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AI is transforming higher education, but at what cost to student privacy? In this episode of Cooperatively Speaking, Matt Levine speaks with Chris Uthe, Chief Product Officer at BlackBeltHelp, about how colleges and universities can harness the power of artificial intelligence without compromising the trust at the heart of the student experience.With campuses storing vast amounts of sensitive data, the conversation dives into how institutions can use AI to enhance student support while staying compliant with regulations like FERPA. As a seasoned expert in education technology, Chris shares insights on cutting through the noise of overhyped AI solutions, streamlining tech stacks, and building ethically sound systems that truly serve students.Whether you're just beginning your AI journey or looking to sharpen your data privacy strategy, this episode offers timely, practical guidance on the future of AI in higher ed.E&I Host:Matt Levine, Category Marketing Manager, E&I Cooperative ServicesGuest: Chris Uthe, Chief Product Officer, BlackBeltHelpCooperatively Speaking is hosted by E&I Cooperative Services, the only member-owned, non-profit procurement cooperative exclusively focused on serving the needs of education. Visit our website at www.eandi.org/podcast.Contact UsHave questions, comments, or ideas for a future episode? We'd love to hear from you! Contact Cooperatively Speaking at podcast@eandi.org. This podcast is for informational purposes only. The views expressed in this podcast may not be those of the host(s) or E&I Cooperative Services.

Joe Dale returns for his third appearance on the podcast to share the latest developments in artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs) for world language education. Joe and Grant reflect on what's changed in the past year and explore exciting tools making waves in classrooms—from image generation to podcast creation, speaking practice, and student autonomy. Joe also discusses ethical concerns, student engagement, and how teachers can empower learners to use AI responsibly and effectively.Whether you're new to AI or already experimenting with LLMs, this episode is packed with practical ideas, tool recommendations, and forward-thinking strategies to bring into your own teaching.Topics covered:The evolution of LLMs over the last 12–16 monthsChatGPT 4o's image generation with correct textCreating native-like audio dialogues with AIUsing AI for lesson planning, feedback, and content creationTeaching students how to study independently using AIResponsible use and legal considerations (GDPR, FERPA, COPPA)Ethical concerns around AI and copyrightPredictions for the future of AI in educationConnect with Joe here:Email: joedale@talk21.com Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/languageteachingwithai YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@joedale Twitter X: https://x.com/joedale LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joedale100 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joedale.bsky.socialClick HERE for a list of all the amazing tools we discuss in this episode! 

Send us a textOur good friend Dr. Sean Brooks is back with us tonight to discuss the dark side of the broken American Educational business. We're talking educational technology misuse, what constitutes Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) violations, who the mandatory reporters are, how that gets done, and how it's a group effort if you want to take down a school district or specified individuals. There's a lot to learn so let's get at it!Dr. Sean Brooks links: https://americaneducationfm.com/The American Classroom Substack: https://theamericanclassroom.substack.com/Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act; FERPA:  https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/file-a-complaint  Office of Civil Rights:  https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/civil-rights-laws/retaliation/retaliation-discrimination  https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/civil-rights-laws/file-complaint  Ohio Educator complaint forms: https://sboe.ohio.gov/professional-conduct/report-educator-misconduct SUPPORT THE SHOWSubscribeStar http://bit.ly/42Y0qM8Super Chat Tip https://bit.ly/42W7iZHBuzzsprout https://bit.ly/3m50hFTPaypal http://bit.ly/3Gv3ZjpPatreon http://bit.ly/3G37AVx SMART is the acronym that was created by technocrats that have setup the "internet of things" that will eventually enslave humanity to their needs. Support the showCONNECT WITH USWebsite https://www.dangerousinfopodcast.com/Guilded Chatroom http://bit.ly/42OayqyEmail the show dangerousinfopodcast@protonmail.comJoin mailing list http://bit.ly/3Kku5YtSOCIALSInstagram https://www.instagram.com/dangerousinfo/Twitter https://twitter.com/jaymz_jesseGab https://gab.com/JessejaymzTruth Social https://truthsocial.com/@jessejaymzWATCH LIVERumble https://rumble.com/c/DangerousInfoPodcastTwitch https://www.twitch.tv/dangerousinfopodcastPilled https://pilled.net/profile/144176Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DangerousInfoPodcast/BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/egnticQyZgxDCloutHub https://clouthub.com/DangerousINFOpodcastDLive https://dlive.tv/DangerousINFOpodcast Send stuff: Jesse Jaymz, PO Box 541, Clarkston, MI 48347

In this conversation, Will Peters, the founder of Bookji, discusses his journey in creating a platform aimed at making reading more engaging for students, particularly those who are reluctant readers. He shares insights into the integration of social media elements into the platform, the challenges of navigating the educational landscape, and the importance of student safety and compliance with privacy laws. Will also reflects on the feedback he has received from educators and outlines future developments for Bookji, emphasizing the goal of building a connected community around reading. If you are a new listener to TeacherCast, we would love to hear from you.  Please visit our Contact Page and let us know how we can help you today! Subscribe to Our Weekly Newsletter To get our weekly Instructional Coaching Tips sent right to your inbox, please subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Conversation Takeaways Bookji aims to make reading more interesting for students. The platform was inspired by Will's own experience as a reluctant reader. Social media elements are integrated into Bookji to engage students. The platform is moderated by AI to ensure safe discussions about books. Will's journey involved a lot of trial and error and late nights coding. Feedback from teachers has been crucial in shaping the platform. Navigating the educational landscape involves multiple layers of administration. Student privacy and compliance with laws like COPPA and FERPA are top priorities. Future developments include integrating assessment features and building a connected community. Will is excited about the potential impact of Bookji on students' reading habits. View Our Episode on YouTube Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Book G and Its Mission 04:21 The Journey of Building Book G 07:24 Navigating the Educational Landscape 09:16 Ensuring Student Safety and Compliance 10:37 Teachable Moments and Feedback 12:20 Future Developments and Community Building 14:30 Conferences and Closing Thoughts About our Guest: Will Peters is the founder of Bookji, a platform making reading more exciting for grade school students by combining social media, interactive maps, and other innovative technology tools. He graduated from Princeton University in 2023 with a degree in Computer Science and completed his master's at UNC Chapel Hill in 2024. With a background in both tech and education—and experience as a Division I college athlete—Will brings a unique perspective to building tools that inspire the next generation of readers. Links of Interest Website: https://www.gobookji.com/. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wrpeters/ X: https://x.com/wrpeters X (Bookji): https://x.com/gobookji Follow Our Podcast And Subscribe View All Episodes Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Follow Our Host Jeff Bradbury | @JeffBradbury TeacherCast | 

A Wenatchee family's push to protect girls' sports gains federal backing as the U.S. investigates Washington's gender inclusion policies.https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/news/wa-family-at-center-of-fight-over-trans-athletes-heartened-by-federal-ospi-probe/ #ClarkCountyWa #localnews #TitleIX #transathletes #FERPA #womenssports #WashingtonState #studentathletes #OSPI #parentalrights

A lot of ground is covered during this informational episode of The Law and Education Podcast to bring listeners up to speed with the changes to Title IX, Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI), and federal funding under the current administration. It is also Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and our conversation touches on the role of Title IX in relation to this. Next, we discuss the recent announcements from the Department of Education and the process that lawmakers are required to follow in order to make changes to the 2020 Title IX regulations. We unpack how the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is enforcing Title IX today, and how the Department of Education's recent order is affecting our institutions. Also included in this episode is a look at the Dear Colleague Letter and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) investigation. It has been an unprecedented academic year, and ICS aims to keep everyone up to speed as best as possible. Join us for a broad overview of some key points affecting education today.  Key Points From This Episode: ICS's first Title IX Mental Health and School Safety Symposium. The training plan that ICS is finishing up for summer going into fall. Blueprints for different policies that ICS has made available.  What was covered in Episode 72: the initial impact of the current administration. Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Title IX.  Announcements from the Department of Education with respect to special needs funding, student loans, and more.  The process that must be followed for any changes to be made to the 2020 Title IX regulations. How OCR is enforcing Title IX today. The Department of Education's order that K-12 districts certify that they are ending any DEI practices as a condition for receiving federal money.  The Dear Colleague Letter and investigation into FERPA under California statute related to transgender parent notification.  What the most recent official freeze entails: 790 million in federal funding at North Western University.  How ICS is aiming to keep listeners up to speed with the many changes coming from the current administration. Links Mentioned in Today's Episode: Episode 72 Tuesday Takeaways Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Supporting Title IX Work Through Education and Community ICS Lawyer Higher Ed Community Access K-12 Community Access Higher Ed Virtual Certified IX Training K-12 Virtual Certified Title IX Training ICS Blog Courtney Bullard on X  Learn about Becoming a Community Partner

The La Center School District is speaking out amid state-level controversy over gender policy. In a letter to families, the School Board and Superintendent Peter Rosenkranz reaffirm their commitment to legal compliance, student support, and keeping parents involved. They reject OSPI's discrimination claims and call for collaboration, not ultimatums. Read the full op-ed at https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/op-ed-la-center-schools-committed-to-families-and-their-children/ #localnews #ClarkCountyWa #LaCenterSchools #PeterRosenkranz #parentalrights #schoolboard #educationpolicy #genderpolicy #studentprivacy #FERPA

Today we're joined by Julia Pomerenk, Associate Vice President of Student Services and Enrollment Management and University Registrar as she provides helpful information about FERPA.

The Dean's List with Host Dean Bowen – As the Department of Education winds down, I expose how Maine and California are violating federal student privacy law by hiding gender identity information from parents. These actions are not just illegal—they're immoral. Parents deserve full access to their child's educational records. I support Secretary McMahon's stand to restore morality and lawfulness in our nation's schools.

Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:The complicated legacy of César ChávezTrump targets California ban on ‘forced outing' of students' gender identity to parentsTrump ally and rising California GOP star Essayli named top federal prosecutor in L.A.California farmers fear tariff trade war losses in billions, uneven bailoutsGavin Newsom calls Democratic brand ‘toxic' on Bill Maher showWill this bill be the end of California's housing vs environment wars?Resistance roars back at the borderSB 573 would raise corporate taxes based on executive compensationThe Luigi Mangioni [sic] Access to Healthcare ActPolicies, not greed, driving California's sky-high gas prices, study findsJulie HamillCalifornia Justice CenterWhat is FERPA?California Laws Force Public School Districts to Violate FERPA and Title IX; Mandatory Withholding of Federal FundsTrump targets California ban on ‘forced outing' of students' gender identity to parents

This Week: In the latest chapter of weaponizing the civil rights arm of the US Dept of Ed against the very marginalized groups whose rights it was created to protect, the Trump admin announced an investigation into CA's SAFETY Act, claiming that the state may be violating FERPA by preventing districts from requiring educators to out LGBTQ+ and curious students to their families. And, in a dastardly, trojan horse style move, a group of mostly democratic CA legislatures launches a disingenuous attack against ethnic studies, claiming to want to develop standards and oversight over the curriculum to address critiques of Israel as a settler colonial state, which is now also engaged in genocide. It's bad enough we have to worry about attacks on humanizing education from the right. Now these folks are putting a polite, liberal face on that work as well. Manuel and Jeff discuss! WAYS TO HELP WITH THE EATON FIRE IN ALTADENA/PASADENA -- Please consider giving what you can! Here are links to GoFundMe pages set up by Altadena families, links to GoFundMe pages supporting Black families devastated by the Eaton fire, and the Pasadena Educational Foundation's page set up to benefit Manuel's school community, which has been devastated by the fire. Thanks for your support!MAXIMUM WOKENESS ALERT -- get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content!Website: https://AOTAshow.comStream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA  Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAboveListen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTAFollow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow

