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Episode Notes• Why are we hiring more and more business and marketing educators to fill these roles when it's the family and consumer sciences classes that are constantly being targeted tracked and we have these long lists for student enrollment, so we really, subconsciously, we have to start thinking about what is our pipeline, what is it that our communities are needing right now from us so that we can prepare our students move forward once they graduate high school.   (9:14)• Next week's episode is gonna be episode 100. Can you believe that? My friends, I am just floored and bewildered at the same time going, How in the world have I recorded? And we combined listened to about 100 episodes of the Connect FCS and podcast, and I always have to go back and do just a little gratitude post of saying Thank you so much for growing with me, thank you for allowing me the space to learn with you. Every episode, it is my personal strive to become better than what I was before, and with that, I'm just grateful that you would allow me the space and the time for you to listen in, that is powerful in that his friendship and that is something that I hold on to (10:27)• Starting October 5th, Wednesday, my birthday, we are going to have EverFI of Hanna Kim and she is gonna be talking to us about what EverFI has got going on for this coming school year, they have a lot of great valuable resources. So don't miss episode 100, you're not gonna wanna miss it. And on October 8th, keep that date in mind, October 8 at 9 AM Pacific Standard Time, we are gonna be doing a free giveaway on FCStips Facebook group. (21:02 )CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed • Tik Tok:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhKwFKc/

•  I'm really tired because the school year's ending, but I get really excited about next year, so that's why this is a great time to get excited, get some stuff off your plate while you're still at the school, you're still in your contract hours, you're not worrying about what you're doing over the summer. And just get some stuff done. Now, so I've got three tips, and my very first one is to de-clutter, and you've got a few different ways that you can de-clutter, so there's declaring stuff, you may have accumulated some projects that students have done this year, and you may wanna save a few but my biggest recommendation would be, look at the classes that you are going to be teaching next year and de-clutter any resources that you are using for classes that you won't be teaching next year. (9:14)• My second tip is to look at your current routines and systems that you're using, so whether it's how students are turning in their work or what you are doing for your clean up, and seeing like what works and what doesn't work, because right now it's a good time to take a step back, will you still have students and see what needs tweaking for next year, and make notes of those now, and you don't need to restructure those over the summer, but taking notes of those now will actually help you remember what it's truly like rather than kind of having this honeymoon phase at the beginning of next school year and like, Oh yeah, that worked really well, when really it didn't.  Maybe you're checking to see if there are certain supplies that are constantly being left out, like the scissors that are never being put away, so you'll wanna come up with some sort of solution for scissors next year. So this is an opportune time to do that, and the key is, is that you still have students so you can still observe how those are functioning and what needs to change.  (13:22)• My third tip is to map out next year from a large bird's-eye view, and you're going to do it for each of the courses that you're taking because you want to have an idea of the units you're going to be teaching, but then you also want to schedule, decide how long you wanna spend on each of those units, then the really critical part is you're going to then compare that to your calendars. You need to look at your school calendar and see if you have a winter break or different holidays, and where does that land, because you don't necessarily want to have one day be after the break of your unit, you wanna have them all before the break, and then you want to look at it too when you're calendaring it, comparing it, all your classes to one another, because you wanna save yourself time, and if you end up having a whole bunch of projects or unit ending all on the day, and that could mean that there's a lot of work for you on one particular day, so try to spread it out- be intentional. (21:02 )•  When you're in the thick of planning and doing your teaching and you've got your lessons and your activities and you're going shopping so that you make sure that you have your food for your kitchens and all of that, you're not worried about whether or not you assigned 12 different projects to all be due on the day before homecoming. It's a great way to think about that now, and I think that's the key thing, think about it now so you don't have to think about it over the summer at all.  You've already done the leg work, that way, when you come back in August, all you have to actually do is plan your lessons. So enjoy your lessons! (22:16)CONNECT WITH KHRISTEN MASSIC•FaceBook:https://www.facebook.com/khristenmassic•Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/khristenmassic/•Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/khristen00/                                                                                                                                                                         •LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khristenmassic/•On Your Prep Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-your-prep-podcast/id1535988862CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed • Tik Tok:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhKwFKc/

•  They are connected to our educational experience, and they are literally the best example you can think of of a not-for-profit organization that's doing good sustainably, and so they are going to talk about sustainability and how they got to where they are and how they're actually saving lives with soap and water. And this is an issue that's not just here in the United States, but it's a global issue, so they've come up with a really incredible process that allows us to recycle and sanitize the soaps and the hotels, and then formulate them into a product that can be given away to people in need. So the title of that session could not be better, their team, their staff, their volunteers, or hotel partners, they are the best people on them, doing good. Doing good in the world of sustainability. So we're really excited about that one. (11:54)•  Our website is easy to navigate. Our registration site is very, very easy, if everyone just goes to the AAFCS.org website, you'll find on our home page, the registration banner you can't miss, there are lots of banners and words and points to take you to the registration site, so it's really a one-click process to get to that page. And so once you get to the registration website, there's so much more than we'll have time to talk about the same thing, but we have connected learning, we have our general sessions, educational sessions  and more. (16:47)• I was talking to someone recently that's gonna be a first-timer, and you know, we've all had experiences. Not everybody is an extrovert, some people are introverts, some people can walk into a ballroom and just work the crowd and talk to everybody and know everyone's name when they leave and others, not so much. And so we're actually looking at that very carefully this year too, because one of our student members raised the topic with us, and so we've got some of our various ops working with us to do some outreach to those first conference goers before they go to Orlando. So that there is somebody they can ask a question too, that they may not be comfortable or may not know who to go to to get the answers, so we're gonna do some pre-work and they're gonna do some special things on the property for this first time or so that they feel very welcome and a part of our group, and being included(24:02 )• We wash our hands, we don't think about it, we turn on the water and we don't think about it, but in this case, we clean the world, seeing these people long for miles to get soap and then be so excited about a bar, so certainly makes us all stop and think a little bit more. And by the way, clean the world, as I said earlier, they're gonna be one of our headliners in one of our general sessions to tell the whole story to everybody, so that all of our affiliates, all of our members, non-members, all the folks in Orlando can learn about clean the world so that then they can start to think about how they can contribute and support this organization because they are just amazing (34:44)CONNECT WITH NANCY BOCK, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR•Email: nbock@aafcs.org•FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/AAFCSheadquarters•Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aafcs_hq/•Twitter: https://twitter.com/aafcs                                                                                                                                                                                                               •LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3153229/•Annaul Conference Registration: https://www.aafcs.org/ac2022/home CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed • Tik Tok:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhKwFKc/

• I learned that VP of Development, it's a really important position as you are looking for new partnerships and you are helping the organization financially, and maybe sure that members are the opportunity, participating partner contacts, and the sales, the national or coalition.  (13:18)• So, are the executive council positions, are they rolling over every year; Are we gaining new student leadership yearly?. Yes, so every year, at the national leadership conference, I know it is a very long process where there's national series from across the nation, from Washington all the way a way. We have candidates in Texas, Hawaii, we have student leaders or passionate about our organizations, we have to go through this pass of interviews, there's a non-meeting committee that I want to each candidate.   (3:47)• Sometimes a question is, why did you join? But I think for me, the question is why not? I joined because my middle school had it which is what first got me interested. But, I stayed because of the friends and connections that I had made. The people I met and the force of good that was being made.  I've been afforded opportunities that I otherwise would not have experienced, and because of that, I'm eternally just thankful. (22:02)• if your school doesn't have an FCCLA chapter, it's easy to start one...  I know, anything you start that you have no knowledge on, it's overwhelming, but it is easy to start. The advice I would tell you, find other teachers in your own community and reach out to them to find out what is it that they have done and you get a sponsor. Have another FCCLA chapter advisor as a mentor to help you start your new chapter. (29:44)CONNECT WITH BRIANA CASTRO •  Email: vpdevelopment@fcclainc.org• Twitter: https://twitter.com/FCCLADevelop• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/brianacastrofccla/CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed • Tik Tok:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhKwFKc/WHEN DOES IT AIRAPRIL 27th, 2022

• I got into personal finance about six years ago. My school asked me to teach this class, it was like a Math personal since hybrid, my wife at the time we were dating, we just moved in together, she was the one who was the money person in our house, and through our conversations, it became clear that I needed to learn more about money as well to become more co-partner in our decision-making, and like we talk about with couples all the time, we wanna make sure that everyone is a knowledgeable participant in the finances of the house (10:56)•  It's not something that you have to be born into a wealthy family to be able to do all these things so I became very passionate about teaching others what I was... I started with my own classroom, and then the ChooseFI Foundation, developed a pre-K through 12 Personal Finance curriculum that's free to use, and then the next step was my son was born. (12:13)• I think there's so much learned from kids' books, particularly when you go back a sec with an adult or a teenage mind and look at them like some examples that come to mind, or like the goose that laid the golden egg, talking about the fishermen and the businessman, Jack In The being stock. Those are ones that if you approach that with an adult line, now you're like, What are the morals in here and how does it apply to finances, and there are some really cool conversations that can actually come from those (16:14)• I first heard about it from a friend who took her probably two-year-old son at the time to a local bank, they opened a checking account for him, a junior saber checking account, whatever it was. And they got a little goody bag from the bank for the custodial account holder, and I was like, Oh, that's really cool. So I started approaching my local banks and credit unions, and three of them have signed up already to pick up copies of the book and give it out to the kids as they sign up for accounts  (18:37)CONNECT WITH ROB PHELAN•Email: misformoneybook@gmail.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robephelan• Twitter:  https://twitter.com/FIeducator• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/misformoneybook/• Choose FI curriculum: https://www.choosefifoundation.org/prek12•Teachers Pay Teachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Fi-Educator•M is for Money on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/M-Money-Rob-Phelan/dp/1737149028•The Simple Startup: https://thesimplestartup.com/CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed • Tik Tok:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhKwFKc/

• Todd Christensen is an author podcaster, speaker, accredited financial counselor, certified HUD housing counselor, and Education Manager at the Money Fit by DRS. Todd  has facilitated thousands of personal finance workshops and one-on-one counseling sessions since 2004, helping consumers of all backgrounds and income levels regain control of their finances, get out of debt, rebuild their credit and create a brighter financial future. He published Everyday Money for Everyday People in 2014, and it's on the 50+ on fire in 2021 (1:54)• The money fit Show is all about the personal finance journey. So we interview people who have a story to tell, whether they got in a lot of debt when they were younger, or maybe they maxed out a credit card as I did in 36 hours, or they just dealt with overspending and then how they got out of that or overcame those challenges and hopefully some of the tools and resources that they used along the way that listeners can take advantage of or maybe find some motivation. And that's really the kind of the goal is to help people realize, Hey, no matter how bad it gets. Somebody's been there done that, and you can get through it. (3:47)• I've been involved with Jump Start since almost day one. Back in 2004 when I started in this industry, I looked up who's involved in personal finance and started attending the Idaho JumpStart Coalition, called Idaho Financial Literacy Coalition, which actually developed about the same time, a little independently from JumpStart, but they are working together and got involved in leadership and have stayed involved with that organization for going on almost two decades now. It sounds like it has been very rewarding. Definitely, being a part of all of these different coalitions and leadership programs has been self-fulfilling and very rewarding. (5:02)•  But I love that idea that you used the word intentional, the idea of mindful living, it's been very popular over the last decade or so of mindful eating, you know, being aware of where our food comes from, a word, the impact we're having on our local and greater environment, so forth being a mindful consumer consuming, we have... Do we consume... That's being a human means we have to have food, we have to have shelter, we consume, but being mindful, being intentional, because if you think about What's the opposite, it's being mindless, a mindless consumer. And that's where we get ourselves into trouble.(9:44)CONNECT WITH TODD R. CHRISTENSEN •Email: Todd@moneyfit.org • MoneyFit show Podcast: https://moneyfit.org/podcast•My Life, My Choices - Student Edition: https://moneyfit.org/my-life-my-choices-students•Free Classroom Package: https://moneyfit.org/my-life-my-choices• My Life My Choices – Military Transition Edition: https://moneyfit.org/my-life-my-choices-militaryReality Town Simulation: https://realitytown.com/Junior Achievement Finance Park Simulation (Virtual): https://jausa.ja.org/programs/ja-finance-park-virtualJumpStart Coalition: https://jumpstart.org/CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed • Tik Tok:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhKwFKc/

