This episode features Kiera Beddes, one of our Teacher Ambassadors and a secondary English and history teacher at Juab School District in central Utah. Take a listen and see how her micro-credential journey provided the teacher community she needed to take her practice to the next level.

Kiera Beddes

Ask an Educator - S1:E6 Building a Teacher Community with Micro-credentials

This episode features Cate Tolnai, academic technology specialist for Santa Clara County Office of Education in California. Take a listen as she describes how micro-credentials are helping improve her district’s culture of validated learning and educator recognition.

Cate Tolnai

Ask an Educator - S1:E7 Building a Culture of Validated Learning with Micro-credentials

In this episode, our season 1 finale, I chat with Jennifer Vandivier, a science teacher at Collinwood High School in Tennessee and discover how micro-credentials, helped her build a community of “learning risk-taking” with her students.

Ask an Educator S1:E8 - Micro-credentials and Learning Risks for Teacher Growth

The Great Thanksgiving Listen - Karen Cator and Dr. Linda Roberts

In this episode, I chat with Brian Koster, an Algebra teacher at Florida Virtual School. Take a listen and learn how the Growth Mindset micro-credential is supporting him develop the skills of perseverance and initiative in his students to tackle secondary math in a virtual classroom.

Season 2

Deepening Student Perseverance with Micro-credentials

In this episode, I chat with Rachel Heaton,  an English Language Arts teacher at Robinson Middle in Kingsport City, TN. Take a listen and discover how the Crafting Driving Questions micro-credential helped her recognize strengths she had not noticed in her struggling students.

Ask an Educator

Micro-credentials Unlocking Student Strengths

In this episode, I chat with Gwen Szymczak, an English Language Arts teacher at FDR Middle in Bristol Township, PA. Take a listen and discover how the SAMR-modification micro-credential is helping her develop a sense of academic ownership in her students.

Student Empowerment in the ELA Classroom through Micro-credentials

In this episode, I chat with Angie Milliren, a music and multimedia educator at Elizabeth Forward High School in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania. Take a listen and discover how the Analyzing Media Impacts micro-credential helped her support her students develop the skill of creative problem-solving and take ownership of real-world projects.

Unleashing Student Ownership in the Classroom through Micro-credentials

In this episode, I chat with Aneka Stewart, a special education reading teacher at West Education Campus in Washington, DC. Take a listen and discover how the Executive Functioning micro-credential helped her deepen her engagement with students who are dealing with various stressors outside school.

Supporting Students Navigating Trauma with Micro-credentials

In this episode, I chat with Dana Siegel, an elementary ESL teacher in Collierville, TN. Take a listen and discover how the Idea Generating micro-credential helped her push her practice past surface-level engagement with her ESL students to support their creativity in grappling with new content. Here we go –

Empowering ESL Students through Micro-credentials

In this episode, I chat with Tisha Greek, a 3rd-grade teacher in Seminole County, Florida. Take a listen and discover how the Creating Flexible Learning Environments micro-credential helped her support her students take ownership of their learning throughout the classroom.

Empowering the Elementary Learner through Micro-credentials

In this episode, I chat with Marc Walls, a secondary science teacher in Clarksville, TN. Take a listen and discover how his micro-credential experience helped him hone his data and assessment skills to help all his students, regardless of learning style, grow and engage meaningfully in the classroom.

Leading Dynamic, Data-informed Teaching with Micro-credentials

An interview excerpt with Phil Hintz, Director of Technology for the ‎Gurnee School District 56 in Illinois, on data interoperability.

Digging Into Data Interoperability: Phil Hintz

An interview excerpt with Megan Cicconi, the Executive Director of Instructional and Innovative Leadership at the Fox Chapel Area School District in Pittsburgh, on data interoperability.

Digging into Data Interoperability: Megan Cicconi

An interview excerpt with Matthew Gaven, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, & Technology in Mineola Public School District in Long Island, New York, on data interoperability.

Digging into Data Interoperability: Matthew Gaven

Digging into Data Interoperability: Phil Hintz

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