Join the brilliant M. Colleen Cruz as she illuminates why mistakes are not the problem but part of learning.  Colleen’s most recent book, Risk. Fail. Rise.: A Teacher's Guide to Learning from Mistakes offers strategies for exploring why mistakes happen and how we can destigmatize mistake-making to encourage a risk-taking learning culture.

Thank you to Colleen and bookshop.org, who are so generous in offering a 10% off PROMO CODE (RISK10) for Risk.Fail.Rise.: A Teacher’s Guide to Learning from Mistakes.

Episode Mentions:

• Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul
• Kathryn Schulz 
• Eduardo Briceño     
• Restorative Justice
• Arlène(Elizabeth) Casimir    
• UDL (Universal Design for Learning) 
• Akasegawa Genpei 
• Thomasson & Hyperart
• De’Andre Arnold    
• Disability Spread
• Gloria Ladson-Billings
• Mariame Kaba
• Nilofer Merchant
• AJ Crabill
• Maxine Greene
• The Millionaire’s Magician
• James Howe

Connect and Learn with Colleen:

• on her website 
• on  Twitter     
• on  Instagram
• on Threads
• on  LinkedIn

When teachers, coaches, administrators, and families grow together, schools change. Students get engaged, get support, and get the chance to thrive. 

Rebekah Macden is a globally-renowned international educator, consultant, speaker, and coach. In this episode, she offers listeners an overview of Maracujá, her co-created, character-driven SEL program that continues to have a life-changing impact on thousands of students in schools around the globe. Listeners will leave inspired by Rebekah’s commitment to students feeling safe within their authentic selves in an environment where relationships are prioritized.

Episode Mentions:

• Lisa Nichols Companies (Rebekah is a Speaker Advocate Coach)
• Tricia Friedman (Be a Better Ally Podcast - E91: Advance the Agenda of Joy with Rebekah Macden)
• Taylor Swift Accepts The 2023 iHeartRadio Innovator Award

Connect and Learn with Rebekah:

• at her website 
• on Twitter (@rebekahmacden)
• on Instagram (@rebekahmacden)
• on Facebook (@macdenr)
• on LinkedIn

When teachers, coaches, administrators, and families grow together, schools change. Students get engaged, get support, and get the chance to thrive. 

Jennifer Serravallo shares what inspired her to publish her most recent book, The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, and launch her ground-breaking literacy podcast for educators, To the Classroom.  With each episode, Jen interviews leading researchers and scholars, seeking answers to all things literacy, and then processes the research with colleagues, leaning on the question, “How will we take what we’ve learned to the classroom?”  

Episode Mentions:

• Maryanne Wolf 
• Wiley Blevins 
• Dr. Melanie Kuhn
• Dr. Peter Afflerbach
• Academic Intervention Services (AIS) & Response to Intervention (RtI)
• The Literacy Strategies Community
• Dr. Daniel Willingham
• HyeJin Hwang

Jen’s Current Podcast Playlist:

• Triple R Teaching
• Science of Reading: The Podcast
• Code Switch
• Fresh Air
• Have You Heard
• Nice White Parents
• So Many White Guys
• The Splendid Table
• The Yarn
• This American Life
• Bone Valley

Connect and Learn with Jen:

• on her website & To the Classroom Podcast (Spotify & Apple Podcasts)
• on Twitter (@JSerravallo)
• on Instagram
• on Facebook

When teachers, coaches, administrators, and families grow together, schools change. Students get engaged, get support, and get the chance to thrive. 

Change is a journey and can be complex. Matt Renwick inspires listeners with his article:7 Questions I Ask Myself When Working with Educators Resistant to Change (derived from his book, Leading Like a C.O.A.C.H.: 5 Strategies for Supporting Teaching and Learning). Matt's authentic approach and questions get to the heart of knowing each educator deeply for who they are both in and out of their classrooms.  