• We have been making plans for many years now, the International Federation For Home Economics World Congress, it's will be held in Atlanta, Georgia. So coming up right here in the southeast part of the United States, September 60th through 10th, 2022.(1:54)• Georgia is in the top 10 universities nationally, the University of Georgia, and they have a very strong family consumer science education program but connected to the University of Georgia are our extension colleagues, and so our extension colleagues have been playing a significant role in the planning for the Congress as has our Georgia affiliates (4:22)• The United States presenting itself to the world, but you'll also see this connection because they'll be presenting the flag and the movement of the Congress from the United States to its next destination. So that's a really cool thing packed into the in-between, you're going to see really rich and robust concurrent sessions, plenary speakers, and so on, that's going to help to build that intellectual space that we're so familiar with when we go to conferences to study within our discipline and so it's all very exciting. (8:13)• Family and Consumer scientists in a world where everybody's thinking about where the money is coming from or who their stakeholders are, we belong to a discipline where our stakeholders are families and consumers that those are our stakeholders. We're responsible at the end of the day to those people, the people whose lives, we're trying to empower them to make their own lives better, and that's unique among many different disciplines, that we are responsible not to some agency, not to some industry but to the individuals, families and consumers that we are educating. Another thing, I'm always keenly aware of, is that home economics as a discipline was founded to give women access to science education, and more than that, recognized that science education was a way to empower people to protect their families from the damage caused by the industrial revolution, from pollution, from adulterated products, from mislabeling, from predatory financial practices, and so forth  (40:14)CONNECT WITH DR. GWENDOLYN HUSTVEDT•Email: president@ifhe.org•Website: https://www.ifhe.org/service-1/join-us •World 2022 Congress Website: https://web.cvent.com/event/ec0dcde7-3a47-494c-ba86-269439400fa3/summary •Twitter: @ifheUs•Twitter: @ifhe_HomeEcCONNECT WITH DR. JANINE DUNCAN•Email: duncanjm@ksu.edu•Website: https://www.ifhe.org/service-1/join-us  •World 2022 Congress Website: https://web.cvent.com/event/ec0dcde7-3a47-494c-ba86-269439400fa3/summary •Twitter: @JanineDuncan64• Instagram: kstatecteCONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed • Tik Tok:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhKwFKc/

• International Federation For Home Economics was founded more than 100 years ago in 1908, it was founded to basically help have a conversation about home economics as a discipline on a global stage across global hat forms. And so I got involved because it's just a chance to meet people who share many of our same perspectives, but maybe not all of our exact same concerns or issues, so depending on what country they're in, they're structured a little differently, they have support coming from different places, or they have a different position or status within their society, it can be easy sometimes for us to get a little bit defensive, we sometimes feel like we have to always explain, yes, we still exist, or this is what we do, or...It's a lot of things, but we're all together, and so it's really great to meet people who receive different kinds of support or have a different perspective on what should be included or how things should work. So just to put it simply, the International Federation For Home Economics is the only international organization that's designed to promote home economics across the world, that's what the organization is in a nutshell.(4:13)• I was a second-year middle school teacher when I went to my first congress. It was something that was part of the culture of where I went to school at the University of Illinois, and we had a group of people who were going. And I thought, Well, you know, I had to make choices, and I attended that year, and it was a remarkable experience.  I remember having someone ask me when I was there, "why would a middle school teacher come to the Internation Federation of Home Economics Congress? I was stunned by the question 'cause I thought, Well, why wouldn't we... And really what's to be gained, there's everything that we do as teachers of home economics, family consumer sciences, now that we refer to it, is about trying to connect people, and that if we're really trying to connect people and build Understandings cross-culturally, then the best way to do that is by working cross-culturally with our peers, and so the Congress gives us a great opportunity to do that (7:22)• As Family & Consumer Sciences professionals and Home Economists, we're empowered to actually think through how we can manage those situations. Were in a really lucky position. I read a book about the first Earth day and talked about how he called them housewives, but I'd like to imagine that quite a lot of these quote housewives were actually home economics trained women who were really concerned about litter and water pollution and air pollution in the 1970s.  The original Earth Day was actually focused on removing waste from our environment, and one of the kinds of sad things as I read that book, I realized that there was definitely this idea that we should solve our problems around ways of using market forces.  If we will buy recycled products, then that will stimulate a market for recyclables and then the problem will be solved. And of course, one of the things I'd like to remember is that industries who are making money off of us want us to have conversations that are on their terms about how we can use them to solve the problem, just buy something recycled or recycled here, and that solves the problem, but the whole point of home economics is that what happens in our homes is our business, right, we have the power within our homes, and so we should be empowered through education and through options to actually have our home a place that reflects our values. (16:13)• I love using the Sustainable Development Goals as a teaching frame within my courses, just laying out all 17 of the goals and then explaining how Home Economics aligns with all of the goals, and then also asking my students through the course of the semester, which of the topics that we're talking about today fits with which development goal, so that they can really understand that things like seeking justice or gender equality, or improving health and wellness are the things we're talking about aligning with this global conversation. (27:43)CONNECT WITH DR. GWENDOLYN HUSTVEDT•Email: president@ifhe.org•Website: https://www.ifhe.org/service-1/join-us •World 2022 Congress Website: : https://web.cvent.com/event/ec0dcde7-3a47-494c-ba86-269439400fa3/summary •Twitter: @ifheUs•Twitter: @ifhe_HomeEcCONNECT WITH DR. JANINE DUNCAN•Email: duncanjm@ksu.edu•Website: https://www.ifhe.org/service-1/join-us  •World 2022 Congress Website: https://web.cvent.com/event/ec0dcde7-3a47-494c-ba86-269439400fa3/summary •Twitter: @JanineDuncan64• Instagram: kstatecteCONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed • Tik Tok:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhKwFKc/

•  We have such a heart for CTE. So I'm really excited to have you with me and just talking about alternative certification programs, we need to fill that teacher pipeline, so let's just start right out the gate. What is CTE?  Alright, well, CTE is an acronym that stands for career and technical education, and that is the current phrase that we use to describe what we used to call vocational education, so we're talking about hands-on, small groups, very structured type of learning environments, and that's essentially what CTE is. CTE tends to be your electives, your hands-on elective classes, and a lot of times they lead to potential certifications or things of that nature that lead into careers. So very career-driven curriculum(3:06).• CTE or back as it was originally known, vocational education. It really came about right at the turn of the last century, and it started with farming. There was this need to incorporate some real tangible hands-on skills and techniques for students so that they could actually finish their high school experience and get out there and have a tangible skill set such as being able to farm.  In the beginning, it was very ag-driven, and then from there, we ended up going into World War 1. That model ended up being used to teach teachers how to teach their students tangible things to help with the war effort, so things like how to drive, because again, we're talking about the turn of last century, so automotive skills and things of that nature, and so that's where CTE really got its foothold, and as we moved through the years and come up to where we currently are now... Really what CTE does is, again, it provides this type of education that really gives students these hands-on tangible skill sets to be able to enter into the workforce, so when that is our goal, we need teachers who come from industry to be able to deliver that kind of curriculum effectively. (5:17)• How we work with teacher certifications is by offering an intensified course. This is open for people who have been in industry and have a certain number of hours in industry. These are individuals who want to get into the classroom, but they don't necessarily want to go the traditional academic route and put four years in for an undergrad and then get their teaching starts to get on top of it. So what we do is we look at their work history and we make sure that they have enough hours in that particular area, and then we enroll them in this very intensified program where we have short courses that really give them the background need to have... In how to write lesson plans, how to handle classroom management, and we put them right away into a teacher practicum, so that means they're in the classroom.  Everything is very condensed and short and you can, depending on where you're at, you can get through the program within... One summer up to two years, just kind of depending on what route you want to take. (8:46)• I am such a believer in CTE, I'm so glad that I stumbled into this field. Once I really started understanding what CTE is and how it can reach students, I had just never looked back I'm just such a believer in it. One thing I love about CTE is that it is hands-on education, these are the classes where you are actually making things... You are working in small groups. I used to teach Culinary Arts at Mount Vernon high school where I did my student teaching. That was my first teaching job were and where I taught beginning foods, Advanced foods, and I loved that. I loved that small group dynamic, and you see it in students, they enjoy that too. They really thrive in that type of environment where they're able to work together, work collaboratively, while they're working collaboratively, they are reading a recipe, they're interpreting it, they are delegating duties, they are working together, and then at the end of it, they have a product that they can share in this scenario, it's food, they're able to sit down and eat, so not only are they learning, but all of these basic needs are being met. (24:40)CONNECT WITH JILL•Email:  jill.perilloclark@cwu.edu•Website: https://www.cwu.edu/hospitality-wine/•LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-perillo-clark-aa4231106/• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jill.p.clark.5CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed • Tik Tok:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhKwFKc/

•  Especially in our time right now, and there's so much stress going on.  The simple science back to practices, these little things that people can do that can improve their personal well-being... I'll give you some examples, my two favorites probably are gratitude, just the power of the science of gratitude. Simply being mindful of others and expressing that gratitude to others, and the second one is kindness, just random acts of kindness.  (2:58)• One thing to make me happy, something I'm grateful for is something that day that I loved, and then I choose to do that. I encourage families to do that to end of their day. We are all wanting to end the day on a positive and happy note, and plus, you learn all kinds of things for your children about what made them happy and how they did on tests at school, or who they helped, or... Those are the things. So it's these little practices that we can do... It could be at dinner time, it can be right before they go to bed, but these little rituals can be really meaningful. (11:38) • I got my Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from Auburn University in Alabama, and then I worked at the University of Missouri for nine years as an extension specialist. Extension specialist, is really it's about taking the research that's out there and developing into programs, such as parenting programs where my three areas of specialty are parenting, couples relationships and the kinds positivity, this Positive Psychology, this happiness. So those are my three areas positivity, parenting, marriage, relationships.  (15:43)• In fact, my AI surveyed over 1300 people when I was at the University of Missouri, I asked him, Is the two questions the shortest survey of my career, and it was, to me, life is all about... And then fill in the blank. I had people of all these one or two words, to me, life is all about from like... And if I were to die tomorrow, what I would miss the very most would be... And then fill in the blank. Overwhelmingly, it was family.  It's the relationship to this life and most people. No, it doesn't mean that work isn't satisfying can bring fulfillment, but when it comes down to it... Man. It's about family relationships.  (19:10)CONNECT WITH DR.DAVE•Email: dave@drdavespeaks.com•Website: www.drdaveschramm.com•YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUgmEM9eheDC5AbNYUB3ENA• Extention Resource: https://extension.usu.edu/drdave • Facebook: DrDaveUSU•Instagram: DrDaveSchramm CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed • Tik Tok:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhKwFKc/WHEN DOES IT AIR…MARCH 2nd, 2022

 •  Traditionally, there hasn't been a lot of support for those current in-classroom FCS teachers other than what their state administrator provides, and so each state has some sort of state administrator employed by the entity of which overseas career in technical education, or at least somebody that kinda vaguely oversees multiple areas, and so I think they've provided a lot of different support pieces, so the grant has definitely provided more opportunities and more resources for the in-classroom teacher to really grow and be a retained right now. (7:43)• we have really provided some guidance towards the grant with really making sure that the curriculum, whether it comes through an outside vendor, comes through teachers, comes from teacher educators or students that come through a family consumer science education program means a high-quality stamp on us so that way, we're turning out curriculum and which can be used that are tied to the National Family and Consumer Science Standard. So on the website, FCSed.net, under the support menu, there is the curriculum library but you could also see the evaluation rubric and which was developed to make sure that we are ensuring that the curriculum that is out there that I vetted is really validated, not only by educators but through some of the other networks that we provide through business and industry, really meet that high-quality CTE framework that's put out by act to make sure that our program has support. (11:00) •  What advice do you have for current FCS educators, because we've talked about the future, but how about for that current piece? Well, I think that it's really important to take advantage of all the resources that are available to people now and that there are so many resources on the National Partnership that people can use, and we really, at this point, are trying to make sure that we educate people to all the resources and opportunities are there on the national partnership.  One of the things that we found when we started the National Partnership was that we were doing national leadership conferences and summits, but really needed to get that material down to the grassroots, so we developed state action teams to develop their own plans in their own regions for recruiting, preparing and supporting FCS educators. Presently, there's over 350 members of state action teams across the United States and also in Puerto Rico.  (15:43)• Current teachers are the best recruiters, they see their students, and there are lots of opportunities to say, You know that what? I think you have what it takes to be a great future FCS educator... Encourage them to look at FCS as a possible career. And of course, we also have new marketing resources that just came out, a playbook about really marketing your program. We have 30 seconds radio spot,  and a three-minute PSA video. There are those things also, but I once heard someone say that the day you take your job, you should be looking for your replacement, and so we really have to be looking as we look at that pipeline that's getting smaller, that we all do our part to encourage people to look at FCS. (19:51)CONNECT WITH THE NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP•Email: https://www.fcsed.net/contact-us•Website: https://www.fcsed.net/about/about-national-partnershipCONNECT WITH KAREN BERGH, PhD., CFCS•Email: berghkm@gmail.com •Website:  https://www.gpidea.org/program/family-consumer-sciences-educationCONNECT WITH ROB VAN DYKE, CFCS •Email: Robert.Vandyke@dpi.nc.gov CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed • Tik Tok:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhKwFKc/WHEN DOES IT AIR…FEBRUARY 23rd, 2022

