A question for principals: who is holding your holders? In most buildings there is one adult students gravitate to in a crisis. It is rarely the person on the org chart. It is the teacher whose room feels safe, or the paraprofessional who has been there eleven years, or the front office staffer who Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

Educators, you already know this student.He is not defiant. He is not skipping. He is the one in the nurse's office at 8:15 with a stomachache that is completely gone by 10, three days a week, since the second week of school. School refusal is avoidance driven by distress, and it tends to announc Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Subscribe to the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk anywhere you listen to podcasts.Dr. Jen Rafferty burned out as a middle school music teacher, rebuilt her life, and now helps educators get back to balance without leaving the classroom. Emotional intelligence, the brain science behind it, and the two-step move to try tonight. The post Teacher Burnout: Go 10% Slower and Get Your Joy Back appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki

On this week's show, Ben Davis High School Principal Sandra Squire sits down to talk about the start of the 26/27 school year at BD. She talks about being the Principal of a large, comprehensive high school. She addresses the reformation of the MIC Conference with Carmel and Center Grove rejoining this year. Finally, she reacts to how students have been handling the new cellphone law.

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Subscribe to the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk anywhere you listen to podcasts. My newsletter for the past two weeks with a summary of recent resources and some current links to an AI slop controversy and important information schools need to understand about sharing student images and new legislation that is supposed to protect ai deepfake expliotation. The post 📸 AI Photos and Deepfakes, Quantum for Littles, and Real Help for

To the principals and assistant principals still in the building tonight:You absorbed a bus incident, a crying first-year teacher, a hard family call, and a district deadline, and you did it without letting any of it show. Then you stayed late because the quiet hour is the only hour. Burnout at y Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

A question we get from assistant principals more than any other: what do we do when it happened online, at night, off campus?The honest answer is that the location of the phone is not the location of the harm. A group chat at 11pm becomes a cafeteria at 11am. The building inherits it either way. Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

Fall break re-entry has a rhythm to it, and most buildings feel it on day three rather than day one. After a week off, sleep schedules slip, peer groups reshuffle, and academic demand comes back all at once. In a real school that shows up as clinic visits for stomachaches with no clear cause, tardi Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

On this episode of Voices of the Westside, host Jon Easter welcomes Coach Don Carlisle from the Ben Davis Boys Basketball Team. They discuss Underdog Indy and the upcoming Underdog Day on August 15 from 12-3 pm at Chapel Rock Christian Church. For more information on Underdog Indy or Underdog Day, contact Coach Don Carlisle at underdogindy@gmail.com or don.carlisle@wayne.k12.in.us!

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Subscribe to the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk anywhere you listen to podcasts.Two women were named a 2026 National Principal of the Year, and when you ask them how they did it, they both use the same word: love. Amanda Jamerson on the discipline framework that cut office referrals 69 percent, and Sonia E. Ruiz on building a middle school where every student belongs. The post Leading With Love: Two National Principals of the Year

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Subscribe to the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk anywhere you listen to podcasts. Hello Reader, Happy back to school for some of you. Whatever time of year it is, I hope you’ll work hard to notice kids doing great things. My goal has always been to make the first contact home a positive one. I mentioned this on X and Teach Up Education said, Agreed. I had a new student one year who just transferred in. And when I called home to tell

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Subscribe to the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk anywhere you listen to podcasts. Jerry Kolber built Nat Geo's Brain Games and Netflix's Brainchild, then moved his team off screens entirely. How teachers use kids' podcasts for transition time, how to get the free ad-free classroom version, and why human accountability still beats AI-generated content. The post Who Smarted? Why Human-Made Kids’ Media Still Beats the Bots appeared

Two-a-days are underway. Something else started at the same time, and nobody's charting it.Fall sports stack a lot onto one teenager: a body that's constantly sore, a coach's approval that starts to feel like identity, a roster spot that never feels secure, and six hours of practice on top of a fu Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

How many students in your building are on their sixth school? Near a Georgia installation, the number is usually higher than staff expect. Military-connected students move on orders, not on the academic calendar. They arrive in November, in February, sometimes the week before state testing. Every m Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Subscribe to the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk anywhere you listen to podcasts. For twenty-five years we sent the struggling kid to the back of the room with headphones on. Todd Brekhus of Renaissance explains why that broke personalized learning, and how teacher-facing AI hands the room back to you. The post Keeping the Teacher at the Center of Classroom AI appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher

Some students walk in this month having changed schools three times in two years. The roster gives you a name and nothing else, and often that's intentional.A few things that make the first weeks better for students in foster and kinship care: Rethink the family assignments. "Bring in a baby pict Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Subscribe to the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk anywhere you listen to podcasts. Dr. Nneka McGee says that quantum computing today is where AI was nine years ago. So, she's learned how to teach superposition and entanglement to five-year-olds with a penny and a paper plate. (No computer, just concepts.) She also shares why waiting for the breakthrough means waiting too long. The post How to Teach Quantum Physics to Littles (and

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Subscribe to the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk anywhere you listen to podcasts. Alice Keeler, Google Developer Expert for Google Workspace, shares how to vibe code for Google workspace. She discusses privacy issues, tips for writing code, and the importance of installing tools that are maintained by developers. Then, in the show notes, how to begin creating your own Gem with prompts and tips is included for classroom teachers to get