Teaching Learning Leading K-12

Brian Gorman: Coaching, the Change Journey, and Being a Successful Leader. This is episode 555 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Through decades of experience in guiding organizations through change, Brian Gorman has learned that it isn't organizations that change. It's people. His understanding of the change journey and how to move through it has successfully served global corporations as well as solopreneurs and everything in between. One of the co-owners of the 4-Day Work Week trademark, Brian has a deep understanding of today's disrupted business environment and what is required to successfully lead into the future. 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 Awesome. 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? That would so awesome! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: https://go.oncehub.com/BrianGormanCoach https://transforminglives.coach/ https://do-beassociates.com/feed-podcast/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/briangorman07030/ https://www.facebook.com/TransformingLives.Coach https://twitter.com/TransfrmngCoach Qonversations: Powered by Quantuvos Business | Management | Careers Length - 46:25

Jennifer Serravallo: The Reading Strategies Book 2.0. This is episode 554 of my audio podcast Teaching Learning Leading K12. Jennifer Serravallo is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Reading Strategies Book and The Writing Strategies Book, which have been translated into Spanish, French, and Chinese. These and her other popular books and resources help teachers make goal-directed responsive strategy instruction, conferring, and small group work doable in every classroom. Her newest titles are The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, Teaching Writing in Small Groups, A Teacher’s Guide to Reading Conferences, Understanding Texts and Readers, and the assessment and teaching resource Complete Comprehension for Fiction and Nonfiction. Jen is a frequently invited speaker at national and regional conferences and travels throughout the US and Canada to provide full-day workshops and to work with teachers and students in classrooms. She is also an experienced online educator who regularly offers live webinar series and full-day online workshops. Jen began her career in education as an NYC public school teacher. Now as a consultant, she has spent the last fifteen+ years helping teachers across the country create literacy classrooms where students are joyfully engaged, and the instruction is meaningfully individualized to students' goals. Jen was also a member of Parents Magazine Board of Advisors for education and literacy.  Jen holds a BA from Vassar College and an MA from Teachers College, where she has also taught graduate and undergraduate classes. Today we are focused on her book The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 Awesome talk! 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 Awesome. 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? That would so awesome! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: https://www.jenniferserravallo.com/ https://twitter.com/jserravallo https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.serravallo https://www.instagram.com/jenniferserravallo/ @jenniferserravallo2633 - YouTube https://www.heinemann.com/jenniferserravallo/ https://www.jenniferserravallo.com/podcast Podcast - To The Classroom with Jennifer Serravallo https://www.heinemann.com/products/e13267.aspx Length - 41:28

Brad Sever talks about his book Sustainable Project-Based Learning: 5 Steps for Designing Authentic Classroom Experiences in Grades 5-12. This is episode 553 of my audio podcast Teaching Learning Leading K12. Brad Sever is an assistant principal at Carmel High School in Indiana. There, he has helped to create and sustain a successful instructional coaching program and grow the school’s International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. Brad is a national presenter, speaking on PBL, instructional coaching, and leadership. He has worked with more than 100 schools around the United States and Australia, providing professional development for charter, urban, rural, and suburban schools. He is also the author of the book, Sustainable Project-Based Learning, published by Solution Tree. 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 Awesome. 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? That would so awesome! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: https://www.solutiontree.com/authors/brad-sever.html https://solutiontree.com/ www.perseveranceeducation.com https://twitter.com/BradSever https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-sever-377a9917/ Length - 37:01

