Whole Brain Teaching The Podcast

Rhonda and I sat down with Platinum Certified Whole Brain Teaching Instructor Megan Russell to discuss how to implement the Super Improver Team as a classroom teacher and beyond.   This episode is rich!  If you have been waiting to implement the Super Improver Wall or you need a refresher or you want to know how to implement it if you have a position other than a classroom teacher, this is the epi...

Rhonda and I are back with another installment of WBT Transformation Stories!  This week, we sat down with Executive Board Member, Susannah Austin, to discuss how Glorious Kindess has changed her fourth grade classroom.   We hope these stories of transformation are encouraging you to either keep doing what you are doing if you are a veteran Whole Brain Teacher, or start something new if you are br...

Welcome back to Whole Brain Teaching the Podcast!  We are kicking off a new podcast series called Transformations!  Whole Brain Teaching Success Stories!  We begin this series by having Executive Board Member, Joanna Willis, on to discuss how she uses the Magic Circle to increase critical thinking in her classroom.   We are here to help you with your WBT journey!  Leave us your questions and comme...

Happy New Year to all our Listeners!  We are so excited to bring you more on Coach's Power League!  This week, Rhonda, Coach, and I discussed how to unleash student energy in your classroom as students compete with peers across grade levels worldwide through Power League! We are thankful that you join us each and every week!  Please don't forget to share these episodes with your collegues and your...

Welcome back, Listeners!  Rhonda and I hope you had a wonderful Fall/Thanksgiving break!  We are back this week to talk with the ever-energetic Coach Chris Biffle about a new game that he is so excited about, he is dedicating an entire Facebook page to it: HIGH ROLLER LEAGUE: START TRAINING NOW!   This new game is guaranteed not only to bring funtricity and joy into your classroom, but it will hav...

Welcome back to Whole Brain Teaching the Podcast!  Rhonda and I are joined again this week by the one and only Coach Chris Biffle!  This week we are tackling  disengaged students with Prime Coaching! Primes are kiddos that are primed to learn, but for whatever reason, may be disengaged.  We hope this 5-minute podcast will help you by re-energizing your Primes and your classroom as a whole! Be sure...

This week on our 5-minute WBT Podcast, Rhonda and I sat down with Coach Chris Biffle to discuss how to create exceptional student leaders in your classroom!  This approach is so quick and easy, I'm kicking myself for not trying it sooner! We hope you are enjoying this new format of the podcast.  Our goal is to give you quick solutions to some of our most challenging issues in the classroom.  We wa...

Rhonda and I are so excited to be back with another 5-minute podcast!  This week, we sit down with Coach Chris Biffle to discuss how to help quarreling students (and you) with the beloved game of Ro-Sham-Bo (also known as Rock, Paper, Scissors)!  I don't know about you, but this time of the year when there are so many fun activities that take us out of our normal routine, students can become more...

Rhonda and I  are back with a new series from the brain of Coach Chris Biffle!  We are starting a series of podcasts that are literally 5 minutes long!  You can listen to these podcasts right before school and implement the ideas that day! Our first 5-minute podcast is Increase the Power of Class/Yes with Math Facts.  I don't know about you, but this comes at the perfect time as we are starting ou...

Rhonda and I are back again this week to sit down with Coach Chris Biffle to talk about Miracle 3 in Teaching Heaven!  Have you used the power of Dice rolls in your classroom?  Do your students excitedly wait for you to roll that glorious cube, all the while chanting for a 1, 2, 3, or 6 to show up?  If you haven't experienced this part of teaching Heaven yet, hold onto your socks!  In this episode...

Rhonda and I are back with Coach B. for Miracle 2 in Teaching Heaven: The Quintuple Power of "Uh Oh! Switch!"  If you are not familiar with this strategy, buckle up!  Uh Oh! Switch will improve and increase your engagement 5-fold (if not more)! Be sure to leave your questions and comments on how any of the strategies are helping to improve your classroom.  In addition, let us know how we can help...

We hope you enjoyed your Labor Day with friends and family.  Rhonda and I are back this week with Coach Chris Biffle!  We sat down with Coach to discuss Miracle 1 in Teaching Heaven: Please Okay.   If you're like us, you love weaving those manners into every aspect of your day!  Coach breaks down how we can do that with any of our students: from those most accomodating students to those who might...

