Teaching Learning Leading K-12

Timothy and Karinna Karsten - Founders of Global Galactics: Inspiring Awe, Wonder, and Curiosity while Making Learning Fun. This is episode 810 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Timothy Karsten is the CEO and co- founder of Global Galactics, a branded ecosystem of content designed to educate, entertain, and inspire young children with original stories about the world around them. 

A longtime advisor to leaders...

Dr. Darla Bishop - Piggy Bank Pathways: Helping You Raise Money Smart Kids. This is episode 809 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. 

A mother, a former high school educator/bilingual elementary school reading coach, children’s book author, and passionate entrepreneur, Dr Darla Bishop was motivated by her own challenging childhood in Detroit to help children learn. From motivating parents to transcend limiting bel...

Shellee Howard - College Ready: Helping High-Achieving Families Unlock the Path to College Without Debt. This is episode 808 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Shellee Howard helps high-achieving families unlock the path to college without debt. As the founder of College Ready and a Certified Educational Consultant, she blends insider admissions knowledge with financial strategy to guide teens toward top-tier s...

Sue Ann Highland - Reimagining Learning Spaces: Designing Educational Environments for a New Generation. This is episode 807 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Dr. Sue Ann Highland is the National Education Strategist at School Specialty and author of Reimagining Learning Spaces: Designing Educational Environments for a New Generation. With over 30 years of experience in schools and districts across the country, ...

Dennis A. Feece - The Phantom Grasp: A T.B. Stone Mystery. This is episode 806 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Dennis A. Feece may not sound like your typical novelist who crafted a murder mystery, but he calls upon a variety of experiences, hobbies, and schooling to create the realism in his books - his latest one is The Phantom Grasp: a T.B. Stone Mystery.

For three decades, he engaged in a career of book ma...

Sandra T. Elliott, PhD - Sum Thing Is Up: A Practical Guide to Dyscalculia - Tips, Tools, and Resources for Parents, Educators, and Anyone Affected by Dyscalculia. This is episode 805 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Sandra T. Elliott, Ph.D., is a career educator who has spent over four decades working to enhance education for all students and improve schools and their systems around the globe. 

She has served ...

Will & Josh - The HiTech Podcast: A.I. & Jobs: Not Doom & Gloom but Definitely Silly. This is episode 804 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Will & Josh of the HiTech podcast invited me to talk with them about A.I. & Jobs that might look different or could be replaced by A.I. Doing a Christmas podcast has become a tradition now between us. If you go to their YouTube channel or their webpage y...

Annamarie Omanga - The Magnolia School: An Independent K-8 School for Girls. This is episode 803 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Originally from Chicago, Annamarie Omanga has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education. She began her career in the middle school classroom and then spent six years directing a supplemental education program for inner city youth in Chicago. Annamarie then took her teaching skills to...

Peter B. Cotton: When Fred the Snake and Friends Learn the Chinese Zodiac and the Great Race! This is episode 802 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Dr. Peter B. Cotton is the author and creator of an award-winning children’s book series, Fred the Snake, which now consists of 10 books.

He grew up in England, where the first tale was conceived long ago as a bedtime story for his then young children about how (not)...

John Schembari, Johanna Tramantano, Crystal Frommert, and Steve Miletto: The Art and Purpose of Podcasting in Education. This is episode 801 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

John Schembari, Have a Life Teaching, leads a discussion with education podcasters to reflect on the art and purpose of podcasting in education. John uses AI to determine what questions he will ask. This was a fun discussion about why we ...

Formative Assessment, Part 3 - 3 Reasons Why You Need to Include Formative Assessment in Your Lesson Plans. This is episode 800 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Steve shares three stories from when he was in 8th and 7th grade. The three stories -The Accident, The Beach, and The Jacket - will hopefully help you think about what distracts your students during your classroom instruction. Steve was focused on everyt...

Mike Kenny - MathFactLab: Helping to Make Math Easier to Learn. This is episode 799 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Mike Kenny taught 5th grade for 19 years: 4 in England and 15 in VT.  

Mike is the designer of MathFactLab. MathFactLab is based on the idea that pattern recognition makes math easier to learn.

Each year, Mike found that many of his students came to fifth grade lacking basic math fact fluency. ...

Steve talks with Will and Josh from the HiTech Podcast about Artificial Intelligence. This is episode 798 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. 

Will and Josh talked with me on their show The HiTech Podcast. Our focus was artificial intelligence. This was a blast! What an awesome conversation! We talk about uses for it in our podcasting world and what our experiences have been. We share stories, thoughts, and ideas...

Andrew Marotta - Educator, Author, Speaker, Leader, and Former NCAA Basketball Official - The Surviving & Thriving Movement. This is episode 797 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Andrew Marotta is the Director of Academic Services & communications in Port Jervis, NY.  He was Principal & AP for the last 20 years in the great small city of Port Jervis. He took on a new challenge in the 23-24 school yea...

Formative Assessment, Part 2: Mini-Whiteboards and Stickies as Formative Assessment Tools. This is episode 796 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Mini-Whiteboards and stickies make awesome formative assessment tools for helping you understand what the students get about your content and what they don't. 

Formative Assessment is for determining what your students know and don't know. It is purposefully placed in y...

Formative Assessment, Part 1: What, Why, and Resources. This is episode 795 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Formative Assessment is for determining what your students know and don't know. It is purposefully placed in your lesson plans. The type of formative assessment chosen is also determined ahead of time and placed in your lessons. The data gathered is used to make adjustments to your instruction. Additional...

Barbara R. Blackburn - Rigor and Assessment in the Classroom: Strategies and Tools. Second Edition. This is episode 794 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Ranked in the Top 20 Global Gurus in Education, Barbara has dedicated her life to raising the level of rigor and motivation for professional educators and students alike. What differentiates Barbara’s over 30 books are her easily executable concrete examples ...

Amy M. Pollack - The Still Further Adventures of Jelly Bean. This is episode 793 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Amy Meislin Pollack was a teacher for over four decades, raised three children, and loves to play with her seven grandchildren. From her own childhood to the classroom and as a parent and grandparent, she is perfectly positioned to pen her coming-of-age book series. 

The Adventures of Jelly Bean, fo...

Lindsay Whorton - A New School Leadership Architecture: A Four-Level Framework for Reimagining Roles. This is episode 792 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Dr. Lindsay Whorton is proud to be a founding member of The Holdsworth Center. She helped design the Center’s programming and has served as president since 2019.

Under Lindsay’s leadership, Holdsworth has grown from serving seven public school districts throu...