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We welcome guest speaker Jerry and Sandra Murphy as he speaks on following the Holy Spirit. 

Group Brand Manager for Trigon Hotels, Sandra Murphy explains why the Metropole Hotel in Cork is looking to find four men who left a note which was discovered in the bricks of the lobby.

This episode was originally published as a Patreon exclusive on 5 May 2019.Two women were murdered in the 1980's in Kilkenny. They were unconnected, and unsolved. It would be years before the two murders were "rediscovered" by the Garda Cold Case Unit - the National Serious Crime Review Unit. Appeals for information were made to the public, and now, 30 years on, there have been developments in the cases....Music:Kevin McLeod, Quinns Song : The Dance Begins. (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Sources:“Man (52) due to be charged in connection with murder of Ann Nancy Smith in 2987” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-52-due-to-be-charged-in-connection-with-murder-of-ann-nancy-smith-in-1987-34113928.html (15 October 2015) Natasha Reid, “Cold-case trial hears widow already dead when house set on fire” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/criminal-court/cold-case-trial-hears-widow-already-dead-when-house-set-on-fire-1.3023788 (24 March 2017)Natasha Reid, “Kilkenny murder trial: Nancy Smyth subjected to head injuries and strangled before fire started in her home” in The Kilkenny People https://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/home/241784/kilkenny-murder-trial-nancy-smyth-subjected-to-head-injuries-and-strangled-before-fire-started-in-her-home.html (24 March 2017)Jim Cusack, “Killer repeatedly given bail despite threatening witnesses and stabbing his brother – after admitting murder” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/killer-repeatedly-given-bail-despite-threatening-witnesses-and-stabbing-his-brother-after-admitting-murder-35626554.html (16 April 2017)Sandra Murphy, “How murderer of pensioner Nancy Smyth was fianlly caught after 30 years” from Evoke.ie https://extra.ie/2017/04/20/news/real-life/how-detectives-cracked-cold-case-of-murder-of-pensioner-nancy-smyth (20 April 2017) Eoin Reynolds, “'Closure' for family in cold-case” in The Irish Examiner https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/closure-for-family-in-cold-case-murder-447831.html (14 April 2017)Natasha Reid, “Bible study man strangled widow and set fire to her home, cold case murder trial hears” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/bible-study-man-strangled-widow-and-set-fire-to-her-home-coldcase-murder-trial-hears-35555465.html (22 March 2017) Natasha Reid, “Cold case trial hears of widow's murder 30 years ago” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/cold-case-trial-hears-of-widows-murder-30-years-ago-35557331.html (23 March 2017) Eoin Reynolds, “Woman died 'callouss and violent death', murder trial hears” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/criminal-court/woman-died-callous-and-violent-death-murder-trial-hears-1.3045399 (11 April 2017) Ruaidhri Giblin, “Appeal dismissed” Convicted murderer confessed to people 'left right and centre' to killing woman 30 years ago as life sentence upheld” in The Irish Sun https://www.thesun.ie/news/2466416/convicted-murderer-confessed-to-people-left-right-and-centre-to-killing-woman-30-years-ago-as-life-sentence-upheld/ (19 April 2018)Ruaidhri Giblin, “'Cold-case' killer moves to appeal conviction for murder of woman in Kilkenny 30 years ago” in The Kilkenny People https://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/home/295419/cold-case-killer-moves-to-appeal-conviction-for-murder-of-woman-in-kilkenny-30-years-ago.html (5 February 2018) Conor Lally, “Gardai identify suspect in cold case murder of Marie Tierney in 1984” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/garda%C3%AD-identify-suspect-in-cold-case-murder-of-marie-tierney-in-1984-1.3681898 (31 October 2018) Wayne O'Conner, “Family of murdered Marie believe gardai closer to finding killer” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/family-of-murdered-marie-believe-gardai-closer-to-finding-killer-37489911.html (4 November 2018) Barry Cummins, “Family of murder victim Marie Tierney speak of ongoing anguish” from RTE.ie https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2018/1115/1011234-marie-tierney/ (15 November 2018) Cormac O'Keefe, “Garda review of one unsolved murder unearths a second case” in The Irish Examiner https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/garda-review-of-one-unsolved-murder-unearths-second-case-882462.html (1 November 2018) Paul Hosford, “Gardai appeal for information into 1984 murder of mother of two” in TheJournal.ie https://www.thejournal.ie/marie-tierney-murder-appeal-3686145-Nov2017/ (8 November 2017) Press Release: Garda Update – Marie Tierney Murder Investigation from Garda.ie https://www.garda.ie/en/about-us/our-departments/office-of-corporate-communications/press-releases/2018/october/update-marie-tierney-murder-investigation.html “Cold Case Breakthrough” Potential witness in Marie Tierney murder investigation comes forward” from KilkennyNow.ie https://kilkennynow.ie/breaking-potential-witness-in-marie-tierney-murder-investigation-comes-forward/ (20 December 2018)

Paul Byrne talks to Sandra Murphy from the Metropole about the great history and the great future of Jazz in the beloved hotel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Spiritual Father Jerry Murphy comes to share a word with Living Truth. 

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3/3/23 Jerry and Sandra Murphy are with us from Moriah Ranch along with Caleb and Emily Woodworth. What a great time sharing with spiritual family on the generations connecting around God's eternal goodness and instruction over our lives.