•  Can you ever really prepare to honor roll and feeling and Consumer Sciences? It is such a varied discipline and it is constantly evolving, but we do the best we can to give students lots of opportunities, helping them understand the family and consumer sciences body of knowledge is really key. The first piece of that is understanding that no matter what your role in Family and Consumer Sciences might be, we're all connected through that body of knowledge, understanding that our goal is to help me basic human needs, and as we work with individuals, families and communities across the lifespan. So just helping prepare individuals to understand that they have lots of opportunities in the field, I think is a big part of our role, and then giving them content experience and connecting them with other professionals. Doing that networking is so key.  (7:14)• The Body knowledge is the theory and the understandings that we have that bring all of our family and consumer sciences professions together, which again is meeting basic human needs, so when we look at the graphic that we have, we've got the circle in the middle with basic human needs, and then we surround that with the other content that's affecting the work that we do. And so when we look at globalization and well-being and research and the other aspects that we need to consider and how those all are working together, again, across the lifespan, there's so many great articles and there's also some great webinars that I would suggest for people to take some time to learn a little bit more about the body of knowledge, if it's not something that they're familiar with. (11:24)• The National Partnership really facilitates collaborative relationships with educational institutions to provide online courses, which is what the course bank or the course repository is all about, and so people who want to teach either high school, middle school or FCS content areas, which would include Cooperative Extension, have access to this repository, which is a listing of courses that meet the FCS standards, so this repository is located FCSed.net, where it provides a list of the courses that meet licensure requirements for FCS educators and interesting enough, there are 11 states that no longer offer the licensure courses that are needed for FCS educators, and so for a student who is in a state that doesn't offer these courses, this is a wonderful opportunity for them to be able to find out where courses are offered and take a course that would help them gain licensure. (16:36)• We have a number of scholarships available to help support individuals who are seeking Family and Consumer Sciences degrees, whether that's undergraduate or graduate level, and on the FCSed.net website, there is a place to access some of those scholarship resources and we absolutely encourage individuals who are seeking scholarships to check out those resources, whether they're local, regional or national scholarships. The partners for the Alliance for Family and Consumer Sciences, provide resources and scholarships, and again, we would encourage people to go to the website and check out those scholarship resources, it's great to have some financial support for the work that we do in addition to that moral support that we need. (19:57)CONNECT WITH THE NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP•Email: https://www.fcsed.net/contact-us•Website: https://www.fcsed.net/about/about-national-partnership CONNECT WITH SUSAN TURGESON, Ed.D., CFCS•Email: susan.turgeson@uwsp.edu•Website: https://www.uwsp.edu/health/Pages/Major/fcs.aspxCONNECT WITH SUSAN WALKER, Ph.D., CFCS •Email: appvtuncg@aol.com CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed • Tik Tok:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhKwFKc/WHEN DOES IT AIRFEBRUARY 16th, 2022

•  I can't count how many conversations I've had with people out in the community, random strangers, even where they think that they should bring back home economics. But Home Economics has always been here. It changed the name 30 years ago. It's always been here. It's going to continue to be here. And they value that skill set, and they aren't teachers, but they value that skill set and they think it should be taught, and I also think it should be taught. So that's why I'm here. (7:43)• The National Partnership for Family and Consumer Sciences education for recruiting, preparing and supporting an FCS educators. How did you guys go about finding out about this national partnership? Well, I think that Kevin and I both learned about the partnership through our professor here at Purdue, Dr. Carol Werhan because she was on an episode of this podcast, and before she sent it to us and encouraged us to listen, so naturally we did (14:16)• I actually attended a signing ceremony myself, so when I went to the National Say Yes  to FCS event, like the Star event, back when I was a senior in high school. Me and my teacher, we went to go to this event where we had to basically go up on this little board and sign her name saying we said yes to FCS... This was at FCCLA conference, I realized it's also at state levels as well (17:36)• So there is actually a recruiting handbook guide called The marketing playbook, and it's a ready-to-use content library that you can download digital and social media, such as educator spotlights, podcasts, videos, print-ready, images and graphics, brand standards, and out outreach materials and you could find all of these materials on the website FCSED.net. Here is just a sampling of a 30-second recording PSA product that you can use right now. (19:18)CONNECT WITH THE NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP•Email: https://www.fcsed.net/contact-us•Website: https://www.fcsed.net/about/about-national-partnership CONNECT WITH EMMERSON BURROUGHS•Email: eburroughs.be@gmail.com CONNECT WITH KEVIN HOMAN•Email: homan4@purdue.edu CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed • Tik Tok:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhKwFKc/WHEN DOES IT AIRFEBRUARY 9th, 2022

•  The National Partnership is a group of over 14 national level organizations that are all an integral part of family and consumer sciences education. All of them care about recruiting, preparing and supporting FCS educators. We found that these organizations were all doing great things among themselves for FCS ED, but we didn't have a way to organize and share the resources with each other so sometimes we had service duplication and service gaps. We formed the national partnership with the focus of working together to recruit, prepare and support FCS educators and to maximize the use of our resources. It has been really rewarding to work with all the different groups. We're working with K-12 teachers, post-secondary students and faculty, the Career and Technical Education Association, teacher educators, State Program Managers, AAFCS, FCCLA, FCS extension, and the National Coalition for Black Development. It has been really exciting and a great group of people to work with.  (6:22)• We created a national map of FCS educator preparation programs and identified state certification offices, so individuals can see where to go to get certified in FCS education.  We provide scholarship and financial aid information and an online course repository, if individuals need to take online content courses for their certification. We also have a resource library that provides access to curriculum materials for quality instruction. Our webinar library has professional development opportunities on current FCS topics. These are just a few of the resources created by the National Partnership. It has been very successful in pulling together and providing free resources and tools to recruit, preparer and support FCS educators. (10:23)•  We created the National Partnership website to be a one-stop shop where resources and tools could be posted in one place for FCS educators to use. We also added some additional information such as on the February 16th Family and Consumer Sciences Educator Day. This day of FCS celebration is always held the Wednesday of FCCLA week. We've got great resources available for you to use to promote and celebrate the value and impact of FCS education. (15:10)•  We're also working on some new champion products. We're defining champions as alumni, school administrators, parents, and other people who can help us identify and promote the value and the impact of Family and Consumer Sciences Education on individuals and communities. You will soon see some new partnership products for public service announcements, podcasts, promotional ads, and spotlighting FCS educators. (19:32)CONNECT WITH DR. JAN BOWERS•Email: bowersjs@oneonta.edu •Website: https://www.fcsed.net/about/about-national-partnership •YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz5bYuXaZYr2ggaCoE9wAxw CONNECT WITH DR. LORI MYERS•Email: lmyers@aafcs.org •LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lori-myers-phd-cfcs-86579b14/•Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lori.a.myers.372•Twitter:  https://twitter.com/aafcs    CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed • Tik Tok:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhKwFKc/WHEN DOES IT AIRFEBRUARY 2ND, 2022

•  Phi Upsilon Omicron is the National Honor Society in Family and Consumer Sciences. We were actually founded in 1909 at the University of Minnesota, so we've got a long history there, and actually originally were designated as the honor society for home economics, (2:09)• A membership and rotation invitation to a collegiate chapter through local honorary membership, and then we also have national honorary membership, which is bestowed upon someone in our biennial conclave, so lots of different avenues there to become a part of our efforts and to become a member.(4:51)•  Within the last year, Phi U launched a YouTube channel, so we even have had some members when chapter submit their own content to be featured on our YouTube channel, so that's been super fun to just watch them work and to be so inspired, so I encourage your listeners to check out, it's potential Honor Society are YouTube channel, and we have some professional project videos on there where the students talk specifically about their community service and the impact they've made through the organization, and that's always wonderful, and then we've got some recognition videos on there where you can kind of see the name or scholarships and fellowships and grants, and even alumni distinguished service awards that we've given through the years.(13:32)•  We have some eligibility information on what institutions could be considered for membership, but mainly we have a petition form that just seems to be filled out and signed off by different leadership levels at the institution and submitted to national counsel for vote, but a lot of times if they meet on that criteria, what we found is the biggest hurdle is just working with establishing a new student organization on campus, so if they have a sponsor or someone willing to help them navigate that and the rest is pretty simple. (19:52)•  Just because you're not active on our roster doesn't mean that we have struck through your name in the database, you're still a Phi U member, and we would love to welcome you back into the fold and reconnect you to the greek track; That's easier than ever. You can go on our website at PhiU.org and log in and set up your own profile, you can even add pictures, share about your family, reconnect with other members, so that's an opportunity there. (26:03)CONNECT WITH MELISSA MARTIN:•Email: national@phiu.org or www.phiu.org•LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/phi-upsilon-omicron/ •Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phiunational•Twitter:  https://twitter.com/PhiUNational       •YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPfOo4o02n9_ib2Yzct6Wxw  CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed WHEN DOES IT AIR…January 26th, 2022

•  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) CONNECT WITH NAI WANG:• Email: http://www.kpcurriculum.com/• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/naiwang1/• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kpeducation• Twitter: @NaiWang1 CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed 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)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedWHEN 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)CONNECT WITH ABIGAIL LEE:• Email: Partnerships@fcclainc.org• Twitter: @NationalFCCLA• Pinterest:  NationalFCCLA CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedWHEN 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)CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE HOLLINGSWORTH:• Email: national@fcclainc.org• Twitter: @NationalFCCLA• Pinterest:  NationalFCCLA CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedWHEN 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)CONNECT WITH SHERRY VOGEL:• Sherry's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sherry.vogel.18• Twitter: @NationalFCCLA• Pinterest:  NationalFCCLA • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sherry.vogel.18/CONNECT WITH ALAINA THARP:• Alaina's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alaina.tharp2• Twitter: @NationalFCCLA• Pinterest:  NationalFCCLA • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laina.tharp/CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedWHEN 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)CONNECT WITH ASHLEY NELSON:• FCCLA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1506195226130180• Twitter: @NationalFCCLA• Pinterest:  NationalFCCLA • Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/nationalfccla/• Email: national@fcclainc.orgCONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedWHEN 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:Sharing strategies for recruiting and retaining teachers.Strategies for promoting FCS programsMental health spotlight with Rikki Cook, CounselorMentoring programsChange 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.CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedWHEN 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)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedWHEN DOES IT AIR…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)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedCONNECT WITH PAT SEGADILLIEmail: https://www.gioandbanks.com/contactInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/gio_and_banks/Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/gio_and_banksFOLLOW ILLISTRATOR JEN WALSHInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/byjenwalsh/WHEN DOES IT AIR…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)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedWHEN DOES IT AIR…OCTOBER 27th, 2021

•   We want to talk about strategies for retaining our FCS teachers because we love our teachers, don't we? Yes, we do. And we need them, we need them so desperately bad research says that teachers leave the profession within the first three years that they're gonna do so for that first three years is crucial. I think one of the number one strategies for keeping those new teachers is for them to find a mentor, and I think we need to step up as other FCs teachers and be that mentor for them, whether we know them or not, whether they're in our district, even our state, I think it's just really vital that we have that SCS teacher connection, that's instrumental for their success (1:25)•   Right now, the nation is experiencing the biggest wave of retirements ever, as teachers born in the baby boom era of 1946 to 64, they're gradually reaching the age of 65, the rate of those low-income schools is even higher, the number of college students planning to enter the teaching field is at the lowest point since 1970 according to The 2016 survey of University of California.  How can we make a difference for tomorrow's future leaders? That is such a really great way to put it, because they are future leaders and we think teachers sometimes we don't necessarily think leaders, unfortunately, they're not tied together as tightly as I wish they were, but... What do we do? I think we as FCS specifically, we have to do a better job of identifying ourselves as what we are, we are not just cooking, you're not just sewing, we are no longer Home Ec... I know the words Home Economics has a really rich history and we need to keep that, but we also need to move forward. And I think identifying ourselves, each sector, interior designers, how many interior designers know that they fall under the FCS umbrella, I can't tell you how many do... And There are some that would say, Yeah, I took a FCS class in high school, that's where I was introduced to it. But would we go to a university now and realize that they fall under the FCS umbrella and could teach this to kids, I don't know if they would be able to tell you that. So I think identifying ourselves is probably part of the foundation. (11:57)•  How would you say we could go about providing various leadership opportunities to those? Good question. Providing those leadership opportunities. I think we have to work together to create some sort of continuity, that way we can make a bigger impact, so that could look like individual states or districts putting together initiatives, lesson plans to push out to their high school people also visiting with those people at the college level, the university level, getting people who are staff at college is on board with what we teach, what we do, I think is also instrumental to getting more teachers for our content.(13:41)•  How did you go about establishing a mentor program?  So that's a good question. So mentoring, it's one of those things I just decided within myself, I wanted to give back to my network of people, and I felt like I had a good place, I was in a good place to do it, so I started being very present on the Facebook group specifically for the FCCLA advisor one. 'cause that's really where my passion lies. So from there, I was kind of, for lack of better terms, maybe targeted a little bit for a formal program that was put together by Nebraska FCCLA where they lumped teachers and advisors together. So I did that for a couple of years. Just kind of checked in, I had my select few of people who have a check-in with, and then California just recently last year, piloted program, we kind of revamped over the summer, and then, now really it is taking off with really good intentions and some really wonderful goals in place.  On the personal level is just reaching out, making connections, it's all about relationships, and I think as an FCS teacher, we know that it's all about the relationships we build with kids, with our communities, with our teaching peers, so it's building those relationships and really being an advocate for them and standing in their corner and being their champion and their cheerleader, you can do this, you can do this, and let me help you do it, or let me show you how I did it... (20:33)•  How would you go about we meet the challenges within FCS education, because we are up against a lot of challenges right now?  We are, and I hate to say it like this, but I feel like that's a little bit of a loaded question because there's so much when it comes to meeting the challenges. I feel like we have a really strong community, it's just we need some of those community members to step up, when I think about even my friend network, I have some really close friends who do amazing things, but just maybe for whatever reason, haven't stepped up to be the leader, the champion, they haven't grown their wings to be able to fly quite yet, so I think that's kind of where that mentorship comes in a little bit is that encouragement is, Hey, I think you would be amazing, I think maybe you just need to start small, but try... So I think meeting the challenges come with encouragement, we all know somebody who is a kick-butt teacher who knows what they're doing, who has it all together, and maybe they just need to be asked like, Hey, I think you need to... Have you thought about this? Or, what do you think about this? And maybe they didn't know the opportunity was there to step up, I think that would be a really great start to meeting the challenge of really anything... I could even say that to my kids. Have you thought about joining FCCLA? Well, no, nobody's ever tapped to me on it, let me tell you about it, getting them excited and then kind of just slowly pushing them towards that. Yeah.  I agree, it's... The power of ask is really what it is. (30:58)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedCONNECT WITH NICKI PEDELISKI:Email: Nicki.facs@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicki.pedeliskiInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickipedeliski/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicki-pedeliski/WHEN DOES IT AIR…OCTOBER 20th, 2021

