Donna Flood discusses how she is revitalizing her district’s FTA chapter in an effort to “grow their own” teachers. Donna describes how she has partnered with a local university to offer dual enrollment opportunities for her Foundations of Education class as well as ways her district is using state grant money to provide scholarships and networking opportunities for their rural students

In this episode, three of Missouri’s Regional Professional Development Center literacy coaches - Susan Kohl, Debbie Schroer and Abby Seymour - share background information on the state’s literacy initiative to fund K-5 teachers to participate in the LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) training. They also share the purpose and importance of the training and how the regional literacy coaches across the state are supporting teachers and administrations with implementation of their learning in classrooms.

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In this episode, Southeast Missouri Regional Teachers of the year, Kathryn Inman and Heather Helle, share their insights on classroom management and setting the stage at the beginning of the year. Based on their experience in the classroom, they discuss the keys to effective classroom management, strategies that they implement, and practical tips and ideas for kicking the school year off right.

In this episode Betsy interviews Lani Westover, 4th grade teacher and Teacher Academy Graduate from the Nevada R-V School District.  Lani details her experience participating in the MTDS Teacher Academy, and why she chose to return to the Teacher Academy Graduate program.

The Show-me Education Podcast core team connected to discuss our memories of what it was like starting the school year off on the correct foot. The team shares the good, bad and ugly of the new year. We have added some resources to the bottom of this page. 

Change can be hard! I am sure you have heard that, seen it or felt it. Well, using a matrix to help navigate through change can be very helpful! We sat down with Dr. Erin Lawson to discuss how she utilizes this matrix when rolling out anything new within her district. 

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This episode is a collection of conversations that took place at the innovate conference in St. Louis, MO. Our core team member, Rob Greenhaw sat with a couple facilitators and other podcasters for a conversation around innovation.

The Show-me Education Podcast was part of Podcast Row at innovate. This was a wonderful experience and we would highly recommend it to other podcasters out there listening next year!

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