From Roy Keane and Derval O'Rourke to Cillian Murphy and Graham Norton, Cork has its fair share of winners but it's also one of the nicest and friendliest places you can live, that is according to a recent Conde Nast poll.Joining Anton to extoll the virtues of Cork is Olympic medallist and podcaster, Rob Heffernan; Sandra Murphy, group brand & communications manager with Trigon Hotels; and Joe Kelly, of The Good Room who run Live at St. Luke's in Cork.

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This episode contains more audio from the trial of Sandy Murphy and Rick Tavish for the murder of Ted Binion. Binion was a wealthy American gambling executive and one of the sons of Vegas casino magnate Benny Binion, owner of the Horseshoe Casino. Ted, a multi-millionaire, loved the high life and ran the Horseshoe for a while, hosting the casino's poker tournaments. But in 1998, Ted, 55, was having problems. Due to his heroin addiction and associations with known criminals, he'd recently lost his gaming license and his ties to the casino. His wife Doris had moved out, taking the couple's daughter, Bonnie, after learning of Ted's affair with a topless dancer named Sandra Murphy. Just before his death, he discovered that Sandra was cheating on him with a man named Rick Tabish. On September 17, 1998, Ted was found dead from a combination of Xanax, heroin, and Valium. He'd recently bought 12 pieces of tar heroin from a street drug dealer, and had a Xanax prescription from his next-door neighbor, a doctor. Police believed the scene was staged by Sandra Murphy and Rick Tabish, who wanted Ted's money (after losing his gaming license, Ted had taken all his gold out of the Horseshoe safe and buried it in a 12 foot deep underground vault in Pahrump, Nevada). In 1999, Sandra and Rick were found guilty of murder, but the verdict was overturned.After a second trial, they were acquitted of the murder, but found guilty of conspiring to commit and committing burglary and/or grand larceny. Rick served 11 years; Sandy was sentenced to time served. This episode contains testimony from the second trial, in May 2005, featuring two of Sandy's gossipy beauticians, hairdresser Georgia Gastone and Michelle Gillian.

