Ep. 12: IDEAcon and Building Relationships with Students

In this episode, we share some highlights from our experience at IDEAcon 2025 and discuss your successes and challenges with building relationships with your students.  This is a long episode, so we'll leave some chapter times below if you want to break up your listening:

• 00:00 - Intro, staff shout-out, a main takeaway from IDEAcon, and introduction of the importance of building relationships with students
• 07:41 - How you have gotten to know your students (ideas and challenges from teachers in our district)
• 17:08 - Delving into the importance of making connections with our students
• 22:55 - Strategies you can use today to keep getting to know your students
• 37:11 - Dessert and closing

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 7:41 How you have gotten to know your students (ideas and challenges from teachers in our district)
• 17:08 Delving into the importance of making connections with our students
• 22:55 Strategies you can use today to keep getting to know your students
• 37:11 Dessert and closing