🔥 What does it mean to create a classroom of abundance?

🔥 How can we make multiple iterations of work an integral part of our learning culture?

🔥 How can we build strong relationships with our students at the start of the school year?

Join me for this conversation with ADRIAN NEIBAUER as he shares his insights on these and other critical leadership questions.

About This Guest: Adrian is a public school educator in Colorado with 20+ years of experience in helping students find their voices. His elementary classes rely on design thinking as a process for creativity and innovation. Forever a student of teaching, Adrian runs learning experiments in his classroom to collect feedback on what’s working and tweak things that are not.

Connect with Adrian

on Linkedin,

on X @MrNeibauer, 

at his website, adrian-neibauer.com, and 

on Substack at adrianneibauer.substack.com.

Tune in for my regular Teachers on Fire interviews, airing LIVE on YouTube every Saturday morning at 8:00 am Pacific and 11:00 am Eastern! Join the conversation and add your comments to the broadcast.

In This Conversation:

0:27 - Who is Adrian Neibauer?

1:48 - Adrian's story of teaching through some low years

3:58 - How to build relationships with students in the first week of school

9:28 - Designing learning experiences and classrooms of abundance

13:32 - Design thinking in the English Language Arts classroom

18:20 - Why Adrian blogs about teaching and learning on Substack

23:21 - Adrian talks about his YouTube video titled 'Why I Teach'

27:15 - A message for veteran teachers who feel off their game

30:31 - Adrian loves reading and writing poetry

31:09 - A productivity habit: a little bit every day

32:19 - An edtech tool pick: Microsoft Flip

32:59 - Book recommendations: Don Quixote and Redesigning Tomorrow

33:49 - Inspiring educators to follow: Mike Kleba (author of Otherful) and Marcus Luther

35:35 - What Adrian's streaming right now: K-Dramas

36:16 - How to follow Adrian online 

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Tropic Fuse by French Fuse

GO! by Neffex

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