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Chairman Biden and Dr. Fauci's Monster by Ronald Alfred Weitzman Amazon.com Ronaldweitzman.com This book describes how a charter member of Hillary Clinton's basket of deplorables views important issues that divide our country. Chapter 1 takes a critical look at the past, present, and future of the political left and right sides of that divide. Chapter 2 shows that abortion is properly a matter of religion rather than government. Chapter 3 pins the blame for the pandemic's cause and consequences solely on Dr. Anthony Fauci. Chapter 4 separates sex and gender into two different worlds. Chapter 5 examines how the flawed statistical modeling of global warming fails to disclose its causes or trajectory. Chapter 6 demonstrates the unconstitutionality and criminality of the 2020 presidential election. Chapter 7 reveals why this book ominously identifies the title of Joe Biden as chairman rather than president.About the author For the author of this book, Ron Weitzman, education made a gigantic difference in his family. Born outside the United States, Ron's father barely made it through the third grade here. Thanks to America's equality of opportunity, Ron worked his way with the help of scholarships and fellowships to a BA and MA from Stanford and a PhD from Princeton. He has received a Stanford Honors Fellowship; Psychometric Fellowship of Princeton and the Educational Testing Service; and two post-doctoral fellowships, from the National Science Foundation and the United States Public Health Service.

This episode continues our series of DEI conversations that were originally featured at the NCDA 2024 Global Career Development Conference's DEI Symposium in San Diego, CA.This episode - hosted by Reuben Britt and featuring Lauren Standish - focuses on employment barriers and the importance of neuro-inclusive career advising. Lauren shares her non-linear career journey and insights on neurodiversity, explaining terms such as neurodivergent, neurotypical, and neurotype. The conversation delves into the significant challenges neurodivergent individuals face, with unemployment rates higher than the national average. Both Lauren and Reuben emphasize the need for tailored career advising practices to support neurodivergent students, considering their unique strengths and challenges. Resources: Click to access the PDF resource list from this symposium presentation.Lauren Standish is a graduate student pursuing her master's degree in adult, continuing, and higher education administration at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). In addition to her studies, she works in Career Services, a segment of UWM's Center for Student Experience and Talent (SET). Lauren considers herself a jack of many trades, some of which include career advising, training and development, and instructional design. Her passions include mental health advocacy, accessible educational and professional development opportunities, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). In her free time, she enjoys thrifting, making music, and spending time with her cats, Tucker and Jack. You can reach Lauren at: www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-standishRuben Britt, Jr. is an author, lecturer, career coach, and educator. He is a National Certified Counselor who has over 47 years of experience in education as both a career planning counselor and as a teacher. A nationally recognized expert on issues related to career coaching and educational issues, he has worked as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Education, the Educational Testing Service, the New Jersey Department of Higher Education and several colleges and community organizations. He is an author who has written a book on the social issues entitled Winter in America: The Social and Moral Decline of a Great Nation; a self-empowerment book entitled Reflection and Restoration: Quotes for Self-Empowerment and Motivation, a career planning guide for high school and college students entitled Black and Powerful: The Career Guide for Tomorrow's Top Leaders, and he has written a children's book on cultural diversity entitled Lakota. Ruben also wrote two chapters for the book The Last Job Search Guide You'll Ever Need--"Networking: A Proven Tool for Job Seekers" and "The Portfolio: Your Ticket to Successful Interviewing." Ruben is also the co-author of the textbook Don't Dismiss My Story: The Tapestry of Colonized Voices In White Space. He has been a contributor, and he has written a number of articles related to education, career development and social issues for such publications as Black Issues in Higher Education, Upscale Magazine, Black Enterprise, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Diversity in Ed Magazine. Ruben was a teacher in the Boston Public School District (MA), the director of Cooperative Education at Bloomsburg University (PA) and the coordinator of Career Services at Stockton University (NJ). Presently, he is a career planning coach at Rowan University and the host of Career Talk on WGLS-FM a show offering tips and advice on career planning and finding employment.Send us a text

What are needed to explore new drivers and pathways to spur global economic growth? CGTN host Wang Guan caught up with Amit Sevak, CEO of Educational Testing Service, also known as ETS, the largest private educational assessment organization in the world, who shared his view on this.

The guest this week on The CMO Podcast is Michelle Froah, the Global Chief Marketing & Innovation Officer at The Educational Testing Service, or ETS. ETS is the largest private educational assessment organization in the world, serving 50 million people a year in 200 countries. You probably know them better for their products, which includes the GRE admission tests for graduate and professional school, and the TOEFL tests which prepare students for university study and immigration. ETS was founded in 1947 with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey.Michelle is a veteran brand builder. She began her career in the 1990's in Manufacturing with Procter & Gamble, and then switched over to Brand Management at P&G, where she worked in beauty care. She left P&G after almost 18 years to work for Kimberly Clark in Asia, then returned to the US to work in senior marketing roles at Samsung and MetLife. About one year ago Michelle moved to the nonprofit sector, with ETS, where she has joined the executive team to help bring about a significant brand relaunch. Jim welcomes her to discuss this new ETS refresh, his own time at the company in the 1980's and how she looks to bring her good energy to each new project.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, LoVetta delves into the world of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) with Colby Carter, the Associate Director of Global Higher Education at Educational Testing Service. Colby shares his personal journey into the field of law and his role in assisting law schools with test assessment strategies. The GRE, a standardized test commonly used for graduate program admissions, has gained traction in law school admissions since 2016. Colby discusses the structure of the GRE, recent changes to the test format, and its focus on assessing analytical, verbal, and quantitative skills. The conversation touches on the benefits of the GRE, including increased flexibility for applicants and the growing acceptance of the test by law schools.

This Day in Legal History: United States v. PetersOn this day in legal history, February 20, 1809, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in United States v. Peters, fundamentally shaping the balance of power between federal and state authorities in the United States. Chief Justice John Marshall, presiding over the case, issued a ruling that underscored the supremacy of the federal judiciary over individual states, a principle that has remained a cornerstone of American constitutional law. The decision held, in relevant part:“If the legislatures of the several states may at will annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy rights acquired under those judgments, the Constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery, and the Nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals.”Marshall's decision came at a time when the young nation was grappling with the delineation of powers between state and federal governments. His ruling made it unequivocally clear that state legislatures cannot annul judgments made by federal courts, nor can they interfere with rights established under such judgments. This was a decisive moment that reinforced the framework of federalism in the United States, ensuring that the Constitution and federal laws would not be undermined by state actions.The case itself revolved around a complex dispute involving a seized ship, but its implications went far beyond the immediate legal question, addressing the fundamental structure of American governance. Marshall's eloquent assertion that allowing state legislatures to override federal court decisions would reduce the Constitution to a "solemn mockery" and strip the nation of its ability to enforce its laws through its own tribunals, resonated deeply. United States v. Peters thus stands as a pivotal moment in the annals of American legal history, affirming the principle of federal supremacy and the crucial role of the federal judiciary in maintaining the constitutional balance. This decision has echoed through centuries, influencing countless rulings and shaping the understanding of the relationship between state and federal powers in the United States.George Santos, a former New York Representative, initiated legal action against comedian Jimmy Kimmel, ABC, and the Walt Disney Co. in federal court over allegations that a prank involving Cameo videos aired on Kimmel's late-night show infringed on his copyright. Santos, having joined Cameo after his expulsion from the House, claims that Kimmel used pseudonyms to request at least 14 videos, which were then broadcasted on television and shared online, a move Santos argues goes beyond the personal use license stipulated by Cameo's terms of service. The lawsuit alleges that Kimmel's actions, including the fraudulent induction for creating the videos and breach of contract, resulted in unauthorized commercial exploitation of Santos' content. Santos is seeking $150,000 in damages for each act of infringement, alongside further damages and a permanent injunction to prevent future broadcasts and distributions of the contested videos. The case, highlighting issues around copyright and the boundaries of digital content use, is currently pending in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.George Santos Sues Jimmy Kimmel for Airing Prank Cameo VideosThe U.S. Supreme Court is currently deliberating a significant case brought by Corner Post, a convenience store in North Dakota, which challenges the Federal Reserve's rule on debit card "swipe fees." This rule, established in 2011, sets a maximum fee that businesses must pay to banks for debit card transactions at 21 cents. Corner Post's lawsuit, which was dismissed by lower courts, contests the regulation on the grounds it is excessively burdensome and was initiated too late, arguing that the statute of limitations should not apply to them since they began operations in 2018, beyond the standard six-year challenge period.This case has attracted attention from various conservative and business groups, including Charles Koch's network and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, advocating for businesses' ability to challenge regulations they find onerous. On the opposite side, the Biden administration, representing the Federal Reserve, warns that Corner Post's argument could lead to an increase in legal challenges against government regulations, burdening agencies and courts.Small business associations have urged the Supreme Court to enforce a strict statute of limitations starting when a regulation is finalized, arguing that extending this period could result in regulatory inconsistency and chaos. The background of the dispute traces back to before the imposition of the cap, when retailers often paid up to 44 cents per swipe, a cost they argued was particularly onerous for small businesses. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law's Durbin amendment directed the Fed to cap these fees, which led to the current cap of 21 cents per transaction, although this was contested by retailers who anticipated a lower limit.In 2021, Corner Post filed a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve in North Dakota, claiming the rule contradicted congressional intent and was arbitrary under the Administrative Procedure Act. However, U.S. District Judge Daniel Traynor dismissed the case based on the expiration of the statute of limitations, a decision upheld by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. As the Supreme Court weighs in, with a decision expected by the end of June, the Fed has proposed reducing the cap further to 14.4 cents per transaction, a proposal currently under public review.US Supreme Court weighs bid to challenge debit card 'swipe fee' rule | ReutersJD-Next, an innovative law school admissions program, is under consideration by the American Bar Association (ABA) for approval as a valid predictor of law school performance, similar to the LSAT and GRE. This comes at a crucial time, as nearly 50 law schools have sought ABA permission to use JD-Next scores for admissions following the U.S. Supreme Court's restrictions on race consideration in college admissions. The program, developed by the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law with support from AccessLex Institute and Educational Testing Service, aims to address racial score disparities evident in traditional standardized tests. Unlike the LSAT and GRE, JD-Next includes an eight-week online course on contracts, ending with a law school-style exam. The program, operational at a cost of $299 to participants, is seen as a tool for promoting equity, diversity, and efficiency in law school admissions. The ABA's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is deliberating whether to fully recognize JD-Next, maintain the current need for special permission for its use, or discontinue its sanctioned use in admissions. This decision is pivotal for the future of law school admissions, signaling a potential shift towards more inclusive and accessible evaluation methods.Law school admissions program JD-Next seeks ABA's blessing | ReutersIn my column, I delve into the contentious issue of the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap, emphasizing the need for policy reform that eliminates the so-called marriage penalty and introduces an income limit. The current cap, set in 2017, doesn't allow married couples to double the deduction granted to single filers, a discrepancy that has sparked debate and failed reform attempts, most recently in the House this past February. I argue that while raising the cap could offer tax relief to some, it risks exacerbating housing affordability issues by increasing demand and, consequently, prices in high-tax states.The SALT deduction cap's impact on housing markets is profound, particularly in states where supply struggles to meet demand. The cap effectively raises taxable income for homeowners by limiting the amount of state property and sales or income tax they can deduct. This not only affects individual home buyers' budgets but also their eligibility for loans, ultimately influencing the socioeconomic fabric of communities.I propose a nuanced approach to reform: eliminating the marriage penalty but implementing an income phaseout. This would ensure fairness without negatively impacting the housing market. An income limit, particularly one that phases out above the upper level of the middle-income range, would offer relief to the middle class while minimizing unintended market consequences. The Penn Wharton Budget Model estimates that doubling the SALT cap for married filers making less than $500,000 would cost $22 billion over ten years, suggesting a targeted approach could be more financially sustainable.The political landscape complicates the path to reform, with recent opposition from Democrats highlighting the challenges of achieving bipartisan consensus. However, the fact that states most affected by the SALT cap are often Democratic strongholds suggests that opposition may be more about political dynamics than policy substance. I conclude that despite these challenges, advocates for SALT reform should continue their efforts, aiming for a compromise that addresses the marriage penalty and income disparities. This approach not only aligns with principles of equity and efficiency but also offers a pragmatic solution to a complex problem, potentially paving the way for rare bipartisan agreement in a politically charged environment.SALT Deduction Should Cut Marriage Penalty and Add Income Limit Get full access to Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast at www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

