Helping school organizations (PTA, PTO, PTSA, PTSO) and school administrators achieve their goals.
Episodes
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Whether you’re a teacher looking to spice up science, a principal looking to build morale amongst your staff, or a PTA or PTO looking to engage your community, a scavenger hunt is for you! Join us to hear tips for exciting missions, different ways to use scavenger hunts, and some best practices for fundraising. K-12 Clothing and GooseChase partner up for some ideas for beginners and experts alike.
About our guests: Eric Chiang and Joe Denomme
Eric is the Head of Marketing at GooseChase. He was introduced to the company after participating in his first game (and leading his team to victory!) while traveling in Central America. Having a love for all things competitive and a belief in the power of games to unite people, Eric is responsible for designing and creating content that helps teachers and event organizers everywhere make the most of their digital scavenger hunt experience.
Joe always considers himself the voice of the customer and has spent his career creating exceptional customer experiences in events, retail and financial products. Joe's main goal is to understand your vision and help you bring your dream hunt to life. In addition to his work with GooseChase, he coaches minor hockey in Toronto and is passionate about building positive team cultures, and having fun while crushing your goals. When he isn't working you can find him hiking, canoeing, or hitting any stand-up comedy show he can find.
This show is brought to you by K-12 Clothing. K-12 Clothing is a PTA-Dad created business focused on providing high-quality school apparel while increasing access to educational resources through fundraising in schools. Learn more at k12clothing.com
This show is made possible by support from SquadLocker.
Friday Jan 08, 2021
Friday Jan 08, 2021
The first male president of the national PTA did not take office until 2009 and in that same year, only 10% of national PTA members were men. Why don’t more men join and how can we change that? This episode features a Utah PTA dad who holds a role 100% focused on changing these statistics. Learn how you can make a change in your organization as well.
About our guest:
Jason Nackos is a former teacher who taught at the junior high level for 3 years before he “retired” to raise his kids full time. He started to get involved in the PTA once his youngest started school full time because of his desire to be in the school and embarrass his kids on a regular basis. He has served two years as Membership VP, one as President Elect and one as PTA President at Mapleton Elementary in Mapleton, Utah. He currently serves as the Male Engagement Specialist for Utah PTA where he oversees a committee that focuses on increasing male involvement throughout the state. He and his friend Ryan Schriever (a local attorney and former Membership VP at Mapleton Elementary) went viral with a carpool karaoke video in 2018 that co-starred their principal. From there they continued to make videos for their school and for Utah PTA and became affectionately known as The PTA Dads. Some of their videos can be found at the Mapleton Elementary PTA YouTube page.
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This show is brought to you by K-12 Clothing. K-12 Clothing is a PTA-Dad created business focused on providing high-quality school apparel while increasing access to educational resources through fundraising in schools. Learn more at k12clothing.com
This show is made possible by support from SquadLocker.
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Are you tired of asking your students to please turn on their camera? Are you left wondering how much they are absorbing? Do you need a new way to get your PTA members engaged? Game shows are a great way to review materials and get your audience highly engaged. It can also be a great way to get to know your parent community. Join us in this episode where we get step-by-step instructions on how to execute a game show from an online game host who has been creating, and running, online games for over four years.
About Our Guest:
When Michael is not managing the family business finances and personnel, he spends much of his time sharing his love of technology with his online communities. Michael has a passion for technology and helping others grasp the often difficult concepts of the tech world including software and hardware. As an early adopter of livestreaming since 2012, Michael has grown a following for his help videos on YouTube, and uses a suite of hardware and software products to produce an online game show seen by viewers world wide all from his home studio. His ability to manage an hour long, live production by himself, rivals that of high end productions seen on television. Each week to create what many would call a first class show, Michael uses production streaming software such as, but not limited to, OBS, VoiceMeter, Zoom, Streamyard, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Twitter, Restream, Elgato, and Google sheets. All of this is done live while hosting the full panel of contestants and an online audience. Michael has helped thousands of individuals, educators and business owners use and understand the growing Google product field as a Google Product Expert since 2015. Michael enjoys learning new things as they become available and then passes that knowledge on to those who are equally anxious to be a part of the latest thing. Michael continues to create videos, conduct workshops, live stream episodes of his weekly technology show, teach and guide individuals through his online community. Check him out at https://www.youtube.com/MichaelDaniels
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This show is brought to you by K-12 Clothing. K-12 Clothing is a PTA-Dad created business focused on providing high-quality school apparel while increasing access to educational resources through fundraising in schools. Learn more at k12clothing.com
This show is made possible by support from SquadLocker.