In this month's podcast, I spoke with Terry Underwood about portfolio assessment in the context of literacy instruction.Terry is a former classroom teacher and a university professor. He is the author of Portfolio Practices: Lessons from Schools, District, and States with Sandra Murphy, and The Portfolio Project: A Study of Assessment, Instruction, and Middle School Reform. Terry writes frequently at Learning to Read, Reading to Learn, an online journal where he shares his current thinking on literacy instruction today.The full transcript of our conversation below is made possible due to the generosity of our full subscribers. Consider becoming one today. Full subscribers have access to additional community benefits, including live conversations with literacy experts, leadership guides, and discussion threads.Full TranscriptMatt Renwick (00:03): This is Matt, and I'm joined by Terry Underwood, a literacy professor and author on a couple of books on portfolio assessment. And I asked Terry to come on. He's got a great newsletter, Learning to Read, Reading to Learn. Did I say that right? Terry Underwood (00:23): That's exactly right. Matt Renwick (00:25): He's got a great newsletter. I think everyone should subscribe to it. He had an interesting comment about failure and how the culture very much can drive that, either way for better or worse. And I just said, we got to talk about this if you get some time. And also talk about your work with portfolios, which I think I get a sense are starting to come back a little bit. I wrote a book on portfolios in 2017, and it didn't sell that well, but it seems I'm getting more questions about it now than I did in 2017. I'm curious as to maybe why. Terry, do you want to share just about your books some of that context? Terry Underwood (01:09): Yeah, absolutely. Matt. Hey, thanks for asking me to talk about this. This is really up my alley, more or less. The whole notion of fear, of sharing and fear of disclosing, I think is not just a problem for professional development of teachers. It's a problem for shining a light on pedagogy generally. And the fear is real. I mean, there there's a lot of teacher bashing out in the wild, you know, in the communities. And then when you add to that the fact that we have a model of schooling that is really grounded in a factory model where you have managers and workers, it's pretty ugly. I think that that's the bottom line. (02:09): And in the worst case, you get a kind of a surveillance of teachers, which will tend to make people fearful and drive them in into the shadows a little bit. I want to pivot a little bit and go back to where I started, my interest in portfolios. I didn't know that this was happening, but I've thought about this a lot of times. The last day of school when I was in high school. You know, everybody would leave the school building. It was a big school. We had about 2200 students all together. It was a township school in Illinois, and we had a lot of kids from rural areas that were bused in together into this high school. It sat right across from the Fox River in Illinois, and there was a bridge across the river. (03:08): And we had to, when we left school, almost everybody would walk across that bridge and go down Main Street to the west side of Chicago, Ottawa, where a lot of people lived. And what would happen, people would line up on the bridge and they would open their notebooks, and they would throw all of their papers into the river. And the river looked like it was just absolutely white with paper totally covered from shore to shore. And I always had a little bit of a problem every year with throwing my stuff away. A lot of it I didn't really care. But ever since I was in fourth grade, I started saving. I started writing stories in fourth grade, and I started saving some of my stories. And it just became kind of a habit. (04:01): And even to this day, I have rubber tubs full of papers from way back. I don't even know what's back there. My garage is just stuffed with this. But really, over the years I started to appreciate the value of collecting things that were of interest to me, and that I thought might show up. I found that I could never really predict when something would be useful to me. And so if I didn't have it, I didn't have it. I couldn't go back to it, which is part of the problem, you have a tendency to hoard there. Matt Renwick (04:43): You're collecting your knowledge. You had a value on what you created and sounds like you valued it more than some of your peers. Terry Underwood (04:56): Yeah, I never really advertised it or thought much about it until a lot later when I started looking back at this stuff. And I'm really glad I kept stuff from fourth grade. I still have some of my really early writings. Maybe 10, 12 years ago, I came upon, found out that the state of Minnesota...do you know anything about eFolio Minnesota? Matt Renwick (05:26): No. Terry Underwood (05:27): The state of Minnesota decided that every child born in the state would be given a portfolio site. And they developed this, they call it eFolio, Minnesota. I think that's the name of it. But anyway, if you were born in Minnesota, when you were born, you'd get a portfolio and they would give you a place to collect your stuff, and it's free, and any anybody else could buy a site from them, I think $19.99 a year. I started using that site in my teaching at Sacramento State. And prior to that, years before that, probably the early eighties, I was teaching composition at community colleges in California. (06:23): And I started to get wind of this portfolio movement that had been catching fire at least since the 1960s. And it essentially was rooted in this idea that if we don't attend to what we've done, regardless - you could call it a failure, you could call it a success, whatever it is - but we have done it. And if we don't look at it and examine it in relation to where we are now and where we would like to be, then we're sort of adrift. And it becomes very difficult to kind of make adjustments that may not be comfortable, but you can see you're convinced to take action. And I think there's a cognitive value that you have this intention that as you move forward, you're going to do things and you're going to pay attention to what you're doing because you know there's going to come a time when you're going to look back at it. (07:32): And so that got me really interested in portfolios. And when I taught fourth grade for three years in the late 1980s, I used portfolios pretty much exclusively. I mean, those kids were saving everything, and I actually would give them prompts and have them write in response to reflective prompts. When I entered a doctoral program in 1991, I knew that I wanted to do something along these lines. I was able to get positioned to study a formal portfolio system in English language arts in a middle school where I was teaching at the time. And that became the basis for my dissertation. I think the bottom line, Matt, is for me, portfolios are a way of thinking, of connecting the surface of our behavior with the deep structures that we are building in long-term memory. (08:50): And just as writing on paper as a mnemonic, when we're reading or writing, it allows us to manipulate furniture and long-term memory and build expertise through that manipulation. Portfolios are a sort of an extension of writing. And the one difference, when you write a text and you're going to send it out into the world, there's a kind of a boundary around it, and you hope that it will hold up all by itself with portfolios. You often don't know what you don't know, what the reader is going to make of what you put in. And so there isn't that kind of unity and coherence and organization that you find in a text, but it is a form of a text, especially when it's aimed at an audience. (09:45): At some point somebody's going to look at it. I think there's a lot of sort of romanticism around portfolios where it's all like joy and celebration and that is absolutely a part of it. I've thought about the idea of portfolio carnivals and portfolio reviews, portfolio showcases where we really are celebrating, and we're looking at accomplishments and taking stock of what we've done, that's what it's about. We want, we have to have those as human beings. But there's also portfolio ethnography. I think of portfolio ethnography as opposed to portfolio assessment, where the purpose of the ethnography is to uncover values and patterns of behavior and understand, to be able to explain what the cultural factors are that are creating the motivating sort of behavior. (10:55): So the word portfolio