Theresa Melito-Conners, PhD: Dr. MC's Self-Care Cabaret. This is episode 552 of my audio podcast Teaching Learning Leading K12. Theresa Melito-Conners, PhD (Dr. MC) is the founder of Dr. MC’s Self-Care Cabaret, a suite of theatre-inspired self-care and professional development services for helping professionals. The Self-Care Cabaret encompasses workshops, a podcast, and educational curricula — focused on accessible, realistic strategies that equip and empower.  Dr. MC first recognized the need for such strategies in her early days as a special education administrator. She realized individuals in people-first, service-oriented roles often struggle with prioritizing self-care and work-life balance and lack resources.  Curious, Dr. MC pursued her PhD in educational leadership from Lesley University, homing in on self-care and renewal for helping professionals. In addition to her doctorate and published research, Theresa is a licensed K-12 counselor with a Master of Education in school counseling from Salem State University and a B.A. in theatre studies from Emerson College. Her true joy is bringing her scholarship, experience, and zest to audiences of all kinds nationwide.  Dr. MC has a growing social community @DrMCselfcare on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn and lives in Massachusetts. Great 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 Awesome. 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? That would so awesome! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: https://drmcselfcare.com/ https://drmcselfcare.com/the-podcast/ https://www.instagram.com/drmcselfcare/ https://www.facebook.com/DrMCselfcare/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/dr-mc-s-self-care-cabaret/ Length - 38:16

    J.P. Guilbault - Navigate360: Providing Safety Solutions for Schools. This is episode 551 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Over the last three decades, JP Guilbault has used data, technology and modern solutions to protect and advance causes for vulnerable and underserved communities. These efforts across schools, faith-based organizations and nonprofits have given JP the experience and perspective needed to address his most important mission: creating safe spaces that save lives. As chief executive officer and father of 5, JP leads with an unwavering belief in this simple truth: every child should be able to experience each school day without fear. His passionate team includes safety and education leaders, data scientists and analysts, dedicated customer experience professionals and others who ensure K-12 schools and the communities that support them have the expertise needed to build safe and supportive learning environments for students, teachers and staff. The unmatched strength of this multidisciplinary team, coupled with trend and sentiment data across the safety and wellness, protecting more than 14 million people annually. As the premier provider of safety solutions for schools, leading to enhanced student wellbeing. Navigate360’s programs and solutions work in close concert with each other to flag concerning, at-risk behavior, so that when seconds matter, steps to prevent or mitigate violent incidents can be implemented. Everything they do is focused on saving lives. Our focus today is on Navigate 360…    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 Awesome. 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? That would so awesome! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: https://navi360staging.wpengine.com/ https://twitter.com/Navigate360_ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu0zo_Jul5Cldkm36DDRdNw https://www.linkedin.com/company/navigate-360/ https://www.facebook.com/Navigate360safe/ Length - 34:27

Lesley Koplow Talks About Her Teddy Bear Circle Publications. This is episode 550 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Lesley Koplow is a clinical social worker, teacher and author who lives in New York City. She is the Director of Emotionally Responsive Practice at Bank Street College, founder of Networks for Schools That Heal and a psychotherapist in private practice.  Lesley is the author of several books including; Where Rag Dolls Hide Their Faces, The Way Home, Unsmiling Faces: How Preschools Can Heal, Creating Schools That Heal, Bears, Bears Everywhere: Supporting Children's Emotional Health in the Classroom, Tanya and the Tobo Man, Politics Aside; Our Children and Their Teachers in Score-Driven Times, and Emotionally Responsive Practice: A Path for Schools That Heal.  Lesley is also the author of two children’s series 1) A Story for Children in the Time of COVID…Lilah in the Land of the Littles, Jasmine’s Big Idea, and Wilson’s Wishes, and 2) Understanding Feelings in Community - Popcorn Comes to School: The Story of a Kitten in Kindergarten and Popcorn’s Lost and Found. You have previously appeared on  Episode 378 - Lilah in the Land of the Littles , Episode 414 - Jasmine’s Big Idea ,  Episode 460 - Wilson’s Wishes and Episode 516 - Popcorn Comes to School: The Story of a Kitten in Kindergarten.  Today we are focused on your publishing group - Teddy Bear Circle Publications. 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 Awesome. 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? That would so awesome! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: Home (schoolsthatheal.net) (30) Lesley Koplow LCSW | LinkedIn https://www.bankstreet.edu/about-bank-street/staff/lesley-koplow/ lkoplow@bankstreet.edu Episode 378 - Lilah in the Land of the Littles Episode 414 - Jasmine’s Big Idea Episode 460 - Wilson’s Wishes Episode 516 - Popcorn Comes to School https://www.amazon.com/Popcorn-Comes-School-Kitten-Kindergarten/dp/1088058663 https://books.apple.com/us/book/popcorn-comes-to-school/id6442927509 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/popcorn-comes-to-school-lesley-koplow/1141917866 koplowschoolsthatheal@gmail.com Length - 34:30

