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Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Mary Ruppenthal: Registered Architect, Associate Principal at HED - Designing Schools that Meet the Needs of Students and Their Communities. This is episode 604 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Mary is a registered architect and an Associate Principal at HED, one of the oldest and largest architecture and engineering firms in the country, with 400+ employees and annual revenues above $100M.
They serve clients nationwide in a broad range of market sectors, including Healthcare, Higher Education, Mission Critical, Housing and Mixed-Use, Pre-K 12, Science, Manufacturing and Product Development, Workplace, Community, and Government.
With nearly 30 years of experience in public and private sector educational, civic, and cultural design, Mary oversees Pre-K-12 and community education projects at HED and is a regular speaker at trade and industry events on the best practices of flexible and adaptive learning environments for tomorrow’s pedagogical needs and the needs of tomorrow’s workforce and incorporating wellness into educational space design.
She has devoted her career to collaborating with school districts in the design of innovative, high-performing educational facilities that enhance the user experience, maximize efficiency, and help shape the future for students of all ages.
Mary is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), AIA Committee on the Environment, School Energy Coalition, Architecture for Learning Environments (A4LE), Board Secretary, 2020 - Present, this past year served on the NorCal Chapter Board as President Elect and is moving into the role of president in October, Design-Build Institute of America, US Green Building Council, and the Coalition for Adequate Student Housing, where she regularly presents lectures on sustainable school design, case studies, and advocates for evolving best practices in school design.
Cool conversation!
So much to learn and think about!
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-ruppenthal-6bab8713/
https://www.facebook.com/HEDadvances/
https://www.instagram.com/hedadvances/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hedadvances/
Length - 01:05:24
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Andy Cindrich - Change: How to Turn Uncertainty into Opportunity. This is episode 603 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Change is focused on helping the reader to learn from experts from Franklin Covey on how successful leaders engage people in change and turn change into opportunity.
Change was written by co-authors Curtis Bateman, Marche Pleshette, Andy Cindrich, and Christi Phillips. They share their decades of experience and provide actionable tips and skills to pilot your team through the waters of disruptive change.
Andy Cindrich began his work with Franklin Covey in 1999. He loves his job because the work Franklin Covey does align with his personal mission statement to help teams and individuals win. Andy’s experience owning and operating a successful business allows him to customize each client intervention. He has worked with clients to drive results in every imaginable area from safety, to improved sales, to unprecedented improvements in employee engagement, to dramatic decreases in cycle time, to 9-figure cost savings in as little as 5 months. Andy has worked with a variety of industries including software, insurance, hospitality, banking, construction, healthcare, chemical, automobile, mortgage, technology, telecom, energy, and pharmaceutical industries, among others. He has also worked with several US government departments and agencies. He has a master’s in educational leadership, a B.S. in teaching both psychology and history, and a minor in coaching.
Awesome talk!
So much to learn and think about!
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https://www.franklincovey.com/books/change-book/
https://twitter.com/franklincovey
https://www.facebook.com/FranklinCovey/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/franklincovey/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRXz_Dh-KJQ1YpIHH-btzTw
https://www.instagram.com/franklincovey/
https://www.instagram.com/cindrich/
Length - 54:58
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Al Olson - The History of the American Renaissance Festival. This is episode 602 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Al Olson is one of a select handful of eccentric, quirky, and entertaining people who helped grow the American Renaissance Festivals into being a very popular ticket. He shares his story in his comprehensive book, A History of the American Renaissance Festival. While attending the University of Minnesota, working nights in a parking ramp and pumping iron at the Dove’s bicep gym, he also performed his original songs in the same coffee houses that Bob Dylan had a few years earlier on the west bank of the Mississippi. The artistic director of the Minnesota Renaissance Festival attended a theatrical presentation of his original works at Theatre in the Round and hired him on the spot.
He began performing at Renfairs as a member of the group, “Pumpkin,” writing original Renaissance music. After less than a season, he noted the greater crowd impact of groups like Penn and Teller, Avner the Eccentric, the Flying Karamazov Brothers, and Puke and Snot. As a result, Smee and Blogg were formed out of frustration and a desire to present something unique. The tandem comedic vaudeville act performed for 36 years, singing and dancing across the U.S. and Canada at 56 renaissance festivals and medieval faires.
After the act stopped performing in 2013, he continued as the Singing Executioner and renaissance and medieval faires in Texas and Oklahoma to this day. For the past decade he has served as the master of properties for Texas Ballet Theatre. For six years he was the general manager and co-founder of the Tennessee Renaissance Festival. Over the past two decades he has performed voice-overs for radio commercials for various festivals. Earlier in his career, he produced a musical album and served on the board of directors for Real Community Theater in Minneapolis. He’s been interviewed on dozens of radio and TV shows and has been featured in over100 newspaper articles. Olson, who grew up in South Minneapolis, now resides in Ft. Worth, Texas. For more information, please see: www.singingexecutioners.com and https://www.smeebuchs.square.site.
Love this talk!
Time to go to a Renaissance Festival!!!
Don't forget to reach out to Al and get a signed copy of his book - The History of the American Renaissance Festival.
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Connect & Learn More:
https://www.amazon.com/History-American-Renaissance-Festival-Hippies/dp/B09NHD9FSK
https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/arts-and-culture/photos/best-renaissance-festivals-in-the-us
https://www.therenlist.com/all-fairs
https://www.smeebuchs.square.site
Length - 42:48
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Todd Bloom - Chief Learning Officer at Kami - Helping to Increase Student Engagement. This is episode 601 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Kami is an all-in-one classroom sidekick that makes K–12 learning personalized, accessible and engaging, is a popular tool among educators and empowers students through more than 40 tools and features, including rich annotation and markup tools, voice and video comments, read-aloud and voice typing options, imported multimedia, PDF editing and more—providing students multiple means of engagement.
Todd Bloom, the Chief Learning Officer at Kami, talks with me about Kami.
So much to learn and think about.
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https://www.tiktok.com/@kamiapp
https://www.instagram.com/kamiapp/
https://www.youtube.com/user/notablepdf
https://www.facebook.com/kamiapp/
Length - 43:45
Saturday Sep 23, 2023
Saturday Sep 23, 2023
Sandra T. Elliot - Chief Academic Officer at TouchMath: Explains Dyscalculia and TouchMath. This is episode 600 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Sandra T. Elliott, Ph.D., Chief Academic Officer at TouchMath
Dr. Eliott is a career educator who has spent over 4 decades working to enhance education for all students and improve schools and their systems around the globe. She has served as a Special Education teacher, and five-time principal in Florida and Colorado, as well as a district-level administrator. She has held executive level positions at for-profit education providers and foundations and was part of the EngageNY – Eureka Math team for several years.
Dr. Elliott is also a member of the UNESCO-sponsored international EDUsummIT that meets biennially to write education policy recommendations to be adopted by the United Nations. She is thrilled to be able to combine her focus on Special Education and Math at TouchMath and champion for dyscalculia.
So much to learn.
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Connect & Learn More:
https://www.youtube.com/c/TouchMath
https://www.pinterest.com/touchmath/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliottsandra/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/touchmath/
https://twitter.com/touchmath/
https://www.instagram.com/touchmath.official/
https://www.facebook.com/TouchMath/
Length - 39:56