NHASCD Spotlight: A Podcast

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Tom Newkirk is a New Hampshire literary treasure who has spent a career teaching writing to scores of teachers. He believes deeply that the printed word helps to sustain democracy, and he articulates that belief in his latest book, due out in September, Literacy’s Democratic Roots – A Personal Tour Through 8 Big Ideas. In this episode, we explore the theme of his book in light of our current educational reality.

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Tom is the author of numerous Heinemann titles, including Embarrassment, Minds Made for Stories, The Art of Slow Reading, The Performance of Self in Student Writing (winner of the NCTE's David H. Russell Award), and Misreading Masculinity. For almost three decades, Tom taught writing at the University of New Hampshire, where he founded the New Hampshire Literacy Institute, a summer program for teachers. In addition to working as a teacher, writer, and editor, he currently serves on his local school board.

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As PJ says, time is finite and difficult to manage. The key is managing yourself. In this podcast, PJ offers practical advice on how educators can get much more done in the same time they have always had. 

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PJ Caposey is an award-winning author, educator, and Illinois’s 2022 Superintendent of the Year. PJ served as the Oregon, IL High School principal for four years and is currently serving in his fifth year as the superintendent of Meridian Community Unit School District 223. PJ is also a sought-after keynote presenter, consultant, and professional development provider and has spoken at many local, state, and national conferences specializing in school culture, continuous improvement, social media, and teacher evaluation. He is the author of the ASCD book Manage Your Time or Time Will Manage You-Strategies That Work from an Educator Who's Been There.

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On this bonus episode of the podcast, we are beginning a new tradition of interviewing our annual NHASCD EDies award winner. This year, Steve Lebel and Bill Carozza are honored to speak with Jan Yost, who will receive her award at the annual NH EDies awards event on June 3. 

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Jan Yost is a veteran board member, President, and Executive Director at NHASCD. Jan has served as a high school math teacher, middle school principal, consultant, and author of the 2006 Corwin book Curriculum Mapping for Differentiated Instruction, K-8 with her friend Michelle Langa. Jan holds Masters Degrees in both Educational Administration from UNH and Mathematics from Adelphi University. Jan won this year’s NHASCD Excellence in Education (EDies) Award, inspiring excellence in teaching, learning, and leading.

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School funding continues to be a contentious issue in New Hampshire, from the 1997 Claremont case to the current ConVal lawsuit. Zack Sheehan, the Executive Director of the New Hampshire School Funding Fairness Project, joins Bill Carozza and Laconia, NH Superintendent Steve Tucker, to talk about the state of school funding and where it may be going in the future. 

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Zack Sheehan has a rich background in advocacy. He worked as a legislative assistant for the NH House of Representatives, was a field organizer for the Family Friendly Economy, and was instrumental in passing paid leave legislation for the Granite State. As Executive Director of the New Hampshire School Funding Fairness Project, he is responsible for guiding the design and implementation of the organization’s vision, crafting policy strategies, and leading its efforts to attain reform of New Hampshire’s school funding system. Zach hails from Concord, NH.

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Vicki Davis (The Cool Cat Teacher) is one of the most influential and impactful educators on the Internet. In this episode, we have a wide-reaching discussion about technology strengths and limitations, artificial intelligence, teacher work-life balance, and the dangers of social media on our mental health.

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When Chat GPT launched worldwide in November 2022, it brought both adventure and anxiety to the education world. On today’s podcast, we are joined by three NH technology educators to talk about the current and potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on teachers and students and how we can harness its power to support teaching and learning.

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Michael Wakefield is a musician and consultant on technology for educational and nonprofit organizations. He is an adjunct professor at Keene State College and was previously a technology consultant for the Massachusetts Association of Regional Schools. Michael was also the Director of Technology at the Narragansett School District in Massachusetts. He's a member of the NHSTE board.

Christina DiMicelli is the Educational Technology Integration Specialist at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire. She was previously the Director of Technology and a Tech Integration Specialist at Hampstead Academy.

