response, that's the product. So you always have those three components through learning target, and I feel like it just really helps you focus and have be specific in your intention of what you want them to learn. (19:17)

• I categorized everything that I had on hand, and then on my PowerPoint. I put up a grid of all the 6 essential nutrients and where everything was, what all the ingredients that we had fell under, and then I had students get into there are groups. I let them decide who their cooking group was going to be for this, but I told them, I want you guys to really figure out who is going to be in your group that you guys want, but it's also going to make you guys successful. (24:23)

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July 01, 2020

12-FCS Ed Teacher Andrew Chamberlin

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 11:26:59 +0000

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…

• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed

• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed

• Andrew Chamberlin: https://wafacse.org

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• What I did is, the past president, now of the Washington affiliate group, we were invited to go speak with the student unit at one of their conferences about three years back, and really just to talk about what a FCS is and what the organization does and what a professional organization can do for you as a teacher or educator or professional in the field. And just kind of shed some more light on, Hey, there's resources out there for you. (4:24)

• For me, personally, I think advocating is really important in the sense that if you don't just share your ideas or beliefs, or even just share what resources are out there, it's really hard for someone to just pick up and start doing it on their own. Because you don't even know where to start at times, and so by advocating, it gives you that starting point for you to go, Oh, I can Google that, I can reach out more to that, or I can email someone and just ask, Hey, can you clarify something? So advocating, just spreading the word, that also gives a good point of contact for people to reach out and develop more relationships and foster more communication between everyone. (6:29)

• Now, I'm really fortunate, I work with the team, we have four family consumer science teachers that... That's huge. Yes, it's incredible. So in that sense, I'm really, really lucky. And other people in our district, some have two, some are one, so it just kind of depends on how we can communicate with each other, and we do our best to communicate with the other schools as well, so that way those teachers don't feel totally lost, just fading into the background. (8:24)

• But each of us taught very different classes, so I was mainly foods focus, and we had a interior design, fashion merchandising teacher, we had an AP Psychology and Psychology teacher. So all of us, being that we're family consumer science that worked, but at the same time, we all taught very different things. (9:36)

• So I guess the biggest tip I would have is, try and do as many professional developments as you can, or at least just attend a conference, whether it's a summer conference or annual conference, try and do some sort of professional development with a family consumer science here in the state. By doing that, it can be really intimidating at first, but you get me and close to 30 other FCS educators or professionals here. And so, by having those connections already, it could be such a relief for a lot of people to know like, Oh, I'm not alone, I can go and talk to other people, or I can shoot them an email if I need something, or they can share their Google Docs. (16:46)

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June 24, 2020

11-Best and New Practice

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:20:24 +0000

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…

• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed

• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• I have arrived as a creative teacher. You're always exploring, you're always experimenting, always innovating. Teaching is all about the overlap between best practice and next practice, focusing on best practice means you get to geek out on educational technology, theory, blogs, podcast, research, observing master teachers. Or in my case, I have become best friends with two of the most incredible SPED and case managers. I am so grateful for their friendship, but also what they're teaching me over the past couple of months, or even year, they have been teaching me new and innovative ways, to help reach our most vulnerable student population. And I don't believe there's anything that I could ever give back that will help them. (4:27)

• But just to paint the picture, my fifth period interior design class, it's the start of the period, students are walking in, and then all of a sudden, I hear this a shriek of glee, where I had a good group of both, mixed of men and women in my class, but the shriek of joy as they came bowling into my classroom, and then all of a sudden, a couple of the other students who were already in the class set up and gave each other hugs. (6:20)

• Just like learning and growing, you can do the same amazing projects year after year, that just means that you get to start sharing your expertise with others. For instance, my interior design class, I've done the same housing project for the last two trimesters, you might not think that's not enough time to perfect something, and you're absolutely right, it's not… I'm constantly improving it. I want it to become better and better each trimester. Each semester, each year, the thing that I hope that will never happen is that I say I've reached perfection. (8:20)