Episode Mentions:

• Matt's school -  Mineral Point Elementary School (Wisconsin)
• Cognitive Coaching: Developing Self-Directed Leaders and Learners (Christopher-Gordon New Editions) 3rd Edition by Arthur L. Costa
• Regie Routman - Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success (2014)
• Micki Uppena Mineral Point Elementary School  (Librarian)
• The Marshall Memo 
• Heather Fisher
• Jennifer Garvey Berger

Matt's Publications:

• 7 Questions I Ask Myself When Working with Educators Resistant to Change (February 2023)
• Leading LIke a C.O.A.C.H.: 5 Strategies for Supporting Teaching and Learning (2022)
• Classroom Libraries: Who Owns the Reading? (WSRA Journal, 2019)
• Busting Myths, Telling Truths (Language Magazine, January 2018)
• Digital Portfolios in the Classroom: Showcasing and Assessing Student Work (2017)
• Five Myths About Classroom Technology: How do we integrate digital tools to truly enhance learning? (ASCD Arias) (2015)

Connect and Learn with Matt:

• on his website & newsletter
• on Twitter (@ReadByExample)
• on LinkedIn

When teachers, coaches, administrators, and families grow together, schools change. Students get engaged, get support, and get the chance to thrive. 

Sara Bradford is an autistic woman ​and advocate. She ​is a member of the Autism Council ​of Utah and also the owner of the SJ Childs LLC Facebook ​Autism Advocate Support Group. ​In this episode, Sara shares her experience and perspective as a mother and partner to her ​husband and children, who are all on the ​autism spectrum. She is a global ​autism speaker and the ​podcast host of The SJ Childs Show. Sara offers resources and shares advice for caregivers and educators regarding autism awareness and advocacy.  

Episode Mentions:

• The SJ Childs Show
• Autism Council of Utah
• SJ Childs, LLC Facebook Autism Advocate Support Group
• Autism Society of America
• The Global Autism Project
• Dr. Barry M. Prizant - Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism
• Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism 
• Infinite Learning Academy
• Vela Education Fund 
• employU
• Neurodiverse Learning Retreat 
• Utah Afterschool Network - UAN I Am Project 

Get in touch and learn with Sara (aka S.J. Childs) via linkfly

When teachers, coaches, administrators, and families grow together, schools change. Students get engaged, get support, and get the chance to thrive. 

A.J. Crabill lives by his mantra: "Student outcomes don't change until adult behaviors change." In this episode, A.J. explains why changing adult behaviors (especially regarding school boards) requires new mindsets, knowledge, and skills. His latest book, Great on Their Behalf: Why School Boards Fail, How Yours Can Be Effective, provides a step-by-step guide to transforming student outcomes through the transformation of adult mindsets, knowledge, and skills -- starting with our own.

Episode Mentions:

• Pamela "Mama" Dawson - Choir Director at DeSoto High School (just won a Grammy) 
• Mrs. Murphy (A.J.'s Economics Teacher)
• Document for Coding Board Minutes 

A.J.'s Recommendations:

• Learn more about the book or get it: http://www.GreatOnTheirBehalf.com
• Read a preview of the book: http://tinyurl.com/Great-On-Their-Behalf-sample

Get in touch and learn with A.J.:

• via Website & Blog
• on Twitter
• on Instagram
• on Facebook
• on Pinterest
• on YouTube
• on LinkedIn
• on Vimeo
• on Goodreads

When teachers, coaches, administrators, and families grow together, schools change. Students get engaged, get support, and get the chance to thrive. 

Chief of Operations and Lead Writer for Two Writing Teachers, Stacey Shubitz, and Two Writing Teachers Co-Author, Melanie Meehan share beliefs, practices, and research around the benefits of teaching writing through a workshop approach.    Stacey and Melanie also shine as authors of groundbreaking professional books and co-hosts of the Two Writing Teachers Podcast! 

Episode Mentions: 

• Stacey’s Publications
• Melanie’s Books & Resources
• Katie Egan Cunningham 
• Carol Snook
• Ron Berger 4Ts
• Allison Zmuda - Roles of the Teacher
• Donald Graves
• Frank Smith (Psycholinguist)
• Steve Graham (A Meta-Analysis of Writing Instruction for Students in the Elementary Grades)
• The Literacy Studio by Ellin Oliver Keene 
• The Literacy Workshop by Maria Walther & Karen Biggs-Tucker
• The College Essay Is Dead by Stephen Marche 
• ChatGPT & Education Slide Deck by Dr. Torrey Trust
• ChatGPT may doom high school English classes like mine. Maybe that’s not so bad by Ben Berman 

Connect with Stacey & Melanie via:

• Websites: Stacey & Melanie
• Twitter: Stacey & Melanie
• Facebook: Stacey & Melanie
• Instagram: Stacey & Melanie
• Pinterest: Stacey & Melanie
• LinkedIn: Stacey & Melanie 

When teachers, coaches, administrators, and families grow together, schools change. Students get engaged, get support, and get the chance to thrive. 