•  Your specialty is comedy. Yes. You love comedy, I love comedy, but as I was saying before the fore show.  I love comedy, but I can't give comedy because there are special people who can do it, and I feel this within my core and that... You're one of those special people and you bring it into the FCS community. And it is amazing. All of things I appreciate that. I just love it.  Comedy breaks the ice with anything, any situation, whatever embraces joy because everybody can laugh and should. So I utilize that comedy in the classroom as much as possible, it keeps my kids go and it keeps me going. (5:41)•   I like how you said you showed the video because that's something that we talked about in that webinar, where some of the teachers that were present in the webinar, they had said, what if you're just not funny, that's just not something that your gift at then how do you put humor in the classroom... What he said was ingenious, and he said that literally, you use someone else's...  Show a YouTube video, or you find something that's funny and then just share it with the kids, you're still incorporating humor, it doesn't have necessarily be your humor, you don't have to be this hilarious person, if you can incorporate it, then that makes it all the better. (8:01)•  I literally have this PD called greys teaching anatomy that I do... Yeah, I do something with that. So hilarious, because everybody's all about the whole greys anatomy thing.  That's why I use the name because it's something that people would be like, Wait, what?  And so what I do is I talk about how, alright, none of us, you know how to do it, right, it is what it is, we all have our good things that we can bring to the table. We all have our little expertise area. So teaching isn't about black and white, it is not black and white in any circumstance, who doesn't right... Who does it wrong? Who does it better? Who does it worse? No, it's not black and white. It is all grey, and that's mixing it all together... Everybody's black and white, if I am the grey, it works best for you and your students. So in that session, we talk about finding your grey. (9:13)• Tell me a little bit about your comedy, What is your comedy style? Because as I said, we... We need to get you out there. Well, I do stand-up comedy and encouragement, so it's clean comedy, a clean comedy set, and then followed up with encouragement. So that's my style, it's like comedy with a message. I literally just find hilarious things in my life and that people are like, Oh my gosh, yes. So I try to make it as relatable as possible as well, because it just makes people be able to connect... (11:53)•   You also host your own podcast, which you shared with me prior to recording. Well, my podcast is called 'Leslie said What?' Yes, Leslie said What! And so I'm one of those people, I don't think... Not saying I don't have a filter is the word, but I just basically rip off the band-aid, and just talking about topics and just say what it is, and then most of the time people were  like Leslie, she said that? Yep, she did. So 'Leslie said what?', what was just the perfect name for it, because I wanna help people to understand and embrace things, whether it's in the Christian realm and the encouragement realm, whatever anybody needs help with or whatever, instead of just talking around the bush... Let's just hit it head on and say what it is. (18:56)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedCONNECT WITH LESLIE ROB:Email: leslie@leslierob.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lesliecrobInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/leslierobcomedy/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH72fq_toSBDYb_u59I3OBQ?app=desktopWHEN DOES IT AIR…OCTOBER 13th, 2021

•   I just wanted to take a minute and share the last few episodes have been incredible, listening to Kevin Reese Sr talk about his award and all the major happenings at New Bern High School in North Carolina, along with the tech twins who are business and marketing and educators who have turned entrepreneurs.  They have a lot of great things going on,  then we did a deep dive into the rich history of Ellen Swallow Richards, our foundation for family and consumer sciences education. I am so grateful for the knowledge from Joyce Miles. We then listened to Rachel Grabowski chat about Special Education in the Gen Ed classroom in episode 67. Rachel shares many amazing tools, tips and tricks that she's giving us to better meet the needs to all of our students, regardless of abilities. Then finally, Chelsey Farias, who happens to be my co-teacher who I share a classroom with during first period and second period. Chelsey talked about being a new teacher, and building cultural opportunities in the FCS classroom.  For those of you who have listened to episode 66 and hearing her excitement and enthusiasm for starting off the new school year, let me just tell you, she is thriving and she's doing amazing work. I am so grateful to be able to partner with her and watch her flourish as a new teacher (00:31)• I'm teaching interior design 1 & 2, financial literacy and maybe mental health and counseling sometimes this school year, but I just came up with PBL assignment on the fly the other day. For those of us who are not educators or not familiar with certain acronyms within the education field, PBL stands for 'project-based learning'. This is a hands-on activity for students to engage in for my interior design class, as we're just finishing up our principles and elements of design unit. I've gone and turn this activity into a interactive lap book. It's interactive, not digital. We love our digital interactive notebooks, but no, this is an actual hands-on book that students are creating, and I'm really excited to see what student's create. I will share this assignment on my website where you'll be able to download from free. I want you to use it, so if you have interior design and you're looking for an activity that meets standard and content along with buying you a little more time for a reprieve...Well, I got the stuff for you  (2:26)•  Students are given a manila folder that you would have for your file cabinet, students are then instructed to fold it into thirds, so it becomes a mini presentation board for them.  On the front for the title, I'm just gonna walk you through this assignment, so you have your front cover, so the book is folded and closed up with that title showing. For the title, students will write "what are the elements and principles of design" including their first and last name, and of course, what class period they're in.  They have to include pictures of those elements of design that represents space, color, shape, form, value, texture and line, so students can draw a trace, use magazine cut-outs in. Or, if they have a colored printer at home or something, they can print those images out and I put that down as 10 points, then the title is done and they get to color it and make it as creative as possible.  (3:39)• Students will be focusing on the Elements of Design: color, value, form, value, texture, and shape.  Students are including the definition and what are four benefits to each of those design elements.  For example, when it comes to color, what are four benefits to color?  1. You are able to change the mood of a room... Great, there's a benefit. What's another benefit to color? 2. Color can also help reduce stress and anxiety, 3. Color can improve your sleep, and 4. it could improve focus. These are all areas of how various color can impact good design, so they're writing that down and then they include a picture of the color wheel where they draw or something along those lines, and have some sort of interactive 3-d element jumping out at us when we're looking at it, then finally on the inside right side panel of their presentation folder, they will focus on line and texture, and again, they're always including that definition first of what line is... Or texture, or any of those elements, they're including the definition first and then moving on to adding the four benefits to each of those designs. (7:06)• My students are also lacking on their digital interactive notebooks... I love the digital interactive notebook as a teaching tool and pacer and I love but students are struggling staying engaged so,  I'm trying to apply the hands-on projects and not making the digital interactive notebooks count so much, because I noticed within the last few weeks as we wrapped up our color theory unit, when we were doing our water coloring and creating their own color wheels and drawing, everyone was so relaxed. Students loved it. I was able to put them in pods where they were working together, and students who don't normally ever even talk to one another, all of a sudden, this lively conversation came about so organic and natural. It was amazing. And so that's what I'm trying to re-create but staying safe as we are still observing covid protocols. So, we start off doing individual work with our digital interactive notebooks, and then we come together for a big project, and then quiz.   (9:04)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedWHEN DOES IT AIR…OCTOBER 6th, 2021

Episode Notes•   I'm beyond thankful. I was recognized as the 2021 Teacher of the Year for New Bern High School. I came in second in the district, which is still an honor, I lost a... I don't wanna say loss. A young lady who was absolutely amazing also of district, so I don't take it lightly, I don't take these things like me, I am extremely humbled at every twist on turn of his teaching career that I have all of a sudden. (1:56)•  New Bern High School is the home of the bears, and we just went with the Bear Den bistro, we will cook two or three times a week. My students have created the mission statement, our vision state and our purpose. We try to make sure that it's what I know. That every student that I have is not going to call in the arts. I completely understand that, but I also know that they will be productive to society, and the way we do that is making sure they have the job skills and the soft skills that they need in order to be productive to be able to go out and get a job, and the students literally do everything in class, I manage the money, but they oversee it, they do the panel, they create the menu, they send him in us out, they plan everything.  I guide them, and I've been so, so, so blessed to have students that wanna do it, I've had students who graduated from Johnson Wales Culinary School and other Culinary Arts schools, and students go on to just do amazing things in college. (6:59)•  How many students are in your class? For the Bear den bistro,  I have a state cap.  I'm allowed 20 kids per class because I have a level one, which is like the beginning, my level two, which is an intermediate class, and I have a level 3, which is like an honors class that I've been very fortunate and I've had kids that once they take their level three courses.  After they have passed their ServSafe, I promote to them to sous chef and I get them their own chef jacket with the Bear Den Bistro and their name on their coat. (9:20)•  My long-term goal is for us to have a food truck, it are able to do stuff on the weekends and get that work experience and make a little money.  These classes, they come up with some of the most creative stuff.  This is crazy, but we have our own seasoning line, where we've created our own seasonings. One of our lessons is Century and taste and smell. So we had a seasoning and taste competition where every student creates their own season, so the basalt is the one that I created, and oh my God, I can't keep it.  It sells out, so is... And hopefully this year, we'll be able to introduce the two seasonings that our students have added, and it's been amazing. (11:45)•   Where I live here in New Bern. We're actually the birthplace of Pepsi which is what we're known for. It's a great place to raise a family.  My wife's a principal, my kids at in public schools, all my friends and family kids go to public school, so it's just... It's a great state to be in play, this area is absolutely phenomenal as far as being close-knit and be a community and loving and supporting each other, it's just huge. (17.46)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedCONNECT WITH KEVIN REESE SR.:Email: Kevin.Reese@cravenk12.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/kereesesrLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-reese-sr-11ab028aPhone Number: (252)-514-6400WHEN DOES IT AIR…September 29th, 2021

•   Because you're a fashion educator and you have that industry background, do you have a favorite fabric or textile...Oh goodness, I have several. I love silk, and it's hard for me to come by because it's so expensive, but I love silk, I love just the way it's drapes, I love the way it keeps you cool in the summer and warm in the winter, but... Yeah, that's probably my absolute favorite would be silk, I try to steer clear of some of the synthetic fibers, it's hard with fast fashion, it's hard, but yeah, they're not as comfortable, especially here in North Carolina where it's hot in the summer, wearing some of those synthetic fibers there. Yeah, it's just not as comfortable, but... Yes, silk or rayon. That's another favorite of mine, just the way they drape, I love how that works.(2:21)• When it comes to a fashion and clothing design, what are your first steps when you're looking at your new class... Well, the first thing I would say is, it depends. Like I come from a state that provides me with curriculum and the standards, all of it is spelled out for me, so I've kind of spoiled that way, there are other states that have to make these things up and make their courses up. I found that through the Facebook group that we all collaborate on, and I hear a lot of teachers struggle with that, and especially new teachers, when they're first hired and they're hired to teach all these courses and they're like, Oh my gosh, I have... Now, I don't know what to do, I don't know where to start. So that's what prompted me to write that blog post, because I think a new teacher needs to figure out a way to navigate all that, and so the first thing that you need to do, just kind of figure out, well, if you don't have state standards and you have to develop them yourself. Then you need to do some research, you need to look at... I would suggest looking at other states, reach out to... Reach out on those platforms that we have, the social platforms and just ask people, What are you doing? And once you look at other states, I still look at other states, I wanna know what other people are doing, because one of the constraints I feel when you have a state that gives you the curriculum is you don't have the ability to keep it up-to-date as much as you would like to, if that makes sense, because once a curriculum kind of launched, it's already outdated, especially for fashion, there's a huge area of technologies kind of missing, and it needs to be kind of integrated (6:59)•  An Advisory Board, What is that?   Sure, and I will say when you're building a program, when you have an advisory board and you have that business and industry and colleges and universities behind you, it really gives your program some credibility and that's super important. We wanna make sure students are gaining the skills that they need for when they go on to college, or like I said, into a job. So I really think, and I've heard this from one of the professors at NC State, she was saying that students that learn sewing skills in our classes, they will go further faster than most students because at the university level, at least here in North Carolina, they're not teaching students, all of those skills anymore. So in high school, if a kid can come in knowing how to engineer a garment that's golden, and they're actually teaching their classmates, I think being able to have these people in your back pocket to ask questions, because every year is that things are changing. Fashion is so fast-moving, and if we want to stay current and we want to have programs that are relevant, and we need to have these people in our lives to help us build programs  (16:44)•   Okay, so working in the high school setting, I always have to keep in my mind that our job is to really get kids excited and give them a taste or a sampling of the different topics or different career opportunities in the fashion industry. Funding is huge, and so in order to get, say, computer design programs, some of the leading ones in the industry like Lectra or Optitex, let's say, we can't afford them in the high school level, we just cannot afford them. So I've asked our advisory people, I said, Hey, what can we... What is important? They told us Adobe, Learning Illustrator, Photoshop, those things are going to be key. And those are skills that you can teach at the high school level that students are going to need in order to do some of this work in college or on the job, that's where I'm concentrating some of my efforts is learning some of those skills, so I'm able to do line sheets, let's say, or do some text style design and do some repeats and things like that, that's what I can do through Adobe. Now, Adobe is a beast to learn, and so I can't... can't devote a lot of time to that, so I have to bring in simple things and expose students to some of the simple concepts. (29:04)•  My big passion project, I just launched over the summer, and so I've had a couple of workshops, one on creativity and design, and one on garment Engineering, and my next move this fall is to offer some in the textiles of fibers, fabrics and finishes. And so I want to help teachers, I wanna empower them to be able to develop these programs, to develop opportunities for students to get the skills they need in order to be successful in this industry, but the first step is to empower our teachers... Right, and there's just not a lot of professional development around this area, and I found the things that they do have, they are not effective, and so I've wanted to share all my ideas and to empower teachers and bring professionals into the space provides some insight, an excitement around this area  (35:23)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnectFCSed• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedCONNECT WITH Dawn:Email: myfashedu@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/myFashEdu/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmmharrison/WHEN DOES IT AIR…SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