Dana Foulds is a Media Technology Integration Specialist in the Concord School District and previously a social studies teacher. Dana was honored as a 2016 ASCD Emerging Leader. She is a member of the NHASCD Board and serves as Treasurer.

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Allie is a consultant, author, and school board member who devotes her career to adult learning. Whether you are a teacher, administrator, or parent, you will be challenged by Allie's wisdom.

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Allison Rodman is an independent consultant to public, private, charter, parochial, and independent schools worldwide. She has been a classroom teacher, assistant principal, director of professional development, instructional coach, and director of teaching and learning. Allie is also a school member in her hometown in New Jersey and the author of the 2019 ASCD book Personalized Professional Learning; A Job-Embedded Pathway For Elevating Teacher Voice.

Allie is the founder of The Learning Loop. She coaches organizations and individuals to purposefully leverage their limited time and create personalized and paradigm-shifting professional learning space.

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Eleven years ago, Jon Bergmann wrote the book Flip Your Classroom, and his world has never been the same since. Educators worldwide embraced flipped learning strategies, and Jon followed up with nine more books on the subject. His latest book is The Mastery Learning Handbook - A Competency-Based Approach to Student Achievement. Jon returned to the classroom as a high school science teacher in 2019. He still consults in schools throughout the world. 

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Jon Bergmann is one of the pioneers of the Flipped Class Movement and has a very popular YouTube channel with more than 5 million views. Jon has won several awards, including the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math and Science Teaching.

Jon and his wife live in Houston, Texas, and have three grown children. He is a science teacher at Houston Christian High School.

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Naomi Church is passionate about many things in education, but Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Mathematics are at the top of her list. In this episode, Naomi helps us understand UDL and expresses her views on the current state of math instruction in K-12 schools.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Naomi Church is an experienced educator, credentialed coach, and skilled speaker. She served Broward Schools in Florida for over 17 years as a Professional Development Specialist, Mathematics Intervention Program Specialist, ESE Support Facilitator, RtI Coordinator, Literacy Coach, and teacher. She holds a dual Bachelor’s Degree in Education and Business from Illinois Wesleyan University and a Master’s Degree from The Florida State University in Educational Leadership. Naomi is certified in Elementary Education (K-6), ESOL (K-12), Educational Leadership (all levels), and Exceptional Student Education (K-12). Naomi is passionate about coaching, mentoring, professional development, and building capacity.

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Perhaps no researcher has impacted education as much as John Hattie. His meta-analysis research on instructional effect size has influenced an entire generation of educators. In advance of the NH Visible Learning + Institute with John Hattie and friends, he sat down with us to talk about his life as a researcher, the state of our field, and what we can expect at the conference on February 13 at the Doubletree Hilton in Manchester.

Storytelling is an ancient and enduring form of communication. With modern digital tools, a new generation of students can tell stories through digital pathways and communicate effectively and purposefully using text, sound, music, and imagery. Join us for this conversation with Brett Pierce, author of the new Heinemann book Expanding Literacy; Bringing Digital Storytelling into Your Classroom.

ABOUT BRETT PIERCE

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The advent of the pandemic made Tammy Musiowsky-Borneman and Christine Arnold’s work more relevant than ever. In this discussion, the authors of the ASCD Book The Minimalist Teacher describe their premise that teachers need to take care of their own physical and mental health first to be effective educators for their students.

About Our Guests

Tammy Musiowsky-Borneman is an international education advisor, teacher coach, and classroom teacher and has taught and led schools in Singapore, New York City, and Edmonton. Tammy is a past president of the ASCD Emerging Leaders Alumni Affiliate (ELASCD). She values simplicity and clarity and has created a coaching model centered on short, flexible, and focused chunks of time with personalized content. Tammy has contributed content to ASCD publications, EdWeek Teacher Blog, and Achieve the Core regarding student engagement, inclusion, agency, and ways to develop positive classroom and school culture.

