Transitioning Out of the Classroom with Nicki Dingraudo
The CEO Teacher Podcast
Kayse Morris
5.0 ā¢ 734 Ratings
šļø 2 September 2020
ā±ļø 28 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another episode of the CEO TeacherĀ® podcast. We are transitioning from our Full Time Teacher Series to interviewing teachers that have recently left the classroom to pursue this passion that is selling their teaching resources full time.Ā
You're going to love this interview. And in the coming weeks, we're going to show you what it looks like to transition from the classroom to doing this as a full time job.
Nicki Dingraudo has taught first and second grade in sunny Arizona for six years. She's recently moved to Minnesota and she dove head first into creating online resources for teachers full time about a year ago. Her goal is to create low prep, high engagement resources to help take the stress away from busy teachers. She's going to chat about how cold life is in Minnesota and how much this job means to her. There are some great nuggets of information inside of this interview and you're going to absolutely love it.
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In this episode, you will learn:
- How and why Nicki transitioned out of the classroom
- How having teacherpreneur besties has been so helpful to her
- How she gets her product ideas
- What she does to keep her mental health in check
- What she does on Instagram that has been a game changer for her and others
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Connect with Nicki:Ā
Website: https://thesprinkletoppedteacher.com/
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesprinkletoppedteacher
Links Mentioned:Ā
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the CEO Teacher podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | We are transitioning from our full-time teacher series to interviewing teachers that have |
| 0:10.6 | recently left the classroom to pursue this passion that is selling their teaching resources |
| 0:17.2 | full-time. |
| 0:18.4 | Some of these teachers are working just on teachers pay teachers as |
| 0:22.6 | this interview will show. Nikki Dingrado from the sprinkletop teacher is the most |
| 0:28.8 | fun and the cutest girl ever. If you don't already follow her on Instagram, be |
| 0:33.8 | sure to check her out and watch her amazing Instagram videos. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm loving her reels right now. |
| 0:40.3 | You're going to love this interview. |
| 0:42.3 | And in the coming weeks, we're going to show you kind of what it looks like to transition from the classroom to doing this as a full-time job. |
| 0:52.3 | Now, just because we are doing these interviews doesn't mean that I think |
| 0:56.6 | that you should leave the classroom. It just means that there are opportunities for educators to do |
| 1:03.0 | this on a full-time basis if they wish to do so. What you'll find here is that all of these |
| 1:09.1 | educators still have one main thing in common, |
| 1:13.0 | and that is impact. |
| 1:14.1 | We are here to impact the lives of as many teachers and students as humanly possible. |
| 1:21.6 | Nikki Dingrado has taught first and second grade in sunny Arizona for six years, |
| 1:27.4 | and we joke about how we're from the South and we are so used to it being super, super warm. |
| 1:33.5 | But she's recently moved to Minnesota and she dove head first into creating online resources for teachers full time about a year ago. |
| 1:42.9 | Her goal is to create low prep, high engagement resources to help |
| 1:46.6 | take the stress away from busy teachers. She's going to chat about how cold life is in Minnesota |
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