This episode is part of the Summer of AI Series, brought to you by SchoolAI, Scrible, and FocalPointK12.In this podcast episode, primary educator and entrepreneur Emily Garcia discusses the science of reading and the role of teachers versus AI in teaching children to read. While there is systemic and explicit phonics-based instruction that is necessary for effective reading instruction, there are also many factors that prevent AI from being able to fully replace teachers. Teachers provide multiple inputs and value in partner reading and are necessary for building a classroom community and managing the classroom. However, when applicable, teachers should use AI as a tool to enhance their teaching methods. The decision of when to use AI should be made during PLCs and based on what is working for the students.This episode is brought to you by AILeader.info, where you can learn all about AI specifically in a place designed for educators through 3-minute masterclasses. Science of readingSystemic and explicit phonics-based instruction.Just too many factors that preventIt is so highly technicalAI cannot detect CVC and otherDo we still need the teachers?Multiple input from having a teacher there.Value in partner readingHuman standpoint: How do we attack this word?The scope and sequence are over 100 pages.AI cannot comprehend yet all that has to be done.Illustrations, clip art, and more.Teachers are amazing, and we’ll never be able to replace teachers with AI or a bot.instant gratification vs. instant feedback.Incredibly difficult to teach phonics.Teachers have to be there for the class to run smoothly.With no teacher, there’s no community.Classroom management vs. classroom community.You don’t have to be as great at teaching methods if you are great at building community.When applicable, teachers should absolutely be using AI.Teachers have to decide when it is appropriate.This feels a lot like technology in the 90s and 2000s.How to determine when AI should be used or not used? During PLCs, it’s about the conversation and how people are using AI and what is working.About Emily GarciaEmily Garcia is a primary educator, a passionate advocate for quality education, and a visionary entrepreneur. With her unwavering commitment to revolutionalize the educational landscape, Emily has made a significant impact by founding Education to the Core, an organization that has served over 500,000 classrooms worldwide. Support our SponsorsSchoolAI: The Classroom Operating System: Help your teachers save 10 hours a week. Sign up for a free account and see new AI-generated experiences that will change the way you teach.Scrible: Worried about AI Plagiarism? Take the high road and improve your students' skills before they feel the need to cheat with this modern research and writing platform for schoolFocalPointK12: Manage student portfolios that they can take with them with blockchain technology and AI assisted grading. Listen to our interview with the founder and chief learning officer here.

This episode is part of the Summer of AI Series, brought to you by SchoolAI, Scrible, and FocalPointK12.Dave Hurwitt is an innovator. Over the course of his career, he’s led the development and launch of new products and services – from toothpicks to wind turbines – that have generated well over $1 billion in sales. Having worked in admissions through grad school, he was amazed by how little technology and the internet had impacted the college search and admissions process. And even more, he was dismayed to discover how often students were transferring or dropping out altogether. In early 2020, this led directly to his founding Troove, a 2-sided, AI-powered platform to help students discover their passions, people, and place based on the real experiences of recent alumni and current higher education students.This episode is brought to you by AILeader.info, where you can learn all about AI specifically in a place designed for educators through 3-minute masterclasses. How Troove worksTake the idea of suggestions from Netflix or Amazon and apply it to college.15-minute quiz, how do you ask the right questions to get the answers that make sense of the patterns?At any school, there is an in and out of the classroom experience and culture.Less self-awareness.Finding experts who can explain psychological safety.Keep layering in more and more data.Social culture preferences and learning culture preferences.Doesn’t have to be complete to start.Continue to explore the good stuff.Open to sharing data and information about yourself.Willingness to share and age are tightly correlated.How can we make that sharing of information safer, data safe, and help them see themselves more clearly?Incomplete information about schools without complete information.Making informed decisions about their future.Is this too complicated?Start taking steps - the request: go explore new technologies that might be useful that we can afford to trial.Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.Just get started.Connect with Dave Support our SponsorsSchoolAI: The Classroom Operating System: Help your teachers save 10 hours a week. Sign up for a free account and see new AI-generated experiences that will change the way you teach.Scrible: Worried about AI Plagiarism? Take the high road and improve your students' skills before they feel the need to cheat with this modern research and writing platform for schoolFocalPointK12: Manage student portfolios that they can take with them with blockchain technology and AI assisted grading. Listen to our interview with the founder and chief learning officer here.

