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Teacher Edition PodcastOn the Front Line: Insights from the School Office Part OneBehind every school is a dedicated, hardworking team in the front office, working diligently to keep everything running smoothly and best partner with teachers and administrators . In this episode, Linda DeGroot joins Jenny to pull back the curtain on her experience as a school secretary, sharing the challenges and blessings that define a typical school day. Linda starts by sharing her foundational story of accepting Jesus as her Savior and how it impacted her journey in education.
Topics discussed:
Understanding the role and purpose of the school secretary
The most rewarding and challenging aspects of...
2024-12-1721 minTeacher Edition PodcastOn the Front Line: Insights from the School Office Part OneBehind every school is a dedicated, hardworking team in the front office, working diligently to keep everything running smoothly and best partner with teachers and administrators . In this episode, Linda DeGroot joins Jenny to pull back the curtain on her experience as a school secretary, sharing the challenges and blessings that define a typical school day. Linda starts by sharing her foundational story of accepting Jesus as her Savior and how it impacted her journey in education.
Topics discussed:
Understanding the role and purpose of the school secretary
The most rewarding and challenging aspects of...
2024-12-1721 min
Hallway ConversationsEpisode 063: We Invite You to Do NothingWe educators are such busy people, aren’t we? In today’s episode, we consider a selection from Jenny Odell’s book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Maybe this sounds like we are encouraging slothfulness? Not that, exactly…but we discuss the idea of being intentional in planning ways to be fully present in Creation, with family and friends, and perhaps choosing to do different things. We consider the magnetic pull of social media, and the way it pushes us to feel FOMO (fear of missing out.) Odell suggests that we instead embrace NOMO (the necessity of missi...
2022-05-1824 min