If you're someone who has aspired to study in the U.S. then you're probably familiar with the range of admissions tests you likely had to consider or take. These might include the TOEFL, or the Test of English as a Foreign Language, to assess someone's English proficiency for university study, immigration and more, and that is accepted by more than 10,000 organizations in 130 countries, including top English-speaking universities worldwide. More than 30 million people have taken the TOEFL test. And then there is the GRE test, the world's most widely used admissions test for graduate and professional school. Just over 341,000 people took the GRE admissions test between 2021 and 2022 and 75% of them were outside the U.S., and many of them from India. This episode's guest is Rohit Sharma, Senior Vice President for Global Higher Education and Workskills at ETS—or the Educational Testing Service—the U.S.-based organization that conducts these important tests. Rohit is himself a former international student from India and now oversees ETS's engagement in international higher education and also its new focus on upskilling and skill development for adult workers. Prior to joining ETS in 2022, Rohit has held senior leadership roles across higher education, training, certification and workforce development sectors, with over two decades of international experience covering more than 25 countries and jurisdictions. In today's conversation we talk about the value of international students and why ETS is at the forefront of fostering student mobility; how tests like the GRE aim to be responsive to a diverse and global student population; and yes—the topic on everyone's minds these days—how AI will affect testing and assessment. Episode Themes: Rohit's own journey of taking ETS tests when coming to the U.S. to study and now coming full circle to work for the world's largest testing and assessment organization Why ETS is focused on keeping the door open to international students in the U.S. How ETS ensures that its tests are fair, unbiased, and culturally sensitive for test-takers from diverse backgrounds ETS's new focus on  upskilling and reskilling adults and why it matters How AI will affect the future of testing and assessment When it comes to higher education or jobs, what excites Rohit the most about this particular moment in time Episode Resources: Follow ⁠Rohit⁠ on LinkedIn Check out MPOWER Financing's ⁠Social Impact Report⁠ My book:  ⁠America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibilit⁠y Sign up for ⁠America Calling: my take on the intersection of education, culture and migration⁠ Connect with me: ⁠LinkedIn⁠, ⁠Twitter⁠, Instagram Episode sponsor: This episode was made possible by the generous support of ⁠MPOWER Financing⁠ which provides no-cosigner loans and scholarships for international, DACA, and refugee students. Headquartered in Washington DC, MPOWER has to date helped tens of thousands of students fund their educational dreams and journeys.

A few months ago, kidney specialist Dr. Stanley Goldfarb was fired from UpToDate, a digital research tool for physicians. Last year, the president of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where Dr. Goldfarb served as an associate dean, wrote a public letter accusing him of racism while students and colleagues circulated a petition calling for his title as professor emeritus to be stripped.  Dr. Goldfarb's purported crimes had nothing to do with medicine and everything to do with his public opposition to DEI (“Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”) in medicine. For example, last year, he wrote,   The campaign for diversity is long running and has some value, yet the ideological extremism of the past two years has led medical schools to adopt dangerous strategies. To fight supposed “systemic racism,” at least 40 institutions have dropped the requirement that all applicants take the MCAT, the gold-standard test that measures students' grasp of this life-saving profession.   More recently, he added this observation,  It quickly became apparent that my beloved medical profession, to which I had devoted more than 50 years, was spiraling downward even faster than I had realized. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the decline, as did the death of George Floyd in 2020. Suddenly, medical schools were loudly proclaiming that health care is “systemically racist,” that “medical reparations” are urgently needed, and that medical education and practice must fundamentally change. Whereas DEI and social justice were frequently discussed in 2018, by the end of 2020 they were the central facets of medical education, where they remain to this day.  Other examples of Dr. Goldfarb's concerns include the supposed  systemic racism of being seen by a physician of a different race and pledges made by medical students to fight the gender binary and “honor all indigenous ways of healing that have been historically marginalized by western medicine.”   Near the end of the 20th century, it was common to dismiss and deny the possibility of objective truth claims in the liberal arts and social sciences, such as literature, art, and politics. But the “hard” sciences remained untouched until recently. It is now common for the same kind of deconstructions to be applied in math, medicine, or the other biological sciences. As it turns out, the first chapter of Romans accurately describes the very real potential of fallen humanity to deny what is observably true in the world God made.  Contemporary ideas of DEI prove a maxim of G.K. Chesterton, that “(t)he modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad.” The impulse for justice and equality, birthed within the Western world from Christian ideas about morality and the human condition, draws more from the philosophy of Michel Foucault than the Bible. Built instead on a standpoint epistemology rather than eternal categories of right and wrong and human dignity, an individual who belongs to what is understood as a traditionally marginalized group is granted moral status and authority over and above those from groups not assumed to be marginalized. Functionally, objective reality is denied.  As Shane Morris and I recently described, students taught that successfully solving algebra problems will depend more on the color of their skin than knowing algebra, or that their calculus professors are oppressors if they are white, will not only not unlock the mysteries of the universe, they will believe lies about who they are. Even worse, lowering standards for certain students only dehumanizes them, suggesting they cannot reach the standards in the first place.   In the 1990s, renowned economist Thomas Sowell wrote the following about lowering SAT scores:   The Educational Testing Service is adopting minority students as mascots by turning the SAT exams into race-normed instruments to circumvent the growing number of prohibitions against group preferences. The primary purpose of mascots is to symbolize something that makes others feel good. The well-being of the mascot himself is seldom a major consideration.   Sowell understood–even firsthand–racial injustice and the uphill climb that minority students can face to reach success. Yet for Sowell, ditching objective measurements was not the answer:   People of every race and background are fully capable of becoming world-class physicians. Medical schools should seek out the best candidates who are most likely to provide the best care for patients, regardless of what they look like or where they come from. Anything less jeopardizes the very purpose of these institutions.   Critical Theory in all of its forms only critiques, never constructs. Applied, it will only tear down, never build up. Advocates of this ideology should consider that their proposed solutions may be fueling the problems they claim to address.  This Breakpoint was co-authored by Kasey Leander. For more resources to live like a Christian in this cultural moment, go to breakpoint.org. 

