If you’re starting a new school year (or have already started one), goals may be top of mind right now. Keven Rinaman talks about goal-setting strategies and how to have a successful year with them.

Setting goals gives us focus as we move into a new school year. Goals give us direction as we find ourselves bombarded with tasks.

In episode 91 Keven Rinaman, a technology director from Ohio, talks about the importance of setting goals for ourselves as well as our students. As we ask our students to set goals it makes sense that as educators we model goal setting ourselves.

Keven encourages us to find what interests and inspires us the most and get started setting our own educator goals.

This week’s episodes of the Ditch That Textbook podcast cover that and other topics, including:

• A dive into Google Classroom changes
• Big changes for Flipgrid
• The power of silence
• A Flipgrid scavenger hunt!

Scroll down to hear these episodes from the Ditch That Textbook podcast.

How you can listen to the Ditch That Textbook podcast

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2. Right here on the blog. I’m planning on publishing podcast recap posts here every Tuesday. I’ll embed the shows right into the posts. You can listen to them without downloading anything!

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091 — #EducatorGoals with Keven Rinaman

092 — Google Classroom changes

093 — Flipgrid changes

094 — Learning in the pause with Shaelynn Farnsworth

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