Improving Education Today Podcast
Improving Education Today: The Deep Dive
A Bi-Monthly Podcast Hosted by:
Educators Davey Johnson & Angela Jones
We are proud of our partnership with popular AI Educators Davey Johnson and Angela Jones, the hosts of the Improving Education Today: The Deep Dive podcast.
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Twice per month, Davey and Angela summarize and analyze the “real world” implications of our Project ACHIEVE bi-monthly Blog messages, adding unique perspective and applications on their relevance to you and our mission to: Improve Education Today.
These Podcasts address such topics as: (a) Changing our Thinking in School Improvement; (b) How to Choose Effective School-Wide Programs and Practices; (c) Students’ Engagement, Behavioral Interactions, and Mental Health; and (d) Improving Multi-Tiered and Special Education Services.
Davey and Angela have already gone “into our vault” to create a Podcast Archive for all of our 2024 Blogs (Volume 2; see below), and the most important 2023 Blogs (Volume 1; see also below).
Through their up-to-the-minute process, they will continue to add a new Podcast each time a new Project ACHIEVE Blog is published.
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Davey Johnson and Angela Jones
Below are the Titles (with Links) to the Podcasts Now Available
Volume 3: 2025
Episode 2: January 25, 2025 Improving Classroom Management: Lessons from the Detroit Lions Surprising Playoff Loss
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Episode 1: January 11, 2025 While You Can Write a Student’s Individualized Education Plan. . . It (Legally) Needs to be Acceptable, Actionable, and Appropriate
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Volume 2: 2024
Episode 24: December 28, 2024 Education’s 2024 Year in Review: The Themes that Captured Our Time, Attention, Concern, and Consternation
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Episode 23: December 7, 2024 Improving Special Education Services for our Students: What the New Administration Must Do on this 20th Anniversary of IDEA 2004
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Episode 22: November 23, 2024 School Improvement Requires Changing Thinking, Not Just Changing Programs: The “Moneyball Thinking” Needed in Education
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Episode 21: November 9, 2024 Delegating Duties and Decisions in a Shared Leadership School: Avoiding Staff Reservations or Resentment
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Episode 20: October 19, 2024 Speed Counts When Making Successful Changes Across Your District or School—When to Go Slow and When to Go Fast
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Episode 19: October 5, 2024 Breaking Down the Wall Between General and Special Education Teachers in Our Schools: How Organizational Missteps Create Classroom Barriers
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Episode 18: September 21, 2024 Research Teases Out the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences. . . But Many Educators Still Don’t Understand Social-Emotional Screeners, and the Limitations of ACEs-Only Assessments
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Episode 17: September 7, 2024 How Fad or Flawed School Programs Increase Poor Teacher Morale and Resistance to Change: When Education Keeps Adopting the Same Shaky Stuff, It Will Keep Getting Repeated Rocky Results
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Episode 16: August 24, 2024 Students' Health, Mental Health, and Well-Being Worsens Over the Past 10 Years: Summary of the August 2024 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Report
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Episode 15: August 10, 2024 Will Your School “Win the Gold” for Your Students This Year? Why the U.S. Women’s Gold Medal Olympic Gymnastics Team is a Model for All Schools
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Episode 14: July 27, 2024 Are Schools Really Prepared to Address Educators’ Biggest Behavioral Student Concerns Right Now? “We’ve Got Serious Problems and We Need Serious People”
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Episode 13: July 13, 2024 The Seven Sure Solutions for Continuous Student and School Success: “If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, Any Road Will Get You There”
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Episode 12: June 22, 2024 Does Your School’s SEL Program Teach Social Skill Behaviors, or Just Talk About What Students “Should Do”? If We Taught Reading the Way We Teach SEL, None of Our Students Would Learn How to Read
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Episode 11: June 8, 2024 Revisiting Title IX’s Sexual Harassment Requirements While Avoiding Secondary Victimization: A Procedural Primer. Why Do Too Many Districts Not Know (or Abdicate) their Responsibilities?
