Latest Edujedi Podcast Episodes
Devolution & Cascading Failure in Schools
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - June 09, 2022 20:29 - 19 minutesResearch sourced from multiple industries and the definition of both devolution and cascading failure are the topics of this podcast. The mass teacher shortages are mirrored in other industries, and some new data from the insurance actuaries are indicating part of the “why.” At the end, LeiLan...
Aftermath of the Pandemic for K12
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - June 06, 2022 19:22 - 24 minutesIn this podcast, LeiLani discusses the teacher shortage, what teachers were doing during the lockdowns, video conference call fatigue, the face of consumerized learning and the consumer awakening during. The perfect storm of these things plus the “short form versus long form” learning issue is d...
Practical ways to make literacy instruction more equitable
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - June 01, 2022 17:32 - 38 minutesIn this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Report, your Host LeiLani Cauthen speaks with Carrie Doom and Michele Pulver, both with Lexia Learning. With no holds barred, Cauthen lays it on the line, asking the team from Lexia, “Why is literacy at the heart of educational equity?” Accordi...
Towards Real Transformation
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - May 16, 2022 19:29 - 20 minutesIn this episode of the Learning Leadership Society Report, your Host LeiLani Cauthen speaks with Chris McMurray, the Learning Counsel’s new Chief Academic Officer. As the Learning Counsel begins direct engagements with schools and school districts, Chris McMurray will take the point and help guid...
Practical Examples of Classroom Equity in Language Instruction
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - April 13, 2022 14:57 - 28 minutesWhen entering our education system as an emergent bilingual, the nuances are everything. Especially if you have an eye towards equity. In this episode of The EduJedi Report, Host LeiLani Cauthen and her guest, Javier Ruiz, Education Content Specialist – English Language Development at Lexia Learn...
The Educational Epoch Change You Didn’t Know Happened
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - March 29, 2022 19:13 - 22 minutesAs we write our new epic and talk about the age of the Age of Knowledge and the Age of Technology, and then into the Age of Experience, we’ll see we used our knowledge in a scaffolded way to aim for the perfect life. In this episode, Host LeiLani Cauthen and Guest Tom Finn, President/CEO & Employ...
EduJedi Report Podcast: Heritage Relevant Digital Learning Design
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - December 01, 2021 00:05 - 32 minutesIn this episode of the EduJedi Report podcast, Host and Learning Counsel CEO LeiLani Cauthen talks with Kristie Shelley, Senior Director of Emergent Bilingual Curriculum at Lexia Learning about digital learning design that is heritage-relevant. Lexia English is a K-6 product that helps promo...
New Answers to Systemic Inequity of Language Learning
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - September 20, 2021 01:59 - 27 minutesAge-old instructional methods for language learning have had structures that predispose them to English-language only delivery models. New digital delivery mechanisms make way for learning scaffolding that is culturally responsive to empower educators to lead bi-lingual learners in systems with...
Getting Real about What Blended Learning Is and Isn't in the Classroom
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - August 27, 2021 21:39 - 30 minutesThe pandemic has taught us many things, one being there is a lot of confusion around what effective blended learning really looks like. What are some actionable strategies for integrating technology in the classroom and supporting blended learning? Listen as LeiLani talks with two pros, Alexis T...
Testing at a Crossroads: Assessment for Personalization vs Normalization
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - July 22, 2021 14:19 - 32 minutesThe COVID-19 pandemic has forced a lot of innovation in how testing and assessment is used to provide students and schools with starting places to identify and address unfinished learning. The most critical aspect is to go beyond trying to normalize all students for a teaching reset and use asse...
A Conversation about Hybrid Logistics
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - June 22, 2021 20:56 - 43 minutesLongtime friend and great intellect Drew Hinds, Executive Director of Technology Services from Huntington Beach City School District in California, discusses with LeiLani the idea of Hybrid Logistics as an answer to the huge disruption of how schools currently use time and space. The student re...
Four Surprises Post-Pandemic for Schools
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - June 16, 2021 20:02 - 22 minutesLeiLani Cauthen discusses what EduJedi are seeing for changes in expectations and what schools will need to do to overcome “hidden” frictions. She also brings up “infinity scale logic” versus binary logic and why it is important to be familiar with it to address cultural shifts in schools. List...
Becoming Human Using Assessment Data
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - May 17, 2021 21:27 - 33 minutesWhat if testing was more human centric and not so scary and indiscriminate? Listen to this discussion about bringing back meaning to assessments through new skills in data and logic that work even in distance learning scenarios. EduJedi LeiLani Cauthen interviews CEO Laura Slover and Joey Web,...
Lights, Camera, Action! What about on-camera Simultaneous Teaching
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - May 12, 2021 20:41 - 29 minutesEduJedi LeiLani Cauthen and Fred King from Cisco discuss the “why” of simultaneous teaching in a live classroom plus via video online feels a lot like going on stage. Behavior tends to change when cameras are panning, tilting, zooming, so a new Cisco solution modifies all that with a stationary...
Learning Recovery Starts with Seeing and Hearing A.I.
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - May 12, 2021 20:35 - 24 minutesSchools now have a big worry about lack of learning because students just can’t see or hear well, either because of masks and plexiglass everywhere on site or from a distance over video feeds. Guest Daniel Kleman and EduJedi LeiLani Cauthen discuss things like invisible sound bubbles that block...
