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Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show!This week we're thinking about community and relationships! So many people feel isolated in academic and like they "should" have more of a community than they do. In this episode, I talk about the benefits of having a community inside and outside of academia and the barriers there might be to building a community. I then go through some really simple tips to help you build an academic community, step by step. If you liked this episode, you might also like this episode on Ten lessons I learned about doing PhDs by playing Stardew Valley (no particular connection but I love this episode!****I'm Dr Vikki Wright, ex-Professor and certified life coach and I help everyone from PhD students to full Professors to get a bit less overwhelmed and thrive in academia. Please make sure you subscribe, and I would love it if you could find time to rate, review and tell your friends! You can send them this universal link that will work whatever the podcast app they use. http://pod.link/1650551306?i=1000695434464I also host a free online community for academics at every level. You can sign up on my website, The PhD Life Coach. com - you'll receive regular emails with helpful tips and access to free online group coaching every single month! Come join and get the support you need.

I am still here at EduTech 2026, and today's conversation has completely lit me up.I'm sitting across from the wonderful Andrea Vandenbohl, deputy principal at Northam Grammar School, where she has spent the last five years leading initiatives that weave wellbeing science and character education into every part of school life. Andrea's work is built on the belief that educating young people is about so much more than academic achievement. Through her leadership of student leadership programs, character education, and curriculum innovation, she has helped shape a school culture where wellbeing, character, and growth aren't side programs, they're essential. Outside of school, Andrea shares honest reflections on leadership through her blog, The Heeled Deputy.We start with Andrea's own journey into teaching as a second career after years as a professional musical theatre performer, and why that experience gave her a kind of grounded, lived-in teaching presence you can't get from a textbook. From there we dig straight into a phrase we hear constantly but rarely unpack properly, educating the whole child, and what it actually means to stop teaching "from the neck up."Andrea opens up about being one of those unseen kids at school herself, and how that experience shapes everything she now believes about belonging, safety, and character in education. We talk about why culture, not curriculum, is what really shapes who a child becomes, and Andrea shares the five character traits she believes are non-negotiable for every student.Then we get into something I think every school is quietly struggling with, how do you actually measure character, leadership, and wellbeing the way we measure academic data? Andrea shares the exact system her school uses, plus her honest take on why student voice is so often confused with student expression, and why handing kids a microphone without ever teaching them what to say into it is setting them up to fail.We finish with one of my favourite lines from the entire conversation, the idea of asking "who is the student becoming" instead of "how is the student performing," and Andrea closes things out with a beautiful explanation of her blog, born out of a six-day solo walk through Italy, several wild horses, and a whole lot of thinking about leadership.What you'll learn:What educating the whole child actually means, beyond the buzzword, and why teaching can't stop "from the neck up"Why culture, not curriculum, is what truly shapes who a child becomes, and why staff have to live their values rather than just speak themThe five character traits Andrea believes are non-negotiable in schools: courage, perseverance, empathy, humility, and responsibilityHow Andrea's school actually tracks and measures character and wellbeing using a simple, visible systemWhy student voice is so often confused with student expression, and what genuine, non-tokenistic student agency actually looks likePractical ways to co-construct success criteria and classroom norms with students instead of just for themWhy compliance in the classroom can actually be corrosive to character developmentThe one mindset shift Andrea wants every teacher to make tomorrow: stop asking "how is this student performing" and start asking "who is this student becoming"The story behind Andrea's leadership blog, The Heeled Deputy, and the wild horses that helped inspire itResources mentioned:The Heeled Deputy (Andrea's leadership blog)Have a question, comment, or just want to say hello? Drop us a text!RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:Shop all resourcesJoin The Behaviour ClubMy book! It's Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management The Low-Level Behaviour BootcampFree guide: 'Chats that Create Change'Connect with me:Follow on Instagram @the.unteachablesCheck out my website

 Tom Pullen | Director, Innovinco , Author of INNOVATOR Tom Pullen is an innovation expert, author of INNOVATOR, and founder of Innovinco®, a firm accelerating growth in global corporations. Formerly the Global Innovation Director at Danone, he helps companies build innovation culture, capability, and confidence. He is also a speaker and creator of the Innovinco® Way® framework. Key Expertise & BackgroundFounder of Innovinco®: Founded in 2017, the firm specializes in driving growth through structured innovation for large enterprises, including Unilever, L'Oréal, Coca-Cola, and Danone.Corporate Innovation Leader: Spent 18 years in major corporations (Boots, Mars, Danone) before transitioning to advisory roles.Author & Speaker: Author of the book INNOVATOR and an award-winning keynote/TEDx speaker.Academic & Creator: Holds an Executive MBA with an Innovation major from HEC Paris, where he also teaches, and developed the INNOVATOR Way® framework. Core PhilosophyActionable Innovation: Focuses on moving from theory to practical application to boost innovation performance.Overcoming Corporate Barriers: Helps companies move beyond "safe" incrementalism to tackle the challenges of culture and execution in large organizations.Defining Innovation: Defines it as a combination of novelty, value creation, and real-world existence, rather than just ideas.  Tom Pullen is an innovation expert, author of INNOVATOR, and founder of Innovinco®, a firm accelerating growth in global corporations. Formerly the Global Innovation Director at Danone, he helps companies build innovation culture, capability, and confidence. He is also a speaker and creator of the Innovinco® Way® framework. Key Expertise & BackgroundFounder of Innovinco®: Founded in 2017, the firm specializes in driving growth through structured innovation for large enterprises, including Unilever, L'Oréal, Coca-Cola, and Danone.Corporate Innovation Leader: Spent 18 years in major corporations (Boots, Mars, Danone) before transitioning to advisory roles.Author & Speaker: Author of the book INNOVATOR and an award-winning keynote/TEDx speaker.Academic & Creator: Holds an Executive MBA with an Innovation major from HEC Paris, where he also teaches, and developed the INNOVATOR Way® framework. Core PhilosophyActionable Innovation: Focuses on moving from theory to practical application to boost innovation performance.Overcoming Corporate Barriers: Helps companies move beyond "safe" incrementalism to tackle the challenges of culture and execution in large organizations.Defining Innovation: Defines it as a combination of novelty, value creation, and real-world existence, rather than just ideas.  

