Whole Brain Teaching The Podcast

Rhonda and I sat down with Platinum Certified Whole Brain Teaching Instructor Megan Russell to discuss how to implement the Super Improver Team as a classroom teacher and beyond. This episode is rich! If you have been waiting to implement the Super Improver Wall or you need a refresher or you want to know how to implement it if you have a position other than a classroom teacher, this is the episode for you! Continue to share all our episodes with your colleagues and administrators! Remember that we are here for you, so reach out on any of the WBT Facebook pages or Instagram and let us know how we can help you in your WBT Journey!

Rhonda and I are back with another installment of WBT Transformation Stories! This week, we sat down with Executive Board Member, Susannah Austin, to discuss how Glorious Kindess has changed her fourth grade classroom. We hope these stories of transformation are encouraging you to either keep doing what you are doing if you are a veteran Whole Brain Teacher, or start something new if you are brand new to Whole Brain Teaching. We are here to help any way we can along the way! Thank you for listening, following, and sharing!

Welcome back to Whole Brain Teaching the Podcast! We are kicking off a new podcast series called Transformations! Whole Brain Teaching Success Stories! We begin this series by having Executive Board Member, Joanna Willis, on to discuss how she uses the Magic Circle to increase critical thinking in her classroom. We are here to help you with your WBT journey! Leave us your questions and comments and let us know about your transformation story with WBT!

Happy New Year to all our Listeners! We are so excited to bring you more on Coach's Power League! This week, Rhonda, Coach, and I discussed how to unleash student energy in your classroom as students compete with peers across grade levels worldwide through Power League! We are thankful that you join us each and every week! Please don't forget to share these episodes with your collegues and your administration! We are so excited to spend 2026 with you! Happy listening!

Welcome back, Listeners! Rhonda and I hope you had a wonderful Fall/Thanksgiving break! We are back this week to talk with the ever-energetic Coach Chris Biffle about a new game that he is so excited about, he is dedicating an entire Facebook page to it: HIGH ROLLER LEAGUE: START TRAINING NOW! This new game is guaranteed not only to bring funtricity and joy into your classroom, but it will have your students practicing Grammar, ELA, and Writing skills while competing against themselves and other countries around the world to IMPROVE their score! Once again, the genius mind of Coach has made this so easy, you can listen to the podcast in the morning and implement it the very same day! During this hectic time of the year, it is exactly what teachers need! Thank you so much for your continued support of the Podcast! Continue to share it everywhere!

Welcome back to Whole Brain Teaching the Podcast! Rhonda and I are joined again this week by the one and only Coach Chris Biffle! This week we are tackling disengaged students with Prime Coaching! Primes are kiddos that are primed to learn, but for whatever reason, may be disengaged. We hope this 5-minute podcast will help you by re-energizing your Primes and your classroom as a whole! Be sure to continue to give us your feedback on this latest format of 5-minute podcasts. Our hope is that you listen on your way to school and then are able to easily implement the strategy the moment your students arrive through your door! Thank you for listening! We could not do this without YOU! Happy Thanksgiving! We will post another podcast in about 2 weeks!

This week on our 5-minute WBT Podcast, Rhonda and I sat down with Coach Chris Biffle to discuss how to create exceptional student leaders in your classroom! This approach is so quick and easy, I'm kicking myself for not trying it sooner! We hope you are enjoying this new format of the podcast. Our goal is to give you quick solutions to some of our most challenging issues in the classroom. We want to make it as easy as listening on your way to work and then implementing it that very same day! Let us know your thoughts! We will be back next week with another 5-minute podcast before we take a week off for the Thanksgiving holidays. We are thankful for YOU! YOU are why we do what we do!

Rhonda and I are so excited to be back with another 5-minute podcast! This week, we sit down with Coach Chris Biffle to discuss how to help quarreling students (and you) with the beloved game of Ro-Sham-Bo (also known as Rock, Paper, Scissors)! I don't know about you, but this time of the year when there are so many fun activities that take us out of our normal routine, students can become more quarrelsome. I for sure am dealing with this! So why not take a 2-minute break to play Ro-Sham-Bo and drop some compliments on one another? We hope you find this 5-minute podcast valuable. Our goal is to give you no-prep strategies that you can implement immediately! Thank you for listening and sharing the podcast! Your love for the podcast continues to fuel us! We are here to help YOU because what you are doing as an educator is so incredibly valuable! Leave your comments and suggestions on our Facebook and Instagram pages! Let us see how you are using Ro-Sham-Bo in your classrooms!

