The Agile Administrator

In part two of our four-part series on school culture, Allison talks with administrators at W.H. Owen Elementary about how the community plays a big part in the school’s success. Listen as they outline how to find assets in the community, not just challenges.

A positive school culture starts with excitement from school leaders. In the first part of this four-part series, Allison talks with administrators from W.H. Owen Elementary about the momentum of a new school year. Take away practical advice and tips for your own school or district on building a positive culture that stems from a familial atmosphere.

Listen as Julie chats with Kathy Scheepers, the International Education Coordinator at the OCENET Ottawa-Carleton Education Network in Canada. Kathy is a leader in her district in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and social good teachings district-wide. In this episode, she outlines how her district achieved such widespread implementation of the SDGs and gives some practice tips for others.

Listen to Stacey Morgan, assistant principal at Gray's Creek Elementary School in North Carolina, and Deirdre Furlong, international teacher from Ireland and current teacher at Gray's Creek Elementary School, speak about their own experiences with mentorship, review and coaching. The open, honest culture of feedback at their school is crucial to the work they do every day.

We also welcome a new host, Allison Violette, to the podcast! Allison is a long-time North Carolina educator.

Badges in education are storytelling devices, and should be treated as such. Listen to badging experts Noah Geisel and Julie Keane talk all things micro-credentials, where they've been, where things are moving and more!

Listen as Julie and Brad chat about educator learning communities, with an interview by the wonderful Steve Schappaugh of the National Speech and Debate Association. In this episode, Steve talks about the value of bringing together often isolated teachers in a collaborative community, allowing them to have a space to exchange ideas and resources.

We spoke with Barbara Stilwell at IntraHealth about her thoughts on global health and how it relates to students. Join this conversation about #SDG3: Good Health and Well-Being and see how you could implement some of these ideas in your school or classroom!

If it weren’t for Barbara Stilwell, there might not be any nurse practitioners serving patients in England today. When Stilwell was working in the inner city in Birmingham, UK, in the 1970s, she found that many local patients—most of them from India, Pakistan, or Bangladesh—had no one to consult about health issues that weren’t essentially medical (where to get their children immunized, for example, or how to stop smoking), except for the too-busy local general practitioners. Stilwell won a scholarship to study in the United States to become a nurse practitioner.

In this episode of the podcast, Brad chats with two amazing women in education technology out in Chicago, Maureen Chertow Miller and Maria Stravropoulos. These edtech directors are part of a growing group of women who are taking the tech lead in their districts, focusing a lot on improving and updating more traditional PD approaches.

Current teachers Kathryn Hodskinson and Lynn O'Neill, along with former principals Cal Violette and Sara Whitaker, discuss the impact of service learning in schools in classrooms. Discussion led by Participate's manager of instructional services Meriwynn Mansori.

In this second episode all about one of our favorite topics, Edcamps, Brad and Julie chat with two stellar educators—Glenn Robbins and Jen Williams. Glenn is the Superintendent of Tabernacle Twp. School District, and Jen is a Literacy Specialist & Program Developer, Professor and longtime fan and guru of all things Edcamp.

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