OPEN HEAVENSMATALA LE LAGI MO LE ASO SA 19  IULAI 2026(tusia e Pastor EA Adeboye) Manatu Autu: Faasaolotoga mai avega o galuega ma aoaoga (Deliverance from career and academic burdens) Tauloto Tusi Paia: Faataoto  4:18“A o le ala o ē amiotonu, e tusa ia ma le malamalama o le ao, o lo‘o tupu pea lona malamalama e o‘o i le totonu o le la.”Faitauga - Tusi Paia: Luka 5:1-7I le faitauga mai le Tusi Paia o le asō, sa fagota Peteru i le po atoa ae leai se i'a na maua. E manatu sa fememeai, ma ou te malamalama lelei i le tulaga sa iai aua ou te fiafia e fagota. E masani ona ou alu e fagota e malolo ai mai galuega, e iai taimi e na o le lima minute ae maua le i'a. Ae iai foi taimi e atoa le itula e leai ma se i'a e maua. Sa leai se aoga o le tautiga o Peteru i lea po, e le faapea sa lē galue malosi, ae ona ua lē ō gatasi mea uma ma ia. Ao ou faiaoga i le Iunivesite, sa iai se faasalalauga o se avanoa faigaluega i se kamupani ma sa talosaga iai se polofesa. Na valaaulia mai mo se faatalatalanoaga, ma ina ua taunuu atu i le nofoaga e faia ai, ua ia iloa o le taitaifono o le komiti e faia le faatalatalanoaga o se alii talavou na aoga ia te ia e lei leva ona faauu. Ina ua iloa atu e le polofesa o ia, na faamalulu iai e sesē le potu o loo iai. Peitai na faailoa iai e le alii talavou o loo sa'o lelei le potu. Na lagona le maasiasi tele o le polofesa ona e lē o le tulaga lea e tatau ona iai i lona olaga galue. O nisi tagata e lē manuia i latou galuega ma aoaoga ona e lē o le paie, ae ona o loo latou tauaveina ni avega mamafa o le tetee mai le tiapolo e taofia i latou mai le ausia o tulaga manuia. O ia tagata e lē taitai manuia tusa poo le a le taumafai. Peitai a afio mai iai Iesu, Lē tauave avega, e liliuina o latou tulaga mo le lelei. E iai se alii talavou na sau ia te a'u mo tatalo. Fai mai e tetee a lona pule ia te ia ona o lona faatuatuaga kerisiano. Na oo ina fai mai lona pule, e lē taitai siitia lona tulaga pe afai e pule pea o ia. Ona o lea tulaga, na tumau pea le tulaga e aunoa ma se siitaga i le ofisa. Na ma tatalo ma folafola i le suafa o Iesu o soo se mauga o loo polokaina lona ala mo siitaga, ia liaieseina. E lei leva, ae faasee atu lona pule i seisi lala, ona maua lea o le siitaga a lea alii talavou. E lei leva se taimi ae toe faafoi mai lana pule i le lala lea e iai le alii talavou, e oo ane i le taimi lea, ua tutusa la tulaga ma lana pule sa iai muamua. E na o le tasi le folafolaga na faia i le suafa o Lē tauave avega, na liliuina lona tulaga mo le lelei. Le au pele e, o e tumau pea i le tulaga e tasi i lau galuega poo lau aoga? Ou te folafola atu i le asō o soo se avega o le tetee mai i le tupu ma siitia o lau galuega ma le aoaoga, ia tafiesea i le suafa o Iesu. TataloLe Alii e, faamolemole faasaoloto ia te a'u mai soo se mea o tetee mai i lo'u olaga, i le suafa o Iesu, Amene. 

In this episode of the Grad School Femtoring Podcast, I show you how to build a flexible note-taking system that helps you read more strategically, retain information more effectively, and reduce cognitive overload. This episode is for students, academics, and professionals who may feel overwhelmed by academic reading, struggle to remember what they read, or find themselves rereading the same articles because their current system isn't working for them. I explain why note-taking should function as an external memory system rather than a record of everything you've read. I discuss how to create a centralized and sustainable system that supports your current capacity, introduce multimodal approaches for reading and annotating academic literature, and encourage you to design a process that works with your learning style, energy, and long-term goals. In this episode, you will learn: How to build a note-taking system that reduces cognitive load and improves information retrieval. Why centralized, consistent notes make qualifying exams, dissertations, and research or writing projects more manageable. How to create a customized reading template that captures the information most relevant to your work. Ways to adapt your reading and note-taking process using multimodal and accessibility-friendly strategies. How to design a flexible system that reflects your current capacity and circumstances. Work with me If you're looking for personalized support with building sustainable work systems, I'd love to support you through one-on-one coaching. Learn more at https://gradschoolfemtoring.com/coaching/ Free resource Download your Grad School Femtoring Resource Kit: https://gradschoolfemtoring.com/kit/ Explore more Listen to more episodes on Sustainable Productivity Strategies: https://gradschoolfemtoring.com/podcast_catergory/sustainable-productivity-strategies/ Support the podcast with a one-time or monthly donation: https://donate.stripe.com/bJedR8dGRcs6ewGdwq38401 Access transcripts and additional resources: https://gradschoolfemtoring.com/podcast/ Audio and transcript edited by Yessi Sanchez: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yessisanchez/ This podcast is a proud member of the Genuina Media network. The Grad School Femtoring Podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for therapy or other professional services. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Coach Mark Misch joins Airey Bros Radio to discuss building one of the nation's premier NCAA Division II distance running programs at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS).Entering his 20th season leading the Mountain Lions Men's Cross Country program, Coach Misch has established UCCS as a perennial national contender, guiding the program to 11 NCAA Division II National Championship appearances while coaching NCAA Champions, All-Americans, Olympians, Olympic Trials qualifiers, national record holders, and some of the most accomplished distance runners in Division II history.In Episode 469, Coach Misch shares his coaching journey from growing up in southeast Kansas to building a nationally respected program in Colorado Springs. We discuss the philosophy behind developing championship distance runners, creating a culture centered around character and accountability, recruiting student-athletes from across the country, and helping runners thrive both academically and athletically.We also dive into what makes Colorado Springs one of the world's premier endurance training destinations, the advantages and challenges of altitude training, competing in the always competitive Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC), and preparing athletes to compete on the national stage year after year.We also discuss:• Building championship culture• NCAA Division II Cross Country recruiting• Altitude training & athlete development• Character-based coaching philosophy• Developing NCAA Champions & Olympians• Competing in the RMAC• Creating academic excellence within a championship program• Recruiting student-athletes from across the country• Leadership, accountability & team culture• Coaching through adversity and athlete development• Advice for aspiring collegiate runners and coachesDuring his tenure at UCCS, Coach Misch has helped establish one of the premier distance running cultures in NCAA Division II while mentoring generations of student-athletes who have gone on to become coaches, educators, professionals, and leaders.Program Highlights:

If you're an academic with ADHD, you're probably battle-hardened from years spent struggling to do things that come easily to your colleagues: focus, resist distractions, tame exciting but messy ideas into nice coherent research papers. But no matter how good you've got at finding ways to get the work done, you're still at a disadvantage. The rules for How To Get Things Done were written for people who don't have ADHD. Living by those rules is harder for you than for other people, and it leaves you with a demoralising sense of being second-rate. My friend, it doesn't need to be like this. You can rewrite the rules to allow you to play to your strengths instead of managing your weaknesses. Your card-carrying academic ADHD imperfectionist buddy is here to set you on the right tracks.