• In my foods classes, I'm also trying to improve, motivate, educate, and encourage my students to change, and to mold, and pursue for more successful and desirable outcome and future. That is something that one of my best friends shared with me, and in reading it, I was extremely humbled. Just going, Wow. I had no idea that you've observed me in that kind of way, to be able to write those words of kindness. (10:19)

• Remember, you are the architect of learning for your classroom, you are the artist, creating something new and beautiful, align yourself with people who will support you if you guidance. Those are the people who want to see you become a success, even when you don't believe in yourself, they will help you stand tall and remind you that you are braver than you believe, stronger than you see, and smarter than you think. Find your tribe, no matter how small or how large, we have a community, and we are better together. (13:18)

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June 17, 2020

10-SeniorFEST 2020

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 08:32:24 +0000

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…

• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed

• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• It was amazing. So, even though Senior FEST had nothing to do with me, just being there and being part of something greater than myself was truly inspirational. So over the last, in the past two years in my school, I have created some amazing relationships. I have met incredible students who have shared their hopes, their dreams and fears of their future. (4:00)

• Determination, grit and perseverance throughout this entire COVID 19 experience, the youth, the future, have risen up demonstrating their character, their integrity and their voice. (4:53)

• My superintendent, she was walking around the building, throughout the parade and everything, waving and cheering and celebrating with everybody, and she walked by and she talked with every single staff member, just for a few minutes, but that few minutes was bold for me, and I know not just me, It touched everybody. (5:35)

• What are you going to do if you are in that remote learning situation, like I am in the Fall? Possibility going into the fall. How are you going to pick up and change your lessons? How are you going to connect with your students? What are you going to do that is going to make a difference for them, in a online learning platform? (8:58)

• So today, as I am processing how my entire day went, I've been sitting here at my dining room table, just writing and writing and writing, trying to capture the picture of what this day has been, not to create a picture for you, but try to snapshot this day into my memory. And I hope that you are moving forward, if you're still in school, you are a part of these parades, and celebrations, and joy. Because this COVID 19 experience has not been a joy, it's not been a walk in a park, but it can be. And that is what I'm excited about, I am excited about the future of where education is going. So thank you for listening to my ramblings and my musings and my thoughts, and I how I'm processing all of this. (9:44)

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June 10, 2020

09-Tisha Richmond: Make Learning Magical

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 3 Jun 2020 13:07:25 +0000

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…

• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed

• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed

• Tisha Richmond's Website: https://www.tisharichmond.com

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• But what happened is I started to bring these devices in to teaching and learning, and I started to find some things that were really working, I noticed that learning was beginning to shift to my classroom, the students, even though it was an elective class, and they had chosen to take it, it was engaging, there was a different level of immersive learning, and empowered learning that I hadn’t experienced before. (4:12)

• It’s comforting to know that I’m not the only one that fails. There’s other people who have too, and that we can learn so much from those stories, as well. And that has probably been the biggest lesson that I’ve learned in the last six years is that we are truly Better Together and we need each other and we can’t remain in our silos. (10:15)

• It’s basically like a video-recording tool where you can create these lessons you can deliver, maybe content to students in the form of a video that you’ve created or another digital tool, or a document, or so many different things that you can add and then students respond back with video and they reflect. And it’s really, really powerful. And one of the, I think, a great tool to use right now as we’re moving to this digital learn distance learning that’s happening. (17:26)

• I mean, the jobs that exist now didn’t exist when we were, at least when I was in high school. The jobs that are going to exist five years from now are going to be different than the jobs that exist today. So we have to be able to equip our students with the skills that are going to be necessary to navigate this, this rapidly changing landscape that we’re living in. (31:29)

• I’m excited for just looking at the different ways, because right now being home with my own family, we’re playing a lot of games, it helps it shift the mindset in mind frame of the way you think, as the games that my kids wanna continuously be playing over and over again. (50:41)

