Mindy Rannow-Kurkowsky sits down with Wade and Mary to talk about how her graduate classes, her students, and her coworkers pushed her to start thinking about equity in her classes.  Mindy has been an NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) Instructor for years, so she is used to teaching with a multi-faceted approach, but now she is giving students the opportunity to come at their assignments with options. 

Lyndsay Ampe joins Wade and Mary to talk about the successes and challenges of being a new instructor at Ridgewater College.  She talks about the challenges during those first few years, and she also addresses the opportunities for growth and change.  She shares some of the ways that teaching during COVID has impacted her classrooms as we come back to teaching in person.

In this first episode, Wade and Mary chat about what drew them to this project of a podcast, well… a video/podcast… and their hopes and dreams for said pod/vid/cast. They introduce themselves for the audience and talk a bit about upcoming episodes. Tune in…. before they become famous…