Episodes
June 11, 2022
Episode 2.15 with Darrin Peppard: It's ALL about the relevance!
Darrin Peppard is a leadership expert focused on organizational culture and climate, and coaching growing emerging leaders. Darrin is the author of the book Road to Awesome: Empower, Lead, Change the Game. He is the host of t...
April 23, 2022
Episode 2.14 with Dr. Mike Gaskell: Celebrating small wins for our wounded students!
Dr. Michael Gaskell is the Principal at Hammarskjold Middle School in East Brunswick, NJ. He models the pursuit of lifelong learning as he serves to mentor new principals through the New Jersey Leaders to Leaders program. An ...
April 2, 2022
Episode 2.13 with Andrew Marotta: Helping staff to survive and thrive!
Andrew Marotta is an energetic and enthusiastic leader who has put his positive imprint on his beloved Port Jervis HS, in Port Jervis, NY. With the release of his first book, The School Leader: Surviving and Thriving, Andrew ...
March 26, 2022
Episode 2.12 with Allison Slone: Building Compromise Among ALL Stakeholders!
Twenty-three-year special education teacher. Co-founded KYREADS which provides PD on dyslexia, started Kentucky Teachers in The Know , a social-media group on Facebook and Twitter, to keep educators informed on resources, ide...
March 19, 2022
Episode 2.11 with Garris Stroud: Give a voice to our Rural Educators!!
Garris L. Stroud is a teacher, consultant, and writer from Greenville, KY. Stroud was a semifinalist for Kentucky's 2020 Teacher of the Year and is an ambassador for National Geographic Education. He has been published in the...
March 11, 2022
Episode 2.10 with Jennifer Haston-Maciejewski: Counteract the negativity within our profession!
Jennifer Haston-Maciejewski currently works at Greenfield-Central High School in Indiana as an alternative placement teacher and behavior specialist/coach. She is also a trained yoga, mindfulness, and meditation instructor; a...
March 5, 2022
Episode 2.9 with Linda Detwiler: Adjust the challenge to support the student!
Linda Detwiler was a chemistry and physics teacher for ten years and now she is the Customer Success Manager at Pivot Interactives. She's a tireless advocate for how Pivot Interactives can improve teachers' lives. When she's ...
Feb. 26, 2022
Episode 2.8 with Chris Jones: Support, Engage and Empower your staff!
Chris Jones has been an educator in Massachusetts for 22 years. He has just finished his 14th year as a building administrator. True to his "why" of improving the educational experience for as many people as possible, he is...
Feb. 19, 2022
Episode 2.7 with Sheila Escobedo: Our students should CREATE, not just consume knowledge!
Sheila is a momma, a wife, and an AP at a high school in Guatemala. She is also a Google Certified Educator 1 and 2 as well as the Empower Caption at Google Education Group Guate. We talk AI, Machine Intelligence, the future...
Feb. 12, 2022
Episode 2.6 with Jason Blair: Teach dispositions, NOT standards!
Jason Blair believes our future depends on the creative minds of our students. He is a 19 yr. veteran elementary art teacher. Currently, he also serves as the Teacher-Leader-in-Residence at the Columbus Museum of Art, and is ...
Jan. 29, 2022
Episode 2.5 with Michele Rispo Hill: How can we stop teachers from leaving?
Michele Rispo Hill is a passionate educator who has dedicated a lifetime to the education profession as a teacher, author, and presenter of professional development. During her tenure in the classroom, Michele was honored as ...
Jan. 22, 2022
Episode 2.4 with Rod Naquin: Lasting change demands changing the discourse!
Cultivating lasting changes requires cultivating effective discourse! My new friend from Louisiana, Rod Naquin, shares his doctoral topic with us. Rod J. Naquin is a ten-year educator, instructional coach and professional lea...
Jan. 15, 2022
Episode 2.3 with Betzy Orenos: Let teachers design their own PD!
Mrs. Betzy is a High School Innovation Coach and Instructional Leader in Guatemala City, Guatemala. During the start of the pandemic, she realized the power of social media and became the Google Education Group Leader for al...
Jan. 8, 2022
Episode 2.2 with Mathew Portell: trauma-informed schooling
Mathew has dedicated a decade and a half to education in his role as a teacher, instructional coach, teacher mentor, and school administrator. He is currently in his seventh year as principal of Fall-Hamilton Elementary, an i...
Jan. 1, 2022
Episode 2.1 with Dr. John Nash: Using design thinking to increase student buy-in!
John Nash is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky. He has been a social research scientist, program evaluator, entrepreneur, professor, and department chair during his career. He teac...
Dec. 18, 2021
Episode 57 with Kevin Curtis: Relationship-Centered Learning
Kevin W. Curtis is the Founder and Lead Consultant for National Educators for Restorative Practices and co-author of the book Restorative Discipline Practices: A Journey in Implementation from a Community of Educators . Kevin...
Dec. 10, 2021
Episode 56 with Aviva Levin: Put a bit of improv into your lessons!
Aviva grew up in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada as an only child, though she had plenty of imaginary friends. She was incredibly shy until she discovered a love of theater in the fourth grade, which allowed her to fake be...
Dec. 3, 2021
Episode 55 with Kristi Hape: ALL teachers are special education teachers!
Kristi Hape is an Occupational Therapist with over 20 years experience in the schools and 17 years experience at home, raising 3 girls with her loving husband. She survived 22 years as the wife of a college and high school fo...
Nov. 27, 2021
Episode 54 with Andrea Samadi: SEL + Neuroscience= Level UP!
Andrea Samadi, a former middle-school teacher from Toronto, now in Arizona, has spent the past 20+ years working with social/emotional learning. Andrea knows first-hand about stress in the classroom as her first job at The Un...
Nov. 20, 2021
Episode 53 with Mark Horner: Using the 4W's to develop a growth mindset with our students!
Mark Horner is a proud husband and father. He has been married to his college sweetheart, Jennifer for over 20 years. They have two children: Kelsie, who just graduated from Tallmadge High School, and a son, Noah, who is ente...
Nov. 13, 2021
Episode 52 with Matthew J Bowerman: At the end of the day, it's ALL about LOVE!!
Matthew J Bowerman has spent 24 years in education as a Heartleader, working to support and engage students and communities. He is an Assistamt Principal in an elementary school in Montgomery County, MD,.as well as a writer, ...
Nov. 6, 2021
Episode 51 with Dr. Basil Marin:Teacher and leadership prep programs should have a required equity and social justice class
Dr. Basil Marin hails from the Central Virginia area. He is a graduate of Eastern Mennonite University where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He later earned a Master of Teaching in Special Educatio...
Oct. 30, 2021
Episode 50 with Hamish Brewer: Great things happen through great connections!
Hamish is an award-winning educator & leader - inspiring, advocating & amplifying voices of educators, students & communities everywhere! Author, Speaker, Kiwi, Tattoos, Skateboards, VWs Mr. Brewer is an award-winning princi...
Oct. 23, 2021
Episode 49 with Pav Wander: Our teachers' voices need to be AMPLIFIED!
Pavan (Pav) Wander is an elementary school teacher with 15 years of experience, born, raised, and teaching in the north end of Toronto, Canada, where she teaches grade 7/8. Along with her former teaching partner Chey Cheney, ...