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June 3, 2020

08-Susie Olson

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 27 May 2020 13:13:47 +0000

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…

• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed

• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• As a culinary teacher, I spent years doing that, and I went on daily shopping trips, especially because I wanted to show to my students that the best cooking comes from the best, most fresh products. I'm not going to buy things in bulk, I want to make an impression, have fresh things. (5:02)

• We have a lot of really awesome little things that work well in our subject area. So I'm just here to serve as a guide... A guide to you, the teacher in the classroom, and to help you with increasing your students outcome and increasing everything that you want to do and making your life simpler. (7:51)

• I always refer to it as a.spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down. So there's lots of things in life that we have to do that are not always that fun, but we can make them fun and meaningful at the same time, and that's really the goal that I have is to help you make those learning opportunities as painless as possible. (9:28)

• I was working in the food service industry at the time when I was in college, and at that point in time, it was the food service industry that came to my rescue. I started as a hostess, went to be a waitress, became an expediter. I was being moved up in the restaurant industry all along, and then they wanted me to be a trainer, so I had a little training experience, and then I had this college teacher who said, you can't give up, you're a woman, and I'm rooting for you. And she was like that one who kicked me in the pants, and said, you're not about to give this up, you're too close, you've got to figure out a different plan, so get on your resourcefulness hat and get back out there. (13:04)

• I wanted to also let you know that we are working on building our social media. We would like it to be more visible, and I would like to have people reaching out to me to help with resources, and helping them figure things out. In this time, as well as any time, to help them create custom kids, or whatever it is that they need. (18:54)

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May 27, 2020

7-Elissa Widomski

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 20 May 2020 12:58:43 +0000

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…

• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed

• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• The third year after I had pushed so hard, they were like, you need to find other FCS Teachers around our region that you can meet with. But I said, that’s great, but nobody follows the same calendar and it’s very hard to find other people to work with. So I started thinking, and had joined the Family Consumer Science worldwide group on Facebook to see if I could get ideas and resources. And I just started percolating this idea of having my own online professional learning community where I could host meetings and have people come in and talk, and that’s where I’m at right now. (2:56)

• Oh my goodness, there are so many people that have great ideas, and they may be doing amazingly awesome, things on their own, and being able to come up with creative strategies and things that they can do, but we have no way to share that with each other. (5:33)

• I feel like we are definitely getting to a point now as a profession where people are seeing us. I wish that we had some consistency so that we could show the world what we are doing. Because we are here and we are doing what they’re asking. It’s just, sometimes districts cut us and sometimes they kind of hide us in a corner, because it’s expensive. And something that they don’t feel as a necessary initiative, and it’s just an unfortunate initiative, but at the same time, that is what all of our communities are asking and begging for. (7:07)

• I love teaching kids sewing because so many of them don’t experience it anymore. And even hand threading, it sometimes is so difficult for kids. I tell them they have to keep trying them not letting them give up, to just keep going. Eventually they always, every single student always threads a needle, and it’s just this great moment of feeling this light bulb and this enthusiasm that they’re so excited that they finally did it. Even though it was a very difficult task for them. That’s just one of my favorite things. (12:34)

• So what makes FCS education different is the ability for a trans-disciplinary adaptability to teach real life topics, we can pretty much cover so many different real life topics that would help kids be beneficial in life. (15:36)

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May 20, 2020

6-New Normal Inside of Chaos

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 13 May 2020 10:57:11 +0000

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…

• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed

• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• I'm figuring out various online platforms to keep my students engaged. But the fact remains that I now, and I know that you know, that online learning can never replace face-to-face learning. (2:51)

• You are doing such an amazing job, you are sifting and sorting throughout all of this chaos, to bring something, and emerge something, that's going to be big, beautiful and amazing. (3:37)

• It also means that you don't know where that job will be... Or if it will be. But the reality remains that our classes are electives, meaning that if students don't sign up for it, there is no class. My content, my subject area, like many of you, our classes are electives, and no teacher should be concerned about this. (5:09)

