NHASCD Spotlight: A Podcast

Suicide is a topic shrouded with fear and misunderstanding, especially regarding school-aged children. Sara Gould is from “Connor’s Climb,” an organization with a mission to provide suicide prevention education to New Hampshire youth and the community.

ABOUT SARA GOULD

Sarah has worked for 15 years in the mental health field. She’s a certified youth mental health first aid trainer and formally a school counselor. One of her specialties is suicide training, and Sarah has been at the forefront of creating, revising, and implementing suicide prevention policies and procedures. Sarah is currently the Training & Program Coordinator for *Connor’s Climb*.

Links and show notes

Connor’s Climb website

Link to donate to Connor’s Climb

The Lifeline and 9-8-8

Words Matter-Speaking about suicide

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Register for the Jim Knight Conference on January 26, 2023

NHASCD website

Email Sarah Gould

Email Bill Carozza

Join us for this conversation with Sean Slade and Victoria Rodrigue from BTS-Spark, a leading professional learning organization for school leaders. They address the real challenges of leadership and develop thoughtful, purposeful, and effective leaders at all levels of school personnel - directly impacting student success. NHASCD is proud to partner this year with BTS-Spark.

ABOUT OUR GUESTS

Sean Slade

Sean is an education leader, speaker and author, with nearly three decades of experience in education, both in the US and globally. With a strong background in education reform and wellbeing, he has driven policy change, implemented initiatives, and developed educational leaders, to enhance the social impact of education. As Senior Director of Global Outreach at ASCD, Sean launched and grew the ASCD Whole Child Network to 1,800 members, 350 school districts, and 56 countries. He is also a Social & Emotional Learning expert for NBC Today, advisory member for OECD’s Future of Education & Skills 2030, and a founding member of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health & Education. He has written for the Washington Post, Huffington Post, EdWeek, and is a frequent keynote speaker.

Victoria Rodrigue

Victoria started teaching in Austria on a Fulbright fellowship before building her education career in the San Francisco bay area. She was a member of the founding administrative team that opened Basis Independent Silicon Valley in San Jose, and she went on to serve as principal at Meira Academy in Palo Alto. She brings several years of experience coaching teachers as well as co-founding a principals’ support group. For the last five years, she has served as an accrediting member of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

LINKS AND SHOW NOTES

Receive 10% off any BTS coaching until the end of the year by emailing [email protected].

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BTS Spark website

Messy School Leadership

ASCD

ASCD and the Whole Child Approach

Jim Knight

Register for Jim Knight on January 26, 2023

NHASCD

Email Victoria: [email protected]

Email Sean: [email protected]

Email Bill Carozza: [email protected]

Join us for a rich discussion with literacy expert Liz Cannon.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Elizabeth (Liz) Cannon was born and raised in the Granite State and graduated with a Master's Degree from UNH. She was an elementary classroom teacher in the Deerfield School District, taught in California for a year, and is currently a Reading and Writing Specialist at the Harold Martin School in Hopkinton, NH. Liz was honored this year as the recipient of the Christa McAuliffe Sabbatical and is dedicating her work to supporting teachers in the critical task of teaching young children how to read.

Show notes

email Liz Cannon - [email protected]

Literacy Leaders NH Facebook page

Literacy Leaders NH Blog

Literacy Leaders NH website  (the website also has links to all the social media pages and well as a link to the MailChimp sign-up to get regular updates sent to your email)

IDA-NNEA (used to be IDA-NH): https://nhdyslexiaida.org/

The Reading League: https://www.thereadingleague.org/

ILA: https://www.literacyworldwide.org/

The Science of Reading podcast: https://amplify.com/science-of-reading-the-podcast/

- You can also find it wherever you listen to podcasts (Apple, Spotify, Google, etc.)

Join us for this rich conversation with Diane Sweeney, instructional coach authority, on the particular focus of student-centered coaching.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Diane Sweeney has been an author and educational consultant since 1999. She is the author of several books on student-centered coaching, published by Corwin, including her latest Moves for Launching a New Year of Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2022), Student-Centered Coaching from a Distance (Corwin, 2021), The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2020), Leading Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2018), Student-Centered Coaching: The Moves (Corwin, 2016), and more. Diane holds a longstanding interest in how adult learning translates to learning in the classroom. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Denver and a Master’s in Bilingual and Multicultural Education from the University of Colorado, Boulder. After teaching and coaching in the Denver Public Schools, Diane served as a program officer at the Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC) in Denver. Since then, she has become a respected voice in coaching and professional development.

Show notes

Diane Sweeney Coaching

Diane’s books

Diane’s Facebook Group

Diane’s YouTube Channel

Jim Knight Conference, January 26, 2023

Simon Sinek

Join us for this conversation with Richella Simard, Art Teacher at Manchester West High School in Manchester, NH, and Anna Barret, a Paraeducator at Souhegan High School in Amherst, NH. Both are advisors for “GSAs” or Gay-Straight Alliances. We talk about the challenges and successes of this venture across their two schools. NHASCD President Steve Lebel joins us as co-host.