Friday Dec 11, 2020
Friday Dec 11, 2020
Managing zoom invites, flyers, social media, trivia vendors, and technical troubleshooting all fall on PTA or PTO volunteers - how do you do it well? And how do you make sure you don’t make mistakes given that you’re doing everything virtually for the first time? Hear from a parent volunteer on how she pulled off a successful trivia night. Sara Franko will share what what worked well and didn’t work so that you can pull off your next virtual event seamlessly.
About Our Guest:
Sara Franko is an entrepreneur, sales and marketing freelancer, and mom of 2 living in the western suburbs of Chicago.
A native of Illinois, Sara received her BS in Advertising from University of Illinois in 1999. After a decade of success in financial services at Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers, Sara switched gears by starting a fitness company geared toward moms. As owner of FIT4MOM Chicago West, Sara helped hundreds of local moms develop strength for motherhood, both physically and emotionally.
Sara is uber-active in her community, serving as VP Social on the school PTC, and planning events for local women’s groups. Sara and her family are honorees and committee members for Winning With Wyatt, a local non-profit raising funds for pediatric brain cancer research.
This show is brought to you by K-12 Clothing. K-12 Clothing is a PTA-Dad created business focused on providing high-quality school apparel while increasing access to educational resources through fundraising in schools. Learn more at k12clothing.com.
This show is made possible by support from SquadLocker.
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Are you resonating with your audience? Do you worry that your PTA isn’t reaching all the children? With your parent and membership body being made up of 3-5 generations, a one-sized fits all communication strategy is no longer effective. This episode features tips on how to speak to each generation with special guest, Dillon Kalkhurst, a known speaker and author on communicating to multiple generations.
About Our Guests
Guest Bio: Dillon, a Gen X-Boomer “Cusper” consults with Fortune 500 companies, school districts, PTAs, and national nonprofit organizations to help them engage their multi-generational employees, parents, volunteers, and customers. Dillon is an
Intergenerational Engagement Maven and author of the book, GENERATION EVERYONE! A Guide to Generational Harmony at Work, School, and Home. He founded The Center for Intergenerational Engagement to support the findings in his book.
Prior to completing his book, he enjoyed an educational marketing and strategic partnerships career where he served as executive director of strategic partnerships and community development at Scholastic. While at Scholastic, Dillon created company-wide strategies to help the 100-year-old children’s publisher engage their 1.6 million Millennial parent volunteers and 60 million Gen Z customers. Dillon is currently the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for MemberHub where he develops relationships that help PTAs, PTOs, and Parent Booster Clubs maximize parent communications, increase family engagement, and raise passive fundraising income through social impact partnerships.
In addition to writing and speaking, Dillon is also a professional photographer, video storyteller, and teen mental health advocate. He lives in Ormond Beach, Florida with his wife Linda, son and future special-ed teacher, Jordan and the family pet “Frank the Beach Pug.”
This show is brought to you by K-12 Clothing. K-12 Clothing is a PTA-Dad created business focused on providing high-quality school apparel while increasing access to educational resources through fundraising in schools. Learn more at k12clothing.com
This show is made possible by support from SquadLocker.
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
In celebration of the school breaks, giving thanks, and giving back, we wanted to drop this special episode about investing in our teacher. We hope that people will take the downtime to invest in themselves and the education community around them.
About our guest:
Rebecca Arnold is the CEO of Root Coaching & Consulting, LLC Rebecca is a certified, professional coach, speaker, and writer. She supports her clients to transform into their most powerful and purposeful selves, to amplify their impact in the world, and to thrive personally and professionally. She works with organizations, including school systems, law firms, and tech, that are committed to supporting their people. Her clients are leaders that hail from the domains of health, education, law, social justice, mental health, and entrepreneurship. Her professional experience spans policy, government, law, non-profit organizations, and the education sector. She holds a JD from Northeastern University, a BA from Brown University, and is a certified, professional Co-Active© coach. She is the mom of two children and lives in the Northeast.
This show is brought to you by K-12 Clothing. K-12 Clothing is a PTA-Dad created business focused on providing high-quality school apparel while increasing access to educational resources through fundraising in schools. Learn more at k12clothing.com
This show is made possible by support from SquadLocker.
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Being a PTA leader and being a Mayor are more similar than you think! PTA and PTO missions revolve around building a community, engaging that community, and advocating for members of that community. Join us in this episode as we discuss how to create a PTA or PTO community at your school that supports the PTA mission and how to create events to further that mission.