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga Pull up a chair and let's talk about something I've been exploring lately. It's the “depth of inquiry” that steers a nice essay into a memorable story. That sounds a bit academic, right? But here on Front Porch Friday© what it really means is the difference between just surviving your life, and actually understanding the truth of what you've lived through. Too often, as women, we get into the habit of just reporting the facts. We tell our stories like a laundry list of events. "I raised the kids, I worked the job, I did what was expected, and now I'm here." There's no story magic because you are missing. We do the same thing when we speak out loud to the world—we say what's polite, or what keeps the peace, instead of saying what we actually mean. Think about a moment where you had to say a hard "no" to someone, or maybe you finally picked up a hobby you abandoned years ago. The surface story is simple: "I was too busy for another commitment," or "I just wanted a new creative project." But looking deeper we feel the memorable story.  The truth is more than protecting your calendar or buying art supplies; you realized that your time and your passions don't belong to everyone else anymore. You decided that you are finally ready to be seen and heard exactly as you are, without adapting yourself so others feel comfortable. That shift right there? That is “depth of inquiry.” It's stopping the report and starting the investigation, the exciting archeological dig on your life. Story Prompt: As you go about your day, take a deep look past the surface of your own daily routine as if gazing into a wishing well. Don't just report the facts of your life to yourself. Find the glimmering coins of a deeper truth under the surface; write that story and share it out loud! You're always welcome: "Come for the stories - Stay for the magic!" Speaking of magic, please subscribe, share a 5-star rating and nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, bring your friends and rellies, and join us! You will have wonderful company as we continue to walk our lives together. AND!  Stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website during reconstruction, email me [info@quartermoonstoryarts.net] to arrange a no-obligation Discovery Call, and stay current with me as Quarter Moon Story Arts on Substack. Stories From Women Who Walk Production Team Podcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story Arts Music: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron Music ALL content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved.  If you found this podcast episode helpful, please consider sharing and attributing it to Diane Wyzga of Stories From Women Who Walk podcast with a link back to the original source.

Mandy J. Hill, DrPH, MPH, HIVPCP, is a first-time guest on the Faculty Factory who is highly aware of the unique challenges leaders face. She joins us this week to explore a critical yet often overlooked issue: the toxic feeling of a need to overperform in this field. Dr. Hill currently serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Population Health and Health Disparities, and Centennial Chair in Preventive Medicine and Community Health, in the School of Public and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB). Overperforming is frequently normalized because faculty are conditioned to exceed expectations rather than simply meet them. But "when that becomes the norm, you can create a toxic condition," as Dr. Hill points out in the interview's opening moments. “If you are an early-stage investigator without mentors and champions willing to bring you into that ‘winning team,' the default way of thinking is to do more,” Dr. Hill said. Overperforming is quickly becoming (if not already) the baseline in academia. It is the overwhelming reality of the culture, so what can be done? Autonomy and investing in ourselves are the only paths forward, and choosing when enough is enough has to be implemented or we risk creating a profession that no one will want to enter.

For generations, traditional education has anchored itself in the "3 R's": Reading, writing, and arithmetic. But in a world dominated by artificial intelligence, these foundational skills are no longer the ceiling—they are the floor. The skills that secured your career will not secure your child's. The 3 R's are still required, but relying on them alone leaves your kid vulnerable to automation.In this episode, MacKenzie breaks down the "4 C's"—the crucial, uniquely human soft skills that will give your kids an unshakeable edge against automated tech. Packed with micro-habits and practical games you can start playing at the dinner table tonight, this episode is a tactical guide to preparing your children for an unpredictable future landscape.

Are you a senior executive or high-performing corporate director who cracks your quarterly metrics, but wants to create more personal autonomy over your schedule?   In this transparent guest conversation, host Billy Keels sits down with Chris Gray—a former campus academic vice president who successfully translated his corporate leadership capital into multiple thriving independent ventures, including Red Palm Solutions, Bald Buck, and the Earn Core community of over 4,000 global business owners. Chris pulls back the curtain on his professional evolution, sharing how an honest look out his office window on a random Tuesday afternoon catalyzed his journey toward true lifestyle sovereignty. Discover how to lean into challenging personal seasons, stop letting distractions delay your execution, and use external advisors to unlock the radical self-awareness required to run your career completely by choice, not obligation.  

This episode is presented by Create A Video – Donna King fills in for Pete.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-kaliner-show--6946691/support.Subscribe to the podcast My preferred podcast platform: SpreakerAll the links to Pete's Prep are free!Get exclusive content here!Media Bias Check: GroundNews promo code!Advertising and Booking inquiries: Pete@ThePeteKalinerShow.com  

We’ve told kids for years that effort changes everything. But the biggest review of growth mindset research in decades just found the results are tiny… sometimes nothing at all. So should parents and teachers stop talking about “not yet”? In this Doctor’s Desk episode, Justin and Kylie unpack what the science really says, why the data might be missing the magic, and the simple belief that still changes lives for many children. KEY POINTS A major new review analysed 24 gold-standard studies on growth mindset interventions. The strongest research found very small or zero academic improvement. Real classrooms and real families are far more complex than controlled trials. No study shows growth mindset causes harm. Language, belief, and persistence still influence motivation for many kids. We should be careful about promises — but not abandon hope. QUOTE OF THE EPISODE “I don’t want to be the adult who looks at a child and says, ‘You just can’t.’” RESOURCES MENTIONED Gazmuri, C. (2025). Growth mindset interventions and academic achievement. Review of Education. ACTION STEPS FOR PARENTS Swap limits for possibility: invite effort and exploration. Focus on helping your child stay in the uncomfortable learning zone. Offer support after they’ve tried, not before. Remember: neutral evidence is not negative evidence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show!This is the second of my two part series about thriving in our academic summer. This time we consider the balance between structure and freedom and how to plan a summer that meets all of our needs. I chose these episodes for my greatest hits because I think there's a lot to learn here not just for how we organise our summers but also how we plan our time and our priorities more generally.If you liked this episode, you might also like this episode on why we should think about our career in phases. ****I'm Dr Vikki Wright, ex-Professor and certified life coach and I help everyone from PhD students to full Professors to get a bit less overwhelmed and thrive in academia. Please make sure you subscribe, and I would love it if you could find time to rate, review and tell your friends! You can send them this universal link that will work whatever the podcast app they use. http://pod.link/1650551306?i=1000695434464I also host a free online community for academics at every level. You can sign up on my website, The PhD Life Coach. com - you'll receive regular emails with helpful tips and access to free online group coaching every single month! Come join and get the support you need.

Out of 40,000 applicants last year, only a fraction made the cut—and 80% of them have never taught in a traditional school before. We have former doctors, lawyers, professional athletes, consultants, veterans, therapists, and, yes, some teachers, leading our classrooms across the country. Our Guide role breaks the traditional mold of a teacher, but the outcome has been groundbreaking. Joining us in this episode is Dr. Stef Baduria, Director of K-8 at Alpha, to pull back the curtain on how Alpha vets and hires its classroom Guides.Whether you are a parent wondering about the elite rigor behind the people mentoring your child, or a high-performer looking to transition into a career with massive impact, this episode provides an amazing insight into the philosophy behind the glue that holds our school model together.By the way, we're hiring! Want to see if you have what it takes? Apply to be an Alpha Guide here.

Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show!This is the first of my 24 favourite episodes, repeated for you this summer! The summer period can be particularly stressful for academics, whether it's because you miss the structure of "normal" term or because you don't feel like you even GET a summer any more. This is the first of two episodes considering how we can make the summer ours again and enjoy this part of the academic year. Today we're talking about the benefits of combining some "acceptance" with some "resistance" so that this doesn't feel more painful than it needs to!  We often assume that the route to achieving our goals is to “improve” ourselves in some way and so we search podcasts (like mine!), YouTube, or wherever for advice and tips. The trouble is, there's a lot of misconceptions about what self-improvement should actually look like and even more misunderstandings about the specific tool of timeblocking. In this episode, I share five things you may well be misunderstanding and what I think you should do instead. If you liked this episode, you might also like this episode with author Kirsty Sedgman on being unreasonable.****I'm Dr Vikki Wright, ex-Professor and certified life coach and I help everyone from PhD students to full Professors to get a bit less overwhelmed and thrive in academia. Please make sure you subscribe, and I would love it if you could find time to rate, review and tell your friends! You can send them this universal link that will work whatever the podcast app they use. http://pod.link/1650551306?i=1000695434464I also host a free online community for academics at every level. You can sign up on my website, The PhD Life Coach. com - you'll receive regular emails with helpful tips and access to free online group coaching every single month! Come join and get the support you need.

