Jeff Ikler - Director of Quetico Leadership and Career Coaching - Teaching, Educational Publishing, Podcasting, Writing, and Fishing. This is episode 607 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Jeff Ikler is the Director of Quetico Leadership and Career Coaching. He works with leaders in all aspects of life to identify and overcome obstacles in their desired future. “Quetico” (KWEH-teh-co). He came to the field of coaching after a 35-year career in educational publishing, where he se...
Oct 16, 2023•58 min•Ep 607•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Phil Zelazo - Reflection Sciences. This is episode 606 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Reflection Sciences is the culmination of twenty years of groundbreaking research and unwavering passion for Executive Function. Phil Zelazo, Ph.D. and Stephanie Carlson, Ph.D., researchers at the University of Minnesota and Co-founders of Reflection Sciences, spent years studying Executive Function and determining how it could be improved, and how that, in turn, could improve early chi...
Oct 13, 2023•57 min•Ep 606•Transcript available on Metacast Larry Freeland - Chariots in the Sky: A Story about U.S. Assault Helicopter Pilots at War in Vietnam & Legacy of Honor: The Patriarch (WWI). This is episode 605 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Larry Freeland, a Vietnam veteran, is an author of war-themed historical fiction books. He comes from a long line of military veterans. His father was an officer in the Army Air Corps/United States Air Force whose career spanned 30 years and included World War Il through the early s...
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep 605•Transcript available on Metacast Mary Ruppenthal: Registered Architect, Associate Principal at HED - Designing Schools that Meet the Needs of Students and Their Communities. This is episode 604 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Mary is a registered architect and an Associate Principal at HED, one of the oldest and largest architecture and engineering firms in the country, with 400+ employees and annual revenues above $100M. They serve clients nationwide in a broad range of market sectors, including Healthcare,...
Oct 05, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep 604•Transcript available on Metacast Andy Cindrich - Change: How to Turn Uncertainty into Opportunity. This is episode 603 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Change is focused on helping the reader to learn from experts from Franklin Covey on how successful leaders engage people in change and turn change into opportunity. Change was written by co-authors Curtis Bateman, Marche Pleshette, Andy Cindrich, and Christi Phillips. They share their decades of experience and provide actionable tips and skills to pilot your ...
Oct 02, 2023•55 min•Ep 603•Transcript available on Metacast Al Olson - The History of the American Renaissance Festival. This is episode 602 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Al Olson is one of a select handful of eccentric, quirky, and entertaining people who helped grow the American Renaissance Festivals into being a very popular ticket. He shares his story in his comprehensive book, A History of the American Renaissance Festival. While attending the University of Minnesota, working nights in a parking ramp and pumping iron at the Dov...
Sep 28, 2023•43 min•Ep 602•Transcript available on Metacast Todd Bloom - Chief Learning Officer at Kami - Helping to Increase Student Engagement. This is episode 601 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Kami is an all-in-one classroom sidekick that makes K–12 learning personalized, accessible and engaging, is a popular tool among educators and empowers students through more than 40 tools and features, including rich annotation and markup tools, voice and video comments, read-aloud and voice typing options, imported multimedia, PDF editing ...
Sep 25, 2023•44 min•Ep 601•Transcript available on Metacast Sandra T. Elliot - Chief Academic Officer at TouchMath: Explains Dyscalculia and TouchMath. This is episode 600 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Sandra T. Elliott, Ph.D., Chief Academic Officer at TouchMath Dr. Eliott is a career educator who has spent over 4 decades working to enhance education for all students and improve schools and their systems around the globe. She has served as a Special Education teacher, and five-time principal in Florida and Colorado, as well as a di...
Sep 23, 2023•40 min•Ep 600•Transcript available on Metacast Sweethearts & Heroes - Tom Murphy and Rick Yarosh - Promoting Healthy, Positive Social Connections and Relationships. This is episode 599 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Sweethearts & Heroes is a team focused on promoting healthy, positive social connections and relationships while fostering a sense of community and emotional resilience. We bring the power of HOPE and ACTION into schools and communities. Our focus is to teach human skills, both in school and digitally...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep 599•Transcript available on Metacast Judith Sanders - The Huntsman: A Psychological Thriller. This is episode 598 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Judith Sanders was born and raised in New Jersey, where she spent most of her childhood exploring the great outdoors and dreaming of one day becoming a nurse. After graduating high school, she pursued her passion for healthcare and earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from Graceland University. The Huntsman is her fourth novel. Her first book, Crescent Veil, is a nove...