is nothing more than a collection of artifacts. And it takes on meaning and significance when you have that other word portfolio: carnival portfolio, review portfolio. When you add the term assessment, you really throw a monkey wrench into the whole process because at at bottom there's an antagonism between assessment and portfolio. If I'm just curating my artifacts and presenting them, what's in it for me to present them to you? So you can assess them? And a lot of times what happens when assessment gets tacked on, you really sort of disenfranchise the person who's creating the portfolio. And so that's the part that really has to be sorted out even before you begin to think about designing a portfolio. (12:07): It's one thing to do it in your own classroom because you, as the teacher, you have pretty much control over how you're going to design it, and you can really lessen the impact of assessment and use it more as a celebratory kind of a tool. But when you begin to talk about assessment, which is serious business, you teach without assessment. There's no way that you can organize a school without assessment. It's absolutely necessary. And so it has to be dealt with, and I have a couple of stories about the beginnings of large portfolio systems that I want to talk about. Matt Renwick (12:59): Yeah I just wanted to note this it's more than a collection of artifacts. It can be more than an assessment. You talk about ethnography; it certainly communicates what a child values. But you're starting to talk about school-wide or district-wide. I have to think it starts as you look at portfolios across different, several kids. It's going to start to convey the values of a school or a district as well. Terry Underwood (13:36): Yes, it absolutely does. In 1989 in the state of Kentucky, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that the entire state school system was unconstitutional and had to be redone. And they didn't specify a remedy, but turned it back to the legislature, and the legislature came up with a law. The legislation decided that they were going to use a portfolio as a reform tool. By the way, the reason it was unconstitutional: there were 66 rural counties in Kentucky that filed a suit. Those schools were just so seriously under-resourced that, I mean, there were stories that were sort of legendary. (14:46): But the school finance cases had been coming up since the sixties. There was a 30 year backlog of cases where they were decided. Usually it was just a matter of the state legislature coming up with some kind of law about how we're going to finance the schools so that we don't have such unequal funding. But in this case in Kentucky, they decided that they were going to use a portfolio assessment as a reform tool. And this was in the legislation. So they came up with an advisory committee for developing the portfolio system. And essentially it, you know the requirement in the Common Core that LEAs have formative assessments where you pool the data and you're able to look at trends and that sort of thing? (15:45): It was on steroids in Kentucky. The teachers had to make assignments pretty much across the state that were at least commendable in intent. And so the long arm of the state was reaching into the classroom, and teachers were giving assignments to kids based on specifications from afar, and kids were writing and putting those papers in their portfolios, and they were going out for moderation to make sure that they were being reliably scored and all that. And they had to be reliably scored because school funding was dependent on this index. It was sort of like in California: we have the A.P.I: the average performance index or something per school. Well, in Kentucky, 14 of their score on that index was determined by portfolios. Matt Renwick (16:49): A standardized assessment, essentially. Terry Underwood (16:52): Extremely standard. The difference is it didn't have any standardized tests. Just imagine if every day when you went in to teach, you had to give a standardized, multiple choice test. It would be equivalent to that, except it wasn't multiple choice. I think there was flexibility in the prompts, but essentially the kids hated it. The teachers were in many cases resentful. It's interesting that there's evidence that it actually improved. Matt Renwick (17:33): I was gonna say, yeah. I mean, just having the kids write every day. There's got to be some growth there. Terry Underwood (17:40): Yeah. They did. When I was preparing for this, I remembered that the Kentucky Writing Advisory Committee created a writing portfolio assessment system. And that system had to embrace writing with a purpose, which means that it's more than spelling, it's more than generating paragraphs. There has to be a purpose to the writing. Writing is a process that we don't just think about and create a text, that there are stages that you go through to create a text writing for an audience: who you're writing for (and) who you can conceive of as the reader impacts both your purpose and your process. And then use that writing for a direct assessment to figure out what is going on in the classroom. Matt Renwick (18:52): Well, when you first mentioned this project, it sounded pretty good. I mean, there was good purpose and audience. That's great stuff. But you were mentioning that the teachers and the students were not appreciative of it, because it was kind of top down mandate. Terry Underwood (19:16): Well, it took all agency from them. I think part of the problem is in the rural schools, it may have been seen as a blessing compared to what they were getting before. But in the more affluent areas where kids were probably getting fairly good instruction anyway, it was an add-on. It was a chore, it was an intrusion. And so when you stop to think about, "How do you create a portfolio assessment system?", the first thing you have to ask is, "Why do I want a portfolio system?" And who is going to be involved in it? And if you forget that the primary participants are the students... Matt Renwick (20:04): Mm-hmm. Terry Underwood (20:05): and their teachers, then you're gonna fail. There's no sense even beginning. And that's what happened, I think, in Kentucky. They forgot that they're dealing with teachers and learners. David Pearson makes a case for what he calls "teacher prerogative". Professionals in other areas like medicine and law have what's called prerogative. And what that means is that research is research, but it is the practitioner's prerogative to use that research as they see it useful in their own practice. And it is an individual prerogative. Unless you're an MD and I get you from malpractice or whatever, I'm not going to be able to put you on remote control and tell you what to do. (21:05): Now, in an ideal world, we would have that in teacher practice. Now that might generate fear, but it's going to be a different kind of fear. Rather than fear, that I'm gonna be found out that I'm not really as good as I appear or whatever. It's fear that I might be wrong, that my kids aren't going to do very well. Even though there might be an activity that I'm thinking about doing in a classroom, even though I don't like it, I don't think it's going be very much fun, I'm going to have to work at it myself. I'm going to do it because I have a fear that if I don't do it, things aren't going to work as well. An, I'd be definitely willing to talk about that with other teachers in public. (22:02): The contrasting case here in 1990, 1991, the state of Vermont, I think it may have been the first state to voluntarily decide to do a portfolio assessment system. And how they went about it - I also wrote a chapter on Vermont in that book - was trying to get ahead of the fear that schools would get destroyed in the coming onslaught of standardized tests. So who is creating the portfolio system? The state of Vermont. And why are they doing it? In Kentucky, they were doing it to reform. So it had a political purpose in Vermont. They were actually acting out of fear that what was going on in the schools was going to be hyper standardized and pretty much controlled. (23:00): And they wanted to get ahead of that. This book, by the way, is designed for anybody who wants to create a portfolio system. You need this book, because what we do is we examine nine different portfolio systems from the level of the classroom to the school, to the district, to the state, to the nation. And we talk about their strategies for collection. How do they collect? What do they recommend people do to collect material in the portfolio, their strategies for selection? At some