On this episode, I Zoom in Iantha Ussin, and we chat about her book, Your Classroom or Their Playground. We have a great time talking about education.
Before her May 2021 transition from the classroom to full-time consulting, Ms. Iantha Ussin (MAT) taught for 15 years with the Richmond County School System in Augusta, GA where she was repeatedly named a highly qualified middle grades ELA instructor and model teacher. She is a three-time author with her most recent book being the pride of her career—Your Classroom or Their Playground: Classroom Management Observations and Conversations for the New Teacher—a book she deems necessary for every pre-service and beginning teacher.
Ms. Ussin's passion for educating, empowering, and equipping new teachers with what they need to be successful in their classrooms is undeniable. With every get-up-and-move workshop she facilitates, participants leave with newfound motivation for creating classroom cultures that foster excitement for learning. She specializes in helping teachers (1) establish and maintain rituals and routines that create a perpetual conducive-to-learning environment (2) implement engaging, impactful lessons that are rich with meaningful, hands-on targeted tasks from bell to bell (3) build positive teacher-student relationships that eliminate the need for administrative intervention in classroom management (4) understand the importance of teaching with power through her signature P.O.W.E.R. Teaching Tools.