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Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Karen Gross has created a wonderful children's story to help children understand their feelings about social distancing. Her ebook explains social distancing through the experiences of her dog -Wrinkles. What a great way to help kids understand what is going on in this strange new world. This is episode 288 of Teaching Learning Leading K12. At the end of the interview Karen reads her story so you can share the story with your children. Also, make sure that you go to the YouTube link listed below so that you can read the story to your children.
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 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.
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Wrinkles Doesn't Like Social Distancing (YouTube link)
Length - 36:09
Friday Mar 27, 2020
Friday Mar 27, 2020
DON TRUMBULL is a former air carrier president and director of operations. Following a ten-year mission exploring the vulnerability of our U.S. air carriers/supply chains to the catastrophic threat of solar flare/electromagnetic pulse; in 2019 his broader findings inspired a civilian countermeasure system called the SAFE STATE Project. An achievable on-site defense for individuals, communities, and emergency services, the SAFE STATE countermeasure is a low-cost alternative to hardening the critical infrastructures.
Don is the author of the upcoming book...Safe States which is a novel that focuses on the potential impact of EMP on our world as we know it.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/173309721X
Length: 35:58
Saturday Mar 21, 2020
Saturday Mar 21, 2020
Restoring the Shattered is an account of Nancy E. Head’s journey through single-motherhood and poverty. The permanent divide between her and her husband led to a shattering of their family as the children settled into separate camps. The story begins when Nancy and her children have little to eat. Through a miraculous intervention, God provides—and leads them along their way. Other interventions and more guidance came from people of different denominations, illustrating Christ’s love through the larger Church. This is episode 286 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Nancy notes, “I was a single mother with five children under the age of 14. We endured hard days, what I call “the lean years.” Yes, there were programs to help, but in many ways, those programs were designed to make us permanent fixtures in an impersonal system. They were designed to make us stand still in life.”
“But another factor made all the difference for us. It was the ministry we received from Christians of various faith traditions. Because needs aren’t always material. A welfare check doesn’t heal the kinds of wounds divorce and poverty cause. But the love of Christ does."
This type of ministry doesn’t make you stand still in life. Instead, it lifts you to a new place. It doesn’t just provide. It encourages. It brings healing. And it showed me that the Church is bigger than I thought”
Restoring the Shattered: Illustrating Christ's Love Through the Church in One Accord will inspire you.
Nancy has created an easy to read book that makes you want to know what happens next.
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https://www.amazon.com/Restoring-Shattered-Illustrating-Christs-Through-ebook/dp/B07H2QDPRM
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/restoring-the-shattered-nancy-e-head/1128814320
https://www.morgan-james-publishing.com/
Length - 1:08:15
Saturday Mar 14, 2020
Saturday Mar 14, 2020
Kirsten Richert and Jeff Ikler talk with me today about their new book - Shifting: How School Leaders Can Create a Culture of Change. They also tell us about their audio podcast Getting Unstuck - Shift for Impact. Thanks for listening. Lots to learn. Please feel free to share and subscribe. This is episode 285 of the audio podcast Teaching Learning Leading K12.
Kirsten Richert (KEAR-sten RICK-urt) is an innovation expert who works with leaders on transformational efforts. Kirsten teaches Design Thinking, Communication and Innovation at a number of colleges in the greater NYC area. Her teaching draws upon her experience in three core disciplines—business management, ideation methodology, and facilitation.
She received her undergraduate degree in Social Science from Hampshire College, her master’s degree in Social Studies Education from Teachers College at Columbia University, and her training in innovation and facilitation methods from SIT (Systematic Inventive Thinking) and ToP (Technology of Participation).
Formerly Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Pearson, the world’s leading educational publisher, Kirsten oversaw the creation of breakthrough “digital-first” K-12 curriculum. Trained as a corporate on-call innovation coach, she’s helped teams plan new efforts, generate ideas, and execute on strategies.
Now, as an innovation catalyst, Kirsten guides change efforts for organizations, especially in the areas of education and human development. She is particularly interested in organizations that integrate the arts into their work towards social change, such as the Alliance for Arts and Health New Jersey, Real Beauty: Uncovered, and The Barat Foundation.
Jeff Ikler (EYE-klur) is Director of Quetico Career and Leadership Coaching, a firm dedicated to helping individuals overcome career issues, and leaders develop sustained changes in their leadership practices and organizations. He received his certificate in coaching from the Coach Training Institute, a firm recognized as one of the leading coach-training organizations in the world. His approach blends data-driven coaching, and consulting informed by working for more than 35 years in the corporate world.
Jeff holds a Master’s in the Teaching of History along with a Bachelor’s in History from the University of Illinois. He taught high school history in Maywood and Batavia, Illinois, for seven years. Like Kirsten, he is a certified innovation facilitator using the SIT (Systematic Inventive Thinking) process.
He is a former Executive Vice President at Pearson Learning where he directed the development of text- and technology-based products for all disciplines. He finished his career at Pearson by leading the development of its multi-dimensional Leadership Development program for school administrators, working closely with authors Lyle Kirtman and Michael Fullan. He currently works with Lyle Kirtman to support change in school districts and nonprofit organizations.
Kirsten and Jeff also co-host Getting Unstuck – Shift for impact, a podcast that helps individuals and organizations undertake productive change – change that helps them achieve their desired outcomes and impact.
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Connect with Kirsten and Jeff:
https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/shifting/book267770#reviews
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-unstuck-shift-for-impact/id1439952788
https://www.queticocoaching.com/
http://www.richertinnovation.com/contact.html
https://twitter.com/RichertInnovate
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffikler/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenrichert/
Length - 44:15
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Jean O’Toole is a scholarship strategist, author and speaker. She has been inspiring and helping high school and college students for the past 15 years. She is also the author of a new book, Scholarship Strategies: Finding and Winning the Money You Need (Morgan James Publishing). This is episode 284 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
She co-founded Connections101 in 2008, creating workshops, seminars, scholarship clubs, and assemblies for students, parents and educators to help empower young people to take a proactive role in their lives. Thousands of students across the country have participated. Her strategies have helped students win thousands of dollars, including some individuals who secured up to $200,000.
She served for six years, starting in 2005, as a speaker for Monster’s Making It Count program. She traveled across the nation, where over 150,000 high school and college students participated.
As a recipient of an academic college scholarship as well as several outside scholarships she was able to attend Wagner College and graduated with a B.S. in Arts Administration in 1987. Although her scholarships were generous it still required her and her family to pay for the remainder of her education with student loans. Knowing that the debt would need to be paid off after receiving her degree, she was focused on positioning herself for immediate employment upon graduation. Her “money mission” focus motivated her to complete six internships while in college and also work part-time jobs.
O’Toole, who is also a certified Journey Dance facilitator, guides moving meditations, and serves as a WW coach, as she is dedicated to helping people design their lives..
Jean, who grew up in Western Massachusetts, resides in Oak Ridge, New Jersey.
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https://www.connections101.com/
https://twitter.com/scholarshipjean
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIc-Zo6fayi8pXDiuFA2z_g
https://www.instagram.com/scholarshipstrategies/
https://www.facebook.com/scholarshipstrategies/
917-405-0596
Length - 1:06:45