This episode is part of the Summer of AI Series, brought to you by SchoolAI, Scrible, and FocalPointK12.In this episode, Jethro and Fred discuss chatbots and artificial intelligence. The episode covers the history of chatbots, including the Turing Test and the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Bing, and Jasper. The potential uses and issues with chatbots are explored, including incomplete or misinformation, theft of intellectual property, inappropriate uses, and threats to various types of jobs. The episode also touches on the impact of chatbots on education and the potential for the weaponization of disinformation, cybersecurity, and more emotion-targeted advertising.Beginning of Cybertraps Podcast Episode IndexWritebettr.com - test out AI with your poorly written emailsAILeader.info - learn about AI and how to use it to save time with 3-minute masterclasses.Today’s Topic: Bot’s Up, Doc?Keynote delivered at last minute for Alaska Society for Technology in EducationArtificial Life and Artificial IntelligenceWhy chatbots are NOT “artificial intelligence” – yet“The Father of Chat”The Turing TestAlan Turing OBE FRS [1912–1954] – British mathematician and computer scientistLeader in the development of computer and algorithmic theoryAt Bletchley Park, helped design a machine to crack the Enigma code1950 – Turing devises The Turing Test:Can a computer produce answers indistinguishable from a human?The Imitation Game1954 – Turing commits suicideLarge Language Models (LLMs)ChatGPT (esp. 4)BingJasperembedded AIPhotoshopGoogle Workspaceincredibly rapid changeCurrent ChatGPT IssuesIncomplete Data or MisinformationTheft of Intellectual PropertyInappropriate UsesResponse to MSU ShootingThreat to Various Types of JobsMid-to Lower-Level TechMedia / PR ProfessionalsCustomer ServiceParalegals / Attorneys?Religious Leaders?MonetizationA Quick Object LessonCensorship Is a Biz-KillChina Was a Tech Leader in the 2010sWeChatAliPayBeijing (CCP) Got NervousParty Officials Took Corporate SeatsThe goal Was to Limit Social InfluenceChinese Tech Companies Slashed  Investment in Pure ResearchChatGPT and EducationA Flawed Resource for StudentsIncomplete InformationMisinformationKids Will Use Technology to CheatNot the First Time …Several Schools Have Had Cheating ScandalsNYC Blocked, then Unblocked, Access to ChatGPTResponses and SolutionsTools for Identifying Chat-Generated ContentIncorporate Chat Critiques into CurriculaThe Revenge of the Palmer Method?Create Assessments that ChatGPT Can’t AnswerThe Parade of HorriblesWeaponization of DisinformationCybersecuritySocial EngineeringScams and SpamsManipulative SuggestionsIntegration with Other TechnologiesMore Emotion-Targeted AdvertisingDisplaced Emotional RelationshipsPersonalized Chatbot (“Amanuensis”)Fasten Your Seat Belt. It’s Going to Be a Bumpy Night. Support our SponsorsSchoolAI: The Classroom Operating System: Help your teachers save 10 hours a week. Sign up for a free account and see new AI-generated experiences that will change the way you teach.Scrible: Worried about AI Plagiarism? Take the high road and improve your students' skills before they feel the need to cheat with this modern research and writing platform for schoolFocalPointK12: Manage student portfolios that they can take with them with blockchain technology and AI assisted grading. Listen to our interview with the founder and chief learning officer here.

