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Chris Nowinski is a former football player at Harvard University and professional wrestler with WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment. After enduring a career-ending head injury, Chris has dedicated his professional life to serving patients and families affected by brain trauma, particularly Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that develops after repeated head injuries. Jay and Chris discuss the state of head injuries in American athletics, the difference between advocating for head safety at youth and professional levels, Chris’ newest research, and much more. Episode Chapters (00:00) Intro (00:50) changes in the culture around concussions in the past two decades (02:39) padded helmet technology (03:55) concussion reporting in the NFL (10:35) Chris’ career path and concussion history (14:52) connecting with activists who haven’t themselves suffered a traumatic brain injury (17:42) SHAAKE - a new sign to identify concussions (20:53) Unions can help players advocate for safety policies (23:10) final thoughts and goodbye For video episodes, watch on www.youtube.com/@therudermanfamilyfoundation Stay in touch: X: @JayRuderman | @RudermanFdn LinkedIn: Jay Ruderman | Ruderman Family Foundation Instagram: All About Change Podcast | Ruderman Family Foundation To learn more about the podcast, visit https://allaboutchangepodcast.com/…
Best practices for teachers who teach world languages on a cart. Examples in Spanish, Japanese, French, German, and Chinese.
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Teach to their eyes! How to make bad seating arrangements work for world language teachers on a cart
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How can we teach to their eyes when they face the back of the room? We world language teachers need awesome seating arrangements for our students, but if we're on a cart, we are often stuck with bad ones, sometimes teaching to the backs of heads. What to do? Welcome to "Teaching World Languages on a Cart," the shortest podcast you'll ever love, wit…
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Teach a story when you aren't there! We world language teacher dread being absent because our substitute teachers usually can't teach our language. That's why we default to "culture" sub plans. When we're on a cart it's even worse because we can't leave things in the classroom to help kids have activities in the target language. But you can give th…
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