Education Rx

This episode is EXTRA Special: we were able to get our amazing friend, John Cordova, to be a guest announcer and help us introduce the episode. John's mom, Shari, joins us to share a parent's perspective on how CoVid and virtual learning impacted her child with special needs. Shari is the founder of a wonderful organization in Albuquerque, NM called The Rio Grande Down Syndrome Network. She is als...

This week we talk with Trise Moore, an equity and engagement specialist from the Pacific Northwest region. She shares ways that families have been impacted by the CoVid 19 experience, and subsequent virtual schooling. Identifying WHY families are key in the education process, as well as simple and effective ways to engage families in the education process. Trise helps identify how educational admi...

In this episode we talk about the mental health impacts of CoVid on young adults and adult students in higher education programs. We discuss how virtual learning was impacted, as well as relationships with peers, and basic living (including sleep-wake cycles, motivation, and the quality of life) were all impacted by CoVid and virtual learning. Looking at how depression and anxiety have been on the...

Join Shannon as she talks with Libby, an administrator at Animas High School in Durango, CO, to explore how relationship building has kept their students engaged in learning. Hollye interviews Kathy, a veteran principal who has used a variety of SEL curriculums, and shares how the "Leader in Me" curriculum took a school that was drowning and turned it into a school where students were setting goal...

In episode 1 we talked about the Social Emotional Crisis that was building pre-CoVid, and was amplified during CoVid. This crisis is impacting academics, but looking deeper, it is causing many teachers to feel defeated. If teachers are feeling hopeless, their students will feel hopeless. How can we learn or take in academic knowledge if we are in a state of trauma or hopelessness? SEL (social emot...

Hosts Hollye Bronson OTR/L, MIDT and Shannon Donnaway SLP introduce Education Rx and interview Dr. Karen Beard, associate professor at Ohio State University, and co-author of Time for Change: Understanding Teacher Social-Emotional Learning Supports for Anti-Racism and Student Well-Being During COVID-19, and Beyond . This episode explores the hidden impact of CoVid on teachers and educators: what i...

Education Rx is a new podcast focused on public education, educators, students, and families. CoVid 19 had a hidden impact on educators that might surprise you. What is it? How did it happen? And how do we move forward? Get ready for a new, provocative podcast that will look at the public education system and ways that we can make it better. Join us. Listen in, learn, and let's start some meaningf...