In this episode, Rohit Sharma, Sr. Vice President of Global Higher Education and Workskills, explains how ETS made the GRE almost two hours shorter (without cutting any sections) and why that's a good thing for test takers - and institutions. [SHOW SUMMARY] Are you wondering what the new shorter GRE is about? What does it mean for you as applicants and test takers? This episode is for you! We'll be discussing the new shorter GRE format and how it affects test-takers with ETS' Sr. Vice President of Global Higher Education and Workskills. An interview with Rohit Sharma,Sr. Vice President of Global Higher Education and Workskills at ETS. [Show Notes] Welcome to the 531st episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Thanks for joining me. Today's show is all about test prep, and I'd like to start with a quick one-question quiz. What is the paradox at the heart of graduate school admissions? Well, I'll tell you. You have to show that you belong at your target programs and simultaneously that you stand out in the applicant pool. Doing so is paradoxical and challenging. Accepted's free download, Fitting in and Standing Out: The Paradox at the Heart of Admissions, will show you how to do both. Master this paradox, and you are well on your way to acceptance.  Our guest today is Rohit Sharma, Senior Vice President of Global Higher Education and Workskills at the Educational Testing Service, better known as ETS. Rohit earned his bachelor's in engineering from IIT Kanpur in India and his MBA from UVA Darden. He has worked as a consultant for Boston Consulting Group and for over 20 years he has contributed internationally in management and product design and development in the fields of digital skills training, assessment, and higher education.  Rohit, welcome to Admissions Straight Talk. [2:03] Thank you, Linda. Thank you for having me. I'm delighted to speak with you today. So GRE is undergoing some transformations, right? ETS is giving us a whole new GRE. How is the new GRE going to be structured? [2:07] Great, thank you. First of all, the GRE is going to be similar in many ways to the old one in terms of having the same three sections that we have always had, which is the verbal reasoning, the quantitative reasoning, as well as the analytical writing section. So those three things remain unchanged. But the big news here is that the time that the test used to take previously, which was close to four hours, is going to be reduced in half to just shy of two hours. So that's a big change that we are making. And then I assume you're not sacrificing any kind of predictability or validity to the test in cutting it in half. [2:51] Of course, that was almost like I left it hanging there so that you asked me that, but it goes without saying- I fell for it. [3:09] Yes, no, thank you. But it goes without saying that as you know, ETS has a very long history of over 75 years that we have been around, and one of the things that we are so proud of is the research that goes behind all of our assessments. So the validity, the reliability of these measures, these assessments, the constructs that they measure continues to remain the same as it was before. So the total time is much less. You still have the same three sections. So is each section just basically cut in half? [3:32] So there's a couple of things that we have done. So in many of these assessments, Linda, historically, there's always been an unscored section. And before the world of generative AI, as well as other technological advances that was needed to make sure that we can test out items that we can then put in future tests because these items have been tested in a particular way. So first of all, we remove that unscored section so that itself produces a certain amount of time. The second thing we did was in the longer version of the test, which is the current one, there was a break in the midway for around 10 minutes.

Applicants find themselves more confused than ever by current test-optional admissions policies; how do you know if “optional” really applies to you? Amy and Mike invited college counseling expert Judi Robinovitz to explore the complexities of whether to submit test scores or not. What are five things you will learn in this episode? What is the difference between test optional and test blind? What did test optional look like as a policy before COVID? What does test-optional mean presently in college admissions?  What are the most important considerations in deciding to submit a score or not? What signals from schools can help applicants make wise score submission decisions? MEET OUR GUEST Judi Robinovitz is a Certified Educational Planner with more than thirty-five years of experience in college counseling and school placements. She is the author of numerous articles, books, and software products on educational planning and test preparation. Judi has been a featured speaker at national educational conferences, schools, and places of worship. To keep pace with current educational trends, Judi continually travels across the country to visit dozens of college and boarding school campuses every year. She has acquired vast knowledge of the admissions process as well as the requirements and specialties of hundreds of educational institutions. Since 1980, she and her team have successfully guided more than 8,000 students – from those at the very top of their class to students experiencing significant academic struggles – and their families through the planning and application process for private school, college, and graduate school. Judi specializes in guiding students applying to prestigious double-degree BS-MD programs and the nation's most selective universities as well as colleges that best serve mid-range students and those with learning disabilities. During her 23-year tenure at Educational Testing Service, Judi served as technical liaison to the College Board. She designed and led the programming team to implement the College Board's first SAT-prep software; she also wrote strategy chapters of their original SAT-prep books. Taking the SAT numerous times throughout her career, Judi has several perfect 800 scores on her record. As a founding faculty member of two private schools in Boca Raton, Florida, Judi created their college guidance programs and served as Director of College Guidance to the first four graduating classes of each school. Judi founded Score At The Top Learning Centers & Schools in South Florida. Accredited by AdvancED and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the learning centers provide academic tutoring, SAT & ACT preparation, and courses for credit to over 1,000 students every year, both in person and via Skype. The accredited schools are home to more than 180 full-time students who thrive in intentionally small classes ranging in size from one to eight students. Judi is a professional member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association, the Higher Education Consultants Association, the National Association for College Admission Counseling, the Secondary School Admissions Test Board, and the Learning Disabilities Association of America. Judi earned degrees in mathematics and computer science from the University of Connecticut and Rutgers University, both with highest honors. Her professional life has been devoted to helping students achieve academic success. Judi first appeared on our podcast in episode 139 to discuss Building an A+ Extracurricular Resume and in episode 202 to discuss Crafting A College Resume. Find Judi at judi@scoreatthetop.com. LINKS What Does Test-Optional Mean? Truth About Test Optional What Does an SAT Score Mean in a Test-Optional World? The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System RELATED EPISODES WHY COLLEGE READINESS MATTERS WHY OPTIONAL STATEMENTS AREN'T OPTIONAL WHO BENEFITS MOST FROM TEST OPTIONAL POLICIES? ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page. ABOUT YOUR HOSTS Mike Bergin is the president of Chariot Learning and founder of TestBright. Amy Seeley is the president of Seeley Test Pros. If you're interested in working with Mike and/or Amy for test preparation, training, or consulting, feel free to get in touch through our contact page.

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Dylan Wiliam, PhD, is one of the world's foremost education authorities. With partners Paul Black and Siobhan Leahy, Dylan has developed and helped to successfully implement classroom formative assessment in thousands of schools all over the world, including the United States, Canada, Singapore, Sweden, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Wiliam is Professor Emeritus of educational assessment at UCL Institute of Education (IOE), London, UK and Executive Director of the Learning Sciences International Dylan Wiliam Center. After a first degree in mathematics and physics, Wiliam taught in urban public schools for seven years, during which time he earned further degrees in mathematics and mathematics education. He has served as dean and head of the School of Education at King's College London, senior research director at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ and Deputy Director of the Institute of Education, University of London. Since 2010, he has devoted most of his time to research and teaching. Wiliam's most recent publication, Creating the Schools Our Children Need: Why What We're Doing Now Won't Help Much (And What We Can Do Instead), analyses the approaches that American schools have taken in order to improve student achievement, and shows why they are unlikely to succeed, while at the same time, providing clear advice about the steps that schools need to take to raise student achievement and close achievement gaps. His other works focus on the profound impact strategic formative assessment has on student learning. He is co-author of Inside the Black Box, as well as Embedding Formative Assessment, the Embedding Formative Assessment Professional Development Pack, and Leadership for Teacher Learning. Social Links Twitter: @dylanwiliam LinkedIn: @dylanwiliam

SatoriXR, a tech startup in Chennai that offers 3D and augmented reality technologies for engineering design and manufacturing, has won Grameen Foundation India's first Tech4Inclusion challenge. And entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala's UpGrad has doubled its private valuation in new funding round, ET reports. Notes: SatoriXR, a tech startup in Chennai that offers 3D and augmented reality technologies for engineering design and manufacturing, has won Grameen Foundation India's first Tech4Inclusion challenge, the foundation said in a LinkedIn post yesterday. With a grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Grameen conceptualised the Technology for Growth and Inclusion Challenge and announced it in August last year. Competitors were invited to work in the Augmented Reality and Machine Learning space to design a mobile application for educating rural customers and banking agents. SatoriXR, founded by Mahesh Ramamurthy in 2018, built the prototype for a gamified AR learning application, to facilitate financial literacy and inclusion on its eponymous SatoriXR platform. The company will now be awarded the contract to build the full-scale application for Grameen, which will then be used by its banking correspondent partners. SatoriXR was picked from among three finalists. The other two were Deeploop Technologies and MuCrest Technologies. Clari, a Silicon Valley company that makes a revenue tracking software platform for businesses, has acquired India's Wingman, a conversational AI provider for sales teams, the companies said in a press release yesterday. Clari didn't reveal the terms of the deal, but the entire team of Wingman, including its three founders, is expected to join the US company, according to the press release. The acquisition of Wingman gives Clari's revenue collaboration and governance platform the ability to analyse customer and employee conversations, extract valuable AI-based insights, and reliably predict all revenue outcomes. Wingman goes beyond the limits of similar conversation intelligence tools by helping revenue-critical teams act in the moment when it matters, the companies said in the release. Wingman, a Y Combinator portfolio company, was founded in 2018 by Shruti Kapoor, Muralidharan Venkatasubramanian and Srikar Yekollu. The company had raised $2.3 million in 2019 from investors including early-stage deep tech VC firm Speciale Invest. UpGrad Education, founded by Ronnie Screwvala, has raised $225 million in funding from investors including billionaire James Murdoch's Lupa Systems and US testing and assessment provider Educational Testing Service, Economic Times reports. Theme music courtesy Free Music & Sounds: https://soundcloud.com/freemusicandsounds