This episode is part of the Summer of AI Series, brought to you by SchoolAI, Scrible, and FocalPointK12.Based in wonder and optimism, Nancy Giordano is an exponential strategist focused on building a safe, inclusive, thriving future. Believing we have a once in a generation opportunity to rethink, reimagine and reshape every industry and social construct we call life, she supports and champions those actively architecting bold solutions and guides the visionary leaders eager to meet this call. An active strategist working on horizon solutions, Nancy is eager to share her insights on emerging technologies and shifting cultural expectations in ways that get everyone deeply motivated by the possibilities…and confident to start building.This episode is brought to you by AILeader.info, where you can learn all about AI specifically in a place designed for educators through 3-minute masterclasses. Life hack - make up your jobJob is labeled or definedCan’t use a map anymore, so we need a compass - What does the future need and expect, and what am I in a unique position to create and contributeCompass allows you to sense and respondpurpose and intentionlenses to the future - personal, community, societyexpectations and opportunities as a member of the communityWatched the movie “Her”It didn’t come out of nowhereSpeech that can be fabricated See Episode 537History teachers may be best prepared.LiteraciesDreams and the role they play in our psychological well-beingJoined an AI startup 8 years ago.Humanity Bill of RightsHow do we build better decision-making framingDavid Ogilvy - give me the freedom of a tightly defined strategy.We can all agree on these 10–12 thingsSAMR ModelThe more students have to go outside the system for what they think is important the less the value is that degree.It’s a tool that helps usWhat are the use cases for AI?Responsible AI instituteScale the conversation around ethicsAlgorithm and dataHuge structural changesTeachers who have it are that much more impactful and great.Part of the reason we have a mental health crisis is that kids don’t feel totally prepared for the future.Gravitate towards those who are preparing us well.SWOT Analysis - RIFF Map - Relieved, inspired, frustrated, FearfulThings you’re frightened byHead to nancygiordano.com and check out the book LEADERing.Summer of AI - learn all about AI in a safe, supportive community focused on school leaders and applications of AI to school environments - aileader.info Support our SponsorsSchoolAI: The Classroom Operating System: Help your teachers save 10 hours a week. Sign up for a free account and see new AI-generated experiences that will change the way you teach.Scrible: Worried about AI Plagiarism? Take the high road and improve your students' skills before they feel the need to cheat with this modern research and writing platform for schoolFocalPointK12: Manage student portfolios that they can take with them with blockchain technology and AI assisted grading. Listen to our interview with the founder and chief learning officer here.

This episode is part of the Summer of AI Series, brought to you by SchoolAI, Scrible, and FocalPointK12.This episode is part of the Summer of AI series presented by AILeader.info. AILeader.info makes the abstract actionable by helping you stay on the cutting edge with 3-minute masterclasses that teach you what you need to know about AI in just 3 minutes or less. To join, go to AILeader.infoGot key people to be successful. Curriculum alignment Instructional rigor advanced models for schools Teacher Planning - is the source of what teachers are doing. Is ChatGPT the best for lesson planning? More advanced models exist. Machine Learning will actually remember the moves and methods of a teacher. Almost like having a coach built into your model. Bard with Google ASU+GSV conferenceFineTune - If you’re serious, you need better language models. Provides references to everything that it creates. School districts can go in with more confidence because there is less bias. AI is going to be the path. Dual challenge for school districts - figure out a policy on AI Don’t worry about AI taking your job, worry about the person who knows AI taking your job. You can control AI and put parameters around it. Intervention plans for students at the completion of a lesson. The human element goes into what are the rules you’re telling the AI to do. Make a strategic plan to get AI out there in a sensible way. AI models in SEL 90% of the time Teaching people how to be good prompt engineers Explain it to me like you’re a consultant. Jasper for CopywritingMachine Learning - it learns what you’re looking for. Mazy pulls from four different types of sources How to be careful about what you adopt. How this should be impacting teaching and learning. People are thinking that kids are cheating. Aligning to the 21st century world of work. Global achievement gap. What are the skills kids are going to need? Kids need the assistance of a teacher when they are stuck. Why wouldn’t we have AI take the place of teachers if the AI can do it better? What is a teacher going to be in the future? We had a chance to make a real impact Just design a great lesson. - #1 thing that catches kids up 3 years in 1 year - is feedback.- Ego-involved feedback vs. task-involved feedback.- Data’s getting stale - 48 hours- How to make sure teachers have time to do what they need.- Lead180.com- educompass.appAbout Scott NeilDr. Scott Neil is a nationally recognized expert in the area of school turnaround with a focus on Data-Driven Instruction and instructional leadership. With a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and 20 years of school and district leadership experience in urban education, Scott has led the turnaround of five different urban schools in Florida over his 31-year career in education. Dr. Neil spent six years working as a national subject matter expert, training facilitator, and principal coach with the national nonprofit organization New Leaders, whose mission is to prepare educators to become transformational school principals across eleven cities within the United States. Scott founded LEAD180 in 2014 to help provide support to schools across the country in the area of instructional planning and the alignment to the Cognitive Rigor of College and Career Ready Standards.Bringing a unique combination of deep experience as both a practitioner and researcher in the field of school leadership within high poverty school settings, Scott has trained and mentored over 400 principals, 400 emerging school leaders, and over 5,000 teachers over the course of his career. Support our SponsorsSchoolAI: The Classroom Operating System: Help your teachers save 10 hours a week. Sign up for a free account and see new AI-generated experiences that will change the way you teach.Scrible: Worried about AI Plagiarism? Take the high road and improve your students' skills before they feel the need to cheat with this modern research and writing platform for schoolFocalPointK12: Manage student portfolios that they can take with them with blockchain technology and AI assisted grading. Listen to our interview with the founder and chief learning officer here.