•  My husband and I are both retired and we moved back to Lafayette, Indiana near Purdue University. We spend our time when students are here, working with students on campus as full-time volunteers. We have a number of advisory boards that we're on, we spend a lot of time with student life. Student life covers everything but sports and academics, so this is all the musical organizations, all of the housing units. We both lived in cooperative housing, these are small units, anywhere from 15 to 40 people living in one house and they share the duties and learn all the life skills that many of us learned at home. Today, too many are not learning these skills at home. We work with those students, there's about 400 students in 11 cooperatives, so we work a lot with them. The pandemic, of course, was a blip on our radar, like it was on everyone else's... We were not allowed to be on campus, the students were sent home the second semester in 2020, and then fall semester they came back, but we could not... So we learned how to zoom and learn how to connect vicariously.  (3:00)•  Well, and when I look back, it was a question that hit my mind right off with a lot of people maybe questioning why we spend so much time looking at the history. Shouldn't we be looking ahead pushing forward? And there's some thought to that, but I think in our profession, particularly, we have such a rich history, and there are so many people practicing today who maybe don't even know that rich history, The fact that the science background was so grounded in... I think about the science courses I took here at Purdue, I could have been a science teacher. In fact, one of my roommates was a science teacher. That wasn't the way I wanted to go, but I certainly had the background to do that. I think the more I did the study in the history, the more proud I became of what I chose to do for a life skill, a lifetime of working... I don't know that I thought about that when I was practicing. I taught for a very short length of time and then spent all the rest of my time as a supervisor for Family and Consumer Science in a huge school system in Jacksonville, Florida (7:16)•   I'm with the Historical Society in New Hampshire, and they found an old trunk in a farmhouse, and once they finally opened the trunk and got around to looking to see what was in it, there was this journal in there.  The journal was written by a woman named Eliza Hewins, she talked about Ellen Richards and she had pictures of Ellen Richards. So this person was asking me if I knew how that material got to New Hampshire for one thing. Who was the woman who was writing about Ellen Richards and publishing the pictures? So we did quite a little bit of research, it turns out this person was a neighbor of Ellen Richards, and they rode the trolley car together. Ellen lived in what was then a suburb of Boston, and would ride down to the Back Bay, which is where MIT was back in the late 1800s, and they rode together, and so Ellen invited her to go on weekend day trips, and this was a journal, a handwritten journal of those day trips. (15:06)•  Ellen is still at the forefront, she would have been practicing before we ever had labeling. There's the stories about her working in her father's store, and they would come in and they'd order saleratus or something, which was the same thing as baking soda. And then they would order something else over here, and she said, I get them out of the same bag, she said they're the same thing, and so she would have been hot on it for labeling and then teaching people to read the labels. We take for granted the labeling that is now on everything, and I have learned to appreciate the bar coding on it, now, I am a returning Weight Watchers person, and now with your little phone, you put the bar code up there and it tells you exactly how many points in that particular item.  (24:12)•   Your question, did I ever have a clue about what I would get into?  I had no idea. I mean, I literally turned one bedroom in my house into Ellen's room. All of my archives things, I bought a lot of period pieces, not furniture so much as small pieces, that I could set the stage.  And then, in addition to the documentary, I did a 45-minute presentation in her own words, and I traveled all over the country and Europe actually doing that presentation. I had a 1911 costume made by one of your Washington AAFCS members, LynDee Lombardo. And actually, the whole room was turned into Ellen's room. (30:18)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedCONNECT WITH JOYCE:• Email Joyce: JoyceMiles@aol.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joyce.b.miles.3• Archive Documentary: https://archive.org/details/Ellen_Swallow_RichardsWHEN DOES IT AIR…SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

•   So you have 11 or so years within the education department, and you now have your administrator's certificate. We got our master's in Administration, Education Administration. I want to talk about your Teachers Pay Teachers, your business, because I think we need to promote with business and marketing and family consumer sciences, there's a lot of that over your technology education background. Yes, you're in the classroom, but you did a lot of coaching and mentoring, helping teachers bring their own technology skills up to speed. (1:31)•    We've mentioned this before to some people, but our parents were teachers, and so was our grandma. But then they became admin themselves, curriculum director and Technology Director. So that's kind of funny, we're like intermix between the two, and so we were just raised to talk about it, know about it, and then our brothers are in the IT world as well. So we all just kinda... That was what we talked about is just our lifestyle, honestly, we thought why not teach it to students because we want to make a difference and we knew what it took to be teachers. We love the technology of business classrooms in high school, we both were like, Oh, this is where we thrived, and we took off and we love just the different aura of the classroom than just the textbook and back then and writing. We got a vision for what type of teachers we wanted to be and change up the classroom and that's what we did. (4:12)•   That's one thing I think, as the tech twins, we want others to know, you don't have to be a computer or business or technology teacher to use technology. I think all educators experienced that because of the pandemic. But we want people to know like, Here's what you can do, it can work in any subject.  We like to share tips and tricks to make it easier because we also know technology can be crazy overwhelming for how fast it changes, and I'm sure you can understand that, it's as little as an add on. Like you said, just watching a video and putting the caption, that makes your tech-savvy. Showing students that just little things, it could be recording a video of you lecturing and sharing it so they can re-watch afterwards. Or just adding a website into your activities that you do for the day, there you go, now you're tech-savvy, incorporating technology. (8:37)•   That's the whole point. We realize there's a need for teachers to... Yes, books give you your knowledge, but it didn't give you the break, you had to spend all the time and effort thinking, everything, out, figuring out different types of instruction and activities, and then making the test that goes with the book. So we realize we do that for ourselves already, why not share it with others? And then with the technology side, I feel technology, like I said, I can be super overwhelming. So why not simple it down into a little fun info graphic that you can save and use for later... I mean, I think the biggest tip for teachers is you don't have to be a tech expert, but like we said, throw a little thing in here. We use a little summarized infographic that you can share digitally or keep in your Instagram and revert back to when you need a quick little change up. Pretty much our plan is, if everything keeps going well, I don't know if we will return back to the classroom, any time soon, bcause this is like, we love being in the classroom, love or students in our school districts, that's why we didn't leave for so long, we were happy. But the balance of being a mother teaching a business that was growing so fast that we just ready to take something off our plate. (11:51)•   That's why we love teaching business and computers, because you don't have to go be in the business world, but you can learn your basics of finances or accounting, or how to have an idea and how to run with it. Or how to write an email properly, or social media, because that's a whole new realm of marketing. And how to get a job because, they could lose their jobs with social media, even have to get a house loan. We cover it all because these are just things kids need that maybe won't help them with their career but when they walk out the door, they're going to feel confident in themselves to make choices. My favorite is, we learned this from a co-worker and we talked about this with some teachers, how kids don't know how to make a phone call or leave a voicemail. (17:51)•   So favorite software. For me, I'm trying to think, well, it depends on which software you're using, but follow the big thing and say if it's Google or word... Follow people that are experts in that area. So you can kind of keep up with the news, like Google Apps. There's always new Google Apps and things like that with word, I'll actually follow Microsoft themselves just to follow what the newest things coming out, because they change things constantly on YouTube with software and anything. Go watch YouTube videos, there's a playlist. Yeah, if you follow Microsoft or Google themselves, there are actual tutorial playlist for anybody on any software, and you don't have to watch those yourself, you can literally send them out to your students. If you go to Excel, there are probably 50 Excel... Just short little videos like how you make a cell, a formula. The best one for that since we're talking about it is; GCFLearnFree.org. You can type in any software or any tests they have, how to use email. It is a free website, and it comes with the bridal instructions on the website for your students, or tutorial videos that they can watch on YouTube, and it will teach yourself or your students any software skills. (23:20) CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedCONNECT WITH SAMANTHA AND NICHOLE:• Website: https://www.kstechtwins.com• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kstechtwins• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kstechtwins• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kstechtwins/_created• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kstechtwins? WHEN DOES IT AIR…SEPTEMBER 08, 2021

•   I am going into my seventh year teaching, and I started off as an intervention specialist, mild moderate, which means I was in the inclusion setting. So you're an inclusion teacher, going into the Gen ED classes, elaborating with the Gen teacher, so those are the students that are given the opportunity to be with their typical peers in the educational setting. So I did that for five years at the middle school and high school level, battled it, and an opportunity came in front of me to transition into Family and Consumer Sciences, I really wanted to bridge the gap between intervention specialists and Gen ED teachers and still be able to advocate for my students. So I took a leap with the support of my principal, my administrator, he's awesome. So, I jumped into Family and Consumer Sciences. (1:23)•   Once you get to that high school level or above at age 14, there is a section, Section Five of the IEP that focuses on transitions and future planning. And what do we do as Family and Consumer Science teachers, right? That's where you're touching on those independent living skills and helping them explore what is life going to be like after college. A lot of the students that we see, especially those ones from the resource room, they're not necessarily going to go to a college or university, they're working with independent skills, they can go and be in the school until they're age 21, until they age out. (4:49)•  Special education, so that relationship in that bridge between intervention specialists and Gen ED teachers is so important. Which is, again, one of the reasons why I love Family and Consumer Sciences, so I can be that support to the Special Education teachers in my building, because it's hard. Our intervention specialists have insane case load numbers, work loads that are just completely unrealistic, but they're doing their best and to meet the needs of our students. There's gotta be that collaboration and those communication pieces between us to make sure that we give those students the services that they deserve. (11:25)•   So, one thing that I would really like to share is the importance of modifying different assessment for your Special Ed population giving the same test, and I'm not talking like if you do an A-B version because you mix up the numbers, that's not a modified task, right? Modify means that you change it to meet students needs and to measure what exactly you are hoping that they are able to master it from what you're teaching them, right? Because when we have resource room students in our classroom, we are not expecting them to be able to convert different types of measurements, right? But, being able to identify and measuring up versus a dry measuring cup or what one cup looks like versus a tablespoon looks like, that's more realistic for them. So, making sure that you do that and again, collaborating with that intervention specialist because that's going to help them, and I know from being in that Special Ed, I would get these tests the day before the period that these students were supposed to take them. (15:34)•  Okay, so I have my students, they bring them into my foods classroom for the very first time. I break them up into groups of four. So in my home, my home kitchens, I have a home-style kitchen, six units in my classroom, and we're only able to have up to 24 students safely in our class. It's kind of an ice breaker, but also an assessment, because we've talked about the different measurements and the different tools that we have in the classroom. Then they bring them over into the culinary kitchens, they then are broken up in two groups of four, they all go into the kitchen and go through all of the drawers and everything, they come back after, I don't know, five minutes of looking around, seeing where everything is. And then, I may get a race where they then have to take everything out of the kitchen and put it on top of the counter, and then I put them in a line of four for each of the groups, and each of them are, they have to put one draw away the correct way. So let's say Susie has the top drawer because there are four doors, Susie as the top. Terese has to run, find where these special items are for that particular draw and put it away, and then she has to run back tag, and then the second person goes and does the second drawer and does the same thing, tags for the third and forth. They're getting used to where the tools all belong, but also they're learning how to identify... Tell me, how can I improve that? (23:46)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedCONNECT WITH RACHEL:• Facebook: Rachel smachel• Instagram: @mrs.g_isdabomb• Twitter: @TheMrsGrabowski#ohiosneweducators #ohea #ONE #inclusion #crestwooddevils #everykid #facsteacherWHEN DOES IT AIR…SEPTEMBER 01, 2021

