A unique coming of age story, Aggressive Optimism explores the complex landscape of mental health, the importance of solidarity, and the power of perseverance. 'Nif is a talented singer trapped in a small hometown. Though she thrives in her choir, she longs for a life in Hollywood. After a breakthrough solo performance, her talents are recognized by a popular media personality and her hopes for her big break soar. Until a devastating accident derails her dreams and confronts her with new and une...
May 27, 2024•51 min
In Freedom Teaching, educator and distinguished anti-racism practitioner Matthew Kincaid delivers a one-stop resource for educators and educational leaders seeking to improve equity and increase the cultural responsiveness of their school. In this book, you'll discover the meaning and fundamentals of anti-racist education and find a roadmap to reducing the impact of systemic racism in your classroom. A recognized leader in anti-racism advocacy, Matthew Kincaid's impactful work has earned him acc...
May 20, 2024•41 min
Failure Free Reading is an effective reading intervention for our students who have been resistant to phonics-based reading instruction. Dr. Joe Lockavitch, a former classroom teacher, school psychologist, university professor, special education director, applied reading researcher, is the author and developer of: The Failure Free Reading Program, Don’t Close the Book on Your Not-Yet Readers, Joseph’s Readers Talking Software for Non-Readers, Verbal Master-An Accelerated Vocabulary Program, Life...
May 13, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Curt is the Director of the educational consulting practice at Resultant, a modern consulting firm focused on data analytics, tech, and digital transformation. With a background as a youth worker, educator, and key contributor to several education organizations, Curt leads his team in delivering solutions for K-12 and post-secondary educational institutions. 'Education holds tremendous influence and touches nearly every life, throughout childhood and well into adulthood. The dizzying complexity ...
May 06, 2024•35 min
Dr. Hemphill’s research focuses on teaching personal and social responsibility through sport, physical activity, and physical education with specific applications to urban communities and professional development programs for physical activity providers. His research is grounded in community-engaged scholarship, which features reciprocal community partnerships and interdisciplinary collaborations to address community-identified needs. This research has been situated in local contexts in Charlest...
Apr 29, 2024•42 min
Spencer Russell is the Founder of Toddlers Can Read, a groundbreaking program that helps thousands of parents across the world teach their children to read. His fierce conviction that every child deserves the best start in life inspired him to walk away from a comfortable 100K salary job after teaching his son to read at just two years old. With a background as a former award-winning kindergarten and first-grade teacher, Spencer has received widespread recognition as one of the most outstanding ...
Apr 22, 2024•48 min
Dr. Tim Dasey has a long history in AI and learning science, and recently published the book “Wisdom Factories: AI, Games, and the Education of a Modern Worker.” After thirty years at MIT leading AI development for diverse government needs, Tim leapt into education due to concern that minds won’t be ready for the jobs that remain human. He has a smidge of teaching experience at corporate, higher ed, and K-12 levels. Dr. Dasey has atypical perspectives on the future of schooling built from a blen...
Apr 15, 2024•58 min
Setting and Scoring Financial Goals is a basic guide for any soccer fan who wants to understand personal finance better. The consistent sports metaphor explains intimidating concepts such as "small cap stocks" with ease for anyone who understands "the beautiful game." Although it may seem complex, finance is simply a game like any other with players, strategies, and results. In order to win the game, it's necessary first to understand it and this book is a great first step! Fill Your Boots was P...
Apr 08, 2024•59 min
Nat has accelerated the careers of hundreds of professionals of all ages as consultant, coach, and business leader. His latest startup Futures Forge, a challenger to the current university system, is inspired by the success Nat had developing recent grads from Ivy+ schools in the firm he founded, Stroud International. Stroud’s success helping Global 1000 businesses and the rapid learning of early employees, Stroud won “Best Small Consulting Firm” 7 times in 8 years. Nat’s mission with Futures Fo...
Apr 01, 2024•42 min
Graham Glass is the founder and CEO of CYPHER Learning, which offers game-changing training and learning solutions for businesses, educational institutions, and entrepreneurs around the world. He is passionate about leveraging better experience design in digital platforms that delight learners and make organizations more effective. As an ex-university lecturer, serial entrepreneur and innovator, he took his university lectures on training dynamics to high-technology organizations, then launched ...