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Episode 10: May 25, 2024 Increasing Student Engagement: The New School Year Begins Before this “Old” Year Ends. How to Prepare and What Needs to be Done
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Episode 9: May 11, 2024 When a School’s Multi-Tiered System of Supports Needs Support: How Do You Motivate Educators and Avoid Educational Malpractice?
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Episode 8: April 27, 2024 Social Media and the “Double-Edged” Sword of Damocles: Survival Rests on Humility, Self-Control, and the Principles of Public Relations
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Episode 7: April 13, 2024 Laundromats, Lawyers, Learning Loss, and Life: An Autobiographical Day in Education
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Episode 6: March 30, 2024 How Cognitive Biases Affect Student Perceptions and Educator Decisions: Making the Unconscious, Conscious and the Implicit, Explicit
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Episode 5: March 16, 2024 Helping Schools Pick and Implement the Best Evidence-Based Programs: Avoiding Mistakes, Best Practices, and Pilot Projects
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Episode 4: February 24, 2024 What Super Bowl Commercials Teach Education About Media and Product Literacy: The Language and Process that Helps Schools Vet New Products and Interventions
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Episode 3: February 10, 2024 Michigan Mother Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Her Son’s School Shooting: Should Schools Lean-In to Hold Parents More Accountable for their Children’s Behavior?
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Episode 2: January 27, 2024 Strategies for Safe, Productive Classroom Conversations on Race, Religion, and National/World Events: It’s Not If, It Should Be When
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Episode 1: January 13, 2024 While Grades May Be Meaningful, It’s Still About the Skills. “Resolving” to Recognize that Report Cards are Less Meaningful than Student Mastery
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Volume 1: 2023
Episode 14: December 30, 2023 A 2023 Review of Education’s Most (De)Pressing Issues: Productive Practices to Address the Pressure Points in Your District or School
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Episode 13: December 9, 2023 The Over-Simplification of Education: When Evidence-based Practices are Diluted, They No Longer are Evidence-Based
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Episode 12: November 25, 2023 Too Many Schools are Teaching Students to Control their Emotions. . . the Wrong Way! Because They Don’t Understand the Science, They Won’t Succeed in the Practice
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Episode 11: September 23, 2023 Twelve Critical Components for (Continuous) School, Staff, and Student Improvement: Motivation Cannot Compensate for a System with Systemic Deficits
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Episode 10: September 9, 2023 Seven Suggestions to Help Districts Avoid Special Education Hearings: A Short-Term Win May Be a Long-Term Loss
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Episode 9: August 26, 2023 Research Does Not Support Growth Mindset Strategies in the Classroom: How “Culturally Fluent Ideas” Influence Educators to Waste Time, Money, Resources, and Good Faith
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Episode 8: July 22, 2023 High School Skills versus Graduation: When School Policy Undermines Effective Practice
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Episode 7: July 8, 2023 Is the Restorative Discipline Bandwagon Rolling Back? Five Reasons Why Its Roll-Out Wasn’t Warranted in the First Place
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Episode 6: June 24, 2023 New Paths to Address Disproportionate Discipline with Black Students: New Directives, Research, Solutions, and Another Example of Racial Hate
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Episode 5: May 27, 2023 Ensuring that Post-Tenure Teachers Remain Actively Engaged as Collaborative Contributors in their Schools: Aligning the Seven Areas of Continuous School Improvement to Teacher Leadership and Advancement
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Episode 4: May 13, 2023 Maintaining Teacher Motivation and Effectiveness After Tenure: Accountability, Growth, Coaching, and Continuous Improvement
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Episode 3: April 29, 2023 Teacher Induction and “Tenure with Teeth”: Improving Hiring and Staffing in a Nation Where Teaching is At Risk
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Episode 2: April 8, 2023 Improving Hiring and Staffing in a Nation Where Teaching is At Risk: If Student Success Depends on Teachers, Why is the Selection Process so Simplistic?
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Episode 1: January 28, 2023 Why “Do” SEL If It Doesn’t Improve Student Behavior in the Classroom and Across the School: Focusing on Individual and Group Skills to Enhance Student Engagement and Cooperative Group Outcomes
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