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Aug. 12, 2024

Dr. Lynn M. Gangone—Leading for High Quality Educator Preparation

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...

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Aug. 19, 2024

Dr. Christopher A. Koch—Leading Equity and Effectiveness in Educator …

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...

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Sept. 3, 2024

Dr. Mark LaCelle-Peterson—Leading Equity and Effectiveness in Educato…

Our guest, Dr. Mark LaCelle-Peterson , is a founding team member and President of the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP) . Mark addresses the founding of AAQEP, responding to a demand for greate...

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Sept. 18, 2024

Inspirational Shorts with Dr. Costonzo Bryant-Martin— @CAEPCon on Gen…

Our guest, Dr. Costonzo Bryant-Martin is Assistant Professor of Education and Director of the Call Me MiSTER Program at South Carolina State University (SCSU). For this Inspirational Short recorded during the fall 2024 CAEPCo...

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Sept. 24, 2024

Inspirational Shorts with Drs. LaVada Taylor and Nancy Grim — @CAEPCo…

Our guests are Drs. LaVada Taylor and Nancy Grim are Dean and Professor, respectively, at Chicago State University (CSU). Both are with the School of Education . For this Inspirational Short recorded during the fall 2024 CAEP...

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Oct. 8, 2024

Inspirational Shorts with Dr. Sara Platt — @CAEPCon on The University…

Our guest, Dr. Sara Platt, is Assistant Dean, Director of Assessment and Accreditation and an Assistant Professor of Special Education at the University of Mississippi ’s School of Education. University . She explains that Ol...

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Oct. 19, 2024

Dr. Chezare A. Warren—Centering Possibilities in Education for Black …

Our Guest, Dr. Chezare A. Warren , is Associate Professor of education policy with a secondary faculty appointment in the department of teaching and learning at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College . He addresses the role ...

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Oct. 29, 2024

Naomi Peña—Supporting Families of Struggling Readers, Literacy Academ…

Our guest, Naomi Peña , is Director of Community Engagement and co-founder for the Literacy Academy Collective . Naomi shares her experiences as a parent and an advocate to assistant families with children struggling in readi...

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Nov. 4, 2024

Emily Hellstrom—Literacy Instruction for Struggling Readers, Literacy…

Our guest, Emily Hellstrom , is Director of Strategy and External Affairs and co-founder for the Literacy Academy Collective (LAC). Emily shares her literacy story and the approach taken by LAC to support struggling readers. ...

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Nov. 14, 2024

Dr. Carlota Ocampo—Leading Academic Success, Upholding the Catholic T…

Our guest, Dr. Carlota Ocampo , is Provost of Trinity Washington University . She describes Trinity as a unicorn, the nation’s first Catholic liberal arts college for women that is a minority serving institution (MSI). She is...

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Nov. 25, 2024

Richard Blank—Educating Call Center Representatives in the Bilingual …

Our Guest is ⁠Richard Blank⁠ . He is a native of Philadelphia, PA and CEO of ⁠Costa Rica’s Call Center.⁠ Richard shares the ingredients for supporting and preparing call center representatives for high-impact engagement with ...

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Dec. 9, 2024

Sharif El-Mekki—Rebuilding the Black Teacher Pipeline

Our Guest, Sharif El-Mekki , is founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development in Philadelphia, PA. Sharif explains the mission of the center to rebuild theBlack educator pipeline. He stresses the importance of ...

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Dec. 17, 2024

Dr. Monika W. Shealey—Temple University, Cultivating Diamonds in the …

Our guest, Dr. Monika Williams Shealey, is Dean of Temple University's College of Education and Human Development (CEHD). Dr. Shealey has the distinction of being the first female dean in history of the College of Education a...

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Jan. 6, 2025

Evalyn Gleason—Tackling the Teacher Shortage in New York with TEACHNY

Our guest, Evalyn Gleason , is senior program manager for TEACHNY. TEACHNY is a state-level subsidiary of TEACH.org . The organization has extended its annual impact goal by registering more than55,000 prospective teachers on...

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Jan. 19, 2025

Cheryl Delk-Le Good and Dr. Adil Bentahar—The World of English Langua…

Our guests, Cheryl Delk-Le Good , Executive Director of EnglishUSA , and Dr. Adil Bentahar , Associate Professor at the University of Delaware (UD), explore the world of English language learning for international students. T...

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Jan. 29, 2025

Dr. Micia Mosely—The Black Teacher Project

Our guests, Dr. Micia Mosely , Founder and Director of the Black Teacher Project , advances the mission of creating opportunities for Black teachers to see schools as places of liberated learning. In developing leaders, she e...

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Feb. 3, 2025

Brent Miller—Designing Educational Spaces of Learning with HED

Our guest, Brent Miller , is a highly respected Senior Architect and Managing Principal at HED , one of the oldest and largest integrated architecture-engineering design firms in the United States. His work focuses on develop...

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Feb. 21, 2025

Dr. Rosa Rivera-McCutchen—Radical Care for Leading Justice in Urban S…

Our guest, Dr. Rosa Rivera-McCutchen , is an educator with over 20 years of experience working in NYC public schools and higher education settings. A first-generation college graduate, Dr. Rivera-McCutchen’s research, teachin...

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