In this episode of Fund/Build/Scale, Nectir co-founder and CEO Kavitta Ghai shares how she turned her frustration as a college student into a fast-growing, VC-backed edtech startup. Kavitta discusses the leap from student to founder, how she built an AI-powered tool for classrooms without a technical background, and the tactics that helped her and her co-founder land paying customers early. She also opens up about navigating the venture world as a first-generation founder and reframing risk as a competitive advantage. RUNTIME 59:59 EPISODE BREAKDOWN (1:57) “ One day we said, ‘what if we stopped complaining and we actually did something about it?'” (5:57) “ The idea for Nectir initially just sort of fell into my lap.” (10:29) “ I was a communication major. He was an environmental studies major. We had no technical background at all.” (12:50) “ To go from a broke college student to being a broke founder really doesn't feel like that big of a difference.” (14:12) How they landed Nectir's first customer — UC Santa Barbara. (20:50) “ We have this philosophy that I call our ‘zones of genius.'” (23:46) Why customer discovery should “ every single person on the team for as long as you possibly can.” (27:03) “ When I go back and think about what we did best in that beginning period of time, it was starting with a very basic MVP.” (30:47) “ It was a huge surprise and it was terrifying when I realized, ‘oh shit, I'm the salesperson.'” (34:47) Kavitta shares her top recommendation for free founder advice — and one she had to pay for. (38:43) “ I actually came into building Nectir with zero understanding of what VC funding even was.” (43:38) “ You have to be willing to ask for what you want and it's the only way to get it.” (47:24) “ Right this second is the best possible time to start your company.” (51:50) “ It's not the thought of me sitting on a yacht one day that motivates me.” (53:09) Nectir's pilot program with the California Community College system. (56:49) The one question Kavitta would have to ask a CEO before she'd take a job at their startup. LINKS Nectir Kavitta Ghai kavitta.com How to Crash the Silicon Valley Party California Community Colleges Launches Groundbreaking Pilot with Nectir AI Paul Graham essays What is FERPA?, U.S. Dept. of Education Entrada Ventures SUBSCRIBE

Tune in here to this ​Wednesday's edition of Breaking With Brett Jensen! Breaking Brett Jensen kicks the show off by talking about a violent incident at Audrey Kell High School in Charlotte, where a 15-year-old male football player allegedly severely assaulted a 15-year-old Muslim girl. Jibril Hough, the spokesperson for the family, spoke at the press conference about the incident, Hough criticized the school for its handling of the situation, indicating that the school had attempted to cover up the incident. He mentioned that the school issued threatening language to the parents, advising them not to talk to the media. Hough condemned the school for not taking a stronger stance on racism and Islamophobia and for mishandling the situation. The girl's family believes the attack was a hate crime. Hough said, despite the severity of the assault, the school classified it as a "fight" and suspended both students for 10 days, even though the girl was the victim. The family has since started talking to lawyers and is seeking justice and demanding the removal of the suspension from her record. They also criticized the school for failing to call 911 in a timely manner. During a press conference at CMS headquarters, Tim Ivey, the Chief Operations Officer, shared that CMS adhered to privacy laws (FERPA) and couldn't disclose specific details, including when 911 was called or the specifics of staff involvement. Jensen questioned CMS’s use of privacy laws to avoid discussing administrative communication with the family, and Ivey clarified that no instructions were given by administrators to school staff to prevent the family from speaking with media. Listen here for all of this and more on Breaking With Brett Jensen. To be the first to hear about Breaking Brett Jensen's exclusives and more, follow him on X @Brett_Jensen!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic everywhere these days. What is it, what are its promises, and what are its current limitations in terms of applicability to the work we do in a registrar's office. You'll hear from the Chief AI Officer at George Mason University about the promises and challenges of AI, and from a privacy and information law attorney about some of the considerations we should be making as we pursue any new technology, but AI especially. Key Takeaways:There are many promises of AI, but there are some significant challenges currently, as well. Don't be swept away by the promises without engaging with the limitations.As registrars we have a special responsibility to make sure that the AI we employ maintains the safety, security, and integrity of the data we steward. The Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs) can help guide us to positive data governance outcomes.  Be wary of shiny new things. If the promise of something is too good to be true, it probably is. Explore AI and imagine ways it might be applied in your office, but AI is not the only tool available to us, and (in my opinion) we might be better served by pursuing intelligent automation solutions than artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Host:Doug McKennaUniversity Registrar, George Mason Universitycmckenn@gmu.edu   Guests:Amarda Shehu, PhDChief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Professor, Computer Science, School of Computing, George Mason UniversityClaire McKennaUniversity of Notre Dame Law SchoolClaire McKenna is an attorney with 21 years of experience advising public and private sector clients.  Her practice focuses on all aspects of information law, including privacy, security, access, and disclosure.References and Additional Information:Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs) | FPC.govWeapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil: 9780553418835 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksThe Big Switch | Nicholas Carr  (Sorry I called you “David,” Nicholas!)How much electricity does AI consume?

In this episode of Generation AI, Ardis Kadiu and Dr. JC Bonilla unpack FERPA—the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act—and its critical role in protecting student data within AI-driven educational tools. They clarify common misunderstandings around FERPA compliance, specifically addressing the handling of AI-powered student engagement platforms, chatbots, and data security practices. Learn how institutions can effectively utilize AI while safeguarding student privacy and maintaining compliance.Understanding FERPA Basics (00:00:07)Introduction of the topic based on questions from the AI Engagement SummitFERPA stands for Family Educational Rights and Privacy ActFederal law enacted in 1974 that protects privacy of student educational recordsApplies to institutions receiving US Department of Education fundingGrants students (or parents of minors) rights regarding their educational recordsWhat Constitutes Educational Records Under FERPA (00:07:33)Academic records including grades, transcripts, and course enrollmentPersonally identifiable information (PII) such as names, student IDs, birthdatesDisciplinary records and counseling informationFinancial aid and billing informationStudent communications with advisers, faculty, and staffInstitutions must maintain control and prevent unauthorized disclosureFERPA Compliance for Engagement Tools (00:08:52)Student data must remain protected from unauthorized accessInformation cannot be used for unintended purposes outside institutional contractsData must remain under the institution's control at all timesThe "school official exception" allows third-party vendors to access dataVendors must perform services the school would otherwise use its own staff forSchools must maintain direct control over records use and maintenanceVendor Contracts and FERPA Compliance (00:13:01)Contracts must clearly state vendors act as school officials bound by FERPAVendors cannot use student records outside the scope of their contractsInstitutions must retain full control over how student data is accessedImportance of granular access controls and role-based permissionsVendors should not use student data to train AI models without specific permissionData minimization principles should be followed in all AI processesData Security Requirements (00:15:51)Encryption requirements for data in transit and at restImportance of multifactor authenticationAccess logging to track who interacts with dataData deletion and retention policies must be clearly definedVendors should have clear procedures for data deletion after contract endsAudits and Compliance Monitoring (00:16:40)Vendors should comply with security and privacy standardsRegular security audits and compliance reviews by third partiesThe importance of SOC 2 Type 2 certification as the gold standardInstitutions' rights to conduct independent security auditsAI-Specific FERPA Concerns (00:18:50)Chatbots and AI assistants must follow proper verification protocolsAI-powered tools must adhere to role-based access permissionsRisks of using public AI tools like ChatGPT with student dataDirectory vs. non-directory information distinctionsThe dangers of uploading student data to non-FERPA compliant AI toolsAI Training and Data Use Risks (00:24:00)Many AI models store and use interactions for trainingRisks of unauthorized retention of student recordsImportance of checking data retention policies in AI toolsFree versions of AI tools typically don't offer data protection optionsPaid versions may have data retention turned on by defaultElement451's FERPA Compliance Approach (00:26:28)SOC 2 Type 2 compliance with third-party verificationData encryption in transit and at rest with additional field-level encryptionMultifactor authentication enforcementIdentity verification in AI chatbots before sharing any personal informationNo training on user data and anonymization of activity dataInstitution control over data deletion and visibility of all recordsAI inherits institutional security policies and access controlsClosing Thoughts (00:29:39)The importance of understanding FERPA in the AI contextBuilding trust through proper complianceAddressing misinformation around FERPA and AIInvitation for listeners to suggest future topics - - - -Connect With Our Co-Hosts:Ardis Kadiuhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ardis/https://twitter.com/ardisDr. JC Bonillahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jcbonilla/https://twitter.com/jbonillxAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:Generation AI is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you'll like other Enrollify shows too! Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — the next-generation AI student engagement platform helping institutions create meaningful and personalized interactions with students. Learn more at element451.com. Attend the 2025 Engage Summit! The Engage Summit is the premier conference for forward-thinking leaders and practitioners dedicated to exploring the transformative power of AI in education. Explore the strategies and tools to step into the next generation of student engagement, supercharged by AI. You'll leave ready to deliver the most personalized digital engagement experience every step of the way.Register now to secure your spot in Charlotte, NC, on June 24-25, 2025! Early bird registration ends February 1st -- https://engage.element451.com/register

Send us a textBreaking Language Barriers in Education with Pocketalk with Arturo Guajardo 

Welcome to season 5 of Arkansas A.W.A.R.E.!We have a resource for you!  In this episode we introduce you to the HIPAA/FERPA primer with the help of Cheria McDonald, the state school nurse consultant.  This is a tricky issue, and we're not lawyers, but we think the primer will be a helpful resource to turn to when you have questions. You can find it on our website!  Just click on the HIPAA/FERPA button. Join Betsy Kindall and Nicole Fairchild as they discuss issues related to mental health in education. Their conversations are witty and relate-able, simultaneously shedding light on issues that can sometimes be hard to confront or understand. These episodes are chunked into small bites and packed with information that would be helpful to educators, parents, children.....anyone! We want to help make everyone more A.W.A.R.E.!Project A.W.A.R.E. is a grant program funded by S.A.M.H.S.A. (the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration). The Sandy Hook school shooting happened in December of 2012. In 2013 the White House initiative "NOW IS THE TIME" came out with 2 key goals:1. Make schools safer and more nurturing.2. Increase access to mental health services.The "NOW IS THE TIME" initiative laid the foundation for federal grants like A.W.A.R.E. Arkansas applied for and received the second round of funding for A.W.A.R.E. in October of 2018. Our project is dedicated to Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education.Arkansas A.W.A.R.E.TranscriptResources:A.W.A.R.E. websiteProduced by Donnie LeeMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comDESE PodcastsJoin the conversation anywhere you listen to podcasts!

FERPA is responsible for monitoring and protecting all educational agencies' disclosure of their students' identifiable information. KCSB's Mavis Holley is here to break down what this means for undocumented students.

Liliana Acosta (DPO, Utah State University) es abogada especializada en protección de datos, gobernanza y gestión de riesgos, formada en Colombia y habiendo trabajado también en Guatemala. Con ella hemos analizado las particularidades asociadas a estructurar y gestionar un programa de protección de datos en Estados Unidos, incluyendo actividades de marketing en el ámbito universitario y diferencias importantes en lo relativo al solapamiento normativo y la gestión de encargados o sub-encargados.  Referencias: Liliana Acosta Santacruz en LinkedIn FERPA: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act GLBA: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act COPPA: Children Online Privacy Protection Act Utah Consumer Privacy Act Utah Government Data Privacy Act NIST Privacy Framework

Send us a textUnlock the secrets of navigating FERPA compliance with our latest episode of Ethics in Practice, where we promise to transform privacy regulations from a daunting obligation into a rewarding aspect of your professional toolkit. Joined by the insightful Dr. Linton Hutchinson, we shed light on the complex layers of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act that mental health professionals must navigate within educational settings. Learn how to differentiate between educational and therapeutic counseling records, and grasp the implications of the health and safety emergency exception with real-life case examples. Our discussion ventures into the intersection of FERPA with other key privacy laws like HIPAA and IDEA, emphasizing the need for meticulous documentation and informed decision-making.As we wrap up our discussion, we delve into the concept of directory information and how to handle opt-outs effectively, equipping you with practical strategies to ensure compliance. Dr. Hutchinson and I will guide you through best practices for maintaining student privacy, all while preparing you for those challenging licensure exams. This episode is anything but mundane; it's an intriguing exploration that promises to enhance your professional expertise and keep you ahead in the ever-evolving landscape of privacy regulations. So, tune in, stay committed to your studies, and join us on this enlightening journey that will bolster your confidence and skill set.If you need to study for your national licensing exam, try the free samplers at: LicensureExamsThis podcast is not associated with the NBCC, AMFTRB, ASW, ANCC, NASP, NAADAC, CCMC, NCPG, CRCC, or any state or governmental agency responsible for licensure.