Michael Friendly is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Professor of Psychology, founding Chair of the graduate program in Quantitative Methods at York University, and an Associate Coordinator with the Statistical Consulting Service. He received his doctorate in Psychology from Princeton University, specializing in Psychometrics and Cognitive Psychology. In addition to his research interests in psychology, Professor Friendly has broad experience in data analysis, statistics, and computer applications. He is the author of Discrete Data Analysis with R: Visualization and Modeling Techniques four Categorical and Count Data. He is also the author of SAS for Statistical Graphics, 1st Edition and Visualizing Categorical Data, both published by SAS Institute, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and Statistical Science His recent work includes the further development of graphical methods for categorical data and multivariate linear models, as well as work on the history of data visualization. Howard Wainer is an independent statistician and author with experience in educational testing and data visualization. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1968. He has taught at The University of Chicago, Princeton University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was employed by the Educational Testing Service from 1980 until 2001 and was the Distinguished Research Scientist at the National Board of Medical Examiners from 2001 until 2016. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and American Educational Research Association. Episode Notes Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, A History of Data Visualization & Graphic Communication Michael Friendly GitHub | https://friendly.github.io/HistDataVis/ Milestones Project: https://datavis.ca/milestones/ Michael Friendly Site | https://www.datavis.ca/ John W. Tukey, Exploratory Data Analysis Sandra Rendgen, The Minard System: The Complete Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard Brit Rusert, Silas Munro, W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America Leland Wilkinson, The Grammar of Graphics Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Dr. Cathy Owens-Oliver is an accomplished speaker, author, instructional coach, education  policy analyst, and National Board Certified Teacher. For more than 25 years, in 46 of 50 states as well as Canada, she has provided consulting services for instructional coaches, college faculty, state boards, and state departments of education.​She is the President and CEO of Educational Effectiveness Group, a coaching, and consulting practice that helps K-12 schools and colleges of education improve teaching and solve problems that hinder student learning. ​She is the author of Why Schools Fumble, a national bestseller in Pedagogy and Educational Problem-Solving. She has presented at countless national conferences and written for leading education journals including Accomplished Teacher Magazine, the Journal of Staff Development, and the Hope Foundation's What Works in Schools newsletter. Her work also appears in the college textbook: Black Star: An Introduction to African-American Studies.​She earned her doctorate in Education, Leadership, Management, and Policy at Seton Hall University, and completed studies at NC A&T State University, and the University of NC - Greensboro (where she was a NC Teaching Fellow).  She has held senior roles at the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, Learning Forward, Educational Testing Service, and the NC Department of Public Instruction. She has served as adjunct faculty for several colleges. She completed leadership and coaching training with the NC Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Dale Carnegie Corporation, Institute for Management Studies, Jack McDowell School for Leadership Development, and the Parker Palmer Center for Courage and Renewal. ​She has served as a director of ministerial training in NC, MI, and PA. She is the Dean of Education for the COGIC International Sunday School Department and President of the GirlsGotLIFE Foundation. Affectionately known as Dr. O, she has assisted several faith-based groups in implementing organizational change. She enjoys golf, gardening, and mentoring millennials.Support the showThanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, please support us on Patreon. For more leadership tools, check out the free workbooks at KylaCofer.com/freestuff. Book Kyla to speak at your event here, or to connect further, reach out to Kyla on LinkedIn and Instagram.All transcripts are created with Descript, an amazing transcript creation and editing tool. Check it out for yourself!Leadership School Production:Produced by Kyla CoferEdited by Neel Panji @ PodLeaF ProductionsAssistant Production Alaina Hulette

The utility of standardized testing is under debate in the US with opponents of their use in K-12 suggesting educators are now being forced to teach to tests. In higher education, there's been a push to abandon the use of standardized tests in admissions processes. But if we throw out standardized tests completely, are we throwing away a tool that still has some value? That's a question framing this episode of Stats and Stories with guest Howard Wainer. Howard Wainer is a statistician and research scientist with a specialization is the use of graphical methods for data analysis and communication, robust statistical methodology, and the development and application of generalizations of item response theory. After serving on the faculty of the University of Chicago, a period at the Bureau of Social Science Research during the Carter Administration, and 21 years as Principal Research Scientist in the Research Statistics Group at Educational Testing Service. He has authored more than 20 books, John's favorite of which is "Truth or Truthiness: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think like a Data Scientist".

Author Peter E. Murphy looks forward to celebrating his 50th year of sobriety after waking up in a gutter when he was 21. He has since fashioned a life of service to others by leading hundreds of workshops for thousands of writers and teachers in the United States and abroad. In addition to being the founder of Murphy Writing of Stockton University, Peter has been a consultant to numerous organizations including The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Educational Testing Service and countless school districts from coast to coast. He has been an educational advisor to three PBS television series on poetry with Bill Moyers. And after his second visit to the Rose Garden where he was recognized as a Distinguished Teacher by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars in the Arts, Bill and Hillary Clinton added Peter to their Christmas card list. Peter began writing his memoir in progress, "Once Upon a Time You Lived in a Castle," to better understand how his mother's suicide and ongoing abuse by a priest led to his addiction to alcohol as a teenager. Writing in general and poetry in particular led Peter from New York City, where he grew up, back to Wales, where he was born, and where he decided to rise out of the gutter and change his life.

Henry Chauncey Jr. – better known as Sam – became a dean at Yale during the 1950s when he was still a college senior. He has been affiliated Yale in various capacities ever since. From 1964 to 1971 he was special assistant to Kingman Brewster Jr., Yale's controversial 17th president, who transformed and modernized the university along meritocratic lines while holding the institution together during the turmoil of the 1960s. Chauncey also served as secretary of the university from 1971 to 1981. In this podcast interview, Sam discusses his father, Henry Chauncey Sr., who was a pivotal figure in the history of meritocracy and one of the central characters in Nicholas Lemann's 1999 bestseller The Big Test. The elder Chauncey founded the Educational Testing Service in 1947, the entity that still administers the SAT to college-bound high school seniors. Sam also analyzes the changes in American society that impacted higher education during the 20th century, the shifting composition and priorities of university students and leaders at selective institutions, the threats to free speech on campuses today, and the qualities of effective administrators.

Helping children develop their identity is integral to making them self-sufficient and independent, as well as to master their Executive Function skills. In addition to children's cognitive, linguistic, and emotional development, parents and educators alike must understand the social science behind the development of racial, ethnic, and cultural identities, which play a major role in shaping a child's lens on life and how they relate to other racial and ethnic groups different than their own.On this episode, Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum—President Emerita at Spelman College, a clinical psychologist, and the author of several books including the best-selling book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race, discusses racial identity development among children growing up in the U.S.. Throughout this conversation, she brings to life a crucial perspective raised in her book that “people, by being ignorant or unaware of race, can unwittingly perpetuate a cycle of oppression.”.About Dr. Beverly Daniel TatumDr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, President Emerita of Spelman College, is a clinical psychologist widely known for her expertise on race relations and as a leader in higher education.  In 2013 she was recognized with the Carnegie Academic Leadership Award.  Author of several books including the best-selling “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and Other Conversations About Race, she was the 2014 recipient of the American Psychological Association Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology. A civic leader in the Atlanta community, Dr. Tatum serves on the boards of Westside Future Fund, Achieve Atlanta, Morehouse College and the Tull Charitable Foundation.  She is also a trustee of Sesame Workshop, Smith College and the Educational Testing Service.She holds a B.A. degree in psychology from Wesleyan University, and M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan as well as an M.A. in Religious Studies from Hartford Seminary.  Website:http://www.BeverlyDanielTatum.comBooks: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About RaceCan We Talk About Race? and Other Conversations in an Era of School ResegregationAssimilation Blues: Black Families in White CommunitiesAbout Host, Sucheta KamathSucheta Kamath, is an award-winning speech-language pathologist, a TEDx speaker, a celebrated community leader, and the founder and CEO of ExQ®. As an EdTech entrepreneur, Sucheta has designed ExQ's personalized digital learning curriculum/tool that empowers middle and high school students to develop self-awareness and strategic thinking skills through the mastery of Executive Function and social-emotional competence.Support the show (https://mailchi.mp/7c848462e96f/full-prefrontal-sign-up)

We are back with our English version of Democracy X Innovations podcast. In this episode we will be talking about Thailand's education system! . The problems facing Thai schools have go beyond the issue of haircuts and uniforms. Outdated curricula and pedagogy continues to emphasize rote-learning while discouraging critical thinking. Furthermore, the budget allocation for the ministry of education has been cut 20 billion baht for fiscal year 2022. . At present, Thai students are required to take a range of tests including O-net, GAT, PAT as well as Educational Testing Service in the seven major subjects (and maybe more). However, what is most pertinent is that for the majority of schools, the curriculum studied doesn't properly prepare students for these exams, either by not focusing on the right subjects or not giving students the tools to be able to solve problems. Many Thai students have to go for private tutoring which takes away a lot of time from them; they study in school for eight hours, then take time travelling to tutoring schools to study some more. . The education system should be flexible, meaning that students should be able to choose what they want to learn and figure their true selves, in both science and art subjects.

We are back with our English version of Democracy X Innovations podcast. In this episode we will be talking about Thailand's education system! . The problems facing Thai schools have go beyond the issue of haircuts and uniforms. Outdated curricula and pedagogy continues to emphasize rote-learning while discouraging critical thinking. Furthermore, the budget allocation for the ministry of education has been cut 20 billion baht for fiscal year 2022. . Thai students are required to take a range of tests including O-net, GAT, PAT as well as Educational Testing Service in the seven major subjects (and maybe more). However, what is most pertinent is that for the majority of schools, the curriculum studied doesn't properly prepare students for these exams, either by not focusing on the right subjects or not giving students the tools to be able to solve problems. Many Thai students have to go for private tutoring which takes away a lot of time from them; they study in school for eight hours, then take time travelling to tutoring schools to study some more. . The education system should be flexible, meaning that students should be able to choose what they want to learn and figure their true selves, in both science and art subjects.

