InclusivEd Podcast

Lauren Jones is a global inclusion and leadership consultant who partners with schools and organizations to develop inclusive policies and programs that support neurodivergent learners. Her work focuses on breaking down barriers to access and driving sustainable change in school systems. She has collaborated with a range of organizations, including the Ministry of Education in Rwanda, the National...

Amber is an education leader with over 18 years of experience in teaching, leadership, and systems design, specializing in inclusive education and student support structures across international contexts. She has established and led pioneering initiatives, including a Learning Support Department for bilingual learners in the Middle East, a research-based RTI framework for literacy and mathematics...

Today we are excited to welcome Katie Fowle and Janelle Meyer to the InclusivEd Podcast! Katie Fowle, M.Ed, believes each child can learn to read and reach their full potential when given the proper support and consistent relationship. Katie draws on her nineteen years of teaching and specialized training in Orton Gillingham to design personalized lessons that empower children's confidence and suc...

Today we are excited to welcome Justin Cook and Darren Spyksma to our podcast! Justin is the Director of Learning for Edvance Christian Schools Association, a network of approximately 100 independent Christian schools in eastern Canada. Justin has his MA in Educational Leadership from the Institute for Christian Studies in connection with the University of Toronto. Beyond his current role, Justin...

Today we are excited to welcome Dominique Smith to the InclusivEd podcast!  Dominique Smith, Ed. D. is Chief of Educational Services and Teacher Support at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, California. Smith is passionate about creating school environments that honor and empower students. His research and instruction focuses on restorative practices, classroom management, growt...

Dr. Joleen Fernald Ph. D., CCC-SLP was awarded Board Specialty Recognition in Child Language from the American Speech Language Hearing Association. Dr. Jo follows Greenspan and Wieder’s model, DIRFloortime®, when working with children and families. She has a special interest in the social-emotional development of young children and its impact on their speech and language skills. As a speech-langua...

Today we are excited to welcome Suzanne Fitzgerald to the InclusivEd podcast who is the president of Specially Designed Education Services (SDES). Suzanne specializes in writing curriculum and providing functional academic training and consultation related to programming for students with disabilities. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Services from Western Washington University an...

Shemica is a Special Education Advocate & Business of Special Education Advocacy Instructor for the Council of Parent Attorneys & Advocates (COPAA) where she helps to train others to advocate for students with disabilities. She also founded Personalized Learning Solutions, LLC, and is a former educator with over 15 years of teaching and administration experience working with students with...

Today we are excited to welcome Beth Stark, UDL expert and inclusionary practices strategist for international schools to the InclusivEd Podcast. During Beth’s nearly twenty years in education, she has worked with neurodiverse learners of all ages and exceptionalities. Beth has worked for sixteen years as an IB Learning Support Coordinator and is an active member of the international education com...

This is the final episode of a 4 part series with a focus on Behavior with Amanda Frank. Today we are excited to welcome Amanda Frank to the Inclusive Ed podcast who is a board-certified behavior analyst with a career spanning over 15 years in the fields of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Inclusive Education. Amanda has dedicated her educational journey to understanding the intricacies of huma...

Today we are excited to welcome Dr. Barbara Noel to the InclusivEd podcast who is an English Language Specialist and Director for Language4Learning Consulting. Her current areas of focus are biliteracy, academic language development, and content-based instruction. This episode will focus on how educators can support multilingual students.

This is episode 3 of a 4 part series with a focus on Behavior with Amanda Frank. Today we are excited to welcome Amanda Frank to the Inclusive Ed podcast who is a board-certified behavior analyst with a career spanning over 15 years in the fields of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Inclusive Education. Amanda has dedicated her educational journey to understanding the intricacies of human develo...

This is episode 2 of a 4 part series with a focus on Behavior with Amanda Frank. Today we are excited to welcome Amanda Frank to the Inclusive Ed podcast who is a board-certified behavior analyst with a career spanning over 15 years in the fields of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Inclusive Education.  Amanda has dedicated her educational journey to understanding the intricacies of human devel...

This is episode 1 of a 4 part series with a focus on Behavior with Amanda Frank. Today we are excited to welcome Amanda Frank to the Inclusive Ed podcast who is a board-certified behavior analyst with a career spanning over 15 years in the fields of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Inclusive Education.  Amanda has dedicated her educational journey to understanding the intricacies of human devel...

Our guest this week is Suzanne Fitzgerald who is the president of Specially Designed Education Services (SDES). Suzanne specializes in writing curriculum and providing functional academic training and consultation related to programming for students with disabilities. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Services from Western Washington University and her master’s in special education...

Today we are excited to welcome Mark Hull to the InclusivEd podcast. Mark is the Director of International Development for the 3D Institute. He’s spent over 35 years working with coaches, seeing first-hand the pressurized world of sports and the highs and lows of coaching.   Listen to this episode to learn more about Growth Mindset.

Our guests are Paula de Leon Diaz, and Kristin Moffitt from Behavior Solutions Lab which is a platform that empowers educators with the tools to positively impact lasting behavioral change in the classroom. Paula de Leon Diaz has an educational background in Psychology and Applied Behavior Analysis. She is a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) with a Graduate Certificate in Applied Behavior An...

Dr. Amy Szarkowski is a psychologist who specializes in working with children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families. After residing in Italy for a year on a Fulbright scholarship and living/teaching in Japan for three years, she returned to the U.S. and joined the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program (DHHP) at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she remained for over a decade. Currently, sh...

Our guest is Dr. Liz Angoff, a Licensed Educational Psychologist, who focuses on neuropsychological assessment and parent support. She is the author of the Brain Building Book, tools for engaging students in understanding their learning and developmental differences as part of the assessment process. 

This podcast features our guest, Dr. Susan Grant. Dr. Grant holds a Ph. D. in Neuroscience and specializes and did research in Neurolinguistics, the study of the relationship between brain and language development.  She works in partnership with parents, teachers, learning specialists, and school administrators to deepen their understanding of the child’s learning challenges to facilitate prescrib...

This podcast features our guest Kim Hopkins. Kim is an independently licensed clinical social worker and the Director of Outreach for Dr. Ross Greene’s non-profit, Lives in the Balance. In this podcast she discusses a model that moves away from using traditional rewards and consequences and instead focuses on the skills deficits students have and how to craft interventions to teach them what they...

We are excited to welcome Betsy Murray to the Inclusive Ed podcast who is an Educational Diagnostician. She has worked in education for over 20 years in a variety of roles from general education teacher, reading specialist, reading coach, and now as an educational diagnostician. 

Julie Sealine, an Implementation Specialist with Really Great Reading, to the Inclusive Ed podcast. She is a certified early childhood and early childhood special education teacher. She has more than 10 years of experience in the classroom, as a literacy coach, a university instructor, and a State Department consultant. Now, as an Implementation Specialist, Julie has supported thousands of educato...