Coming to FM Radio, TV, and YouTube: Cool Cat Instructor Speak

Educating within the classroom is a pleasure to me. My college students are distinctive, work laborious, continually be taught new issues and frequently educate me new issues. My coronary heart is within the faculty before everything. Since 2002, I’ve taught center and excessive faculties and coached lecturers on tutorial expertise. I’ve taught my kids, nieces and nephews, and the kids of my classmates from highschool over the previous twenty-three years.

Moreover, attending to weblog, podcast, and YouTube and sharing on social media can be a pleasure. In 2005, I began running a blog, and in 2006, I started connecting my lecture rooms with others worldwide. That was additionally the 12 months that some mates taught me about podcasting, and we launched into 100 episodes of the “Ladies of Internet 2.0.” We interviewed terrific leaders from all over the world. It was a lot enjoyable!

Later, I helped create 300 episodes of one other particular podcast to me, “Each Classroom Issues.” Then, in 2017, my household supported me in my dream to go along with a shorter-form podcast each weekday with the “10 Minute Instructor Podcast.” Now, over 860 episodes later, some unimaginable educators have been on the present, and I hold discovering lecturers and educators with inspiring tales to inform. The present posts each Monday.

This present has continued as a result of lecturers inform different lecturers concerning the present. I am so grateful for that. There have been many occasions I’ve spoken at a convention or, most just lately, in Saudi Arabia when folks see I am “only a classroom instructor,” they usually ask how being on stage can be one thing I get to do. Apart from grace from above, it has been lecturers. And the classroom has my ❤️. Lecturers and college students and their mother and father do too. We educate a exceptional era.

However as we have thought of as a household one of the best ways to be useful, a brand new undertaking is arising and may be very thrilling to me.

Now, we now have over 860 episodes of the ten Minute Instructor podcast and nicely over 7 million downloads and counting and I’ve one other 20 episodes able to air for this 12 months with unimaginable individuals who can be very useful.

However now, there are issues I would like to depart behind that may make a distinction nicely into the long run.

Generally, analysis, interviews, greatest practices, and instructor opinions on a subject must be mixed in a single place. Compiling assets can profit subjects like Synthetic Intelligence in training, faculty security, pupil engagement, studying instruction, and math instruction, and nearly any main subject can profit from it.

So, tomorrow at 4 p.m., the primary episode of Cool Cat Instructor Speak will air on FM Radio in Atlanta on WDJY 99.1 and on the radio station’s reside stream. The present notes will even go reside right here on this weblog. Moreover, this present can be broadcast on FM Radio in Denver and on tv in San Francisco, Fairfax/DC, and New Mexico within the coming months.

However should you aren’t in these cities, you are still OK. These episodes will even air on my YouTube channel subsequent Wednesday morning, and I’ll launch Cool Cat Instructor Speak wherever you take heed to podcasts subsequent month.

This weblog put up is to provide you an outline of how this present is totally different from the opposite content material I create, how one can join with the present, and the overview of my plan for distribution within the varied ways in which I share.

What goes into every episode of Cool Cat Instructor Speak?

One Matter. The primary present is on AI in training. The second present is on easy methods to enhance faculty security. I’ve exhibits on pupil engagement, studying, project-based studying, math, and extra deliberate within the upcoming months.

Size. For radio and TV, every present can be precisely 58 minutes. For YouTube and my podcast feed, I plan to have one sponsor of a few of the exhibits as applicable. Some exhibits, such because the one on faculty security, won’t have a sponsor. As at all times, sponsors assist pay the prices of getting a weblog and present with visitors, and I solely suggest merchandise I take advantage of and assume will enhance your classroom.

Recommendation. For every episode, educators, mother and father, and mates advise me on subjects of their areas of experience and fervour. I’ve sat with my colleagues on the lunch desk and of their lecture rooms. I’ve referred to as educators I do know to provide recommendation. I’ve forwarded early variations of the present for suggestions from classroom lecturers and directors. I’ve finished this earlier than writing the present, throughout writing the present, and after the primary draft of the present. All of us have blind spots and I actually do. So, I am asking for suggestions and recommendation — and sure, prayer from my mates of religion in order that I can properly share timeless and well timed truths that may create exhibits that can be as useful 10 minutes from now as they are going to be in 10 years. My aim is to create evergreen content material that may assist educators for years to return.

Analysis. Every subject is being deeply researched, learn up on, and reviewed. I am studying books, studying analysis, and taking a look at present data in addition to timeless rules and classes from historical past that make sense and work in lecture rooms of educators. I am speaking to the individuals who do the roles regarding the analysis (see above) to make sure they line up with what they see.

Interviews. With 860 episodes+ of the ten Minute Instructor and over 7 million downloads, I’ve unimaginable stats on what educators have discovered useful. I am pulling the highest exhibits of the previous in addition to some present episodes I’ve recorded this week to deliver related and numerous views from educators who’re totally different and distinctive however usually have widespread themes in what they share.

