Second Rail Education Podcast

Second Rail Education Podcast

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Second Rail Education Podcast episodes

  • Mary Avalos Knows Standards

    Mary is Professor of Teaching and Learning at the University of Miami. Her heavily re-Tweeted op-ed in the Miami Herald challenged the Governor and suggested a path forward. Mary hits on the strengths of functional grammar, the maker movement, the challenges of English learners and, the greatest goal of measurement in schools, creating classroom-based assessments that drive instruction. Mary joins John for a discussion that dabbles in policy and dives into professionalism.

    41 min
  • Adolfo Returns Abroad Again

    Adolfo Luna, Columbian-American, Chicagaoan and International Citizen, joins John for a reflective discussion on the experience of living, studying and working in the US, Europe and Asia.

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    Adolfo Luna is an on-again off-again Chicago resident with teaching, living, learning and business experiences in Illinois, Germany, Korea and England. He is an expert in living well and lifelong learning. You can find Adolfo here.

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    36 min
  • Early Childhood Education

    Andrew Krugly joins the podcast for a look at this education and nonprofit leader’s experience over the decades. From Andrew’s principalship in provocative Evanston, Illinois, to leading an early childhood education nonprofit in Chicago, Andrew speaks candidly about his unique perspective on what works and what fails in education, learning and neuroscience in practice today.

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    2 min
  • Writers and Writing

    What makes good writing? The centerpiece of any education plan, organization or curriculum is the written word. This fortnight John talks with Illinois Great Lakes regional poet and professor of creative writing Gavin Cycholl. From the death of local television stars to demons in the suburbs, Garin discusses his writing and teaching with an eye to why teaching diverse populations is still a challenge and a thrill.

    35 min
  • Data Science

    Google, Amazon, Apple and all the owners of Big Data changed our lives through data. Smaller organizations are using data, too. Answering the question of how data can transform organizations is the subject of this fortnight’s podcast. Data science guru Eva Hare joins John Heintz to talk about how organizations today are using data science in practice as a way to gain insights from their own sets of data. Eva discusses her path through a recently developed data science master’s program and her work for a higher-education-affiliated medical center building deployable knowledge from readily available data.

    1 hr 5 min

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The Second Rail Podcast starts big conversations on important issues.