In this conversation, Sher interviews Jose Moreno, founder and CEO of IntelliTear NewLite, about his transition from major tech companies like Microsoft and Netflix to the EdTech space. They discuss the challenges in education technology, the importance of user experience, and how IntelliTear aims to improve student support through AI-driven solutions. Jose shares his personal experiences that fueled his passion for creating impactful educational tools and emphasizes the significance of data-driven decision-making in schools. The conversation also touches on the importance of security, FERPA compliance, and building trust with educators and IT departments. Takeaways: Jose Moreno transitioned from tech giants to EdTech to improve education. IntelliTear focuses on user experience in educational software. AI can personalize student support using the MTSS framework. Listening to educators is crucial for developing effective tools. Data-driven decision-making is still in its infancy in schools. IntelliTear offers a free version for educators to try out. The product aims to simplify data collection for teachers. Security and FERPA compliance are top priorities for IntelliTear. Building trust with IT departments is essential for integration. The future of EdTech is promising with innovative solutions. Learn more and connect with Jose here: https://www.neulight.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-neulight/ Keywords:EdTech, IntelliTear, AI in Education, Jose Moreno, K-12, Data-Driven Decision Making, FERPA Compliance, User Experience, Education Technology, Student Support

In this urgent and eye-opening episode of the Fix SLP Podcast, Dr. Jeanette Benigas welcomes guests Jamie (Instagram: @straightupslp) and Lacey, two passionate advocates, and providers in New York's Early Intervention (EI) system. Together, they expose critical failures in the state's newly launched EI Hub platform—a case management and billing system riddled with technical issues, including non-functional billing, workflow disruptions, and alarming HIPAA and FERPA violations.Key topics include:The devastating impact of the EI Hub's failure on providers and families, with providers unable to bill for services and facing financial insecurity.The severe privacy breaches, allowing access to sensitive information across state lines, violating federal laws, and undermining trust in the system.Grassroots efforts to raise awareness, including contacting state representatives, the Attorney General, and pursuing class action lawsuits.Listeners will find resources and call to action at www.fixslp.com to join the fight for immediate change. Share this episode widely to support the providers and families who are directly affected by this crisis. Together, we can fix what's broken.Catch this critical episode and help amplify the voices calling for reform!Set up a FREE account to begin using the CU tracker.Want to earn some PDHs or CEUs? Use code FIXSLP58 to get a $20 discount coupon off any subscription!Become a sustaining partner.Follow us on Instagram.Find all of our information at fixslp.com and sign up for our email list to be alerted of new episodes and content.Email us at team@fixslp.com.Leave us a message on our Meltdown in the Minivan line.

In this episode of The Prepared School Psych Podcast, Dr. Amy Merenda, a licensed educational psychologist, delves into the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in school psychology. She shares her cautious yet innovative approach, using AI tools to streamline tasks like report writing and data analysis, allowing more focus on direct interactions with students and families. The discussion emphasizes the importance of ethical practices, highlighting tools compliant with HIPAA and FERPA regulations, such as Bastion GPT. Tune in to explore how AI can enhance efficiency, support ethical decision-making, and help maintain professional judgment in educational psychology. RESOURCES: Bastion GPT: ⁠https://bastiongpt.com/⁠ Chat GPT: ⁠https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/⁠ Google Gemini: ⁠https://gemini.google.com/app ⁠Grammarly: ⁠https://app.grammarly.com/⁠ Exploring AI in School Psychology with Gagan Shergill: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exploring-ai-in-school-psychology-with-gagan-shergill/id1727396699?i=1000658662625 Amy's lunch bunch: ⁠https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WEAY2Nan2X-oVzUn-ruELiByQddWWq1b/view⁠CASP Paper on AI: ⁠https://casponline.org/the-new-age-of-artificial-intelligence-in-psychological-practices/ ⁠NASP Information on AI (please note you need to be members to access this): https://www.nasponline.org/publications/periodicals/communique/issues/volume-52-issue-1⁠ APA Information on AI: ⁠https://apadivision16.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/TSP-Summer-2024.pdf⁠? School Psych AI Ethics Paper: ⁠https://www.schoolpsych.ai/ethics⁠ FREE TWO-WEEK TRIAL INSIDE THE PREPARED SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST COMMUNITY: Experience the Prepared School Psychologist Community with a 2-Week Free Trial! Join over 300 school psychologists who are equipped with the knowledge and resources they need to excel in their roles. What You'll Get with Your Free Trial: Over 35 Mini-Courses: Access a wide range of topics designed to provide the essential knowledge and skills you need. Monthly Live Q&A Calls: Engage directly with Jenny Ponzuric and a team of veteran school psychologists to get your questions answered and gain insights. Community Forum & Remind App Access: Connect with a network of peers to exchange ideas and get support in real-time. Comprehensive Resources: Explore tools and strategies covering behavior management, executive functioning, counseling, and more. Ready to Equip Yourself with Essential Knowledge and Resources? Click here and use code PODCAST at checkout to start your 2-week free trial. ⁠⁠⁠https://jennyponzuric.activehosted.com/f/159⁠⁠ --------------------------------------------------------- Follow us on social media for updates, behind-the-scenes content, and more: Instagram: @jennyponzuric https://www.instagram.com/jennyponzuric/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenny-ponzuric-1562a8119/ 00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome 01:01 AI in School Psychology: Initial Thoughts 01:05 Current TV Shows and Personal Interests 02:07 Journey with AI: Challenges and Approaches 04:07 Practical Uses of AI in Report Writing 08:34 Ethical Considerations and Tools for AI 16:37 Community Insights and Roundtable Discussions 20:34 Neurodiversity and Strength-Based Approaches 25:32 Enhancing Report Writing with AI 26:00 The Rapid Evolution of AI 26:22 Ethical Considerations and Professional Judgment 28:21 Practical Applications of AI in Education 29:12 AI's Impact on Learning and Thinking 33:22 Balancing Efficiency and Professional Responsibility 39:02 Exploring AI Tools: A Personal Journey 42:32 Tips for School Psychologists Using AI 46:23 Future of AI in School Psychology 49:34 Conclusion and Resources The information and advice provided are for guidance purposes only, and all participants are required to follow federal and state law and their school district guidelines and policies.

Send us a textDebbie Reynolds, "The Data Diva" talks to Lisa Manns, CEO of Authenticid. We discuss her personal journey as a CEO and parent, the profound impact of technology on her family, and the challenges of parenting in the digital age. She highlights her son's early exposure to inappropriate online content, emphasizing the need for vigilance and responsible role modeling.Lisa Manns discusses recognizing children's creativity and developing solutions for a safer environment. She addresses the impact of immediate gratification on children's safety and the responsibility of schools to ensure third-party apps comply with COPA and FERPA regulations. Manns encourages parents to proactively understand threats to their children's privacy and the implications of data exposure on platforms like the dark web.Drawing from personal experience, Lisa Manns highlights the issue of minors lying about their age online. She introduces Authentikid, a system providing authentic keys to minors for free, used with Authentilocks at schools to enhance security and streamline access. She outlines plans to expand Authentilocks to corporations, enabling them to verify user age groups, obtain parental consent, and control access based on age-appropriate criteria.Lisa Manns and Debbie Reynolds discuss the implications of the Children's Online Safety Act (COSA) and COPPA 2.0 on companies' design elements, privacy policies, and parental consent for minors. They emphasize the need for companies to understand their target age groups and adapt policies accordingly. They express concerns about the prescriptive nature of age verification laws and their potential impact on online anonymity and freedom of speech, particularly regarding minors' access to adult content. They also touch on the challenges of parental consent, the risks associated with minors uploading personal identification to access online platforms, and her hope for Data Privacy in the future.Support the show

A FERPA waiver, when signed by a student, allows parents to gain access to academic records during college. However, this raises an interesting question: should parents push their college-bound children to sign?Many parents, accustomed to having access to their child's academic records throughout high school, are surprised when they no longer have the same access once their child enters college. As a result, some parents may consider requesting – or even pressuring – their child to sign a FERPA waiver. But is this a good idea?We'll explore the nuances of FERPA, the implications of signing a waiver, and the potential consequences of forcing a college student to comply.

**Join us Tuesday evenings for Macro ‘n Chill, an informal gathering where we listen to and discuss this podcast. Register here for our September 10th session https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/29d4cc27-0123-4885-aaa8-6ff95947498d@7d53fbd0-6b43-4143-9400-6b0b36a25e55 Steve's guest is Nolan Higdon, an author and expert in media literacy. They discuss surveillance in education, which Higdon covers in his book, co-authored with Allison Butler, Surveillance Education: Navigating the Conspicuous Absence of Privacy in Schools.Surveillance capitalism, which emerged in the late 20th century, profits from datamining, largely without public awareness. Nolan emphasizes the increased intrusion into schools, particularly following changes to FERPA laws in 2012 allowing private tech companies to collect and use student data. The discussion highlights the false sense of security offered by the surveillance tools as well as the biases ingrained in AI used in education.The topic takes on special significance when considered along with the broader implications for society, including the erosion of democracy and the intensification of neoliberal ideology that prioritizes profit over public welfare.Nolan Higdon is a founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas, Project Censored National Judge, author, and lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. Higdon's areas of concentration include podcasting, digital culture, news media history, propaganda, and critical media literacy. He is the author of The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education (2020); Let's Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy (2022); The Media And Me: A Guide To Critical Media Literacy For Young People (2022); and the forthcoming Surveillance Education: Navigating the conspicuous absence of privacy in schools (Routledge). Higdon is a regular source of expertise for CBS, NBC, The New York Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle.Find his work on Substack: nolanhigdon.substack.com @NolanHigdonCML on Twitter @ProjectCensored

In this episode of the Rural Voice, we are discussing student data privacy and best practices in technology for protecting student data. We explore the importance of protecting student data, why rural schools particularly should be focused on data protection, and ways that teachers and administrators should be thinking about data protection. We discuss the free resources provided by CoSN that teachers and administrators can use to protect data in rural schools. We also explore some of the common mistakes made by users and how school systems can protect themselves from hacking and phishing attacks. This is a great episode for anyone concerned with protecting student information in their role in education. About our Guest Linnette Attai is Project Director for CoSN's Privacy and Trusted Learning Environment initiatives. As founder of the global privacy consulting firm PlayWell, LLC, Linnette provides strategic advice, training, policy development, and related guidance to a wide range of organizations. She is the author of an FTC-approved COPPA safe harbor program, and serves as virtual chief privacy officer and GDPR data protection officer to select clients. Linnette is a recognized expert in the youth and education sectors and speaks nationally on data privacy. She is a TEDx speaker and author of three books for school districts on protecting student data privacy. https://www.cosn.org/edtech-topics/student-data-privacy/ Social Media LinkedIn Twitter/X: Linnette Attai: @PlayWell_LLC CoSN: @CoSN and @CoSNTLE Privacy Survey Information: We are excited to announce the launch of our nationwide survey focused on understanding student data privacy needs in U.S. school districts. Insights of K12 district technology leaders are crucial, and we would greatly value your participation! Why participate? 1. Influence Future Resources: Your feedback will shape the development of new tools and resources. 2. Anonymity Assured: Participation is anonymous, and you can choose whether to share your name and district. 3. Impact: Contribute to a comprehensive report that will benefit school districts nationwide. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey here. Your perspective will help us make meaningful strides in student data privacy. Feel free to share this survey far and wide with other districts. You don't need to be a CoSN member to participate.

Legal experts Jonathan Butcher and Jon Riches discuss the debate between parental rights and children’s privacy in education under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”). Moderated by Luke Wake, their discussion examines the debates over the role of student privacy, parental rights, and the role that the government is playing in education.

We revisit our conversation with Julia Pomerenk, Associate Vice President of Student Services and Enrollment Management and University Registrar, to discuss FERPA—the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act—and navigating the "night and day" shift in records ownership for parents and students in higher education. Join us!