Classroom Tales. Educating issues as a result of youngsters matter. Youngsters in the present day are totally different in some ways, however generally there are timeless themes as nicely. Final faculty 12 months, I went “part-time” and taught 4 courses whereas giving up my IT help duties. I nonetheless help our lecturers with tech teaching, however I gave up the homeroom, membership duties, and “fixing computer systems.” So, since Fall 2023, I’ve blogged and podcasted within the morning and headed to high school between 10:30 and 11 am. Then, I educate till 3:40 or so. That is serving to me rapidly take what I am studying within the classroom, notably about AI, after which sharing it with different lecturers primarily through my podcast but additionally on my weblog and publication. All the things I share is tried and true and examined. Final 12 months I taught AP Pc Science Ideas and was so excited that each one of my college students aced their AP check to earn credit score. In some ways it was validating as I mastered one other programming language and in addition put to apply all the issues I share and consider in so deeply and noticed my youngsters thrive with it. I need to assist different lecturers know it may be finished. Lecturers want respect and as a fellow instructor, my college students and fellow lecturers hold me grounded.

Inspiration. I additionally need to encourage and encourage educators to know that this era of scholars is unimaginable and we will attain them. It may be finished! There’s hope. Lecturers do not educate for the cash. They do not educate as a result of they cannot do anything. Lecturers educate as a result of youngsters matter. Lecturers are so wonderful and noble. Lecturers need to be celebrated.

Fact. Some truths might help in lecture rooms nearly wherever. As these items come collectively, the aim is to have useful exhibits on one subject that encourage, educate, and enhance the world and to syndicate them to a wider viewers.

Private Creativity. I could discuss AI generally, however I write every part myself with plenty of recommendation and analysis. I file it myself. I pray over it. (Sure, I do.) We produce it proper right here out of our house in Georgia. It is a work of coronary heart.

Content material Schedule for “Cool Cat Instructor”

So, as I am studying easy methods to produce for FM Radio and tv, I am planning a brand new content material schedule as we advance. If one thing wants to alter, I am going to announce it in my weekly publication.

Mondays – Cool Cat Instructor E-newsletter

• At 11 am on Mondays I am going to launch the Cool Cat Instructor E-newsletter beginning subsequent week. This may share the earlier week’s content material but additionally provide the assets and concepts for lecture rooms that you’ve got come to count on.

Wednesdays – Cool Cat Instructor Speak

• Early Morning – beginning in mid-October, the Cool Cat Instructor Speak present can be launched as an audio podcast everywhere you take heed to podcasts. I’ll air the primary episode on the ten Minute Instructor when the podcast launches to share with the listeners that it’s a new present I am creating and what it’s.
• 11 am – YouTube Channel – The Video model of Cool Cat Instructor Speak will air one week after it debuts on FM Radio.
• 4pm – WDJY 99.1 FM Atlanta – exhibits will air per week earlier than they air on my YouTube channel.

Saturdays – 10 Minute Instructor Podcast

• The ten Minute Instructor podcast can be launched in your Saturday listening. (You’ll be able to nonetheless obtain and pay attention on Monday mornings as nicely however you might have to scroll again to Saturday in your podcatcher.)

Future Launch Plans

• I’ve a contract for 52 weeks of Radio. At the moment the radio (audio solely) program can be launched in Atlanta on WDJY 99.1 FM and on their streaming platform and can be launched quickly in Denver, Colorado. This implies you may count on 52 weeks of Cool Cat Instructor Speak on the podcast and the YouTube channel.
• The video model of Cool Cat Instructor Speak can be out there in Fairfax/DC, New Mexico, and San Francisco. When I’ve launch occasions and programming schedules, I am going to share them through the publication and the sidebar of my weblog right here.

Why?

Why not? I need to be useful. I consider that the work I am doing, along with being a calling, is due to lecturers, for lecturers, to encourage lecturers, and by serving to lecturers might help college students.

Thanks, lecturers, for making Cool Cat Instructor – this weblog, the varied podcasts, and social media platforms a part of your supply for concepts for nearly 19 years. Thanks for forwarding the newsletters, podcasts, and weblog posts. Thanks for sharing.

On this day of AI the place AI scrapes my weblog, spits out generative textual content, listens to podcasts, and does the identical factor, our phrase of mouth about what we be taught from, take heed to, and discover helpful is extra vital than ever. Opinions on podcast platforms and feedback on YouTube and social are extra essential than ever. In a day of posers and supposers, it could get tougher to seek out actual folks doing the stuff you’re doing so no matter lecturers you learn, take heed to and be taught from — inform others, write opinions and share the exhibits to assist people be discovered amidst the noise.

Moreover, it seems like some individuals are taking a look at lecture rooms extra for leisure worth than for concepts of getting extra worth as a instructor. Effectively, I worth lecturers. And whereas I doubt I am going to make it in training till age 94 like my mentor and hero, Mrs. Grace Adkins, so long as I am right here, I need to be useful. If one instructor finds what I do helpful, it’s value it to me as a result of one instructor impacts hundreds of scholars over his/her lifetime as a instructor.

Lecturers matter. Mother and father matter. And oh boy, do youngsters matter.

I hope this new present and new avenues of sharing the unimaginable interviews from the ten Minute Instructor podcast from through the years and into the long run will add much more worth to lecture rooms and faculties now and sooner or later.

Thanks for listening and keep tuned! Lets discuss what issues.