point in the portfolio process, learners have to select. The whole question of who selects the material, does the teacher, or does the kid? Well, that has to be negotiated as part of the design process. And then, reflection...some will argue me, among them, that you can't call it a portfolio if there is not a structured way. (24:09): Kids are gonna reflect on their work periodically in a formal public thoughtful way with their teachers and with their peers. So you have the collection part of it, the selection part of it, the reflection part of it, how are they going to do that? And then the publication part of it. At that point, you really begin to get it. You have to be very careful about who owns this work? What work is going to be made public and why is it gonna be made public? And that's where really I think if the public purpose is for an assessment, that it has to be really carefully controlled because you run the risk of disclosing all kinds of stuff. People will destroy the portfolio system. (25:05): If that's not the purpose, then it probably should be celebratory or showcase, or some sort of a portfolio review. Then it provides the same incentive that kids need to write, that somebody's going to read this stuff, and we're going to look at it for positive purposes. In this book, after each chapter we have a section called Opportunities for Discussion. Inquiry #1: the Kentucky system asks students to write for real world audiences during their classroom instruction, while simultaneously asking students to write for an examiner audience. That is for the individuals who review and score portfolios. What influence might this complex relationship have on students' writing processes? One time I was working with a local school, an elementary school, and they were interested in school-wide writing assessment. (26:07): And we designed some assessments. A couple years later, I went back to the school and I talked to a teacher that I had talked to before. I found out that some of the 3rd grade teachers were beginning to score higher on the writing assessment then the teachers who had been sort of writing gurus After I checked into it, I found out that the formula was if you wanted to score higher in third grade, for every noun, get your kids to write three adjectives so that you get this kind of sparkly, popping kind of writing. Now a good writing teacher will say, pay more attention to your nouns because the nouns carry the substance. And sure enough, when I looked at these papers, these kids were three adjectives per noun. I remember this one paper, "My best friend Kyle has short, dark, light hair." Matt Renwick (27:23):  Terry Underwood (27:24): You know, the attention is on the adjectives. So what's going to happen if you have the kids writing for real purposes at the same time, we're going to take that for an examiner audience. And it kind of creates a schizoid writing environment. "Kentucky's system was developed under the assumption that instruction would not change unless teachers were given financial incentives. Do you believe that this assumption is true?" So this portfolio system...you can see there's a lot of kind of strings attached to it that will distort what you really want. You want to get kids who, when they crossed that bridge after graduating from high school, they're not going to throw their stuff in a river. In my case, it was just accidental. I mean, I happen to have a fourth grade teacher who's like, my stories. Matt Renwick (28:27): There you go. Terry Underwood (28:29): Yeah. And how do we get that in some sort of systematic way? Matt Renwick (28:39): I'm thinking about today, why any district or school or even teacher would want to start portfolios. One thing that's starting to come up, I'm seeing more of is related to the test or to assessment like you're talking about here, Terry, not to circumvent them or to avoid over-standardization or to reform, but to compliment. So for example, English learners, some of these students are not doing well on ACCESS tests when I've worked with another district or two. And so they see the portfolio as another way to kind of create a richer picture of this kid. And maybe they're not doing well on the standardized test, but this portfolio can serve as assessment and, you know, it can also be gamed as you were saying with the three adjectives. It sounds like kind of a theme though, is they have very good intentions, and then when we put into practice, things get complex and complicated and messy. Terry Underwood (29:58): Yeah. And I really think that's the heart of it: the degree to which the student is legitimately involved and seen as a real active participant in it. And not just someone that we're trying to help or we're trying to make sure that that this person can grow up and function in this society, but actually an agent who we hope at some point is going to be self-actualized and would be able to self-assess. In an ideal world, what I would like to see is when we assess kids, let's see how well they self-assess, how well they know what they're up to and how clearly do they have a sense of where they're going. (30:59): I don't know if you are familiar with John Downing? John Downing was a researcher from the seventies, and he died young, but he had this theory of cognitive confusion that the problem with kids learning, especially in in literacy, is that they don't understand why they're doing this. They don't understand what the point is. I wrote a story where Mr. Bubbles goes out to talk to a first grade kid who's been this second grade kid. His teacher thinks he has dyslexia, and Bubbles talks to him and asks him, 'Well, what do you think is going on in people's minds when they're reading? Have you ever ever watched anybody read?" (31:51): "Yeah, watched my dad. My dad sits there. "Well, what's your dad doing?" "Well, he's pretty much just like real quiet, and he has the newspaper in front of his face and he's doing something, and I know he's doing something, but I know that he gets really mad if I bug him. But, you know, he wants to, he wants to read this paper." But he doesn't know what's going on. And then he goes to school and the first thing he finds out is, when you sit down at your desk, you see a letter and the letter goes B, but the kid knows that's not what my dad is doing, you know, and for four or five months, this is what he gets. And so eventually he just says, "You know, I'm confused and I'm never...this is not, this is not for me." (32:41): "I don't understand what's going on here, and I'm just going to tell me what to do because I have to." And so that early on, if we get comfortable with confusion and we start to think that we have to look elsewhere, or we have to capitulate and stop looking and just do what we're supposed to do. My own daughter, she's in a doctoral program, and she was telling me just a couple weeks ago that she had no idea how deeply she had internalized that. And it's only now that she's thinking about, "What am I going to do my dissertation on?" And she has to come up with it. It's got to be something she really deeply cares about. (33:32): All of that external guidance is by the wayside. Could you imagine if we start that in kindergarten? Yeah. And portfolios will allow you to do that. If you think about a writing prompt...if I give you the writing prompt, if you are supposed to write every day, and I'm telling you what to write about, right at that point, you are walled off from the activity. When I taught fourth grade, I taught my kids to write prompts. And what goes into a prompt? And when we did writing workshop, they had to tell me who you're writing this, what is the content, what's the substance going to be? How do you think that starting this with a narrative is gonna be a good idea? What makes you think that? That became their job. Then I had something when I conference with them. I would be able to go back and reference that. Matt Renwick (34:50): Whenever you hear, "Teach the reader and the reading," you know, or "Teach the writer and the writing," I think this is what you're talking about. You're teaching readers and writers while you're teaching reading and writing. And it's so much about shifting the responsibility and feeling the trust and the confidence in kids to not just teach them writing today, but to be a writer and a reader tomorrow. This has been great. I wanna keep talking with you, Terry, but I'm gonna pause the recording here and just want to say thanks for joining me. Terry Underwood (35:25):  Alright, Matt. Hey, take care of yourself.  Get full access to Read by Example at readbyexample.substack.com/subscribe