Chris Holman welcomes Alexander S. Rusek, Shareholder, Lansing, MI and Bryan Cermak, Senior Attorney, Southfield, MI, both with Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC. When your child turns 18, they are legally independent. Now that they are leaving home for the first time, they are likely to face multiple situations on their own where making the wrong choice could have long lasting negative effects. What are some of the common legal pitfalls that college students, especially first year students, can run into? (Not obtaining consent, academic dishonesty such as using CHATGPT/AI to write a paper, alcohol and drug use, distracted driving etc.) What are some of the long-term repercussions that these pitfalls can have, not just on a student's academic career but also on any future professional opportunities? If your young adult child is charged with a crime, why is it important to contact a criminal law attorney immediately? It is best to plan ahead for potential disasters before they can occur. Before they leave home, what are some of the legal documents a parent should have drawn up and signed with their adult child to avoid catastrophe in unforeseen circumstances? (Durable Power of Attorney, HIPAA, FERPA, etc.) What do each of these documents do, what is their purpose and how can they help should the worst happen? » Visit MBN website: www.michiganbusinessnetwork.com/ » Watch MBN's YouTube: www.youtube.com/@MichiganbusinessnetworkMBN » Like MBN: www.facebook.com/mibiznetwork » Follow MBN: twitter.com/MIBizNetwork/ » MBN Instagram: www.instagram.com/mibiznetwork/

Jeffrey Mosher welcomes back Alexander S. Rusek, Shareholder, Lansing, along with Bryan Cermak, Senior Attorney, Southfield, MI, Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC When your child turns 18, they are legally independent. Now that they are leaving home for the first time, they are likely to face multiple situations on their own where making the wrong choice could have long lasting negative effects. What are some of the common legal pitfalls that college students, especially first year students, can run into? (Not obtaining consent, academic dishonesty such as using CHATGPT/AI to write a paper, alcohol and drug use, distracted driving etc.) What are some of the long-term repercussions that these pitfalls can have, not just on a student's academic career but also on any future professional opportunities? If your young adult child is charged with a crime, why is it important to contact a criminal law attorney immediately? It is best to plan ahead for potential disasters before they can occur. Before they leave home, what are some of the legal documents a parent should have drawn up and signed with their adult child to avoid catastrophe in unforeseen circumstances? (Durable Power of Attorney, HIPAA, FERPA, etc.) What do each of these documents do, what is their purpose and how can they help should the worst happen? A Foster Swift Second Wednesday Sessions, this Wednesday, July 10, 2024, will be addressing these topics, tell us how the business community can access the session? Are there any other highlights we should know about heading into the session? upcoming Second Wednesday Sessions Next Wednesday, July 10, 2024, If your 18-year-old is badly injured in a car accident, unless the child signed a durable power of attorney and HIPAA authorization, you cannot access their medical information, even in an emergency. If your student has a controlled substance use conviction on their record, it is possible they may likely be unable to obtain any sort of financial aid or have their application to grad school rejected. Preparing to send a child to college is more than just helping them pack their car or making sure they have the right meal plan. It is also about giving them the resources to protect themselves now that they are no longer under your guidance. Join us for our July 2nd Wednesday to learn more on the importance of Best Practices to Avoid Legal Consequences for Parents & College Bound Students: When: July 10, from 12:00-12:30 pm Registration: https://bit.ly/2ndWeds2024 Addressing issues from both the student's and the parent's perspective, this session features moderator Paul Millenbach with litigators Bryan Cermak and Alex Rusek as they discuss the following: Getting into Trouble: Knowing the Importance of Consent: While a difficult subject to discuss, it is important that your child understands the importance of obtaining consent from a partner prior to engaging in any sexual activities. Common Legal Pitfalls for Students and Facing Criminal Charges in College: If your child is charged with a crime, it is important to contact a criminal law attorney immediately to assist them through the process and mitigate damage. Planning Ahead:  Combatting Cyber-Bullying & Defamation: Knowing what to do and what your legal options are if you discover your child has painted someone on social media in a false light Importance of Having Proper Documentation in Place: Once a child turns 18, they are no longer required to be under the guardianship of their parents. Academic Dishonesty: College students now have greater access to resources than their parents ever did.