In Episode 212 of the Equipping ELLs podcast, Beth Vaucher opens the practical application series with the domain she believes has the single biggest impact on language acquisition — and the one most ELL classrooms are still not doing enough of. Not speaking in general. Not asking a question and hoping someone answers. Structured, intentional, daily speaking practice designed to work for every student at every language level in the room.Beth opens with something every ELL teacher will recognize — the moment you build speaking time into a lesson, give students a prompt, say "talk to your partner," and watch higher-level students carry the conversation while lower-level students nod along or wait for it to be over. She names the actual problem clearly: it was not the speaking practice that failed. It was the structure. And she lays down the foundational principle that runs through the entire episode: structure is not a limitation on speaking. It is the condition for speaking.For ELL students at Stages 1 through 3, the reason they do not speak is almost never that they have nothing to say. It is that they do not yet have the language to say it. Sentence frames, conversation cards, and talk moves give students the bridge from their idea to the English words to express it. That bridge — not the idea itself — is what structured speaking activities provide.Beth walks through five activities in depth. Sentence frame partner talk is the most versatile entry point — a four-step protocol that takes three to four minutes, can be used at any point in a lesson, and reaches every level through tiered frames. Beth adds two specific techniques that dramatically increase quality: whisper time before partner time, and deliberately varying partners rather than defaulting to whoever is sitting nearby.Think-pair-share with the ELL upgrade goes beyond the standard protocol by adding a sentence starter for the share-out — "My partner said blank and I agreed because" or "My partner said blank and I had a different idea because." This elevates the linguistic demand from repetition to paraphrasing and synthesizing, which is some of the most important academic language development possible.Numbered Heads Together — a Kagan cooperative learning structure — solves the accountability problem in partner and group talk. Every student gets a number, every student must be ready to share, and the discussion within the group prepares ELL students to share out with confidence rather than being cold-called. Paired with a share-out sentence frame it gives lower-level students the exact structure they need to participate in front of the class.Academic conversation cards shift speaking from answering questions to genuinely engaging with another person's ideas — building on, respectfully disagreeing, asking for clarification. Beth identifies this as one of the most overlooked and most important language functions for academic language development, noting that even adult learners need explicit structures to do this well.The five-minute daily speaking routine is Beth's highest-impact recommendation — not a specific activity but a consistent daily structure that starts every session the same way. A picture prompt on the board, a sentence frame, thirty seconds of whisper time, partner talk, and a brief share-out. Members of Equipping ELLs consistently report this routine as one of the biggest drivers of language growth because consistency compounds over time. Routine beats variety for language acquisition.FREE CHALLENGE: equippingells.com/challenge or DM CHALLENGE to @EquippingELLs. Includes speaking activity templates and over $100 in free resources.

This week on the Faculty Factory Podcast, we're exploring overcoming adversity and stressful times for a very special "best of" episode. The snippets from today's podcast focus on viewing your career as a marathon, staying positive through unimaginable circumstances, and embracing a mindset of humility through leadership, teambuilding and mentorship over the course of your career in academic health. We're featuring important highlights from three episodes in our archive: Episode 130 – Habits and Hacks with Barbara Fivush, MD Episode 150 – Habits and Hacks with Fawaz Al Ammary, MD, PhD Episode 312 – Life Lessons in Informal Learning, Mentorship, and On-the-Job Education with David J. Skorton, MD We start out hearing from Dr. Skorton, who reflects on his own approach to overcoming the persistent waves of adversity he must address while leading the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). After that, we hear from Dr. Al Ammary, who shares how he turned a vicious and unprovoked physical attack into a source of positivity, with a take-home message of staying positive no matter what. We close with Dr. Fivush. She outlines crucial tips for building a team to get things done and chats about why working on your career is a long-term process, a marathon and not a sprint. She also touches on how staying focused and resilient through the inevitable ups and downs of a career is a must.

Is social media actually destroying a generation, or are we in the middle of a massive political moral panic?For this week's Free Speech Friday I sat down with one of the world's leading researchers studying young people, technology, and mental health to answer one question: Did social media really create a generation-wide mental health crisis?SUPPORT MY WORK: Buy a paid subscription to my newsletter at usermag.co           Support my work on Patreon: http://patreon.com/taylorlorenz  For years we've been told that smartphones and social media are fueling anxiety, depression, loneliness, and suicide among teenagers. Politicians, bestselling authors, and news outlets have treated that idea as settled science.But what does the actual research say?Developmental psychologist Candice Odgers has spent decades studying how young people use technology. In this interview, we break down what the evidence actually shows, why many experts disagree with the popular narrative, and how the social media panic is influencing online safety laws, censorship, surveillance, age verification, and internet policy around the world. We discuss:The real relationship between social media and teen mental healthWhy correlation is often mistaken for causationWhat studies actually find about screen timeThe debate around The Anxious GenerationWhy many scientists reject claims that phones are driving a mental health epidemicOnline safety laws and age verificationPrivacy, surveillance, and internet censorshipWhat parents should actually focus onThe future of social media regulation

"I'm the person that calls that number and just pushes zero until a human picks up. I need a Thomas." Brandy Hawkins Boies said it, and it's the truest thing about community college enrollment in 2026. On this Laurel Ridge Community College edition of The Valley Today, host Janet Michael welcomes back Director of Communications and Outreach Brandy Hawkins Boies, joined by Thomas Monk — Outreach Specialist and Career Coach at Laurel Ridge's Middletown campus, and the actual first human anyone new to Laurel Ridge is likely to meet. Thomas walks through what an outreach specialist actually does — 25+ conversations a week with prospective students of every age (from high schoolers exploring dual enrollment to 50-somethings quietly wondering if it's too late to change careers), a philosophy of "half the hurdle is just getting started," and a way of thinking about the college journey as a baton pass across five different departments that the student experiences as one hour of their time. He explains the biggest questions he gets ("How do I get started?" and "Can I afford this?"), the guaranteed-admission agreements with 37 Virginia colleges and universities, why he starts by asking students what they DON'T want to do, and why he loves being the objective third party in what's often a very personal decision. Plus: the upcoming Laurel Ridge Open House on July 23rd (virtual at noon, in-person at 5 PM), why AI and machine learning is now a real Laurel Ridge program, and Janet's ongoing internal dialogue about what she should go back to school for — with special thanks to her best friend Mary, whose incoming text after this episode is a foregone conclusion. WHERE TO START AT LAUREL RIDGE FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS (any age, any goal) • Ask a question — laurelridge.edu/visit → the top box lets you submit ANY question (dual enrollment, career change, program interest, "I don't even know where to start"). Thomas or a team member replies within 48 hours. • Schedule a meeting — second box on the same page. Book a 30-minute session with Thomas or the outreach team, virtually or in person. • Book a campus tour — outside of events, at your convenience. • Come to an open house — customized, semi-structured, room-based Q&A. WHAT THE OUTREACH TEAM CAN HELP WITH • Application and getting started • Financial aid, scholarships, and G3 funding • Academic advisor matching • Transfer credits from previous colleges or universities • Life-experience credit • Program exploration (academic + workforce solutions + certifications) • Corporate and continuing education • Custom in-person or virtual visits with your group or organization UPCOMING OPEN HOUSE — JULY 23, 2026 Two-session format (attend one or both): • 12:00–1:00 PM — Virtual session (great for a lunch break) • 5:00 PM — In-person session at the Middletown campus Both sessions include a program overview, application help, tour options, and access to specific department representatives. Register at laurelridge.edu/openhouse. THE VALLEY TODAY with Janet Michael — A decade of conversations. New podcast episodes drop weekdays at 11 AM. Catch the show on The River 95.3 and Fox Sports 1450 AM weekdays just after noon. Subscribe and listen at thevalleytodaypodcast.com — available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please take a moment to leave a rating or review — it helps more listeners find us. Connect with us: Facebook — facebook.com/ValleyTodayFanPage Instagram — instagram.com/thevalleytoday

