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Tuesday May 27, 2025
Tuesday May 27, 2025
Kevin Stoller - Better Learning Podcast - talks with Steve about the 1984 movie: Teachers. This is episode 761 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
The Better Learning Podcast combines education and entertainment in a fresh, engaging format where guests share their favorite school-related movies. Host Kevin Stoller leads dynamic conversations, exploring memorable scenes, iconic characters, and timeless lessons through award-style categories like “The John Keating Award” for standout teachers and “Realistic or Ridiculous?” to dissect school life portrayals.
With humor, analysis, and reflection, each episode celebrates the fun, flaws, and impact of these films while sparking nostalgia and insights. Whether you’re an educator, student, or movie buff, join us to relive the movies that shaped how we see school life, and share your favorites.
Teachers is one of my all-time favorite movies. I was in undergraduate school, working on my degree so that I could teach high school history. Mr. Gower is my favorite teacher.
Saw this movie numerous times at the theater.
Love this conversation!
Had fun catching up with Kevin.
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Length - 01:01:20
Monday May 19, 2025
Monday May 19, 2025
Steve Haberlin - Calming Student Stress: Mindfulness, Meditation, and Other Strategies to Reduce Anxiety and Enhance Learning in K-12 Classrooms. This is episode 760 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Steve Haberlin, PhD, is an assistant professor of curriculum and instruction in the College of Community Innovation and Education at the University of Central Florida.
Dr. Haberlin’s research focuses on the implementation of mind-body practices, including mindfulness, meditation interventions to address mental health concerns in educational settings and help students unfold their potential.
His research involves studying the impact of brief meditation, including the use of technology-assisted devices, to improve focus and reduce stress and anxiety. A life-long meditator, with more than 25 years’ experience, his work involves facilitating meditation professional development training and workshops for faculty.
Dr. Haberlin is the author of Meditation in the College Classroom: A Pedagogical Tool to Help Students De-Stress, Focus, and Connect, Awakening to Educational Leadership: A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Supporting and Coaching Teachers, and Calming Student Stress: Mindfulness, Meditation, and Other Strategies to Reduce Anxiety and Enhance Learning in K-12 Classrooms, which was released earlier this year.
Our focus today is Steve’s book - Calming Student Stress: Mindfulness, Meditation, and Other Strategies to Reduce Anxiety and Enhance Learning K-12 Classrooms.
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Great read!
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https://www.amazon.com/Calming-Student-Stress-Mindfulness-Meditation/dp/147587300X
Length - 50:21
Monday May 12, 2025
Monday May 12, 2025
Ben Tanzer - After Hours: Scorsese, Grief and the Grammar of Cinema. This is episode 759 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Emmy-award winner Ben Tanzer's acclaimed work includes the novel - The Missing, the short story collection UPSTATE, the science fiction novel Orphans and the essay collections Lost in Space and Be Cool.
Ben is a Story South and Pushcart nominee, a finalist for the Annual National Indie Excellence and Eric Hoffer Book Awards, a winner of the Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival Nonfiction Prose Award and a Midwest Book Award. He also received an Honorable Mention at the Chicago Writers Association Book Awards for Traditional Non-Fiction and a Bronze Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
He's written for Hemispheres, Punk Planet, Men’s Health, and The Arrow, AARP’s GenX newsletter. He lives in Chicago with his family.
Our focus today will be his latest work - After Hours: Scorsese, Grief and the Grammar of Cinema.
Powerful writing. Engaging. Thought provoking.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-podcast-will-change-your-life/id564098800
https://www.instagram.com/tanzerben/
https://www.facebook.com/BenTanzer/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanzerben/
https://www.tiktok.com/@bentanzerauthor
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001JRXQDQ
Length - 01:11:10
Monday Apr 28, 2025
Monday Apr 28, 2025
Craig Gehring - MasteryPrep: Helping Students Improve Their SAT & ACT Scores. This is episode 758 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Craig Gehring is the founder and CEO of MasteryPrep.
After he earned perfect scores on the ACT and SAT, Craig started tutoring to help students earn scholarships. He found that most students need more support than what traditional test prep programs provide. That was the genesis of MasteryPrep.
Each year, MasteryPrep partners with over 2,000 schools and school districts to help more than 400,000 students improve their ACT and SAT scores at no cost to the students or their families. MasteryPrep is licensed by ACT, Inc. to use official test questions in its material, and is proud to serve as the Council for Opportunity in Education’s preferred provider of ACT and SAT preparation.
Craig lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with his wife and three teenage daughters.
Awesome talk!
So much to learn!
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-gehring-6a179630/
Length - 36:49
Sunday Apr 20, 2025
Sunday Apr 20, 2025
Adam Geller - Observation Copilot: Turning Classroom Observation Notes into Feedback for Teachers. This is episode 757 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Adam Geller is the Founder & CEO of Edthena which harnesses the power of AI and video coaching to enhance professional learning, boost teacher retention, and improve student outcomes.
He started his career in education as a science teacher in St. Louis, Missouri.
Since 2011, Adam has overseen the evolution of Edthena from a paper-based prototype into multiple research-informed platforms for streamlining feedback to teachers:
- AI Coach by Edthena, an artificial intelligence-driven solution to guide teachers through coaching cycles.
- Edthena VC3, a platform for classroom observation and collaboration using video coaching.
- Edthena Organization Libraries, a platform for schools and districts to curate and share best-practice teaching videos.
And today, our focus is on their newest tool for educators… Observation Copilot:
Observation Copilot streamlines the process of turning principals’ classroom observation notes into clear, structured feedback for teachers.
Great conversation!
So much to learn!
Please share.
Thanks for listening!
Before you go...
You could help support this podcast by Buying Me A Coffee. Not really buying me something to drink but clicking on the link on my home page at https://stevenmiletto.com for Buy Me a Coffee or by going to this link Buy Me a Coffee.
This would allow you to donate to help the show address the costs associated with producing the podcast from upgrading gear to the fees associated with producing the show. That would be cool. Thanks for thinking about it.
Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you!
You are AWESOME!
Connect & Learn More:
https://observationcopilot.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/edthena/posts/?feedView=all
https://www.facebook.com/Edthena/
https://www.instagram.com/edthena/
Length - 32:16