LINKS AND SHOW NOTES

Pflag

GSA

GLSEN

What I Wish Parents Would Do When Their Kid Comes Out

A google form to order a welcoming sticker for businesses and schools: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTxQoRlxiYMsm7G8D4WeJGBH5ftFTGurE5-ICOWVKz9Aa1-g/viewform?usp=sf_link

Richella Simard: [email protected]

Anna Barrett: [email protected]

Join us for this conversation with Dr. Thomas Hoerr to discover new perspectives on leading with empathy. Tom is speaking as a part of our NHASCD/NHASP conference series on October 18. Register at nhascd.org.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Tom Hoerr is one of the best-known voices in school leadership. Tom retired after leading the New City School in St. Louis, Missouri, for 34 years and is now the Emeritus Head of School. He is currently a Scholar In Residence at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) and teaches in the Educational Leadership program, preparing prospective principals. Hoerr has written several books, including “The Principal as Chief Empathy Officer.” He has written more than 150 articles, including “The Principal Connection” column in Educational Leadership Magazine from 2004 to 2017.

LINKS AND SHOW NOTES

The Principal as Chief Empathy Officer: Creating a Culture Where Everyone Grows

Why Surveys Are a Key School Leadership Tool

Leading With Empathy conference, October 18, 2022.

NHASCD website

Link to NHASCD Conference Series

Join us for this conversation with Chase Mielke and learn how educators can deal with teacher and administrator burnout. There’s lots of hope in this chat!

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Chase Mielke is an award-winning educator, writer, and speaker focusing on preventing teacher burnout and increasing student engagement. As an engaging, nationally recognized speaker, he has traveled across the nation and world to speak with students and educators on topics of resilience, mindset, applied neuroscience, and positive psychology.

In addition to modeling excellence as an educator, he is the best-selling author of The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again.

His writing has been featured on Educational Leadership, WeAreTeachers, Huffpost, Edutopia, and EdPost. His viral blog and video “What Students Really Need to Hear” has been viewed millions of times worldwide to motivate students. He has been awarded multiple honors, including a Michigan Teacher of the Year nominee and an Allegan County “Outstanding People for Education” recipient.

LINKS AND SHOW NOTES

The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again

Overcoming Educator Burnout: Quick Reference Guide

Chase’s Speaking Information

Virtual Course

Chase’s Website

Teach FX

NHASCD website

Link to NHASCD Conference Series

Jen Schwanke, education leader and author, shares thoughts on how educational leaders can support their teachers and encourage practices that lead to the best outcomes for students.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Jen Schwanke has been an educator for 24 years, teaching or leading at all levels.  She is the author of two previous books: You’re the Principal! Now What? Strategies and Solutions for New School Leaders and The Principal Reboot: 8 Ways to Revitalize Your School Leadership. She has also written for Choice Literacy, Education Week Teacher, Principal, and Principal Navigator. She is a frequent co-host and contributor to Principal Matters: The School Leader’s Podcast. She presents at conferences for ASCD, NAESP, Battelle for Kids, RRCNA, and various state and local education organizations. She has provided professional development to various districts in the areas of school climate, personnel, and instructional leadership. She is an instructor in educational administration at Miami University. Having worked as a principal for 17 years, she is currently serving as a deputy superintendent in Dublin, Ohio.  More information can be found on her website, www.jenschwanke.com.  You can preorder her book at ASCD

Join us for a conversation with Allison Rodman to hear how she supports individuals and organizations with designing and facilitating professional learning that is personalized, purposeful, and paradigm-shifting.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Allison Rodman is the Founder and Chief Learning Officer of The Learning Loop, an educational consulting organization that provides professional learning services to districts, schools, nonprofit organizations, and businesses internationally.

Allison has experience as a teacher, instructional coach, school leader, director of professional development, board member, and consultant, which enables her to understand a wide variety of perspectives in her professional learning design and facilitation. She is an executive committee member of PhillyCORE Leaders, a diverse coalition of rising education leaders whose mission is to build a more positive and collaborative education community by connecting leaders who are making an impact on Philadelphia education.

You can reach Allison, learn more about her work, and access tools and resources she has developed at https://www.thelearningloop.com/

Personalized Professional Learning: A Job-Embedded Pathway for Elevating Teacher Voice is available from ASCD,  Amazon, and other online booksellers.

Listen to Steve Ventura share the background of Achievement Teams and the four-step meeting protocol. 

This framework provides a structure for teachers to accurately reflect on teaching between pre/post assessments while identifying areas of student needs. Next, teams decide on the very best instructional approaches to address those needs. When schools and school systems de-emphasize individual practice and promote collective ability, teams of educators continuously reflect on and improve their practice, and as a result, have a greater impact on student learning.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Steve Ventura is a highly motivational and knowledgeable speaker who approaches high-stakes professional development armed with practical, research-based strategies. He is a former elementary and secondary teacher and has worked as both a school and a district-level administrator.

He has published multiple books and articles and regularly presents and keynotes at global education events. He is passionate about helping school-based leaders instill a culture grounded in collective teacher efficacy through his flagship work, Achievement Teams. Through this collaborative work, Ventura has helped countless educators improve their teaching practices. You can learn more about Steve’s work and contact him at https://www.steveventura.com/.

The Venturas' book, Achievement Teams: How a Better Approach to PLCs Can Improve Student Outcomes and Teacher Efficacy, can be purchased through ASCD and other online book companies.