Teaching Learning Leading K-12

A.J. Crabill - Great on Their Behalf: Why School Boards Fail, How Yours Can Become Effective. This is episode 571 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Improving student outcomes is Airick Journey (A.J.) Crabill’s relentless focus. He currently serves as the Conservator at DeSoto, Texas, Independent School District. During his guidance, DeSoto made double digit literacy gains and improved from having F ratings in areas of academics, finance, and governance to the district earning B ratings. He’s also Faculty at the Leadership Institution of Nevada; Collaborator with the Effective School Boards Initiative; and National Director of Governance at the Council of the Great City Schools in Washington, DC. He served as Deputy Commissioner at the Texas Education Agency, and he spearheaded reforms as board chair of Kansas City (MO) Public Schools that doubled the percentage of students who are literate and numerate and eventually led KCPS to full accreditation for the first time in decades. Crabill received the Education Commission of the State's James Bryant Conant Award, which recognizes extraordinary individual contributions to education. Our focus today is on AJ's book Great on Their Behalf: Why School Boards Fail, How Yours Can Become Effective. Before you go... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on, and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be so cool. Thanks! If you are listening on Apple Podcasts on your phone, go to the logo - click so that you are on the main page with a listing of the episodes for my podcast and scroll to the bottom. There you will see a place to rate and review. Could you review me? That would be so cool. Thank you! Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: https://www.ajc7.com/ https://www.greatontheirbehalf.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ajcrabill/ https://twitter.com/ajcrabill7/ https://www.instagram.com/ajcrabill7/ https://www.pinterest.com/ajcrabill/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajcrabill/ https://www.youtube.com/AJCrabill Length - 47:54

Kristy Topalovich & Scott Sevey: Roosevelt Community Education Center, Project Based Learning, and the Vernier Science Education 40th Anniversary Grant. This is episode 570 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Kristy Topalovich is a science teacher and science Curriculum Implementation Leader at Roosevelt Community Education Center in Rockford, IL. With 14 years of experience in education, Kristy has worked as a science teacher in a traditional secondary education setting, community college setting, and an alternative education setting.  Having a background in chemistry and having worked in industry and different levels of education, gives Kristy a unique perspective on making connections between traditional science skill development, lifelong learning skills, and a mastery-learning experience for her students. In her current role at Roosevelt, Kristy is focusing on the use of Project-Based learning and hands-on learning experiences to teach important concepts with a lens of relevance to student's lives and interests beyond high school. She was awarded for this ongoing work with a 40th Anniversary Grant from Vernier Science Education.     Scott Sevey is the College & Career Academy Coach at Roosevelt Community Education Center in Rockford, IL. With 16 years of experience in education, Scott has served in both private and public education systems. His background in school counseling, volunteer service in higher ed board leadership, and experience in the business world give him a unique perspective on the integration between learning and doing. In his current role, Scott oversaw the implementation of the College & Career Academy Model of RPS 205 within the context of his school. A model that is characterized by students learning in Small Learning Communities that are specifically oriented to students’ career interests that help students connect what they learn with the workplace. What an awesome discussion! So much to learn and think about! Before you go... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on, and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be so cool. Thanks! If you are listening on Apple Podcasts on your phone, go to the logo - click so that you are on the main page with a listing of the episodes for my podcast and scroll to the bottom. There you will see a place to rate and review. Could you review me? That would be so cool. Thank you! Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: Kristy.Topalovich@rps205.com Scott.Sevey@rps205.com https://roosevelt.rps205.com/ Length - 01:00:44

Jann Freed, PhD - Breadcrumb Legacy: How Great Leaders Live a Life Worth Remembering. This is episode 569 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Jann Freed, PhD is author of the new book "Breadcrumb Legacy: How Great Leaders Live a Life Worth Remembering," just published by Routledge. Based on in-depth interviews with leaders in business and non-business areas, Jann's book serves as a guide to leaving "a trail of meaning throughout your life and career." Its inspirational and practical stories highlight how to live a life worth remembering. Reviewers so far have applauded both its accessible writing style and insightful revelations. A leading development consultant and previously published author, Jann helps engage her client companies' employees as well as develop their leaders so as to support achievement of individual potential on a daily basis. Like a human GPS, Jann helps organizations and individuals get from where they are to today where they want to be in the future, at every age and stage of life. Our focus today will be Jann's book - Breadcrumb Legacy: How Great Leaders Live a Life Worth Remembering. So much to learn and think about! Before you go... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on, and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be so cool. Thanks! If you are listening on Apple Podcasts on your phone, go to the logo - click so that you are on the main page with a listing of the episodes for my podcast and scroll to the bottom. There you will see a place to rate and review. Could you review me? That would be so cool. Thank you! Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: https://jannfreed.com/ https://www.facebook.com/jann.freed.9 https://twitter.com/JannFreed https://www.linkedin.com/in/jannfreed/ Length - 43:43

