Education

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Episode No. 74: Samantha Boltax, Next Jump

LISTEN HERE: If you are checking this out via iPad or other device and cannot see the audio player, click here to listen — or just go ahead and subscribe. You know you want to. Samantha Boltax is in charge of corporate communications for Next Jump, which works with over 75 percent (as high as … Continue reading »

Episode No. 72: Tim Knowles, Urban Education Institute

LISTEN HERE: If you are checking this out via iPad or other device and cannot see the audio player, click here to listen — or just go ahead and subscribe. You know you want to. Tim Knowles has had a long and varied career in the education space. Currently, he’s head of the Urban Education … Continue reading »

Episode No. 70: Valerie Truesdale, Long-Time School Superintendent

LISTEN HERE: If you are checking this out via iPad or other device and cannot see the audio player, click here to listen — or just go ahead and subscribe. You know you want to. When we did this interview, Valerie Truesdale was the Superintendent of Beaufort County Schools in South Carolina. She retired this … Continue reading »

Episode No. 66: Jennifer Dubin on Missouri prisons

LISTEN HERE: If you are checking this out via iPad or other device and cannot see the audio player, click here to listen — or just go ahead and subscribe. You know you want to. Jennifer Dubin is a writer for American Educator. Her “beat,” if you will, is successful school programs that are replicable. … Continue reading »

Episode No. 65: Lydia Dobyns, New Tech Network

LISTEN HERE: If you are checking this out via iPad or other device and cannot see the audio player, click here to listen — or just go ahead and subscribe. You know you want to. I’ll be honest — I taped this interview with Lydia Dobyns, President of the New Tech Network, sometime in early … Continue reading »

Episode No. 64: Cynthia Kaye, Letters Alive

LISTEN HERE: If you are checking this out via iPad or other device and cannot see the audio player, click here to listen — or just go ahead and subscribe. You know you want to. Most Pre-K/K students can focus on a given lesson or exercise for about five minutes at a time — i.e. … Continue reading »

Episode No. 62: Jason Chu, Turnitin

LISTEN HERE: If you are checking this out via iPad or other device and cannot see the audio player, click here to listen — or just go ahead and subscribe. You know you want to. Jason Chu is a senior marketing manager at Turnitin, a company that — if you know it — you probably … Continue reading »

Episode No. 60: David Banks, Eagle Academy Foundation

LISTEN HERE: If you are checking this out via iPad or other device and cannot see the audio player, click here to listen — or just go ahead and subscribe. You know you want to. Whenever we talk about education, we seem to be discussing what isn’t working — but in this interview, we’re going … Continue reading »

Episode No. 52: Lindsay Levkoff, SparkFun

LISTEN HERE: If you are checking this out via iPad or other device and cannot see the audio player, click here to listen — or just go ahead and subscribe. You know you want to. Lindsay Levkoff calls herself a “recovering molecular biologist.” Now she’s the director of education at SparkFun. I spoke to her … Continue reading »

Episode No. 45: Lee Crockett, 21st Century Fluency Project

LISTEN HERE: If you are checking this out via iPad or other device and cannot see the audio player, click here to listen — or just go ahead and subscribe. You know you want to. Lee Crockett is a managing partner at the 21st Century Fluency Project. In that role, he works with schools and … Continue reading »

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