•    I just graduated from Central Washington University. I am a new teacher, this will be my first year I did my student teaching, which was an awesome thing. I mean, it was mostly primarily online because of COVID and everything, so it was a little challenging, but fun. Everyone says that it was their hardest year of teaching, so I started off that way, so it can only get easier from here. Yeah, I just got hired and I cannot wait to go back and serve the community where I was served. I know the school is primarily Latino students, so I'm just super excited to go back and serve the students that you know, that come from the same upbringing for me. (2:11)•   75% of the population are Latino students. So that's another connection. I came from the east side, that's another connection, so it's just kind of counting the connections that you make with the students and being more relatable and especially with family consumer science. I'd be teaching Food and Nutrition, how can we incorporate our culture to what we're cooking in a custom, just different ways like that. I think it means a lot just because there's more ways that I understand the students struggle and I'm able to empathize with them. (5:00)•   That was really exciting, and it was also kind of a testament of going how deep and how far this project actually went because it was implemented in the classroom. It was executed at home where students actually talked to their family or friends about this. And then all of a sudden coming back to the classroom, not being afraid to kinda push the envelope a little bit when it comes to sending a project like that home. (9:43)•    I learned, that there are so many ways to cater to the students that need a little bit more help in writing things down physically, and literally say, Start typing out the steps of what they need to do and go into detail and really reiterating what you said, so that was something that was a good thing that I learned that I didn't realize that I wasn't really catering to these students before. I wasn't through covid, I was like, Yeah, I need to be better at that. I need to know, even if I feel like I'm repeating myself a million times, that is okay, because that millions time is when I click to the student, and so I got that student and that student had that a-ha moment. (14:40)•    Go to the bathroom before you come into class, but that's the good thing too, like you didn't let one person ruin it for the rest of the students, it was just that one student, and so I've had instances in classrooms too, where it's like one student abused it, so now we're all screwed basically, now we all have to deal with the consequences. And so definitely taking nuggets, I have learned to take nuggets from every single teacher of things that they do that I really like, and implementing it to my class and seeing like, Okay, this is my teaching style, or maybe this grading style I like, and the other grading skill, I don't really like just literally borrowing or taking stuff, teachers and implementing it, and that's just the thing, we're always learning a new trick from another teacher acting it as our own, so don't reinvent the wheel or just for that pride, learn and adapt and grow from that I want. (23:31) LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedCONNECT WITH CHELSEY:Website: https://lamorenitalinda.comInstagram: @Lamorenitalindaa WHEN DOES IT AIR…AUGUST 25, 2021

•   Do you live in a state where you have canned curriculum, or did you have to create your own curriculum from scratch to virtually present it? Did you do your student teaching virtually? How was that? In my state, I do not have canned curriculum, therefore I had to create everything, and I collaborated across the nation with other interior designer teachers and foods teachers. I have to admit the positive result from the shutdown is that everyone was willing to share anything and everything. (1:48)•   Your class could be the only welcoming classroom your student has or feels like themselves because we teach real life skills. And the irony from Adam Grant says, the irony of soft skills, which are the skills that our classes focuses on, is that they're often the hardest to master. Leadership, communication, collaboration, creativity and adaptability may not be technical, but they're increasingly vital. Behavioral, social and emotional skills are what makes humans indispensable. So we are preparing students for life. (3:22)•   I have students write me something, and this is what I call what I wish my teachers knew. I always preface to every student that I am a mandatory reporter. So that means if someone writes me something that could potentially be harmful or has happened to them, I have to report it. The health and safety of each student is my number one, so with that, I tell students they have to write me something... It could be that they struggle with reading or they are poor test takers, or they're even getting their driver's license. It could be anything. I love this activity because it gives each student the freedom to share with me however much or little. (5:53)•   Set those boundaries, be sure to set your I am away from the computer schedule on your email to focus on what you can control, you are in charge of how you spend your free time, your priorities, and your mindset, focus on what you can control. I know for me, it's my cell phone, I can turn it off, I can put it on vibrate, I can turn it on silent. And when on Facebook or any other social media, I can continue scrolling. Or I can engage, but those are the things that I can control and in my own house, what I can eat, what my family eats, focus on what you can control. (8:27)•   Your social connection is crucial during times of hardship, so lean on your support group, text your teacher besides contact a friend from maybe your college days or a neighbor, check in with somebody, keep up with self-care, make sure you get at least seven hours of sleep. Nutritious diet, spend time outside,  and exercise regularly. But I also want you to think about self-care, we are always talking about self-care and reflection and all of that, but you know, sometimes self-care just means going and getting a haircut, or getting your nails done, or maybe going for a drive or binge watching a certain Netflix series. (10:03) LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedWHEN DOES IT AIR…AUGUST 18, 2021

•   Listening to my early podcast releases, I hear my trepidation, I feel my fear, but fast-forward to today, I can say that I did it with the help of my podcast editor and mentor, Jody Colvard, and all of the collective voices of our FCS community, we have all made an impact. We truly are better together. So my advice to you and myself moving forward, do not be afraid of your own voice. (2:24)•   There are so many people that I have leaned hard into this past year, and it's only growing myself to become better, and I am so thankful to everybody who has been a part of my journey, my mentors and who I have sought counsel, is everyone who has joined me on an episode and future guests. Thank you for building me, leading and guiding me with that, this episode is the season finale, episode 64. (5:11)•   I'm excited to continue my journey with you and bring the Connect FCS Ed podcast back to you in the beginning of September with the new website look. But I will always do my best to help you be a better teacher and how to help students learn. My goal is to outdo myself every week helping you. To give you the best I need to replenish me. I want to produce episodes that you want to listen to and help you grow and inspire you to help lead and mentor others. (6:43)•   I hope you have an amazing summer and you're able to reconnect and reflect all of our learning from this past year. The future is exciting. Ready? Together, we are better. Let's make an impact with FCS storytelling. I look forward to bringing back the Connect FCS Ed podcast to you this coming September, but always, you are more than welcome to reach out to me, share whatever you want, because we want to hear from you, we all have something powerful to share. (8:58) LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedWHEN DOES IT AIR…JUNE 23, 2021

• At the University of Idaho, were the oldest department at the university, and we were the first Home Program in the West, and we're still going strong. Almost 125 years later, and we're a one-stop shop for Family and Consumer Sciences, we have degrees in apparel, textile and design, we have a couple degrees in nutrition, one leads to dietetics career, the other one leads to medical school or the likes. We have a human development, family studies program, and we have a child development program and another program, early childhood education, so you're certified to teach through third grade. (1:50)• They have, I think, very minimal teacher preparation programs when it comes to Family Consumer Sciences educators or education programs, there's a huge push in Illinois, Texas, South Dakota, Nebraska, and here in Washington and Idaho. We have these hot spots for Family Consumer Sciences education and the teacher preparation program in what you're talking about, but we need more of these programs because it's the vitality and the longevity for our legacy. (4:49)• This has probably been the most difficult and important study that we've ever done, and I think like everybody else, when the pandemic hit, we all wanted to do something. It's like, Well, what can we do to help? And everybody wanted to help and people who knew how to sew made masks, you did what you knew how to do to help your fellow human being, right? Well, I studied breastfeeding and I study breastfeeding with my husband, actually, he's my partner in crime, Mark McGuire at the University of Idaho. In our research group, and this is what we study, so I think it wasn't a big surprise that we had this immediate idea when this pandemic started, we wondered if the virus could be transmitted from the mother to the baby via breastfeeding. (7:52)• COVID-infected moms from across the country who were so passionate about helping us get the information that they were willing to be in a study for us. And we shipped them milk collection supplies and to even take blood samples from their babies. They do heel prick from their babies and themselves to help us get the answers. And they worked with us over the phone, and we ended up recruiting 60-some moms who were just amazing, and we ship them all the supplies to their homes, they collected the samples, did the surveys on the phone with our research support people here in Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Washington. (11:43)• Women make up about half of the world, and a lot of them are in their child-bearing years. So this is what I'm talking about. Let's have a plan in place, because this took individual researchers trying to find the money, trying to find everything, trying to put everything together, trying to reinvent the wheel, rather than having a government agency like the CDC take it on from the start to answer the question to start a better way to do this. There is a better way, but it's putting the right people in those certain places, has everything to do with the right place at the right time, and of course, money talks. But I tell you what, when you got a lot of passionate people that want to answer a question to get it done, so regardless, will get it done is in the definition, the very definition of perseverance. (20:30)CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedCONNECT WITH DR. SHELLEY:Website: https://www.uidaho.edu/cals/family-and-consumer-sciences/our-people/shelley-mcguire#UIdaho #uicals #fcsWHEN DOES IT AIR…JUNE 16, 2021

•  While I was in the military police, I met somebody who worked in corrections, and so as a reservist, I was looking for full-time work while I was doing my reserve time. When I applied for the Bureau of Prisons, I got hired as a correctional officer and once I got hired as a correctional officer, I met another guy who was in the Reserves who... This is all part of the happenstance part of it. Now, this was not planned. All these people came into my life. Made an impact, gave me an opportunity. (2:41)•  Because as Family Consumer Sciences educators, we have a great skill set. Not only do we work with content literacy, not only do we work with math and all of our content, the reading aspect of it. When you're dealing with the incarcerated, and a lot of them were in need of their GED, and at least in the Federal Bureau of Prisons system, the only requirement is that you have a teaching certificate, so as long as you're a certified teacher, you can get hired. (10:18)•  Mr. Roberson, please don't ever quit your job. And right there, I just like, I've made an impact, I've made a difference, and it's all because I chose to get into Family Consumer Sciences and come work in the prison system and in the education department, and I knew right then that I had a life-long mission of helping inmates better themselves so they can give back to society, get re-introduced and re-connect with their families. (16:42)•  A completely different spin on how I think of things, just mentioning the differences, but yet the similarities with the incarcerated versus the deployed... I think, honestly, I've never even considered from the incarcerated side, the supports. I know there are numerous supports for the deployed families, but I never even considered what kind of support system there are in place for the families of the incarcerated. (39:50)•  And that's that human connection that we need to make with our students, and I tried to make with the inmates that I work with, and it just goes a long, long way for them to see the potential in themselves is If somebody cares about you, you want to please that person and make them happy as well, and so by just making those human connections, you probably made an impact on that kid that's going to affect him, and he's gonna wanna make you happy as a student. (48:49) CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed CONNECT WITH DR. ROBERSON:Email: kyle.roberson@ptu.eduSocial Media: @klroberson70LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kyle-l-roberson-fcse WHEN DOES IT AIR…JUNE 09, 2021

•  So when we think about the FCS alphabet soup, we know we have several organizations that support educators, teacher educators and extension. I would like to focus, particularly on those that are about the secondary educator and the University educator, and one that I would bring up is the Association for Career and Technical Education ACTE. (6:10)•  This is a sub-group of ACTE FCS division. That's the middle school high school teacher. They focus on the information and needs of the middle and high school teacher, then another sub-grade is called NATE FCS, National Association of Teacher Educators, of Family Consumer Sciences. Those are the people working at Universities and preparing FCS teachers. I think the term teacher educator is sometimes confusing to people. I think sometimes people think, Well, that's the same thing, the teacher and educator is the same thing, but the teacher educator is someone at a University preparing people to be teachers. (12:06)•   In my interior design class, I put on a tour of homes at the end of the trimester, where they're showcasing their 3D model of their home that they have created out of a cardboard box and everything. They created a generated model, 2D. A floor plan they wrote up, it's kind of following along the rubric, the star rubric of interior design is very similar. (29:27)•  Yes, there's so much support, there's support for people who have gone through traditional programs and support for those people that had been alternatively licensed. This is your team, and I'm not completely sure there's any other secondary content area that has such a team, professional people that want to help you be successful as Family Consumer Sciences. (41:35)•  So we have so many ways for people to make connections, if you're in the high school or middle school and you're the only FCS teacher, sometimes you need your people, and you can get your people through these various organizations and then also give back. You've got great things to talk about with their classrooms. Right now, there are ways for you to present at state conferences and national conferences. (49:51) CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedCONNECT WITH DR. WERHAN:Email: cwerhan@purdue.eduTwitter: @@CarolWerhanWHEN DOES IT AIR…JUNE 02, 2021

•    So a couple of years ago, I was selected by my administration to be on our county-wide personalize learning team. I had seen some of the different really personalize learning strategies that I was already incorporating in smart classroom, so they selected me to be part of this team. (3:37)•   Genius Hour is just an extended learning opportunity for students, and so that way you don't have students sitting on your kitchen counter tops or causing distractions for your learners who are still finishing up their lab. (7:15)•   I actually did my learning menu as a menu, which was really cool. They had an appetizer main core stage and a desert. So they had to complete something, an advertiser section, the main course, the sodas, and then the dessert was completely extra credit, and it was just really for those kids who finished early and wanted to do another aspect of their project. (12:17)•   They could either make a restaurant menu or they can make a social media page for their restaurant. I actually had a couple of people that made Instagram pages for their restaurant, which was really cool to see. They could have made an advertisement, where they could have interviewed someone that lived in that region.  (14:07)•  I think one of the best things about being an FCS teacher is our content, we can implement all of these strategies. Maybe it's a little bit more difficult than some, but I feel like we are so fortunate to be able to offer such a wide range of strategies where I have instructional coaches, much like you, who are constantly asking, Hey, what do you do in your class that benefits our English language learners, and it's like, Oh well, we have word walls, we have technology, we're constantly focusing on different vocabulary and repetition to really understand, which also helps all language learners. (19:42) CONNECT WITH BARBARA:• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedCONNECT WITH TAYLOR:Instagram: @UppermanbeesInstagram: @FacsresourcesInstagram: @unsfccla2020Facebook: Upperman FACSTwitter: @UppermanbeesInstagram: @TaylorannkeyWHEN DOES IT AIR…MAY 26, 2021