Eric Beans: CEO of HAPPHI - A.I., Technology, and Being an Entrepreneur. This is episode 568 of Teaching Learning Leading k12, an audio podcast. Eric Beans is the former CEO of Texting Base and current CEO of HAPPhi (pronounce any way you want). Eric has been in tech since 1996 and an entrepreneur since 2005. Outside of business, Eric is an author, a music producer, an inventor with multiple patents, and a proud husband and father.   This was fun! So much to learn and think about! Before you go... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on, and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be so cool. Thanks! If you are listening on Apple Podcasts on your phone, go to the logo - click so that you are on the main page with a listing of the episodes for my podcast and scroll to the bottom. There you will see a place to rate and review. Could you review me? That would be so cool. Thank you! Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: https://www.happhi.com/ Length - 46:28

Katherine Marsh - The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine. This is episode 567 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.  Katherine Marsh is an award-winning author of novels for middle-grade readers including The Lost Year; Nowhere Boy, winner of the Middle East Book Award; The Night Tourist, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery; Jepp, Who Defied the Stars, a New York Times Notable; and The Door By The Staircase, a Junior Library Guild selection. Katherine grew up in Yonkers, New York in the home of her Ukrainian grandma who taught her to love stories and borscht. A former journalist and managing editor of The New Republic, Katherine lives in Washington, DC with her husband, two children and an astonishing array of pets. Awesome talk! Lots to learn... Before you go... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on, and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be so cool. Thanks! If you are listening on Apple Podcasts on your phone, go to the logo - click so that you are on the main page with a listing of the episodes for my podcast and scroll to the bottom. There you will see a place to rate and review. Could you review me? That would be so cool. Thank you! Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: nighttourist@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/katherinemarshauthor/ https://twitter.com/MarshKatherine https://www.facebook.com/katherinemarshauthor Length - 42:27

Joe Dockery: Arts & Media Educator - Real World Projects Through Community Partnerships. This is episode 566 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. A frontline classroom arts and media educator. A professional development leader. An author and frequent conference presenter. Joe Dockery makes sure his students work on real world projects through partnerships he's developed with local businesses and organizations throughout the Snoqualmie Valley in Washington state. He's an Adobe Education Leader and has inspired educators coast to coast as they integrate technology tools and resources into the arts and media curriculum. He's received the Washington State Golden Apple Award, Radio Shack's Technology Teacher of the Year Award, both the "Best of the Best' and "Making IT Happen" awards from ISTE, and the Adobe Education Leader "Impact" Award. What a cool discussion! Lots to learn... Before you go... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on, and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be so cool. Thanks! If you are listening on Apple Podcasts on your phone, go to the logo - click so that you are on the main page with a listing of the episodes for my podcast and scroll to the bottom. There you will see a place to rate and review. Could you review me? That would be so cool. Thank you! Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: https://jdockery.weebly.com/ dockeryj@svsd410.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-dockery-24056b8/ Length - 41:28

Jimmy Casas - Recalibrate the Culture: Our Work - Our Why - Our Values. This is episode 565 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Jimmy Casas has been an educator for over 30 years, serving twenty-two years as a school leader, including fourteen years as Principal at Bettendorf High School. Under his leadership, Bettendorf was named one of the Best High Schools in the country three times by Newsweek and US News & World Report. Jimmy was named the 2012 Iowa Secondary Principal of the Year and was selected as runner-up NASSP 2013 National Secondary Principal of the Year. In 2014, Jimmy was invited to the White House to speak on the Future Ready Schools pledge. Jimmy is also the author of nine books, including the best-selling books Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes, Live Your Excellence: Bring Your Best Self to School Every Day, and Handle with Care: Managing Difficult Situations in Schools with Dignity and Respect. Jimmy’s newest release, Recalibrate the Culture, is already a top-selling book on Amazon. Jimmy is the owner and CEO of J Casas & Associates, where he serves as a professional leadership coach for school leaders across the country. In January 2020, Jimmy launched ConnectEDD, a publishing company aimed at giving back to the profession by supporting educators to become published authors.  We will be looking at his book Recalibrate the Culture: Our Work, Our Why, Our Values. Lots to learn... Before you go... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on, and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be so cool. Thanks! If you are listening on Apple Podcasts on your phone, go to the logo - click so that you are on the main page with a listing of the episodes for my podcast and scroll to the bottom. There you will see a place to rate and review. Could you review me? That would be so cool. Thank you! Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: https://www.jimmycasas.com/ @jcasasandassociates7860 - youtube https://www.facebook.com/JCasasandAssociates/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmy-casas-bb863432/ https://www.instagram.com/casas_jimmy/ https://twitter.com/casas_jimmy/ Length - 56:54