Rhonda and I are back with a new series from the brain of Coach Chris Biffle! We are starting a series of podcasts that are literally 5 minutes long! You can listen to these podcasts right before school and implement the ideas that day! Our first 5-minute podcast is Increase the Power of Class/Yes with Math Facts. I don't know about you, but this comes at the perfect time as we are starting our unit on multiplication! We hope you enjoy these shorter podcasts! Please let us know your thoughts on the format on our Facebook pages! Are there any other strategies you think we can condense into a 5-minute podcast? We are here for you! Thank you for liking, subscribing, and sharing! We can't do this without YOU!

Rhonda and I are back again this week to sit down with Coach Chris Biffle to talk about Miracle 3 in Teaching Heaven! Have you used the power of Dice rolls in your classroom? Do your students excitedly wait for you to roll that glorious cube, all the while chanting for a 1, 2, 3, or 6 to show up? If you haven't experienced this part of teaching Heaven yet, hold onto your socks! In this episode, Coach breaks down not only the Dice Roll, but the Mega-Million Dice Roll! What?!?! You do NOT want to miss this episode! We are so thankful for your listenership! Please continue to like, share, subscribe, and follow to get the latest podcast as soon as it drops! We'll be back in two weeks with another series... it will center around our most Beloved of Students... Primes!

Rhonda and I are back with Coach B. for Miracle 2 in Teaching Heaven: The Quintuple Power of "Uh Oh! Switch!" If you are not familiar with this strategy, buckle up! Uh Oh! Switch will improve and increase your engagement 5-fold (if not more)! Be sure to leave your questions and comments on how any of the strategies are helping to improve your classroom. In addition, let us know how we can help you with anything we have discussed on the podcast! We will not be recording a podcast next week, but we WILL be back recording on September 28th with Coach's Miracle 3 in Teaching Heaven! Like, follow, and subscribe to be the first in line to be notified when our latest podcast drops!

We hope you enjoyed your Labor Day with friends and family. Rhonda and I are back this week with Coach Chris Biffle! We sat down with Coach to discuss Miracle 1 in Teaching Heaven: Please Okay. If you're like us, you love weaving those manners into every aspect of your day! Coach breaks down how we can do that with any of our students: from those most accomodating students to those who might be struggling. Thank you for all you do to help this podcast help as many teachers as possible! Continue to like and share! Be sure to follow this podcast and get notified as soon as a new episode drops! We couldn't do this without YOU! P.S. I apologize for my audio. I sound like I'm in a well. Rhonda and Coach sound amazing! I will hopefully have this issue fixed before we record Miracle 2!

Blurting is one of the most universal problems in classrooms. Even veteran WBT Teachers are not immune to blurting students. That's why Rhonda and I sat down with Coach Chris Biffle to discuss how we can stop this pattern. What a perfect time to bring this topic to the forefront... the beginning of the school year! This is a great extension of the podcast series we just completed where we went through the 5 steps Coach laid out for us in his Quickstart book! As you will hear in the podcast, those 5 steps are instrumental in curbing the blurting! As Coach says, "For the system to work, you have to work the system." Power Bears is a great game to play while working the system! Keep sharing this podcast with all your educator friends and administrators! Our goal is to bring you the most relevant content in real time to help you have the best Whole Brain Teaching year yet!

We're back with another episode of Whole Brain Teaching the Podcast! This week, Rhonda and I sat down with Coach Chris Biffle to finish out his Quickstart Book with his chapter on the Bullseye Game. Bullseye is one of WBT most powerful, classroom changing, relationship building games! You definitely want to tuck this game in your back pocket and have it at the ready when needing to make even stronger connections with our most beloved rascals. Rhonda and I want to wish all of you who have started or will be starting school in the near future the best school year yet! We are here to help. You are not alone in this journey! We will be back next week with another episode of Whole Brain Teaching the Podcast! Until then, please like, share, and follow us on your favorite podcast app!

