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 Dr. Stephen A. Furlich - Nonverbal Epiphany: Steps to Improve Your Nonverbal Communication. This is episode 659 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Dr. Stephen Furlich is the author of Nonverbal epiphany: Steps to Improve Your nonverbal Communication. He is also the best-selling author of a breakthrough book, Sex Talk: How Biological Sex Influences Gender Communication Differences Throughout Life’s Stages. He has taught and researched communication at the university level for ove...
Mar 15, 2024•1 hr•Ep 659•Transcript available on Metacast Candace "Candy" Campbell - Facilitator, Actor, Author, Filmmaker - Creating a Work Culture that No One Wants to Leave. This is episode 658 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Dr. Candace (Candy) Campbell, award-winning actor, author, filmmaker has good news for leaders tearing out their hair because of employee disengagement---or worse, poor employee retention! Her doctoral work, completed with interprofessional groups at Stanford, and subsequent books, * deal with mitigating thi...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep 658•Transcript available on Metacast Jean Eddy - President & CEO of American Student Assistance - Crisis-Proofing Today's Learners: Reimagining Career Education to Prepare Kids for Tomorrow's World. This is episode 657 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Jean Eddy is the President and CEO of American Student Assistance (ASA), where she develops and drives the overall strategic direction of the organization. Working with the ASA Board and senior management team, she is responsible for developing and driving the o...
Mar 11, 2024•32 min•Ep 657•Transcript available on Metacast Danielle Nuhfer - Author, Teacher, Wellness Coach: Solutions to Stress and Burnout in Our Classrooms. This is episode 656 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Danielle Nuhfer is a former public-school teacher turned teacher wellness coach, author of The Path of the Mindful Teacher, and the founder of Teaching Well. With over 20 years of experience navigating the challenges of the current school system (including two bouts of her own burnout), she's dedicated her career to helping ...
Mar 06, 2024•31 min•Ep 656•Transcript available on Metacast Jennifer McCarty Plucker, EdD - Inspiring Lifelong Readers: Using Inquiry to Engage Learners in Grades 6-12. This is episode 655 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Jennifer McCarty Plucker, Ed.D. is a Director of Learning and Development and Literacy Consultant. Dr. Jen McCarty Plucker aims to support individuals in personal, team, and professional growth. Jen facilitates virtual and onsite professional learning workshops with teachers in their efforts to engage readers, provide...
Mar 04, 2024•51 min•Ep 655•Transcript available on Metacast Coach Carlos Johnson - Power Engage: Seven Power Moves for Building Strong Relationships to Increase Engagement with Students and Parents. This is episode 654 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. As a professional speaker, trainer, and author, Carlos Johnson, aka “Coach Carlos,” is locally bred, but his work and research on culture and engagement have taken him across the nation and globe. Coach Carlos and his team of consultants have utilized his experience and research to succes...
Feb 29, 2024•44 min•Ep 654•Transcript available on Metacast Lorraine M. Radice, PhD - Leading a Culture of Reading: How to Ignite & Sustain a Love of Literacy in Your School Community. This is episode 653 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Lorraine Radice, PhD, is the PreK–12 director of literacy in Long Beach Public Schools in New York. There, she leads curricular improvement and facilitates professional learning experiences for teachers. Dr. Radice leads teams to develop literacy curricula, monitor student engagement and progress, ...
Feb 26, 2024•53 min•Ep 653•Transcript available on Metacast Elliott Seif, PhD - Teaching for Lifelong Learning: How to Prepare Students for a Changing World. This is episode 652 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Elliott Seif, PhD, is an educational presenter, author, school volunteer, and public-school advocate. He has served as a social studies teacher, a professor of education at Temple University, and the director of curriculum and instruction services for the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, an educational service agency for Bucks Co...
Feb 23, 2024•44 min•Ep 652•Transcript available on Metacast Karen Gazith, PhD, is a faculty lecturer in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at McGill University, where she also serves as the graduate program director for the Certificate of Inclusive Education and for the ECP liaison for the Office of First Nations and Inuit Education. From 2018 to 2020, Dr. Gazith served as the academic project leader for McGill University Faculty of Education’s Determining Best Practice for Students with Learning Challenges in Quebec: Comprehensive R...
Feb 21, 2024•56 min•Ep 651•Transcript available on Metacast Jeremy Glauser - Founder & CEO of eLuma: Helping Solve the Growing Educator Shortage. This is episode 650 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Jeremy Glauser is the founder and CEO of eLuma. With a background in education, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a passion for helping people in need, he founded eLuma to help solve the growing educator shortage problems in education. In so doing, the company has become the nation’s most mission-focused two-sided marketplace that matches ...
Feb 19, 2024•43 min•Ep 650•Transcript available on Metacast Angela Arnold - General Manager of OverDrive's Education Division - Creating Digital Book Collections for Libraries and Schools. This is episode 649 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Angela Arnold is the General Manager of OverDrive’s Education division, a global digital content platform for libraries and schools. A former librarian, Angela brings to her role a wealth of experience developing and promoting reading materials for a wide audience of library patrons and other reade...
