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Monday Dec 19, 2022
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Dr. Judith Peck talks about art, the world of art, and her novel: Naked Under the Lights. This is episode 528 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Dr. Judith Peck is Professor Emerita of Art, Ramapo College of New Jersey. She is author of several fiction and non-fiction works and a sculptor with work in eighty collections, including the Yale Gallery of Art, the Ghetto Fighters Museum in Israel, libraries, universities, and cultural and religious institutions here and abroad.
Dr. Peck holds a doctoral degree from New York University and two master's degrees from Columbia University. She is recipient of the 2020 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award and has completed the first draft of a 4th novel about an art therapist who helps solve a school shooting.
Judith grew up in Baltimore Maryland. She has four grown children and twelve grandchildren and resides in Mahwah, New Jersey.
Images and videos of her sculpture can be viewed at www.jpecksculpture.com. Descriptions of her books can be seen at www.iapbooks.com
Our focus today is on her novel … Naked Under the Lights
The story is set in and around the iconic Art Students League in New York City where 20th Century stars of the art world studied and taught. Here, Bert Kossoff teaches painting when he is not cloistered in his studio. His wife Ruth defends her husband’s distance and tolerates his infidelities for the sake of their daughter. Sonata at age 18, lacking purpose of her own, is drawn to the mystique of her father in his world of artists and models. In the struggle to find her way, Sonata encounters family secrets long concealed and later, one that tears open their lives, exposing the lies that have misled them, even as they sustained them.
As each member of this shattered family finds a path to move forward, art itself—the urgency to create—is revealed as a force of its own. The terrain is confounding, where people searching for truth have learned to practice the art of illusion.
Amazing conversation!
So much to learn!
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Thanks, Brian!
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Length - 44:40
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Francisco Cervantes: Director of Creative Learning of the Scratch Foundation. This is episode 527 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Francisco has extensive experience researching, designing, and implementing educational resources in K–12 computer science. Before joining the Scratch Foundation, Francisco served as the Director of HS/MS Computer Science Academics for NYC Department of Education’s CSforAll Team and earlier as a researcher with EDC's Center for Children and Technology.
Francisco worked closely with ScratchEd’s Creative Computing Curriculum Guide while in these roles where he investigated how teachers designed learning experiences in computing education. He later worked with rural and tribal schools in Minnesota to build K-12 CS programs that support underrepresented students in computing.
Francisco is a California native and holds an M.A. in Educational Leadership, Politics, and Advocacy from New York University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include the development of computational fluency in young learners and the use of formal assessments in design-based learning environments. In his spare time, Francisco enjoys skateboarding and playing soccer.
A note about Scratch…
Scratch has become the world’s largest coding community for kids. In the past year alone, more than 200 million children interacted with Scratch.
So much to learn!
Awesome talk!
Some extra information before you go...
The new intro and outro music was written and performed by Brian K. Buffington.
Connect with Brian at briankbuffington@gmail.com or go to his website at
He is an awesome musician, comedic power, teacher, trainer, technology guru, and overall creator of all that is cool.
Thanks, Brian!
Oh, yeah...
Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be Awesome. Thanks!
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? That would so awesome!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for listening!
Connect & Learn More:
https://www.scratchfoundation.org/
https://www.instagram.com/scratchteam/
https://www.facebook.com/scratchteam/
Length - 34:56
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Dr. Quintin Shepherd: The Secret to Transformational Leadership. This is episode 526 of Teaching Learning Leading K12.
Dr. Quintin Shepherd, a true visionary for the future of education, is the Superintendent at Victoria Independent School District in Victoria, Texas.
Sarah Williamson of SWPR Group works with leaders in education to create thoughtful public relations programs that promote growth, build momentum, and enhance learners’ academic success and overall well-being.
Today, we are focused on their book - The Secret to Transformational Leadership
Even with the deluge of leadership books on the market, a superintendent of a large school district and his colleague, the head of a prominent PR firm, still struggled to find a book that spoke to them about what they needed to become really successful leaders. So they wrote one themselves.
Dr. Quintin Shepherd and co-writer Sarah Williamson use their combined decades of experience in the education and corporate spheres to create a unique model for leadership that is anchored by compassion and a powerful new language.
The Secret to Transformational Leadership presents the personal journeys of such professionals as a pediatric cancer specialist, a president of an innovative nonprofit, and a former investment banker who became an online entrepreneur. The authors use their experiences to illustrate how we are at a precipice for real change in the way we perceive and enact leadership.
