Green and Growing Podcast

Throwback time! 🤠 Hear Sarah bring back an old Quick How To about student generated parent emails. 📧 Learn the what, why, how and tips for implementing this communication practice with your students! 👩🏻‍🏫

Stress versus Overwhelm.  Are you feeling one of these? Recently, while listening to the new Brene Brown book, Atlas of the Heart, I learned the difference between stress and overwhelm.  What I can tell you is I have experienced them both this year.  Tune in to episode 103 of the Green and Growing Podcast to join Hannah in the minivan and learn more about the difference between stre...

If there were a way you could raise trout 🐟in your classroom that would be something you would want to learn more about, right? Jennifer McCauley is on the Green & Growing Podcast this week talking about all the fishy things 🎣 Tune into episode 102 Trout in the Classroom to learn how you can get a tank full of fish for your students!✨

Do you ever feel like your FFA unit doesn’t hit the way you want? Check out this episode for why this may be happening and how to spice your FFA unit up next time!

Episode 100 of the Green and Growing Podcast is here 🌱 WAYYY back when Green and Growing was just starting Sarah decided to start the podcast to house First Friday Webinar recoding audios.  Today we have Sarah and Hannah hosting with the G&G Team as regular guests as well as other amazing Ag Teachers ✨ It has been an amazing ride and we cannot thank y'all enough for listening 🎧 This ep...

Substitute teachers are on every teachers wish list this year 📝 So how do we set our subs up for success, so that they want to come back to your class each and every time?! Cara will share all her tips and tricks for keeping subs happy and coming back!  Listen to episode 99 of the Green and Growing Podcast🌱

Sarcasm is my second language. 🗣 But...should I use sarcasm in the classroom? 🤷‍♀️🤷 Jump in the minivan 🚙with Hannah and chat about the pros and cons of using sarcasm in the classroom 👩🏻‍🏫

Purposeful action is moving forward one step at a time towards a goal 🥅 “The first step is always the most difficult, the second is the next most difficult.”  Just by beginning the process of growth, you are motivated by the meaning of the action 🏃‍♂️ Instead of having a to-do list be very intentional about picking purposeful actions to take 📝 3 Steps to Take Purposeful Action Pick one spe...

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.  How awesome would it be if that statement were true? One of the top killers of happiness is an offense.  Sometimes it's not what was said but who said it.  Other times it's not related to the person who said it at all.  We have all been offended at one point or another and if we are honest, we know that we have...

Do you want to connect better with your Chapter Officers in the new year? Sarah has a quick how-to on how you can feel more connected with your officer team. 

What did Green & Growing Education do this year? Sarah and Hannah give you the 2021 Wrapped for Green & Growing; Germinate, Virtual Coffee, Team Retreat and more!  Stick around to the end to get a hint of what's to come in 2022. 

8 weeks! 8 weeks until FFA Week is here 🤩 Don't stress about the planning. Don't worry about the day.  Just give this podcast episode a little listen and then dream, delegate and deliver a stress-free FFA Week 💛💙

What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail? 💃🏻 Learn to play the piano 🎹 Pursue a higher degree 🎓 Try out for the NBA 🏀 Can I let you in on a little secret? 🤫We have all experienced failure at some point. Even New York Times Best Selling authors have started at a point where they were writing crappy books.  What if I told you that chasing failure was the quickest way to success? Wo...

If there were a way you could easily wrap up class each and every day that's something you would be interested in, isn't it? Wrap Up Actions  have changed the end-of-class game for me. Gone are the days of ending class by saying, "well, that's it" or "please stay in your seat until the bell rings". Check it out... Here's what you do. 1) Print off the Google Doc and cut each box out. Print on...

You’ve heard of wonder week. You know it’s all about inquiry based learning. How do you take wonder week to the next level? Join Sarah in episode 90 of the green and growing podcast to learn #allthwthings

What does every student (and really every human) want? 🤷‍♀️ To feel known and seen in a safe environment💚 So how can you make your student connections count?🙌🏽 Jump in the minivan with Hannah as she runs through some of the things that work well in her classroom.  Episode 89 on the Green & Growing Podcast is going to get your mind a movin' 🧠

Quick quiz time 🧐 Define ORIGIN ⏳ Origin: the point or place where something begins 🌱 So what is the origin of GERMINATE? I am so glad you asked!  Where did it come from? How did it start? What's the origin story? Sarah is here to take you back to the place where it all began ✨

Cecily Gunter is the proficiency professional! Join her in episode 87 of the Green and Growing podcast as she talks “All About Proficiencies.” 🎙 Cecily invites us to try 4 steps to becoming better at proficiencies. 4️⃣ 1. Figure out your Proficiencies  2. Introduce the Application to Students…Slowly 3. Set Goals for the Application 4. Build on your Apps Every Year Listen in today to learn mor...

Research shows that someone needs to hear or see something 7 times before they actually take it in and it sticks with them 🧠 SEVEN TIMES!  Now lets think about your ag program, your FFA chapter, your classroom. For a stakeholder, administration, or district level person to actually understand what happens they need to hear or see it 7 times. 👀 Soooooo....you have inherited a new job....You are n...

They came out of nowhere… where I least expected it. At the airport. Real life marigolds that… 🌼Brightened my day  🌼Made me feel important 🌼Impacted my life In just a few short minutes. Listen along as @sarahnerswick tells the story of these real life marigolds and how you can be one today! #greenandgrowing #podcast #spotify #applepodcast #anchor #googlepodcast #weekly #VC #spotlightteache...

Which would you choose? Progress🏃🏽‍♀️the process of advancement and the way things move in the positive direction of improvement. OR Perfection✨the process of improving something until it is faultless or as faultless as possible. If I were given the choice I would choose PROGRESS🏃🏽‍♀️  Why❓ The idea is that you are taking consistent action. You know that there are going to be bumps in t...

Want to learn different ways to connect with the community? What works? Who should you connect with? Join Breanna Pastir and I as we chat about how their program makes connections with the community. 

No lesson plans for your class today? No problem! We got you!  Listen in to this episode for the no lesson plan hack. 

Join Sarah for a little chat about expectations.

So your chapter needs to raise a few bucks? What the best way to go about that? What are the most successful fundraisers? What are the flops? Abbey Brown joins us to dish all the deets on FFA fundraisers.