Blurting is one of the most universal problems in classrooms.  Even veteran WBT Teachers are not immune to blurting students.  That's why Rhonda and I sat down with Coach Chris Biffle to discuss how we can stop this pattern.  What a perfect time to bring this topic to the forefront... the beginning of the school year! This is a great extension of the podcast series we just completed where we went...

We're back with another episode of Whole Brain Teaching the Podcast!  This week, Rhonda and I sat down with Coach Chris Biffle to finish out his Quickstart Book with his chapter on the Bullseye Game.  Bullseye is one of WBT most powerful, classroom changing, relationship building games!  You definitely want to tuck this game in your back pocket and have it at the ready when needing to make even st...

Here it is... Step 5 of Coach Chris Biffle's Quickstart: Five Steps to Teaching Heaven.  In this episode of the podcast, Rhonda and I sit down with Coach to discuss what the WBT classroom rules are and how to implement them in your classroom beginning DAY 1! As you will hear in this episode, while we thought we were done podcasting on this amazing book, we are NOT!  We are just getting started, y'...

As promised, here is Step 4 of the podcast!  The Magic Circle is a complete game changer when it comes to delivering powerful, student-engaging lessons!  As Coach says, the more we talk, the more students we lose!  The Magic Circle allows your students to teach with 100% engagement! Rhonda and I can't believe that we will be bringing you the last step - Step 5 - next week!  We can't wait to hear w...

As promised, Rhonda and I recorded Step 3 with Coach Chris Biffle today!  There is so much amazing information packed into this podcast!  If this episode (along with the other two steps) doesn't get you pumped to get back into the classroom, we don't know what will! Keep liking and sharing all Coach has to share with us about his latest book!  Feel free to leave any questions for Coach to answer e...

Rhonda and I are ready to dive into Step 2 of Coach B.'s latest book Quickstart!  Step 2 is all about implementation.  As Coach says in the podcast, it's great to have a new car, but how do we get it started.  Coach breaks it down in Step 2 by talking to us about the importance of an Improvement Agenda.   Buckle up!  This episode is going to show you how small improvements within ourselves model t...

It's SEASON 6 of Whole Brain Teaching the Podcast!!  Rhonda and I are back and back earlier than anticipated because Coach B. has released his AMAZING book "Whole Brain Teaching QuickStart: Five Steps to Teaching Heaven."  Y'all, Coach B. is ALWAYS thinking of YOU and he asked Rhonda and I if we would be willing to cut our summer vacation short in order to get this book into podcasts!  Of course w...

The end of the school year can be fraught with exhaustion.  Teachers and students are exhausted alike, but we still have anywhere from two weeks to a month left of school.  How can we be rejuvinated even at the end of the school year?  Rhonda and I sat down with Coach Chris Biffle to discuss just that!  His remedy?  The Improvement Agenda: A Cure-All for Viral Exhaustion!   This is a must-listen a...

State testing is just around the corner.  A time that gives most educators and students anxiety!  However, you had to know that Coach Chris Biffle would have a solution.  This week, Rhonda and I sat down with Coach B. to discuss how to get students ready for State Testing using the cornerstone of Whole Brain Teaching... SUPER IMPROVER!  Super Improver has long been an individual motivator in any W...

If you are like many educators during this time of the year, we are seeing an increase in unkind words and behavior issues.  It's been a long year and we need some intervention... STAT!  Leave it to Coach B. to come to our rescue. Rhonda and I sat down with Coach to discuss Ro-Sham-Bo and how this simple yet effective game of uncertain reward can change our most beloved rascal into a complementing...

Rhonda and I aren't sure how he does it, but Coach B. has done it again!  He knows that teachers are continually trying to get their students to be engaged in the lessons they have worked tirelessly to craft!  Well, has Coach got the answer for you.  In this podcast, Coach explains how to get the most engagement for all of your hard work... and it's nothing short of BRILLIANT! Be sure to share thi...

Welcome back to the podcast!  Rhonda and I were able to spend some time with Coach Chris Biffle, WBT Founder and Creator, to record a podcast about the simplest way in the universe to implement WBT!  That is a big statement, but Coach B. absolutely delivers in this episode! We want to thank you, our dedicated listeners, for being patient with us as we navigate life which means that our times of pu...

Whole Brain Teaching the Podcast is back with our latest podcast after a wonderful Christmas break!  We hope you had a joyous holiday break and are in store for a wonderful new year! This week, we had WBT Teacher Kyla Tesmer, back on the podcast.  Kyla is a friend of the podcast and has recorded with us before.  Check out her podcasts in our library! This time, Kyla came on to talk about  a chart...