Chad Lewis - Director of Technology at Tampa Preparatory School: VR, AR, Spatial Computing, and Technology in Kids' Lives. This is episode 564 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Chad Lewis has been the Director of Technology at Tampa Preparatory School in Tampa, Florida since August 2010.  He oversees all facets of technology at the school, from network infrastructure and security to educational technology and training.  Lewis was also responsible for the school’s 1:1 iPad initiative; he designed and supervised the implementation of Tampa Prep’s Active Learning Environment (ALEs) classroom design; and he created the IDEA (Innovate, Design, Explore, Apply) Lab, which was one of the first secondary VR creation labs in the nation.  In 2016, Lewis won the Tampa Bay Business Journal's Nonprofit CIO of the Year Award and the Tampa Bay Technology Forum’s Industry Achievement Award for Technologist of the Year. Tampa Prep was recognized as an Apple Distinguished School for two consecutive years under his leadership. Today, we are talking about VR, AR, Spatial Computing, and Technology in Kids' Lives. Before you go... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on, and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be so cool. Thanks! If you are listening on Apple Podcasts on your phone, go to the logo - click so that you are on the main page with a listing of the episodes for my podcast and scroll to the bottom. There you will see a place to rate and review. Could you review me? That would be so cool. Thank you! Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: https://blog.tampaprep.org/author/chad-lewis-director-of-technology https://www.facebook.com/tampaprep/ https://www.instagram.com/tampa_prep/ https://twitter.com/TampaPrep Length - 44:14 

Brenden Kumarasamy: MasterTalk - Becoming a Better Communicator. This is episode 563 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Brenden is the founder of MasterTalk, he coaches ambitious executives & entrepreneurs to become top 1% communicators in their industry. He also has a popular YouTube channel called MasterTalk, with the goal of providing free access to communication tools for everyone in the world. So much to learn. You will love this conversation! Before you go... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on, and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be so cool. Thanks! If you are listening on Apple Podcasts on your phone, go to the logo - click so that you are on the main page with a listing of the episodes for my podcast and scroll to the bottom. There you will see a place to rate and review. Could you review me? That would be so cool. Thank you! Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: https://www.rockstarcommunicator.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/MasterTalks https://www.facebook.com/mastertalkyt https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendenkumarasamy/ https://www.instagram.com/masteryourtalk/ Length - 33:41

    Todd Whitaker: Educator, Speaker, Author, & Idea Generator - Climate, Culture, Motivation, AI, & More. This is episode 562 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Dr. Todd Whitaker has been fortunate to be able to blend his passion with his career. Recognized as a leading presenter in the field of education, his message about the importance of teaching has resonated with hundreds of thousands of educators around the world.  Todd is a professor of educational leadership at the University of Missouri and professor emeritus at Indiana State University. He has spent his life pursuing his love of education by researching and studying effective teachers and principals. Prior to moving into higher education he was a math teacher and basketball coach in Missouri. Todd then served as a principal at the middle school, junior high, and high school levels. He was also a middle school coordinator in charge of staffing, curriculum, and technology for the opening of new middle schools. One of the nation’s leading authorities on staff motivation, teacher leadership, and principal effectiveness, Todd has written over 60 books including the national best seller, What Great Teachers Do Differently. Other titles include: Dealing With Difficult Teachers, Ten-Minute Inservice, Your First Year, What Great Principals Do Differently, Motivating & Inspiring Teachers, and Dealing With Difficult Parents. Todd is married to Beth, also a former teacher and principal, who is currently a faculty member of educational leadership at the University of Missouri and professor emeritus at Indiana State University. They are the parents of three children: Katherine, Madeline, and Harrison. Awesome conversation! So much to learn. Before you go... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on, and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be so cool. Thanks! If you are listening on Apple Podcasts on your phone, go to the logo - click so that you are on the main page with a listing of the episodes for my podcast and scroll to the bottom. There you will see a place to rate and review. Could you review me? That would be so cool. Thank you! Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: http://www.toddwhitaker.com 218C Hill Hall University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65201 Email: t-whitaker@indstate.edu https://www.amazon.com/Todd-Whitaker/e/B0045AYYBC https://twitter.com/ToddWhitaker https://www.instagram.com/toddwhitaker1/ http://www.toddwhitaker.com/publications.php Length - 56:54