Sep 18, 2023•38 min•Ep 598•Transcript available on Metacast Debra Wilson - The Polyvagal Path to Joyful Learning: Transforming Classrooms One Nervous System at a Time. This is episode 597 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Debra is the Founder of S’cool Moves and a graduate from the University of Southern Queensland Professional Studies Program. Her dissertation uncovered attributes of successful collaboration between occupational therapists and general education teachers working together in the classroom environment. Dr. Wilson is a Rea...
Sep 16, 2023•57 min•Ep 597•Transcript available on Metacast Brook Bock - Chief Product Officer - Lightspeed Systems: Helping Students Be Safe and More Efficient in this Technological World. This is episode 596 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Lightspeed products filter student and staff internet access, look for warning signs in student online activity, manage software across every district device, and give administrators the data they need to make effective decisions about the quality and efficiency of their students’ online education...
Sep 13, 2023•32 min•Ep 596•Transcript available on Metacast Ihor Bauman - Workee: A Software Platform to Help You Build Your Business. This is episode 595 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Ihor Bauman is the CEO & Co-founder of Workee. He has 7 years of experience in management consulting, product development and business strategy. Ihor is a Forbes Business Council Member, and he has a master’s degree in finance. A little about Workee… Workee is creating the Future of Work for freelancers worldwide. Workee is a software platform tha...
Sep 11, 2023•28 min•Ep 595•Transcript available on Metacast Ed Hess - Own Your Work Journey: The Path to Meaningful Work and Happiness in the Age of Smart Technology and Radical Change. This is episode 594 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Edward D. Hess is a Professor Emeritus of Business Administration; Batten Faculty Fellow & Batten Executive-in-Residence Emeritus at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. He received his B.S. from the University of Florida; his J.D. from the University of Virginia and his L.L.M. f...
Sep 09, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep 594•Transcript available on Metacast Elizabeth B. Splaine Shares Her Latest Novel - Steel Butterflies: Historical Fiction, WWII, Friendship, & Secrets. This is episode 593 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Elizabeth B. Splaine wrote the Dr. Julian Stryker series of “Blind” thrillers (Blind Order and Blind Knowledge), as well as Devil’s Grace, the winner of the When Words Count writing competition. Additionally, she wrote Swan Song, an historical fiction novel, which was chosen by independentbookreview.com as a...
Aug 31, 2023•52 min•Ep 593•Transcript available on Metacast Elizabeth Breau, PhD - History According to SAT: A Content Guide to SAT Reading and Writing. This is episode 592 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Elizabeth Breau, Ph.D. is a lifelong educator, parent, and author. Elizabeth has over 25 years of experience as an English teacher for grades 7-12, including co-teaching an interdisciplinary English/history class that produced a magazine, and for which she won the College Board Bob Costas Award for Excellence in Teaching Writing. She...
Aug 28, 2023•57 min•Ep 592•Transcript available on Metacast Mary Pieroni Harper - The Sound of Her Voice: My Blind Parent's Story. This is episode 591 of my podcast Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Mary Pieroni Harper is a happily retired psychotherapist and author of The Sound of Her Voice: My Blind Parents’ Story. Her stirring book documents the remarkable lives of her parents from the time they fell in love at the Indiana School for the Blind through their challenges, determination, and successes as blind people. Born in Muncie, Indian...
Aug 24, 2023•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sensei Miwako: Learning Math Using the Abacus. This is episode 590 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. With over two decades of Abacus teaching experience, Sensei Miwako has had the pleasure of helping students achieve greatness and tangible skills that serve them now and in the future. She helps parents find the solution to unlocking their child's patience, memory, concentration, natural intelligence, and so much more! Her journey began when she founded JAMS. It is the only math...
Aug 21, 2023•45 min•Ep 590•Transcript available on Metacast Hesha Abrams - Holding the Calm: The Secret to Resolving Conflict and Defusing Tension. This is episode 589 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Hesha Abrams is a professional peacemaker, an internationally acclaimed master attorney mediator, negotiator, and author, known for crafting highly creative settlements and resolutions in very difficult matters. With 30+ years in the trenches of resolving human conflict, she has recently distilled her skills into an easy-to-use tool kit, ...
Aug 17, 2023•52 min•Ep 589•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Andrea Furlan - 8 Steps to Conquer Chronic Pain: A Doctor's Guide to Lifelong Relief. This is episode 588 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. ANDREA FURLAN, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and a Staff Physician and Senior Scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. Her YouTube page has more than 487,000 subscribers and more than 42 million views. She received a CIHR New Investigator Award, and her research f...