Christine Arnold is an Australian educator who has worked in her homeland, Japan, Singapore, and Belgium as a teacher, coach, mentor, co-teacher, coordinator, tutor, and supervisor from early childhood education to adult education in the university sector. She has served on the board of the Singapore chapter of the Special Education Network and Inclusion Association. Christine has published educational articles and has presented at various international and Australian conferences. Her interests in education include exploring research-based pedagogy and practice, inclusive education, quality early childhood education, inquiry, and promoting well-being for our students and teaching colleagues.

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As we near the end of 2022, the field of education is undoubtedly in transition. Gene Kerns, Chief Academic Officer for Renaissance, the company behind well-known products such as Star Assessments, Nearpod, and Accelerated Reader, offers fervent hope for our profession.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Gene Kerns serves as the Chief Academic Officer for Renaissance. He has a rich background as the Supervisor of Academic Services for the Milford, Delaware School District, a faculty member at the University of Delaware, and has been a teacher and administrator in both Delaware and Virginia. Gene holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Longwood University in VA and his doctorate in education from the University of Delaware. He is the co-author of three books: Informative Assessment: When It’s Not About a Grade, Unlocking Student Talent, and Literacy Reframed.

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The impact of the Pandemic has only heightened the need for educators to integrate social-emotional learning into their instruction. In this wide-ranging interview, Jeffrey Benson speaks of supporting schools and teachers that work for all students. 

ABOUT JEFFREY BENSON

Jeffrey has over 40 years of experience in education as a teacher in elementary, secondary and post-secondary settings and has served as an administrator in day and residential schools. Jeffrey has studied and worked in areas as diverse as special education, learning theory, mathematics, trauma and addiction, and conflict resolution. His latest ASCD book is Improve Every Lesson Plan with SEL.

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Suicide is a topic shrouded with fear and misunderstanding, especially regarding school-aged children. Sara Gould is from “Connor’s Climb,” an organization with a mission to provide suicide prevention education to New Hampshire youth and the community.

ABOUT SARA GOULD

Sarah has worked for 15 years in the mental health field. She’s a certified youth mental health first aid trainer and formally a school counselor. One of her specialties is suicide training, and Sarah has been at the forefront of creating, revising, and implementing suicide prevention policies and procedures. Sarah is currently the Training & Program Coordinator for *Connor’s Climb*.

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Join us for this conversation with Sean Slade and Victoria Rodrigue from BTS-Spark, a leading professional learning organization for school leaders. They address the real challenges of leadership and develop thoughtful, purposeful, and effective leaders at all levels of school personnel - directly impacting student success. NHASCD is proud to partner this year with BTS-Spark.

ABOUT OUR GUESTS

Sean Slade

Sean is an education leader, speaker and author, with nearly three decades of experience in education, both in the US and globally. With a strong background in education reform and wellbeing, he has driven policy change, implemented initiatives, and developed educational leaders, to enhance the social impact of education. As Senior Director of Global Outreach at ASCD, Sean launched and grew the ASCD Whole Child Network to 1,800 members, 350 school districts, and 56 countries. He is also a Social & Emotional Learning expert for NBC Today, advisory member for OECD’s Future of Education & Skills 2030, and a founding member of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education. He has written for the Washington Post, Huffington Post, EdWeek, and is a frequent keynote speaker.

Victoria Rodrigue

Victoria started teaching in Austria on a Fulbright fellowship before building her education career in the San Francisco bay area. She was a member of the founding administrative team that opened Basis Independent Silicon Valley in San Jose, and she went on to serve as principal at Meira Academy in Palo Alto. She brings several years of experience coaching teachers as well as co-founding a principals’ support group. For the last five years, she has served as an accrediting member of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

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Join us for a rich discussion with literacy expert Liz Cannon.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Elizabeth (Liz) Cannon was born and raised in the Granite State and graduated with a Master's Degree from UNH. She was an elementary classroom teacher in the Deerfield School District, taught in California for a year, and is currently a Reading and Writing Specialist at the Harold Martin School in Hopkinton, NH. Liz was honored this year as the recipient of the Christa McAuliffe Sabbatical and is dedicating her work to supporting teachers in the critical task of teaching young children how to read.

