On this week's episode, I speak with my former student Natasha Mieses about her experience attending a Christian university and completing an internship at a well-known megachurch.

Natasha graduated from Southeastern University in Lakeland, FL in 2022. She is currently working for a non-profit organization in central Florida.

On this week's episode, I speak with outstanding dignitary Mrs. Bernice Presley. Mrs. Presley is a lifelong educator with decades of experience and a love for helping children. In this episode, she shares about her decades of experience and gives profound words of wisdom and inspiration for the next generation of educators.

Mrs. Presley is based in Lake City, Florida. Even though she is officially retired from the classroom, she continues to help and inspire students and uplift her community through her tutoring programs, radio show, and podcast.

You can find her podcast here: https://hourofexcellence.com/

More about her tutoring programs: https://www.facebook.com/PresleyEXCELandScholarsProgramInc

You can email questions or comments on the show to: [email protected]

In this bonus content, Yvonne Dixon explains what she believes to be the major difference between teaching in the UK and teaching in the US.

On this episode, we continue our conversation with Nemahun Aminata, and we learn about the work she is doing in my native land of Sierra-Leone, West Africa, to raise up competent and equipped special education teachers capable of serving the needs of students with autism and other disabilities.

You can discover more about her project in Sierra-Leone here: https://help-global.online/

Nemahun has 20 years of experience teaching special education in Maryland, and she is currently teaching middle school math.

(IEP= Individualized Educational Plan)

Tune in next week for part 3, where I speak with the leader of a school in the UK that serves students on the autism spectrum.

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In part one of this three-part series on teaching students with disabilities, I spoke with Nemahun Aminata about working with students with disabilities and navigating the IEP process.

Nemahun has 20 years of experience teaching special education (SpEd) in Maryland, and she is currently teaching middle school math.

Tune in next week for part two where we discuss the important work she is doing training up SpEd teachers and advocating for students with disabilities in my native land of Sierra-Leone, West Africa.

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On this week's episode, I spoke with sisters Amaris and Sienna Hamilton-Grein about the pressures of juggling athletics with academics as a student-athletes. The sisters are currently in the 12th and 10th grades respectively and have played soccer competitively from a young age.

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In today's technologically advanced world of the Internet, Google, smartphones, audiobooks, and even AI, it would seem to some that the role of school librarian or media specialist is one that has become irrelevant over time. However, my guest on this episode refutes this notion and explains why we need school librarians now more than ever to ensure that all students have equitable access to information.

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On this week's episode, I spoke with Hawa Gabriel about the difference a school nurse can make in the lives of students and their families. We discuss the multifaceted role of a school nurse and the challenges that came with working in schools during Covid.

Hawa has years of experience in school nursing in both Massachusetts and New York.

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