Mar 25, 2024•47 min
Edward D. Hess is Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Batten Fellow and Batten Executive-in-Residence Emeritus at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, and the author of Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change,” which was published by Berrett-Koehler in August 2020. Professor Hess spent twenty years in the business world as a Senior Executive and has spent the last 18 years in academia. He is the author of 13 books and over 140 articles and 60 Dar...
Mar 18, 2024•1 hr
Dr. Lynne Kenney is the nation’s leading pediatric psychologist in the development of classroom cognitive-physical activity programs for students grades K-8. Dr. Kenney develops curriculum, programming, and activities to improve children’s cognition through coordinative cognitive-motor movement, executive function skill-building strategies, and social-emotional learning. Dr. Kenney is a pediatric psychologist on the Language & Cognition Team at Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment o...
Mar 11, 2024•56 min
A Gobblegark's Guide To Your Brilliant Neurodivergent Brain is Suzanne Robertshaw's new book. Suzanne has been a teacher for 23 years. She has worked as a SENCO, supporting students with learning differences since 2015. She feels passionate about the positives of being neurodivergent which she regularly promotes on her Instagram page - @teachingwithadifference. Suzanne has spoken at several teaching conferences and regularly trains teachers about how to support students with learning differences...
Mar 04, 2024•31 min
Dave has lived and worked around the world, and is now based in Burlington Vermont with his wife and two Golden Retrievers. Their 3 “kids” have now graduated from college, but it was his experience with them on their college journeys that started his innovator’s brain cranking on what became Troove. Having worked in admissions through grad school, he was amazed by how little technology and the internet had impacted the college search and admissions process. And even more, he was dismayed to disc...
Feb 26, 2024•52 min
Magic Breakfast is a registered charity providing healthy breakfasts to children and young people in the UK who arrive at school too hungry to learn, and expert support to their schools. Over 200,000 children and young people are on roll at Primary, Secondary, ASL / Special Educational Needs Schools and Pupil Referral Units that the charity works with, in disadvantaged areas of Scotland and England. Providing breakfast ensures that children start their school day with the energy and nutrition th...
Feb 19, 2024•41 min
Jason Dietrich is a highly motivated, certified NASA STEM educator with more than four years of teaching experience seeking to influence and engage students to participate in STEM career pathways. He is interested in increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM as well as building a solid foundation for STEM literacy. In this technology-based society, he seeks to build computational literacy and develop critical thinkers capable of analyzing and integrating data to formulate solutions to ...
Feb 12, 2024•56 min
Gemma is an educational wellbeing coach, trainer and supervisor with the ambition to transform middle leaders’ quality of life for the betterment of themselves, their students and their team. With over 9 years’ experience working in the education sector as a classroom teacher, head of year and co-head of department, Gemma is well-versed in the challenges and daily grind that teachers face just to survive. The switch from career-obsessed teacher to qualified coach, trainer and supervisor is the s...
Feb 05, 2024•45 min
Dr. Terrance Ruth received his PhD in Public Affairs from the University of Central Florida. He received his master's in education from Nova Southeastern University and his BA from Oglethorpe University. Dr. Ruth completed a national fellowship through Boston College with a certification in nonprofit leadership. Dr. Ruth is an advocate for public education, once serving as a teacher, principal and the parent of a son who attends public schools in Wake County. As a former Administrator for Wake C...
Jan 29, 2024•49 min
Pablo Muñoz is the Managing Director of Muñoz & Company, an educational and leadership consulting organization. He has 30 years of public education experience as a teacher and administrator and was a superintendent of schools for 16 years. Pablo was recognized as the 2008 Union County School Superintendent of the Year by the Gateway Regional Chamber of Commerce in New Jersey and named as one of the George Lucas Educational Foundation’s 2008 Daring Dozen – a prestigious group of twelve educat...
Jan 22, 2024•59 min
Reid’s story begins at his own high school, where his life began to diverge from that of his best friend Jamie as soon as he enrolled in advanced classes across the hall. After graduation, the gap widened as Reid pursued an elite degree studying educational opportunity in America. In an attempt to close the opportunity gap between students like him and Jamie, Reid took a job as a teacher at Battery Creek High, a severely under-resourced school in South Carolina where students were flunking out o...