• I have created a very loose schedule, I am zooming with each of my classes, in 30-minute sessions on Mondays. I'll go over a recipe because, what I teach, I teach foods and nutrition and interior design. So for foods and nutrition, I will share the recipe, go through it together with my students, and I will talk about the suggested assignment on nutrition. (6:25)

• Students may not remember our subject area, but they will remember how hard you tried. They will remember you, your kindness, your honesty and your stories. You are doing amazing work. And I couldn't be more proud to be in the same field, working alongside so many impactful educators who are making a difference in the lives of our students. (8:35)

WHEN DOES IT AIR…

May 13, 2020

05-Teacher Appreciation Week

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Wed, 6 May 2020 12:13:11 +0000

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…

• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed

• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• I am so fortunate to not only have found my passion and purpose within FCS education, but I have found my tribe, my friends, my people. How lucky am I. How lucky are you! (2:23)

• We are passionate about our students learning, but I think most of all, we are passionate about our students. When we do not hear from our students, we begin to worry, we make phone calls, we email our counselors and maybe we even connect with the communities of schools, just to help with follow-ups. (3:20)

• I understand what you're experiencing and I know you're turning lemons into lemonade, you are incredible. (3:56)

• I know we can't do it alone, we are better together, and we will be better in the future because of this adversity that we all are sharing. (4:46)

• My question to you, how are you staying positive and motivated during this weird classroom shift to remote learning? (5:25)

WHEN DOES IT AIR…

May 06, 2020

4-BIG Goals

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Tue, 5 May 2020 13:00:00 +0000

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…

• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed

• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• It matters. And I have met some incredible people along the way, and I am so eternally grateful for them, but with that uncomfortable-ness, nobody hits the mark and encapsulates everything that I am looking for. (3:19)

• So really and truly from the bottom of my heart, I want to say thank you so much for all that you do and what you supply us. Because your resources make a difference. I walked into the classroom and I literally had nothing when I first started. (4:27)

• But I just want you all to know that you're not alone in this, and I want to unify us, that is kind of my end goal. I want to unify all of our amazing resources that we have been given or we have created. I want to unify us because not everybody does social media, not everybody does one thing, so technology is a huge piece in this podcast. (4:57)

• I hope this podcast will give you the resources that you need to feel supported to feel heard because that is my end goal. (5:34)

• I want you to feel like you are heard, and that you are making an impact within your school, your students, your communities. (5:45)

WHEN DOES IT AIR…

May 04, 2020

3-Teaching During COVID-19

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Mon, 4 May 2020 13:00:00 +0000

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…

• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed

• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• I know you're watching the news, your phones for any new possible updates thinking This is unbelievable, because it is… But I know, if you're anything like me, you're wanting to be as helpful as possible. You're sharing resources to your community pages, and remaining in contact with your students, families, trying to keep your students focused and engaged while wondering how long will this last. (2:56)

• Many of our schools have organized grab-and-go meal kits for students and childcare opportunities for families, for first responders in Washington State. That is a high priority if not the number one, as an educator, we must carefully think about our responsibilities, and prioritize the well-being of our students. (4:29)

• So right now, where I sit, it has been amazing to watch all of us come together for the betterment of our learners. The amount of resources, I've been seeing up on the Facebook page, and through all the various sources of social media and online. It's been absolutely amazing as we are putting aside political differences for the sake of humanity that is an amazing feat. And I couldn't be more proud to call each and every one of you colleagues, peers, and friends. (5:19)

• We can channel this energy towards seeing this as an opportunity to create equitable and engaging learning spaces as we venture into uncharted territory, teaching and learning from home. What a classroom teacher does, the magic that you perform in the classroom with anywhere from 20 to 35 students at a time, from that face-to-face interaction to a computer screen, that is not easy. In fact, it will be incredibly difficult to imagine. (6:34)