Ten years ago, Elle became one of the very first students at Alpha—essentially acting as a long-term guinea pig for a brand-new school model. Today, she is graduating as valedictorian, heading to Stanford University, and the youngest published female author in NATURE science journal. In Part 2 of this post-mortem, MacKenzie and Elle sit down for an honest debrief on how the experiment actually played out.

Episode Summary     What if a medical career could be built on profound purpose, paid for in full, and shaped by leadership opportunities no civilian path can match? In this episode of WarDocs, COL Danielle Holt, MD, an Army general surgeon and Associate Dean of Admissions and Recruitment at the Uniformed Services University (USU) School of Medicine, lays out exactly what it takes to become a military physician and why the journey is worth it. Drawing on a career that has carried her from broad-spectrum rural surgery at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, to a forward surgical team in Afghanistan, to serving as consultant surgeon for the White House Medical Team at Walter Reed, she offers a candid, insider's view of the two pathways into uniformed medicine.       The conversation centers on the choice every service-minded pre-med must weigh: the tuition-free USU School of Medicine, the nation's only fully federally funded medical school, versus the Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) that places students at civilian schools. She explains the trade-offs in plain terms — the seven-year versus four-year service obligation, the roughly $90,000 annual salary USU students earn while in school, the one hundred hours of military-unique curriculum, and the rotations across military treatment facilities worldwide. She is equally direct about the military match, where competitive specialties such as general surgery can be more attainable than many applicants realize.    COL Holt demystifies admissions. Academics are a threshold, not the finish line — a 496 MCAT and 3.0 GPA for regular decision, rising to a 500 minimum, with a class mean near 510. Beyond the numbers, she explains what actually earns an interview and an offer: a clear reason to be a physician, a genuine commitment to military service, and the personal attributes of teamwork, adaptability, and being comfortable when things get uncomfortable. She names the self-inflicted mistakes that sink applicants — turning the application in late, stalling on medical clearance and waivers, retaking the MCAT too often, and failing to engage the admissions team. She closes with the human core of the school: the fire team model, longitudinal faculty coaching, the Military Medical Communities program, and a culture where students and faculty take care of one another in a way civilian medicine rarely sees. Her message to any pre-med on the fence is simple — do not underestimate yourself, reach out for mentorship, and remember that the mission is the point. Chapters (00:00-04:54) A Surgeon's Journey: ROTC, Alaska, Afghanistan, and the White House (04:55-10:11) What USUHS Is and Why It Is Different (10:12-19:38) USUHS versus HPSP: Obligations, the Military Match, and How to Choose (19:39-27:39) Timelines, Thresholds, and What Earns an Interview (27:40-43:39) Shadowing, Research, Non-Traditional Applicants, and Common Mistakes (43:40-55:30) The Interview, the Fire Team Culture, and Advice for the Fence-Sitter Chapter Summaries (00:00-04:54) A Surgeon's Journey: ROTC, Alaska, Afghanistan, and the White House Holt traces a twenty-plus-year dual-military-career path from ROTC and HPSP through general surgery training at Tripler Army Medical Center to duty stations spanning rural Alaska and a tertiary academic hospital. She describes deploying to a forward surgical team in eastern Afghanistan in 2012 and learning damage-control surgery, and credits the Army with handing her leadership roles far earlier than a civilian career would.   (04:55-10:11) What USU Is and Why It Is Different She defines the Uniformed Services University as the nation's only fully federally funded, tuition-free medical school, training physicians for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Public Health Service. Students draw full pay and benefits — roughly $90,000 a year — complete about one hundred hours of military-unique curriculum, and rotate at military treatment facilities across the country and overseas.   (10:12-19:38) USU versus HPSP: Obligations, the Military Match, and How to Choose Holt compares the seven-year USU service obligation with the four-year HPSP commitment and argues the difference is small over a full career. She explains the military match, where critically needed specialties like general surgery can be more attainable, and walks through how applicants apply by service, weigh geography and specialty, and decide which pathway fits their long-term goals.   (19:39-27:39) Timelines, Thresholds, and What Earns an Interview The USU medical-school timeline mirrors other allopathic schools through AMCAS, but military commissioning adds a lengthy medical clearance process, with about half of students needing a waiver. Academics are a threshold — a 496 MCAT and 3.0 GPA for regular decision. Above all, she stresses applying early and finishing requirements, because uncleared applicants get skipped as seats fill.   (27:40-43:39) Shadowing, Research, Non-Traditional Applicants, and Common Mistakes She pushes back on the pressure around clinical shadowing, noting USU requires none and that paid work as a phlebotomist or technician offers equal exposure. Research is likewise not required, given USU's own Capstone program. She details how the school values non-traditional and prior-service applicants, then names the most common self-inflicted mistakes: late applications, stalled clearances, over-testing the MCAT, and downplaying military experience.   (43:40-55:30) The Interview, the Fire Team Culture, and Advice for the Fence-Sitter Holt explains the virtual two-interview format and what makes candidates stand out — genuine commitment, professionalism, and self-knowledge. She describes the fire team model, longitudinal faculty coaching, and the Military Medical Communities program that links applicants, students, and physicians across services. Her closing advice to fence-sitting pre-meds: do not underestimate yourself, seek mentors, and lead with the mission.   Take Home Messages Mindset matters more than a perfect score.: Academic metrics are a threshold, not the finish line. The strongest military physicians are often the applicants who have struggled, adapted, and bounced back — people who value service over a flawless transcript.   The pathway you choose should match the career you want.: The tuition-free, federally funded medical school carries a longer obligation but builds deeper military identity and connections, while the civilian scholarship route offers more independence. Weigh service obligation, specialty goals, and where you see yourself for the long term.   Apply early and finish your requirements.: Rolling admissions reward speed. The single most avoidable mistakes are turning in a late application, stalling on medical clearance and waivers, and waiting too long on the MCAT or letters of recommendation. Uncleared applicants get skipped as seats fill.   Shadowing and research are not gatekeepers.: Required shadowing hours and formal research are not prerequisites. Paid clinical work and life experience count, and the value placed on non-traditional and prior-service applicants means an unconventional background can be a genuine strength.   Camaraderie is the difference, so engage the community.: The fire team model, longitudinal coaching, and military medical community sessions create a culture where students and faculty take care of one another. Do not underestimate yourself — reach out for mentorship and let the mission lead.   Episode Keywords military medicine, USU School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Danielle Holt, military doctor, how to become a military physician, HPSP scholarship, military medical school, Army surgeon, premed advice, MCAT, medical school admissions, military match, GME, forward surgical team, Walter Reed, military residency, USUHS, tuition free medical school, military officer physician, WarDocs, military healthcare career, premed shadowing, medical school interview, service obligation Hashtags #MilitaryMedicine, #WarDocs, #USU, #MilitaryMedicalSchool, #HPSP, #FutureMilitaryDoc, #PreMed, #ArmyMedicine Honoring the Legacy and Preserving the History of Military Medicine The WarDocs Mission- WarDocs exists to honor the legacy of Military Medicine, preserve its history, and inspire every generation — across all Services, Corps, and Ranks — to serve with excellence and pride. Through mentorship, coaching, and education, we equip those considering, entering, and serving in military medicine with the knowledge, connections, and community they need to thrive. We celebrate Who we are, What we do, and, most importantly, How we serve Our Patients, the DoW, and Our Nation. Find out more and join Team WarDocs at https://www.wardocspodcast.com/ Check our list of previous guest episodes at https://www.wardocspodcast.com/our-guests Subscribe and Like our Videos on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wardocspodcast Listen to the "What We Are For" Episode 47. https://bit.ly/3r87Afm WarDocs- The Military Medicine Podcast is a Non-Profit, Tax-exempt-501(c)(3) Veteran Run Organization run by volunteers. All donations are tax-deductible and go to honoring and preserving the history, experiences, successes, and lessons learned in Military Medicine. A tax receipt will be sent to you. WARDOCS documents the experiences, contributions, and innovations of all military medicine Services, ranks, and Corps who are affectionately called "Docs" as a sign of respect, trust, and confidence on and off the battlefield, demonstrating dedication to the medical care of fellow comrades in arms. Follow Us on Social Media Twitter: @wardocspodcast Facebook: WarDocs Podcast Instagram: @wardocspodcast LinkedIn: WarDocs-The Military Medicine Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@wardocspodcast

