Ready Set Growth - Inspiration for Teachers
Nick aims to provide value to you and your classroom with his creative and imaginative approach to learning.
If you are looking to add creative, engaging methods to your lessons or add more efficiencies with your time in the classroom podcast is for you.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Why Making Mistakes is Important
We all make mistakes, but we are not defined by our mistakes. The same is true for our students, join Nick as he talks mistakes with Jamie M. Carroll. Jamie has a Ph.D. in Sociology and the Associate…
Ep. 1 Flipgrid Friday
In our first ever segment of Flipgird Friday we hear from two incredible teachers, Andy Knueven and Chanel Johnson.
If you have been looking for a way to encourage and create more engagement outside…
Motivational Traps to Avoid in Your Class
Have you ever wondered where motivation comes from, or we as teachers can help harness it within our classroom? Join Nick as he sits down to discuss how we can avoid four key motivational traps that …
Earning Respect with Teens
In this Episode Nick takes the time to discuss respect, how to give it, earn and receive it in return from the teens in our lives and our classrooms. Nick is joined by Alexandra Frost, Alex is a high…
Teaching Courageously
In this episode, Nick sits down with long time friend and former team parent Jana El-Guebaly to talk about her journey of self-discovery and why understanding her "why" in education was so important …
New School Year, New Reality
Join Nick as he talk with the President of the Alberta Teacher's Association Jason Schilling to discuss his perceptive on the last year, and the challenges going into this school for any teacher. Jas…
That's The Way We've Always Done It!
Sometimes in order to find answers for the classroom, teachers need to look to examples from well outside of it. In this episode, Nick sits down with Melanie O'Neil owner and operator of Rustic Marli…
Growth Mindset in Math
In this episode, Nick sits down with teacher, blogger, and author Alice Aspinall to talk about how we can create an environment that fosters a growth mindset.
Grading Smarter Not Harder
If you have been wondering how to streamline marking and grading in your class and with your students, this episode will help. Nick sits down with Myron Duek teacher and author of "Grading Smarter No…
How Teachers Can Talk About Hard Things With Their Students
In this episode, Nick sits down with his ELA/Hum team partner Hannah Kappeller, a first-year teacher who helps explain how she navigates important social topics with her students.
Discussing sensiti…
Avoiding The Traps of Remote Teaching
Distance learning has been challenging in so many ways, but by identifying and learning how to avoid the traps of remote teaching you can help grow your practice. Listen as Nick sit down with Dr. Reb…
Five Teachers Talk About Flipgrid
In this episode, Nick sits down with the entire Flipgrid team to talk all things Flipgrid. With so many teachers searching for new mediums to connect with their students remotely Flipgrid is a platfo…
Engagement and Remote Teaching
In this episode, Nick touches on the difficulty of remote teaching and how we can do the things we always do within the context of distance learning. What is the little that we can do as teachers wit…
Remote Teaching Tools
In this episode goes through his top 10 tips, tricks and platform for tackling the challenge of teaching remotely with your classes.
Leadership and Language
In this episode, Nick sits down with David Marquet a former US Navy officer who commanded the USS Santa Fe, a nuclear submarine, and literally turned the ship around.
Captain Marquet began treating h…
Everything "NEW" teacher
In this episode, Nick sits down with Kate Stewart, a former student teacher at his school and talk all things new teacher. How we can help new teachers and what they bring to the school community.
Dive into Inquiry
In this episode, Nick sits down with blogger, speaker, teacher, and author Trevor Mackenzie to talk all things inquiry. From the things are make inquiry amazing, to why it can be challenging but most…
Potential to implementation
In this episode Nick sits and talks to Vince Bustamante, a long time friend and system strategist with Edmonton Catholic School District.
Vince joins Nick to discuss his work with John Hattie and ot…
Your favourite teacher
In this episode Nick discusses the connection between our favourite teachers and how that help shapes our learners. When relationships are at the forefront of our practice, it changes everything.
Wh…
Pedagogy, practice and over coming doubt
In this episode, Nick sits down with one of his younger team partners Nadim. Listen as they talk about everything from Nadim's time teaching in Sweden to overcoming self-doubt and learning how to dev…