This episode is part of the Summer of AI Series, brought to you by SchoolAI, Scrible, and FocalPointK12.Dr. Tucker brings a unique perspective with a lifetime of learning experiences overseas and in the United States. Having grown up traveling back and forth between Africa and the United States he experienced a variety of learning environments. He credits his mom, his first homeschool teacher, teachers at an international school, and numerous Missouri educators for his decision to pursue a career in education. His experiences have influenced his commitment to designing learner-centered educational experiences.He currently serves as the Superintendent of Liberty Public Schools. During his time in LPS, the District opened EPiC Elementary (2022 National Blue Ribbon School), partnered with industry to create Kansas City Tech Academy, established the UnSchool Challenge, and rolled out several micro schools including HMS by Design, EDGE, North Nation By Design, and Warren Hills Reimagined. These innovations evolved through a commitment to answering the question, “What does it mean to be learner-centered?” and always thinking about what lies at the edge of vision. In 2017 Liberty Public Schools was accepted into the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools. League districts pioneer innovative learning and leadership practices that lead to improved outcomes for students and that help prepare them for learning for life.Moving closer to the “edge of vision,” Dr. Tucker has led the LPS community in designing a Graduate Profile, establishing a Vivid Vision, development of an equity-centered strategic plan, and advanced Real World Learning networks across the Kansas City metropolitan area.Dr. Tucker was identified as a “20 to Watch” educator for 2016–2017 by the National School Boards Association. In 2019, Dr. Tucker was named the 2019 Missouri Superintendent of the Year.This episode is brought to you by AILeader.info, where you can learn all about AI specifically in a place designed for educators through 3-minute masterclasses. Understanding what we mean by Artificial intelligence and how rapidly it is evolving.How do we leverage our data in a better way?How might we leverage artificial intelligenceJobs that could be created vs jobs eliminated.It’s about how we do our jobs.It’s important to have ourLeveraging group think and group feedback to get to the sentiment ofMaking qualitiative data quantifiableInteroperability of systems - Could AI help our systems communicateWord CloudsValuable skill that could be lost? Did I really capture everything?Allowing people to get their hands dirty with the feedback.How do we make sure that people have the ability to live in bothGIGO garbage in garbage out.Machine learning in the computerDon’t want to miss the critical thinking piece where they just take the CSV file without understanding how things are working.AI is not an emerging field,It’s accelerating. It’s probably worth recognizing we’re all learners.We’re fairly progressiveCare for the present and enabling the future.At times we’re learning or leading.how does this fit into my content area or my grade level?ChatGPTHow do I integrate this into my classwork?Is there any difference between a teacher using ChatGPT and and Teachers Pay TeachersOER district, using available-online curriculum.Really understand the validity of the resourceTraditional Resource Adoption vs. OER resource adoption.Curricular teams have choiceProfessional development, how to navigate that.How teachers will look at educational resources and professional developmentField trips for admin & teachers to learn from other industries.What do we learn from other industries?For what experiences is there no substitute?Starts with human elements, and then we slide in the academic areas.Engagement - how do we ensure that everyone is engaged? Improving 2 way communication and engagement opportunities.How to connect with Jeremy - LPS53.org, follow on jtucker.tmOER expert - Jeannette Westfall - Support our SponsorsSchoolAI: The Classroom Operating System: Help your teachers save 10 hours a week. Sign up for a free account and see new AI-generated experiences that will change the way you teach.Scrible: Worried about AI Plagiarism? Take the high road and improve your students' skills before they feel the need to cheat with this modern research and writing platform for schoolFocalPointK12: Manage student portfolios that they can take with them with blockchain technology and AI assisted grading. Listen to our interview with the founder and chief learning officer here.