Jan 15, 2024•40 min
LIS is building a new university based on interdisciplinarity and tackling complex real-world problems. Instead of specialising in a single subject area, our students learn through a problem-based interdisciplinary approach, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences (BASc). Solutions to the world's most complex and interconnected problems won't come from a single specialism or subject. We need to bring together experts and knowledge from across the arts, sciences and humanities. In a world...
Jan 08, 2024•43 min
Joshua Fullard is an Assistant Professor at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, and a Research Associate at the Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex. His research can broadly fit into three categories: teachers and teacher labour markets, education inequalities and research methods. His work is regularly cited in the media, government reports and in parliamentary debates. Dr Fullard received his PhD from the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the...
Jan 01, 2024•46 min
Shahar Link, the CEO and founder of Mindspire Tutoring and Test Prep, has been at the forefront of the test preparation and academic excellence arena for over a decade. With a career spanning 25 years, Shahar has honed his expertise in high school teaching and tutoring standardized tests, including the SAT and ACT. Holding a Master’s degree in History from Stanford University, where he delved into the history of IQ testing, Shahar founded Mindspire driven by the deep reward in empowering student...
Dec 25, 2023•36 min
Tracy Pleschourt is a certified professional and personal coach as well as an entrepreneur. She is also the founder of Self-Made U, a life coaching school that teaches men and women how to become the solution to any problem they face. Alongside her daughter Gracie, who is 22, she also hosts the Tracy & Gracie Becoming Podcast, a show that gives life coaching advice from two different generational perspectives. Tracy is a student of her own work and has stopped overeating, overdrinking, and h...
Dec 18, 2023•52 min
Education, support and guidance to help parents, grandparents and relatives raise financially responsible children, teenagers and young adults. Kevin Whelan is an economist, author, the Founder of WealthBuilders and one of the UK's leading experts and authorities on SSAS Pensions (Small Self Administered Scheme). Kevin and WealthBuilders are on a mission to help parents leave a financial legacy for their children and be great money role models. WealthBuilders for Families provides education, sup...
Dec 11, 2023•38 min
Nathaniel Provencio has worked in the public education field since 2001 as a classroom teacher, building administrator and associate superintendent . In 2010, he became the principal of Minnieville Elementary in Prince William County, Virginia. Under his leadership, Minnieville Elementary was recognized as a Virginia Distinguished Title 1 School, became a National Model Professional Learning Community and was the winner of the 2019 Richard DuFour PLC Award. Mr. Provencio has been honored as the ...
Dec 04, 2023•55 min
Graeme helps people to understand and communicate their value to their next employer. Delivering workshops in schools, he encourages students to recognise the achievements they already have and the value of the things they are already doing so that their CV can be compelling and unique. With 11 years experience as a CV writer across 6 continents, Graeme has worked with people from apprentice to CEO level. He applies a combination of experience from recruitment consultancy, business management, c...
Nov 27, 2023•1 hr
Katie, Becky, and Allie are three moms who know what it's like to raise a family, with a total of 17 children between them, they are in the trenches of motherhood. But along with being a mom, with their education and professional backgrounds in business, health, and beauty, these 3 women came together to create a company called I Believe in Me - which is an online mentoring program for tweens. For over 30 years, these women have worked in their communities, online and at special events to help g...
Nov 20, 2023•52 min
ONVU Learning is a 360-degree video lesson capture system that helps teachers reflect, collaborate and analyse their entire teaching and learning process. It creates a community space where teachers can share best practice and learn easily with their coaches and peers. When Matt was an Ofsted inspector, he decided that something drastic needed to change in the way we both judged and developed teachers. Teacher CPD was always something that was ‘done to’ teachers and not ‘done by’ them. And lesso...
Nov 13, 2023•48 min
Children are More Than A Score More Than A Score is here to change the way children are assessed and schools are judged. Primary school children in England are let down by a system that cares more about measurement than education. It’s damaging, and they deserve better. We want pupils to enjoy an exciting learning experience and then move on to secondary school with a love of learning. We don’t want them spending months cramming for government tests. We believe schools should be judged on the ov...
Nov 06, 2023•34 min