When you hear “resume,” you probably think (perhaps with a shudder) of applying for a job. But since a document like this serves as a succinct summary of someone’s experience, educational background, and special skills, it also makes a surprising difference when applying to a school. Amy and Mike invited college counseling expert Judi Robinovitz to detail the process of crafting a college resume.  What are five things you will learn in this episode? How important is it for a high school student to create a resume for college admissions? What should a college resume look like both digitally and physically? How do verbs like initiate, lead, collaborate, and solve matter on your resume? What can students do to build a resume under unusual circumstances? How does building a high school resume help students later? MEET OUR GUESTS Judi Robinovitz is a Certified Educational Planner with more than thirty-five years of experience in college counseling and school placements. She is the author of numerous articles, books, and software products on educational planning and test preparation. Judi has been a featured speaker at national educational conferences, schools, and places of worship. To keep pace with current educational trends, Judi continually travels across the country to visit dozens of college and boarding school campuses every year. She has acquired vast knowledge of the admissions process as well as the requirements and specialties of hundreds of educational institutions. Since 1980, she and her team have successfully guided more than 8,000 students – from those at the very top of their class to students experiencing significant academic struggles – and their families through the planning and application process for private school, college, and graduate school. Judi specializes in guiding students applying to prestigious double-degree BS-MD programs and the nation’s most selective universities as well as colleges that best serve mid-range students and those with learning disabilities. During her 23-year tenure at Educational Testing Service, Judi served as technical liaison to the College Board. She designed and led the programming team to implement the College Board’s first SAT-prep software; she also wrote strategy chapters of their original SAT-prep books. Taking the SAT numerous times throughout her career, Judi has several perfect 800 scores on her record. As a founding faculty member of two private schools in Boca Raton, Florida, Judi created their college guidance programs and served as Director of College Guidance to the first four graduating classes of each school. Judi founded Score At The Top Learning Centers & Schools in South Florida. Accredited by AdvancED and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the learning centers provide academic tutoring, SAT & ACT preparation, and courses for credit to over 1,000 students every year, both in person and via Skype. The accredited schools are home to more than 180 full-time students who thrive in intentionally small classes ranging in size from one to eight students. Judi is a professional member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association, the Higher Education Consultants Association, the National Association for College Admission Counseling, the Secondary School Admissions Test Board, and the Learning Disabilities Association of America. Judi earned degrees in mathematics and computer science from the University of Connecticut and Rutgers University, both with highest honors. Her professional life has been devoted to helping students achieve academic success. Judi first appeared on our podcast in episode 139 to discuss Building an A+ Extracurricular Resume. Find Judi at judi@scoreatthetop.com LINKS Should I Upload a Résumé with my College Applications? Present a Consistent Picture of Yourself in Your College Applications RELATED EPISODES BUILDING AN A+ EXTRACURRICULAR RESUME CREATING A PASSION PROJECT DEMONSTRATING LEADERSHIP IN COLLEGE APPLICATIONS ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page.

Everyone knows that extracurricular activities matter in college admissions. But do you know which aspects of participation and achievement really make a difference? Amy and Mike invited admissions expert Judi Robinovitz to outline the essentials of building an A+ extracurricular resume.  What are five things you will learn in this episode? Are extracurriculars as important as people say? Do colleges want students who are well-rounded or angular? Do community service and work count as extracurriculars? How important are excellence and impact in an activity? What is the difference between your academic rating and extracurricular rating? MEET OUR GUEST Judi Robinovitz is a Certified Educational Planner with more than thirty-five years of experience in college counseling and school placements. She is the author of numerous articles, books, and software products on educational planning and test preparation. Judi has been a featured speaker at national educational conferences, schools, and places of worship. To keep pace with current educational trends, Judi continually travels across the country to visit dozens of college and boarding school campuses every year. She has acquired vast knowledge of the admissions process as well as the requirements and specialties of hundreds of educational institutions. Since 1980, she and her team have successfully guided more than 8,000 students – from those at the very top of their class to students experiencing significant academic struggles – and their families through the planning and application process for private school, college, and graduate school. Judi specializes in guiding students applying to prestigious double-degree BS-MD programs and the nation’s most selective universities as well as colleges that best serve mid-range students and those with learning disabilities. During her 23-year tenure at Educational Testing Service, Judi served as technical liaison to the College Board. She designed and led the programming team to implement the College Board’s first SAT-prep software; she also wrote strategy chapters of their original SAT-prep books. Taking the SAT numerous times throughout her career, Judi has several perfect 800 scores on her record. As a founding faculty member of two private schools in Boca Raton, Florida, Judi created their college guidance programs and served as Director of College Guidance to the first four graduating classes of each school. Judi founded Score At The Top Learning Centers & Schools in South Florida. Accredited by AdvancED and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the learning centers provide academic tutoring, SAT & ACT preparation, and courses for credit to over 1,000 students every year, both in person and via Skype. The accredited schools are home to more than 180 full-time students who thrive in intentionally small classes ranging in size from one to eight students. Judi is a professional member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association, the Higher Education Consultants Association, the National Association for College Admission Counseling, the Secondary School Admissions Test Board, and the Learning Disabilities Association of America. Judi earned degrees in mathematics and computer science from the University of Connecticut and Rutgers University, both with highest honors. Her professional life has been devoted to helping students achieve academic success. Find Judi at judi@scoreatthetop.com. LINKS All About Extracurricular Activities RELATED EPISODES LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION: GOOD VS. GREAT WRITING RHETORICALLY IN ADMISSIONS ESSAYS LOOKING FOR A FULL RIDE ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page.

How do systems leaders remain grounded in the best practices for ensuring equity for each students in their schools? In this podcast, Dr. Lillian Lowery, Vice President of Student and Teacher Assessment at Educational Testing Service, shares strategies that systems leaders can leverage to support schools and teachers in remaining student-centered. She speaks to the importance of systems leaders gathering multiple types of data, listening to educators and students and analyzing data, and then utilizing the data to allocate resources and make decisions. Listen in to hear ways systems leaders can work in partnership with families and teachers for the success of students.

Every Monday this fall, we’re talking about technology and education, because many students, caregivers and teachers are getting a crash course in ed tech. Even before the pandemic, one way technology has been creeping into students’ lives is through grading. And we’re not just talking about those multiple choice bubble sheets that’ve been around for decades. The Educational Testing Service, which creates statewide assessments for K-12 students, along with higher ed tests like the GRE, has been using artificial intelligence to grade essays since 1999. But can AI really tell good writing from bad? Amy Scott speaks with Andreas Oranje, vice president of assessment and learning technology development for ETS.

Doing is all about developing the acuity to redirect actions, building decision making muscle that results in the ability to get things purposely done. Katherine exemplifies this idea in her personal and professional life, sharing that it is not always easy, “We as women particularly need to embrace discomfort, and that’s hard for us.” She highlights that hoping is not doing, underscoring how “Respect and credibility are built by what you actually do in your work. Join in this rich dialogue about how purposeful doing leads to a juicy influential life!Katherine Bassett is Chief Executive Officer/Co-Founder of Tall Poppy, a nationwide consultancy firm providing leadership development and other services to schools, districts, associations and connecting educators with opportunities in policy, research, and advocacy. Additionally she co-founded Research and Assessment Design: Science Solution, radssolution.com, to assess social and emotional learning skills across career verticals which include incarcerated citizens, reentry citizens, educators, students and workforce. Past experience includes being President/CEO for the National Network of State Teachers of the Year, the Director of Policy and Partnerships for The Center for Educator Effectiveness at Pearson, and for twelve years with Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ as the Director of Educator Relations Group and other leadership roles. She also served as the Assessment Developer/Facilitator for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. The genesis of her career was as a Library Media Specialist, Ocean City Intermediate School in New Jersey.She has an M.A. in Elementary Education along with a Post-Graduate Certificate in Computers in Education from Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, and a B.S in Educational Media/Library Science from Millersville University, Millersville, PA. Katherine has received numerous awards and honors for her work, such as being the 2000 New Jersey State Teacher of the Year, New Jersey State Legislature Honoree & Congressional Honoree and twice being the New Jersey Best Practices awardee. She is an expert educator and executive volunteer with respect to education assessment and standards development. She is highly published and a sought after national speaker.

Irwin S. Kirsch is the Director of the Center for Global Assessment at Educational Testing Service. He earned his Ph.D. in Educational Measurement, Reading/Literacy from the University of Delaware in 1982. Since joining ETS in 1984, he has directed a number of large-scale assessments in the area of literacy including the National Adult Literacy Survey, and the NAEP Young Adult Literacy Survey. He was also a key person in establishing the International Adult Literacy Surveys and has directed them for ETS since 1993. In 1987, he received the ETS Research Scientist Award for his work in the area of literacy and was named as an ETS Distinguished Presidential Appointee in 1999. Kirsch currently manages several large-scale surveys including the Adult Education Program Study with the U.S. Department of Education and the Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Program with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Kirsch also chairs the Reading Expert Group for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and has been involved with several efforts aimed at defining and measuring information and communication technology (ICT) skills. In this area, he has directed an international panel for ETS that defined ICT literacy, has designed and conducted a feasibility study on ICT literacy for the OECD, and participates on an OECD advisory panel aimed at establishing a new survey of adult skills for the 21st century. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Washington State University College of Education has a rich history of involvement with the Educational Testing Service, based in Princeton, NJ. We've had alumni work there, current students intern there, faculty members chair different groups or committees there. Our ties usually come   from the college's Educational Psychology program. After all, it makes sense: these … Continue reading "068 Internship with ETS – Providing a different perspective"

The Washington State University College of Education has a rich history of involvement with the Educational Testing Service, based in Princeton, NJ. We’ve had alumni work there, current students intern there, faculty members chair different groups or committees there. Our ties usually come   from the college’s Educational Psychology program. After all, it makes sense: these … Continue reading "068 Internship with ETS – Providing a different perspective"

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Dr. Carol Mathias-O’chez is an Psychologist passionate about helping people thrive in all areas of their life. With a Doctorate and Masters in Educational Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, her in-depth knowledge of learning and teaching, based on developmental and psychological theories provides an understanding of how people think, learn and behave. She focuses on solution-focused therapy aimed at helping children, teenagers, young adults and adults break unhealthy cycles, unlearn negative thought patterns and thrive in all areas of their lives: personal growth, academically, professionally, family life, relationships and friendships by equipping them with the tools to successfully self-manage, be independent, achieve their goals and thrive. She works with clients battling with depression, anxiety disorders, suicide ideation among other mental illnesses. She is passionate about mental health awareness, changing the perceptions and stigma attached to mental health and demystifying therapy. She is currently the in-house psychologist at SOS-Hermann Gmeiner College, heading their Emotional Counselling Department. She has also worked with Ghana Christian International School, Accra College of Medicine. Newmont Akyem Development Fund. George State University and Educational Testing Service.Find more about Dr. Carol Mathias-O-chez's work here: https://www.thrivecaregh.com/#/homeFollow Item 13 on Facebook , Instagram and Twitter.esSense 13 is on Facebook , Instagram and Twitter.Don’t forget to subscribe & leave us a review!