Proft Streams BookTranscript:Agile FM radio for the agile community. Today I'm thrilled to have Luke Holman with me in the podcast here of Agile FM and I can't believe After all these episodes I had so far I haven't had you on the show, which is a big miss. You are a renowned expert in agile methodologies an author. And I think a lot of people know you from the innovation games which is a framework for collaborative decision making problem solving.You have experience that dates back way, way back into the 1990s, pre Agile, but also I heard recently that you were involved in the 2003 Agile conference. So yeah, a while back. Welcome to the show, Luke. [00:00:46] Luke Hohmann: Joe, I am so happy to be here. I've known you through the community. We've seen each other at conferences.And so it's a, it's quite an honor to be here. Thank you so much for inviting me to participate. Thanks [00:00:58] Joe Krebs: Yeah, no, absolutely. We could talk about the innovation games and fill an entire show, but today we could, but today we want to talk a little bit about value profit stream, the agile community as often. This is the recordings taking place on the 25th of June, 2024 is a little bit in a turmoil. The Agile community as a whole, there seems to be some different kind of directions people are going, looking at the roles. It's maybe a good time to talk about what value is, how we can present value because at the end of the day is, it's like, how do we sell agility within an organization or for organizations?[00:01:44] Luke Hohmann: I think it'd be a good thing to talk about. There, there's so many aspects of this that are interesting, but let's try a few. And I'll also talk about the rule of self interest in the Agile community. When we talk about value we think about it in terms of our Profit Streams book and our Profit Streams work as What are the set of tangible and intangible benefits that a product or service we use solution as the single term for product and service or any blend thereof.So it's just a little easier because we're here to solve problems for our customers. So we think of both the tangible and intangible benefits. And for the tangible benefits, we help companies create mathematical equations that capture the benefits. And we often work with our clients because technical people are good at being efficient in terms of doing things like saving time.But the reality is most companies don't need to save time. They need to have the time converted into a metric that they can understand for their business purposes. One of the examples we use in our book, and it's been proven in many of our client engagements, Is we were working with a trucking company, and they were going to be buying software that saved their drivers time.So drivers in the trucking industry have to keep detailed logs of their hours of service to make sure they're taking breaks, etc. And this solution enabled the data to be acquired automatically by connecting into the engine bus. And they knew if the truck was on and if it was moving and all that kind of technological internet of things capability that we love.And there's so many things that we can do. So the company that we were working for, and this was Qualcomm had the solution. They went to the trucking organizations and said, Hey, we can save you 20 to 30 minutes a day in driver time. And Joe, we were able to prove this. Absolutely through, the data, like the data was very clear.And the trucking company's executive said we don't really care about that. Because our drivers are union and they are paid for eight hours. So saving me 30 minutes of a driver's time doesn't actually save me money. It doesn't do anything for me. So we had to go back to the drawing board with Qualcomm and find out how to reroute drivers using the new systems so the trucking companies could deliver another package or two in a day because that's how they made money through package delivery.Or the other part of this would be the intangible side and intangible benefits can be quantified on the intangible side for challenging deliveries. We were able to allocate more time in the driver's schedule so that customer satisfaction improved. And as customer satisfaction improved, we would see less churn among customers.Oh, my package was delivered well. I want to use this company again. My, my package was delivered without any breakage. I want to use this company again. So the first step of value is to actually take a step back and try to quantify the tangible and intangible aspects of value. And then I'll just real quickly, I'll finish that off.The second of the determination of value is what we call direct and indirect benefits. A direct benefit is something that you will recognize as a benefit and it materially affects your purchase or use decision. An indirect benefit is something that you recognize, you'll say, yes, the benefit exists, but it doesn't influence you.And I'll give you a kind of a standard example. My wife and I were out shopping for a new car. I cared a lot more about the styling and color. She just doesn't care about that. And and she would readily agree yeah, that's a good looking car, but it doesn't affect my purchase decision.Whereas I was, hey, that's a really good looking car. I think I bought it. And so now let's take it into the business context. The solutions that we're creating, which are often very sophisticated, there's a collection of benefit. It's not a single benefit. And collection of benefits, you create a network of how the customer perceives those benefits.So let's go back to a trucking company that is focused on customer satisfaction is not going to really care about the not care as much. I shouldn't say they care. They don't care at all, but they're not going to care as much about like driver satisfaction. But let's say you're a trucking company and a part of.The world where it's hard to attract drivers. Now your network of benefits might emphasize driver satisfaction. So understanding not just what benefits are, but how a given market segment is going to perceive the collection of benefits is really the foundation of our approach, and then from there, what we do is from the benefits, We can derive the customer return on investment model.We can derive your pricing and packaging model. We can help you develop your solution so that you know that you're building a sustainable offering. And I'll close with this Joe. The foundation of profit streams is sustainability. If you're running a business, Or frankly, if you're running a household, you have to have a positive flow of cash coming into your business or your house, right?We can't, other than the government who prints money, right? Like a business has to have a profit to survive, to sustain itself. Now, in some cases, profits can be misused or we can have unsustainable business practices. But if you look at true sustainability involves.Three related areas. One is your solution itself has to be sustainable over time as your customers evolve as their needs evolve Your solution has to evolve to be relevant and to meet their needs So with the first part of this is solution sustainability The second part of this is economic sustainability Are you charging a price that will keep your company in business?But are you also factoring in your customers total cost of ownership? So that your customer perceives what you're selling to them as a good value something they want to keep The relation going right? We want to have economic sustainability and then the third kind of sustainability is relationship sustainability when we Sell software.We're not actually selling software. We're selling a license to use the software So the distinction is that i'm holding in my hand a pen You If I sell you my pen, I've transferred rights to you. You now own the pen. You can do what you want with it. I don't sell you software. I license software for you to use.So there's a license agreement and that license agreement determines our relationship as the provider to the customer. There's other relationships that matter. Every software package that is created has technology and licenses associated with it. So the provider is in licensing work, and there's relationships that they need to maintain.And of course, the kind of the capstone of all of these things is our relationship to society and to other parts of the world. Of the global infrastructure in which we live. And what I mean by that is if you're in Europe, you need to honor GDPR. If you're in the United States, you have to honor California CCPA.If you're selling certain kinds of fintech software, you might have to be PCI or SOX two compliant. If you're in the healthcare industry, you'll have to be HIPAA compliant. If you're in the education industry, you have to be. FERPA and COPA compliant. So the idea of compliance to us is part of that relationship.What is the relationship your company wants to have with various regulatory agencies? Are you going to try and be an organization that honors those relationships and fulfills your compliance requirements? Or are you going to be an organization that's going to try and skirt those requirements? And perhaps engage in questionable or provably unethical behavior, and so all of that is what comprises profit streams.[00:10:42] Joe Krebs: Yeah, this is it's very interesting. And as you were elaborating on this, especially on the economics, sustainability It's interesting, right? Because I think we all have seen situations as a consumer before where we felt like I need a certain service or a product, but I felt like this was too, too expensive.I've felt abused based on a very specific situation I'm in and I'm requiring a service or a product. I feel like everybody can relate to that. So finding that kind of fair spot, yeah. In terms of sustainability, I can totally see that as well as the other ones as well. So I think that's a great example.Now, if somebody hears the word profit stream, at least the first thing that came to mind for me said, what's the difference to value stream, right? [00:11:24] Luke Hohmann: That's a great question. And we should know the distinction between a profit stream and as a value stream. I credit this to my friend Avi Schneider who is well known in the scrum community.Avi, after reading the book, he said, Luke, I've come to learn and realize that all profit streams are value streams, like all squares are rectangles. But not all rectangles are squares. So the distinction that I like to talk about Joe is that typically a profit stream is going to be more aligned to what SAFe calls an operational value stream and the development value stream of SAFe would be a cost center.So now let's look at value streams and let's look at specifically operational value streams. We think of profit streams as those operational value streams that are generating revenue for a company. And so not all value streams generate revenue. For example, there are value streams provided by. Government entities that don't provide revenue, but provide services that maintain our society, which we need, and those are fantastic.But not all not all value streams are profit streams. And that's a good distinction. When the other thing that's interesting, and I give a talk on this. Is when we look at value streams, especially the operational value stream, you start to find that. We have a starting condition and we go through a sequence of steps and we get an ending benefit.Actually map in your operational value stream. When revenue occurs, you'll find that many things are costs until the very end. It's like value streams are rainbows, right? The pot of gold is at the end. And so you really have to make sure that you're understanding the steps in that operational value stream.And what we work on with our clients is that we try to help them understand the economic sustainability of looking at that sequence of flow to make sure that you are generating enough revenue at the end to support the whole flow and looking at ways you might be able to pull revenue sooner so that you can sustain yourself.[00:13:45] Joe Krebs: All right. How do you respond to somebody who is like possibly interested? Here's the word profit stream. Obviously I see dollar signs and signals and cha-ching and all of those kinds of things. For an agile audience out there who might say, Hey, but what about the team spirit? And what about sustainability of a team's, fun and learning environment?Aren't they contradictory to this? I guess the answer to that is no, right? But it's the, [00:14:14] Luke Hohmann: of course, all of those, Joe and for the listeners, Joe and I were chatting before the podcast we often do. And one of the things that I really find disappointing in the agile community is a lot of agile people seem to have this kind of disdain for management or this disdain for leadership.[00:14:32] Joe Krebs: And I think of it exactly the opposite. Business leaders over the last 20, 25 years have shoveled hundreds of millions of dollars into agile practices and transformations between the training and the tooling and the infrastructure. And they've gotten benefit from agile. I'm very proud of all the things that software people do.Earlier today I was getting a blood test. And I walked in and there was a kiosk and you just typed in your phone number scanned your driver's license and you were checked in. Software people did that. And I think what we do as software people is really cool. Yeah. Hardware and software. We designed a solution that was amazing.And of course, Joe, we want to have sustainable practices, not just in our business relationships with our customers, but true sustainability means sustainability with our employees, with our practices. With what Kent Beck wrote about very early in the community with XP, like XP is about sustainability.So to say that profit is antagonistic to sustainability is to have a very flawed understanding of what sustainability is and or what profit is. I've been a serial entrepreneur. I've started and run and sold a couple of companies. And it's really a lot of fun when you're an entrepreneur and you can give out bonus checks because you had a great year Yeah, it's not so fun when you had a bad year and you're cutting salaries or you're doing other You know doing a layoff or whatever.And so for the people in the agile community who talk about humanness of our developers my response is Yes, heck yes, we, those are things that promote sustainability. Those practices, the training the better tooling, the better computers, they require money, they require a profit.And most of us work for a for profit company. It is, I think it's pretty above average that people would be working for profit rather than for the non profit sector. Should we go a little concrete about some data points, metrics, because I don't want to I'm just going to say the word.We really don't have to go down that path at all in this kind of conversation. I think we have debunked the word velocity as a metric or something like that. I don't think we have to talk about that. But what are. Measurements, like if somebody would say, Hey, this sounds very interesting. Definitely trucking sounds good, but I'm in a totally different domain.In terms of this, I would what's a good starting point for people to say, like, how do I measure these profit streams from an IT perspective or, Yeah. [00:17:18] Luke Hohmann: And Joe if I'm not answering the question in the way that you're intending the question that's okay.I started as an engineer and for everyone listening, Joe and I had a really, a geeky out moment when I, when we started, but I started as an engineer. And then I became a manager of engineer and then I became, vice president and all that kind of stuff. And I was always trying to create the best solution for my customers.And along and in that journey, I found product management. I thought, Oh, wait a minute. Product managers are the people who are designing the solution and working with designers on the user experience side. And they're in the center of the world of this thing called creating a great solution for customers.And through that. conversation, I started to realize, Hey, I'm responsible for creating a return on the investment of the company I'm working for. And from there, I started to learn the basics of finance. And I started to, understand how to read a balance sheet, how to read what is EBITDA what's the difference between CapEx and OpEx.What is the terms of the license agreement? What is, what can go wrong in a license agreement? If it's not crafted correctly for a company, how do I know if I'm making enough money, has my economic, let's go back to the engineers has my economic model factored in a pay raise for my team next year, because there's inflation and if there's inflation and I want to pay my developers more money, How do I manage that with my margins?Either my costs are going down, which might happen. And, maybe my software part of the solution is the same price, but my hardware margins are improving because I have cost of scale manufacturing. Maybe I don't, I'm a pure SAAS company and I'm picking up some lower costs because of hosting costs are dropping.How do I economically think about these elements? So the, what I would say is this is one of those areas where Agile has to do nothing more than embrace what has been existing for a long time, which is economic models Don Reinerson's work on flow. Looking at possibly throughput accounting, but educating ourselves, educate product managers, educate themselves on what's in our book, which is not just how do I economically model, but how do I actually. Set the price point. How do I determine the packaging of what features go in? What edition of my offering and do I charge? So those kinds of things are to me they're not taught as much as they should be in the agile community, but that's why we wrote the book. [00:20:10] Joe Krebs: Oh, absolutely. I agree with you.And I think indirectly you are answering the question, at least for me, right? Because I do see certain data points being captured within agile teams that are contradictory to what you're saying right now. These are like the velocity discussions and that are happening within teams. And then all of a sudden they happen on the leadership level, whereas you're saying, actually, some of those conversations are still existent as they were before agile, but they're still applying it.Just they have to be maps. I feel like you're having a much more adult mature kind of conversation about this. And I think we're actually experiencing within teams on the ground. [00:20:48] Luke Hohmann: Yeah I think the Agile community has gotten a little wrapped up around the Axel about, I helped form the first conference in the Agile Alliance series in 2003 with Alistair Coburn and Ken Schwaber and Rebecca Wirfs Brock and a few other people.And Todd Little, and let me tell you, no one at that conference was walking around arguing about the fine distinctions between output and outcome metrics and things like that. We both have a friend, Kenny Rubin, and he's written very beautifully about this. But trust me, in the very early days, we weren't arguing about those.It's like people drink fine wine and argue, Oh, are you getting black current or dark cherry flavors in the wine? No, just have a glass of wine and enjoy it. Um, and what's happening is we're forgetting that sometimes you do need to track certain basic metrics just as a mechanism Of I think consistency and let's say you're an athlete.Let's say you wanted to run a marathon. The number of miles you run in a week or the total miles that you've run in training for American a marathon could be a vanity metric. Oh, but at the end of the day, it's also the truth that you're not going to go run 26 miles if you didn't train And a training program is going to tell you how many miles you need to run Per week and if you're not tracking how many your miles you're running per week You're not going to hit your end goal of running the actual marathon So I think that so many other aspects of what we do, there's a very healthy way to look at velocity and velocity metrics and looking at flow metrics and unhealthy ways of looking at it and rather than throwing everything into a bucket of healthy and unhealthy, we should use the agile principles of retrospection.This metric and the way that we're using us, helping us advance towards our goals. Yeah. And it is, we should probably keep doing it. And if it's not, we should look at what we need to change. [00:22:52] Joe Krebs: Yeah. It's very interesting. I also, while we were talking about the marathon, I was also thinking yes, there's definitely mileage.This is an important piece, if part of your training program, but it's sometimes, and I don't know if that makes sense, I think sometimes we're measuring how many minutes we also have used for stretching, and yes, it is. a great technique to become a marathon runner, but I don't think from purely stretching, you're becoming a good marathon runner.I think it's together. And I think it's also for metrics like these things have to balance each other out. If you're having 90 percent stretching and 10 percent running, maybe that's the wrong [00:23:25] Luke Hohmann: that's where wisdom comes in. And that's where not always trying to invent everything from scratch, right?If you were, if you really were going to go run a marathon, you'd probably go talk with other runners. You'd probably go to some running websites that like runner's world that has reputable training plans. You'd get a sense of the balance of the metrics. So it's. It's very rare that one metric on a development organization is going to be the only metric that you needed.And again, this is where people start to it's good to have these discussions to calibrate. But it's like the definition of done, right? At the definition of done, you might say our definition of done is no stop ship bugs where stop ship is defined as P one and sev zero, like separate priority severity.Then you get into people who are like if I have no stop ship bugs, but I have a bunch of small bugs, can I still ship? And I'm like, I don't know like maybe no, maybe yes. What's the, we should have a conversation about that. And the metrics are designed to use to guide us into the conversations that are most beneficial, just like.So if I looked at a team that had velocity metrics, and they were reasonably consistent. And I saw an anomaly, like a dip. I, as a manager, if I didn't already know, I would go to the team and say, Hey, I noticed that your velocity dip, everything. Okay. And if the team says actually, no Joe went on a ski trip and broke his arm and our velocity dip, cause he was in the hospital.And we're all really worried about Joe. Wow, that stinks. Maybe we should send Joe some flowers or some get well, but now I know why velocity dipped. Yeah, and it was a special cause and it'll resolve itself. Um, now the other element could be our velocity dipped because we completely misunderstood the requirement and I'd be like, okay maybe we should toss that into a retrospective.There's so many good retrospective techniques. Maybe we should toss that into one of our retrospective techniques and see if that's a special cause or if there's some other potential issue that the team might be facing. And then the team goes, Oh yeah, no, we think we're okay. It was just this one time.We didn't really understand the requirements are no, we're actually in a new area of our solution and all of us are experiencing this new thing and we need more training or we need X to really get ahead of the issue. So metrics are important, right? We keep score, right? We keep track of things.[00:26:03] Joe Krebs: Yeah. So it's interesting, right? Because we, you mentioned before that there is this general amount of metrics. Don't want to repeat them necessarily, but these are like the business metrics. And these are the things that our businesses are already using on an enterprise level with or without agile.Why are we having such a hard time in the agile community to translate that? Obviously, your book will help in the translation of all of those things. But what do you think of the pitfalls? [00:26:29] Luke Hohmann: I actually think one of the pitfalls is how some of the agile methods have defined what a product owner is.You'll see agile methods say a product owner is responsible for value. Which is great, but then they don't define it. And so we've got a generation and I spent most of my formative business careers here in silicon valley, not all of it, but a lot of it So i'm used to a silicon valley style of a product manager Knowing how to run a spreadsheet knowing how to do pricing and being trained And what we're finding, I think, Joe, is that there's this tremendously large number of people who are associated with products, but don't have this training and pricing.They don't have this training and licensing. I'll, one of the things I do with my clients is I'll walk into a situation where they're, they need to, make an improvement economically. And I'll just go to the product managers and I'll say, when was the last time you read your own license agreement, your own terms of service on your website?And they'll be like, Oh yeah. never! Like, okay we should read it. And I'll give you an example of kind of the weird things that can happen in license agreements. We were working with a smaller company. And their license agreement with, so they served larger companies and it was a conversion company.I don't want to go much further than that. Yeah. They had a contract with a larger company that said every time the larger company made a request to the smaller company and the smaller company agreed to that request, their maintenance agreement would automatically extend for one more year. So every nine months, the big company would make a request to the small company.On a very small change, the small company would make a very small change. And then now they're saddled with a responsibility for another year of support. And I said, okay this two sentence clause in your license agreement is now costing you almost 300, 000 a year. Now for a big company, you may not notice it, but this was a company with less than 8 million in revenue.That's a noticeable number for a company with eight million right now. It's still a nice company. Don't it's not it's a very good business but i'm like this two line sentence in your license and the product manager was like wow I didn't know how to interpret that. I think we're seeing this challenge in the agile community because too many Organizations have allowed this skills of pricing and economic sustainability modeling to activity.Yeah, let's say you're, let's say you're agile. I don't care what flavor of agile you're using, pick one. I don't, there's so many, it's like going to the ice cream store. So you pick one and you're putting out more value at what point. Should you raise your prices because you've added so much value?At what point should you adjust your packaging? We work with a client who they kept on shoving features into their solution Which sounds great, right? But then their sales started to slow down and that the head of Product contacted me and said it's really weird luke Every time we're adding more features our sales team is telling us it's harder to sell that's a packaging problem because what's happening is people are saying Your solution now includes Features that are not relevant to me Therefore I want a lower price because i'm not using them.That's right And the right solution is to say okay now that our product has grown in sophistication We're gonna go take this market that wasn't segmented And we're going to make it a finer grain segmentation, and we're going to really understand the needs of these customers and take this wonderful platform we've built and offered these solutions or these features to this market segment, these features to this market segment.And after we did that work with that client. Their sales returned to a healthy growing number because people bought what was relevant for them. [00:30:49] Joe Krebs: This is awesome. Luke, we started off with also with a side comment or I might have started with this agile community being in some form of transition.Yes. And I want to end with this for our podcast as well. Now we talked a little bit more from the company's perspective, from the leadership level what I have noticed, and I don't know if you would share that thought is there's a lot of agile coaches in the transformation space and organizations, and they don't really know for sure if their work actually had an economic impact for the organization.Like they say like it feels better or it feels, we feel more profitable, but do we have evidence of what we had before to what we have now? How could profit streams help future coaching and coaches out there on, not from a product perspective, but more from a transformations perspective, how can profit streams help them to make a case for themselves to actually say, Hey, the agile community is alive and kicking.Why? Why? Because we are. Increasing the economic side of organizations by X, Y, Z, what kind of parameters would, what coaches need to tweak to say okay, these are like the parts of our puzzle where we can actually make a case for ourselves and say Hey, agile coaching is important. Agile teams are important.You call them the ice cream flavors. The agile processes out there are important for you to be successful for whatever is hitting your organization in the future. How would they use that kind of profit stream?[00:32:20] Luke Hohmann: I'm inspired by there's a gentleman that if you haven't had him on your podcast, you really need to get him.His name is Peter Green and he runs a company called Humanizing Work. He's a known in the Scrum community and he used to be one of the leaders at Adobe and Adobe's transition to more agile practices. And I remember that one of the metrics that Peter really tracked was just one thing, defects found in production.And remember I said that there was only, development teams need multiple metrics, but in this case, he was using the one metric that really resonated with his leaders and he showed his leaders how when defects in productions were reduced, customer satisfaction increased when customer satisfaction increased, renewals increased.The cost of customer care went down because there's fewer defects. And fewer upset customers, developer satisfaction went up because instead of fixing bugs, you're building new features. And so what he did was. He took the time to translate something that was just a number of defects found in production into how it expressed itself in a relevant profit oriented way.So my advice to the agile coaches out there is if you believe that you're creating a more effective, more efficient, more effective, doing the right things, more efficient, doing them effective, doing them well. If you think you're creating and contributing to this organization and, for example, I'm an agile coach and my team is quote unquote happier.What does that actually mean? What, we know that stable teams, like we have data on stable teams, that stable teams produce fewer bugs. That's an argument for stable teams. So what is the data that shows that coach is creating an economic impact that is relevant to the organization? And I am said this for decades.I am always concerned that people focus on trying to achieve the happiness of developers. When I think that the happiness of developers is an outcome of other elements, meaning if I'm a developer and I have Dan Pink, if I have reasonable autonomy, I have reasonable mastery, I, I have a purpose, right?Then I'm happy. But focusing on happiness doesn't mean I'm getting autonomy. Giving me autonomy, making sure I'm trained, making sure I have a purpose. Those and I definitely think that the many of the coaches I've seen, um, they don't always understand what the deeper opportunities might be.[00:35:08] Joe Krebs: Yeah. This is some awesome advice here. And I did not have Peter on the podcast and Peter, if you're listening to this, expect a call from me. Thank you, Luke. This was really insightful. And obviously I will share the book information for all the material on the show page of Agile FM, I just want to say thank you for sharing a very different view on things from what I had in the past in terms of guests and just chat a little bit about profit streams and make this really tangible for people of what they need to, establish within the organization to be successful and ready for the future.[00:35:42] Luke Hohmann: Yeah. And Joe, thank you. I'm going to leave just two more things for the listeners. I think they're important right now. We do think the agile community, many of us who've been there a while. And many of the leaders, we think the agile community is in some form of transition or some form of change, which means.It's up to you as a listener to decide what you think that future is and then work towards that future. A few years ago, my colleague Jason Tanner and I, we sat down and we were at an offsite and we said to ourselves, where do we really believe a future or part of the future of Agile has to be? And we decided that a part of the future of Agile has to be a return to the economics. of understanding profit and sustainability, and we acted accordingly, right? We wrote a book. We've got a partner program. We're doing consulting work. We're seeing our consulting business and profit streams is skyrocketing in terms of growth because we're finding that companies are going, wait a minute, You guys are right.You're We've invested in agile. How do we measure the return and how do we make sure that we're creating a profit? So and i'm not arguing that people have to buy into our perspective What I am saying is if you assert that the agile community is changing You can't just sit there and complain about it You have to decide what part of that future you want to create And what part of that future you want to be a part of and from there?You Your life will have purpose. Your life will have direction. And I think that's part of what's happening in the agile community right now. We're seeing this kind of Oh, what are what is our future? And where are we going to be? And how is it going to work as people are trying to decide? And I would invite people to reflect on their own and make a decision on their own about what they think that future is going to be, right?[00:37:40] Joe Krebs: Look, there's something very similar to what my kids are hearing in school every day. Make it a great day or not, the choice is yours. [00:37:47] Luke Hohmann: Oh, I love it. That's a great way to close. Luke, thank you so much.

