Deep listening turns music from background noise into a full-body experience. It connects you to the performer, the writer, the moment, and even the community around you. It transforms passive enjoyment into active appreciation. 💡 Try This Today: Choose one song—any genre, any era. Listen once as a musician. Listen again as a teacher. Listen again as someone who simply loves music. If you simply just love music and aren't a musician or teacher, actively listen to the song and try and pick out each part. Try to separate the words, then move to the music and listen for the chord changes, the beat, and focus on what that song is trying to make you feel. What’s one song that completely changes for you when you really listen to it—and what made you hear it differently?

So today @Monica Flores and myself had the first podcast planning session to figure out topics and ways to do this thing and make it happen. It was great to get on a call with a fellow Skooler and teacher! We came up with a few ideas for topics, means of recording, style of the podcast. We tried to record it to share with everyone, but it only recorded 11 seconds of the whole session. Ooops. But we wanted to survey members of the community for topic ideas and for anyone with perspective and some knowledge on the topics to come onto the podcast with us. It'll be a structured informal style where its a discussion type and recorded through lives on school. For the first one we would like to do a Podcast on Online Teaching and everything that has to do with hosting online students. From tech setups to different tools people are using. Would anyone be interested in helping us out with that topic? Or know anyone who would be willing to join us? Leave some comments below.

There is always time for improvement, though at times it may not seem like it. What is one thing/area of your life that you would like to improve? This could be anything in any field.

Happy Monday everyone! Hopefully everyone had a restful weekend and were able to recharge the old batteries! I have a general question for everyone this morning. What are everyone's intentions for this week? What are you hoping to work on this week, whether be in your life, your communities or just in general?

Hopefully everyone is having a good weekend a recharging and gearing up for the new week! I just wanted to say "Hi!" 👋