Enriching Education

Riverside Insights

Every student deserves an enriched education. No matter where they live, what their innate skills are, or what they aspire to be, each student has an inherent right to not only education, but enriched education. From the company that created clinical and special education products like the BDI, Woodcock Johnson, and more comes a show for educators and evaluators who are striving to enrich the lives of their unique students every day. The team at Riverside Insights knows what it’s like to run a classroom filled with varying skills, talents, and levels. Enriching Education is a show filled with conversations to help you gain deeper understanding and enrich the lives of each and every student.

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Episodes

Thinking Beyond Labels for Early Assessments with Dr. Edward Schultz

Children should be in an environment that helps them learn and grow, but many educational system challenges detract from their evaluation and placement. Testing can be unreliable as a standalone assessment, and an incomplete evaluation can stunt child development. Dr. Edward Schultz, Professor of Special Education at Midwestern State University, paints a nuanced picture of an educational system grappling with a surge of evaluations propelled by the reverberations of COVID-19, teacher shortages, ...

May 08, 2024•44 min•Ep. 6

The Role of Tenacity in Education with Dr. Sam Goldstein

In education and psychology, focusing on fixing what’s wrong in a child’s life to improve treatment outcomes is common. But this approach misses vital traits that make up the whole child, negatively impacting their experiences. Dr. Sam Goldstein , Assistant Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry at the University of Utah School of Medicine, has promoted resilience and tenacity in children for forty-five years. In this episode, he explains to Dr. Tammy Stephens why treatment approaches improve when th...

Apr 25, 2024•47 min•Ep. 5

Educational Equity in a Multilingual World with Dr. Pedro Olvera

Student assessment results offer educators a lot of data, but sometimes, the lens we use to interpret the results fails to acknowledge our multicultural world. Knowing and acknowledging the differences between home, social, and academic languages helps evaluators move beyond test scores to a more nuanced understanding of our increasingly diverse student population. Dr. Pedro Olvera is an Associate Professor at California Baptist University and a bilingual psychologist who has spent over two deca...

Apr 10, 2024•41 min•Ep. 4

Fostering Early Learning for Kindergarten Readiness with Dr. Johnnie Pettigrew

A child’s first day of kindergarten is, in theory, the dawn of a transformative odyssey, brimming with readiness, resilience, and a promise of endless possibilities. But this isn’t always the case for all children, and today, it’s incredibly important for early educators to recognize this. Dr. Johnnie Pettigrew, Adjunct Professor at Texas Women’s University and Educational Diagnostician, has advocated for individualized early development support for over four decades. In this episode, she speaks...

Mar 27, 2024•43 min•Ep. 3

A Peek Behind the Curtain of Test Development with Dr. Eric Snader

The world of educational test development is intricate and collaborative - full of rigorous steps in the crafting and revising process. And the key to successful test development lies in customer feedback and engagement. From focus groups that inform item selection to the careful consideration of demographic diversity to combat bias, Dr. Eric Snader, Director of Clinical Content Development at Riverside Insights, reveals how tests are revised every ten years to reflect societal changes and evolv...

Mar 13, 2024•32 min•Ep. 2

Introducing: Enriching Education from Riverside Insights

Every student deserves an enriched education. No matter where they live, what their innate skills are, or what they aspire to be, each student has an inherent right to not only education, but enriched education. From the company that created clinical and special education products like CogAT, Woodcock Johnson, and more comes a show for educators and evaluators who are striving to enrich the lives of their unique students every day. The team at Riverside Insights knows what it’s like to run a cla...

Feb 08, 2024•3 min•Ep. 1

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