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In recognition of Native American History Month, we have special guest, Connor Michael Crawn. Connor is an impressive 21 year old alumni from the Indian River School District in Northern NY. He is a current Active Duty Senior Airman having served 3 years so far in the United States Air Force. His current duty position is “Convoy Team Leader” with the 341st Security Forces Group, 341st Missile Secu...

Today we meet our BTA President, Patrick Brady. Pat is a jack of all trades. He has dabbled in so many different kinds of work and activities, that I can safely say he is one of the most well rounded people I know. Andrew and I had a blast talking with him and we hope you enjoy getting to know your BTA union president, Pat Brady.

Today we speak to one of our retirees from Bellport High School, Matt Feddern. He shares his words of wisdom and stories of his time with us here since his arrival in 1991. Listen closely to the fun fact Andrew has about our next senior rep, John Romashko!

On our last episode of our Teachers of Color mini-series, we introduce you to 3 lovely female teachers-which coincides perfectly with Women's History Month. Ms. Grunenberg is one of our Orchestra teachers, and Mrs. Garcia is a Spanish and ENL teacher at Bellport High School. Ms. Escobar is a Speech teacher, currently working in Frank P. Long. On this episode we get stories of a Chinese-America...

For this Teachers of Color Mini-Series episode, we highlight Mr. Rodney O'Neal and Ms. Nefe Abamwa. Mr. O'Neal is a Special Education teacher at Bellport High School and Ms. Abamwa is a Social Studies teacher in the same building. We hope you enjoy their stories.

For the first episodes of this year, my cohost, Andrew Budris, and I, are bringing you a mini series on the many stories of our teachers of color at South Country School District. We invited a few of our teachers of color to tell us their stories about how they came into their careers in education, what it was like making that choice and journeying through their college experiences to find themsel...

In this episode, Andrew and I wrap up our Secret Summer Lives of Teachers Series by discussing our own summer experiences. We discuss how we are wrapping up summer and thinking about the fall. Take a listen, you just might be able to relate.

Lori Dougherty is one of our younger colleagues, but she’s lived a very full life already. She sat with us to recount her summers of backpacking across Europe and how wedding planning has taken over her plans this summer. Sort of…even now she’s made time for some traveling. She’s the best coadvisor I can ask for, and I’m so glad she took some time to sit and chat with us for a while. If you take a...

The Secret Summer Lives Of Teachers: Sarah Rauch  Sarah is a returning guest, she’s one of our favorite teachers to talk to. Her Summers our experiences we should all strive to have. Take a listen to see how one of the most reflective, wise and kindest teachers I know, spends her summer months.

What DO teachers do in the summer??? My co-host Andrew and I, bring you our summer series on, The Secret Summer Lives of Teachers. We wanted to shed a little light on how teacher spend their summers and have invited four of South Country's own to share a little bit of their experiences with us. We begin the series by introducing Ms. Loraine Richardson McCray. She is one of the "finer" teachers I k...

In this episode we speak to two elementary teachers about our children at the kindergarten and 4th grade levels and what they have observed in the ways our kids have weathered the past two years as a result of the pandemic.

On today’s episode, we are joined by six of our female administrators who have agreed to sit with me and share some stories with about their experiences as women in leadership at South Country. Most of them have made the transition from educators to administrators… I personally found their stories so interesting. I hope you enjoy our conversation, I know that for me, as they spoke, I was reminded...

In this episode we speak to two teacher veterans about their military experiences and their transition to education.