UCET Podcast with Kiera Beddes

This season, we will be exploring USBE's professional learning standards, by diving into the sixth standard of Implementation. In this episode, we'll explore how professional learning applies research on change and sustains support for implementation of long-term change with 2020 Utah Teacher of the Year, Teacher Fellow (and UCET featured speaker!) Lauren Merkley. Let's chat about how to make learning stick.

This season, we will be exploring USBE's professional learning standards, by diving into the fifth standard of Learning Design. In this episode, we'll explore how professional learning integrates theories, research, and models of human learning to achieve its intended outcomes with social studies educator and Teacher Fellow (and UCET featured speaker!) Scott Judy. Let's learn how to design the best type of learning, for all.

This season, we will be exploring USBE's professional learning standards, by diving into the second standard of Skillful Leaders. In this episode, we'll explore how effective leadership plays a pivotal role in developing capacity, advocating for growth, and creating robust support systems. Join us as we discuss strategies and share insights from seasoned leaders Davina Sauthoff, UELMA director and Katie Dewey Hill, USBE Instructional Coaching and Professional Learning Specialist. Let's learn how to lead, together!

Welcome back to the fourth season of the UCET podcast! This season, we will be exploring USBE's professional learning standards, by diving into the first standard of Learning Communities. We explore how these networks bolster professional growth for educators. Discover the transformative potential of shared experiences, collective responsibility, and aligned goals, and learn how they cultivate a vibrant, supportive environment for continuous improvement with our guest, Chris Haught.

In this episode, we sit down again with Jared Covili (ISTE Affiliate rep and UCET Coalition Chair) and Matt Winters (UCET president and ISTE Community Leader) to talk about the upcoming ISTE conference in Philadelphia and take a moment to reflect on some special moments from the UCET conference in March.

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Meghan Everette, the director of ULEAD. ULEADs goals are “gather and explain current education research in an electronic research clearinghouse for use by practitioners; initiate and disseminate research reports on innovative and successful practices by Utah Local Education Agencies (LEAs), and guided by the steering committee, practitioners, and policymakers; promote statewide innovation and collaboration…and…propose policy changes to remove barriers to implementation of successful practices."

In this episode, we get to chat with several UCET 23 attendees about their experiences at the conference, as well as sit down with our newly elected UCET board members - Michelle Jensen, Ross Rogers, Carol Nef, and Brandon Harrison.

In this episode, we sit down with two of the regional education service agencies in Utah, Brandon Harrison from CUES and Joe B. Wright from SEDC to chat about the opportunities and challenges of rural education and how technology plays a role in connecting the far-flung parts of Utah.

In this episode, we sit down with the current UELMA president Michele Edgley to chat about all things library media and technology.

In this episode, we sit down with two members of the Leadership team of the Utah Teacher Fellows - Director Tabitha Pacheco and Teacher and Community Engagement Specialist Stephan Seabury. During this episode we focus on qualities of leadership and how teachers can get involved in their own educational spaces.