Ashley Bushell  is a K-12 Instructional Coach for Fairfield County School District located in rural  Winnsboro, SC, with 15 years of experience in education. She is dedicated to fostering change and promoting equity in educational spaces. Outside of her professional life, she enjoys spending time with her family, traveling and advocating for student success. Ashley recently wrote an article for edCircuit: https://edcircuit.com/leveraging-technology-to-provide-equitable-learning-experiences/

Learn more about Career Connect here :https://www.discoveryeducation.com/education-partnerships/career-connect/

Dr. Manu Kapur, author of  PRODUCTIVE FAILURE  is my guest... he is  a world-renowned expert on learning and currently heads the Future Learning Initiative at ETH University Zurich. Dr. Kapur earned his doctorate in Education from Columbia University.  Dr. Kapur is known for his pioneering research on intentionally designing for and learning from failure, demonstrating how this approach can lead to more effective learning compared to traditional methods. He is known for these two successful TEDX talks: Productive Failure and How Failure Drives Learning.

Today Larry Jacobs interviews Sarah Ottow  founder of Confianza and The Language Lens academy helping schools develop and design high impact learning experiences in language diverse classrooms. Professional learning that builds educator excellence in language, literacy and equity-based mindsets and practices....

Larry Jacobs interviews school psychologist and consultant/expert on school climate and SEL, Dr Howie Knoff, Howie is the President of Project ACHIEVE Educational Solutionsbased in Fort Myers, Florida. and  has been awarded almost $50 million dollars during his career including FIVE five-year $5 Million U.S. Department of Education School Climate Transformation Grants.

Thank you Fordham Institute. Dr. Sofoklis Goulas is an economist. He is a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of “Underachieving and Underenrolled: Chronically Low-Performing Schools in the Post-Pandemic Era,” published by the Fordham Institute last month.Here is a link of the study: https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/research/underachieving-and-underenrolled-chronically-low-performing-schools-post-pandemic

How Discovery Education creates and produces  the virtual and augmented global  learning experiences that allow students worldwide to experience immersive learning with their Senior Director Phil Birchinall.

Scholastic Prep's Chief Academic Officer  Taylor Ellis is my guest. and will speak their full programs including STEM engagement, college prep and their the Scholarship Prep Foster/Homeless Youth Services Program providing comprehensive, wraparound services to support diverse foster/homeless youth population in achieving their unlimited potential. Foster/Homeless Youth and their families receive additional guidance and support.. MORE HERE

Today Larry Jacobs has the distinct pleasure of a interviewing Jessica Lander, Top 50 Finalist for Global Teacher of the Year,  2023 Massachusetts History Teacher of the Year, now on Sabbatical from Lowell (MA) High School and author of  Making Americans:Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas and Inspiration in Immigrant Education.. cutting through the political bull-pucky of the election season. AND CHECK THIS OUT

Today, Larry Jacobs talks about energizing career pathways with Lisa Richardson of Catalyze and Loreal Ivory, former New Orleans educator and now a success coach at Next Level NOLA, a Catalyze grantee. Catalyze drives innovation in career-connected learning through agile grantmaking, next-generation learning and transformative storytelling — the initiative is a collaborative funding initiative with a mission to enable all young people in the United States to find their purpose and achieve fulfilling careers.

Dr, Howie Knoff, our resident school psychologist and President of Project Achieve, consulting to schools, is my guest