Episodes
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
N.L. Holmes: Writing Historical Fiction - The Empire at Twilight series & The Lord Hani Mysteries. This is episode 346 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
N.L. Holmes is a prolific novelist embarking on another significant career phase. Prior to taking up the power of writing and using this pen name, she was an accomplished archaeologist and teacher for 25 years. Early in her career she served as a nun for two decades. In between she was an artist and antiques dealer. Yes, she has lived an interesting life and the sum of her experiences informs and inspires her writings today.
Holmes, who earned her doctorate in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Studies from Bryn Mawr College despite an offer to attend Princeton, has excavated in Greece and Israel, and taught ancient history and humanities at Stockton University in N.J. and University of South Florida for many years. She also did archaeological artwork for excavations from Lebanon.
With seven published novels, Holmes is the creator of The Lord Hani Mysteries. The inspiration for her Bronze Age novels came with an assignment she gave to her students one day: Here are the only documents we have telling us about royal divorce in Ugarit in the 13th century. How much can we say about what happened? She notes: “It quickly became apparent that almost anything we might come up with was as much fiction as historiography!”
She also penned The Empire At Twilight series, historical fiction set in the 13th century C.B. during the Hittite Empire.
Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, she attended The University of Texas in the honors program but dropped out midway to enter into the antiques business. Two years later, she entered the Discalced Carmelite convent in Texas. She left the convent 20 years later and returned to school to get her B.A. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology.
Holmes resides with her husband, three cats, and a dog. They split their time between Tampa, Florida and northern France, where she gardens, weaves, and plays the violin. They have an adult son.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/n-l-holmes/
https://twitter.com/nlholmesbooks
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Length - 34:11
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Graham Glass: Cypher Learning, NEO the learning management system, and the usefulness of edtech during the pandemic. This is episode 345 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
It all started with a young boy named Graham Glass who had a tremendous passion for education. Growing up in the U.K., Graham was lucky to attend schools where he encountered some great teachers. He enjoyed going to school and learning new things. He even thought of choosing teaching as a career.
Later on, after finishing university, Graham became a teacher and was a senior lecturer at the University of Texas, where he taught Computer Science. He gained a good reputation for his teaching skills at UTD, and was soon getting offers to teach the same materials at local high-tech companies. Back in those days, Learning Management Systems (LMS) did not exist to help facilitate teaching and engage young learners with their studies. Even then, he was wondering why isn’t there a way to package his instruction materials in a scalable way and make it available to millions of people.
Graham built his first company based on his teaching experience and ventured on to corporate training and software products. He founded two more companies related to computer tech and training, but his passion has always remained teaching and education. Even though he spent most of his career in the enterprise software space, there has always been a significant educational component, whether it was teaching at University, writing books, teaching in corporations, or explaining complex topics at seminars.
That's why in 2009 he decided to go back to his educational roots by starting a new company called EDU 2.0. The company focused on something that was very close to Graham's heart, which was improving education through an innovative e-learning platform. His mission was to provide a better way of facilitating teaching and learning and have a bigger impact on the way people learn.
Graham is the CEO of Cypher Learning. Join us as we talk about Cypher Learning, the NEO Learning Management System, and the usefulness of edtech during the pandemic.
Lots to learn today.
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Connect & Learn More:
https://www.cypherlearning.com/#matrix
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgpoHYIQY1-4jit_J2YfJ_w
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cypher-learning/
https://www.facebook.com/cypherlearning/
https://twitter.com/cypherlearning
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJwky3COzZ_Q9UKE30fInqg
https://www.instagram.com/neo_lms/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/neo-lms/
https://www.facebook.com/neolms
Length - 48:31
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Rick Snyder talks about his show Straight Talk.Live and we share our thoughts about the Pandemic's impact on theaters, the corporate world, and public education. We also delve into whether A.I. is real or not. This is episode 344 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Rick Snyder is the author of Decisive Intuition, the co-founder of StraightTalk.Live podcast and the CEO of Invisible Edge, an international consulting firm that develops intuitive intelligence for leaders and teams for more effective decision-making, leadership, sales, and innovation.
