Teaching Learning Leading K-12

Kathy Almy: Improving Math Instruction and Math Reform - 293

 

Kathleen Almy is the CEO and founder of Almy Educational Consulting. Kathy shares with me her thoughts on better math instruction and math reform. This is episode 293 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

As math faculty with over 20 years of experience in high school and college classrooms, she brings her love of math and helping students succeed in college to every project she works on. 

She led local, state, and national initiatives for over a decade before starting her own consulting group. In her most recent position, she led the Illinois Transitional Math implementation required by a law and affecting over 700 high schools and nearly 50 community colleges. 

Prior to that initiative, she worked for nearly a decade to implement a non-STEM pathways alternative to beginning algebra known as Math Literacy for College Students. 

Through that work, she traveled the country providing professional development to support faculty with its innovative pedagogy, worked throughout Illinois to change state-level policies that affected acceptance of the course, and co-authored a textbook, Math Lit, to support faculty teaching the course. 

She initially learned how to lead and effect change through her work leading her college’s complete developmental math redesign.

She is tenacious, passionate, and committed to improving math for every student with a college math requirement. Considered a thought leader in developmental math reform, math pathways, and transitional math, she has served in national and statewide positions and given numerous talks and keynotes.

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Connect with Kathy:

https://www.almyeducation.com/

https://twitter.com/Almy_Education

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-almy-bba8baa2/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQd_8mWqPTRUW-yPXxiqhog/featured

Length - 52:41

Dana Stahl: Revisiting The ABCs of Learning Issues - 292

    

For the past 35 years Dana Stahl, M.Ed., an educational consultant, diagnostician, child-parent advocate, and learning specialist, has worked with families, educators, psychologists, and service providers to help identify learning issues in children and to provide the assistance, resources, and guidance needed to address these issues.

 Her recently published book, The ABCs of Learning Issues, is critically acclaimed and has been featured in Chicago Parent, L.A. Parent, Midwest Book Review, Education Update Online, and Special Needs Book Review.

 Additionally, The ABCs of Learning Issues received the Parent and Teacher Choice Award and  the NAPPA Award (National Parenting Product Awards).

 In 2014 she founded Educational Alternative LLC, building upon her experience in diagnostic assessment, educational intervention, and advocacy to help parents find schools and programs for their children.  She explores alternative and educational options with students and families and advises on appropriate day and boarding school placements and differential instruction for children with learning deficits; on therapeutic needs for special needs children; and on college searches for schools with learning disorder support programs.

Dana, who struggled from a learning disability, became a learning specialist to assist children with learning issues to find compensatory strategies to reach their social, emotional, and academic potential.  She also provides life coaching and counseling for children with learning disabilities, Autism, ADHD, and Dyslexia, as well as career and vocational counseling.

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Lots to learn.

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Connect with Dana:

http://educationalalternativesllc.com/

https://www.facebook.com/EducationalAlternativesLLC

https://www.linkedin.com/company/educational-alternatives-llc/about/

https://twitter.com/DanaStahlMEd

danaconsults@gmail.com

 

Length - 45:58

Peter Rosenberger: Taking Care of Caregivers - 291

  

A 30+ year caregiver for his wife, Gracie, who lives with severe disabilities, Peter Rosenberger understands the caregiver’s journey in ways few do. Today, Peter talks about his 8 Great New Year's Resolutions for Caregivers. The emphasis is on caregivers needing attention and help, too.

Broadcasting on Sirius XM's Family Talk Channel 131, and on an additional 180 stations through American Family Radio, Peter hosts the nation's #1 show for family caregivers. From Autism to Alzheimer’s to addiction, Peter addresses the needs of those caring for loved ones with chronic impairments.

Peter is the author of the following books: 

Hope for the Caregiver: Encouraging Words to Strengthen Your Spirit, 

7 Caregiver Landmines:And How You Can Avoid Them, and

Gracie Standing with Hope - As told by Gracie Rosenberger to Peter Rosenberger

Lots to learn today. Wonderful life lessons that will remind you that we need to pay attention to the caregiver possibly just as much or even more than we need to pay attention to the care receiver. 

