Tips, Tactics and Strategies from the nations most inspiring, creative and innovative educators & industry professionals to create positive, kind and empathetic school cultures. Each episode will leave you walking away with actionable steps you can take to immediately improve your school or classroom culture, decrease bullying and create a positive atmosphere.
EP. 014 | The Kindness Gamification Playbook With Gary Engels
Meet Your Host: Brian Williams Powered by: Think Kindness | SchoolCulture.org In this episode, host Brian Williams sits down with his longtime friend and fellow martial artist Gary Engels — founder of Leadership Academy in Woodruff, WI — to explore the power of Legacy Loops, a gamified habit-tracking app designed to build character, consistency, and confidence in students. From a daughter's Duolingo streak to 19,000 acts of kindness collected in two weeks, this episode is packed with a...
25 Mar 2026
EP. 013 | Why Teachers Are First Responders (& Should Make $300K) With Duncan Kirkwood
Powered By Think Kindness In this powerful conversation, host Brian Williams sits down with Duncan Kirkwood the Director of the Center for Resiliency at Villa Maria College. Duncan shares his journey from serving as a Master Resilience Trainer in the Army National Guard to becoming a nationally recognized speaker who empowers educators and students across the country. The discussion tackles the sobering reality that in 2012, more soldiers died by suicide than in combat, sparking Duncan's miss...
10 Feb 2026
EP. 12 | Mastering Difficult Conversations in Education with Brenda Neckvatal
POWERED BY: Think Kindness / SchoolCulture.org In this powerful episode of the Rockstar Teacher Podcast, host Brian Williams sits down with leadership expert and three-time bestselling author Brenda Neckvatal to tackle one of the most challenging aspects of education: dealing with difficult people. Whether it's challenging students, demanding parents, or complicated coworker dynamics, Brenda delivers battle-tested strategies that educators can implement immediately. Brenda shares real-world s...
4 Feb 2022
EP. 10 | Social Media and Tactics To Be Pro-Active
Let me guess - you've had more referrals to the office centered around 'Social Media' than anything else? Am I Right? Well today we get to interview Kim Karr - she started #ICANHELP in 2011 after seeing the destructive power of online negativity firsthand. An anonymous user created a simple, yet destructive Facebook page targeting a teacher at her school. Over the next two weeks, one thousand students followed the page, with many commenting and fueling the fire. One student finally steppe...
24 Dec 2021
EP. 09 | Creating A Positive School Culture That Lasts For Years
With the new year - comes new opportunities. . . and Covid has also presented even more new opportunities create amazing, outstanding and long lasting positive student culture. In today's episode we bring on Jimmy Gleich, an award winning leadership advisor, teacher and is also the Vice-President of Think Kindness. WHAT YOU'LL GET OUT OF TODAY'S EPISODE Actionable Culture Building Ideas for your schoolTips and Tricks to get students and staff on boardDifferent approaches to evaluate your sc...
20 May 2021
EP: 08 | Building Amazing Student & Staff Culture
Meet Joe. He is a family man who learned about learning by being curious. Since childhood, he has always been motivated by challenging himself. Heck, he was 1 of 10 kids. . . one could say he was born into a challenge! But he discovered his love of learning in an outside-the-box way. School for him was too impersonal, routine, and disconnected from reality. He would run home after school and spend hours in his backyard canyon creating forts, designing go-karts, and taking thins apart. He disc...
28 Aug 2020
EP. 07 How to inspire resilient students during covid-19
Many people are nervous about the uncertainty and adversity Covid-19 brings to the classroom. However, after interviewing JC Pohl of Teen Truth, you quickly realize that this pandemic also creates a "once in a life-time opportunity to teach resiliency amongst students" as JC put it. JC is has worked with over 1,200 schools across the United States. He is an award winning documentary producer, renown speaker, coach and author. He has worked with students, administrations and entire distr...
23 Jul 2020
How To Build A Resilient Staff Culture
If you took a polled your staff with the question, "Do you think next year will be easy?" . . . I would be willing to bet the resounding answer would be 'No'. The reasons would vary. From current economic status of the families, virtual learning, kids getting sick to the uncertainty of what the next week or month holds. Then if you asked the question, "Do you think we can still create a world-class teaching environment, regardless of the circumstances?". . . well, those answers may not all be...
7 Jul 2020
EP. 05 | Productivity Hacks From A Master
Juan Bendana is a renowned speaker, author, and DJ who speaks on high school & University campuses as well as conferences internationally. He speaks to 50,000+ students, educators, and parents across Canada & the United States every year. He is the Founder of The 100 Day Playbook, a guided Journal that helps students build better habits, boost productivity, & optimize their life. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS Productivity is something that takes constant practice. There are good days and there...
13 Apr 2020
EP. 04 Creative Ideas To Boost Your Virtual Classroom Experience For Your Students
In this episode we'll give you several ideas to add a boost of creativity, excitement and just plan 'ole FUN to your virtual classroom. This will boost engagement and excitement amongst your students and make this new world of virtual teaching fun! If you have more ideas to share, you share them with us at: www.thinkkindness.org/podcast
30 Mar 2020
EP. 03 Virtual Teaching Ideas To Boost School Culture
Meet Jimmy, a high school leadership advisor & VP implementing creative virtual learning ideas that creates stronger school culture, digitally. During this episode Jimmy will give actionable fun ideas to utilize social media, instagram, tiktok and even creative games to keep students engaged with their teachers and one another. In addition, Jimmy will touch on the administration side of managing social behavior in this new digital classroom world we have been thrusted into. Listen to ...
16 Mar 2020
EP. 02 Jam Session - 20 Fun Questions To Ask Your Students, Friends & Family
Sometimes you just need to change it up a little bit. Spark some questions that will spark some fun debates, creative ideas and outside-the-box thinking. After a long-week of testing, drama or just to ease the tension in a room, simple fun questions can help create some fun dialogue between everyone. Plus, this encourages critical thinking and teachers the ability to see someones answers from a different perspective. . . and at the end of the day, it will spark some laughs. CLICK HERE FOR SH...
13 Mar 2020
EP. 01 Helping 8th Graders Become Published Authors
Cynthia Milone is teacher that used creative tactics to curb bullying in her school by utilizing technology, the internet and creatively crowd sourcing content from her students. The impact this had on her school and the students far surpassed her expectations and created a massive change within their school culture. In addition, over 27 8th graders graduated as published authors! You can read their blog and purchase their You Are Not Invisible, directly on Amazon. For more resources and ...
12 Mar 2020
Welcome to the Rockstar Teacher Podcast
Meet Brian Williams, the founder of Think Kindness and host of the Rockstar Teacher Podcast. Brian travels the country speaking to schools from coast-to-coast on a mission to spark tidal waves of kindness. Throughout his travels he meets some of the nations most inspiring, creative and authentic educators. So rather than just keep their awesomeness to himself, he decided to create a podcast to showcase their stories, projects and to help other teachers & educators follow in their f...
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