This episode is part of the Summer of AI Series, brought to you by SchoolAI, Scrible, and FocalPointK12.In this episode, Jethro Jones introduces the Summer of AI Series on Transformative Principal. All summer, we’ve got some great interviews scheduled to come out with believers, skeptics, and everyone in between all about AI. See the APLUS framework hereJoin the conversation by joining our Facebook group hereAnd, Jethro also shares the AILeader.info resource, a membership site to help you learn how to save time and energy by learning how to use AI most effectively as a school leader. Join here. Jethro also shares the APLUS framework for adopting AI in schools: Accessibility: Ensure that AI-driven educational tools and resources are accessible to all learners, regardless of their backgrounds, abilities, or disabilities. Design AI systems that accommodate diverse learning styles and provide inclusive learning experiences for all students.Privacy and Ethics: Uphold strong ethical standards in the design, development, and deployment of AI technologies in education. Safeguard student privacy, ensuring transparent data collection and usage practices. Proactively address bias, fairness, and accountability concerns to maintain trust and protect the rights of learners.Learner-centricity: Place learners at the center of AI integration in education. Prioritize their well-being, agency, and autonomy in the learning process. Promote critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills while using AI as a supportive tool rather than a replacement for human interaction and guidance. This means that we cannot implement tools that make teachers’ lives easier if it actually makes students’ lives worse! One of the things that I have been hearing a lot of lately is that adults want to use AI to help them do their jobs, but at the same time want to prevent students from using AI and start calling it plagiarism or academic dishonestly. OK for me, but not for thee, is a bad way to approach this new technology. Usability: Develop AI-based educational tools and platforms that are user-friendly and intuitive for both students and educators. Prioritize simplicity, clear interfaces, and streamlined experiences, enabling easy adoption and minimizing technical barriers for all stakeholders.Sustainability: Consider the long-term impact and sustainability of AI integration in education. Embrace scalable and cost-effective solutions that benefit educational institutions and accommodate future advancements. Promote environmental sustainability by optimizing energy consumption and minimizing electronic waste.These principles, known as APLUS, emphasize the importance of privacy, ethics, and responsible data practices in AI integration in education. By prioritizing accessibility, learner-centricity, usability, and sustainability alongside privacy and ethics, we can create an educational environment that harnesses the power of AI while ensuring the well-being and rights of learners are protected. Support our SponsorsSchoolAI: The Classroom Operating System: Help your teachers save 10 hours a week. Sign up for a free account and see new AI-generated experiences that will change the way you teach.Scrible: Worried about AI Plagiarism? Take the high road and improve your students' skills before they feel the need to cheat with this modern research and writing platform for schoolFocalPointK12: Manage student portfolios that they can take with them with blockchain technology and AI assisted grading. Listen to our interview with the founder and chief learning officer here.