In this episode we answer emails from Ethan, Joe, and Jim.  We discuss a plan for young teachers to reach early financial independence with the right accounts and a little encouragement, the peculiar benefits of 457s and Roth contributions, a critical read of an academic article about an impractical TIPS ladder strategy, and the real-world problems with 30-year TIPS ladders, including complexity, tax issues, and longevity risk.  We also discuss catastrophe bonds as an asset class and and why the new ILS ETF looks expensive and underwhelming at the momentAnd we touch on our fund raising campaign for the Father McKenna Center. Links:Father McKenna Center Donation Page (please mention Risk Parity Radio in the comment section with your donation):  Donate - Father McKenna CenterChooseFI Teacher Podcast:  The Unfair Financial Advantage of Teachers | Ep 13ARVA TIPS Ladder Article:  Full article: The Only Other Spending Rule Article You Will Ever NeedBreathless Unedited AI-Bot Summary:A 457(b) can be the difference between “retire early” and “wait it out,” and we dig into why. We start by answering a detailed email from a young pair of teachers building wealth with a golden ratio portfolio while trying to bridge the years before age 59.5. We talk through tax buckets, account access, and what actually matters when you have Roth IRAs, taxable brokerage money, HSAs, employer plans, and the unique early-withdrawal rules of a 457(b) after you separate from service.Then we switch gears to retirement drawdown strategies and put a popular “spending rule” article under cross-examination. We walk through the assumptions behind ARVA and a 30-year TIPS ladder approach, why ultra-variable withdrawals may be unrealistic, and why complexity does not automatically equal safety. If you care about safe withdrawal rate research, inflation protection, and building a portfolio that can handle real life, you will hear exactly where the paper breaks down and what we would focus on instead.We wrap with a listener question on catastrophe bonds and the Brookmont Catastrophic Bond ETF (ILS). Cat bonds can look like the perfect uncorrelated alternative asset on paper, but fees and implementation details matter. If you're building a diversified risk parity style asset allocation, we explain where cat bonds might fit, why this ETF doesn't yet, and what we'd watch going forward. Subscribe, share this with a friend who's planning early retirement, and leave a review so more DIY investors can find the show.Support the show

In this week's episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts Center for Strong Public Schools' Alisha Searcy and Dr. Helen Baxendale of Great Hearts Academies interview Dr. David Steiner, Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and former New York State Commissioner of Education. Dr. Steiner discusses the importance of an academic content-rich, liberal arts education rooted in Western democratic principles and compares the strengths and challenges of British and American K-12 education and teacher preparation. He examines the relationship between school choice, academic quality, teacher effectiveness, and accountability drawing on his recent The 74 op-ed to argue that expanding educational options must be matched by rigorous curricula and high-quality teaching. Dr. Steiner also explores the science of reading, persistent achievement gaps, and the impact of smartphones, social media, and AI on today's students. He concludes by offering recommendations for governors and state leaders to strengthen academic excellence and improve long-term student outcomes across American education.

Emmaia Gelman joins This Is Hell! to talk about her new book “The Anti-Defamation League And The Racial State”, published by University of California Press. (https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-anti-defamation-league-and-the-racial-state/hardcover) Emmaia Gelman is the founding Director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She has taught social and cultural analysis at NYU and social sciences at Sarah Lawrence College. She is co-editor of, "The Anti-Defamation League: A Critical Reader". Emmaia also co-hosts the podcast "Unpacking Zionism." Emmaia is also co-chair of the American Studies Association Caucus on Academic and Community Activism, and a longtime activist in New York City. Her writing appears in Jewish Currents, Boston Review, The Forward, and elsewhere. We will have new installments of Rotten History and Hangover Cure. We will also be sharing your answers to this week's Question from Hell! from Patreon. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

Rep. Elise Stefanik, Republican member of the House of Representatives representing New York's 21st congressional district, author of the BOOK "POISONED IVIES: The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot at America's Elite Universities," joined us on the Guy Benson Show today to discuss America's 250th birthday celebrations from over the weekend and the need to teach American excellence and the true history of America in to the next generation. The pair also discussed the "stark contrast" between patriotic celebrations on the right versus the far-left, as Mamdani gave a macabre speech on the outlook and history of America on the eve of America's 250th. Listen to the full interview with Rep. Stefanik below! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode I am happy to welcome back Jessica Dietrich, Senior Associate Director for Recruitment Strategy, to explore what's happening right now in admissions at Ithaca College—and what families need to know.Jessica explains Ithaca's commitment to “theory, practice, and performance,” blending a strong liberal arts foundation with hands-on learning. While transcripts remain the strongest predictor of success, Ithaca reviews applications holistically and contextually—asking not just what a student achieved, but how they challenged themselves within their environment.Though founded as a music conservatory, Ithaca is far more than the arts. With 200+ lab spaces and robust undergraduate research in STEM, many students are surprised by the breadth of opportunity. A test-optional pioneer since 2012, standardized scores carry little weight in admission or merit decisions. Academic rigor is evaluated in context, and GPAs may be recalculated to ensure fairness across schools.Application advice? Show growth and leadership in your activities. Let your authentic voice come through in your essay—AI-generated responses can raise integrity concerns. Audition-based programs add another layer to review, and students with IEPs or 504 plans are encouraged to connect early with Accessibility Services.What's new: a full-tuition Presidential Scholarship (Nov. 1 deadline), a four-year financial forecast with capped tuition increases, and new programs in Strategic Leadership, Business Analytics, and Dance/Choreography.Jessica's closing advice: tune out the noise, ask for help, and embrace the growth that comes with the college search.Ithaca College Admission

What happens when a child decides by the first grade that they simply aren't the "smart" one?When Elle brought home a family portrait labeling her sister as smart and herself as dumb, her teachers and parents feared she had already been put in a box. But an unconventional school model and a tactical "confidence anchor" completely flipped her trajectory.Now a graduating senior, Alpha Valedictorian Elle joins MacKenzie to share her incredible journey from struggling student to history-making researcher. She breaks down the exact psychological shifts that unlocked her potential, the reality of building a massive teen dating app with AI, and what happened when she hounded a top scientist to run a study that is now up for publication in the world's leading scientific journal.