He leads an executive coaching team that serves clients from a wide-range of sectors, from Fortune 500 to Silicon Valley startups. He speaks to businesses and organizations regularly and has been featured in Forbes, The Economist, Inc., CNBC, and Fast Company, as well as business talk shows.
Beyond consulting, he has started four businesses and combines that experience with 20 years of studying human behavior to coach leaders and teams to develop and implement intuitive skills to innovate and advance their business plans and company culture.
Rick believes in the spirit of human innovation and potential and enjoys empowering leaders to rise beyond their limits. Invisible Edge is based in San Diego and has offices in London and Boulder, Colorado.
Join us as we talk about his show Straight Talk. Live and share our thoughts on the Pandemic's impact on movie theaters, the corporate world, and public education. We also talk about whether A.I. is real or not.
Lots of fun!
Lots to learn today!
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https://www.innerplicity.com/course-overview/super-power-your-decisions/ref/InvisibleEdge/
https://teachinglearningleadingk12.podbean.com/e/rick-snyder-and-decisive-intuition-238/
https://invisible-edgellc.com/
https://www.facebook.com/InvisibleE
dgeLLC/https://www.instagram.com/rickasnyder/
https://twitter.com/RickASnyder
https://www.amazon.com/Decisive-Intuition-Instincts-Business-Decisions/dp/1632651475
Length - 54:17
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Patricia A. Jennings talks with me about her book - Teacher Burnout Turnaround: Strategies for Empowered Educators. This is episode 343 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Patricia (Tish) Jennings is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of social and emotional learning and mindfulness in education and Professor of Education at the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia.
Her research places a specific emphasis on teacher stress and how it impacts the social and emotional context of the classroom, as articulated in her highly cited theoretical article "The Prosocial Classroom." Jennings led the team that developed CARE, a mindfulness-based professional development program shown to significantly improve teacher well-being, classroom interactions and student engagement in the largest randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-based intervention designed specifically to address teacher occupational stress.
She is a co-author of Flourish: The Compassionate Schools Project curriculum, an integrated health and physical education program and is co-Investigator on a large randomized controlled trial to evaluate the curriculum’s efficacy.
She is currently the Principal Investigator of Project CATALYZE, a study that will examine whether CARE enhances the effectiveness of a social and emotional learning curriculum funded by an Education Innovation Research grant from the US Department of Education to conduct.
A member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Fostering Healthy Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Development among Children and Youth, she was awarded the Cathy Kerr Award for Courageous and Compassionate Science by the Mind & Life Institute in 2018 and recently recognized by Mindful Magazine as one of "Ten Mindfulness Researchers You Should Know."
Earlier in her career, Jennings spent more than 22 years as a teacher, school director and teacher educator.
She is the author numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters and several books: Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom, The Trauma-Sensitive School: Building Resilience with Compassionate Teaching, Mindfulness in the Pre-K-5 Classroom: Helping Students Stress Less and Learn More, part of Social and Emotional Learning Solutions, a book series by WW Norton of which she is editor.
Today we will focus on her latest book, Teacher Burnout Turnaround: Strategies for Empowered Teachers.
Lots to learn today.
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Connect and Learn More:
https://curry.virginia.edu/patricia-jennings
https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393714258
https://www.amazon.com/Patricia-A-Jennings/e/B00LLRZGIC/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1
https://www.facebook.com/tish.jennings
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tishjennings/
Length - 52:20
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Sara Apperson: Teaching Character Development & The Character Tree - 342
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Sara Apperson shares her thoughts on teaching character development and talks about her show - The Character Tree. This is episode 342 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Sara Apperson teaches first grade in Washington State and portrays “Miss Sara” in The Character Tree’s https://www.charactertree.com/character development video lessons for early elementary school students.
She runs The Primary Pal blog and is a teacher-author on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Sara has served as an early elementary teacher for more than a decade. She specializes in literacy and writing and in 2018 received the Bonnie Campbell Hill Literacy Leader Award for Washington State.
She holds a B.A. in Elementary Education and a B.S. in Spanish Language and Literature and an M.S. in K-6 Reading and Literacy.
Lots to learn today.
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https://www.instagram.com/theprimarypal/
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Primary-Pal
https://www.charactertree.com/
graysquirrel@charactertree.com
Length - 35:59