There is now a large and growing evidence base that helping teachers develop their use of minute-to-minute and day-by-day assessment is one of, if not the most powerful ways to improve student learning. In this episode, Sarah Gilmore interviews Dylan Wiliam about why and how  assessment for learning, or formative assessment works. Dylan is Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at University College London. After a first degree in mathematics and physics, and one year teaching in a private school, he taught in inner-city schools in London for seven years. From 1996 to 2001 he was the Dean of the School of Education at King’s, and from 2001 to 2003, Assistant Principal of the College. In 2003 he moved to the USA, as Senior Research Director at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ. From 2006 to 2010 he was Deputy Director of the Institute of Education, University of London. Over the last 15 years, his academic work has focused on the use of assessment to support learning (sometimes called formative assessment). He now works with groups of teachers all over the world on developing formative assessment practices. To learn more about Dylan you can visit his website or follow him on Twitter, and to find out more about the Teacher Learning Communities project discussed in this episode, you can visit the Dylan Wiliam Center website. You can also follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with news and exciting opportunities to work with fantastic educators like Dylan!

Show Summary: Please welcome Teen correspondent, Simon Bonenfant, as he steps into the interviewer role for Blind Abilities. While attending and presenting at the Pennsylvania NFB convention, Simon pulled out his recorder and went to work. Conducting 5 interviews from vendors and presenters. In this first interview, Simon talks to Dr. Cary Supalo about his work and what suggestions he has for transition age students considering going into the STEM fields. Join Simon and Dr. Supalo as they talk about the importance of learning blindness skills and the possibilities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. (Full Transcription Below) Check out previous interviews with Simon Bonenfant: TVI Toolbox: Summer Academy, Total Transition to College Experience – Welcome Back Simon Bonenfant and Meet Fellow Student, John Dowling TVI Toolbox:  Science, Technology, Engineering and Math: Carving His Pathway Towards Success, Meet Simon Bonenfant   Read below to learn more about Dr. Cary Supalo, his work and his accomplishments. From the Web: Cary Supalo Senior Developer, Cognitive Sciences and Assistive Technology Educational Testing Service Dr. Supalo received his Ph.D. from Penn State University in 2010 with a research interest in chemical education. He focused on the development of a series of talking and audible laboratory tools that promotes a hands-on science learning experience in the secondary science laboratory classroom. Through his research he modified various laboratory curricula to develop a set of best practices for teaching science in a hands-on way to students who are blind. . Dr. Supalo currently serves as a Research Developer with the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey. His research addresses accessibility concerns as it relates to high stakes assessments and working to help develop the next-generation interfaces needed to promote inclusion in the STEM fields of study. He has a strong passion for collaborating with anyone interested in working to make the hands-on science learning experience for students with disabilities more a reality. Papers: Breaking New Ground in Accessibility: Innovations in Making NGSS-Aligned Assessments Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired Students Developing Equitable Assessments: Creating Standards for Accessibility/Accommodations and Enhanced Item Innovations   Contact: Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities Appon the App Store.   Full Transcription: A Conversation with Dr. Cary Supalo: STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math and of course, Braille and Mobility   Cary Supalo: I learned pursuing a STEM career, it's not going to be handed to you. If you wait for the world to make it all accessible to you, it's probably not going to happen.   Jeff Thompson:           Please welcome Doctor Cary Supalo.   Cary Supalo:    That's the essence of what STEM professionals do. We problem solve. We figure stuff, figure stuff, figure stuff out.   Jeff Thompson:           STEM, science, technology, engineering and mathematics.   Cary Supalo:    To make something out of nothing or to do something that's never been done before, that's the beauty of being a scientist. No two days of work are ever alike. There's always the chance you're going to discover something really significant on any given day that can change the world.   Jeff Thompson: Doctor Supalo has spent a lot of time creating and developing talking and audible devices for STEM students. He has created curricula for teachers of the visually impaired and is a huge advocate for blindness skills training.   Cary Supalo:    You really need to have good blindness skills. You have to be confident in your ability to get from Point A to Point B on your own.   Jeff Thompson:           Welcome to Blind Abilities. I'm Jeff Thompson. The National Federation of the Blind of Pennsylvania held their convention, and our man Simon Bonenfant was out there. Simon is a tenth grader. He is in attendance and also spoke about his experience while he attended a summer camp held at Penn State. We did a podcast with Simon about his experience, and you can find that link in the show notes. Simon's also been on before when he's talked about his experiences as a transition age student. He's a tenth grader and has a heavy interest in the STEM project, and that's science, technology, engineering and math.   Jeff Thompson:           This time, Simon's going to flip around to the other side of the microphone and do some interviews. Simon is interviewing Doctor Cary Supalo, and he's a Senior Developer of Cognitive Sciences and Assistive Technology Educational Testing Service. Doctor Supalo received his PhD from Penn State University in 2010 with a research interest in chemical education. Doctor Supalo has been involved in various workshops across the states helping high school and secondary school students success in the STEM programs. He has also helped develop curricula to help teachers succeed in teaching students with visual impairments.   Jeff Thompson:           Without further ado, I'd like to Simon Bonenfant, Blind Abilities' teen correspondent in Pennsylvania. Take it away, Simon.   Simon Bonenfant:       Simon Bonenfant here. Simon Bonenfant here. Simon Bonenfant here. Hello Blind Abilities Podcasting, it is Simon Bonenfant here corresponding from the Pennsylvania State Convention of the National Federation of the Blind. While I'm here, I have the opportunity to sit down and talk with Cary Supalo. How you doing, Cary?   Cary Supalo:    I'm doing fine. It's a pleasure to be here.   Simon Bonenfant:       That's good. Now, Cary is a blind man himself. Where are you from, Cary?   Cary Supalo:    Well, I'm originally from the Chicago area. I live in Princeton, New Jersey now.   Simon Bonenfant:       What do you do in Princeton?   Cary Supalo:    I work at the Educational Testing Service. I'm an Accessibility Expert to make sure that high stakes assessments are accessible for blind and visually impaired testing.   Simon Bonenfant:       Very nice. What was it like growing up for you being blind and kind of coming into your role?   Cary Supalo:    Well, when I was really young, I didn't know very many other blind people. I knew other blind kids through the educational co-op I was a part of, but I was in mainstream school with sighted kids. I used a lot of large print in my early years before I learned braille in middle school. I'm very grateful having learned braille, because I use braille every day now in my work. It was very valuable for me in college and in graduate school.   Cary Supalo:    Between learning the braille and learning how to use a long white cane to get around independently and in making that adjustment to being willing to carry a cane, that's very hard for a lot of people to accept for one reason or another, but once I did that, I was off and running. It couldn't keep me pinned down too much.   Simon Bonenfant:       Yeah. That's good. What kind of things are you interested in?   Cary Supalo:    I love to travel.   Simon Bonenfant:       Very nice.   Cary Supalo:    I love to go to places where historically significant things occurred that we've read about in our history books. I like trying to bring history to life for me. It's one thing to read about an idea conceptually in a book, but it's a whole ‘nother matter to walk through the ancient Roman Ruins. As a blind person, I really wanted to use it to test my blindness skills to see if I could really navigate in other countries where they drove on the other side of the road and where they spoke other languages. I quite-   Simon Bonenfant:       Yeah, they drive on the other side of the road.   Cary Supalo:    They do, oh yeah. Absolutely.   Simon Bonenfant: Yeah. Mm-hmm (affirmative).   Cary Supalo:    So, that's one of big interests. I also like learning. I like to play competitive trivia whenever possible.   Simon Bonenfant:       Oh, nice.   Cary Supalo:    So, knowing lots of factoids about all kinds of things has always interested me, science, math are really my go-to things in my professional career. I took a liking to that in college. Going through high school, I could do the math and science stuff, but I wasn't necessarily in love with it. It wasn't until I got to college and I started meeting other blind scientists in the world that eventually became my mentors and encouraged me to keep going on the path. I learned pursuing a STEM career, it's not going to be handed to you. If you wait for the world to make it all accessible to you, it's probably not going to happen.   Cary Supalo:    So, you need to get really good at thinking on your feet, fundamental problem solving all the time to figure out how to do things. It's one thing to do it as a blind person to figure out how to get from Point A to Point B, which we all know and love we can do, but then you take that skillset and apply it scientific questions, "Well, how do I make this compound from these starting materials? How do I design an experiment that will give me this type of result? What do I have to do to optimize the use of the scientific method to get the results that we hope to-   Simon Bonenfant: Oh, yes, scientific method.   Cary Supalo:    Yes, exactly.   Simon Bonenfant:       First step, creating a hypothesis, you know.   Cary Supalo:    Yeah. If you think about what blind people do, we have to figure out where we're going. We have to figure out how to read something. We have to figure out how to access a website or a software application at all parallels. That's a commonsensical thing for we as blind people to consider in STEM professions, because that's the essence of what STEM professionals do. We problem solve. We figure stuff out. The more people that have experience figuring stuff out, the better off our STEM workforce is going to be.   Simon Bonenfant:       Right, you're the blind person that figures out the solutions for other blind people.   Cary Supalo:    That's right.   Simon Bonenfant: That's very good.   Cary Supalo:    Yeah. To make something out of nothing or to do something that's never been done before, that's the beauty of being a scientist. No two days of work are ever alike. There's always the chance you're going to discover something really significant on any given day that could change the world. Most days aren't like that, but man, when it does happen, it's pretty exciting.   Simon Bonenfant: Now, I know that NFB has had a very great impact on you. How did you come to connecting with NFB? Who are some of your role models that you connected with through this organization?   Cary Supalo: Well, in my early years, going on NFB National Convention, seeing employment panels and other blind students just doing things that you didn't know was possible was very inspiring to me as a young blind person not knowing where my path was going to be in life. Looking up to blind people, successfully employed blind people, people like Curtis Chong who is sort of the ultimate assist tech guru that I've ever met.   Simon Bonenfant:       Wow.   Cary Supalo:    There are many others, but he is at the top of my list to blind lawyers, and blind engineers, and other blind teachers and such.   Simon Bonenfant:       Seeing what you've accomplished in your life and in things that you've been able to do, it really echoes the message of the blind can do what we want. We can do what we want, live life as we want, and pursue our goals, pursue our dreams.   Cary Supalo:    Yeah, that's right. Push it to the limit. Live life to the fullest.   Simon Bonenfant:       Oh, yeah.   Cary Supalo:    That's what I say.   Simon Bonenfant:       Oh, yeah. Have you been to a lot of place ... a lot of travel, a lot of places?   Cary Supalo:    Too many to count. Too many to count. When I was an undergraduate college, I went to Purdue University and my freshman chemistry course, we had a professor and he would say to us, "The nice thing about becoming a chemistry professor is you get to travel all over the world, other people pay for it, you get to do`lots of really cool things, and people think you're smart." I said, "I want to do that."   Simon Bonenfant:       Have you ever encountered any inaccessible barriers that you've had to work through or educate people in your travels?       Cary Supalo:    Oh, all the time, from misconceptions about abilities to misconceptions about blind people being able to walk up and down steps to unwillingness to read restaurant menus, whatever. You just problem solve and work through it. I mean, there are times to pick your battles, and there are times to fight, and there are times when you just got to do workarounds to get what you need.   Simon Bonenfant:       Advocating for what you need, that's very important.   Cary Supalo:    Yes.   Simon Bonenfant:       Our final question is, what advice would you give to someone who is either high school, or transitioning to college, or transitioning to the workplace?   Cary Supalo:    You really need to have good blindness skills. You have to be confident in your ability to get from Point A to Point B on your own. If some of you out there get sighted guide a lot or ask for directions a lot, I mean, that's okay while you're learning, but you have to get to the point when you can do practically if not all of it on your own. It's not saying that you have to do it, but you have to have the skillset to do it in case you need to do it yourself.   Simon Bonenfant:       Right.   Cary Supalo:    I love to travel all over the world and I do it without any second thought, but I know a lot of young blind people today are hesitant to use canes because they don't want to look different, or maybe they're in a place in their own lives where they're not accepting of their visual impairment. That's okay because until you accept it, I'm not sure how much you're truly going to get there. So, take your time. Everybody comes to this realization at their own pace. To be a successful blind science person, the cane travel skills are critical for job interviewing, for performing the work, to getting to the work. Also, the other skill that I think is critical is the braille, literacy.   Simon Bonenfant:       Oh yeah, definitely.   Cary Supalo:    You've got to know how to read math braille, and preferably in the Nemeth Code, because Doctor Nemeth was a brilliant mathematician and a blind person. A lot of people don't know that. He designed the Nemeth Code to optimize minimal cells in braille space, a very efficient braille system to read. Since it was invented by a mathematician and a scientist, it's really [inaudible] what we need to do. Knowing how to read braille on the fly, I read braille with eight fingers, some people read it with six, some people only ready it with one or two. If you're one of the people that's one or two fingers, I would encourage you the more fingers you train yourself to read braille with, the faster you're going to be.   Cary Supalo:    When I lecture, I used hard copy braille when I gave lectures when I was teaching at university. I also used roll ... like braille lists of my students. So, I'd call out names of students when I'm looking for people to answer questions or taking attendance. I mean, the braille is a critical skill not only for learning the science but just for classroom management and keeping track of notes and research ideas.   Simon Bonenfant:       Yeah, a very valuable tool.   Cary Supalo:    Doctor Nemeth told me a story years ago about an experience he had when he had the opportunity to travel over to the Soviet Union. He was asked to visit Moscow and he was giving a lecture, I don't remember the name of the university over there, and he was giving a technical lecture on some advanced concept of quantum mechanics. Doctor Nemeth could hand write, because his parents taught him that it was very important for him to understand what the visual print symbology was in addition to the braille symbology. So, he could write mathematical equations on a chalkboard and he could space out the letters of numbers and symbols very nicely that were very legible.   Cary Supalo:    Well, he would do this complicated math work, and he had all of his equations written out on three by five index braille cards in braille in his suit jacket pocket. So, he had one hand in the suit jacket pocket, the other hand writing on the chalkboard while he was talking about each step of this complicated series of equations. All these kids in Russia thought he was the smartest man they'd ever seen, because they thought he was speaking off of the top of his head. They didn't know that he had everything written out in braille index cards in his suit jacket.   Simon Bonenfant:       Oh, wow. That is-   Cary Supalo:    So, reading braille can give people a real positive impression of you if you're using it right.         Simon Bonenfant:       Oh, yeah. Now, I'll flip this around a little bit and I'll say, what advice would you give teachers who are in the scientific area and who have to teach blind students? What advice would you be able to find information or resources in that area?   Cary Supalo:    Well, your local search engine is a very valuable tool. Using that to search for terms like blind science, chemistry access, things of that ... accessible mathematics, you're going to get a number of hits. It's going to take a little effort on your part to conduct some research. Maybe do a little self professional development, if you will. A willingness to do that and do a little bit of research can go a long way in the life of your student with the visual impairment, for the minutes you invest on the front end will pay many, many dividends on the back end for your student. It's worth every moment of it.   Simon Bonenfant:       I say if you have a drive, you have a willingness, if there's a will, there's a way.   Cary Supalo:    Yep. Don't be afraid to think outside the box and try something new if the students gamed and willing. If they're not, well then rethink what you want to do. I think more times than not they're going to want to do more than that.   Simon Bonenfant:       Well, thank you, Cary, for coming on the program and podcast. Very nice speaking with you.   Cary Supalo:    Likewise. Thank you, Simon.     [Music] [Transition noise] When we share -What we see -Through each other's eyes...   [Multiple voices overlapping, in unison, to form a single sentence]   ...We can then begin to bridge the gap between the limited expectations, and the realities of Blind Abilities.   Jeff Thompson: For more podcasts with the blindness perspective: Check us out on the web at www.BlindAbilities.comOn Twitter @BlindAbilities Download our app from the App store:  'Blind Abilities'; that's two words, Blind Abilities. Or send us an e-mail at: info@BlindAbilities.com Thanks for listening.

