Episodes

  • Connecting Students Through Music Workshop with Amy Richter

    Connecting Students Through Music Workshop with Amy Richter
    Nov 12 2024
    Amy Richter founder of Music Workshop shares how music education can be transformative experience for students. In this conversation, Amy shares that funding cuts at her children's school meant no more music education. She decided to take action and find a solution by founding the non-profit Music Workshop. Now Music Workshop is available to 6 million students around the world and it is completely free! Listen as Amy shares her story and how how music education impacts students.
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    24 mins
  • The Epidemic of Financial Illiteracy with Vince Shorb

    The Epidemic of Financial Illiteracy with Vince Shorb
    Oct 22 2024
    This episode features a conversation with Vince Shorb, CEO of the National Financial Educators Council. In this wide-ranging conversation we discuss the problems many K-12 educators face in developing a quality personal finance program at all grade levels and Vince shares his ideas for improving outcomes and implementing serious reform initiatives.
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    43 mins
  • So Is It a Science? with Nancy E. Bailey

    So Is It a Science? with Nancy E. Bailey
    Oct 1 2024
    Education researcher and advocate Dr. Nancy E. Bailey shares why educators should be concerned about literacy programs that claim to be based on the "Science of Reading". While there is no consensus on what the term "Science of Reading" means, many reading programs may only meet the literacy needs of some students. In this conversation we discuss what to look for and what issues to be wary of in selecting and using literacy programs in schools.
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    42 mins
  • A Different Global Perspective with James Dittes

    A Different Global Perspective with James Dittes
    Sep 10 2024
    Our friend James Dittes returns to share his latest experiences with teaching internationally. When we first met James in 2020 he had started an exchange program with his class and a school in Germany. Since our last conversation, James has taken on a new adventure and now teaches English in an international school in Turkey. In this conversation he shares how he approaches teaching in a new country and shares some stories about his classroom.
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    37 mins
  • It's Not Just Music-It's Sound! with Hayes Greenfield

    It's Not Just Music-It's Sound! with Hayes Greenfield
    Jun 12 2024
    Hayes Greenfield is a jazz musician, composer, and teaching artist. In this episode he shares the importance of not just music-but sound and how teaching students about sound can enhance social emotional learning and student attention.
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    45 mins
  • Communication in the Classroom with Donna Van Natten

    Communication in the Classroom with Donna Van Natten
    May 21 2024
    Donna Van Natten-the Body Language Dr.- shares her expertise on non-verbal communication and behavioral intentions. A former teacher herself, the conversation focuses on communication skills with students in the classroom.
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    32 mins
  • We Get a Chance to Work with the Best Students

    We Get a Chance to Work with the Best Students
    May 7 2024
    Lynne Roland, Brain Hopkins, and Raymond Appleberry are educators in the Grand Prairie Independent School District in Texas and Rising Phoenix Consulting. In this episode they share their stories of creating a culture where students develop resilience because of their work implementing restorative practices and cultivate positive relationships based on The Circle of Courage Model.
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    51 mins
  • The Next Generation of Sloyd with Luke Johanson

    The Next Generation of Sloyd with Luke Johanson
    Apr 16 2024
    Sloyd is a 19th century teaching methodology that fell out of favor in the early 20th century in America. Luke Johanson shares how The Sloyd Experience is bringing this highly useful teaching approach back to relevance for students in the 21st century.
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    43 mins