Here it is... Step 5 of Coach Chris Biffle's Quickstart: Five Steps to Teaching Heaven. In this episode of the podcast, Rhonda and I sit down with Coach to discuss what the WBT classroom rules are and how to implement them in your classroom beginning DAY 1! As you will hear in this episode, while we thought we were done podcasting on this amazing book, we are NOT! We are just getting started, y'all! We believe this has been an amazing beginning to Season 6 of the podcast! We cannot wait to see what is in store for all of us and the genius mind of Coach B. never sleeps! To be sure you get the latest podcasts when they drop, like and subscribe on your favorite podcast app! In addition, please share this and all our podcasts with your teacher friends and administrators! We are thankful for YOU!

As promised, here is Step 4 of the podcast! The Magic Circle is a complete game changer when it comes to delivering powerful, student-engaging lessons! As Coach says, the more we talk, the more students we lose! The Magic Circle allows your students to teach with 100% engagement! Rhonda and I can't believe that we will be bringing you the last step - Step 5 - next week! We can't wait to hear what Coach B. has to share with us! Be sure to listen to or review Steps 1-4 before next weekend. Remember to share what you have learned through these podcasts with your teacher friends and administrators! Our goal for Season 6 of the podcast is to hit 300K downloads. We can't do it without YOU! Thank you for always supporting the podcast by liking and sharing it!

As promised, Rhonda and I recorded Step 3 with Coach Chris Biffle today! There is so much amazing information packed into this podcast! If this episode (along with the other two steps) doesn't get you pumped to get back into the classroom, we don't know what will! Keep liking and sharing all Coach has to share with us about his latest book! Feel free to leave any questions for Coach to answer either on our Facebook pages or we can address them on the podcast! We appreciate you more than you'll ever know! You keep us motivated because our passion is Whole Brain Teachers helping Whole Brain Teachers... GLORIOUS KINDNESS!

Rhonda and I are ready to dive into Step 2 of Coach B.'s latest book Quickstart! Step 2 is all about implementation. As Coach says in the podcast, it's great to have a new car, but how do we get it started. Coach breaks it down in Step 2 by talking to us about the importance of an Improvement Agenda. Buckle up! This episode is going to show you how small improvements within ourselves model those improvement practices we want to see in our students! Thank you for always giving us such great support and feedback! As we are revving up for the 2025-2026 school year, we hope these podcasts help you have the amazing start you deserve! Thank you for listening and sharing! We couldn't do what we do without YOU!

It's SEASON 6 of Whole Brain Teaching the Podcast!! Rhonda and I are back and back earlier than anticipated because Coach B. has released his AMAZING book "Whole Brain Teaching QuickStart: Five Steps to Teaching Heaven." Y'all, Coach B. is ALWAYS thinking of YOU and he asked Rhonda and I if we would be willing to cut our summer vacation short in order to get this book into podcasts! Of course we said YES without hesitation because YOU are the reason we do what we do!! So, join us for the next six weeks as we dive into each chapter! This does not take the place of having this book in your hands! No way! However, it is another resource to help you implement what you read in these pages. Head over to Amazon and get your copy! This book is a MUST HAVE!! Step 1 is all about brain facts! If you are going to implement WBT, you have to understand why we do what we do by understanding the brain! Coach breaks it down for us as only he can! Thank you for listening! Share wildly with your educator friends and administrators. Thank you for joining us for Season 6! We cannot wait to bring you all the amazing things we are going to bring you this year!

The end of the school year can be fraught with exhaustion. Teachers and students are exhausted alike, but we still have anywhere from two weeks to a month left of school. How can we be rejuvinated even at the end of the school year? Rhonda and I sat down with Coach Chris Biffle to discuss just that! His remedy? The Improvement Agenda: A Cure-All for Viral Exhaustion! This is a must-listen as we all want to finish our school year strong! In addition, this podcast is a definate "must share" with your teacher friends because we are all in the same boat. Don't forget to like, share, and follow this podcast so you will be the first to be notified when each and every new podcast drops! You are why we do what we do! Thank you so much for listening!