OUCEA Annual Lecture, 25th May 2017, Ashmolean Museum In his presentation, Professor David Pearson, who serves as the Chair of the Standing Committee on Reading for NAEP provided an update on recent innovations in the conceptualisation and operationalisation of NAEP Reading. He explained that the Standing Committee provides oversight on passage selection, item development, and scoring to the Educational Testing Service and discussed the conceptual bases for new digital initiatives, as well as the progress made to identify and resolve challenges to an entirely new digital delivery of NAEP Reading. Professor Pearson also commented upon NAEP reading developments in relation to those recently undertaken by PIRLS and PISA. Professor Maggie Snowling, President of St John's College, University of Oxford acted as the discussant and focused her presentation upon the reasons and causes of poor reading comprehension. She explained that poor comprehenders have good decoding but they do not use context to support word reading as well as typical readers do.

At our April 28, 2016 event, we heard from dynamic keynote speaker Rocky Romeo about how to promote businesses through power networking. Mastering this crucial skill requires more than just schmoozing over cheese platters and exchanging business cards. Rocky will share powerful networking skills that can not only open the door to plum job opportunities but can also help you land new clients. Following Rocky's talk was a panel discussion on where the opportunities are – from freelance work to full-time jobs for communications professionals. You can hear the entire program thanks to our webmaster, Steve Lubetkin, who produces the "Lubetkin on Communications" podcast series on his website. [powerpress] Here is more background on our panelists:  Panel Discussion: “An Insider's View of Agency, Freelance and Corporate Communications Work” Julia Zauner, Director, Digital Strategy & Corporate Communications at Springpoint Senior Living Julia will talk about the pros and cons of working as an independent consultant, agency, non-profit organization and for-profit. She'll also touch on the ways for communications professionals to find opportunities in marketing roles. Prior to working for Springpoint, Ms. Zauner was as Senior Account Executive at Dana Communications, a full-service advertising agency, managing lifestyle and hospitality accounts. Ms. Zauner spent a number of years managing her own marketing communications consulting business. Prior to starting her own business, Ms. Zauner worked at the Interactive Publishing Group of Dow Jones & Co. as Marketing Communications Manager. There she managed on-line media buying and creative for the newly-launched Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition. Before working for Dow Jones, Ms. Zauner was with Disney Development Company, the real estate division of The Walt Disney Company. “The Importance of Your Brand” Laura Virili, Social Media Brand Expert We have all become brands and more than likely people are ‘Googling' you. What do they find? Laura will discuss the importance of owing your brand and communicating it on social media. Laura is a leading social media influencer, speaker & coach. In demand and ahead of the curve when it comes to leveraging LinkedIn, she is a featured speaker at large industry conferences. She also works with smaller groups at various companies, and conducts one-on-one coaching with individuals. Ultimately, she enjoys helping people connect the dots and reach that a-ha moment of clarity. “A Systematic Approach to Networking and Relationship-Building” Frank D. Gómez, Strategic Alliances-Public Affairs Executive, Educational Testing Service Frank draws on his broad experience in government, the private sector, nonprofits and consulting to mentor, coach and assist people in networking, relationship-building and résumé optimization. Frank is a former career Foreign Service Officer and corporate executive who now works at Educational Testing Service. His experience, in three words, has been in communications and public affairs. Before joining ETS in 2005 as Executive Director of External & Media Relations, Gómez was a public affairs executive at Altria, directing corporate communications, executive outreach, community relations, corporate image advertising, an adult literacy program and support for government relations. He capped his 1965–1984 Foreign Service career as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs following cultural and public affairs postings in Haiti, Mali, Costa Rica, Colombia and Washington, D.C. He is a founder of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and is active in its New York area chapter.  

