Common Ground Education Podcast
Welcome to Common Ground Education Podcast. The Podcast is focused on progressive education, mental health resources and multi-disciplinary collaboration. The goal is provide needed information to professionals in the educational domain. The host is a school social worker but the podcast is meant for any professional who works in the educational world.
Episodes
February 6, 2023 • 17 mins
With over 20 years in teaching at the elementary level, Howard Shaw made it his mission in the classroom to truly connect with students, and make them love school again. Moving into his next professional chapter, he joined a brand in the education space called VariQuest, which not only provides tools that save teachers precious time, but also focuses on providing social-emotional learning content opportunities he truly believes in....
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November 1, 2022 • 20 mins
Amit Thaker is a champion of mental health advocacy, focusing on increasing access to care and decreasing the stigma associated with mental health treatment. In 2017, while serving on the Sr. Leadership team of an acute care psychiatric hospital, he witnessed the immense issues with the way the system worked. He spent the next two years creating and launching ReferralGPS, a company laser focused on tackling the problem of connectin...
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July 26, 2022 • 14 mins
Illinois Association for School Social Worker (IASSW) is vital organization that helps prop up the profession of School Social Work. IASSW has a wonderful history of pioneers that have helped trail blaze the profession that we recognize today. IASSW takes leadership in centralizing training for school social workers by hosting yearly conferences. They also provide several opportunities for online PD. IASSW takes leadership in state...
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April 18, 2022 • 23 mins
Welcome to a wonderful discussion with Dr. Barthelus, Director of Practice Innovations at CASEL and Dr. Skoog-Hoffman Director of Research Practice-Partnerships at CASEL. In this episode we talk about the importance of the equity lens when installing or implementing social emotional learning in schools. Additionally, Dr. Barthelus and Dr. Skoog-Hoffman help us navigate the world of SEL at the middle school and high school level.
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In this Observatory Episode, Dr. Sanjay Nanwani interviews Dr. Phillip M. Brown, PhD. Philip M. Brown, PhD serves as President of the International Center for Assault Prevention. He is a Senior Consultant for the National School Climate Center and a Fellow, Center for Applied Psychology at Rutgers University, where he created and directed the Center for Social and Character Development, conducting research for the U.S. Department ...
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Welcome to the School Climate & Violence Prevention podcast series. This podcast series is collaboratively sponsored by Common Ground Educational Podcast, the International Observatory for School Climate and Violence Prevention (http://institucional.us.es/ioscvp/) and the international School Social Work Network (schoolsocialwork.net).
These podcasts showcase recent research and/or practice efforts about a range of issues that suppo...
These podcasts showcase recent research and/or practice efforts about a range of issues that suppo...
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August 12, 2021 • 32 mins
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion boards and committees are vital for all school districts to hear and respond to marginalized voices within their communities. DEI structures play a central role in adjusting or fine-tuning protocols and practices for all students. Latonya Simelton joins the show today to share her wisdom, experience and knowledge in this domain. Latonya Simelton is a life long advocate of educational equity and stude...
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June 12, 2021 • 22 mins
Margot Wagner is a recent graduate of Aurora University. She earned her MSW and PEL certification during one of the most intensive years in education. We discuss the pandemic year and the challenges we are facing in education. Come listen to Margot's inspiring personal story and her unique perspective on diversity and inclusion.
Margot joins Common Ground as a new host! We are so excited to have Margot join the CG team and look for...
Margot joins Common Ground as a new host! We are so excited to have Margot join the CG team and look for...
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May 5, 2021 • 39 mins
Welcome to an important episode that features Brittany Brunell, Co-founder of EveryDaySpeech. In this episode we learn about EveryDaySpeech's origin story and their journey with social emotional learning. Brittany shares about the features and functions that EDS has to offer in their completely digital SEL curriculum (games, video modeling, interactive-avatar social games, evidenced based content). In this episode, EDS gifts Commo...
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April 11, 2021 • 17 mins
It's interviewing season and Common Ground Education brings a few quick tips to support fellow school social workers. In addition, the podcast describes a vision of advocacy using podcasting.
