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The Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 32: Bonus - A Conversation You Don't Want to Miss with Neuro Noel!Send us a textIn this episode of the Fifteen Minute Classroom, Diane Kay welcomes Noel Foy, a former classroom teacher and learning specialist who now specializes in anxiety and executive function challenges. Join us around this online table as Diane dives into a year of lifelong learning with Noel, highlighting some of the challenges she faced, the hurdles students overcame, a shift in mindset, and a few resources to support students, parents, teachers, and those in all areas of educational support.You can find Noel at https://www.neuronoel.com/, where you'll gain access...
2025-07-0226 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 31 - Reading for Social Emotional Learning - An Intentional ConnectionSend us a textJoin me in the 15-Minute Classroom for this Intentional conversation with Kim Gameroz of SELebrate Goodtimes. As we head into March, we empower parents, educators, and adult caregivers with essential information to support social-emotional learning at home, school, and on the playground. Reading with your children is a great way to help them develop skills such as identifying, recognizing, and understanding their emotions, empathizing with others, and accessing tools that promote agency and build healthy relationships.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2025-03-0720 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomGuest Episode # 30 - Social Emotional Learning with Kim GamerozSend us a textI’m thrilled to have Kim Gameroz join us. Kim has tech ported in from Dallas, Texas. If the weather has anything to do with it, then Kim’s sunny disposition will surely bring warmth and a bright spot to our conversation today. Kim is a vibrant communicator, a heart-centered teacher who is a change agent, and a teacher of Inside Out - revolutionizing classrooms through a systematic approach to teaching social-emotional skills. Kim is a global coach, mentor, teacher, and trainer to educators, students, and families.https://www.teac...
2025-01-2323 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode #29 - Nourishing Your Children's Dispositions for LearningSend us a textDispositions refer to temperamental or character traits that are natural. They are an inclination or a tendency toward a certain way to behave, learn, and express oneself. Dispositions are what children believe, their interests, what they experience in their daily lives and what is familiar to them. They provide important information about the way children learn. Join us across the online table today and gain the insight needed to nourish your children's dispositions.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2025-01-1511 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 30 - A New Year & The 15 Minute Foundational StrategyAs we launch into a new season of this podcast let’s use this episode as an opportunity to pause and reset. Whether this is your first time in the classroom or you’ve been here from the beginning, today’s episode will focus on the foundational classroom strategy, a simple strategy to support you and your children or the students you work with at home, at school, or on the playground.
2024-01-0911 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode #28 - Teaching Children the Way They Learn Through Play & ProjectsSend us a textSo what are children learning when they're playing with blocks and puzzles or focused on a tech game? How does the opportunity to choose an activity impact the ability or interest to learn? How does the physical, social, and emotional environment impact children's ability to learn even as they play? These and other questions are discussed along with some practical tips to consider on today's episode.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2022-01-2121 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 27 - Let's Talk About Play!Send us a textPlay is important! In fact, many parents, caregivers, and educators of elementary school-age children realize it is the key to learning. Join us across this online table as Dale Shipley returns to the classroom. We'll provide a few 15 minutes tips that you can initiate with your children to ensure their play is filled with a variety of toys, and materials. You might even be surprised to learn that while they are having fun they're developing.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2022-01-1818 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode #26 - Physical Literacy - Guest Conversation with Dale ShipleySend us a textWhat is physical literacy? Why is physical literacy so important and what is a parent's role in helping their children develop these essential skills? Questions are discussed and important information for parents and caregivers of primary and elementary school-age children is shared. Join us across this online table and learn how you too can become more actively involved in your child's physical literacy.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2021-11-2624 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 25 - Passion to Purpose with special guest Amy McLarenSend us a textAmy McLaren joins me across the online table today. Amy's newly released book Passion to Purpose will lead you to discover that living a passion-fuelled, purpose-driven life is about reconnecting, or connecting for the first time, to your deepest passions. This busy mom of two splits her time between leading LadyStrength, a growing online community of driven, entrepreneurial women, growing an Airbnb business, and being hands-on CEO of Village Impact, the charity she and her husband founded more than a decade ago.DM on Instagram at coachingnextsteps and let us know y...
