Education Talk Radio

Off to Montana we go...to visit Jessica Hageman, First Grade Teacher  in Victor MT Public achools. This show is baed on Jess' article on the topic from E School News  where she mentioned several tools she uses for great literacy instruction including Discovery Ed, so I set up this podcast with her and my friends from Discovery when I learned they offer their Dicovery Experience programs to all schools statewide

Mike Marotta, Certified Assistive Technology Expert and an ISTE Learning Network Outstanding Educator is my guest. Thank you Texthelp for helping me set up this podcast. FYI,  Mike is coauthor of this book

CASE ( The Council of Administrators of Special Education) president Phyllis Wolfram joins us with her special guest , Attorney Julie Weatherly who specializes in Special Ed litigation  ( an awful lot of 'specials" in there) and negotiation . Julie is also founder of RISE, Resolutions in Special Education

A visit with CEC's Laurie VanderPloeg.Joinng her are Jerry Goings , Program Director of Educational Leadership at Regis U after a long career in Public Ed....and Nat Handsuvadha Dept Chair of Liberal Studies at  at Cal State, Long Beach and president of the California Professors of Special Ed Association

All about incorporating  social justice into science pedagogy with Professors Edna Tan and Angela Calabrese Barton who join me as co-authors of the new book  "Teaching Toward Rightful Presence in Middle School STEM'" where the rightful presence framework, a multifaceted approach to instruction that enables historically marginalized students to gain agency in their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning is analyzed and presented. Its very interesting stuff on rhe road tro equity.

Tips from Dr. Howie Knoff, President of Project Achieve and he'll be blogging about this in greater detail here

Enjoy and learn about all the unique challenges with ex-U.S. Marine and now school psychologist  and Board Certifed Behavior Analyst Serena Sowin of BlazerWorks, a Special Ed Consulting  company for schools.

CREATING INTERACTIVE EPISODES FOR SCHOOLS AND HAVING STUDENTS BUILD THEIR OWN MUSIC PROGRAMMING ANDS LESSONS ... BUILT ON HOW MUSIC IS PART OF AMERICAN CULTURE...,  SNOW AND CO 'S BERT SNOW AND MUZZY LANE'S DAVID McCALL  , COMPANIES THAT HAVE RECEIVED GRANTS TO CREATE THE PROJECT, VISIT TO EXPLAIN HOW ITS ALL GOING TO WORK,

Hear from the author of Why History Matters: American History Teachers speak out. History advocate, social studies leader and CEO of the Driving Force Institute, Patrick Riccards, is my guest today.

We welcome Jon Ebert, E-Therapy's Mental Health Program Manager, and his teammate Montovia Key, for an eye-opening discussion about how they are working with schools, districts and parents — and how that work is impacting student learning. 

Ideas and thoughts from Social Studies teachers Extrodinaire Peter Paccone, Richard Whitrock and Shari Condit on teaching controversial subjects in this partisan age, especially as January 6 approaches. See more of what Peter does at  My Edutopa Posts ,  My Medium Posts , The "KQED In the Classroom",  Time Magazine  on Creative Ways Teachers are Using ChatGPT in the Classroom, Teaching the Election in the Age of Hate (part 1) and Teaching the Election in the Age of Hate (part 2)

Dr. Christine Deitz, Dr. Kali Fedor and David Cutler, officers at NAGC are very concerned about this real possibility.that funding will be cut.  Teaching gifted students has always been somehwat undervalued by communities and even some educators.Parents and educators of Gifted Students need to be informed..

 A NEW REPORT CARD FROM HARVARD ON US CHARTER SCHOOLS with the authors Harvard Professor of Government Paul Peterson and Harvard Associate Director of The Program on Education Policy and Governance Antonio Wendlend

Off to San Antonio's Harlandale ISD and McCollum High  to meet  their librarian Terrie Sharp who has created mini libraries all across campus  meeting the needs of every student ...with ideas like large print books for kids struggling to read and needing ELL ..... getting them to read and enjoy it. Check it out here

All about incorporating  social justice into science pedagogy with Professors Emily Tan and Angela Calbrese Barton who join me as co-authors of the new book  "Teaching Toward Rightful Presence in Middle School STEM'" where the rightful presence framework, a multifaceted approach to instruction that enables historically marginalized students to gain agency in their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning is analyzed and presented. Its very interesting stuff on rhe road tro equity.