Ronald White, guest author, describes how Chamberlain began his academic career at Bowdoin College in 1855, seeking to instill critical thinking in his pupils rather than treating them as mere boys to be regimented. His tenure was marked by encounters with significant historical figures, including visiting senator Jefferson Davis and neighbor Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose readings of Uncle Tom's Cabin he attended. As the nation drifted toward Civil War, Chamberlainfelt an internal crisis, compelled to join the fight despite being a respected professor and father of two young children. In 1862, he famously declined a lucrative sabbatical to study languages in Europe to enlist in the volunteer 20th Maine. Rejecting an initial offer to lead a regiment as colonel, he insisted on "earning and learning" his way to command by serving as a lieutenant colonel under a professional soldier. This choice defined his transition from an intellectual to a battlefield hero. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (2)1840 BOWDOIN

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Many Montessori apologists decry the use of AI in the classroom, claiming this type of technology is harmful to the learning experience. But our latest experiment actually proves the opposite. We just opened Montessorium, a school that combines the learning technology of Alpha Schools with the classical Montessori method of teaching. Anna Smiley, Lead Guide at Montessorium, joins MacKenzie to break down the real-world results of this model so far—and how AI can actually enhance, not replace, child-led learning.

Jay Gunkelman has read more than half a million brain scans — and this week he and host Pete Jansons skip the EEG entirely to answer a bigger question: how would you actually redesign school? Jay takes the magic wand to class sizes, teacher pay, the trades, and why you can't give one lesson to thirty different brains. Along the way he tells the story of how he beat the system himself — registering through the University of North Dakota's computer center, signing his own advisor card, running a lab without a degree, and getting one mailed to him anyway. Then the neuroscience: how a whack-a-mole game, a go/no-go task, and a 35-minute dry-sensor EEG can spot the ADHD, sensory-processing, and OCD signatures a behavioral test walks right past. Plus Joshua Moore's intro to QEEG phenotypes.

We welcome back Matt Lamb of The College Fix for a candid review of the 2025–26 academic year, covering the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder and the ongoing obstacles faced by Turning Point USA on campuses. Father finishes with Timely Thoughts.  Show Notes The College Fix  Another Sort of Learning:  Fr. James Schall iCatholic Mobile The Station of the Cross Merchandise - Use Coupon Code 14STATIONS for 10% off | Catholic to the Max Read Fr. McTeigue's Written Works! "Let's Take A Closer Look" with Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. | Full Series Playlist Listen to Fr. McTeigue's Preaching! | Herald of the Gospel Sermons Podcast on Spotify Visit Fr. McTeigue's Website | Herald of the Gospel Questions? Comments? Feedback? Ask Father!

Ben Criddle talks BYU sports every weekday from 2 to 6 pm.Today's Host: Ben Criddle (@criddlebenjamin) and Co-Host: (ronthe3manweav)Subscribe to the Cougar Sports with Ben Criddle podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cougar-sports-with-ben-criddle/id99676

In this episode, Wendy Merchant-Schulte, Vice President of Nursing Services at Orbis, and Dr. Hollie Caldwell, Dean of the College of Nursing at Concordia University, discuss how collaborative academic and healthcare partnerships can create more consistent, student-centered nursing education while strengthening the workforce pipeline.This episode is sponsored by Orbis Education.

In this week's episode of China Insider, Miles Yu covers President Xi Jinping's latest round of purges among high-level party officials, including key members of China's Politburo. Next, Miles looks into the recent incident in Beijing involving a small aircraft collision with the CITIC Tower skyscraper and details the CCP's concerted effort to censor the incident across domestic social media and news outlets. Finally, Miles follows up on the topic of academic freedom and CCP influence in US academia, and reviews the larger implications of continued academic exchange between the US and China. China Insider is a weekly podcast project from Hudson Institute's China Center, hosted by China Center Director and Senior Fellow, Dr. Miles Yu, who provides weekly news that mainstream American outlets often miss, as well as in-depth commentary and analysis on the China challenge and the free world's future. 

Coach Laurier Primeau joins Airey Bros Radio after leading the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds to their fifth consecutive NAIA Women's Outdoor Track & Field National Championship while earning 2026 NAIA Women's Outdoor Track & Field Coach of the Year honors.Coach Primeau has built one of the premier collegiate track & field programs in North America, developing NAIA National Champions, Olympians, Paralympians, All-Americans, Academic standouts, and Canadian National Team athletes while creating a culture focused on long-term athlete development.In this episode we discuss:

When the school year wrapped up, it also marked the end of the line for several Columbus City Schools buildings.The district plans to shut down eight buildings over the next few years to plug a massive budget deficit.CCS is not alone. Cleveland is closing 18 of its school buildings. It's not just K-12 schools feeling the squeeze.Several smaller colleges are staring down mergers or total closures.People are calling this era of education “The Big Shrink.”We're discussing the topic on this hour of All Sides.Guests:Conor Morris, reporter/producer, Ideastream Public MediaDr. Russell Brown, chief of strategy and performance, Columbus City SchoolsEthan Ris, associate professor, Higher Education Administration, University of Nevada, Reno

MacKenzie Scott's  billionaire philanthropy, focusing heavily on the unprecedented impact and controversial nature of MacKenzie Scott's giving model. Research indicates that her trust-based approach, characterized by massive and unrestricted grants, has historically strengthened nonprofit sustainability, bolstered leadership confidence, and provided essential resources to underserved communities. While data suggests these gifts are transformative, some critics like Elon Musk have openly insulted her focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and other scholars warn that such corporate-backed funding can subtly bias academic research and undermine democratic processes. Statistical reports further highlight that while U.S. charitable giving reached record highs in 2025, the sector is increasingly influenced by a small group of ultra-wealthy individuals. Ultimately, these sources portray a philanthropic field at a crossroads, balancing the benefits of flexible, large-scale funding against concerns regarding elite capture and ideological influence.

