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Brittany Tawater is more than just a band director, she is a Middle School Band director AND a high school color guard director AND she rocks the clarinet AND she is able to hold her own on an episode of TFAOT where Seth is at his most mischievous. The rails come off of this episode at times but Brittany keeps it focused and regales us with stories from the Middle School trenches as well as some fun ideas of how to use giant sized Teddy Bears and Taylor Swift music.
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Blake Minor is a theatre teacher in Fort Bend ISD in the Houston area and joins Seth and Kyle to talk about competition in the arts and how educators can use the form to better serve our students while keeping the awkward nature of arts contests in perspective. Blake has spoken about this extensively on his own podcast Minor Wisdom where he interviews movers and shakers in the world of high school theatre in the state. Check out Blake's podcast Minor Wisdom at the link below:
https://minorwisdom.podbean.com/
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Seth and Kyle have had a tough time finding time to record episode this year, but here they are, still at it and tackling the big topics. Like, competition in the arts, are the students in charge of schools? Should we fear them? Why is time moving so fast? Should Seth have to wear clothes?
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Vance Campbell is a special education teacher living and working in the Los Angeles, California area, after having taught in both Texas and Colorado previously. Vance fills Kyle and Seth in on the misconceptions and challenges of teaching in the special education field and the differences between working with in a state with strong unions and Texas, a "right to work" state.
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First year teacher Kevin Wright doesn't come off as the stereotypical first grade teacher. Regardless, through setbacks and detours he now finds himself teaching 6 year olds. This good ole boy from a small town with a West Texas twang tells Kyle and Seth the story that brought him to elementary school and a few unexpected challenges he's experienced thus far.
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Kyle's two daughters call our guest Uncle Baba, because he happens to be his brother-in-law. But, Brandon Carr is much more than just a guy that little girls can convince to spend money in the toy department at Target. He happens to be the third member of The Finer Art of Teaching team, working the gears and buttons and tubes that allow us to have sound on each recording. He also happens to be an instructional technologist for the school district where Kyle and Seth teach, but spent about 3 years in the classroom.
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For the first time we have a former student in the hut to talk to Seth and Kyle. Tyler was on Seth's debate team for four years and holds a special place for him. We talk candidly about Tyler's perceptions of the rest of the debate team when he was in high school and how Seth and the rest of the team perceived Tyler. We also discuss Tyler's plans now that he is a college graduate to teach in a yet to be known foreign location.
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Kyle's daughter introduced him to Mike DeMaio, an elementary teacher in New Jersey with a popular YouTube channel full of fun pop-song parodies and videos that teach about everything from multiplication tables to earthquakes. Seth and Kyle chat with Mr. DeMaio about his career in education, how he got started creating his videos and what it feels like to be a YouTube star teaching in an elementary school.
Music: Mike Demaio "Days of the Week"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwyVRKfytvjSF6q5s7noKZQ
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The Finer Art of Teaching is back for our second season. Kyle and Seth catch up with each other and discuss their projections for the coming school year.
This year we will be featuring music from K-12 performance groups as our opening and closing music. If you would like to hear your group on the podcast send us a link or an audio file to [email protected]. Include your school and district name and the name of the performing group.
Music in this episode from the Baytown, Texas, Sterling High School Marching Band from 1992.
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Our first and most frequent guest on the podcast, Lily Auker, returns to discuss the trials and tribulations of her first year teaching high school English. We also revisit the gun debate for a bit, as this episode was recorded the day after the school shooting in Sante Fe, Texas.
This is our final episode of the school year and will take a break for the summer. We will return for the 2018-2019 school year in August.
Thank you for listening and spread the word!
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Seth Rutledge returns to the podcast to discuss the RISE program, an effort that he started in his school district to help teachers initiate innovative curriculum for the class room. Seth first told us about this program on our 4th episode back in October. We knew we had to have him on again to tell us how the inaugural year of the program went.
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J.P. Fulger has won so many teaching awards he can't count them all. J.P. talks us through the process of how he came to discover the myriad of awards available to teachers, many of them coming with a monetary prize, why teachers should be applying for these awards and the benefits of the process.
We also discuss the nature of difficult topics and why we should be engaging in conversations with people with whom we disagree.
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This episode of The Finer Art of Teaching begins with the age old question: "What can teachers do to help their students stay focused as we inch closer to summer?"
Seth and Kyle get a little help from veteran 2nd grader teacher Amanda Martin (who also happens to be Kyle's better half.)
Kyle and Seth also share their student teaching stories, both good, bad and non-existent.
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Kyle and Seth managed to convince one of their own principals to discuss the much maligned and misunderstood job of school administrator. The ink barely dry on a new doctorate in education, Kyle Wiskow is an assistant principal at the campus where Kyle and Seth teach and shares some of his insights into what makes a school successful and the impact that school leadership can have on a campus and the growth of a school.
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Taylor Mali is a poet, teacher, performer and apparently the former voice for Burger King, according to his website. In this conversation with this 4-time National Poetry Slam Champion, Taylor talks to Kyle and Seth about his years as a teacher, the inspiration his father gave him to enter poetry and he shares some new, as well as some impromptu poetry.
https://taylormali.com/
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Teachers all over the United States have been reviewing active shooter procedures in the weeks since the tragic shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. We are, once again, confronting the possibility that our schools may some day have to face a shooter on campus. Seth and Kyle discuss the shooting, the various ideas on how to end the violence, as well as the uniqueness of the most recent tragedy.
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The newest episode of The Finer Art of Teaching tackles a few varying subjects:
First, Dr. Jason Martin calls the podcast to give his professional take on the previous episode's discussion regarding what makes a good apology. Dr. Martin is a professor of Marriage and Family Therapy and practicing psychotherapist specializing in couples therapy. He brings a wealth of knowledge in the field of relationships and talks about how people can help damaged trust through genuine contrition amends. He is also Kyle's older brother so he can also provide advice on how to give a good noogie
Plus Seth and Kyle share some stories from some recent teaching adventures.
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First year 9th grade English teacher Lily Auker joins the podcast once again to review her first semester as a full time teacher. She talks about what kinds of things she's learned, what she wishes she could do over and what kinds of changes she will make in the coming semester. The sexual harassment discussion from a previous episode is revisited and Lily gives her take on it as well as her own experiences being a female in a world full of immature 9th graders.
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Seth and Kyle have a grand ole time chatting with Market Director for Big Brothers Big Sisters Abilene, Mark Rogers. Mark is also an expert in health and fitness and hosts the Simply Human podcast. Conversation ranges from appropriate sleep for students and how much better Mark is than Seth.
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We interview Steve Schappaugh who is the Director of Community Engagement and National Tournament Director of Competition at the National Speech and Debate Association. We discuss how support organizations like the NSDA help engage communities and advocate for schools and the programs that most affect students at our schools.
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