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Latest Podcast Episodes

341: Success Secrets of Colleague Mentorship in Education

By Gretchen Schultek Bridgers | Apr 14, 2025 |

Are you a mentor? Are you a beginning teacher? Listen in as Gretchen speaks on the importance of a successful mentor and mentee partnership. This partnership is highly important for beginning teachers as they navigate the profession. Throughout this episode, Gretchen shares a story and gives quality tips to help things run smoothly. Quotables “When…

340: School Partnerships with Christina Hidek

By Gretchen Schultek Bridgers | Mar 31, 2025 |

School partnerships between parents, teachers, and administration are so important. Listen in as Christina Hidek tells her story about leading the PTO in her district, and how it turned her passion of helping others into the work she does today. Quotables *All quotes are from the interviewee* “Happy teachers make for happy kids which makes…

Latest Blog Posts

Burnout in Education: How To Avoid It

By Gretchen Schultek Bridgers | Apr 21, 2025 |

Burnout in the educational field is trending upwards. In a 2022 Gallup poll, 44% of educators teaching Kindergarten through 12th grade, reported feeling burned out “often” or “always.” Knowing this, educators (teachers and/or leaders) can follow these five practices on how to avoid burnout in educatoin and enjoy a fulfilling career. Set Boundaries & Stick…

Effective Ice Breaker Activities for Professional Development

By Gretchen Schultek Bridgers | Apr 7, 2025 |

Beginning professional development with an effective ice breaker activity is a popular opening activity. This helps warm up the audience to the learning experience as well as get to know each other better. An ice breaker tends to be unrelated to topic being presented at the learning session and is a common interest or skill…

4 Ways to Strengthen School Safety for all Students

By Gretchen Schultek Bridgers | Mar 24, 2025 |

School safety has become top priority for schools as of late due to the many tragedies our country has endured recently. This has caused many school districts to review their safety procedures so that all students are protected while learning at school. This post will cover 4 ways to strengthen school safety for all students.…

Lesson Design Professional Development Options

By Gretchen Schultek Bridgers | Mar 10, 2025 |

Providing professional development on lesson design can be quite fruitful for teachers. Lesson design is a deliberate practice where teachers plan on a macro and micro level, meaning they zoom in and out to ensure all lessons are aligned and thorough. The skill of designing lessons can be hard to master, but consistent practice builds…