This book offers practical advice about how to make a transition into compassionate leadership through adopting a new language of leadership—one that Quintin shows can teach us how to lead from the middle. And if the way we approach leadership can help others think differently, ultimately we can create a ripple effect of empathy, compassion, kindness, and a sense of purpose for our life’s work.
So much to learn!
Some extra information before you go...
The new intro and outro music was written and performed by Brian K. Buffington.
Connect with Brian at briankbuffington@gmail.com or go to his website at
He is an awesome musician, comedic power, teacher, trainer, technology guru, and overall creator of all that is cool.
Thanks, Brian!
Oh, yeah...
Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be Awesome. Thanks!
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? That would so awesome!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for listening!
Connect & Learn More:
https://www.transformationalleadershipsecret.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/quintin-shepherd-45602715/
Length -45:58
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Jeff Ikler & Steven Miletto Discuss Knowing Your Purpose and Doing One More. This is episode 525 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Jeff Ikler 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. He is a certified innovation facilitator using the SIT (Systematic Inventive Thinking) process. Additionally, Jeff 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. Jeff is the host of the podcast Getting Unstuck - Cultivating Curiosity. He is the author of the book Shifting: How School Leaders Can Create a Culture of Change.
Today we are talking about Finding, Knowing, and Keeping our Purpose as well as doing One More.
So much to learn!
Thanks for listening!
Some extra information before you go...
The new intro and outro music was written and performed by Brian K. Buffington.
Connect with Brian at briankbuffington@gmail.com or go to his website at
He is an awesome musician, comedic power, teacher, trainer, technology guru, and overall creator of all that is cool.
Thanks, Brian!
Oh, yeah...
Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be Awesome. Thanks!
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? That would so awesome!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for listening!
To connect with Jeff go to:
Jeff Ikler
Executive Coach - Personal Leadership
Podcaster – Getting Unstuck – Cultivating Curiosity
Author - Shifting: How School Leaders Can Create a Culture of Change
Instagram - @jeff.ikler
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffikler/
Calendar - Let's schedule some time together
Length - 34:35
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Laurel Schmidt talks about her book Gardening in the Minefield: A Survival Guide for School Administrators. This is episode 524 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Laurel Schmidt is a lifelong educator (teacher, principal, district director), art lover, and writer. She's the author of a critically-acclaimed novel, How to Be Dead – A Love Story, and four non-fiction books on art, learning, and brain development. Today we will be focused on her book for school administrators - Gardening in the Minefield: A Survival Guide for School Administrators.
She's a nationally recognized expert who has helped thousands of docents and museum educators master the art of leading dynamic inquiry-based conversations that have museum visitors and students longing for more.
Laurel also works with the education departments of numerous museums in Los Angeles and New York. She is a consultant to The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), and co-author of Contemporary Art Start: A Curriculum Guide to Contemporary Art and Culture, published by MOCA in 1985. It is the centerpiece of an inquiry-based art education program. She is a consultant to the Guggenheim Museum, The Met and MoMA in New York City and presents at their annual Teacher Institute on The Arts.
She was a member of the Education Advisory Board of the Natural History Museum and served for eight years on the Landmarks Commission in the City of Santa Monica, California. She has published numerous articles in national journals for parents, teachers and school leaders.
However, writing is her lifelong passion. She is the author of Seven Times Smarter: 50 Activities, Games and Projects to Develop the Multiple Intelligences in Your Child (Three Rivers Press, 2001), Gardening in the Minefield: A Survival Guide for School Administrators (Heinemann, 2002), and Classroom Confidential: 50 Things Great Teachers Do Behind Closed Doors, and Putting the Social Back in Social Studies (Heinemann, 2007). Laurel is also a consultant, university lecturer and professional development specialist.
Laurel received a BA in Art from Mt. Saint Mary’s College and a Masters Degree in Art History from California State University in Northridge. Her thesis was on contemporary photorealism. She also studied art history at Oxford University.
When not writing, she enjoys painting, reading, watching good films and happy hour with friends. She lives with her writer husband, Durnford King, in Santa Monica, California. Next life---Paris. For more information, please consult: www.laurelschmidt.com
Some extra information before you go...
The new intro and outro music was written and performed by Brian K. Buffington.
Connect with Brian at briankbuffington@gmail.com or go to his website at
He is an awesome musician, comedic power, teacher, trainer, technology guru, and overall creator of all that is cool.
Thanks, Brian!
Oh, yeah...
Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be Awesome. Thanks!
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? That would so awesome!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for listening!
Connect & Learn More:
https://www.amazon.com/Laurel-J.-Schmidt/e/B001IU0D08%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_shar
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09CG4L3WT/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
Length - 01:29:58