Navigating Education - The Podcast

In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Rhoads interviewed Samantha Shaffner and discussed digital assessment tools. Ms. Shaffner has utilized assessment EdTech tools inside and outside the classroom in her various roles in her career. Our conversation focused on a number of assessment tools ranging from Pear Deck, Edulastic, Wakelet, Quizzizz, and Buncee and how to effectively use them for formative...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads interviewed Robert Martellacci, who is one of Canada's foremost EdTech Leaders to discuss co-working spaces, the state of education in Canada, and Canadian EdTech. First, we began our discussion with co-working spaces and how they have evolved. Additionally, the conversation moves to how they will look in the next five years as well as how schools may create their own c...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads interviews David Frangiosa, who is the author of Going Gradeless for Corwin Press, discusses how to take classes from a traditional grade-based classroom to a gradeless classroom. Throughout this discussion, we outline the why, mindset, and then how it can be done in your classroom. From setting up the gradeless classroom to providing student feedback after assessments,...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads interviewed John Maguire, a middle school Special Education teacher from the Bronx in New York City. He wrote the case study found in Chapter 5 of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders. During this conversation, Mr. Maguire outlined his background and context in education and how he switched to education after a career in finance, wh...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads interviewed Alfonso Mendoza on getting started with creating your own education podcast. As someone who has over 75 plus episodes on his own podcast, MyEdTechLife, Mr. Mendoza has a lot of experience podcasting, which gave light to many great nuggets of information to help would-be and current podcasters during this episode. We discuss the production to marketing proces...

In the final bonus episode of the Navigating the Toggled Term series, all of the contributing authors of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders met for a launch party to celebrate the book as well as discuss the present and future of education. The book's contributing authors all wrote short case study's at the end of each chapter to illustrate and provide first...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads interviewed Dr. Janet Ilko, who is the Chapter 6 Case Study contributing author in Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders. In Chapter 6, the book discusses how to communicate and engage with students and families. It provides strategies and EdTech integrations to communicate and engage with students when they are in a wide variety of...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads interviewed Dr. Kevin Leichtman on the topic of teacher burnout. This topic is important, especially now, as teachers and schools are navigating uncharted waters as we are taking on the challenges of living in a world of COVID-19. Along with the everyday stress of navigating a classroom, parents, students, and administration, teachers have had to navigate moving between...

In this bonus episode of the podcast, Dr. Rhoads interviewed Elizabeth Esposito Haupert, who is the case study contributing author in Chapter 4 of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders. Our conversation discussed differentiation strategies and EdTech integrations to help students within any classroom setting. As someone who works with a wide variety of students...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads interviewed Alexander Deeb, who is the co-found and CEO of the EdTech platform Classhook on student engagement. As a company that thinks about student engagement constantly, our discussion outlined how bite-sized learning using relevant popular culture media is essential to help students build conceptual frameworks around the skills and concepts they are taught. Additio...

In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Rhoads discusses EdTech Coaching with Debbie Tannenbaum. At the beginning of the episode, we discuss Mrs. Tannenbaums background in education. She has been able to see many inceptions of EdTech integration over her career, which made for an interesting conversation of what has changed over the past two decades in education. Then, the conversation shifts to discu...

In this bonus episode of the podcast, Dr. Matt interviewed Victoria Lowe, who is the Chapter 8 Case Study contributing author of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders. In our conversation, Ms. Lowe outlines how she uses a wide range of strategies and EdTech tools to integrate into her lessons within blended learning classroom settings. In this discussion, she d...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads discussed rural education and how to best support rural educators with Dr. Casey Jakubowski. In our conversation, we outlined some of the challenges of rural education ranging from underfunding, but also discussed its strengths such as community involvement by students and teachers. As the conversation progressed, Dr. Jakubowski discussed how our schools need to provide...

In this bonus episode, Dr. Rhoads interviewed Jennifer Ingold, the contributing author for Chapter 2's case study of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders, on mainstream EdTech tools that amplify learning anywhere and anytime. Within our conversation, Mrs. Ingold outlined how she utilizes slides and docs as hyperdocs and hyperslides to create clear, concise, pr...

In this bonus episode, Dr. Rhoads takes a deep dive with Shannon Moore, who is the contributing author for Chapter of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders, on the topic of selecting EdTech tools to amplify instruction in any setting. Throughout the conversation, we discussed how to select EdTech tools, which centers around the philosophy of "think less is more...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads spoke with Dr. Malikah Nu'Man on restorative justice practices implementation throughout the school community as well as her research on teacher trauma and how to mitigate it to help with teacher retention. Throughout our conversation, Dr. Nu'Man provides many applicable restorative justice practices to integrate within school cultures ranging from embedded social emoti...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads spoke to Ariel Adrian who wrote one of the self-care case studies in Chapter 12 of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders. We discussed the mind-body connection and how self-care is essential to educators who want to be their best selves not only to their students and colleagues but authentically to themselves. In addition, she outlin...

In this bonus episode of Navigating Education - The Podcast, Dr. Rhoads discusses professional development and learning with Rose Avalos who is a case study author in Chapter 11 of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders. Further elaborating on her case study she wrote for the book, Ms. Avalos outlines her experience with professional development and learning ove...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads interviews Dr. C. Malik, Boykins on his music, learning, and racial bias algorithms. We first discussed Dr. Boykins context in education and how he has navigated his research and teaching the past 15 months. Following that conversation, we had a short discussion about his music, which has taken off on platforms such as Tik-Tok to create dance music videos. This conversa...

In this bonus episode of Navigating Education - The Podcast, Dr. Rhoads discussed with Dr. Darrin Peppard district leadership and leadership practices that have helped him navigate the past 15 months as a district leader. Dr. Peppard is a contributing author to Chapter 10's case study of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders that relates to the chapter's theme...

In this episode of Navigating Education - The Podcast, Dr. Rhoads discusses with Jillian DuBois, who is the contributing author of one of Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders Chapter 12 case study on educator self-care. Her topic in the case study on self-care is on letting go of perfectionism and focusing on joy versus happiness. Our conversation in this podc...

In this bonus episode of Navigating Education - The Podcast, Dr. Rhoads interviews Mark Ureel who is a contributing author for the chapter three case study in the book Navigating the Toggled Term: A Guide for K-12 Classroom and School Leaders.  Within his case study, Mark outlines how he utilized instructional strategies to amplify his students learning in several classroom settings. In our c...

In this episode, Dr. Neil Anderson was interviewed by Dr. Rhoads on the topic of Fine Arts and Music Education. Dr. Anderson provided his background and context in education, which provides listeners a great synopsis of the state of fine arts and music within education. Throughout our conversation, we discuss how to embed fine arts and music into the curriculum as well as being active collabo...

In Episode 14, Dr. Rhoads interviews Dr. Jasara Hines on the topic of cultural responsiveness and teaching. Throughout the conversation, we discussed what culturally responsive teaching looks like within classroom settings as well as how to establish and maintain relationships with students using many strategies related to culturally responsive pedagogy. Dr. Hines outlined her experience incorpora...

Today on Navigating Education - The Podcast, Dr. Rhoads interviews Greg Bagby, a district-level EdTech Instructional Coordinator, about EdTech Leadership within schools and districts. Mr. Bagby has many years of experience integrating EdTech at the school and district level. He discusses how to set up an infrastructure of relationships, coaching, and goals to help establish and maintain EdTech int...