Sandra talks to PJ about fighting the pain of endometriosis and then beating the odds by giving birth to Charlotte, her beautiful daughter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

EQMM was brought into the world by two writers who collaborated on nearly every piece of fiction they wrote, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. This month we feature a story by two writers who have collaborated with each other several times, most recently on a story for EQMM. Michael Bracken is the author of well over a thousand published short stories and he's a recipient of the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award for Lifetime Achievement, among other honors. Sandra Murphy is a Derringer Award winner who has had a collection of stories published by Untreed Reads. She is the reader for this recording of “Sit. Stay. Die.” by Michael Bracken and Sandra Murphy, first published in the July/August 2022 issue of EQMM. http://www.crimefictionwriter.com

People Outdoors is a branch of Aus Camps and was established in 1989 to provide outdoor recreation for people of all ages living with disability. Camp Coordinator Sandra Murphy joins me to explain more about the camps.

"Happiness is Listening to Your Dog Snore - Humorous and Inspirational Dog Quotes to Celebrate Our Canine Friends" is a wonderful collection for quotes around dogs by Sandra Murphy. We talk to her about the book and her mission to help rescues raise funds.For additional information and to order the book go here:https://www.untreedreads.com/product/happiness-is-listening-to-your-dog-snore-paperback-by-sandra-murphy/Sandra Murphy writes magazine articles, specializing in animals, whether pets, domestic, exotic, or wildlife, and takes on eco-friendly topics in hopes of making the planet a greener, cleaner, and friendlier place to live for all creatures. Twitter: @stlsandy Instagram: stlsandym Pinterest: @stlsandymFacebook: Sandra Murphy 

This episode features the Thanksgiving mystery short story The Chicken Pot Pie Fiasco written by Sandra Murphy. It is read by local actor Duncan Hoge.  Sandra Murphy is also a book reviewer for Kings River Life and has had short stories published in several mystery anthologies. In each episode, we share with you mystery short stories and mystery novel first chapters read by actors from the San Joaquin Valley. Our theme song was written and performed by Kevin Memley. If you enjoyed this episode please review or rate it as that helps more people be able to find us! Also, consider subscribing so you never miss an episode-both to this podcast and to our podcast newsletter. If you would like to help support this podcast and Kings River Life financially, and get some fun rewards, check out our Patreon Page. You can also make a one time donation through Paypal and you can purchase some fun Mysteryrat's Maze merchandise on Redbubble. You can find more mystery fun on our websites Kings River Life Magazine and KRL News and Reviews.

On this week's episode of Clare Means Business, Josh chats to Ballynacally-based designer Sandra Murphy, of the AFORE AFTER brand, about her vision for a more sustainable fashion industry, and about buttons on clothing being made almost solely from Irish milk. He also explores a new survey which suggests more than half of employees see remote working as creating an 'inequality' in the workplace after new tax breaks were promised for those working from home in Budget 2022.

A plan to make it big after a relocation takes Sandra, the first sign in the zodiac of Aries, out of her comfort zone. Becoming ever more comfortable being in her new environment, she shares about her alignment with her innate purpose, and how it came about. --**--**-- Twitter/Instagram: @_CuriousAnarchy

In luding a quick science lesson on brief differences between human and equine nutrition, Sandra Murphy, the international exporter of the number 1 equine feed in the world and former Dragon's Den contestant stops by the Curious Anarchy podcast for a chat...

Sandra and Sian have been friends for many years and finally got a chance to talk through Sandra’s story. Sandra shares her life experiences and what she has learned.

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This episode features the mystery short story Sweet Tea and Deviled Eggs by Sandra Murphy. It is read by local actor Donna Beavers.  Sweet Tea and Deviled Eggs was published by Untreed Reads in the anthology From Hay to Eternity: Ten Devilish Tales of Crime and Deception. In each episode, we share with you mystery short stories and mystery novel first chapters read by actors from the San Joaquin Valley. If you enjoyed this episode please review or rate it as that helps more people be able to find us! Also, consider subscribing so you never miss an episode-both to this podcast and to the podcast newsletter. If you would like to help support this podcast and Kings River Life financially, and get some fun perks, check out our Patreon Page. You can also purchase some fun Mysteryrat's Maze merchandise on Redbubble. You can find more mystery fun on our websites Kings River Life Magazine and KRL News and Reviews.

This is a long one, but a big one. We talk to Sandra about her experiences as a black equestrian and the racism she's experienced as a black woman in the equestrian community. She's our new hero. Even if you don't think you'll agree with what's discussed in this episode, we urge you just to listen with an open mind. 

Discover the Sparkle on Your Doorstep - Jonathan speaks to Danielle Murrihy of Castlemartyr Resort, Norma and Tom Dineen of Bó Rua Farm and Katie Loane from Oak Fire Pizza about what a Real Cork Christmas means to them in association with Cork County Council. Also The Christmas Gift of Dreams - Sandra Murphy of Trigon Hotels talks gifting experiences this year!

We are pleased to have Sandra Murphy and Mary Ann Smith join us for this episode of NWP Radio. They are the authors of a new book just in time for summer professional development, Writing to Make an Impact: Expanding the Vision of Writing in the Secondary Classroom. Joining Sandy and Mary Ann are two teachers who are featured in Writing to Make an Impact, Brooke Ann McWilliams, who teaches middle school in Purvis, Mississippi and Laury Fischer, a long-time high school teacher now teaching community college at Diablo Valley College in Contra Costa County in California.

