Will Illingworth & Josh Swartz - HiTech Podcast - talk with Steve about Old Tech We Have Found and Compare It to New Tech. This is episode 689 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Will and Josh from the HiTech podcast are back and today we are focused on some old tech that we have found. We spent a couple of months visiting garage sales, estate sales, and stores like Good Will. The purpose was to see what cool old tech we could find and share on the show. We bring to the table...
Jun 28, 2024•57 min•Ep 689•Transcript available on Metacast Matthew Woods - Leading Out the Woods: Nurturing School Etiquette for Success. This is episode 688 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Dr. Matthew Woods has served for roughly 15 years assisting students, educators, and schools in a variety of roles. His professional experience includes being a high school social studies teacher, middle and high school assistant principal, middle school principal, director of student support services, assistant superintendent of student services,...
Jun 25, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep 688•Transcript available on Metacast Kent Sanders - Founder of Inkwell Ghostwriting: Writing Techniques, Ghostwriting, and Podcasting. This is episode 687 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Kent Sanders is the founder of Inkwell Ghostwriting, which helps leaders grow their business through books and other content. He is also the author and co-author of numerous books, including 18 Words to Live By: A Father’s Wisdom on What Matters Most and co-author of The Faith of Elvis: A Story Only a Brother Can Tell with Billy...
Jun 18, 2024•57 min•Ep 687•Transcript available on Metacast Father's Day is here! Great time to spend time with your kids and family. Lots of great fun. I'm looking forward to spending time with my sons and wife this Father's Day. We have some fun planned. In the past we have played games, gone fishing, hiked, watched movies, bowled, and so much more. Father's Day is awesome! My podcast friend Jeff Ikler - who creates and hosts his show Getting Unstuck - Cultivating Curiosity - had a real cool show this week For Father's Day - Maybe the Best Gift Ever - ...
Jun 14, 2024•19 min•Ep 686•Transcript available on Metacast Jennifer Serravallo - Teaching Reading Across the Day: Methods and Structures for Engaging, Explicit Instruction. This is episode 685 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Jennifer Serravallo is a NYT bestselling author of more than 15 books and resources, an award-winning educator, a literacy consultant, a frequent speaker at state and national conferences, and a former member of the Parents Magazine editorial board. In 2023, she launched her podcast To the Classroom: Conversation...
Jun 11, 2024•45 min•Ep 685•Transcript available on Metacast Mike Duncan - President & CEO of Battelle for Kids - The Future of the Portrait of a Graduate. This is episode 684 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Mike Duncan is the president and CEO of Battelle for Kids. Before his current role, he was one of the longest-serving superintendents in the state of Georgia, having been the superintendent at Pike County Schools since 2005. Before arriving in Pike, he was a high school principal, high school and middle school assistant princip...
Jun 07, 2024•52 min•Ep 684•Transcript available on Metacast Frederick C. Buskey - A School Leader's Guide to Reclaiming Purpose. This is episode 683 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Frederick Buskey helps school leaders reclaim their purpose! Building on 33 years of k-12 and higher education leadership experience, Frederick provides simple frameworks and practical tools to help leaders make immediate incremental improvements. His new book, A School Leader’s Guide to Reclaiming Purpose, helps leaders master six stages to move from spend...
Jun 04, 2024•47 min•Ep 683•Transcript available on Metacast Natalie Kuldell - Founder & Executive Director - BioBuilder: Educating a Future-Ready Workforce. This is episode 682 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Dr. Natalie Kuldell, founder and executive director of BioBuilder, which is a nonprofit helping to educate a future-ready workforce that will solve some of the world’s greatest challenges by bringing tomorrow’s science into today’s classrooms. Recognized in 2020 as a STEM Trailblazer by the Million Women Mentors and with the ...
May 31, 2024•34 min•Ep 682•Transcript available on Metacast Jeremy S. Adams - Lessons in Liberty: Thirty Rules for Living from Ten Extraordinary Americans. This is episode 681 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Jeremy S. Adams has taught at Bakersfield High School for 26 years. He is the Daughters of the American Revolution 2014 California Teacher of the Year. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, the LA Times, The Washington Post, and countless other outlets. He is an Amazon best-selling author, and his newest book is entitled LESSONS I...
May 24, 2024•52 min•Ep 681•Transcript available on Metacast Danny Kofke - Money Management, Mentoro, and the podcast Run with the Bulls. This is episode 680 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. After being an elementary school teacher for 18 years, Danny Kofke recently left the classroom to work with Mentoro - a financial education company. His love of teaching and personal finance led him to write five personal finance books including The Wealthy Teacher: Lessons for Prospering on a School Teacher’s Salary. Danny’s everyday approach to ha...