Guest Name: Alecia Whitaker Pace
Guest Bio:
Alecia Whitaker is the young adult author of the award winning Wildflower trilogy (Wildflower, The Road to You, and The Way Back Home) as well as the bestselling novel, The Queen of Kentucky, which was optioned for film. She grew up on a tobacco and cattle farm in a small Kentucky town and moved to NYC in 2004. She has a BFA in acting and has appeared on talk shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Martha, and The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, as well as Deal or No Deal. Whitaker also hosted a parenting advice YouTube show called The Baby Book, has been in numerous commercials, and was chosen to narrate two of her novels for audio publication by her publisher. You can find more information at http://www.aleciawhitaker.com/
Since becoming a mother in 2010, Whitaker has been doing market research on her four bright and rambunctious kiddos who prefer going through life dressed in nothing but superhero undies. When she’s not running PTA fundraisers, changing diapers or tripping over Legos, she is working on two screenplays and an early chapter book series.
This show is brought to you by K-12 Clothing. K-12 Clothing is a PTA-Dad created business focused on providing high-quality school apparel while increasing access to educational resources through fundraising in schools. Learn more at k12clothing.com
This show is made possible by support from SquadLocker.
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Hot spiced cider, sugar cookies and pumpkin pie...hungry yet? How do you pull together these recipes + more to create your school cookbook fundraiser? PTAs have been using holiday cookbook fundraisers for decades but did you know there is software that makes them super easy to pull together. Join us for this episode that will take you step-by-step through how to gather recipes, put together a great looking cookbook, and how to sell that cookbook. You might even get some great recipe ideas for your own holiday cooking.
About our guest:
Christina Gibson is a wife, mother, creative and centered on community.
Christina was raised in Mobile, Alabama. She grew up in a house centered on community. Her loving parents instilled in her that helping those around you is a life-long principle that will always reward you. After starting her education at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Christina transferred to and completed her studies at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, GA, where she continues to reside with her husband and newly welcomed daughter.
After serving her community by working with organizations such as the Mobile International Festival and the International Rescue Committee, Christina was drawn to CreateMyCookbook where she is now the Director of Operations, managing the activities that ensure its customers are able to preserve their family recipes and memories.
She believes that food is love and that family and community are best served around a good meal. Christina loves working with a community that allows individuals, communities, and organizations to easily create a bookstore quality cookbook worthy of any kitchen, full of recipes to be shared.
For more information on how to run your fundraiser with Create My Cookbook, visit https://createmycookbook.com/fundraisers#/
This show is brought to you by K-12 Clothing. K-12 Clothing is a PTA-Dad created business focused on providing high-quality school apparel while increasing access to educational resources through fundraising in schools. Learn more at k12clothing.com
This show is made possible by support from SquadLocker.
Friday Nov 06, 2020
Friday Nov 06, 2020
Is this a good or bad trivia night question: how many Division I college football teams does California have? And how do you use good trivia questions to make money for your school? Join us for a discussion with Matt Hammond, owner of Hambone’s Trivia, to answer these questions and more. We’ll talk about what makes a good trivia night, how to interview potential trivia night providers, and most importantly, how to maximize the money you raise for your school with your trivia night.
As a bonus, listeners of the Multipurpose Room can earn a discount on trivia night by using a promo code that we share in this episode.
About our guest:
Starting in 2007, Matt Hammond “Hambone”, a former attorney, began writing custom trivia for his friends. He now pursues his passion for interesting things full time as the creator and owner of Hambone’s. Like Dolly, he tumbles outta bed and pours himself a cup of ambition every day to bring unique, custom-crafted experiences to your friends, businesses, and communities. You can find more information about Matt and his company at https://www.hambonestrivia.com/
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
What do Zombies, pastry chefs, and dancing under the stars have in common? Not, we are not talking about a Halloween party - we are talking about putting the FUN in Fundraising. Schools of all kinds are always trying to raise money to enhance the student and family experience. Coming up with creative ideas, especially in today’s world where you can’t do what you were doing before is a challenge. Our guest, Ryann Galloway Tacha, has some very creative event ideas and fundraising tips that will take your school’s events to the next level.
About our guest:
Ryann Galloway Tacha is an experienced nonprofit professional. She began her career at her alma mater, The Lawrenceville School and built her skills at The Allen Stevenson School in New York City and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark, NJ. Currently she is Director of Advancement at The Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri. The scope of her work is broad including overseeing fundraising for the school's main campus, event planning, and managing the alumni relations program. In her free time, she serves on the Executive Board of The Lawrence Arts Center and serves as president of the Kansas City/St. Louis Lawrenceville Alumni Club. Ryann lives in Lawrence, Kansas with her husband, John and her short-haired retriever, Cleo.
This show is brought to you by K-12 Clothing. K-12 Clothing is a PTA-Dad created business focused on providing high-quality school apparel while increasing access to educational resources through fundraising in schools. Learn more at k12clothing.com
This show is made possible by support from SquadLocker.