Scott Jeffrey Miller - Master Mentors: 30 Transformative Insights from our Greatest Minds, Volume 2. This is episode 549 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Capping a twenty-five-year career in which he served as chief marketing officer and executive vice president, Scott Miller currently serves as FranklinCovey's special advisor on thought leadership, leading the strategy, development, and publication of the firm’s bestselling books and thought leadership. Miller hosts the FranklinCovey-sponsored On Leadership with Scott Miller, the world’s largest and fastest-growing weekly leadership podcast, reaching more than six million people.  Miller also authors a leadership column for Inc.com, hosted the weekly iHeartRadio show Great Life, Great Career with Scott Miller, and hosts and moderates FranklinCovey’s Bookclub.com series with world-renowned authors. Miller is the author of the multivolume Mess to Success series, including Management Mess to Leadership Success:30 Challenges to Become the Leader You Would Follow, Marketing Mess to Brand Success: 30 Challenges to Transform Your Organization’s Brand (and Your Own). He is the coauthor of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller Everyone Deserves a Great Manager: The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team and the author of the Amazon #1 Bestseller Master Mentors: 30 Transformative Insights from Our Greatest Business Minds, which features insights from his interviews with the leading thinkers of our time, including Seth Godin, Susan Cain, General Stanley McChrystal, and many others. In addition to supporting FranklinCovey’s global thought leadership efforts, Miller has developed the ignite your genius™ coaching series to help leaders take their careers from accidental to deliberate. Prior to his roles as chief marketing officer and executive vice president of business development, Scott served as general manager and client partner in FranklinCovey’s Chicago and UK offices. As a highly sought-after speaker and podcast guest, he has presented to hundreds of audiences across every industry and loves to share his unique journey as an unfiltered leader thriving in today’s highly filtered corporate culture. Miller began his professional career in 1992 with the Disney Development Company (the real estate development division of Walt Disney Company) as a founding member of the development team that designed the town of Celebration, Florida. Miller and his wife live in Salt Lake City, Utah, with their three sons. 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 Awesome. 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? That would so awesome! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: https://www.scottjeffreymiller.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottmillerj1/ https://www.instagram.com/scottmillerj1/ https://twitter.com/scottmillerj1 https://www.facebook.com/scottmillerj1 https://resources.franklincovey.com/on-leadership-with-scott-miller https://www.amazon.com/Master-Mentors-Transformative-Insights-Greatest/dp/1400238900 Length - 40:56

Rebecca N. Dudovitz, MD & Dr. Dennis Johnston Talk About Connections Between Student Participation in AVID and Better Health Behaviors Among High School Students. This is episode 548 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Rebecca Dudovitz, MD, MSHS is an Associate Professor in General Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Dudovitz graduated from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in 2005 and completed her residency training in the UCLA Pediatric Community Health and Advocacy Training (CHAT) program in 2008. After residency, she served as a chief resident before entering a health services research fellowship through the UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program. Through the Clinical Scholars Program, she gained expertise in community based participatory research and received a master's degree in health services from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Following her fellowship training she joined the faculty in the division of General Pediatrics. In addition to seeing patients, she supervises resident physicians and medical students, and directs Health Services Research for the Department of Pediatrics. Her research focuses on school health and how academic achievement and school environments influence health behaviors. Dr. Dennis Johnston is responsible for overseeing AVID Center’s research agenda and coordinating evaluation efforts of the various components of the AVID College and Career Readiness System. Prior to joining AVID, Dr. Johnston served as Director of Assessment, Accountability and Research at the San Diego County Office of Education; was the Director of Assessment and Evaluation for the Grossmont Union High School District; the Senior Research Associate of the Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System; and was part-time faculty at the College of Education at Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania. Our focus today is a report titled, "The AVID program leads to lower substance use, better health behaviors among high school students, UCLA-led research suggests." What an awesome discussion! 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 Awesome. 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? That would so awesome! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: www.AVID.org https://www.k12dive.com/press-release/20221216-the-avid-program-leads-to-lower-substance-use-better-health-behaviors-amon/   Length - 41:10

