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•  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)
 

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WHEN DOES IT AIR…
January 19th, 2022

• 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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WHEN DOES IT AIR…
DECEMBER 22nd, 2021

• 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)

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WHEN DOES IT AIR…
DECEMBER 15th, 2021

• 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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WHEN DOES IT AIR…
DECEMBER 8th, 2021

• 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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WHEN DOES IT AIR…
DECEMBER 1st, 2021

•  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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WHEN DOES IT AIR…
NOVEMBER 24th, 2021

•  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:

1. Sharing strategies for recruiting and retaining teachers.
2. Strategies for promoting FCS programs
3. Mental health spotlight with Rikki Cook, Counselor
4. 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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WHEN DOES IT AIR…

NOVEMBER 17th, 2021

• 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

•  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

•   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