• I know, all of us are anxious at the moment, but let's give each other some room to learn and to grow in this new season that is COVID-19. Let us commit to becoming better through this and not more divided and critical. So FaceTime your friends, enjoy a quarentini, wash your hands, and stay healthy (8:03)

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May 03, 2020

2-Coronavirus and School Closure

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Sun, 3 May 2020 13:00:00 +0000

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…

• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed

• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• So in last night, thinking about all of the 600,000 students not in school today, not knowing what is gonna be happening on Monday, for me, at least. But the students who are not going to be in school, for such a long time. And I just I can't stop but think about, and worry about, those students who would...If the home isn't a safe place, if they don't have a home, if they don't get the meals. (5:29)

• But I've been telling my students, that they don't have to worry, they will not lose out. If school is cancelled, because I'm the kind of teacher that, six months ago I actually put all of my content online, I have it on a backup server and I'm able to drop it in whatever I want, but I also have my thumb drive and email and whatnot. (8:07)

• I actually shared this with my administrators this morning in an email saying, Hey, I'm very technology strong in these areas, and if you need me to, I'm more than happy to help out any teacher that needs assistance in uploading their content and curriculum online, so that they have access and be able to share that with their students freely. (9:51)

• I love Google Classroom. It is an amazing platform and all the hyper-docs and everything. Oh my gosh, go to family Consumer Science hyper-docs Facebook page and Wow! Everybody who has ever uploaded their information onto that resource, thank you so much, you are the unsung heroes in helping everybody, so thank you to everybody who has contributed to that because, you know, you help me tick. Honestly, I love it, so thank you. (12:20)

• We have to shut down that the racism and all the other myths that are going along with this disease. We need facts, and we need truth, and we need to be kind. And this morning, I woke up and watching the news, and social media and everything like that, I got to school and I forgot to even mention to my own kids about what I was listening to last night and everything. But when I was at school it just dawned on me right before first period, and I was being transparent with them, with my first period students, all my students, really what was happening? But I told them, I go a Holy cow, guys, did you know that our custodians are the unsung heroes of our schools? (19:13)

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May 02, 2020

1-My Story

Barbara@ConnectFCSed.com (Barbara Scully) — Sat, 2 May 2020 13:00:00 +0000

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…

• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com

• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed

• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed

KEYNOTES DISCUSSED:

• So I had to go back to school after my own four-year degree was finished and I then got plugged into, It's called Great Plains Interactive Distance Online Learning, GP ideas. And they have a plethora of amazing programs that you could get yourself endorsed in, certified in, or continuing your own education. (1:52)

• So being in the, this a student teaching section of my program, I have a couple of more classes to take. I am going to be taking this incoming spring quarter, I will be taking an online interior design class, and I will be finishing up the second part to my student teaching, then into my summer. I will be taking the last section to interior design. (3:17)

• So the web, which is your basic reading, writing, and math, then I have this portfolio that I'm going to be compiling with all of my student data and assessment data. I have different profiles within family consumer science, and at the end of that I... From what I've heard, it's about a 35 page document, so I will be submitting that portfolio. In waiting to hear back, if I pass this portfolio, it has myself all sorts of concern, because I am not a good student, I'm a mom, I'm a teacher, which I love, and I'm a student at the same time while continuously trying to professionally develop myself, so I wear many hats and so I'm proud of the job that I do. (4:48)

• So, I'm just excited to share with you my story of how I got to my current position. And I'm excited to grow with you, I'm excited to share whatever resources I have, and share with you the plethora of individuals that want to share their stories and have somebody else to listen to, that is within our field. (6:11)

• Because something that I've noticed we do not have a lot of opportunities, we are constantly going to meetings that involve General Education, which is rightly so, we should. But we also need to be supported with other STEM classes and other sort of plcs on helping our own departments, and departments individuals grow and develop. (6:40)

WHEN DOES IT AIR…

May 01, 2020