Dan E. Hendrickson Shares His Adventure Novel - Brandy: Ballad of a Pirate Princess. This is episode 547 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Dan Hendrickson was born in Sheridan Wyoming in 1962 near the rustic Big Horn Mountain range to Carl and Helen Hendrickson. He went to school in the Sheridan School District graduating from Sheridan High School in 1981. He was an avid participant in boxing, martial arts, wrestling, and track. His father owned a small eight lane bowling alley that he ran until Dan was 12 years old. Carl also had a master’s degree in English and loved to write poetry and plays. Dan picked up on his father’s love for the written word and enrolled in Casper Community College in 1982 majoring in journalism. Although he found that he had an aptitude for investigative reporting, he decided that his interests were in other areas. He went on to do much volunteer Christian ministry work throughout the United States most of his adult life and continues to pursue those endeavors to this day. During that time, he gained another degree in Practical Theology. Throughout his many ministry assignments, he also worked several secular jobs. Some of his work experience includes law enforcement, security, emergency medical technician, and firefighting. He also helped run a Martial Arts School where he was a senior instructor. Most notable of his work experience is his auto detailing endeavors. He and his wife, Cheryl, have owned three different auto detailing businesses throughout the country, the last of which they still run to this day. This is my second visit with Dan…on episode 507 we talked about his novel - The Living Legend: A Last Enemy Prequel. Today we are talking about his adventure - Brandy - Ballad of a Pirate Princess. What a fun story! What an awesome 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 Awesome. 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? That would so awesome! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: https://danehendrickson.com/ https://www.instagram.com/dan.hendrickson/ https://twitter.com/danehendrickso1?lang=en https://stevenmiletto.com/507 Length - 32:03

Daniel Proffitt, Jason Clevinger, and Patrick Roberts - Teachers at Elizabethton High School in Elizabethton, Tennessee - Share with Jeff Ikler and Steve Miletto How They are Helping Students to be Curious. This is episode 546 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.   Daniel Proffitt -                I am a native of Elizabethton, where I have lived my entire life. I am married with two children and have spent 20 years as an educator.  I have never left this school system, having spent elementary through high school here, volunteering directly after high school, and finally landing my first and only teaching job with the school system.   Jason Clevinger-                I grew up in Virginia and now reside in Elizabethton with my wife and sons.  Teaching is my third career; initially I started in retail grocery and banking.  However, I was drawn to teaching because I found a passion there. I currently teach Computer Science Foundations and Extended Reality I and II.   Patrick Roberts -                I am an Art Teacher at Elizabethton High School in Tennessee. I was born and raised in Ocala, Florida where I attended Vanguard High School in Ocala. I attended college at University of West Florida in Pensacola Florida and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Later I attended Milligan University and received my Master of Education degree. I am married with 2 children.   Elizabethton High School is a four-year comprehensive high school in Elizabethton, Tennessee, a municipality of approximately 15,000. Elizabethton High School is one of 17 high schools in the United States that is a considered a XQ Super School. Elizabethton is the county seat of Carter County, a rural county with a population of 52,000. Carter County is located in the northeast corner of the state, on the western edge of the Appalachian Mountains and lying only a few miles south of a tri-cities, metropolitan five-county area of approximately 432,000 people within a 75-mile radius. Elizabethton High School has an enrollment of 860 students in grades 9-12. The senior class enrollment is 200. Jeff Ikler is the host of the podcast Getting Unstuck - Cultivating Curiosity Awesome conversation! Inspiring... 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 Awesome. 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? That would so awesome! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Length - 01:02:15