Feb 16, 2024•59 min•Ep 649•Transcript available on Metacast Diane Namm - Latkes & Lefse: Family, Traditions, and Sharing Together. This is episode 648 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Diane Namm is an author and filmmaker with over 20 years of experience in creating stories that inspire, educate, and entertain audiences across different media platforms. She is the founder and owner of Lady of the Canyon, ALL MEDIA, a production company that develops and produces original projects for film and television, such as Finding Hope, The S...
Feb 14, 2024•40 min•Ep 648•Transcript available on Metacast Berwick Augustin - The Education Formula: Maximizing the Village. This is episode 647 of Teaching Learning Leading K12. Berwick Augustin is the founder of Evoke180, a leading publishing company that also specializes in Haitian-Creole translations. He is an educational consultant and keynote speaker who embodies two decades of experience as a writer, teacher, and assistant principal. Berwick is the author, most recently, of The Education Formula, Days, Months, and Seasons in Haitian-Creole, The H...
Feb 12, 2024•55 min•Ep 647•Transcript available on Metacast Shaan Akbar - Tutored by Teachers. This is episode 646 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Shaan Akbar is Co-Founder of Tutored by Teachers (TbT), a fast-growing, mission-driven startup working to close the opportunity gap by serving our nation’s high-needs students with teacher-led, small-group virtual instruction. Tutored by Teachers features a highly qualified and diverse teacher community that is doing tremendous work to support their peers in the classroom and advance equity...
Feb 09, 2024•36 min•Ep 646•Transcript available on Metacast Brittany Holmes - Second World: The Warnings 212. This is episode 645 of Teaching Learning Leading k12, an audio podcast. Brittany Holmes has a passion for educating children. It began with writing on her teachers‛ chalkboards after school. Her favorite feeling was the silky, smooth chalk caked on her fingers. Fast forward many years later, Brittany found herself a mom to Triston, a boy with special needs. Being an educator, she never imagined that she would have a child who struggled academical...
Feb 07, 2024•50 min•Ep 645•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Hope Blecher - Write to be Read: Informed Methods for Engaging Students as Writers written by Barbara J. Smith & Hope Blecher. This is episode 644 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Hope Blecher has been a working professional in the field of education for 39 years. She holds an earned Ed.D., an MA and a BA, in addition to three NJDOE issued standard teaching certifications and two administrative certifications. Recently, she was asked to be the first Senior Advisor for ...
Feb 05, 2024•53 min•Ep 644•Transcript available on Metacast Maria Baltazzi - Take a Shot at Happiness: How to Write, Direct, and Produce the Life You Want. This is episode 643 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Maria Baltazzi is a Happiness Explorer. Her experience as an Emmy-winning TV producer, wellbeing teacher, world traveler, and luxury travel designer specializing in transformative adventures has given her a unique lens into conscious living. Maria has developed and produced shows throughout the world. She was one of the original s...
Feb 02, 2024•54 min•Ep 643•Transcript available on Metacast photo by Alex Knight - downloaded from PEXELS Technology Directors of the School Systems of NGRESA (North Georgia Regional Educational Service Agency): Technology, A.I., and Cybersecurity. This is episode 642 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. The technology directors of the five-member school systems of North Georgia Regional Educational Service Agency and the technology director of NGRESA share their thoughts with me about what interested them in technology, what they think ab...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep 642•Transcript available on Metacast David & Susan Schwartz - The Joy of Costco: A Treasure Hunt from A to Z. This is episode 641 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. David Schwartz is the author of several books, most recently “The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age,” (Basic Books, 2017). He holds a BA from Stanford and a PhD from MIT. He has had a varied career, as a foreign policy specialist, an investment banker, and HR specialist, and an executive sear...
Jan 29, 2024•50 min•Ep 641•Transcript available on Metacast Joachim (Joe) Reimann, PhD shares his books - "Immigrant Concepts: Life Paths to Integration" and "Immigrant Psychology: Heart, Mind, and Soul." This is episode 640 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Joachim (Joe) O.F. Reimann, Ph.D., serves as the president of the Group For Immigrant Resettlement & Assessment, is a psychologist in private practice, and is the co-author of several books related to immigration. For the past 25 years as a psychologist, he has provided direct c...
Jan 26, 2024•54 min•Ep 640•Transcript available on Metacast Terri Lynn Soutor - CEO of ParentPowered - Empowering Family Engagement Digitally. This is episode 639 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Terri Lynn Soutor is the Chief Executive Officer at ParentPowered. An experienced C-suite leader and go-to-market strategist, Terri is skilled at building and growing education technology companies. In fact, she made the list of CEOs in The Real Power 50 by Minnesota Business and was a recipient of a Titan for Technology award from Minneapolis...
Jan 24, 2024•42 min•Ep 639•Transcript available on Metacast Jason McKenna - What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom: Improving Student Problem Solving, Collaboration, and Engagement. This is episode 638 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. In the book What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom: Improving Student Problem Solving, Collaboration, and Engagement, author and educator Jason McKenna describes how teaching STEM education in his elementary school changed his classroom and his life, improving his students’ and his own approaches to problem-sol...
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr•Ep 638•Transcript available on Metacast 