This week on Red Business, Jonathan Healy speaks to Sandra Murphy of the Trigon Hotel Group and Mike Ryan of the Cornstore about the upcoming Cork Oyster and Seafood Festival. Jonathan also catches up with Stephen Ryan ahead of his latest 24 stories conference.

In this weeks episode we sit down with Sandra Murphy, a local Halifax Naturopathic Doctor with over 14 years experience supporting womxn struggling with everything from low libido and hormone imbalances, to depression and anxiety, and even painful intercourse. We had a conversation about vaginal microbiome and why we need to ditch the douche, wandered into all things libido, and finished with why orgasms might be exactly what this doctor prescribes. *** Connect with Sandra on Instagram @halifaxnaturopathicdoctor and on her website http://sandramurphynd.com *** Let’s connect! Find us: www.instagram.com/momgasmpodcast/ www.facebook.com/momgasmpodcast www.twitter.com/momgasmpodcast *** Need a safe space to connect to us further and deepen the juicy conversations? Craving a community of badass ladies? Then join us in The Momgasm Den. bit.ly/momgasmden *** Connect, share, and leave a review!

Sandra Murphy says she has one goal when she’s recording an audio book - to tell the truth of what her authors have written. In fact, Sandra brings many years of acting experience to her production process. It's an acting career that began at the ripe old age of two with a fairly dramatic moment. Sandra is well versed in everything from managing companies of actors, overseeing budgets, organizing logistics, to being responsible for scores of people traversing the globe. Sandra has found her true home as the Voice Mama™, expressing her creativity through voice over and audiobook narration. Whether it’s a non-fiction title, challenging business women to lead with power and confidence, or a murder mystery, leading the sleuth on the path to discover the killer, Sandra’s compelling narration fully envelopes the listener in the story. On her time off, Sandra loves to spend time with her husband and daughters which often includes cooking amazing food, laughing hysterically, and dancing in the kitchen. On those occasions when all production deadlines are met and her family well fed, you will find her just relaxing in the backyard on her hammock, book in hand. Following the interview, the podcast includes a sample of Sandra’s work – a clip from Shawn McGuire’s Original Secrets. Sandra's website Intro music by Moby Outro music by Dan-o-Songs