2021-09-2729 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode #24 - Learning the Essential Learning to Learn Skills - A Guest InterviewSend us a textIn this episode, I welcome Dale Shipley across the online table. Dale is the author of Empowering Parents, Meeting Children's Learning Needs in the Kindergarten and Primary Years. If you're a parent, caregiver, educator, or someone who works with children 4-8 years of age you'll learn important information about the essential learning to learn skills children need to develop in order to be successful lifelong learners at home, at school, at play, and in their relationships. https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2021-07-1521 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode #23 - Building the Skill of CuriositySend us a textIn this episode, we'll dive into the topic of curiosity. We'll consider why it's an important skillfor parents and their children alike to practice and develop. We'll also consider how curiosity creates a type of distance that allows us to notice what we might otherwise fail to notice.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-10-1611 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 22 - Environment Influences Life-long Learning - 7 Action StepsSend us a textIn today's episode, you'll learn 7 action steps parents can take that will influence life-long learning. A key ingredient to navigating the changes that lie ahead will be the environment and atmosphere created with the home. Creating an environment that is supportive, reflective, and restorative will impact these outcomes. So join me as we sit across this online table together here in the 15 Minute Classroom.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-09-0127 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 21 - Supporting Healthy Bodies & Minds - for you & your childrenSend us a textWhen working with families in my coaching practice, healthy bodies and healthy minds are two areas we consider as we sit down to talk about the needs within the home. Taking steps to prioritize your health will support your intentions to be physically and emotionally present with your children. Refueling your resources will make it easier to live from a place of health and demonstrate healthy life skills for your children. Join me and determine the steps you will take for sleep, exercise, nutrition, and mind/mood/ and matter health.h...
2020-07-3017 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 20 - Applying the 15 Minute classroom Strategy to Intentional ConnectionsSend us a textIn the busyness of everyday parenting, it's often hard to find time to pause and consider where you're at, where you want to go, and how you're going to get there. Pull up a chair, relax, or listen while you work or run! You'll find information that might just help you relax, regroup, and walk away ready to take the next steps with your children.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-07-2211 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode #19 - Goal Planning for the Months AheadSend us a textIn today's episode, we'll dive into the topic of family, personal, and your children's goals. It is important to remember that building the skill of goal setting can be impacted while navigating current stress. Yet, determining to identify a few goals and seeking to learn what goals your children would like to work towards will bring focus, clarity, unity, and the opportunity to celebrate their next stepshttps://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-06-1015 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 18 - Building Social-Emotional Learning SkillsSend us a textIn today's episode, you'll learn about emotional regulation, a skill or set of skills children can learn, develop, and practice. They're the skills you need to manage emotions, solve problems, and get along with others. Children aren't born with these skills but they can develop them.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-05-2813 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 17 - Build Skills to Tolerate DisappointmentSend us a textIn today's episode, children are dealing with a lot of emotions especially when it comes to disappointments. As parents we instinctively want to protect our children from disappointment and offer a solution that will alleviate distress. Although disappointment can feel really bad, there are muscles you can help your child build.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-05-2513 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 16 - Managing at Home Through Continued Remote LearningSend us a textIn today's episode, you'll hear how 3 families are working hard to live, work, and navigate their children's play, learning, and social connections within the framework they've created and are continuing to recreate.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-05-2115 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 15 - Building Responsive RelationshipsSend us a textIn today's episode, we'll consider why healthy responsive relationships are so important in children's lives. We'll also consider how to intentionally build these relationships.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-05-1611 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 14 - Encouragement - Mother's DaySend us a textIn today's episode join me as we consider words of encouragement, hope, and appreciation to the Mothers' who join us here in the classroom. https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-05-0910 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 13 - Building Skills with SupportSend us a textIn today's episode, we'll discover an instructional strategy used in education. It's a great tool to add to your parenting toolbox and will help you consider the type of support your child needs.