The Miseducation of Ricky Medina

Maggie Ogle is a movement practitioner receiving her MFA in Dance at CSULB. Together we chat about our dance journeys, artistry, and choreographic practices.

In this episode, Ricky and Ryanna discuss creativity, the arts, and how to live "all with heart". You can find Ryanna's podcast at https://open.spotify.com/show/3f0RJyWlDvkcJwWGLTyicx?si=77e4dcdc4d3b4f25 and her website for All With Heart at https://allwithheart.com/ You can watch the dance performance that Ryanna and discussed at https://youtu.be/k2I8sNadfj4?si=SWU0hY_CjxXvBsd0

Mr. Ricky revisits a conversation with his first repeat guests of the podcast! Suri, Abi, and Arianna talk with Mr. Ricky about their reflections about middle school, and their upcoming plans for their high school careers.

In this episode, Ricky responds to some of the recent Hip-hop conundrums, including the 2024 Grammys, Killer Mike, Andre 3000's flute album, Lil Dicky, Yasiin Bey's opinions on Drake, and many more. Apologies for the worst camera angle in this podcast's history.

In this episode, Ricky discusses the most important Hip-hop song of 2016. This podcast series is inspired by the book "The Rap Yearbook" by Shea Serrano.

In this episode, Ricky dives into the most important Hip-hop song of 2015. This podcast series is inspired by the book "The Rap Yearbook" by Shea Serrano.

In this episode, Ricky shares some summer reflections, excuses, and some direction for the podcast in this next season.

Jessi Pontillas is a middle school dance teacher. She is an alumni from UCLA dance and Versastyle. Jessi and Ricky talk about their paths to becoming educators, as well as some of the challenges and joys that come with teaching dance to middle schoolers.

In this episode, Ricky sits down on a video call with educator, author, and advocate Isabel Brown. Mrs. Brown is the founder of Brown Crayon Advocacy (https://www.browncrayonadvocacy.org), an educational advocacy organization. She is also the author of "Advocacy ABCs: An Elementary Guide to Self Advocacy". You can order her book on Amazon, and you can find some instances of the services...

In this episode, Ricky sits down with three of his graduating 8th graders. Together they discuss what they've learned throughout their middle school experience, how dance class went for them this year, and what they're looking forward to in high school.

Forgive the sloppy intro, but here's Pt. 2 from the Spring Events episode! In this episode Ricky talks Cal Lutheran's Final, as well as being invited to a Senior Dance concert from a past student, and all the emotions that come with seeing students moving on.

Ricky debriefs two educational events from this spring season (WASC - Western Association of Schools and Colleges and ACDA - American Collegiate Dance Association) The next episode will debrief two more events.

Steph and Ricky talk about her incredible dance career, nudity, spirituality, self-love, and cruises. You can follow Steph @_stephaniebrodie on instagram.

Ricky discusses his recent teaching endeavors and celebrates De La Soul's recent release of their music catalogue on streaming platforms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i346sS-_8Q

This episode Ricky discusses his winter break, teaching middle schoolers House, and the passing of Stephen "tWitch" Boss (RIP).

Guadalupe is the Assistant Principal at Ricky's school. Together they discuss restorative justice, and how it is incorporated to the educational field.

Byron Bucao is the founder of the Alias Dance fam, Co-owner of the Welcome to the 805 showcase, and Retour clothing company. Ricky and Byron recap this year's Welcome to the 805 and talk about Byron's experiences running 6 different dance teams. You can follow him on instagram @byronbucao, and @aliasdancefam.

Ricky and Shirley discuss early childhood development, as well as starting a school in a backyard during the pandemic.

In this episode, Ricky discusses what it means to focus on the positives as an educator. Ricky also talks about his first month back at school and why it's been 5 weeks without an episode!

Alexia Liavas is the owner of Aspire Dance Studio located in Westlake, CA. Together they discuss what it's like to own a studio, some of the challenges the pandemic put small businesses through, and they joys of teaching young students how to dance.

In this episode, Ricky discusses his Why, and how that has changed after this past year. Enjoy the fancy new mic.

Ryan is Ricky's second cousin (we think) and is a high school English teacher in Northern California. Together they share their passions about education and how their classes relate to one another.

Jessica Steinhart is a dancer, dance instructor, dance choreographer, and yoga instructor.  Jessica Steinhart runs the dance camp at Sierra Canyon School. 

Sami Simon is a dance teacher and choreographer. Ricky and Sami discuss how their first year of teaching went, as well as the differentiation necessary to teach dance in various different educational settings

Galit Friedlander is an LA-based movement artist, coach, choreographer, and podcast host.  In this episode, Ricky and Galit talk about teaching, coaching, and dancing. Find out more about Galit at https://www.gogalit.com/ and listen to the DanceSpeak Podcast on Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts.