Episodes
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Karen Gross: Trauma Doesn't Stop at the School Door - 309
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Karen Gross talks about her latest book - Trauma Doesn't Stop at the School Door: Strategies and Solutions for Educators, PreK - College. This is episode 309 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Karen Gross is a Washington, DC based author and educator as well as an advisor to nonprofit schools, organizations and governments. Her work focuses on student success with a specialization in trauma, its symptomology and approaches to its amelioration. She has worked with institutions planning for and dealing with person- and nature-made disasters including shootings, suicides, immigration detention, family dysfunction, hurricanes and floods.
She currently serves as Senior Counsel to Finn Partners. She is an instructor in continuing education at Rutgers University Graduate School of Social Work and also sits on the Advisory Council at the Center for Minority Serving Institutions at Rutgers.
She is a Visiting Professor at Bennington College and artist-in-residence at Molly Stark Elementary School (VT).
She is the award-winning author of Breakaway Learners: Strategies for Post- Secondary Success (TC Press 2017) and Failure and Forgiveness: Rebalancing the Bankruptcy System (Yale University Press 1996). She is also the author of a trauma-sensitive children’s book series, Lady Lucy’s Quest. She has read to more than 3000 children across the globe.
Today, we are going to focus on her latest book - Trauma Doesn’t Stop at the School Door: Strategies and Solutions for Educators, PreK-College. (TCPress, 2020)
By the way, special offer...use code TLL2020 (note it's case sensitive) for 15% off plus free shipping on Karen's book at Please let tcpress.com know if you need any additional info.
Lots to learn.
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Learn More and Connect with Karen:
https://www.tcpress.com/trauma-doesn-t-stop-at-the-school-door-9780807764107
https://www.tcpress.com/karen-gross
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb-98Q508MLGF0nKaMIk3tA
https://www.facebook.com/karengrossedu/
https://twitter.com/KarenGrossEdu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karengrossedu/
Length - 41:04
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Bruce Boise talks with me about his book Cold Comfort - One Man's Struggle to stop the Illegal Marketing of Powerful Opioid Drugs and Save Lives. This is episode 308 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Bruce Boise, having worked as a top pharmaceuticals sales manager for 24 years, did not intend to become a whistle blower nor did he fully understand what he was getting himself into when he encouraged his company to stop illegally marketing off-label use of prescription drugs.
He ended up losing his job, getting black-balled by the industry, becoming homeless after going through a million dollars in assets and savings, and fearing all of his sacrifices and efforts would lead to nothing being done to the company that contributed to our nation’s deadly opioid overdose epidemic.
His story serves as inspiration to all future whistle blowers while warning the nation of the dangerous practices of the pharmaceutical and medical industries and the shortcomings of the FDA to adequately protect the American public.
“Big Pharma all too willingly accepts fines, even ones in the hundreds of millions of dollars, as merely the price of doing business when it knows it can make tens of billions from illegally marketing its products,” asserts Boise. “This has to stop now – before others die.”
Boise earned a Bachelor of Arts from The Ohio State University and did graduate work in Geo Engineering at Akron Community.
Bruce lived in Melbourne and Key West, Florida for a decade but the Ohio native has lived most his life in Columbus, Ohio.
Lots to learn today.
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Get connected and learn more:
https://twitter.com/coldcomfortbook
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Stacey Walthers Naffah talks about Model Railroading as a Tool for Engaging Kids in Learning. This is episode 307 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Stacey Walthers Naffah is the president of the model railroad manufacturer Wm. K. Walthers Inc . Stacey is the company’s fourth president. She followed her father Phil Walthers who has been with the company since 1972. He succeeded his father Bruce as president in 1984 and was elected to the Hobby Manufacturers Association Model (HMA) Railroad Hall of Fame in 2010. The company was founded by Bruce’s father, Wm. K., in 1932.
Stacey is a graduate of Boston College and earned her Masters of Business Administration at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where she studied best practices in operating multi generational family businesses and entrepreneurship. She has been with the company for nine years, most recently as vice president of sales and marketing. She is a past president of the Model Railroad Division of the HMA and is the current president of World’s Greatest Hobby Inc., a non-profit industry organization which exists to promote model railroading.
Had a lot of fun talking with Stacey!
Lots to learn today!
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Find out more:
email Stacey at ideas@walthers.com
https://www.youtube.com/user/walthersmodeltrains
http://blog.nsta.org/2020/03/03/building-steam-with-model-railroads/
https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2018/05/30/stacey-walthers-naffah-succeeds-father-as.html
Length - 50:13
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Brian Weisfeld talks with us about his focus on empowering girls (and all children) on pursuing their dreams, he shares his book series called The Startup Squad (which teaches entrepreneurial principals in a fun way), and his latest book in the series - Face the Music. This is episode 306 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Brian Weisfeld has been building businesses his entire life. In elementary school, he bought 95 pounds of gummy bears and hired his friends to sell them. As a teen, he made and sold mixed tapes (ask your parents what those are), sorted baseball cards (he got paid in cards), babysat four-days-a-week after school, and sold nuts and dried fruit (and more gummy bears) in a neighborhood store.
As an adult, Brian helped build well-known, billion-dollar companies including IMAX Corporation and Coupons.com. Then he watched his oldest daughter struggle to sell Girl Scout cookies and he also became frustrated with some of the less-than-empowering influences he saw for his two girls. So he bought a copy of Writing Children’s Books for Dummies and decided to write a novel series to inspire girls to open their first lemonade stands or other businesses and to empower them with an entrepreneurial mindset. The first book in The Startup Squad series was released by Macmillan in May, 2019 and the second book - Face The Music has just been released in May 2020.
Brian is the Founder and Chief Squad Officer of The Startup Squad, an initiative dedicated to empowering girls to realize their potential and follow their dreams, whatever their passion. The Startup Squad is his first book and is co-authored with Nicole C. Kear. Brian lives in Silicon Valley and can often be found eating gummy bears with his wife while watching his two daughters sell lemonade from the end of their driveway.
Lots to learn.
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Connect and Learn More:
https://www.brianweisfeld.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianweisfeld/
https://www.thestartupsquad.com/
https://www.instagram.com/thestartupsquad/
https://www.facebook.com/thestartupsquad/
https://twitter.com/thestartupsquad
https://www.pinterest.com/thestartupsquad/
https://www.facebook.com/chiefsquadofficer
Length - 36:18