In this podcast Kelly offers his best tips, strategies, suppositions, advice resources to help educators make the absolute most of their summer break.

Mentioned in this podcast: 

P90X workout program. 

Body Beast DVD workout program. 

Coach.me app for the iPhone. Find it on the iTunes store. 

Moleskine Journal: Here's the journal I use to reflect, plan, and record everything that matters. Love it!

Kayak.com and HipMunk are great tools for planning a trip. Find both on the iTunes store. 

Books to read:

Along Came a Leader by Kelly Croy. What makes a better school? A better class? Leaders! This book is for you, your colleagues, and your students. 

Teach Like a Pirate by Dave Burgess: This book makes you get excited about teaching. 

Freeletics app for your iPhone. Great new app for getting fit. Find it on the iTunes store. 

Teacher Step: Online grad classes for teachers. Inexpensive. 9 Months to finish. Use your search engine to locate these courses. 

Muse headband to practice Mindfulness. Headspace app to practice Mindfulness. Breathe app to practice mindfulness. 

Rumble Roller: Pamper yourself and give yourself the gift of a massage every day. 

Thank you cards. Send handwritten notes of thanks to people who helped you this past year. These are cool "chalk board" thank you cards. 

Teachers Pay Teachers: upload a lesson or two. You will be happy you did. 

Explain Everything app for the iPad. This is one of my favorite iPad apps. Find it on the iTunes store. 

Brad is the Dean of Students and Supervisor of Instruction for the Chester School District in Chester, NJ. He is also the Founding Partner and Chief Information Officer for Evolving Educators LLC. Brad began his career in 2001 as a Middle School Social Studies and Computer Education Teacher for the Hanover Township School District in Whippany, New Jersey. He is a 2014 ASCD Emerging Leader, Google Certified Educator, Google Education Trainer, author of All Hands on Deck: Tools for Connecting Parents, Educators, and Communitie. He has also the author of Personalized PD: Flipping Your Professional Development and the newly released 140 Twitter Tips for Educators.

Follow Brad on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bradmcurrie

Connect with Brad at his website at: www.bradcurrie.net

Mentioned in this Podcast:

Jennie Mageria's new book: Courageous Adventures. Grab it.

The two most influential books Brad has read:

• Digital Leadership by Eric Sheninger

and

• What Great Educators Do Differently by Todd Whitaker

• Brad says all teachers become a Google Certified Educator. Here's how to it. Boom!

• Brad really likes this: Flipgrid. Try it out.

Jarius Makambi is an incredible educator in the Kibera Slum of Narobi, Kenya. For the past two years our classrooms have used Skype to interact and learn. Jarius's school is one of the poorest in the world. It is situated in one of the largest slums in the world, The Kibera Slum where about 1.5 million people live. 

This episode is not an interview, but rather a profile of the amazing work Jarius is doing at the Kibera Slum with the school he founded, how our classes communicate and learn, and how we can help these vulnerable students. 

I really want to bring attention to Jarius's work and The Cheery Education Centre. I hope this podcast inspires you to use Skype in your classroom and perhaps even send The Cheery Education Centre a donation as i did. 

Jarius feeds, clothes, and educates his students. I can vouch for their amazing character and drive to succeed. This is an amazing school. How the families and children live here is simply astonishing. 

I can also vouch the amazing work of this educator. He does so much with so little. 

Mentioned in this podcast: 

The website for The Cheery Education Centre: http://cheerycentre.org/donations

Follow the Cheery Education Centre and Jarius on Twitter: @Cheeryeducentre

Follow the Cheery Education Centre and Jarius on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cheerycentre

You can email Jarius and send him a donation at this email address: jairusmakambi@yahoo.com

Kelly interviews the founder of Breakout EDU, James Sanders. This is a fantastic interview about technology in the classroom on all levels.

James Sanders is the founder of Breakout EDU and the Chief Innovation Officer at EdTechTeam. Previously, James was White House Presidential fellow where we led the development of Future Ready Schools and the White House Film Festival. James got his start in education as a middle school history teacher in South Los Angeles where he pioneered the use of Chromebooks in the classroom. His current passion is creating daily video blogs on his YouTube Channel YouTube.com/jamestsanders

Mentioned in Kelly's Pre-Roll:

• Planbook.com: Planbook is sponsoring the hosting costs for today's podcast and giving you a free year with the promo code: FREEYEARWEP. Playbook.com is the best software for any device to create and share your lesson plans with standards and so much more. Playbook is awesome.
• The Create Conference hosted by Chris Hamady: June 6
• Rumble Roller: Textured Muscle Foam Roller: Manipulates soft tissue like a massage therapist for a teachers sore feet, legs, back, neck and more.

• Falling in Love with Close Reading: Lesson for analyzing texts and Life: by Christopher Lehman
• Socratic Circles: Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking in Middle and High School by Matt Copeland

Mentioned in the Podcast:

James Most influential read: Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

Breakout EDU
The Breakout EDU wooden Box Kit
EdTech Team
White House Presidential Fellow
James likes the online site Socrative for the classroom.
BirdBrain Technologies

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Kelly Croy is an educator, author and speaker. 

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Kelly’s book, Along Came a Leader is available for purchase here.