5 Things Educators Need to Know in January 2025

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

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Welcome to a brand-new year of teaching! January is the perfect time to refresh your strategies, embrace new tools, and set yourself up for success in 2025. In this episode of Cool Cat Teacher Talk, we cover the top five things teachers need to know to make this year a great one.

Here’s what we’re diving into and when you can tune in:

• [00:00] 28 Questions to Plan Your Best Year Yet
  Kickstart the year with intentional reflection and goal setting to maximize your impact and I share a spreadsheet and some tools you can download to plan your year.
• [13:49] Classroom Management Tips That Work
  Discover proven strategies to create a positive and productive classroom environment and improve classroom management.
• [28:01] Apple Intelligence: Tools to Transform Teaching
  Learn how Apple’s latest AI-powered tools like Math Notes and writing assistants impact the classroom and how we need to change teaching writing.
• [39:26] The AI Revolution in Education
  Explore how to use AI tools effectively, teach ethical AI use, and address equity challenges in your classroom.
• [53:00] How to Innovate Like a Turtle
  Adopt a simple, sustainable approach to innovation with actionable steps for consistent growth.

In this episode I'm picking hot topics that will encourage and help you start your 2025 well. Any time I do an episode about news and hot topics I will put them all on this post for this year which can be found at www.coolcatteacher.com/talknews2025.

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Key Episode Links

Resources:

• Episode: www.coolcatteacher.com/talknews2025
• ⭐ Download my personal annual planning forms at www.coolcatteacher.com/annualplan 
• “Be More Successful: New Harvard Research Reveals a Fun Way to Do It” by Shawn Achor
• 4 Essentials for Every Educator: Lesson Design, Classroom Management, Student Engagement, Student Agency with Gretchen Bridgers – https://www.coolcatteacher.com/design-lessons-engage-students-classroom-management/
• Apple Intelligence information: https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/
• How to Help Kids Use Devices Responsibly with Jordan Shapiro – 10 MInute Teacher Episode #874 – https://www.coolcatteacher.com/how-to-help-kids-use-devices-responsibly/

Books I Recommend in This Show:

• All It Takes is a Goal: The 3-Step Plan to Ditch Regret and TapInto Your Massive Potential by Jon Acuff 
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, and Emily Gregory
• Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up In Order to Move Forward by Dr. Henry Cloud
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
• Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear
• Work Clean: The Life-Changing Power of Mise-en-Place to Organize Your Life, Work, and Mind by Dan Charnas
• Building Your Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential by Tiago Forte
• Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals by Michael Hyatt (This is on Kindle Unlimited for those of you who subscribe to that!)
•  Always a Lesson: Teaching Essentials for Classroom and Career Success by Gretchen Bridgers
• Hidden Potential by Adam Grant

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