May 21, 2024•37 min•Ep 680•Transcript available on Metacast Spencer Fleury - I Blame Myself But Also You and Other Stories. This is episode 679 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Spencer Fleury has worked as a sailor, copywriter, economics and geography professor, and record store clerk, among other disreputable occupations. He is the author of the novel HOW I'M SPENDING MY AFTERLIFE (2021) and the story collection I BLAME MYSELF BUT ALSO YOU (AND OTHER STORIES) (Malarkey Books, 2024). Awesome stories! The story telling engages the reade...
May 17, 2024•54 min•Ep 679•Transcript available on Metacast Vince Shorb - Founder & CEO of the National Financial Educators Council: Financial Education Reform in High Schools. This is episode 678 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Vince Shorb stands as a prominent advocate for financial education and reform in high school subjects nationwide. His primary objective is to ensure that today’s youth graduate with the practical skills they need to navigate life’s challenges and empower them with essential knowledge for leading secure, fu...
May 13, 2024•53 min•Ep 678•Transcript available on Metacast Michael Stephen Daigle - Dragony Rising: A New Frank Nagler Mystery. This is episode 677 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Michael Stephen Daigle lives in N.J. with his family. He was an award-winning journalist for more than four decades, including 25 years in New Jersey at the Bridgewater Courier-News and the Morris County Daily Record. After graduation from Binghamton University, he wrote his first novel at 22, and a second at 24. The second one years later became the first ...
May 09, 2024•45 min•Ep 677•Transcript available on Metacast Christopher Loric - SESG Explorer: Science Fiction, Military Thriller, & Space Adventure. This is episode 676 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Christopher Loric served as a United States Navy Officer and retired as a Commander, with a yearlong deployment in Iraq during a military career that spanned 28 years. He is also a science-fiction military writer who has penned his debut novel, SESG Explorer. Loric’s last assignment concluded at the outset of the covid pandemic, hav...
May 06, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep 676•Transcript available on Metacast Sara Delano Moore - Vice President of Research & Content - ORIGO Education: Spaced Learning: Helping Children Learn Mathematics Sara Delano Moore focuses on helping teachers and students understand mathematics as a coherent and connected discipline. An experienced teacher and nationally recognized speaker, her work emphasizes the power of deep understanding and multiple representations for learning. Sara’s interests include building conceptual understanding of mathematics to support procedur...
May 03, 2024•39 min•Ep 675•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah McNeil - Thinking Maps: A Shared Visual Language for Learning. This is episode 674 on Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Sarah McNeil is an experienced educator and consultant with a rich background in the education management industry. Currently serving as the Vice President of Professional Development at Thinking Maps, Inc., Sarah brings over 16 years of experience to her role. Her expertise lies in K-12 education, coaching, educational consulting, and instructional design....
Apr 29, 2024•37 min•Ep 674•Transcript available on Metacast Aditya Nagrath, PhD - Treating Mathematics Anxiety: Inclusive Strategies for Working with Students Exhibiting Mathematics Anxiety. This is episode 673 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Aditya Nagrath, PhD helps students overcome mathematics anxiety. Aditya is the creator and founder of Elephant Learning Mathematics Academy which helps students learn years of mathematics over the course of a few months using their system just 10 minutes per day, 3 days per week. With a PhD in Ma...
Apr 26, 2024•38 min•Ep 673•Transcript available on Metacast Steven J. Simmons - Where Do Ocean Creatures Sleep at Night? This is episode 672 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Steven J. Simmons has been a professor of law and government, a White House aide on domestic policy, and a leader in the cable industry. Steven is the author of Where Do Creatures Sleep at Night? and the best-selling Alice and Greta: A Tale of Two Witches, and coauthor of Where Do Big Creatures Sleep at Night? Clifford R. Simmons’ lifelong passion for writing and l...
Apr 22, 2024•30 min•Ep 672•Transcript available on Metacast Kat Newport, ACC - SMART Conflict: Turning Disputes into Growth Opportunities. This is episode 671 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Kat Newport, ACC (Associate Coach), CCP (Change Practitioner), Author of "Smart Conflict, Turning Disputes into Growth Opportunities" and Founder of Oculus Inc., is a dynamic force in leadership evolution, conflict coaching, and personal awareness. With a fervent commitment to using conflict as a catalyst for growth and innovation, Kat empowers in...
Apr 15, 2024•48 min•Ep 671•Transcript available on Metacast Geraldine Woods - Grammarian in the City: Snarky Remarks on Language I See and Hear in New York City. This is episode 670 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Geraldine Woods has taught every level of English from 5th grade through adult writing classes. She’s the author of more than 50 books, including English Grammar for Dummies, 3rd Edition, All-in-One English Grammar for Dummies, and 1001 Grammar Practice Questions for Dummies, 2nd edition (all published by Wiley). She also wr...
