Coming to FM Radio, TV, and YouTube: Cool Cat Trainer Discuss

Educating within the classroom is a pleasure to me. My college students are distinctive, work exhausting, consistently be taught new issues and frequently educate me new issues. My coronary heart is within the faculty at the beginning. Since 2002, I’ve taught center and excessive colleges and coached lecturers on educational 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 also 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 yr that some pals taught me about podcasting, and we launched into 100 episodes of the “Girls of Internet 2.0.” We interviewed terrific leaders from around the globe. 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 together with a shorter-form podcast each weekday with the “10 Minute Trainer Podcast.” Now, over 860 episodes later, some unbelievable educators have been on the present, and I maintain 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 in regards to the present. I am so grateful for that. There have been many instances I’ve spoken at a convention or, most just lately, in Saudi Arabia when individuals see I am “only a classroom trainer,” they usually ask how being on stage could be one thing I get to do. Moreover grace from above, it has been lecturers. And the classroom has my ❤️. Academics and college students and their dad and mom do too. We educate a outstanding era.

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

Now, we have now over 860 episodes of the ten Minute Trainer podcast and nicely over 7 million downloads and counting and I’ve one other 20 episodes able to air for this yr with unbelievable individuals who will probably be very useful.

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

Typically, analysis, interviews, greatest practices, and trainer opinions on a subject have to be mixed in a single place. Compiling assets can profit matters like Synthetic Intelligence in training, faculty security, scholar engagement, studying instruction, and math instruction, and nearly any main matter can profit from it.

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

However if you happen to aren’t in these cities, you are still OK. These episodes can even air on my YouTube channel subsequent Wednesday morning, and I’ll launch Cool Cat Trainer Discuss 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 Trainer Discuss?

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 scholar engagement, studying, project-based studying, math, and extra deliberate within the upcoming months.

Size. For radio and TV, every present will probably be precisely 58 minutes. For YouTube and my podcast feed, I plan to have one sponsor of among the exhibits as applicable. Some exhibits, such because the one on faculty security, won’t have a sponsor. As all the time, 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, dad and mom, and pals advise me on matters 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 definitely do. So, I am asking for suggestions and recommendation — and sure, prayer from my pals of religion in order that I can correctly share timeless and well timed truths that may create exhibits that will probably be as useful 10 minutes from now as they are going to be in 10 years. My objective is to create evergreen content material that may assist educators for years to come back.

Analysis. Every matter 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 ideas 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 Trainer and over 7 million downloads, I’ve unbelievable 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 carry related and numerous views from educators who’re totally different and distinctive however usually have frequent themes in what they share.

Classroom Tales. Educating issues as a result of youngsters matter. Children at the moment are totally different in some ways, however typically there are timeless themes as nicely. Final faculty yr, 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 shortly take what I am studying within the classroom, notably about AI, after which sharing it with different lecturers primarily through my podcast but in addition on my weblog and e-newsletter. Every little thing I share is tried and true and examined. Final yr I taught AP Laptop Science Ideas and was so excited that every 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 likewise put to follow the entire issues I share and imagine in so deeply and noticed my youngsters thrive with it. I wish to assist different lecturers know it may be finished. Academics want respect and as a fellow trainer, my college students and fellow lecturers maintain me grounded.

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

Fact. Some truths may help in lecture rooms nearly wherever. As this stuff come collectively, the objective is to have useful exhibits on one matter that encourage, educate, and enhance the world and to syndicate them to a wider viewers.

Private Creativity. I’ll speak about AI typically, however I write all the things myself with plenty of recommendation and analysis. I report it myself. I pray over it. (Sure, I do.) We produce it proper right here out of our residence in Georgia. This can be a work of coronary heart.

Content material Schedule for “Cool Cat Trainer”

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 vary, I will announce it in my weekly e-newsletter.

Mondays – Cool Cat Trainer Publication

• At 11 am on Mondays I will launch the Cool Cat Trainer Publication beginning subsequent week. It will share the earlier week’s content material but in addition provide the assets and concepts for lecture rooms that you have come to anticipate.

Wednesdays – Cool Cat Trainer Discuss

• Early Morning – beginning in mid-October, the Cool Cat Trainer Discuss present will probably be launched as an audio podcast in every single place you take heed to podcasts. I’ll air the primary episode on the ten Minute Trainer 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 Trainer Discuss 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 Trainer Podcast

• The ten Minute Trainer podcast will probably be launched in your Saturday listening. (You may nonetheless obtain and hear on Monday mornings as nicely however you could have to scroll again to Saturday in your podcatcher.)

Future Launch Plans

• I’ve a contract for 52 weeks of Radio. At present the radio (audio solely) program will probably be launched in Atlanta on WDJY 99.1 FM and on their streaming platform and will probably be launched quickly in Denver, Colorado. This implies you’ll be able to anticipate 52 weeks of Cool Cat Trainer Discuss on the podcast and the YouTube channel.
• The video model of Cool Cat Trainer Discuss will probably be obtainable in Fairfax/DC, New Mexico, and San Francisco. When I’ve launch instances and programming schedules, I will share them through the e-newsletter and the sidebar of my weblog right here.

Why?

Why not? I wish to be useful. I imagine 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 may help college students.

Thanks, lecturers, for making Cool Cat Trainer – 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 more durable to search out actual individuals doing the belongings 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 trainer. Nicely, I worth lecturers. And whereas I doubt I will make it in training till age 94 like my mentor and hero, Mrs. Grace Adkins, so long as I am right here, I wish to be useful. If one trainer finds what I do helpful, it’s price it to me as a result of one trainer impacts 1000’s of scholars over his/her lifetime as a trainer.

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

I hope this new present and new avenues of sharing the unbelievable interviews from the ten Minute Trainer podcast from through the years and into the longer term will add much more worth to lecture rooms and colleges now and sooner or later.

Thanks for listening and keep tuned! Lets speak about what issues.