In this episode, Melissa Winston interviews Speech and Language Pathologist Jessica Bonvenca. Together they provide ideas for parents to offer new opportunities and support their students language journey and how much of a difference they can make. Winston’s students also give examples of how powerful these opportunities can be.

Transitioning from one thing to the next an be difficult.  In this episode, Melissa goes through some exercises to make it easier to move on to the next step of your day.

Esther found out that her son was on the spectrum, and immediately started absorbing everything she could, even going so far as to start hiring people that are on the spectrum, for her business.

Melissa taught her son Jake in Kindergarten. He's now in middle school, and the two talk about their time in the classroom together and finds out what his current interests are. One of them is a YouTube Channel dedicated to Minecraft. He's looking for followers! Check out his channel and subscribe here!

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Melissa talks to a fellow teacher about the difference between being mad and being mean.

The next full episode is going to be released September 8th, but in the meantime, there was no full episode this month, so I wanted to give you a couple of breathing exercises. The kind of breathing exercises I need a lot during busy times. See you in a couple weeks, but until then, enjoy!

In this episode, Melissa talks with rapper Anwar Superstar about labels, and how they can hurt. She then tops it off by singing along with one of her students.

This first week, Melissa sits down with fellow teacher, Adriel Colon. Then you get to meet one of her students, Sabrina.