Over the past decade, American colleges and universities have seen enrollment decline, campuses close, programs cut, faculty and staff laid off, and public confidence erode. In Peak Higher Ed: How to Survive the Looming Academic Crisis (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026), futurist Bryan Alexander forecasts what the next decade might hold if we continue down this path. He argues that the United States has passed its high-water mark for postsecondary education and now faces a critical turning point. How will higher ed institutions respond to this wave of change and crisis? Combining data-driven research with scenario modeling, Alexander outlines a powerful framework for understanding what led to this moment: declining birthrates, surging student debt, rising tuition, shifting political winds, and growing skepticism about the value of a college degree. He maps out how these forces, if left unchecked, could continue to reshape academia by shrinking its footprint, narrowing its mission, and jeopardizing its role in addressing the planet's most pressing challenges, from climate change to artificial intelligence. Alexander explores how institutions might adapt or recover, presenting two possible futures: a path of managed descent and a more hopeful course of reinvention. Peak Higher Ed examines the fraying of the "college for all" consensus, the long shadow of pandemic-era disruptions, and the political polarization that has placed universities in the crosshairs. Written for educators, policymakers, students, and anyone invested in the future of higher learning, this book offers a deeply informed, unflinching look at the road ahead and the choices that will determine whether colleges and universities retreat from their peak or rise to a new one. Guest: Bryan Alexander is an award–winning, internationally known futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher, working in the field of higher education's future. He completed his English language and literature PhD at the University of Michigan in 1997, with a dissertation on doppelgangers in Romantic-era fiction and poetry. Then Bryan taught literature, writing, multimedia, and information technology studies at Centenary College of Louisiana. There he also pioneered multi-campus interdisciplinary classes, while organizing an information literacy initiative. From 2002 to 2014 Bryan worked with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), a non-profit working to help small colleges and universities best integrate digital technologies. With NITLE he held several roles, including co-director of a regional education and technology center, director of emerging technologies, and senior fellow. Over those years Bryan helped develop and support the nonprofit, grew peer networks, consulted, and conducted a sustained research agenda. In 2013 Bryan launched a business, Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC. Through BAC he consults throughout higher education in the United States and abroad. Bryan is currently a senior scholar at Georgetown University and teaches graduate seminars in their Learning, Design, and Technology program. You can learn more about Peak Higher Ed here You can follow Bryan's writing on AI, academia, and the Future here Host: Dr. Michael LaMagna is the Information Literacy Program & Library Services Coordinator and Professor of Library Services at Delaware County Community College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Christina Dukes Brown.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Christina Dukes Brown.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Christina Dukes Brown.

This throwback episode from 2023 features Dr. Meylinda Meredith. Zach and Kevin sit down with Meylinda, a fellow UMKC dental school alumnus and current clinical faculty member teaching operative dentistry. They dive into a fascinating discussion comparing private practice associateships with a career in dental education, exploring everything from the perks of academic vacation time to the unique traits of Gen Z dental students and how "just-in-time" learning changes the way they absorb material. The trio also discusses the modern integration of digital scanning versus traditional PVS impressions in a dental school setting, before wrapping up with a fun round of UMKC dental trivia. Some links from the show: UMKC School of Dentistry Alumni Page Stevenson Dental Solutions YouTube Join the Very Clinical Facebook group!  Join the Very Dental Facebook Group using one of these passwords: Timmerman, Paul, Bioclear, Hornbrook, Gary, McWethy, Papa Randy, or Lipscomb!  The Very Dental Podcast network is and will remain free to download. If you'd like to support the shows you love at Very Dental then show a little love to the people that support us! We're proud to be supported by the folks at Net32! I'm a big fan of the Bioclear Method! I think you should give it a try and I've got a great offer to help you get on board! Use the exclusive Very Dental Podcast code VERYDENTAL8TON for 15% OFF your total Bioclear purchase, including Core Anterior and Posterior Four day courses, Black Triangle Certification, and all Bioclear products. Crazy Dental has everything you need from cotton rolls to equipment and everything in between and the best prices you'll find anywhere! If you head over to verydentalpodcast.com/crazy and use coupon code "VERYSHIP" you'll get free shipping on your order! Go save yourself some money and support the show all at the same time! The Wonderist Agency is basically a one stop shop for marketing your practice and your brand. From logo redesign to a full service marketing plan, the folks at Wonderist have you covered! Go check them out at verydentalpodcast.com/wonderist! Enova Illumination makes the very best in loupes and headlights, including their new ergonomic angled prism loupes! They also distribute loupe mounted cameras and even the amazing line of Zumax microscopes! If you want to help out the podcast while upping your magnification and headlight game, you need to head over to verydentalpodcast.com/enova to see their whole line of products! CAD-Ray offers the best service on a wide variety of digital scanners, printers, mills and even  their very own browser based design software, Clinux! CAD-Ray has been a huge supporter of the Very Dental Podcast Network and I can tell you that you'll get no better service on everything digital dentistry than the folks from CAD-Ray. Go check them out at verydentalpodcast.com/CADRay!

In this episode we are joined by Emmaia Gelman, author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State, a critical history of the ADL as a Cold War neoconservative institution. Gelman excavates the Anti-Defamation League's origins as a white, settler colonial institution founded by German-Jewish elites—not to combat antisemitism broadly, but to manage class respectability and suppress Eastern European Jewish immigrant socialists whom they viewed as a racial and social threat.  Gelman looks back at how early Jewish settlers had built fortunes through participation in 19th-century US territorial expansion, Indigenous dispossession, and slavery's economic system, understanding themselves as white Europeans racially distinct from the "vermin" arriving from the Pale of Settlement. The ADL and its predecessor, the American Jewish Committee (founded 1906), operated as Progressive Era eugenicist charities designed to "correct and fix" rather than support self-determination, preemptively capturing Jewish political identity to prevent autonomous radical organizing. Gelman traces how the ADL evolved from an instrument of McCarthyite purges—coordinating mass firings of Jewish leftists in 1951, offering its services to McCarthy committee members, and abandoning Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to execution while denying antisemitism played any role in their prosecution (the judge who sentenced them sat on the ADL's Civil Rights Committee)—into a key architect of Cold War anti-communism and neoconservative "democracy promotion." The organization attacked Arab League representatives speaking about Zionist violence in Palestine as early as 1946, treating Palestinian and Arab organizing as "foreign insurgency" while framing Jewish fundraising for Israeli settlement as natural civic participation. After Israel's 1967 military victory, the ADL strategically re-racialized Jews as non-white within the framework of race liberalism, allowing it to cast Israeli militarism as defensive racial liberation and Arab calls for refugee return as antisemitic rather than anti-colonial. This racial pivot occurred precisely as European Jews had achieved economic whiteness through the GI Bill, suburbanization, and the collapse of university quotas—benefits systematically denied to Black populations through redlining. Emmaia Gelman is the author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State, a critical history of the Anti-Defamation League as a Cold War neoconservative institution (UC Press, 2026) and co-editor of The Anti-Defamation League: A Critical Reader (Pluto Press, 2026). She co-hosts the podcast Unpacking Zionism. Emmaia is co-chair of the American Studies Association Caucus on Academic and Community Activism, and a longtime activist in New York City. She is the founding director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, which examines the political and ideological work of Zionist institutions in Palestine and transnational contexts. She researches the history of ideas about race, queerness, safety, and rights, and their production as levers in surveillance, "anti-terror", and war. Her teaching spans academic and community spaces. If you like what we do and want to support our ability to have more conversations like this. Please consider becoming a Patron. You can do so for as little as a 1 Dollar a month.  This conversation was hosted by Josh Briond, and edited and produced by Josh and Jared. The introduction is provided by Aminta Zea (website/IG) and as always the music is provided by Televangel.  

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Christina Dukes Brown.