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Connect with Peter

 https://standingwithhope.com/

https://standingwithhope.com/caregiver/speaker/

https://hopeforthecaregiver.podbean.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs1BRsfcr7Sg_z8Nz-19oMg

https://twitter.com/standwithhope

https://facebook.com/standingwithhope 

 

Length - 50:50

Mark D. Bruce: Jackie, a Boy, and a Dog - 290

    

 

Today we are talking with Mark D. Bruce about his book - Jackie, a Boy, and a Dog:A Warm Cold War Story. Mark shares his story of being given a puppy from the First Lady Jackie Kennedy in the early 1960's  and the continued connection he shared with her. This is episode 290 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.

Mark grew up with a love for dogs. This became a focal point of Mark’s childhood when the President and Mrs. Kennedy gave him the “pupnik” named Streaker, the grand-pup of Strelka, the first dog to orbit earth in a Soviet Sputnik spaceship, and return alive. Mark maintained a pen-pal relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, with many personal letters, from the 1960’s until the 1980’s. 

Mark is an emergency medicine physician in Wisconsin, a husband of 42 years to his wife Moira E. O’Brien-Bruce, DO, and a father and grandfather to 5 children, and 7 grandchildren. 

Mark has traveled with the international medical ministry in Central America, Asia, Europe, and Africa, and led many teams into the Asian disaster zones for medical relief work. 

In addition to clinical duties, Mark is the Ambassador to Belize and Canada for the American College of Emergency Physicians.

This is such an amazing story!

You are going to love the interview and the book!

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Connect with Mark:

https://www.jackieboydog.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqdRZH9Qq4M

https://youtu.be/OOV8MXlrFz0

Length - 59:23

Karen Gross: Schools and Colleges are not Light Switches - 289

        

 

Karen Gross discusses her article " Schools and Colleges Are Not Light Switches" and her newest book - Trauma Doesn't Stop at the School Door: Strategies and Solutions for Educators, PreK - College (TCPress, June 2020).

Last week in episode 288 Karen talked about her children's story - "Wrinkles Doesn't Like Social distancing and I Don't Blame Him." This week Karen is back to talk about the planning that needs to start now to get ready to reopen our schools and colleges. According to Karen, "Whether institutions reopen sooner rather than later, we need to plan for these reopenings rather than just flipping the switch and expecting we can return to where we were pre-pandemic. Would that it were that simple." 

We also spend some time talking about the trauma that adults and students are experiencing now that needs to be considered and addressed because it doesn't just go away and things go back to how they were before. She takes some time to talk about her newest book - Trauma Doesn't Stop at the School Door and how it can help teachers and administrators figure out how to address the needs of their staff, colleagues, peers, friends, and students.

By the way, the publisher TCPress has generously offered a wonderful gift for listeners of this podcast: If you order Karen's book Trauma Doesn't Stop at the School Door and use this code TLL2020 you will get 15% off the book and free shipping. make sure you take advantage of this. (Neither Teaching Learning Leading K12  or I get remuneration for this offer.) 

Lots to learn today.

Thanks for listening.

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Connect with Karen and Learn More:

www.karengrosseducation.com

https://www.tcpress.com/karen-gross

https://medium.com/@KarenGrossEdu/how-to-reopen-closed-schools-simple-answer-is-carefully-d44f94b36488

https://youtu.be/fdwaUCEbhBk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me5YVuCtrqk

https://teachinglearningleadingk12.podbean.com/e/karen-gross-wrinkles-doesnt-like-social-distancing-288/

https://medium.com/@KarenGrossEdu/wrinkles-wants-you-to-write-him-fea8ebdee2c1

https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/wrinkles-doesnt-like-social-distancing-i-don-t-blame-him-c000a7303402

https://medium.com/@KarenGrossEdu/a-wrinkles-story-podcast-wow-is-it-good-5dea87c75e1d

Listen to Steve read Karen's Story - Wrinkles Doesn't Like Social Distancing and I Don't Blame Him 

 

Length - 48:18