PIVOT by Educircles.org

Help your students pivot with Social and Emotional Learning Skills

Help your students pivot by developing social and emotional learning skills

The Ultimate Bundle of Teaching Resources to empower students in grades 6 to 10.

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Or, use this contact form to ask me anything!

How to survive and thrive in a changing world

The world is changing

Finding success in today’s 21st-century world is like finding your way through a maze.

Pivot by Educircles - You - work, school, life, relationships, and ???

But, the walls in this maze are constantly changing.

What works today may not work for everyone, all the time.

The jobs we have today didn’t exist in our parents’ generation. The challenges we face now are global.

Our students need transferrable skills to navigate through

  • academic challenges
  • work problems
  • life uncertainties
  • building healthy relationships
  • opportunities and obstacles we haven’t encountered yet!

Pivot means to “turn around a point”

We heard it a lot during the pandemic as businesses pivoted and went online.

Basically, pivoting means when obstacles or opportunities arise, you have the ability to change directions.

We also need to pivot in life. (And, in basketball.)

Being able to change directions to achieve your goal is a life skill.

Help students learn to pivot

I’m Mike – the teacher behind Educircles

I used to teach Grade 8 in Ottawa, Canada.

In April 2018, I fell into a mental health crisis because of something that happened at school. Now I’m trying to turn the worst thing in my life into the best thing of my life.

  • My goal is to donate $100,000 to organizations that focus on student mental health.
  • I advocate for student mental health by creating teaching resources to help students explore opportunities and overcome obstacles.

My story does not end in tragedy. Read more.

About Educircles

I want to help make the world a better place.

I try to do this by helping people achieve their goals, stand up for themselves and others.

Oh, I also make resources for teachers.

Number of Educircles Resources
Downloaded Around the World

38,822

downloads

1,232

cities

35

countries

What’s inside the Educircles Everything Bundle?

Resource Table of Contents

You get every single Educircles resource on my TpT store.

Social-Emotional Learning / 6 Cs Mega Bundle

Reading Articles and Strategies

Goal Setting Resources

Media Literacy and Digital Literacy Resources

Social Awareness and Critical Thinking Challenges

And more. I’m adding new resources every month!

BONUS STUFF

Sell your teaching resources and level up your own social and emotional learning skills

It’s the ultimate real-world, deep-learning authentic challenge for teachers.

GET THREE HOURS of Personal Coaching to sell on TpT

when you buy the Educircles Everything Bundle.

(FYI – My side-gig is doing digital work for small businesses. My hourly rate for these clients is $80 per hour. You’re getting three hours for free!)

IMPORTANT: Once you buy the Educircles Everything Bundle, you must contact me using this form or via email Mike@educircles.org. Otherwise, I have no way of contacting you.

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Selling your teaching resources…

…is a chance to LEVEL UP our own Social-Emotional Learning Skills

I wrote a blog post about this, but basically

Which Stage are you in?

01.

I’ve NEVER sold on TpT before

No problem! I can help you get started!

But, quite frankly, I don’t recommend using your free personal coaching for this.

I’d recommend starting here and then getting coaching when you’re at stage two.

02.

I’ve tried to sell on TpT but it didn’t work. (Or, I only made a few dollars.)

Awesome! You’re exactly who I want to work with!

I bet if we look at your store together, I can frame some questions that might help you move in the right direction.

03.

I sell on TpT and I make less than $1,000 per month

Awesome! You’re exactly who I want to work with!

I know it seems like a big jump between stages two and three, but it’s really not.

We can look together and see if we can figure out what’s working and what’s not. (Then, we try to spend more time on what’s working…)

04.

I sell on TpT and I make more than $2,000 per month

Awesome! You’re exactly who I want to work with!

You make more than me right now, but I bet you we can still learn from each other.

I’m pretty good with technology and I love some of the software tools I’m using right now to take my store to the next level. Let’s chat!

Questions?

Here’s a list of some questions that you might find interesting.

You can also use the link below to ask me a question directly.

Contact Mike

Yup. I’ve only coached one person. When I started working with her (March 2021), her goal was to make $100 USD in a month and to have over 100 products. This past summer (2021), she made more than $1,000 USD in one month. She now has over 300 products. Right now, we chat once a month. Before, we used to email back and forth every other week(ish.)

I fully expect her to make more than me any month now. She has more products than I do and her products are evergreen. (They can be used anytime.) My products tend to do better at certain times of the year.

I have no idea. I can’t guarantee results.

It actually has less to do with me and more to do with you. This is how I explain the goal setting process to students.

In the previous example, the teacher I was working with did all of the work. We had conversations, and then she would go and tinker away on her products. She told me once that she credited the coaching for her success, but not really. She did all of the work.

It’s up to us, really. Once you buy the Educircles Everything Bundle, use the contact form to get in touch with me.

We might decide to email back and forth.

We might decide to do a 30-minute video chat on Zoom or Google Meet once a month (so it’s easier to see things on the computer.)

Basically, I just keep track of the time I spend writing emails, prepping for a call, or having a look at your products.

Let’s do this coaching thing at a time that works for both of us.

No. The three hours of coaching in this promotion have no cash value and cannot be exchanged or transferred.

No. Unfortunately, I’m only offering coaching as an exclusive thank-you to people who buy the Educircles Everything Bundle.

Besides, the Everything Bundle is on sale right now for Cyber Monday at $100. You would rather spend $240 to get 3 hours of coaching?

That’s a great question. If you’re wondering if I’m going to start charging you for coaching after the three hours are up, the answer is no. Here’s why.

I have a limited amount of time for work. My goal is to spend that time creating assets and resources as opposed to spending that time doing labour. In other words, I’d like to spend my work time developing resources for the Educircles Everything Bundle than getting more small business clients (which is what teacher-authors are.)

After the three hours of coaching run out, I’m hoping we just become friends that stay in touch and share ideas. I network with different people in different industries. It’s nice to see what they’re doing and vice-versa. Sometimes, we chat weekly. Other times, when things get busy, we chat monthly. It’s a process.

I have a few goals.

  • I want to connect and support people who invest their money in the Educircles Everything Bundle. Some people might find it tricky getting started with all of the files, so I want to support them.
  • I also want to know more about who my people are. Who’s buying my resources? What would they like to see more of? You’d be surprised, but it’s actually very hard to connect with people who buy your resources.
  • But my biggest goal is to connect with people like me. I would have loved to find a product like this. And then to discover that the person was willing to help me sell my stuff too? That’s awesome!

I’ve had a chance to level up my own Social-Emotional Learning skills through my Educircles adventures. I think teachers who are like me will find this really interesting. Selling resources is a great challenge.

Then, I can find out what kind of resources they want, make more of that, put it in the Educircles Everything Bundle, and hopefully find more people like us. The cycle continues…

If you’ve read this far, it’s time to contact me and ask me your questions directly! Chat with you soon!

Any Questions?

Contact Mike