Happy Holidays! As a special bonus and thank you, this patreon-exclusive episode is now out for everyone to listen to. Thank you for sticking with me through 2018, and wishing you and yours a very happy and prosperous New Year! In this episode, we take a closer look at a case that devastated a family, a community and shock the public at large. An entire family was wiped out, and by one of its parents. What had happened in this popular and prominent family in Castlerahan, Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan that led to this monstrous tragedy? Was it a case of severe mental health problems, or a sign of domestic abuse? We may never find the answer. Find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/mensreapod/) or Twitter (https://twitter.com/MensReaPod) ! With thanks to our supporters on Patreon! If you would like to support the podcast, head on over to Patreon.com (https://www.patreon.com/MensReaPod) .    Theme Song:  Quinns Song: The Dance Begins, by Kevin McLeod.  Sources:  Galen English, “Sorry for how I murdered them all' Alan Hawe in note he left behind”, in Evoke.ie https://evoke.ie/2017/12/20/news/irish-news/alan-hawe-note-left-behind (20/12/2017)  “Clodagh Hawe's mother tells inquest how 'normal' evening preceded murder-suicide” in BreakingNews.ie https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/clodagh-hawes-mother-tells-inquest-how-normal-evening-preceded-murder-suicide-819225.html (18/12/2017)  Cassie Delaney, “Relative of Clodagh Hawe issues powerful plea for people to remember Clodagh” in Her.ie https://www.her.ie/news/relative-of-clodagh-hawe-issues-powerful-plea-to-people-to-remember-clodagh-310265 (September 2016)  “School porn guilt behind Irish teacher's murder-suicide rampage” in IrishCentral.com https://www.irishcentral.com/news/family-murder-suicide-school-porn-shame-alan-hawe (05/01/2018)  Caroline Gauley, “Hawe Inquest: Alan Hawe had a fear of being seen as 'less than perfect'” in NorthernSound.ie https://www.northernsound.ie/hawe-inquest-alan-hawe-fear-seen-less-perfect/ (19/12/1027)  “Solicitor described Clodagh Hawe's family as 'extraordinarily dignified” in EveningEcho.ie https://www.eveningecho.ie/oneaday/Verdicts-returned-in-Hawe-family-inquest-d52cb8e7-039d-4532-af87-6634b2abef3a-ds (19/12/17)  Fiona Mallon, “One Year anniversary mass for Alan Hawe, who killed wife and sons in Cavan” in WLRFM.com https://www.wlrfm.com/2017/08/30/one-year-anniversary-mass-for-alan-hawe-who-killed-wife-and-sons-in-cavan/ (30/08/2017)  Colin Barrett, 'He had his reasons” in Granta.com https://granta.com/he-had-his-reasons/ (undated)  Meave Sheehan, “Ultimately we are in the haunting presence of the inexplicable” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/meave-sheehan-on-hawe-tragedy-ultimately-we-are-in-the-haunting-presence-of-the-inexplicable-36434714.html (24/12/2017)  Conor Lally, “Alan Hawe had depressive symptoms for almost a decade, inquest told” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/coroner-s-court/alan-hawe-had-depressive-symptoms-for-almost-a-decade-inquest-told-1.3332363 (19/12/2017)  Stephen Breen, “Beast's Shame: Psycho Alan Hawe butchered entire family after being caught pleasuring himself at school where he worked while accessing porn” in The Sun https://www.thesun.ie/news/1994022/psycho-alan-hawe-butchered-entire-family-after-being-caught-pleasuring-himself-at-school-where-he-worked-while-accessing-pornography/ (02/01/2018)  Gary Meneely, “Monster's Pervert Past: Killer Alan Hawe slaughtered his family after he as caught accessing porn and allegedly engaging in sex act at school where he worked” in The Irish Sun https://www.thesun.ie/news/1957194/killer-dad-alan-hawe-slaughtered-his-wife-and-family-because-he-feared-he-would-be-exposed-for-watching-porn-at-work/ (21/12/2017)  Paul Neilan, “Alan Hawe: 'People think of me as a pillar of the community, if only they knew” in The Irish Examiner https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/alan-hawe-people-think-of-me-as-a-pillar-of-the-community-if-only-they-knew-464693.html (20/12/2017)  “One by one, Alan Hawe killed his wife and sons- only little Ryan didn't fight back” in The Belfast Telegraph https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/one-by-one-alan-hawe-killed-his-wife-and-sons-only-little-ryan-didnt-fight-back-36419804.html (19/12/2017)  Ed Carty and Sophie Evans, “'I didn't know him': Devastated mum had coffee and biscuits with Alan Hawe hours before he killed her daughter and three grandsons” in The Irish Mirror https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/i-didnt-know-him-devastated-11724322 (19/12/2017)  David Maher, “Killer dad Alan Haw claims he murdered wife and sons because he did not want boys orphaned after his suicide” in The Irish Mirror https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/killer-dad-alan-hawes-final-11725495 (20/12/2017)  Gary Meneely, “Dark Secret: Devil dad Alan Hawe feared 'fall from grace' over a 'sexual matter' before butchering his family” in TheSun.co.uk https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5177901/devil-dad-alan-hawe-hid-a-dark-secret-and-feared-a-fall-from-grace-over-a-sexual-matter-before-butchering-his-family/ (20/12/2017)  Sandra Murphy, “Secret pron shame of murder-suicide dad Alan Hawe exposed” in Extra.ie https://extra.ie/2017/12/21/news/irish-news/secret-porn-shame-of-murder-suicide-dad-alan-hawe-exposed (21/12/2017)  Nicola Anderson, “Scant closure for two families left grappling to understand” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/nicola-anderson-at-hawe-inquest-scant-closure-for-two-families-left-grappling-to-understand-36423617.html (20/12/2017)  Julian Robinson , “Teacher who slaughtered his wife and three children before taking his own life 'was caught performing a lewd act while watching porn at school'” in The Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5228959/Teacher-caught-watching-porn-killing-family.html (02/01/2018)  Catherine Devine, “'We are trying to cope with a tragedy beyond our understanding' – funeral if tragic Hawe family is told” in The Irish Independenthttps://www.independent.ie/irish-news/we-are-trying-to-cope-with-a-tragedy-beyond-our-understanding-funeral-of-tragic-hawe-family-is-told-35018898.html (02/09/2016)  “Murder-Suicide suspected after family of five found dead in house” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/irish-news/murdersuicide-suspected-after-family-of-five-found-dead-in-house-35004176.html (29/08/2016)  Nicola Anderson, “Silent shock and grief as beautiful family mourned ahead of funerals”, in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/silent-shock-and-grief-as-beautiful-family-mourned-ahead-of-funerals-35017907.html (03/09/2016)  Greg Harkin, “Family won't 'demonise' Alan as tragic Hawes to be laid to rest together” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/family-wont-demonise-alan-as-tragic-hawes-to-be-laid-to-rest-together-35012159.html (01/09/2016)  Deirdre Reynolds, “Tears of a community for grief that knows no bounds” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/tears-of-a-community-for-grief-that-knows-no-bounds-35015142.html (04/09/2016)  Ed Carty, “ Alan Hawe 'was troubled, depressed and severely mentally ill in the months before murder-suicide'” in IrishNews.com https://www.irishnews.com/news/republicofirelandnews/2017/12/19/news/alan-hawe-was-troubled-depressed-and-severely-mentally-ill-in-the-months-before-murder-suicide--1214775/ (19/12/2017)  Ed Carty, “Diagnosis of severe depressive illness does not ease our pain, say parents of Alan Hawe who killed wife Clodagh and their three sons” in IrishNews.com http://www.irishnews.com/news/republicofirelandnews/2017/12/19/news/diagnosis-of-depression-does-not-ease-our-pain-say-parents-of-alan-hawe-who-killed-wife-clodagh-and-their-three-sons-1214998/ (19/12/2017)

Sandra Murphy, also known as the Voice Mama, is a Denver-based voiceover artist who works on commercials, e-learning courses, and audio books. She reached out to me before my appearance at the Colorado Independent Publishers Association thing I did a couple of weeks ago and asked me if I’d featured voiceover work on the show....

Sandra Murphy, also known as the Voice Mama, is a Denver-based voiceover artist who works on commercials, e-learning courses, and audio books. She reached out to me before my appearance at the Colorado Independent Publishers Association thing I did a couple of weeks ago and asked me if I’d featured voiceover work on the show....

We talked with Sandra Murphy and Mary Ann Smith, authors of the book, Uncommonly Good Ideas: Teaching Writing in the Common Core Era (a co-publication of NWP and Teachers College Press), and high school English teacher Brendan Nelson about research-based best practices, including practices that ease students from one kind of writing (narrative) to another (argument).