The Talawanda City School Board in SW Ohio (where I live) is being exposed for their incompetence, illegality and corruption.  FERPA violations, conspiracy to commit fraud, and confidential information motivating the newest board member to call for the Superintendents contract to be eliminated!  The chickens are coming home to roost. https://www.oxfreepress.com/talawanda-board-member-calls-for-superintendent-termination/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltjxYE8QULo

Today we wrap up the COPAA series with a really great conversation with David Jefferson, the President of the Board of Directors. David's journey to advocacy from the corporate world is super interesting and relatable, and you'll learn how he built a large advocacy business in a few short years. David's got a heart for advocacy - and the right tools to get results for his clients. If you've ever thought about advocacy, this episode is for you!!!! Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/k7Y2sB9pQMoDavid Jefferson (Arizona) - As a parent of special needs children, David understands and appreciates all of the difficulties parent's face as they try and navigate the special education maze. David formed Parent Support Arizona to ensure parents have a local resource and the tools they need to ensure their children's educational needs are met. Over the past few years, David has sought administrative remedies through the State Department of Education, Office of Administrative Hearings OCR and FERPA. David uses these experiences to provide civil rights advocacy, educational advocacy, parent training and represent parents in IDEA due process hearings in the State of Arizona. In addition he offers self-help tools and resources that allow parents to advocate for themselves and on an equal footing with schools as they advocate for their children's rights.

Send us a text message- we'd love to hear from you!Are you preparing to leave your school counseling position and unsure about what documentation to leave for your successor? Navigating the complexities of student privacy and legal compliance is crucial for school counselors. In this episode, we dive into the essentials of managing student notes and records, giving you the confidence to adhere to FERPA regulations while maintaining the confidentiality your students rely on. Think of this episode as your toolkit for identifying and balancing memory aids versus  documentation. We explore the CARE acronym—Consider, Align, Review Records, and Empower—a practical framework to help you navigate information transfers. Discover how to communicate effectively with stakeholders, align with the ASCA National Model and FERPA, manage documentation securely, and empower your successors with the right information, all while protecting student privacy. Join us for this insightful discussion, and enhance your practice with the skills to handle student records with integrity and care.Mentioned in this episode:ASCA Ethical Standards for School CounselorsFamily Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)Stone, Carolyn. (2022). School counseling principles: Ethics and law. 5th ed. American School Counselor Association.**********************************Our goal at School for School Counselors is to help school counselors stay on fire, make huge impacts for students, and catalyze change for our roles through grassroots advocacy and collaboration. Listen to get to know more about us and our mission, feel empowered and inspired, and set yourself up for success in the wonderful world of school counseling.Hang out in our Facebook groupJump in, ask questions, share your ideas and become a part of the most empowering school counseling group on the planet! (Join us to see if we're right.)Join the School for School Counselors MastermindThe Mastermind is packed with all the things your grad program never taught you IN ADDITION TO unparalleled support and consultation. No more feeling alone, invisible, unappreciated, or like you just don't know what to do next. We've got you!Did someone share this podcast with you? Be sure to subscribe for all the new episodes!! Support the Show.

Toni Rose is joined by Vishal Shah, CEO of Screencastify, to talk about how teachers, students, and industry professionals use Screencastify's various platforms and tools. Show Notes Screencastify (https://www.screencastify.com/) Screencastify Submit (https://www.screencastify.com/products/submit) FERPA (https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html) COPPA (https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/rules/childrens-online-privacy-protection-rule-coppa) SOC-2 (https://secureframe.com/hub/soc-2/what-is-soc-2) Connect with Vishal on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vshahv/) and on Twitter/X @vshahv (https://twitter.com/vshahv) Learning Experiences for the Upcoming Week Applications have opened up for this summer's Virtual Mentorship Program. We're working to match 6,000 educators with experienced educator mentors who can help build skills around using technology effectively, teaching students how to be more self-directed, and increasing motivation and effort in the classroom. If you've always wanted a mentor when implementing our model, now's the time to apply. Apply here: https://bit.ly/43G7Y71 (https://bit.ly/43G7Y71) Contact us, follow us online, and learn more: Email us questions and feedback at: podcast@modernclassrooms.org (mailto:podcast@modernclassrooms.org) Send us an audio note (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffmqSsaaU7M0MTXowApIOt-wace2tD6LPct73oEQOlaFp4vQ/viewform?usp=sf_link) and we'll include it on a future episode! Modern Classrooms: @modernclassproj (https://twitter.com/modernclassproj) on Twitter and facebook.com/modernclassproj (https://www.facebook.com/modernclassproj) (remember you can tweet us questions by using the hashtag #askMCP) Kareem: @kareemfarah23 (https://twitter.com/kareemfarah23) on Twitter Toni Rose: @classroomflex (https://twitter.com/classroomflex) on Twitter and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/classroomflex/?hl=en) The Modern Classroom Project (https://www.modernclassrooms.org) Modern Classrooms Online Course (https://learn.modernclassrooms.org) Take our free online course, or sign up for our mentorship program to receive personalized guidance from a Modern Classrooms mentor as you implement your own modern classroom! The Modern Classrooms Podcast is edited by Zach Diamond: @zpdiamond (https://twitter.com/zpdiamond) on Twitter and Learning to Teach (https://www.learningtoteach.co/) Special Guest: Vishal Shah.

In this episode you will hear:   o   Mark and Julia discuss what they learned from admissions decisions from the class of 2024 o   Lisa interviews Elizabeth Hamlet, a Disability Services Expert. They discuss how students with Disabilities can successfully transition to college-Part 1 of 3   Preview o     Liz shares her backstory from special ed teacher to author and success advocate for students with learning disabilities. o     Liz talks about the range of disability accommodations that colleges provide, and she talks about how those accommodations differ from high school accommodations. o     Liz talks about what colleges are legally bound to provide versus what is optional or what services they can charge for o     Liz talks about what a student needs to do to keep their accommodation. o     Liz tells us, How much do students need to advocate for themselves? o     Liz talks about how FERPA impacts parent communication once a student in college   Sign up for our Q & A session with Karen Kristof  (Dean of Admissions of Colorado College) on Tuesday, May 7th, 8:30 EST, 7:30 CST, 6:30 MST and 5:30 PST by going to     You can also send in questions for our interviews by using speakpipe.com/YCBK. Our interviews are confirmed for 2024 with the following leaders at the following schools:     To sign up to receive Your College-Bound Kid PLUS, our free quarterly admissions deep-dive, delivered directly to your email four times a year, just go to yourcollegeboundkid.com, and you will see the sign up on the right side of the page under “the Listen to our podcast icons”   Follow Mark Stucker on Twitter to get breaking college admission news, and updates about the podcast before they go live. You can ask questions on Twitter that he will answer on the podcast. Mark will also share additional hot topics in the news and breaking news on this Twitter feed. Twitter message is also the preferred way to ask questions for our podcast:   https://twitter.com/YCBKpodcast   1. To access our transcripts, click: https://yourcollegeboundkid.com/category/transcripts/ 2. Find the specific episode transcripts for the one you want to search and click the link 3. Find the magnifying glass icon in blue (search feature) and click it 4. Enter whatever word you want to search. I.e. Loans 5. Every word in that episode when the words loans are used, will be highlighted in yellow with a timestamps 6. Click the word highlighted in yellow and the player will play the episode from that starting point 7. You can also download the entire podcast as a transcript   We would be honored if you will pass this podcast episode on to others who you feel will benefit from the content in YCBK.   Please subscribe to our podcast. It really helps us move up in Apple's search feature so others can find our podcast.   Don't forget to send your recommended resources and articles by recording your message at speakpipe.com/YCBK   If you enjoy our podcast, would you please do us a favor and share our podcast both verbally and on social media? We would be most grateful!   If you want to help more people find Your College-Bound Kid, please make sure you follow our podcast. You will also get instant notifications as soon as each episode goes live.   Check out the college admissions books Mark recommends:   Check out the college websites Mark recommends:   If you want to have some input about what you like and what you recommend we change about our podcast, please complete our Podcast survey; here is the link:     If you want a college consultation with Mark or Lisa or Lynda, just text Mark at 404-664-4340 to express your interest. All they ask is that you review their services and pricing on their website before the complimentary session. Their counseling website is:   Note, the purpose of the free session to review their services and not to pick their brains and get free information. You can schedule a paid session if you want answers to some questions you have. The free session to only for the purpose of discussing the one-on-one services they offer.

