Frank Lad is a mathematician, author, and an educator. Perhaps he was destined to have a full career in mathematics and science. His parents met as postdocs at the University of Chicago while working on The Manhattan Project, his mother collaborating with James Franck there. His specialty in mathematical probability took him to France and Italy, where he has worked with followers of Bruno de Finetti’s ideas. Personal travels in India, Africa, Europe, Brazil, and some far East, have allowed him t...
Mar 07, 2025•59 min•Ep 749•Transcript available on Metacast Toby J. Karten - The ADMIRE Framework for Inclusion: Positive Strategies that Pave the Way for Students of All Abilities. This is episode 748 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Toby J. Karten is an experienced educator who has worked in the field of special education since 1976. As an accomplished author and researcher, she has presented successful staff development to local, national, and international audiences. Toby is an adjunct professor and graduate instructor at Monmouth ...
Mar 03, 2025•35 min•Ep 748•Transcript available on Metacast Barbara R. Blackburn - Rigor Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Strategies for Success, 4th Ed. This is episode 747 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Ranked in the Top 20 Global Gurus in Education, Barbara has dedicated her life to raising the level of rigor and motivation for professional educators and students alike. What differentiates Barbara’s over 30 books are her easily executable concrete examples based on decades of experience as a teacher, professor, and consultant. Barbara’s...
Feb 27, 2025•46 min•Ep 747•Transcript available on Metacast Jasmine K. Kullar - Training Teacher Leaders in a PLC at Work: A Guide to Cultivating Shared Leadership. This is episode 746 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Jasmine K. Kullar, EdD, is a chief school leadership officer overseeing over 100 schools in a large metropolitan school district in Georgia. She is also a faculty member in the College of Professional Studies Educational Leadership Department at a postsecondary institution outside of Atlanta, where she has been involved w...
Feb 24, 2025•38 min•Ep 746•Transcript available on Metacast Jonathan G. Vander Els specializes in supporting teachers and administrators in schools and districts across the country in developing, sustaining, and enhancing structures to support all learners. As a practitioner, Jonathan is able to blend his experience and expertise to meet educators where they are and assist them in developing practical next steps to ensure high levels of learning for students in their school. Formerly, Jonathan was principal of Memorial Elementary School in Sanborn Region...
Feb 21, 2025•59 min•Ep 745•Transcript available on Metacast Barbara J. Smith - Urgent Care for Educators: Situating Responsibility as a Way to Transform School Cultures. This is episode 744 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Barbara Smith is a passionate educator who challenges the boundaries of "sameness" in schools. Smith's background includes over forty years in public, charter, independent and international schools. Barbara has started three schools and has been a teacher, principal, consultant, trustee, and teacher educator at OISE,...
Feb 17, 2025•52 min•Ep 744•Transcript available on Metacast NL Holmes - Flowers of Evil: Hani's Daughter Mystery Series Book 1. This is episode 743 of Teaching Learning Leading K12. N.L. Holmes is an award-winning novelist embarking on another significant career phase. Prior to taking up the power of writing and using this pen name, she was an accomplished archaeologist and teacher for 25 years. Early in her career, she served as a nun for two decades. In between, she was an artist and antiques dealer. Yes, she has lived an interesting life and the sum o...
Feb 14, 2025•31 min•Ep 743•Transcript available on Metacast Michael McDowell - Rigor Redefined: Ten Teaching Habits for Surface, Deep, and Transfer Learning. This is episode 742 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Michael McDowell, EdD was a public-school educator for eighteen years serving in the roles of classroom teacher, academic and athletic coach, school principal, assistant superintendent of personnel and instruction, and superintendent. During his tenure as a superintendent, his school district received state and national accolade...
Feb 11, 2025•49 min•Ep 742•Transcript available on Metacast Self-Regulation: Controlling Your Behaviors, Part 2. This is episode 741 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. In the first episode on Self-Regulation, I shared some thoughts about what self-regulation means and how it appears in the classroom. (Episode 737). I use the term in referring to you the adult in the classroom keeping control of your behaviors. I also shared some thoughts about things that you can do to help keep you in control of you. Today, I am sharing a specific strat...
Feb 06, 2025•21 min•Ep 741•Transcript available on Metacast Patricia Erbe - Building Bonds with Learners: The Teacher-Student Relationship Model. This is episode 740 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Patricia Erbe, M.Ed., is an author and former educator in Pennsylvania's West Chester Area School District, where she taught for decades at the elementary and secondary levels while also serving as a team leader, curriculum developer, science advocate, early field and student teacher mentor and consultant to individuals and organizations fo...