Try out my new SpeakPipe widget! Leave a voice memo about a Schoolutions episode that has inspired you or a PK-12 public education issue/solution. Make sure to let me know your role or connection with public education.  

Here’s to continuing to find inspiration together! 

Connect with Schoolutions Podcast:

• via my Website
• via SpeakPipe
• on Twitter
• on Facebook
• on Instagram
• on Threads
• on LinkedIn

When teachers, coaches, administrators, and families grow together, schools change. Students get engaged, get support, and get the chance to thrive. 

Innovative thought partners Kate and Maggie Roberts share their newest venture to put professional learning back into teachers’ hands via The Content Shop.   They offer simple, practical, and bite-sized tools to optimize our teaching.

 Episode Mentions: 

• The Content Shop
  • Membership Options
• Greg Michie (Twitter) & (Facebook)
• Gail Dahling-Hench 
• Falling in Love with Close Reading: Lessons for Analyzing Texts--and Life by Christopher Lehman & Kate Roberts (2013)
• DIY Literacy: Teaching Tools for Differentiation, Rigor, and Independenceby Kate Roberts & Maggie Beattie Roberts (2016)
• A Novel Approach: Whole-Class Novels, Student-Centered Teaching, and Choice by Kate Roberts (2018)

Connect with Kate & Maggie:

• at their website: Kate & Maggie
• on Twitter: Maggie & Kate
• on Facebook
• on Instagram
• on TikTok

When teachers, coaches, administrators, and families grow together, schools change. Students get engaged, get support, and get the chance to thrive. 

This week is a special collaborative episode with the co-hosts of the Shifting Schools podcast, Jeff Utecht and Tricia Friedman. We reflect on our journeys as podcasters - offering up podcasts that have influenced us most, stand-out episodes from our own podcasts, and lessons learned from our guests. Listen to be inspired and hear what we value and believe to be true in order to do right by you, our listeners.  

• Shifting Schools Podcast with Co-Hosts, Jeff Utecht and Tricia Friedman
  • free guide on leveraging the power of podcasts 
  • free guide on backward chaining 
  • Episode 72: The 4 Shift Protocol
  • Episode 207: John and Kyle Hattie: Learning Vs. Achieving, 10 Steps to Develop Great Learners: Visible Learning for Parents
  • Episode 213: Being a Science Communicator with Swapna Krishna
• Schoolutions Podcast with Host, Olivia Wahl
  • S2 E1: We (still) Got This: What It Takes to Be Radically Pro-Kid with Cornelius Minor
  • S2 E17: Spark Change & Make Your Mark in 2023 with the Refulgent Olivia Van Ledtje (@theLivBits)
  • S2 E22: The Sharing Place: Supporting Children as They Process and Move Through Their Grief with Jill Macfarlane
• Be a Better Ally Podcast
  • Episode 14: We are Ready (with Kathleen Naglee)
• Unhinged Collaboration Podcast
  • Episode 7: What can music history teach us about collaboration? 
• Nice White Parents Podcast
• Phenomenal Teaching Podcast (PEBC)
• Heavyweight Podcast
• This Week in Tech (TWIT) Podcast
• Manoush Zomorodi 
  • ZigZag Podcast
• Bridget Todd
  • Internet Hate Machine Podcast 
  • There Are No Girls on the  Internet Podcast 

Connect with Jeff and Tricia:

• website: Shifting Schools
• on Twitter 
• on YouTube
• on Instagram
• on TiktTok
• on LinkedIn (Jeff) & (Tricia)

When teachers, coaches, administrators, and families grow together, schools change. Students get engaged, get support, and get the chance to thrive.