Our Episodes

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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. ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...