This is a continuation of our coaching calls with Eric Makelky. Please check our previous episodes 532527523 519 514, 510, 506, and 501In this episode, we talk about onboarding new staff. What Eric has done that has been helpful.District duties and Principal duties.How do we make people stick around?New Teacher Academy - in-house teachers come in and model, share, and showcase practices from their classroom.In-house people leading these things.Half-day around the building - basic information.Make a list, and trickle in during the summer.And what do they really need to be ready for the first day of school?Resources, curriculum, plan, classroom management.Big Picture vs. Details.How do you do that?Trello Board about onboardingHow do you avoid overwhelming them?Identify what is really valuable and what is extraMentoring new teachersHow do you not force mentoring on teachers?Collaborative teams within PLCs.Solid mentorMentorship is done according to the needs of the menteeIt’s about mentoring culture not just pedagogy.Have retired teachers come and be mentors when appropriate. We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers’ timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

Danny Bauer is a Principal Development & Retention ExpertBest Selling AuthorAnd Host of Two of the World’s Most Downloaded PodcastsAs the Chief Ruckus Maker, he founded Better Leaders Better Schools in 2015.In this episode, we talk about his new book and other various and random things. Why an experimental mindset is so important.Deliver a result in as few words as possibleBuild Leadership MomentumGift yourself a 3-hour deep work blockPerfect principal entry planJohn Unger - after I started this all the stress was gone.Should veteran school leaders still pick up this book?How to get out of your own head?Imagine worst-case scenarios.I’ve already imagined worse than this.What would it take for you to hold this with an open hand?Outcomes are never in your control, inputs are.5 categories within the framework - start with the individual school leader, ruckus maker mindset tool.Everything else builds on top of each other and leads toSignificant and legacy work is not found in operations.The mark you leave on a campus is found on the other parts besidesBreaking up the entry plan to focus on significant time periods.Each campus is different and has unique needs.Take actionHow to turn off the noise.Get the book here: buildleadershipmomentum.comBonuses: We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers’ timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Robert Feirsen and Dr. Seth Weitzman about their new book From Conflict to Collaboration: A School Leader’s Guide to Unleashing Conflict’s Problem-Solving Power.We talk about how to avoid conflict, the three A’s to approach conflict, and much more.About the GuestsDr. Robert Feirsen is currently an associate professor and coordinator of the Educational Leadership Program at Manhattanville College. Previously, he was assistant professor and chair of the Education Department at the New York Institute of Technology. A former SAANYS member, Dr. Feirsen enjoyed a distinguished career in P-12 schools. As a school building leader in Westchester and Nassau Counties, he served as an elementary school principal, a middle school assistant principal, and a middle school principal. At the central office level, he served as an assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, deputy superintendent, and superintendent of schools. Dr. Feirsen taught at the elementary, middle, and high school levels as a social studies and special education teacher in schools in New York City before moving into supervisory roles. Dr. Feirsen holds an Ed.D. from Fordham University. Dr. Feirsen’s research interests include addressing organizational conflict, the school principal-school counselor relationship, principal and teacher retention, the relationship between psychological ownership and professional learning, college readiness, and the applications of design thinking. His research and other articles have been published in a number of academic journals, as well as Educational Leadership and Education Week. Dr. Feirsen has led workshops at such venues as ASCD, the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), and the American Educational Research Association (AERA). With Seth Weitzman, he has presented at national and statewide conferences including ASCD, the New York State Council of School Superintendents (NYSCOSS), and the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (NYACTE). Seth Weitzman is also the co-author of From Conflict to Collaboration: A School Leader’s Guide to Unleashing Conflict’s Problem-Solving Power and How to Get the Teaching Job You Want.Dr. Seth Weitzman sat in a middle school principal’s chair for 27 years in Nassau and Westchester counties. Leadership positions included co-president of the Mamaroneck administrators’ union, president of the Nassau County, and later, the Westchester County Middle School Principals’ Association, and a New York State Middle-Level Liaison (a working group of principals representing every county and BOCES in New York State meeting with NYSED officials). Together with Dr. Robert Feirsen, he is the co-author of two books: How to Get the Teaching Job You Want and From Conflict to Collaboration: A School Leader’s Guide to Unleashing Conflict’s Problem-Solving Power. He is either author or co-author of a number of articles published in national education journals including Educational Leadership and American Middle-Level Education Magazine. Drs. Feirsen and Weitzman have presented in numerous professional association conferences at the county, state, and local levels (e.g. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, American Association of School Personnel Administrators, New York State Middle School Association, New York State Association of Teacher Educators) and graduate-level classes (Teachers College, Bank Street College of Education). He is currently Senior Instructor in the Mercy College Educational Leadership Department. His 40-year education career began teaching elementary school and middle school in Connecticut and New York City. He holds an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University. We’re thrilled to be sponsored by IXL. IXL’s comprehensive teaching and learning platform for math, language arts, science, and social studies is accelerating achievement in 95 of the top 100 U.S. school districts. Loved by teachers and backed by independent research from Johns Hopkins University, IXL can help you do the following and more:Simplify and streamline technologySave teachers’ timeReliably meet Tier 1 standardsImprove student performance on state assessments🚀 Ready to see why leading districts trust IXL for their educational needs? Visit IXL.com/BE today to learn more about how IXL can elevate your school or district.