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February 15, 2021 • 33 mins
Patrick Mulkern is School Social Worker who serves as the Wellness Coordinator for a high school in the San Francisco area. As the Wellness Coordinator he leads a multidisciplinary team that works to reduce barriers to services for LGBTQ+ students. This program provides individual and group therapy, case management, mentoring and sexual/reproductive health services. Patrick brings his expertise and targeted experience in this area...
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November 25, 2020 • 39 mins
Dr. McMurtrey is an immunologist/virologist that's been working with Covid-19 since nearly the inception of the pandemic in the United States. In August, Dr. McMurtrey began a phase two vaccine trial. Still unaware of a placebo or actual vacccine, Dr. McMurtrey walks us through his experience. Further, he answers questions about the virus and latest research. Who better to ask than an expert in vaccines currently using a Covid-19 v...
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September 24, 2020 • 39 mins
Ali Hearn is a powerful education consultant. Her gifts surrounding educational systems, macro perspectives and empathy provide unique and effective ideas. In this podcast we consider the difficulties of returning to school, empathizing with teachers and Ali shares some AMAZING ideas to help support our students. Ali holds a unique gift that allows her to put students first while finding tangible ways to support staff.
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August 12, 2020 • 29 mins
Dr. Cobb is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Adam Cobb worked with a non-for profit in Ravenswood and Austin neighborhoods in the city of Chicago. He has traveled extensively through the globe with a passion to improve soil to create sustainable food sources. Dr. Cobb's unique experiences give him a unique perspective on the intersection be...
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July 27, 2020 • 49 mins
Dr. Curtis McMurtrey earned PhD in both Microbiology and Immunology. His studies included immune responses to Tuberculosis, Dengue virus, T. gondii, and HIV.
Currently He is the Director of Immunoproteomics a PureMHC. Up until recently they’ve worked on designing vaccines for certain types of cancer. When COVID hit pharma switched gears to study SARS-CoV-2.
In this episode we going into detail about the virus, mask efficiency, issue...
Currently He is the Director of Immunoproteomics a PureMHC. Up until recently they’ve worked on designing vaccines for certain types of cancer. When COVID hit pharma switched gears to study SARS-CoV-2.
In this episode we going into detail about the virus, mask efficiency, issue...
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July 10, 2020 • 5 mins
Ali Hearn and I recorded this episode on May 20th and I had planned to release it the next week. That week the unjust killing of George Floyd occurred and I felt that it was not appropriate to release a podcast at that time. I did not want to be a distraction to a very important movement. With that said, I wanted to create a podcast of two school social workers working through the difficulties that COVID-19 presents and the positiv...
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May 7, 2020 • 22 mins
In partnership with School Social Work Association of America (SSWAA), Common Ground was fortunate to host Dr. Raines. Dr. Raines specializes in the ethics (among other things) and has a wealth of experience to share with us. In this podcast, Dr. Raines addressed ethical issues we are facing during this pandemic and offers some observations that may be helpful.
James C. Raines, Ph.D., calls himself an accidental academic with the ...
James C. Raines, Ph.D., calls himself an accidental academic with the ...
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March 26, 2020 • 56 mins
In this episode, we are joined by Brianne Jonathan, BCBA and former special education teacher. Brianne brings in-depth knowledge to the process of writing/facilitating Functional Behavioral Assessments and practical educational experience that gives her a unique and powerful perspective. In this episode, we review each section of a school based Functional Behavioral Assessment and include best practice tips for writing a legally de...
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February 7, 2020 • 20 mins
In another fantastic collaboration with School Social Work Association of America (SSWAA), we feature Dr. Laurel Thompson, student services director of Broward County which includes Stoneman Douglas in Parkland. After the tragedy in Parkland, Dr. Thompson (former social worker) led efforts to reduce violence in her school district. On this episode, Dr. Thompson inspires and informs social workers and educators on the violence preve...
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January 2, 2020 • 14 mins
Common Ground is pleased to host Jackie Salemi, Superintendent of Recreation, from Fox Valley Special Recreation Association. This AMAZING organization provides a diverse range of year round recreational activities to enable residents with disabilities to experience active, healthy and playful lifestyles. To learn more, go to Fvsra.org. Find them on twitter @FVSRA. This podcast is for parents, participants and those looking for em...
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