Teaching Learning Leading K-12
Providing ideas and resources for K-12 teachers and school-based administrators.
Episodes
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...
Danny Kofke - Where to Spend, Where to Save: A Teacher's Guide to Managing Your Finances. This is episode 791 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
After being a teacher for 18 years, Danny Kofke stepped out of the classroom to join the Southern Education Retirement Consortium and help change the way teachers and classified staff save for retirement. Danny’s love of teaching and personal finance led him to write 6 p...
Ralph R. "Rick" Steinke - Vital Mission: A Jake Fortina Series Love Story. This is episode 790 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Ralph Richard “Rick” Steinke is the award-winning author of a memoir, Next Mission: US Defense Attaché to France (to be republished in 2026). He is also an award-winning author of the Major Jake Fortina series, which includes Major Jake Fortina and the Tier One Threat (2022), Jake Fort...
Chelsi Brosh, PhD & Melissa Cook - TouchMath - How Combining Multisensory Mathematics Instruction with AI-Powered Progress Monitoring Has Transformed Outcomes for Struggling Learners. This is episode 789 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Chelsi Brosh, PhD, BCBA-D, is Chief Academic Officer at TouchMath, leading efforts to make math accessible for students with learning challenges. Previously, she was VP of ...
Mediocrity - Part 4: Not in These Classes. This is episode 788 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Mediocrity creeps into being when something should have been done but wasn't. Ignored or the thought that somehow the issue would fix itself or go away allows mediocrity to cement itself to the school or organization. It becomes accepted as how we do things here. A shrug and a comment, "It's just life in our building....
Mediocrity: Could I Have Done More? This is episode 787 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Mediocrity creeps into being when something should have been done but wasn't. Ignored or the thought that somehow the issue would fix itself or go away allows mediocrity to cement itself to the school or organization. It becomes accepted as how we do things here. A shrug and a comment, "It's just life in our building. You g...
Mediocrity: Settling for OK. This is episode 786 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Mediocrity can find its place in your building by you not paying attention to what is going on in your setting. It can manifest by allowing things to go unaddressed. There are challenges in our schools where situations can arise that are going to take time and require our full attention. Unfortunately, that time commitment can cau...
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