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-05-0616 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 12 - Guest Interview - The Use and Practice of Flexible ThinkingSend us a textIn today's episode, a special guest joins us across this online table. A seasoned piano teacher shares how she is adapting, adjusting, and navigating the changes that come with remote piano lessons. You'll gain valuable insights and practical information to guide you in supporting your children's online piano lessons. If you're hoping to become a successful piano student and player, you're sure to gain great insight into the skills required.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-05-0117 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 11 - Digging Deeper into the Skill of Flexible ThinkingSend us a textFlexible thinking is such an important lifelong skill. It supports learning and builds relationships. In today's episode, we'll consider how flexible thinking can help you with your child's remote learning and some practical tips to join your child as he practices flexible thinking.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-04-3013 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 10 - Building Flexible Thinking SkillsSend us a textIn today's episode, we'll consider what is flexible thinking? Why is flexible thinking important? We'll also consider specific ways you can practice flexible thinking skills with your children.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-04-2815 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 9 - I Can't or I Won't Two Strategies to Turn it AroundSend us a textIn today's episode, we'll dive into two strategies you can practice to turn things around when you're children state they can't or won't. You'll also learn a fun activity that the whole family can participate in while practicing problem-solving and flexible thinking skills.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-04-2312 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 8 - Building Skills of Organization and Self DressingSend us a textIn today's episode, we'll consider how the 15 Minute Classroom strategy can be applied to organizing your child's closet as well as developing age-appropriate independence.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-04-2113 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode #7 - Building Skills that Promote SleepSend us a textToday's episode will focus on sleep. Why sleep? Your child's brain needs it. Let's dive in together and develop skills that promote healthy sleep routines and habits. https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-04-1913 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 6- Building Skills - Tying the Skill to Routines or an Intentional ActivitySend us a textIn today's episode, a listener asks, "How can I focus on skills with my children when there is so much already on my plate?" It's such an important question to consider as we navigate the current recommendations and the impact on our relationships, our homes, our work, and our children's schooling.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-04-1610 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 5 - Navigating the Current Pandemic - Parent InterviewSend us a textIn today's episode, a special guest joins us across this online table. You'll hear how one family navigating the current challenges surrounding the pandemic. You'll also hear how they are managing at home, with school, their work, and in their relationships. This is an episode filled with encouragement and hope.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-04-1428 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 4 - Digging Deeper into Following InstructionsSend us a textIn today's episode, we'll dig deeper into the skills we discussed in episode # 3. We'll take a step back and consider why following instructions can be so difficult especially at this time as parents are called upon to support their children's learning from home.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-04-0912 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 3 - Building Skills to Follow InstructionsSend us a textIn today's episode, we'll use the 15 Minute Classroom strategy to intentionally build skills that help your children follow instructions. First, we'll consider what gets in the way of following instructions, what you can do to support this skill, and finally create a plan that you can incorporate into your day when your children need to follow instructions. https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-04-0712 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 2 - Building Skills to Resolve ConflictsSend us a textIn today's episode, we'll use The 15 Minute Classroom Strategy to intentionally build skills your children can use when facing conflicts at home, at school, and in all of their relationships. We'll consider different types of conflict, what may cause conflicts, and finally, we'll create a plan that you can incorporate into your day when a conflict arises.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-04-0213 minThe Fifteen Minute ClassroomEpisode # 1 - Foundational Strategy and 5 StepsSend us a textThis first episode of The 15 Minute Classroom introduces the foundational strategy the podcast is based on. You will learn 5 simple steps you can use to take action and move towards the goals and plans you have determined are most important for your family.See you in the classroom!https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
2020-03-3111 minThe Fifteen Minute Classroom15 Minute Classroom IntroductionSend us a textWelcome to the 15 Minute Classroom podcast where you'll gain access to resources, tools, strategies and educational supports. If you're a parent of elementary school children this podcast is for you! Come on in and join me as I introduce the 15 Minute Classroom and prepare you for the first episode coming soon.https://www.coachingnextsteps.com/ Diane's website
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