ChangED: Where change agents describe how they make change happen
Your co-host Pam Moran and Ira Socol talk with educators across the nation about the strategies, challenges mindsets and qualities required to make real change happen in education.
Episodes
July 17, 2015 • 12 mins
In this episode we explore a story of how transforming a learning space transformed students' lives.
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Chance Dickerson was raised in Albemarle County, Virginia. He's spent his life learning a variety of art forms from painting to building to making music, the process of which has landed me in a position to influence youth and learn from their experienc...
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June 16, 2015 • 11 mins
Our guest takes us on a tour of a non-traditional learning space as we explore how creative classroom design impacts learning.
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Laura Graceffa has been a science teacher at Poughkeepsie Day School in New York where she also now leads the middle school. As an educator she has been passionate about making school keep the learner at the center of education: through lesson desi...
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May 14, 2015 • 11 mins
Our guest talks with us about moving a large, diverse school district from a test prep culture toward a culture of more authentic learning experiences.
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Eric Williams serves as the superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) in Virginia. LCPS serves more than 73,000 students in 88 schools. Prior to coming to Loudoun, Dr. Williams was superintend...
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February 12, 2015 • 11 mins
Our guest teaches in a rural, Title 1 school that has changed from a majority white student population to a majority Hispanic and immigrate population. In this segment we talk about how one teacher expands the classroom beyond the various limits these students face.
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William Chamberlain is a husband, father, and an educator. He teaches in the school he ...
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January 26, 2015 • 12 mins
The regimented classrooms of the past are slowly giving way to an new classroom culture that can look pretty chaotic and unproductive to the untutored eye. Tune in and find out how classrooms that are appear chaotic are actually spaces where greater academic achievement is happening.
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Michael Thornton has been an elementary school educator in the Charlott...
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November 11, 2014 • 12 mins
Our guest argues that despite the amazing strides made by students and educators in underfunded schools, money still matters.
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David Britten is currently superintendent of Godfrey-Lee Public Schools in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area, a district where I grew up and attended school. He served twenty-two years in the United States Army retiring with the rank ...
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October 27, 2014 • 11 mins
As we continue to debate the value of standards and testing our guests argue that we may be leaving much more important issues out of the discussion.
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MaryAnn Reilly, President of Blueprints for Learning -- a consulting company and blogger at Between the By-Road and the Main Road. Renee Charney facilitates individual and team growth, and le...
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July 25, 2014 • 11 mins
Today we discuss the various tech tools that can be used assist special education students, as well as the general student population.
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Karen Janowski is an Assistive Technology consultant and specialist who works par-time in the Newton Public Schools and consults in the greater Boston area. She is also a nationally recognized speaker and founder of EdCampAccess and #...
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July 7, 2014 • 12 mins
Our guest has an evolved view around setting the ideal climate for high school students. Tune in to hear how he balances freedom and control.
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Dr. Jesse Turner currently is an administrator in the Albemarle County Public School system where he serves as the principal of Monticello High School. A former high school teacher, Jesse has worked as a coordinator of an alternative pr...
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June 14, 2014 • 10 mins
Our guest today demonstrates how one teacher in one classroom can be a change agent. He also explains why the ability to risk, fail and persist are essential.
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Derk Oosting is a proud husband and father of three children. He ha taught third grade in West Michigan for eleven years, and hold a masters degree in educational leadership from Grand Valley State University. ...
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May 23, 2014 • 11 mins
Our guest to is a change agent who is passionate about moving schools STEM to STEAM. In this segment he shares how he gets others to embrace the need for STEAM.
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Jim Tiffin, Jr. serves as the Director of Academic Technology for The Harley School in Rochester, New York, with administrative and teaching responsibilities K-12. He actively creates learning opportun...
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April 24, 2014 • 11 mins
Our guest is a principal who has lead an impressive list of changes in the way his school educates students. Today he shares some of the leadership lessons he's learned along the way.
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Tim Lauer serves as the Principal of Lewis Elementary School in Portland, Oregon. Previously he served as a Teacher on Special Assignment in the area of technology integration and worke...
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March 31, 2014 • 8 mins
In this first episode of ChangED, we talk with a school librarian about how she transformed her school's library and the impact it had on students.
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Melissa Techman is a K-5 school librarian in Albemarle Co, Virginia, and formerly a children's librarian at Houston Public Library. She has presented on Libraries at STEM to STEAM Hubs, Making Ebooks with Students and runs the...
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