Dr. Leslie Shelton, long-time advocate for adult literacy students, shares her history and important information related to the needs of all students. She highlights the importance of working with students from their strengths vs. deficits; the seven intelligences, and her findings as they relate to the role that emotions play in learning. In this interview, [...]
BB Alexander, Founder of the North County (San Diego) Hispanic Chamber of Commerce invites us to the Business Expansion Symposium, they are presenting on September 17th, 2019. Featured speakers will discuss "Upcoming Trends in Global Expansion". We are joined by Featured Speakers Michele Nash-Hoff and John Osborn. Learn more at www.InBizLatino.org
We are happy to present four interview segments for our listeners, starring Richard Lederer, author, speaker, historian, humorist, literacy advocate, and teacher. He is best known for his books on the English language and on word play: puns, oxymorons, and anagrams. He refers to himself as "the Wizard of Idiom," "Attila the Pun," and "Conan [...]
Part 1 We were joined by Dr. Gina Potter, Superintendent, San Ysidro School District, and Francisco Mata, Coordinator, Public Relations & Community Services for the district. They spoke about the exciting future of the district, described it's challenges, and shared information about interventions and partnerships that are producing results. San Ysidro is a community that [...]
Dr. Maria Murray, CEO, President, and Founder of The Reading League dedicates a full-hour to speaking about The Reading League and its mission of advancing the awareness, understanding, and use of evidence-based literacy instruction for instructors. Membership in The Reading League is growing, and is benefiting teachers who aim to provide effective reading instruction to [...]
We are joined by Chad Stewart, author of Britfield & The Lost Crown, who talked to us about his book series, the writing process, and why his books are popular with junior high and school students, teachers, and administrators. Scott Sibley, Executive Director, Journeys Maps, talked to us about overcoming "workplace disruption", and being aware [...]
Our first guest was Richard Dominguez, Executive Director of Literacy Chicago. Richard spoke about the literacy services that his organization provides to adults in the Chicago area. In addition to giving students the opportunity to gain reading skills and learn English, Literacy Chicago also prepares students for employment. Our second guests were Sierra Visher Kroha, [...]
Part 1: Ditch your smartphone? Labcorp Data Breach, Apple's fancy new stand, Trying to lower cable bill? Google outage effects iOT, Windows update, Part 2: Review: PaMu Slide earphones, iPhone privacy settings, Phantom power and measuring draw, Father's Day tech gifts, TV shows returning
Dr. Ann Gladys, author of The Invisible Leader, talks about changes, made possible by technology, that will result in more workers not working from an office, but from other locations, or from home. This change affects leadership and the way that for-profit and nonprofit organizations will be operated, more and more, in the future. We [...]