This week, Tom Campbell (CEG's Community Manager) is joined by Ayesha King (Director of College Counseling at the International School of Los Angeles) to talk about letters of recommendation. They get into: What goes into a letter of recommendation?  How are they evaluated by colleges? Who should students consider asking, and how do they ask? What can students and families do to ensure that their letters are the best they can be? What are FERPA rights and why should you waive them? Ayesha King (she/her) has over twelve years of experience in admissions at the secondary, undergraduate, and postgraduate levels, developing her values of social justice, equity and access. She is currently the Director of College Counseling at the International School of Los Angeles (LILA), a French International school, where she is stretching her skills working with students considering post-secondary options all over the world. She holds her Bachelors degree from the University of Redlands and her Masters degree from California Lutheran University. Ayesha loves spending time with her two boys and two dogs, visiting Disneyland, and talking about pop culture.   This is the next episode in our series on What Colleges Want. Stay tuned for our upcoming episode about writing letters of recommendation for teachers and counselors. Tom will be joined by Hanah Lim (CEG's Director of Workshops and a former high school English teacher), where they provide their tips, tricks, and hacks to help you write more efficient and effective letters for your students.   Play-by-Play 2:49 - How important are letters of recommendation to admissions officers?  5:55 - Why might it be called a “Letter of Advocacy” instead? 7:19 - When would a letter of recommendation make a big impact on a student's application? 13:38 - Should students also share this important context if it's already in their recommendation letter? 15:35 - How can students determine how many letters to request? 19:49 - What is being said in these letters? 26:38 - Which teachers are typically the best to ask for a recommendation letter? 29:51 - Why should students consider asking a teacher from a class they struggled in? 30:47 - What can students do to help their teachers & counselors write the best letter possible? 36:06 - What information should students share with their recommenders? 39:20 - How should students ask for a letter once they have determined who to ask? 44:41 - Do students ever see their letters of recommendation?  48:24 - Closing advice for parents & students   Resources How to Ask for a Letter of Recommendation for College: Step-by-Step Guide for Students CollegeTransitions Blog Post - College Recommendation Requirements Podcast Ep. 505 - What Colleges Want (Part 5): A Crash Course in the Supplemental Essays + Application with Ethan Sawyer (College Essay Guy) How to Write a Successful Common App Activities List How to Use the Common App Additional Information Section: Guide + Examples 100 Brave + Interesting Questions Pedro Pascal Cries From His Head While Eating Spicy Wings  

Sam Rehman—a frequent voice on this podcast network and EPAM's Chief Information Security Officer and SVP—was in the classroom recently, teaching students, and in the process was “surprised by the density of PII that's in in the system.” This led Rehman to realize that “at least here in California,” higher education's investment in cybersecurity is “substantially behind.” Catching up is a theme of today's conversation about privacy, education, and artificial intelligence. Speaking for the (cyber)defense, with Rehman, is today's guest on *The Resonance Test,* Scott Loughlin, Partner and Global Co-Lead of the Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice at the law firm Hogan Lovells. “It took a long time to get people to understand that the easiest thing to do is not always the right thing to do to protect the company's interest and protect the company's data,” says Loughlin. “And that is an experience that we'll all have with respect to generative AI tools.” Loughlin and Rehman are put through their conversational paces from questions by Brian Imholte, our Head of Education & Learning Services. They have much to say about data governance (“Data is not by itself anymore, it's broken up in pieces, combined, massaged, and then pulled out from a model,” says Rehman), data pedigree, the laws—and lack thereof—regarding privacy and generative AI. They also kick around the role that FERPA assumes here. “You're trying to deploy this old framework against this new technology, which is difficult,” says Loughlin, adding: “There are some key areas of tension that will come up with using generative AI with student data.” So where might an educational publisher or school begin? “Focus on your value first,” says Rehman. Do your experiments, but do them in small pieces, he says: "And then within those small pieces, know what you're putting into the model.” This informative and spirited conversation is even occasionally funny. Loughlin brings up a court case about whether or not a selfie-taking monkey selfie would own the copyright to the photo. “The court said no,” notes Loughlin, adding that US Copyright laws are “designed to protect the authorship of humans, not of monkeys, and in this case not of generative AI tools.” Download now: It's sure to generate some new thoughts. Host: Kenji Ross Engineer: Kyp Pilalas Producer: Ken Gordon

On January 10th, Carroll County Public Schools in Maryland unanimously passed a policy, driven by parental rights groups, prohibiting sexually explicit content in instructional materials. This policy defines such content as detailed or graphic descriptions of sex or sex acts. The unanimous school board vote reflects a bipartisan agreement among parents to shield children from such exposure in schools.The Campaign for Southern Equality filed a Title IX complaint against North Carolina's education authorities over the "Parents' Bill of Rights," arguing it discriminates against LGBTQ students by banning affirming content, risking outing transgender students, limiting their healthcare access, and excluding transgender girls from sports. They claim the law creates a hostile environment for LGBTQ students, violating Title IX protections.Reps. Stalker and Camuel filed House Bill 376 in Kentucky to create a supportive LGBTQ+ school environment, reversing SB 150's restrictions on transgender care and pronoun usage. The bill ensures privacy around students' gender identity, allows pronoun requests, and mandates inclusive restroom and locker room accommodations, aiming to respect and protect LGBTQ+ students' identities and rights.In this episode of "Parents' Right in Education," Suzanne Gallager tackles the vital issue of parental rights in the U.S. education system amidst government and educational establishment challenges. We delve into Supreme Court rulings like Pierce v. Society of Sisters and Wisconsin v. Yoder, affirming parents' primary role in their children's education and upbringing. Highlighting federal laws like FERPA and the Protection of Pupil Rights Act, we explore how these protect family privacy and ensure educational materials' accessibility to parents. This discussion emphasizes the constitutional foundation of family rights and the critical importance of parental involvement in education, illustrating the legal landscape that supports parents' authority over their children's moral and educational development.Our guest today is Kate Anderson. Kate serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where she is the director of the Center for Parental Rights.Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Intake Form: Ask for the Center for Parental Rights.https://airtable.com/appVmGGZFfbE5CINM/shrP664JPVAQZND3CADF Parent Guide (https://adflegal.org/resources#parents)Support the showDONATE TODAY!www.ParentsRightsInEducation.com

We're sitting down with Ross Lemke, manager of the US Department of Education's Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) for a conversation to learn about common FERPA missteps and tips for keeping your district's student data privacy program on solid ground. Learn what mistakes to avoid – and how to avoid them – as we dive into good practices for protecting student data privacy, straight from PTAC. Linnette Attai, CoSN Project Director, Student Data Privacy and Trusted Learning Environment Seal Program Ross Lemke, US Department of Education's Privacy Technical Assistance Center In our professional advancement webinars, education technology experts from across the country and worldwide present their specialties. During each interactive session, experts engage in dialogue to address the challenges and opportunities facing educators. Webinars are FREE for members and $59 for non-members. Partner webinars are free for all. For a complete listing of all CoSN's webinars, please visit:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.cosn.org/education-events/webinars/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Be sure to follow us on Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@CoSN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to stay updated on CoSN events!

In the latest episode of the K12 Tech Talk Podcast, host Josh is joined by Mark and guest host Eric (AKA Eric the Intern). We discuss a cyberattack on a school district in Butte and the recent Google outages. We then discuss a question regarding FERPA and the inclusion of student names in emails. The main topic of discussion is censorship, with the hosts sharing their practices and considerations when deciding to remove or censor content. Chris wasn't able to join because this episode was too spicy, but Eric the Intern joins to share his wisdom and discuss life after K-12 technology! Learning Technology Center's SecurED Schools (virtual conference) is on January 16 & 17, 2024. We're presenting. If you want a discounted ticket, use code K12TechTalkPodcast and go to ltc.site/secured https://www.youtube.com/@k12techtalk Join the K12TechPro.com Community. Buy our merch!!! SomethingCool.com Extreme Networks - Email dmayer@extremenetworks.com Fortinet - Email fortinetpodcast@fortinet.com NTP - Email dwren@ntp-inc.com VIZOR - vizor.cloud/k12techtalk Oh, and... Email us at k12techtalk@gmail.com Tweet us err X us @k12techtalkpod Visit our LinkedIn page HERE

In this enlightening episode, we journey into the realm of non-speaking autism, understanding the reasons behind why some individuals on the spectrum may not communicate verbally. We dismantle common misconceptions surrounding non-speaking autism and shed light on alternative communication methods like Spelling to Communicate (S2C). Discover how to better support and connect with those who experience life beyond words.Guest Expert: Samantha Fox, MA, CCC-SLP, S2C PractitionerSamantha is a Kent State University alumnus with a Master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology. She's dedicated her career to working with non-speaking, minimally speaking, and unreliably speaking individuals on the autism spectrum. As a registered Spelling to Communicate (S2C) Practitioner, she pioneers in tailoring therapy to each individual's needs. Samantha founded Beyond Speech Therapy Center in Munroe Falls, Ohio, envisioning a practice that wholeheartedly presumes competence in all patients, irrespective of their diagnosis or test scores.Learn more about S2C and Samantha's practice Beyond Speech Therapy Center: https://beyondspeechtherapycenter.comLike our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/beyondspeechInternational Association for Spelling as Communication (IASc): https://www.i-asc.orgHosted by Rob Gorski: Rob Gorski, a devoted single father to three incredible autistic sons, is the Founder and CEO of The Autism Dad, LLC. As a multi-award-winning blogger, podcaster, content creator, and influential social media figure for over a decade, Rob continues to share his family's journey, providing insights, resources, and support to the autism community.Connect with Rob: https://theautismdad.comYou can find all past episodes anywhere you get your podcasts. Here are a few options.Apple PodcastSpotifyHow to listen on your favorite app:Download your favorite app and search for “ The Autism Dad”. Hit the subscribe button to be notified of all new releases. This prevents you from always having to search.Alternatively, you can visit the official website at https://listen.theautismdad.com. Everything is there as well.Today's Sponsors:Mentioned in this episode:Learn More: Meerkat VillageMeerkat Village is an Android and iOS platform designed to support special needs parents, who often juggle multiple responsibilities like work, school, medical appointments, therapies, and self-care. It addresses the challenge of keeping everyone involved in a child's care coordinated and informed. The app facilitates communication and coordination within your support network, aiding in tracking a child's progress and brainstorming strategies for behavioral concerns. Meerkat Village ensures everyone stays connected and aligned, all within a user-friendly, HIPAA and FERPA-compliant application. For more details, visit meerkatvillage.com.Visit Meerkat VillageLearn More:...

In this week's special episode, join me and my 15-year-old autistic son, Emmett, as we discuss and answer your autism-related questions. Emmett shines with remarkable insights, sharing his unique perspective on the questions that matter most to you, the listener. You won't want to miss the wisdom Emmett brings to the conversation. About Rob Gorski and The Autism Dad podcast: Rob Gorski is a single Dad to three amazing autistic boys and Found and CEO of The Autism Dad, LLC. Multiple award-winning blogger, podcaster, content creator, social media influencer, and respected public figure for well over a decade. Connect with Rob Gorski: https://theautismdad.com Today's Sponsors Meerkat Village Being a special needs parent often requires a superhuman ability to manage a ton of different things all at once. Between work, school, doctor appointments, therapies, our own self-care, and everything else life can throw at us, it can be tough to manage all these things. Don't even get me started on trying to keep everyone communicating with each other. That's where Meerkat Village can help. They say it takes a village and this is especially true for special needs families. Meerkat Village is a platform for android and iOS that helps to keep everyone in your village communicating and coordinating their efforts to support your child. Whether you're tracking your child's progress at school or brainstorming new strategies to help with behavioral concerns, Meerkat Village keeps everyone connected, and on the same page. It's all done inside one, easy-to-use, HIPAA and FERPA-compliant app. For more information, visit meerkatvillage.com  Kinjo Kinjo transforms Roblox from mere gaming to a valuable learning platform. Aiming to make each gaming moment both fun and educational, Kinjo provides expert-reviewed content through seamless integration with a child's Roblox account. Games undergo rigorous evaluation by specialists, with top-rated ones receiving a 'Flames' rating for their educational quality. While playing, children earn Kinjo Coins, turning in-game accomplishments into tangible rewards. While kids enjoy the engaging content, parents gain insight into their child's gaming activities. Beyond being an app, Kinjo represents a leap in educational gaming, blending entertainment with deep learning. The basic version is free, with a premium Kinjo Plus option offering added benefits. Explore the future of gaming at theautismdad.com/Kinjo and get a 10% discount on Kinjo Plus with code “theautismdad”.