•    So I grew up in Nebraska, I went to university there. Actually, my senior year of college, I decided to become a teacher, and so I started when I was 23, 24, two years in Nebraska, and I was living with my parents, and I just needed to get out and explore the world, become an independent adult, and I kind of just picked a spot on the map, packed my car, drove three days and moved to Seattle. (4:05)•  The biggest thing that I mean personally, to be a great teacher is to be working in a community that's supportive, I feel like so many other things fall into place. It might be nice the first day to get a tour of the school, it might be nice to know who's who within the first couple of days and to really be integrated that way, but if you're in a school where there's no support or it's a negative vibe, or you just feel alone or you feel like you're not part of the school community.   (6:50)•  It's paying it forward, isn't it? That is a... Yes, yes, when it comes to your classroom wish list as you are starting to a new district and we can... It's like speed dating, right? It's a courtship of looking at a district, seeing what they got going on. And like, Oh, what does your CTE budget look like? Right? That's a big deal. Will be supplied the adequate materials that you're going to need or are you going to have to pay out of pocket for things that should be supplied. (19:51)•  There are a couple of things that I've really reflected on this year that I thought I was doing well, and then virtual teaching just kinda came and said, This could be better... We could do this in a better way. And a couple of things I started doing. So at the base level, my slides, which this might sounds so not important for a lot of people, but for me, I like my classroom to feel homey and kids are coming to school, so we don't have that, so my slides this year, I always have a starter slide and there's music or there was a fire place during the winter. It's welcoming, it's inviting. It's a little bit of who I am. (26:12)•  I think every teacher is going through it, we are all learning how to survive, it really is just a year of survival, and not only just for us, but we're about 30 kids in every class, potentially in a regular year, we're managing their lives too, we know whatever they bring into our class, but now they're bringing all those teenage things, plus everything that comes in with a pandemic. So I think us teachers, deserve a pat on the back because it's been a rough year, but I think now that we're kind of coming towards to the end.  We still can't quite see the end of the tunnel, but we know it's there. It's there, illiterate, be there. (34:35) LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedWHEN DOES IT AIR…MAY 19, 2021

•  If you want families to be involved in to partner with educators, that expectation needs to be shared through dialogue, conversation, emails, letters. So after we had our discussion, we then we're just kind of brainstorming of better ways on helping students who do transition back to in-person school and their families, and we came up with the idea she should do a welcome back newsletter where she is laying out her expectations for classroom norms, how her classroom management is, and what that style is. (7:24)•  Because math is a foundational effort where if you miss a step, it's hard to recover. So my thoughts on this is if we want our families and our community partners to be involved and feel invited into our education system, which is very complex, when you agree. We as educators need to make space be transparent, host virtual open houses, which I will be hosting a virtual open house or just my classes in the middle of April for families to jump on. (9:59)•  Have you figured bringing a real world example into the classroom? Through trial and error, I was able to figure out, and this has a lot to do with collaboration at its finest. I use calendly.com, that is how people are able to join me and sign up on my calendar for my podcast. (11:57)•  If you use Microsoft Teams, it will even integrate with your Microsoft Teams calendar, it's a great resource and very valuable. I strongly encourage you to check it out. So, over-communication is a culturally responsive teaching strategy, again, when parents feel a partnership, kids show up, make an increase effort working with your IEP, your case manager teams, so you won't have a kid coming up to you three days before trimester in addressing their grade. (13:44) LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedWHEN DOES IT AIR…MAY 12, 2021

SHOWNOTES:•    The founders wanted home economics to be a professional field that gave women career opportunities in business and in science and then teaching and that it helped housewives and women working in the home to do their work more quickly and more efficiently and to focus on what they actually needed to focus on with housekeeping so that they would have time to do other things, whether that be studying or a paying job, or taking care of their children. (5:55)•    I looked up in the 1960s, the 1950s and 1960s when the feminine mystique and post-war World War II era of repression was really under way. It's just extraordinary how young women got married and then for that matter, and how many women, did not continue that. They just didn't continue their education at all. I forget the exact numbers, but tons of women just dropped out once they got married, and yeah, for some of them, it was voluntary, but there were also just, in countless careers, that would not let married women work there. (10:19)•   The value was appreciation of their clothes, is really what it came down to in the beginning. Well, it was midway through the semester, I found a video, I think I found it on YouTube or something, but it was about the cost of clothing, and it was so impactful for not just for me, but for all my students, that's all that they can talk about for a couple of weeks going, they were able to look at their clothes and go, Oh my gosh, the clothes that I just bought is doing to the world what it's doing, it's tearing apart a community because there's so much waste, and it's destroying water because there's so much water that is used and waste that it's not recycled or up-cycled anymore. (25:47)• That is, we do now that is using Google, using YouTube, using all of these technology technological tools that we have at our fingertips at all times. Now, we are constantly inundated with new information and being able to streamline new things and to utilize old understandings with new concepts, and it's a beautiful marriage between the two, and being able to use YouTube as your learning platform, I think that's innovation right there, and being able to finally be able to figure out what the correct terminology was for that be coil or your stove, to being able to properly identify tools and components, it's important. And it just kinda goes on with what you're talking about, it's important to be able to have that foundation. (40:54)•   I think that the field, this is a great time for the field to revive. In fact, when I first got the idea to write this book, even before I knew anything about, even before I knew about Ellen Richards attending MIT, I said, Wait a second. Home Economics. What happened to Home Economics? Shouldn't it be back by now? And this was 2016. I had this idea. So this is pre-pandemic, this was just me thinking about HGTV and the Food Network, and all sorts of the revival of interest in knitting and all sorts of DIY stuff and nutrition at so many topics like parenting and growing emphasis. Push away from standardized tests or discomfort with standardized tests, I was like, Shouldn't this be back by now? So I think that now, after the covid experience, is all the more reason to the field to come back. (51:24) LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedLEARN MORE ABOUT DANIELLE…• Website: https://thedailyreason.wordpress.com• Book: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324004493• Twitter: @djdreilingerWHEN DOES IT AIR…MAY 05, 2021

SHOWNOTES:•    Well, I am an NGPF guru and my official title, I'm an NGPF fellow, meaning that I have the opportunity to be one of a small select group, the first year about costs been like four years ago, to attend a completely expense-free, almost week-long workshop hosted by NGPF to share their materials, to show what they have to offer. And then their goal for us was to share this information with our colleagues and others, and next generation personal finance. (3:45)•   Basically you take a test, and if you pass with a certain percentage, you earn the badge. And what was great about it is not only did you get the content knowledge, but you learned how to use their curriculum in that particular unit and got to share and be a small group with other educators across the state,  sharing ideas and so forth. (9:36)•   I love seeing the questions that are posted and then if I comment on any of them, then all of a sudden I'm part of all those notifications that I get, and it really is, it's sometimes overwhelming with the amount of feedback, but I swear you're able to sift through all of that feedback and be able to say, Okay, this applies to me, or you could follow that thread, if it's proving to be like, Okay, I got what I needed and... Yeah, absolutely, they are. It's such a community, and that's something that I have to say, that's the reason why I love Facebook so much being part of so many various groups is because of that community because... Yeah, who wants to recreate the wheel? (12:41)• When you get approved to have an account through NGPF, they will send you a link for the Answer Keys, and I just pin that email to the top of my email list and it'll be there… I have noticed that recently, some of the assignments as you download them will have a link immediately to the answer key, so I think that might be a change over that we're doing… Do you have that? So most of the things are Google Docs, so if you use Google docs, you're able to access everything or you can download them as your own file. (18:07)•   Some of you the job world has changed now, there's going to be a lot of jobs where students can work remotely from home or their home office. So you need to make sure our students are comfortable with the technology, and I think we always say, Oh, kids know technology. They know their cell phone, but do they really know technology? And I think as a teacher after COVID, we know where our students are lacking with technology, and I don't care if you teach Math or English, Science or Health, whatever it is you teach, you can continue teaching our students about technology, how to use it and how to transfer those skills from our business ed class, or a family consumer class, into their work world. (26:42)LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedLEARN MORE ABOUT KATHEY…• Website: https://www.ngpf.org• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NextGenPersonalFinance• Twitter: https://twitter.com/NextGenPF• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/next-gen-personal-finance-bb8ba2122• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nextgenpf• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/nextgenfinance/_createdngpf #finhero #finlit #financialliteracy #cte #actetech #personalfinance #savingsimportant #mission2030 #alwayslearning #credit #nextgenpf #stem #creditcardlessons #fincamp #adulting101 #consumerEcon #buildyourstax #debtfreeWHEN DOES IT AIR…April 28, 2021

• Junior Achievement is actually in 21 countries across the world. Wow, okay. So we support students individual success and academic success in two ways, the first is all of the Junior Achievement curriculum is mapped to common core requirements, so every program that is age-appropriate, so we have programs for the elementary level, the middle school level, and the high school level every program specifically maps to common core in math, reading, writing, arithmetic, as well as the social-emotional skills, so educators can very easily blend these programs into their classroom curriculum. (3:17)•   The third pillar is entrepreneurship, so we honor that not everyone is College-Bound, some folks might want to go right into the workforce by owning and starting their own business. So much of our curriculum focuses on what the entrepreneurial journey, like, what skills are required to be an entrepreneur, what to expect, running and owning their own business 24/7. And even things like personal branding and business branding, how to attract and find customers, how to develop market share, all the things that future business owners need to learn to operate a profitable and successful business. (5:17)•   Many of our programs will explore 16 career clusters, so if you are interested in STEM careers, if you're interested in, for example, food services and food industry careers, we have a lot of curriculum and a lot of tools that help students explore an individual career. So, if I want to be a chef, what does a day in the life of a chef look like? What kind of education is required? What are the day-to-day job roles and duties? What are the expectations that an employer has of me as a chef? And what are the tasks and responsibilities outside of cooking that chef is required to do? (7:20)• So all of JA's programs are based on experiential learning, the traditional delivery model has volunteers going into the classroom with a kid. Now that we've pivoted a lot of things to virtual, all of these experiential programs are now in simulated online environments, and what you're mentioning is the physical facility, that is a full immersion simulation. This town is where students show up and literally take over a town, they elect a mayor, they run TV commercials, they run businesses. Every business has a CEO, a CFO, a salesperson. The students get to run payroll, they get to issue debit cards at banks, and the students also get to go shopping, so they get an opportunity to learn how earning their pay translates into very tangible things like paying your utility bills, or going in and buying groceries. (10:57)•   So the curriculum is turnkey, anybody and everybody, even high school students, college students, whether you're a parent, whether you're a business person, anyone can sign up to deliver this curriculum. We provide new volunteer training, you walk you through how to engage in the program guide that breaks down each lesson for the volunteer, how to use the materials, how to log in to the learning management platform, we make it easy to learn how to deliver the JA curriculum. There is also a ton of free resources available online for parents to use themselves if they want to use the curriculum. Everything is absolutely free, they can go online, download activities, use the content delivery network, use the learning management system, lots of ways for stay-at-home parents to use the curriculum to deliver to their own kids, and definitely tons of resources for helping volunteers get ramped up. (18:28) LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed LEARN MORE ABOUT LYNN…• Website: https://jawashington.org• Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JuniorAchievementofWashington• Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jawashington1• Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/rb102179• Check out Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaofwashingtonHere is a great way to view all the programs by grade level: https://jawashington.org/program-offerings#letsachievetogether, #JAWA, #financialliteracy, #entreprenuership, #entreprenuerism, #workreadiness, #careerreadiness WHEN DOES IT AIR…April 21, 2021

•   A legislatively created program that back in around 2004, some legislators got together and said, We need to make sure that we are forcing the state superintendent to make financial literacy a priority because it's one of those small content areas that often don't get attention, like some of the higher stakes content areas like Mathematics and Science and ELA and so on. And so they created this based on the governor at the time, they had a task force that was going on, and it was a financial literacy taskforce, and combined with that, they created this public-private partnership that is very well-balanced with legislators and educators and our private sector partners as well. (2:05)•   These professional development opportunities, the one you attended was what we consider our master's training, so we started out doing a few days of what we call the novice training, and what we realized really fast, several years ago, we've been doing these for about 11 years, and we realize teachers that are assigned some of these personal finance courses or courses that include financial literacy did not have the background or the training for it, so we actually have kind of a two-pronged approach where we bring in content experts and deliver content, increase teacher content knowledge. (6:10)•   And if I can say that what we've learned from the pandemic, if we want to go there and talk about the pandemic, if you can imagine when we all first got sent home and the whole world shut down. I was in a position of feeling like, How can I stay relevant for this financial education conversation because one, on one side, we've got teachers that were trying to figure out this new platform of instruction, and they're stressed and parents are stressed, and they're at home, and they're trying to work and trying to do school, so how can I fight to say, This is still important, because we know now that it was even more important because a lot of people weren't financially prepared for that emergency . (10:47)•  I want to make sure that your listeners understand what the benefit of going to a platform like that is. The fact that these are all open licensed resources, meaning that teachers don't have to pay for them if there's any copyrights, it's very clear on there, the attributions are clear. And the idea is so they get free resources to take them and use them however they need. And that is what we, as educators need. We need to have these resources that were not bound to by a contract or having to follow in such a way. We can have this as an extension, the opportunity for a student, for student learning and engagement, or we can follow the curriculum as is. (17:16)•   And even just something simple like with that new partnership made us realize how we had them at one of our meetings and we had a presentation and we just did the close caption on a YouTube video. Well, we hadn't gone back and made sure that the words that it designated were the words being said and it was confusing this community of hearing people that are deaf and hearing loss, and I learned from that, but that's harder for them, because then they can't read the lips and then the words aren't matching, and we really learned about that, that we need to make sure we've got close caption, and we need to make sure it's right. (20:40)• We put one up that we use in our trainings, and we have some of them that are, not just Washington State. We use the financial fitness for life, it's not free, but we have found that after even 10 years, teachers are still using the same curriculum that they've had. Why is that? It's just that good. Really? It's that well received, and you probably got a little taste of it during the master's training you were at,, if you've got the little thumb drive that we hand it out. (24:30) LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed LEARN MORE ABOUT TRACY…• Website: FEPPP.org• Follow us on Twitter: FEPPP@WA_FEPPP• Address: 600 Washington St SE | Olympia, WA 98504-720• Phone - Office: 360-725-6260https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/feppp/pdf/Financial_Education_materials2020.pdfhttps://www.oercommons.org/hubs/1/browse?f.search=financial+education&__hub_id=1 WHEN DOES IT AIR…April 14, 2021

