Our Episodes

Guest Elizabeth Power of The Trauma Informed Academy shares inspirational thoughts on how to support students and school staff who experience trauma. Her brilliant insights demystify trauma, explaining it as a human condition...

Meet Dr. Ruth Best, Assist Dean at the California School of Education (SOE) of Alliant International University. Dr. Best participated in our Inspirational Shorts recorded during the Education 2.0 Conference, 2024 in Las Ve...

Guest ⁠Casanova Green⁠ , director of First-Year experience at ⁠Hocking College⁠ , shares his professional knowledge and passion for ensuring community college student success beginning day one. The first-year experience is vi...

Our guest, Sylvia Badwi of Agora Prep Academy discusses a unique learning environment that disrupts the traditional, factory-model of education. Agrora Prep in Canada professes a learner-centered educational approach that is ...

Guest Rodney Toulson , owner of Restorative Consulting Services, shares the importance of systemic restorative practices for schools and school districts. The outcome is a transformed learning community. Recorded at the Educa...

Guest Jeannette Eastin is the founder of Refound Education . Her passion for democratizing education lends itself to supporting families, educators, and communities with innovations and connecting them to vital resources. Jea...

Meet Dr. Christopher Bonn , President and CEO of BonFire Leadership Solutions LLC . He is a former school district superintendent, the author of Igniting Change: The BonFire Principles for Transforming Toxic Organizations , a...

Meet Ty-Quan Payne , Dean of School Culture at Ivy Hill Prep in Brooklyn, NY. Ivy Hill Prep is a small charter school serving grades K-5. Mr. Payne is also an artist and founder of #LovePayne Productions offering independent ...

Guest, Dr. Alisha Pollard , is President of Warriors Helping Achieve Triumph (or “WHAT”). What is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to empowering individuals of all ages through enriching experiences and knowled...

Dr. Elsa Núñez is the President of Eastern Connecticut State University , Connecticut’s only public liberal arts institution of higher education. Dr. Núñez shares her lived experiences, and those as a university president loo...

Dr. Kevin Kumashiro , Interim Dean for the School of Education, Hofstra University , addresses the non-neutral role of schools in social equity. He explains that teaching should be seen as a collective effort, imagined differ...

Our guest Steven Simmons , Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Nilent, NIL Enterprise Solutions , shares experiences supporting college athletes for financial literacy, wellbeing, and social media branding. Partnering w...

Our guest ⁠⁠Andrés Acebo⁠⁠ , Interim President of ⁠⁠New Jersey City University⁠⁠ shares how he and the NJCU community have forged a new mission and vision for what he calls a “Student Ready” college. President Acebo stresses ...

Our guest, Dr. Lisa Vollendorf , is the 6th President of SUNY Empire State University . Did you know that Empire State is New York’s only public, online institution of higher education? Dr. Vollendorf shares the origin of Emp...

Our Guest, ⁠Dr. Ramon Goings⁠ , is the founder of ⁠Done Dissertation⁠ , a consulting firm aimed at helping more than 1000 students successfully complete their dissertations in one year or less. Dr. Goings shares how his exper...

Our guest, Rodney Toulson , returns to the Xcelerated Excellence podcast. He is the founder of Restorative Consulting Service LLC . And in this episode, he outlines how restorative practice is operationalized through his cons...

Our guest, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig , is Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Western Michigan University (WMU). He is an internationally known scholar and a nationally recognized advocate for educational effect...

Our Guests are Drs. Miriam Feldblum , Co-founder and Executive Director, and Felecia Russell , Director of the Higher Ed Immigration Portal, both of the P residents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration . Their episod...

Our guest, Dr. Tyrone Howard , is the Pritzker Family Endowed Chair in the School of Education and Information Studies at University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA ). He is also the immediate past-president of the American...

Our Guest, Eden Strachan (Straw-n), is Executive Director of Black Girls Will Get Love, Inc . and Founder of Black Girls Don’t Get Love, LLC. She is also an award-winning journalist and filmmaker and author of the book Black...

Dr. Margaret Terry Orr is Professor at Fordham University and EdD program director and Chair of the Division of Educational Leadership, Administration, and Policy within the Graduate School of Education . She explains that im...

Our guests Drs. Kimberly A. White-Smith and Sean Green are Professor and Dean and Assistant Dean for Innovation and Community Engagement, respectively for the University of San Diego’s (USD) School of Leadership and Education...

Guest, Dr. Lynn M. Gangone , is President and CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). Dr. Gangone recounts her legacy at AACTE and the association’s leadership in and impact on educator prep...

Our guest, Dr. Christopher (Chris) A. Koch, is President of the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) . The council is comprised of more than 550 member institutions. This episode is part one in a two-p...