In this week's special episode, join me and my 15-year-old autistic son, Emmett, as we discuss and answer your autism-related questions. Emmett shines with remarkable insights, sharing his unique perspective on the questions that matter most to you, the listener. You won't want to miss the wisdom Emmett brings to the conversation.About Rob Gorski and The Autism Dad podcast:Rob Gorski is a single Dad to three amazing autistic boys and Found and CEO of The Autism Dad, LLC. Multiple award-winning blogger, podcaster, content creator, social media influencer, and respected public figure for well over a decade.Connect with Rob Gorski: https://theautismdad.comToday's SponsorsMentioned in this episode:Learn More: KinjoKinjo transforms Roblox from mere gaming to a valuable learning platform. Aiming to make each gaming moment both fun and educational, Kinjo provides expert-reviewed content through seamless integration with a child's Roblox account. Games undergo rigorous evaluation by specialists, with top-rated ones receiving a 'Flames' rating for their educational quality. While playing, children earn Kinjo Coins, turning in-game accomplishments into tangible rewards. While kids enjoy the engaging content, parents gain insight into their child's gaming activities. Beyond being an app, Kinjo represents a leap in educational gaming, blending entertainment with deep learning. The basic version is free, with a premium Kinjo Plus option offering added benefits. Explore the future of gaming at theautismdad.com/Kinjo and get a 10% discount on Kinjo Plus with code “theautismdad”.Learn More: Meerkat VillageMeerkat Village is an Android and iOS platform designed to support special needs parents, who often juggle multiple responsibilities like work, school, medical appointments, therapies, and self-care. It addresses the challenge of keeping everyone involved in a child's care coordinated and informed. The app facilitates communication and coordination within your support network, aiding in tracking a child's progress and brainstorming strategies for behavioral concerns. Meerkat Village ensures everyone stays connected and aligned, all within a user-friendly, HIPAA and FERPA-compliant application. For more details, visit meerkatvillage.com.Visit Meerkat Village

In this week's episode, I talk with Joanna Lovejoy from Kinjo. Kinjo transforms your child's time on Roblox into educational and fun experiences. They help parents better navigate the 40 million games kids have to choose from within the Roblox Universe. About Kinjo Kinjo transforms Roblox from mere gaming to a valuable learning platform. Aiming to make each gaming moment both fun and educational, Kinjo provides expert-reviewed content through seamless integration with a child's Roblox account. Games undergo rigorous evaluation by specialists, with top-rated ones receiving a 'Flames' rating for their educational quality. While playing, children earn Kinjo Coins, turning in-game accomplishments into tangible rewards. While kids enjoy the engaging content, parents gain insight into their child's gaming activities. Beyond being an app, Kinjo represents a leap in educational gaming, blending entertainment with deep learning. The basic version is free, with a premium Kinjo Plus option offering added benefits. Explore the future of gaming at theautismdad.com/Kinjo and get a 10% discount on Kinjo Plus with code “theautismdad”. About Rob Gorski and The Autism Dad podcast: Rob Gorski is a single Dad to three amazing autistic boys and Found and CEO of The Autism Dad, LLC. Multiple award-winning blogger, podcaster, content creator, social media influencer, and respected public figure for well over a decade. Connect with Rob Gorski: https://theautismdad.com Today's Sponsors Meerkat Village Being a special needs parent often requires a superhuman ability to manage a ton of different things all at once. Between work, school, doctor appointments, therapies, our own self-care, and everything else life can throw at us, it can be tough to manage all these things. Don't even get me started on trying to keep everyone communicating with each other. That's where Meerkat Village can help. They say it takes a village and this is especially true for special needs families. Meerkat Village is a platform for android and iOS that helps to keep everyone in your village communicating and coordinating their efforts to support your child. Whether you're tracking your child's progress at school or brainstorming new strategies to help with behavioral concerns, Meerkat Village keeps everyone connected, and on the same page. It's all done inside one, easy-to-use, HIPAA and FERPA-compliant app. For more information, visit meerkatvillage.com 

In this week's episode, I talk with Joanna Lovejoy from Kinjo. Kinjo transforms your child's time on Roblox into educational and fun experiences. They help parents better navigate the 40 million games kids have to choose from within the Roblox Universe.About KinjoKinjo transforms Roblox from mere gaming to a valuable learning platform. Aiming to make each gaming moment both fun and educational, Kinjo provides expert-reviewed content through seamless integration with a child's Roblox account. Games undergo rigorous evaluation by specialists, with top-rated ones receiving a 'Flames' rating for their educational quality. While playing, children earn Kinjo Coins, turning in-game accomplishments into tangible rewards. While kids enjoy the engaging content, parents gain insight into their child's gaming activities. Beyond being an app, Kinjo represents a leap in educational gaming, blending entertainment with deep learning. The basic version is free, with a premium Kinjo Plus option offering added benefits.Explore the future of gaming at theautismdad.com/Kinjo and get a 10% discount on Kinjo Plus with code “theautismdad”.About Rob Gorski and The Autism Dad podcast:Rob Gorski is a single Dad to three amazing autistic boys and Found and CEO of The Autism Dad, LLC. Multiple award-winning blogger, podcaster, content creator, social media influencer, and respected public figure for well over a decade.Connect with Rob Gorski: https://theautismdad.comToday's SponsorsMentioned in this episode:Learn More: Meerkat VillageMeerkat Village is an Android and iOS platform designed to support special needs parents, who often juggle multiple responsibilities like work, school, medical appointments, therapies, and self-care. It addresses the challenge of keeping everyone involved in a child's care coordinated and informed. The app facilitates communication and coordination within your support network, aiding in tracking a child's progress and brainstorming strategies for behavioral concerns. Meerkat Village ensures everyone stays connected and aligned, all within a user-friendly, HIPAA and FERPA-compliant application. For more details, visit meerkatvillage.com.Visit Meerkat Village

In this week's episode, I sit down with Emmett, my 15-year-old autistic son, and we talk about the importance of self-care. I ask Emmett what he thinks about me making myself a priority, focusing on self-care, and having a personal life outside of the house. We also had a very personal conversation about my struggle with burnout earlier in the year and how I chose to handle it. About Rob Gorski and The Autism Dad podcast: Rob Gorski is a single Dad to three amazing autistic boys and Found and CEO of The Autism Dad, LLC. Multiple award-winning blogger, podcaster, content creator, social media influencer, and respected public figure for well over a decade. Connect with Rob Gorski: https://theautismdad.com Today's Sponsors Meerkat Village Being a special needs parent often requires a superhuman ability to manage a ton of different things all at once. Between work, school, doctor appointments, therapies, our own self-care, and everything else life can throw at us, it can be tough to manage all these things. Don't even get me started on trying to keep everyone communicating with each other. That's where Meerkat Village can help. They say it takes a village and this is especially true for special needs families. Meerkat Village is a platform for android and iOS that helps to keep everyone in your village communicating and coordinating their efforts to support your child. Whether you're tracking your child's progress at school or brainstorming new strategies to help with behavioral concerns, Meerkat Village keeps everyone connected, and on the same page. It's all done inside one, easy-to-use, HIPAA and FERPA-compliant app. For more information, visit meerkatvillage.com  Kinjo Kinjo transforms Roblox from mere gaming to a valuable learning platform. Aiming to make each gaming moment both fun and educational, Kinjo provides expert-reviewed content through seamless integration with a child's Roblox account. Games undergo rigorous evaluation by specialists, with top-rated ones receiving a 'Flames' rating for their educational quality. While playing, children earn Kinjo Coins, turning in-game accomplishments into tangible rewards. While kids enjoy the engaging content, parents gain insight into their child's gaming activities. Beyond being an app, Kinjo represents a leap in educational gaming, blending entertainment with deep learning. The basic version is free, with a premium Kinjo Plus option offering added benefits. Explore the future of gaming at theautismdad.com/Kinjo and get a 10% discount on Kinjo Plus with code “theautismdad”.

In this week's episode, I sit down with Emmett, my 15-year-old autistic son, and we talk about the importance of self-care. I ask Emmett what he thinks about me making myself a priority, focusing on self-care, and having a personal life outside of the house. We also had a very personal conversation about my struggle with burnout earlier in the year and how I chose to handle it.About Rob Gorski and The Autism Dad podcast:Rob Gorski is a single Dad to three amazing autistic boys and Found and CEO of The Autism Dad, LLC. Multiple award-winning blogger, podcaster, content creator, social media influencer, and respected public figure for well over a decade.Connect with Rob Gorski: https://theautismdad.comToday's SponsorsMentioned in this episode:Learn More: KinjoKinjo transforms Roblox from mere gaming to a valuable learning platform. Aiming to make each gaming moment both fun and educational, Kinjo provides expert-reviewed content through seamless integration with a child's Roblox account. Games undergo rigorous evaluation by specialists, with top-rated ones receiving a 'Flames' rating for their educational quality. While playing, children earn Kinjo Coins, turning in-game accomplishments into tangible rewards. While kids enjoy the engaging content, parents gain insight into their child's gaming activities. Beyond being an app, Kinjo represents a leap in educational gaming, blending entertainment with deep learning. The basic version is free, with a premium Kinjo Plus option offering added benefits. Explore the future of gaming at theautismdad.com/Kinjo and get a 10% discount on Kinjo Plus with code “theautismdad”.Learn More: Meerkat VillageMeerkat Village is an Android and iOS platform designed to support special needs parents, who often juggle multiple responsibilities like work, school, medical appointments, therapies, and self-care. It addresses the challenge of keeping everyone involved in a child's care coordinated and informed. The app facilitates communication and coordination within your support network, aiding in tracking a child's progress and brainstorming strategies for behavioral concerns. Meerkat Village ensures everyone stays connected and aligned, all within a user-friendly, HIPAA and FERPA-compliant application. For more details, visit meerkatvillage.com.Visit Meerkat Village

In today's episode, we dive deep into a topic many parents grapple with: how to tell your child they have autism. Join me as I sit down with my incredible 15-year-old son, Emmett, who himself is autistic. He shares his profound insights and personal experience about being on the receiving end of this pivotal conversation. Emmett's perspective is truly enlightening, and I couldn't be prouder to share this moment with him and all of you. Tune in for an episode packed with wisdom and understanding. About Rob Gorski and The Autism Dad podcast: Rob Gorski is a single Dad to three amazing autistic boys and Found and CEO of The Autism Dad, LLC. Multiple award-winning blogger, podcaster, content creator, social media influencer, and respected public figure for well over a decade. Connect with Rob Gorski: https://theautismdad.com Today's Sponsors Meerkat Village Being a special needs parent often requires a superhuman ability to manage a ton of different things all at once. Between work, school, doctor appointments, therapies, our own self-care, and everything else life can throw at us, it can be tough to manage all these things. Don't even get me started on trying to keep everyone communicating with each other. That's where Meerkat Village can help. They say it takes a village and this is especially true for special needs families. Meerkat Village is a platform for android and iOS that helps to keep everyone in your village communicating and coordinating their efforts to support your child. Whether you're tracking your child's progress at school or brainstorming new strategies to help with behavioral concerns, Meerkat Village keeps everyone connected, and on the same page. It's all done inside one, easy-to-use, HIPAA and FERPA-compliant app. For more information, visit meerkatvillage.com  Kinjo Kinjo transforms Roblox from mere gaming to a valuable learning platform. Aiming to make each gaming moment both fun and educational, Kinjo provides expert-reviewed content through seamless integration with a child's Roblox account. Games undergo rigorous evaluation by specialists, with top-rated ones receiving a 'Flames' rating for their educational quality. While playing, children earn Kinjo Coins, turning in-game accomplishments into tangible rewards. While kids enjoy the engaging content, parents gain insight into their child's gaming activities. Beyond being an app, Kinjo represents a leap in educational gaming, blending entertainment with deep learning. The basic version is free, with a premium Kinjo Plus option offering added benefits. Explore the future of gaming at theautismdad.com/Kinjo and get a 10% discount on Kinjo Plus with code “theautismdad”.