Podcasts are sustainable!

Week of 10/30 to 11/03
When I get super busy at least I can still listen to podcasts. I spent my dedicated reflection time last weekend getting ready to go to a conference. I will share about that in my next post. It was awesome! Here was my PD week:

Podcasts
Truth for Teachers this week was part two of strategies for working with students in high poverty. Again, this didn't really apply to my teaching situation, but it was helpful to listen and take what wisdom I could. I also followed the two teachers from this podcast on Twitter.
I keep hearing Angela Watson mentioning the 40 hour work week club, so I finally looked it up. Here is the link: https://40htw.com/join/
I am going to see if I can get this to count as professional development that the school will pay for. Even if I can't, it seems like it could save lots of time and make me more productive so I will see if I can fit it into the personal budget.

Science Friday this week had so many fascinating segments. I especially liked learning more about spiders, and CRISPR. The discussion about how different cultures deal with death was interesting, too. I have read the book Stiff and it reminded me of that. Which is particularly timely given my book club is reading Stiff right now.

MindShift
I finished the last episode about restorative justice they are working on in KIPP schools. It was the last episode of the season, so I wasn't able to listen to more. I enjoyed thinking about the implications of punitive justice and how it can be modified to better fit with growth mindset messages. I was pleased that most of the ideas in the podcast are already being adapted for our school.

Readings
I didn't get to do any readings this week because we had a special 6th-grade Seniors event on Wednesday morning, but I will get to it this week during PLC time Wednesday morning.