Through his classroom work and Simple StartUp Virtual courses, Rob has helped beginner entrepreneurs form over 250 new businesses, across all different types of industries. The ChooseFI Curriculum has been used by hundreds of teachers across the United States and helped bring free financial education to many underserved populations when it comes to personal finance.SHOWNOTES:•  Financial independence is a point at which you can say, I no longer need to work, and I'm not talking about traditional retirement, it can apply a traditional retirement here, hit 65, like, Okay, I'm done. I better have enough money left to get me through the rest of my life, that is technically financial dependence when you have enough money to get you through to the rest of your days, whenever that happens to be. (3:57)•  So I'm a teacher first and foremost. I still teach full-time Math and Personal Finance. I love working with kids, and in particular, I love educating kids about personal finance, so it's one of my favorite things to do is why I love getting up in the morning, going to school. I also love working on creating these curriculums, to talking to people like you and telling everyone else out there like, Hey, there is a way to do better with your money. (8:14)•   I'll give you a prime example that a second, but we have assessments that are about the financial literacy side, but also how can we measure, how do the kids attitude towards money change, do they feel they are good managers of money, do they cost by themselves as saviors or spenders, what would they do if they're presented with different scenarios and we start measuring like? (12:58)• That's again, going back to personal finance education, I see the kids that I know their situation at home is not ideal, and they're the ones who are paying the most attention and taking that home to their family, mean like, Oh, we can do this to... Save some money, or here are some ways we could earn more or... One, just ask me a question like, Okay, my family is going to refine their mortgage, because their mortgage just too much. They're drowning in the mortgage. And do you know some ways that we can do that? And it's like, Well, I'm glad you're asking these kinds of questions, because you're realizing this is what's causing that problem, the housing cost is too much of the take-home pay, and we try and figure out ways to change that up. (26:45)•  At the high school level, that's probably the one where you do see potentially a full course that is just personal finance, so the way we set it up was we're assuming that nobody is lucky enough to actually have a full year-long personal finance class, so instead we create units, we created individual lessons, and each of those could be taken on their own and insert it into a classroom. So if you take the whole thing, it would cover an 18-week semester-long course for a 60 to 90 minute class. If you wanted it to be a year-long course, it's very easy to take most of those lessons to divide them and a half and stretch over two days because you can extend these activities very easily through the conversations that you have, extending the projects a little bit longer. 29:47)LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedLEARN MORE ABOUT ROB…• Website: https://www.thesimplestartup.com• Website: https://choosefifoundation.org• Email: rob@choosefifoundation.orgWHEN DOES IT AIR…April 07, 2021

•  I grew up in Central Texas, and barbecue is part of our state. Obviously, we love beef, but then you've got all kinds of other barbecue all over the United States and in the world. And I thought, what better way to teach meat cookery. We all teach it. I taught it in college, I taught it in high school, when I was in culinary school, they taught us about meat cookery. So why now use the good old fashion American tradition of BBQ as a teaching methodology and use project-based learning to bring groups of kids together around a live charcoal fire or a wood fire fit, and learn how to cook different kinds of meat. (2:54)• I've developed a curriculum and a website, and now the National High School BBQ Association to show other school districts and other teachers, how easy this is to implement into your community and make money for your own kids, for your own program. Engage your kids, once they eat barbecue and they try it for the first time, they're hooked. (7:27)• These high school kids go out and cook, and they can go out and feed their community and help nourish first responders.  In a big way, high school teams now in America are using this. They're feeding their campus, they're feeding administration, they're holding competitions. They're working at a local soup kitchen or a homeless shelter, they use it as a fundraiser. I think it brings more money back into their educational program and gives these kids a better learning experience, and they get to eat.   (12:16)• Well, for my knife skills workbook, I have a butcher as the career, where they have to actually go into the Occupational Handbook and look up like how much does a butcher on average make and what is the job entail? Do they have to have any certificates or endorsement and educational background? And I thought it was just a perfect pairing with knives and a butcher and everything.   (21:03)• Whatever your family recipe is, that's how it starts, we want kids to have positive learning experiences, we want to promote them and build their self-esteem. We want them to become amazing human beings, and I see barbecue as a way to do that because it brings all the people together, their grandparents, their teachers, their administration can all come. And believe it or not, this is going to sound crazy, and I would say it's nuts talking about it even now, but we actually were able to film a television show that was for the Food Network on the Discovery Channel called Varsity Barbecue, and it was filmed at my high school. (35:31)LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsedLEARN MORE ABOUT CHEF MIKE…• National High School BBQ Association, Inc. (NHSBBQA)• National Director / A.k.a – The Principal• Website – www.HighSchoolBBQLeague.com• Facebook – www.Facebook.com/HighSchoolBBQ• Motto – COME EAT OUR HOMEWORK!• #ProjectBasteLearning• Also Founder of the Bitmoji CTE BRIGADE Facebook group –Facebook.com/CTEBrigade• Email: principal@highschoolbbqleague.comSERVICE GROUPS:• Team BBQ• Operation BBQ• Mercy Chefs• United By BBQ• World Kitchen• Feeding AmericaWHEN DOES IT AIR…March 31, 2021

•  So she knew that I had a textile background, so she had me join her on the sales calls for the fabric vendors, and I just took that to heart and I just soaked in everything that she was teaching me about the sales side. And taking in what I had learned about in school, all those silly organic chem classes about what the polyester was doing and the nylon was doing, and you want this for your liner and the cortex and so, that's what I love about it the most. (7:44)•  So the 30 student per class, five classes, and grading is a huge learning curve, and it was a brand new learning platform. We were a Google classroom up in Stafford, and then I had to learn Schoology. It was just a rude awakening as to what I was dealing with as a full-time, brand new full-time teacher. Then you have to be on a committee and you have to attend these meetings. It's a crazy amount of things. Teachers have two full-time jobs. Teachers have to do way above and beyond just the academics of it.  (12:32)•  I spoke with my CTE coordinator, she's our art teacher on special assignment, and we were having kind of the same conversation, just talking about how the evolution of hybrid choice boards, for all of my classes, because I don't know about you, which I'm sure we're very, listeners included, we're all along the same lines, our curriculum was never designed for a digital age, we have to create everything digital-wise in every single district, every single school does something different. (17:13)•  They get this little kit, they pick them up at the school, but I can't do food labs. I see these family consumer science teachers all over the country, they put together food kits and the kids, come pick them up at the schools, and I'm like, No, I can't do any of that. I don't know that my students have a working oven, I don't know that they have parental vision or supervision to do that. We got approval for doing microwave, so we can do microwave cooking labs at home.  (20:57)• I want to set up an online tax-free account with Walmart, so I don't have to go to Walmart at 7 o'clock in the morning, with the car that I've got the night before. How do I do that? So the money that you need, that person, your bookkeeper will help you alleviate a lot of headaches and a lot of unknowns. And your mentor at other schools or maybe in your school, if you're not a Singleton, she will help you navigate the district. So that's what I say, that would be my advice; is to find your mentor, join a Facebook group and just listen to as many people as possible in the industry. (27:44) LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed WHEN DOES IT AIR…March 24, 2021

•  I love hearing people's stories and their perspectives, because it helps me have a better understanding of what other people go through. It's a completely different background than I have. And being a singleton of working, all of a sudden with the team, I never worked with the team before, so I didn't know what that was like, so moving from being completely isolated, being in a silo, I had to re-learn how to work with people, so... When I say if I sound ignorant, when asking questions is only to help gauge a conversation, to bring it down to a place that may be educators all understand. But then we also have the Community building up the partnerships that we have within our families, the network of families, our school board, our directors are superintendent, I want everybody to be able to understand what we go through as educators and the lingo. So 2020 was the year of growth and understanding, 2021, this is the year of innovation and excelling, be proud of yourself and how far you've come. (4:23)•  It gives the skills to be able to apply certain lines and textures of design, it gives the skills to be able to make wise financial decisions, to be able to decide that is a long-term goal, or I need to handle this right now, it encompasses the body of the lifespan, and at 50 episodes. We're just skimming the top. So thank you for coming along this journey with me, thank you for helping me level up and excel. I want to innovate, I want to lead, I want to excel. And our collective group. We're doing just that. So cheers to 50. I'm just thankful for the listeners and for all of the interactions that I've been getting. (7:46)•  I might be a small but mighty voice, but I am here because I want to spotlight what you are doing in your classes, maybe let's hear from your students, let's hear what your programs are doing. This podcast is all about showcasing what family consumer sciences is really all about. We in our field, we don't get recognized, we are constantly getting thrown aside saying, Oh, Home Economics, it's no longer part of our curriculum, Oh, I wish our students were learning this, or back in my day, we didn't learn that... Well, I'm here to say you were probably taught it, but we were probably talking to our classmates in class, but such an amazing journey. (9:34)•  So in today's staff meeting, we were just talking about our digital due now of what is one word, one word that you can describe how you're feeling right now. Take a moment. Think about that. What is your one word? I can tell you my one word that I wrote in the chat box is confident, I feel confident in my abilities to be able to pivot, which I know it's not a funny word anymore because we're all tired of it, but I do, I truly feel confident in my abilities as an individual, as a mom, as an educator and a professional right now, because my gosh, I know you've been working hard all this past year, and because we have put so much time, effort and energy. (14:36)•  Please take a step back and talk to yourself, why are you not asking for their student input, their student voice, because they are the users, they're the reason why they're not turning something in, let's say. I would love... Please ask for student voice. And I know for a lot of us as family consumer sciences educators, we thrive on relationships, thrive, so take care of that then. Oh my gosh, something else that I've done this past trimester, which I'm really excited about for my podcast for this past year, which I can't believe I've been doing this podcast for a year now, and it's slowly growing, it's catching on, and I love that. (21:04) LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed WHEN DOES IT AIR…March 17, 2021

•  Let's talk a little bit about home buying, because that's why we're here. So as far as the process goes, the number one question I would say I would get is, I don't have 20% down, so I can't buy a home. Have you heard that before? Oh yes, all the time. I think that's the biggest thing. And the cool thing that a lot of people don't know is you just have to have a credit score about a 600 and you if you're above a 620, you can put as little as 0% down. (3:38)•  And this down payment assistance program is specific to each state, so our program has specific guidelines, but each state has their own down payment assistance program. They might have little nuances or different things with that, but all the states are going to have a program. So I have connections, if you want to know a loan officer in your area, just reach out to Barbara or myself. Email and we'll be able to get that for you.  (5:30)•  That's not a requirement now, to put 20% down, but man, what a blessing to have, you know, a family, that  are able to do that for you, because with 20% down, you don't have multiple insurance, so it's going to help you probably buy a little bit more home. Guys, I think the biggest thing I would point out is the simple fact that we're also going to get that kind of game... I'll tell you my wife, in the first house, we bought... There was a special rule loan... called a USDA loan. It's zero down, but basically in your outskirts outside of the city limits, you're allowed to use this loan in very specific areas. (13:09)•  I don't know if you remember your first interest rate, but my first interesting was close to four and a half. In interest rates right now, are at about 3%. So, a huge savings for buying more of a house. At four and a half. my max approval might be 300,000, but at 3%, it might be 400,000. And those of you who are shopping out there, know that a difference between a 300,000  and a 400,000 house is a big disparity. There's going to be a lot of differences there. So that's a great point, is knowing what your interest rate is.  (15:53)•  I'm just thinking of all the hoops that I had to jump through just a couple of years ago, even though I have this... Both my husband and I have stellar credit, we've been home owners, but that was just a new scenario that I had never had to jump through. So, giving more options, more insights on... Okay, helping prepare educators for a huge investment in their families and legacies life, I just felt like that needed to be shared, that there are ways to get around harry situations. (26:19) LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED…• FCS Podcast: https://fcspodcast.com• FCS Tips: https://www.fcstips.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectFCSed• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Scully6Files• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/connectfcsed• Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/connectfcsed LEARN MORE ABOUT MKRISTO "MK" BRUCE…https://teambrucemortgage.com WHEN DOES IT AIR…March 10, 2021