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Join us for this rich conversation with Diane Sweeney, instructional coach authority, on the particular focus of student-centered coaching.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Diane Sweeney has been an author and educational consultant since 1999. She is the author of several books on student-centered coaching, published by Corwin, including her latest Moves for Launching a New Year of Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2022), Student-Centered Coaching from a Distance (Corwin, 2021), The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2020), Leading Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2018), Student-Centered Coaching: The Moves (Corwin, 2016), and more. Diane holds a longstanding interest in how adult learning translates to learning in the classroom. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Denver and a Master’s in Bilingual and Multicultural Education from the University of Colorado, Boulder. After teaching and coaching in the Denver Public Schools, Diane served as a program officer at the Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC) in Denver. Since then, she has become a respected voice in coaching and professional development.

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Join us for this conversation with Richella Simard, Art Teacher at Manchester West High School in Manchester, NH, and Anna Barret, a Paraeducator at Souhegan High School in Amherst, NH. Both are advisors for “GSAs” or Gay-Straight Alliances. We talk about the challenges and successes of this venture across their two schools. NHASCD President Steve Lebel joins us as co-host.

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Join us for this conversation with Chase Mielke and learn how educators can deal with teacher and administrator burnout. There’s lots of hope in this chat!

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Chase Mielke is an award-winning educator, writer, and speaker focusing on preventing teacher burnout and increasing student engagement. As an engaging, nationally recognized speaker, he has traveled across the nation and world to speak with students and educators on topics of resilience, mindset, applied neuroscience, and positive psychology.

In addition to modeling excellence as an educator, he is the best-selling author of The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again.

His writing has been featured on Educational Leadership, WeAreTeachers, Huffpost, Edutopia, and EdPost. His viral blog and video “What Students Really Need to Hear” has been viewed millions of times worldwide to motivate students. He has been awarded multiple honors, including a Michigan Teacher of the Year nominee and an Allegan County “Outstanding People for Education” recipient.

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Jen Schwanke, education leader and author, shares thoughts on how educational leaders can support their teachers and encourage practices that lead to the best outcomes for students.

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Join us for a conversation with Allison Rodman to hear how she supports individuals and organizations with designing and facilitating professional learning that is personalized, purposeful, and paradigm-shifting.

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Listen to Steve Ventura share the background of Achievement Teams and the four-step meeting protocol. 

This framework provides a structure for teachers to accurately reflect on teaching between pre/post assessments while identifying areas of student needs. Next, teams decide on the very best instructional approaches to address those needs. When schools and school systems de-emphasize individual practice and promote collective ability, teams of educators continuously reflect on and improve their practice, and as a result, have a greater impact on student learning.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Steve Ventura is a highly motivational and knowledgeable speaker who approaches high-stakes professional development armed with practical, research-based strategies. He is a former elementary and secondary teacher and has worked as both a school and a district-level administrator.

With the increase in teacher/administrator stress and increase in challenging student behavior, self-regulation is key to bolstering resilience.  When an educator knows how to self-regulate they then have the capacity to teach and model to their students how to self-regulate.  Listen to Emily Read Daniels share information about the importance of a regulated classroom.

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Emily Read Daniels is the author of The Regulated Classroom©, an approach to cultivating conditions for felt safety in the classroom. She developed this approach after spending years as a school counselor working with dysregulated students and staff.

In 2017, she founded HERE this NOW, a trauma-responsive schools consultancy and educator resource.  HERE this NOW began as a way for her to bring basic trauma-informed information to schools and educators. 

In June of 2017, she resigned from her position as a student-assistance counselor to launch her own consulting firm. Her firm, HERE this NOW, provides training, coaching, and consultation to those organizations and systems seeking to become trauma-informed and trauma-responsive.