Part One in our 2015 New Hampshire Liberty Forum Discussions (Photo Credit: Virgil Vaduva) Jody's Presentation: Public education is based on some flawed ideas: (1) Geographic location determines your opportunity to become educated. (2) Age determines what other students you are grouped with. (3) Taxes can be used only for government-run schools. (4) All children must get a “free” education. (5) Taxes are needed to pay for public schooling. I will argue that free and appropriate education needs to be changed to appropriate access to education – not daycare or medical support. I will present these and related ideas using general principles and my experiences as chair of the Croydon school board. I will propose some ideas for change, and make sure there is time to have audience participation in designing a paradigm shift for public schooling. Bring your ideas! Jody's Bio: Jody Underwood, Ph.D., is a founder and owner of Bardo Project and is one of the faces of Bardo Farm. She lives off the grid on a large property in New Hampshire with a varying number of people, depending on the season and the year, all learning back-to-basics skills. She moved to NH for the FSP in 2007 and is currently on the FSP board of directors. She focuses on K-12 education both professionally and as the chair of her local school board, which recently instituted school choice and included private schools as part of the choice (which is causing a stir in the state department of education). Her goal is to figure out ways to revolutionize education. Jody’s work history includes artificial intelligence research at NASA, Carnegie Mellon University, Rutgers University, and Princeton University, and education research and development at Vanderbilt University, the Math Forum, and Educational Testing Service. She earned her doctorate at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. She currently works for a small for-profit company in Maryland (telecommuting from NH half the time and working in the MD office half the time) designing and developing games and simulations for learning and assessment. Look Closer: Bardo Farm - http://bardofarm.com/ Free State Project - https://freestateproject.org/

About the book: As a college freshman business major suffering from a variety of anxiety-related maladies, Brian Leaf stumbled into an elective: yoga. It was 1989. All his classmates were female. And men did not yet generally “cry, hug, or do yoga.” But yoga soothed and calmed Leaf as nothing else had. As his hilarious and wise tale shows, Leaf embarked on a quest for health and happiness — visiting yoga studios around the country and consulting Ayurvedic physicians, swamis, and even (accidentally) a prostitute. Twenty-one years later, he teaches yoga and meditation and is the beloved founder of a holistic tutoring center that helps students whose ailments he once shared. About the author: Brian Leaf, M.A., is the author of eleven books, including Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi, Name That Movie!, Defining Twilight, and McGraw-Hill’sTop 50 Skills for a Top Score. He is the only man alive to have written both a yoga memoir and multiple test-prep guides. He is not sure if this is a noble or dubious distinction. Brian is Director of the New Leaf Learning Center in Massachusetts, where he has helped thousands of students from throughout the United States manage ADD and overcome test and math phobias. Brian graduated from Georgetown University in 1993 with a B.A. in Business, English, and Theology. In 1999, he completed a Masters through Lesley College specializing in yoga and ayurveda for Attention Deficit Disorder. Brian is certified as a Yoga Instructor, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Massage Therapist, Energyworker, and Holistic Educator, and he is an avid meditator. He has also dabbled with Bach Flower Essences, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Reiki, Shiatsu, and Tai Chi. Can you top that? So what’s the connection between yoga and test-prep? Let’s just say that one of Brian’s first yoga teaching gigs was at the ETS corporation (Educational Testing Service) in Princeton, NJ. They’re the folks who make the SAT. So now Brian gets paid hundreds of dollars per hour to share what he learned while the test-makers were half asleep in relaxation pose.

Katherine Bassett: The National Network of State Teachers of the Year @NNSTOY www.nnstoy.org Your support is appreciated. Provide a review for Talks with Teachers on iTunes A 26-year middle school librarian and NJ State Teacher of the Year 2000, Katherine Bassett is NNSTOY’s Executive Director, responsible for establishing and expanding the organization. Prior to this position, Bassett served as Director of Policy and Partnerships for the Center for Educator Effectiveness at Pearson, working to support research into educator practice and self-efficacy, and to building partnerships with like-minded organizations to support education. In this episode you will learn: How Katherine moved on from her 26 years as a school librarian to the Educational Testing Service Where she found creative challenges as a teacher The impact standards-based learning can have on teaching Why the time is ripe for teacher leadership How to feel valued as an educator What it means when we say "I am a teacher" How teachers can take a bigger role in policy and the public's eye Why lack of respect is damaging the teacher profession The habits of excellent teachers Visualizing-Teacher-Leadership Books Katherine recommends                 The post #40: A Vision of Teacher Leadership appeared first on Talks with Teachers.

About the book: In this hilarious, heartfelt book, Brian Leaf tackles parenting with a unique blend of research and humor. He explores Attachment Parenting, as well as Playful, Unconditional, Simplicity, and good old Dr. Spock parenting. He tries cloth diapers, no diapers, cosleeping, and no sleeping. Join him on his rollicking journey in this one-of-a-kind parenting guide. About the author: Brian Leaf, M.A., is the author of eleven books, including Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi, Name That Movie!, Defining Twilight, and McGraw-Hill’s Top 50 Skills for a Top Score. He is the only man alive to have written both a yoga memoir and multiple test-prep guides. He is not sure if this is a noble or dubious distinction. Brian is Director of the New Leaf Learning Center in Massachusetts, where he has helped thousands of students from throughout the United States manage ADD and overcome test and math phobias. Brian graduated from Georgetown University in 1993 with a B.A. in Business, English, and Theology. In 1999, he completed a Masters through Lesley College specializing in yoga and ayurveda for Attention Deficit Disorder. Brian is certified as a Yoga Instructor, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Massage Therapist, Energyworker, and Holistic Educator, and he is an avid meditator. He has also dabbled with Bach Flower Essences, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Reiki, Shiatsu, and Tai Chi. Can you top that? So what’s the connection between yoga and test-prep? Let’s just say that one of Brian’s first yoga teaching gigs was at the ETS corporation (Educational Testing Service) in Princeton, NJ. They’re the folks who make the SAT. So now Brian gets paid hundreds of dollars per hour to share what he learned while the test-makers were half asleep in relaxation pose.

Jeremy Burrus led a team of researchers at the Educational Testing Service that produced a report entitled "Examining the Efficacy of a Time Management Intervention for High School Students." Their project was one of the rare studies that focused on teenagers and their time-based productivity skills.

A Chicago-area native, Professor Halverson teaches courses on Medieval Europe, the Reformation, the History of Christianity, and World History. His research interests coincide with and compliment his teaching, having published books on Medieval Christianity and World History. Before coming to Judson, he taught at the University of Iowa and Coe College in Cedar Rapids. He also serves as a consultant for Pearson Higher Education Publishing and the Educational Testing Service.

A Chicago-area native, Professor Halverson teaches courses on Medieval Europe, the Reformation, the History of Christianity, and World History. His research interests coincide with and compliment his teaching, having published books on Medieval Christianity and World History. Before coming to Judson, he taught at the University of Iowa and Coe College in Cedar Rapids. He also serves as a consultant for Pearson Higher Education Publishing and the Educational Testing Service.

"Robert R. Horton: Multifaceted, Creative Entrepreneur" Dr. Arlene's guest is Mr. Robert Horton, the Chairman of Alchemix Corporation , a cutting edge alternative energy company, which he established in 1998. An expert in his field, Mr. Horton has been active in energy and environmental technology since 1980. Among his activities, he organized, managed and sold the China Coal Pipeline Company to Enron in 1997. Prior to that, Horton, in partnership with the American Broadcasting Company, organized and created the world's largest travel franchise company. Since childhood, through the influence of his Clinical Psychologist mother, Robert has been a student of human personality. Beginning in 1975, in addition to his other career interests, he began working on what has become the InnerViewing method, a precise and comprehensive means of distinguishing core personality traits. In the early 1980's he founded the Carefree Institute and, with the help of the Educational Testing Service of Arizona State University, developed the InnerView a comprehensive personality assessment tool. The InnerView has been used by tens of thousands of individuals over the last twenty years.

While its intuitive appeal remains strong, the adoption of universal design is often thwarted by challenges common to postsecondary classrooms. This presentation will engage participants in building awareness of universal design (UD) and the promise and challenges of implementation through interactive role playing by the presenters. Principles of universal design will be presented as point-counterpoint for discussion and debate, as participants realize the advantages and concerns surrounding UD implementation from an individual, as well as, an institutional perspective. Manju Banerjee is assistant professor in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. She is a research and education consultant for the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, and has over 20 years experience in the field of learning and other disabilities. She is the former Director of Disability Services at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Manju is a certified diagnostician and teacher-consultant for learning disabilities. She has worked as a postsecondary disability service provider, vocational rehabilitation counselor, faculty member, and researcher for many years. Manju has published and presented both nationally and internationally on topics including disability documentation and assessment, technology mediated learning, and universal design in instruction. Her areas of research include technological competencies for college students with learning disabilities and universal design in high stakes assessment. Loring C. Brinckerhoff, Ph.D. is Director of the Office of Disability Policy at Educational Testing Service (ETS). He also serves as a higher education and disability consultant to Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) and Harvard Medical School. He received his doctorate in learning disabilities from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is past-president of the Association of Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) and former secretary of the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities. Area of expertise: Transition from high school to post-secondary education for students with learning disabilities; high stakes testing and accommodations; gifted adults with disabilities.