Leading the Next Generation with Tim Elmore
Summary: Founder and CEO of Growing Leaders, Dr. Tim Elmore shares practical advice on leading the next generation. With special guests such as John C. Maxwell, Dan Pink and Carol Dweck, listeners will get a fresh perspective and tips on how to best connect with today’s young adults. Episodes include conversations on leadership, education, athletics, parenting, and more as we aim to equip you to lead the next generation.
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Mental health issues were already mounting among those in Generation Z, but the global pandemic has taken its toll and left them in worse mental and emotional health than ever. In this episode, Tim Elmore and Andrew McPeak share four mental health and wellness practices you can start with your students. Resources: Stressed Out eBook…
Although millions of teachers, students, and parents would say the abrupt transition to remote learning over a year ago was problematic, many are now preparing for more of it going into the 2021-22 school year. In this episode, Tim Elmore and Andrew McPeak share seven ideas to employ if remote or hybrid learning doesn’t go…
After reviewing the data on members of Generation Z in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and this past year overall, we have curated ten characteristics summarized by two-word terms that will help you wrap your arms around their reality. In this episode, Tim Elmore and Andrew McPeak share ten defining terms for Generation Z.…
It’s impossible for today’s students to completely avoid the everyday stressors that come with life in school today. But what if there was a way to allow those stressors to lead students together rather than fall apart? In this episode, Tim Elmore and Andrew McPeak share five practices to help your students make stress work…
Although we like to think humans are logical creatures, we don’t respond proportionately as the needs become greater. We are sensitized to risk by our feelings, not necessarily our minds. There is a fine line between feeling engaged and feeling overwhelmed inside our brains. So, how do we convince ourselves to engage in compassionate acts for others?…
Teaching middle school students can be difficult. The students are in a unique season of life that makes it challenging for educators to practically develop social-emotional skills in them. In this episode, Tim Elmore and Andrew McPeak discuss effective ways you can teach social-emotional learning skills to middle school students. Resources: SEL Curriculum for Middle…
One problem many adults are currently seeing in the youngest generation is the lack of mental toughness. Some might say that mental toughness is actually becoming rare in our world today. It has been defined as “the ability to resist, manage and overcome doubts, worries, concerns, and circumstances that prevent you from succeeding, or excelling…
Over the last year, we have been affected psychologically, even if we’ve remained healthy physically in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. Consider the changes we’ve had thrust upon us in one year’s time, including a pandemic, protests, pay reductions, polarized politics, and panic attacks from today’s kids. In the course of time, our realities…
One problem adults face is—we see students’ high levels of stress, anxiety, depression, and panic attacks, and assume we just need to make their day easier. After all, they’re stressed out. Parents will often finish their kids’ homework assignments. Teachers will often lighten their load thinking the subject is too hard. Coaches will often excuse…
Students today can oftentimes lack awareness in themselves, in their classrooms, or just in general. They say things or do things that upset other students but don’t understand why. Sometimes their smartphones can make them aloof, only half-engaged with those in the room. They don’t get why others don’t like them. They choose harsh or…
In honor of Women’s History Month, we sat down to talk with an incredible female leader – Nautrie Jones. As the Managing Director of Teacher Leadership Development, Nautrie leads the Teach for America Metro Atlanta where she is charged with casting a bold vision and setting key strategies to ensure that the students in Metro…
Many parents might say they’re not sure how they’d make it through the day, both working and managing their kids without a one-eyed babysitter called a TV, tablet, or smartphone. They realize it’s not a good mental health choice, but what’s a parent to do? Others are both teachers and parents, and they’re trying to…
You’ve probably had something like this happen in your classroom this year. You work hard to have fun with your students. You create interesting and fun assignments for them, and you think it’s going well. Then something happens. A student says something harsh like, “I hate this class,” or a parent contacts you to tell…
We live in a growing world of “fake.” Fake content is a genuine problem on the internet. Between fake news that sways elections, fake apps that trick shoppers, and fake book reviews that stymie sales, the internet has seen a surge in fantastic, misleading, and outright false messaging that threatens to make the truth hard…
All educators, coaches, parents—and certainly students—need to ponder and digest the latest research on the topic of silence. Silence can grow your brain. One study monitored the effect of “sound” versus “silence” on mice. What researchers discovered was profound. When exposed to two hours of silence every day, the mice developed new cells in the…