Authors Stefani Arzonetti Hite and Jenni Donohoo share insights on the relationships between student achievement and collective efficacy as well as their model for leading collective teacher efficacy.

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Listen to an interview with instructional coaching founder, Jim Knight about his newest ASCD book, The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching: Seven Factors for Success.

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Noted leadership coach Dr. Jill Harrison Berg shares how teacher leaders amplify the power of collaborative inquiry as a means for identifying, interrogating, and addressing instructional inequity and speaks about the three levels of learning:  individual, relational, and organizational.

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Jill Harrison Berg, Ed.D. is a leadership coach, school improvement consultant, researcher and writer committed to maximizing the leadership potential of teachers. In addition to Uprooting Instructional Inequity (ASCD 2022), Dr. Berg is the author of Leading in Sync: Teacher Leaders and Principals Working Together for Student Learning (ASCD, 2018). Her monthly column, “Leading Together,” in ASCD’s Educational Leadership magazine aims to heighten leaders’ attention to the complementary roles that teacher leaders and administrators must play in restructuring and re-culturing schools for equity and excellence.

Members of the inaugural cohort of Klawe Fellows for EdReports share their stories and the importance of advocacy in their work.

What role does empathy play in the success of a school leader?  Listen to Dr. Thomas Hoerr share the importance of empathy in being effective and the key skills in becoming a Chief Empathy Officer.

ABOUT DR. THOMAS HOERR

Thomas R. Hoerr, PhD retired after leading the New City School in St. Louis, Missouri for 34 years and is now the Emeritus Head of School. He is currently a Scholar In Residence at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and teaches in the Educational Leadership program, preparing prospective principals. He also led the ISACS New Heads Network and founded the Non-Profit Management Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Hoerr has written five books, and his newest, Taking Social Emotional Learning Schoolwide: The Formative Five Success Skills for Students and Staff, was published in December of 2019. He has written more than 150 articles, including “The Principal Connection” column in Educational Leadership Magazine from 2004 to 2017.

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Author and teacher Jennifer Orr shares how to take the passion and chatter that K–5 students bring to the classroom and turn it into conversation skills that make them better learners?

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Jennifer Orr is an elementary school teacher in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. She has taught for more than two decades in almost every elementary grade at schools serving highly diverse populations. She has experience with students who are learning English; in special education and advanced academic programs; and from military families.

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"Although a content-neutral approach to supervision—one that emphasizes general pedagogical features such as student engagement, cognitive load, or classroom management—is undoubtedly beneficial, the best instructional leaders know that content-specific approaches are necessary to achieve real excellence."  Listen to Dr. Rebecca Lowenhaupt and Dr. Rebecca Katsch-Singer share their insights and strategies from their work in the Instructional Leadership for Science Project (ILSP) and their book, The Instructional Leader's Guide to Implementing K-8 Science.

Jennifer Abrams, the author of Learning to Have Hard Conversations and Swimming in the Deep End, discusses her new book Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work

Contact information:  email - jennnifer@jenniferabrams.com or (605)868-1916

Katie Pagnotta, the owner of Resilient Roots, PLLC, is a NH licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC), certified NH school counselor, parent coach, consultant, and social-emotional learning (SEL) enthusiast.  Listen to Katie share how to support resiliency skills through integrating SEL throughout the school.

The Mindful Learners Collaborative team (Dr. Lisa Fermia-Hou, Kim Wyborney, and Jon Verity) discuss how schools work around the present-day situations and the need for students, staff, and administrators to build connections.

Whether it's planning and delivering instruction or just interacting with others throughout the day, every action you take is an opportunity to demonstrate empathy toward your students, your colleagues, and yourself.  Author Lisa Westman shares her motivation for writing this new ASCD book and explores three types of empathy within the educational experience.