Feb 03, 2025•45 min•Ep 740•Transcript available on Metacast Organizing Your Paperwork, Part 2: Creating a System. This is episode 739 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. In part 1 of this series on organizing your paperwork I noted that to get rid of your piles of paper you have to: 1. Handle this now. 2. Set aside time. 3. Create a place to put your paper files. 4. Create a system to file your paper. In this episode - Organizing Your Paperwork, Part 2: Creating a System I share with you how to make it easy to get out from under your pile...
Jan 30, 2025•17 min•Ep 739•Transcript available on Metacast Kourtney Hake & Paige Timmerman - Their Stories, Their Voices: Using Personal Narrative to Empower Student Writers, Grades 6-12. This is episode 738 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Kourtney Hake is an English teacher at Sparta Lincoln School in Sparta, Illinois. She is also a member of the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE), the Illinois Reading Council (IRC), and the Illinois Association of Teachers of English (IATE) since 2014. Paige Timmerman is a high sch...
Jan 27, 2025•30 min•Ep 738•Transcript available on Metacast Self-Regulation: Controlling Your Behaviors. This is episode 737 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. On this episode I share my thoughts about self-regulation. Self-regulation is recognizing when you are not focused on controlling your behaviors. You could have had a bad morning, an interaction that made you angry, or just seem to always be out of sorts when that one kid or colleague come your way. You have to get control of you. I share a few thoughts about getting control of yo...
Jan 23, 2025•21 min•Ep 737•Transcript available on Metacast Organizing Your Paperwork: Get Rid of Your Piles. This is episode 736 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Do you make piles of paper and you swear that you can find whatever you need? The piles keep growing and growing and you start realizing that you really don't know where anything is located. That is if you are actually honest with yourself - you know that you are lying to you. On this episode I share my thoughts about getting out from under those piles. Afterall, I was one of...
Jan 20, 2025•13 min•Ep 736•Transcript available on Metacast Tom Hierck & Chris Weber - Positive Behaviors Start with Positive Mindsets: Twenty-Eight Actions to Motivate Students and Boost Achievement. This is episode 735 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Tom Hierck has been an educator since 1983 in a career that has spanned all grade levels and roles in public education. His experiences as a teacher, administrator, district leader, department of education project leader, and executive director have provided a unique context for his...
Jan 17, 2025•44 min•Ep 735•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Barbara Koltuska- Haskin - How My Brain Works: A Guide to Understanding It Better and Keeping Healthy. This is episode 734 of Teaching Learning Leading K-12, an audio podcast. Dr. Barbara Koltuska-Haskin is a Clinical Neuropsychologist in private practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has over 30 years of clinical experience. She also has a research and academic teaching background. In addition to her doctorate in psychology/neuropsychology, she has a Master of Science degree in Clinical P...
Jan 14, 2025•54 min•Ep 734•Transcript available on Metacast Jason Edwards - Icebergs to Iguanas: Photographic Journeys Around the World. This is episode 733 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. National Geographic's Jason Edwards has been at the forefront of natural history photography for more than three decades. His image portfolio ranks among the largest of any photographer in the Society's long history. Based in Melbourne Australia, a passion for wildlife and the environment has been with him over his extensive career that began as a z...
Jan 09, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep 733•Transcript available on Metacast Marilyn Raichle - Don't Walk Away: A Care Partner's Journey. Enhancing the Lives of People Living with Dementia and their Care Partners. This is episode 732 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Marilyn Reichle, author of Don’t Walk Away, grew up in the shadow of Alzheimer's. Nearly everyone in her father’s family and many in her mother’s had developed the disease. But Raichle became transformed in her views towards those living with dementia, inspiring the launch of a book and sev...
Jan 06, 2025•41 min•Ep 732•Transcript available on Metacast Monica Burns - EdTech Essentials: 12 Strategies for Every Classroom in the Age of AI, 2nd Ed. This is episode 731 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Dr. Monica Burns is an EdTech and Curriculum Consultant, author of EdTech Essentials: 12 Strategies for Every Classroom in the Age of AI, 2nd Edition (ASCD & ISTE, 2024) and former New York City public school teacher. She works with schools and organizations around the world to support PreK-20 educators with thoughtful technolog...
Jan 03, 2025•40 min•Ep 731•Transcript available on Metacast Favorite Tech Gifts at Christmas with Will & Josh from the HiTech Podcast. This is episode 730 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Will and Josh of the HiTech Podcast are on Teaching Learning Leading K-12. This is our 2nd Annual Christmas show. We are focused on our favorite tech gifts. We had a blast! Will and Josh are always fun to talk with! I am so glad that I was invited to participate. After we introduce our favorite tech gifts, we then rate them. make sure that you go ...