Access and Engaging the Student
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - March 29, 2021 21:21 - 33 minutesDr. Lance Ford, Chief Technology Officer from Howe County Schools in Oklahoma shares their journey pivoting to digital, battling poor connectivity, and grappling with the reality of a new normal of expectations by students and parents. Innovative thinking from this smallish district shows what’s...
Secure your Investment, Manage Risk
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - March 19, 2021 14:59 - 23 minutesLet’s hear from a technical expert on K12 school security about the big picture on information security. LeiLani interviews Doug Walsten from Cisco who mentions both data-at-rest and data-in-motion with regards to school data, which most school and district leaders know is “everywhere” in their...
Become a Hybrid Learning Pro: Tips & Resources to Keep Students Engaged Anywhere
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - March 08, 2021 22:59 - 28 minutesThe transformation of learning where suddenly students and teachers are not physically together has driven widespread use of video conferencing. Screen fatigue complaints and disengagement were center stage early on, but certain folks like Suzanne Phillips rode in to show how to do it right. L...
New Digital Personalized Approaches to Equity
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - February 26, 2021 20:17 - 46 minutesSchools are bringing on professional grade digital curriculum and aiming at true personalization. LeiLani hosts Liz Brooke and Michele Eaton, Director of Virtual And Blended Learning from the M.S.D. of Wayne Township. This discussion about what software can do in schools reveals how leaders ar...
Esports Driving All Academic Achievement
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - February 02, 2021 23:04 - 37 minutesEsports is the new “hook” to keep students working in other subjects despite being remote or partially physically attending schools in some sort of hybrid schedule. LeiLani discusses the emerging ultra-significance of esports and gaming in K12 education with Dr. Miles Harvey, 8th Grade Video Ga...
Data Driven Return to Learning
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - January 18, 2021 17:23 - 52 minutesGiven the ongoing pandemic, schools, districts and whole States have been grappling with awkward school schedules, hybrid style environments, and mismatched achievement because student online attendance during the later part of Spring was so unpredictable. States have stepped in to measure both ...
Paying for the Giant Leap in K12
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - January 14, 2021 19:46 - 26 minutesThe nation made a giant leap forward into technology for K12 in 2020 and that transition continues, with some new twists. LeiLani hosts Renee Patton, Global Director of Education and Healthcare from Cisco’s Industry Solutions Group. With “so many newbies,” the new schools and districts since t...
Pushed into 1-to-1? What’s next for successful programs?
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - December 15, 2020 17:20 - 26 minutesLeiLani discusses with Justin Reilly, the CEO of Impero, a missing ingredient for managing the sudden mass deployments of devices by K12 schools. Student safety, but more importantly, the well-being of students socially and emotionally, has a new guardian with advanced mobile device management s...
Science Learning from Anywhere
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - November 12, 2020 18:49 - 23 minutesDo you want to be thoroughly impressed about cross-curricular STEM learning remotely? Anika Chebrolu, a 14-year-old, won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge and was named America’s Top Young Scientist of 2020. She found a molecule that can selectively bind to the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 vi...
Recovery from a Lost Year of Reading Achievement
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - November 09, 2020 16:40 - 38 minutesTens of thousands of school leaders are realizing they may have lost a year of progress with students. LeiLani discusses with Dr. Liz Brooke, Chief Learning Officer at Lexia and Felecia Evans, Principal at Lander Elementary School, Mayfield Heights, OH, what to do about realigning student learni...
Now is the Future of Teaching
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - October 12, 2020 23:44 - 26 minutesLeiLani discusses with guest, Marty Reed of RANDA Solutions, the mass attrition of teachers during this historic perfect storm of Covid-19. Educator frustrations with remote teaching, and a lack of elevation of the profession up to the digiverse has magnified the already crisis level issue of t...
Avatar A.I. Helping Hybrid Learning
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - October 05, 2020 19:35 - 24 minutesLeiLani and Lewis Johnson of Alelo discuss avatars used with artificial intelligence for asynchronous teaching and professional development. A technology that has been around for awhile in the corporate sector and military is now coming to the rescue in education to create engagement and effici...
Education Tech Chaos
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - September 29, 2020 16:33 - 27 minutesLeiLani Cauthen discusses the general education tech chaos with Tricia Kennedy, Exec Dir., Instructional Development and Support, Gwinnett County Public Schools in Atlanta, Georgia. Kennedy has been the leader for many years worth of preparedness to have a fully integrated learning ecosystem so...
The Lost Learning Year: Intelligent Recommendations
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - September 15, 2020 18:47 - 32 minutesLeiLani discusses recent findings by researchers Dr. John Bielinski and Dr. Kyle Wagner at Illuminate Education on the effect quarantines and remote learning have had on K-8 learning outcomes. Schools working through remote learning transitions have focused on engagement but the data indi...
A Story about PODS
Learning Counsel Report Podcast - August 12, 2020 21:10 - 25 minutesIn this EduJedi Report Podcast, LeiLani talks about PODS, the new trend in homeschooling-tied-to-schools. With the advent of the pandemic, a scenario she first talked about in her book, The Consumerization of Learning, is coming true. She reads a purely fictional account of a student’s journey...
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