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When leading in a school, everyday events and the chaos of life can sometimes get in the way of remembering what inspired you to become a school leader.  So, how can you regain that sense of purpose, renewal, and inspiration? Co-authors Vicki Bautista and Gretchen Oltman discuss their new ASCD book, What's Your Leadership Story?  A School Leader's Guide to Aligning How Your Lead with Who You Are to address that question.

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Co-authors Tammy Musiowsky-Borneman and Christine Arnold discuss their new book The Minimalist Teacher.  Tammy and Christine have developed a way to bring a minimalist mindset to the classroom and shed the burden of too many initiatives, strategies, and things in general. Their Triple P process helps teachers declutter in three steps: identify something's purpose, prioritize what is important, and pare down to essentials.

Because the Triple P process emphasizes structured and candid self-reflection to determine what is essential, meaningful, and useful—and then discard what is extraneous—The Minimalist Teacher can be adapted to the physical classroom environment, curriculum, instruction, assessment, and more.

In this episode, we are excited for you to hear from co-authors Starr Sackstein and Karen Terwilliger as they discuss their new book Hacking Learning Centers in Grades 6-12.  Starr and Karen share their journey in the use of learning centers at the middle and secondary levels as well as how learning centers transform a classroom into a dynamic learning experience.

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Co-authors Megan Kortlandt, Carly Stone, and Samantha Keesling discuss the flexible structure for collaborative professional learning that they call the principal lab, in which K-12 principals learn with and from each other to become better instructional leaders.

The authors are available for keynotes, workshops, coaching, and consulting.

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We begin Season 2 by featuring educators Constance Borro and Starr Sackstein. Constance is the founder and CEO of Mastery Portfolio which is an interactive software application that breaks down student grades on standards/competencies and not numbers. Its mission is to provide a means for motivation and equity through grading practices. Starr is COO of the company and a nationally renowned author, speaker, and educational thought leader.

Ms. Borro and Ms. Sackstein discuss the idea of standards-based grading and reporting along with the benefits to students, teachers, and parents.

Dr. Peter Michael Plourde is the director of faculty development at the University of the District of Columbia Community College (UDC-CC), teaches mathematics, and to the general public and to many of his students, is known as Professor Lyrical for his work as a hip-hop artist. 

Join Dr. Randy Wormald and Executive Director Jan Yost for an interview with Prof. Lyrical and a discussion on the intersection of education and hip-hop.

Listen to Stephanie Malia Krauss speak about her new book, Making It:  What Today's Kids Need For Tomorrow's World in which she goes beyond the question of what young people need to succeed in school, to ask what they need to be ready for life.

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Author Starr Sackstein talks about her newest book and offers best practices for results as SEL needs become more and more important.

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We all know social-emotional learning is of the utmost importance, but what is the best way to teach it to our students?  Listen to teacher, author, and consultant, Elizabeth Peterson, share what SEAL is, the benefits of integrating the arts with SEL, and how to get started.

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Educators of all types - classroom teachers, administrators, support staff, coaches - are feedback-providers in various ways. Feedback is critical to the learning process at all stages. And yet, traditional feedback focuses on what the word describes, looking back. Lindsay Prendergast, discusses the impact of a mindset shift towards "feedforward" and the resulting impact our language and practices can have on student learning.

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Melody Arabo, EdReports Outreach Specialist and US Department of Education Teacher Ambassador Fellow, shares insights on why quality curricular materials matter and how EdReports can be used as a foundation for conversations about your curriculum.

Dr. Monica Burns, ASCD author and faculty member,  shares strategies and tech tips for encouraging student participation and engagement, inviting student collaboration, assessing and providing feedback, and building relationships with families.

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Author, consultant, and NHASCD member, Mike Anderson (@balancedteacher) discusses health and balance in teaching.  Mike talks about some main areas of teacher wellness that are especially important right now and suggests small steps that both teachers and school leaders can take. 

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Dana Foulds, NHASCD Treasurer and Digital Learning Specialist at Broken Ground Elementary School (Concord, NH), shares information about the journey she and her team took after attending a webinar series on Social-Emotional Learning.

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