Dec 20, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep 730•Transcript available on Metacast Erik M. Francis - Deconstructing Depth of Knowledge: A Method and Model for Deeper Teaching and Learning. This is episode 729 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Erik M. Francis is an international author, educator, and presenter with 30 years of experience in education as a classroom teacher, site administrator, education program specialist at a state education agency, and staff development trainer. He is consistently ranked as one of the World Top 30 Education Professionals by ...
Dec 16, 2024•59 min•Ep 729•Transcript available on Metacast Suzy Pepper Rollins - Boys in the Back: The Downward Spiral of Boys in School. This is episode 728 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Suzy Pepper Rollins is the author of 3 Books: Learning in the Fast Lane, Teaching in the Fast Lane & Teaching Vulnerable Learners. She has produced her first short documentary entitled "Boys in the Back" in which 4 educators provide insights on the downward spiral of boys in school. Suzy notes - We are in the midst of an urgent national boy cr...
Dec 12, 2024•32 min•Ep 728•Transcript available on Metacast Kathy Cobb: Teaching, Growing Readers, and Beekeeping. This is episode 727 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Kathy Cobb is a Growing Readers Design Team Specialist at North Georgia RESA, hailing from Ellijay, GA. With a rich background in education, Kathy dedicated 22 years to elementary teaching, including 17 years in 1st grade and 5 years in kindergarten. Her passion for education extended beyond the classroom as she served as a teacher leader, grade level lead, and Family En...
Dec 09, 2024•25 min•Ep 727•Transcript available on Metacast Kathleen Bjork - My Mother is Losing Her Memory, and I am Losing My Mind: Parenting the Aging Parent. This is episode 726 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. My Mother is Losing Her Memory, and I Am Losing My Mind: Parenting the Aging Parent is the true story of a mother's journey through dementia that is told through the eyes of her caregiver daughter, Kathleen Bjork. Related with compassion and humor, it details the mother's fight to keep her independence and the family's decis...
Dec 05, 2024•39 min•Ep 726•Transcript available on Metacast Robert "Buddy" Costley - CEO & Co-Founder of SchoolDog Solutions, Inc: Making Schools Safe. This is episode 725 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. A veteran of the US Navy, Robert “Buddy” Costley is a retired Georgia school superintendent after serving for 11 years in that role from 2008-2019. In November of 2023, he was listed by Georgia Trend Magazine as one of Georgia’s 500 Most Influential Leaders. In December of 2023, Buddy retired from public service after completing o...
Dec 03, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep 725•Transcript available on Metacast Barbara R. Blackburn - Scaffolding for Success: Helping Learners Meet Rigorous Expectations Across the Curriculum. This is episode 724 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Ranked in the Top 10 Global Gurus in Education, Barbara has dedicated her life to raising the level of rigor and motivation for professional educators and students alike. What differentiates Barbara’s over 30 books are her easily executable concrete examples based on decades of experience as a teacher, professor...
Nov 29, 2024•36 min•Ep 724•Transcript available on Metacast Janine Walker-Caffrey: EPS Learning - Providing Effective Reading Instruction. This is episode 723 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Janine Walker-Caffrey, the chief academic officer at EPS Learning, is a career educator who has been a teacher (special education, English as a second language, physics), school founder, principal and superintendent. She is also the author of two parenting books inspired by her own two children. Our focus today is reading instruction with EPS Lear...
Nov 25, 2024•44 min•Ep 723•Transcript available on Metacast Therese Casadesus Rawson talks about her mother Gaby Casadesus and Gaby's book My Musical Notes: A Journey in Classical Piano Between the World Wars and Beyond. This is episode 722 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. About Gaby Casadesus She has taught French, Humanities, French Diction and French vocal repertoire to singers at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia for nearly 30 years. She was President of the Alliance Française de Philadelphie for nearly 10 years and has...
Nov 12, 2024•48 min•Ep 722•Transcript available on Metacast Lt. Col. Tom Williams USMC (Ret.) - Doorsteps of Hell: The Arizona & Tropical Jungles 1969 -1970; The Heart of a Marine Series, Book 1. This is episode 721 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. On 20 December 1944, Tom Williams was born Tom Collins in Savannah, GA. Abandonment by his biological father at the age of six months old, profoundly impacted Tom’s early life causing his mother to farm him out to relatives while she worked to make a living for them both. At the age of s...
Nov 08, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep 721•Transcript available on Metacast David Blobaum: College Admissions, Test Scores, and the National Test Prep Association. This is episode 720 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. David Blobaum is a nationally recognized expert on standardized exams and college admissions. Since graduating from the University of Chicago, he has devoted himself to helping students reach their potential on the SAT and ACT and, more broadly, to help them succeed through education. In addition to leading Summit Prep, he is on the Board...
Nov 04, 2024•50 min•Ep 720•Transcript available on Metacast 