Apr 12, 2024•38 min•Ep 670•Transcript available on Metacast Linda Stewart Henley - Kate's War: WWII, Historical Fiction, Preparing for War, and Putting Life on Hold. This is episode 669 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Linda Stewart Henley is an award-winning novelist, accomplished artist, and a retired college administrator. Kate’s War, her third novel, is being released in April, 2024, by She Writes Press. Her first two novels, Estelle and Waterbury Winter each won awards. Her hobbies and interests include gardening and painting. She...
Apr 09, 2024•28 min•Ep 669•Transcript available on Metacast William J. Carl - Assassin's Manuscript - Writing Techniques, Thriller Novel, and Fiction vs Non-Fiction. This is episode 668 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Once a pastor, seminary president, professor, and US Senate Guest Chaplain, William J. Carl, Ph.D., is a Greek Scholar, award-winning screenwriter, playwright, poet, and lyricist. With the recent publication of Assassin’s Manuscript, he is now the author of a thriller. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburg...
Apr 08, 2024•52 min•Ep 668•Transcript available on Metacast Martin R. Nelson - Children of the Dying Hearth - Fantasy, Adventure, World Building and Writing. This is episode 667 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Martin Nelson has served as a high school history and Latin teacher for the past five years at Saint Mary’s School of Medford. Prior to that he held various positions, including substitute teacher and summer school administrator of Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana; teaching assistant and writing coach at Fordham University; an...
Apr 05, 2024•46 min•Ep 667•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Cheryl Lundy Swift - Learning Without Tears, Handwriting Instruction, and Learning Cursive. A new episode on Teaching Learning Leading K12. Dr. Cheryl Lundy Swift is an award-winning educational leader with over 20 years of experience. She is the Professional Learning Director at Learning Without Tears and founder and CEO of EduPower. The education consulting firm empowers school and business leaders, teachers, parents, and students to reach their fullest potential through professional devel...
Apr 01, 2024•41 min•Ep 666•Transcript available on Metacast Elizabeth B. Splaine - Tyrone the Tenor Mouse: The Singing Mouse of the Opera House. This is episode 665 of the audio podcast Teaching Learning Leading K12. Elizabeth B. Splaine is a retired opera singer who enjoys reading and writing WWII stories that focus on tenacity, hope and the indomitable human spirit. Prior to writing, Elizabeth earned an AB in Psychology from Duke University and an MHA from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She spent eleven years working in health care before s...
Mar 29, 2024•38 min•Ep 665•Transcript available on Metacast Stephen Carter - Teaching the Entrepreneurial Mindset: Innovative Education for K-12 Schools. This is episode 664 of the audio podcast Teaching Learning Leading K12. Stephen’s passion is inspiring innovative thinking around K-12 education and helping students adopt the entrepreneurial mindset in approaches to problem solving and critical thinking. Part of this includes overseeing student-run business ventures, orchestrating academic programing around entrepreneurship, and scaling revenue generat...
Mar 27, 2024•42 min•Ep 664•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Parul Dua Makkar - Life Interrupted: Dr. Dua's Survival Guide. This is episode 663 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. For the past dozen years, Dr. Parul Dua Makkar has owned and run her own successful dental practice in New York. She also helped publish, and contributed to, her brother’s book, Life Interrupted: Dr. Dua’s Survival Guide. It was released after Dr. Dua, a dentist, died from oral cancer. She is now an outspoken advocate to educate doctors and patients on risk f...
Mar 25, 2024•43 min•Ep 663•Transcript available on Metacast Shell Osbon - It's Not Good for Leaders to Lead Alone! Nobody Succeeds Without the Help of Others! This is episode 662 of the Teaching Learning Leading K12 audio podcast. Shell has been married to Missy since 1986 and they reside in the Atlanta metro. Their son SJ, his wife Tina and their children as well as their daughter Summer Joy, her husband Gary and their children all live in the Atlanta metro. Since 1986, Shell has served churches in Louisiana and Georgia as a youth pastor, worship leader...
Mar 22, 2024•54 min•Ep 662•Transcript available on Metacast Gary Santos - A Grand Pause: A Novel on May 14, 1945, the Kamikazes, and the Greatest Air-Sea Rescue. This is episode 661 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Gary Santos has worked in aviation for over 35 years as an aircraft mechanic. He attended City College and College of Aeronautics. A lifelong New Yorker, he currently resides on the South Shore of Long Island. He has extensively studied the history of the ship his father, Eugene Santos, was stationed on during WWII, the USS ...
Mar 20, 2024•50 min•Ep 661•Transcript available on Metacast Ben Tanzer - Award Winning Author Shares his Novel: The Missing. This is episode 660 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Emmy-award winner Ben Tanzer's acclaimed work includes the short story collection UPSTATE, the science fiction novel Orphans and the essay collections Lost in Space and Be Cool. Ben is a Story South and Pushcart nominee, a finalist for the Annual National Indie Excellence and Eric Hoffer Book Awards, a winner of the Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival Nonfiction ...
Mar 18, 2024•56 min•Ep 660•Transcript available on Metacast