Aug 14, 2023•56 min•Ep 588•Transcript available on Metacast Jeanne McCarty - CEO of Out Teach: Converting Outdoor Spaces into Real World Labs. This is episode 587 of Teaching Learning Leading k12, an audio podcast. Jeanne McCarty joined Out Teach as the first CEO in 2007. Since then, she has spent her days setting strategy, securing resources, and mobilizing as many people as she can towards their vision for all children, no matter their resources, to have access to a transformative, hands-on education. Together with a talented team and visionary board, ...
Aug 10, 2023•33 min•Ep 587•Transcript available on Metacast Jeff Ikler & Steve Miletto Discuss the Memoir Rocket Boys in Terms of Student Agency in Schools. This is episode 586 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Jeff is the Director of Quetico Leadership and Career Coaching. He works with leaders in all aspects of life to identify and overcome obstacles in their desired future. “Quetico” (KWEH-teh- co). He came to the field of coaching after a 35-year career in educational publishing, where he served as an editor, marketer, and event...
Aug 07, 2023•44 min•Ep 586•Transcript available on Metacast George Stevens, Jr. - My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington. This is episode 585 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. George Stevens, Jr. has achieved an extraordinary creative legacy over a career spanning more than 60 years. He is a writer, director, producer, playwright and author. He has enriched the film and television arts as a filmmaker and is widely credited with bringing style and taste to the national television events he has conceived. ...
Aug 03, 2023•52 min•Ep 585•Transcript available on Metacast Christopher K. Slaton, EdD - Education and Science: The Brain's Body - Help to Improve Brain, Body, and Sense Events. This is episode 584 of Teaching Learning Leading K12., an audio podcast. Christopher K. Slaton, Ed.D., developed the Progressive Investing Institute of Focused Learning in 2000 to study child development through the application of action research, systems thinking, and human science. The applied use of action research with children and parents in crisis led to human systems resea...
Jul 31, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep 584•Transcript available on Metacast Suzy Pepper Rollins: The Promise of Acceleration: A Strength-Based Plan to Propel Academically Vulnerable Learners. This is episode 583 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Suzy Pepper Rollins is an author, consultant, and speaker who works with schools across North America to create success in ALL learners. Her particular passion is to change the academic trajectory of vulnerable learners. She is the author of Learning in the Fast Lane and Teaching in the Fast Lane, both by ASCD....
Jul 27, 2023•44 min•Ep 583•Transcript available on Metacast Del H. Smith - Discovering Life's Purpose: Reexamining the Club. This is episode 582 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Del H. Smith was an international marketing consultant. His clients included IBM, Microsoft, Dell Computers, Hewlett Packard, and many other global companies. He has developed financial and sales process methodologies that have been adopted in over a dozen countries. Upon retirement, he directed his business experience to the development of reason-based thought...
Jul 24, 2023•51 min•Ep 582•Transcript available on Metacast Mark Wilson - What They Didn't Teach You in Fancy Leadership School: A Guide for Successful School Leadership. This is episode 581 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Mark Wilson was a teacher… and a coach… and a principal. Since 2012, he’s been teaching and coaching principals. (And assistant principals and aspiring leaders as well.) Dr. Wilson has been teaching leadership through classes, through coaching, and through consulting. He’s worked with leaders throughout the US and l...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr•Ep 581•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Judith Peck shares her book Dynamic Play & Creative Movement: Powering Body & Brain. This is episode 580 of Teaching Learning Leading K-12, an audio podcast. Dr. Judith Peck is Professor Emerita of Art, Ramapo College of New Jersey. She is author of several fiction and non-fiction works and a sculptor with work in eighty collections, including the Yale Gallery of Art, the Ghetto Fighters Museum in Israel, libraries, universities, and cultural and religious institutions here and abroa...
Jul 17, 2023•47 min•Ep 580•Transcript available on Metacast Kathy Joseph talks with me about her book The Lightning Tamers: Trues Stories of the Dreamers and Schemers Who Harnessed Electricity and Transformed Our World. This is episode 579 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Kathy Joseph splits her time between writing her next book, making documentary videos based on her books for her YouTube channel, and giving talks about the history of science and the importance of context for learning science. Kathy attributes her novel’s depth and b...
Jul 13, 2023•57 min•Ep 579•Transcript available on Metacast Miriam Plotinsky - Lead Like a Teacher: How to Elevate Experience in Your School. This is episode 578 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Miriam Plotinsky is an author and instructional specialist who addresses challenges in both teaching and leading across schools with a wide range of differentiated needs. A strong advocate for student-centered learning, she provides coaching and professional development for teachers and administrators. Her first book, Teach More, Hover Less: Ho...
Jul 10, 2023•49 min•Ep 578•Transcript available on Metacast 
