The Out of the Trenches Podcast

Episode #350: Dr. Jim Marshall

Dr. Jim Marshall author of Right from the Start: The Essential Guide to Implementing School Initiatives Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University, where he serves as the Senior Director for the Ed.D. program in PK-12 School Leadership. Dr. James Marshall’s life-long work lies at the intersection of people and the organizations in which they work—and optimizing the synergy that fertile convergence holds. His scholarship, teaching, and consulting combine our understanding of human performance and organization development to assess strengths, devise strategy, and improve even the most vexing of challenges. Engagements have found him evaluating virtual reality-delivered training for active shooter containment, to devising strategy that improved the community-focused impacts realized by the national network of over 150 public television stations. His book, Right from the Start: The Essential Guide to Implementing School Initiatives, summarizes lessons learned through evaluation of hundreds of programs in both the public and private sectors. It was released in 2023. His book, Fixing Education Initiatives in Crisis: 24 go-to strategies, came out in 2024.

Find Jim online on LinkedIn & via his website: www.jamesmmarshall.com

Episode #349: Dr. Chris Culver

Dr. Christopher Culver is a proud product of Oklahoma education and has served educational communities since 2013 as a classroom teacher, secondary principal, and most recently as a cabinet-level administrator. Dr. Culver is a product of a divorced family and split time between Tulsa & Wyandotte, OK and Fayetteville, NC during his childhood. Currently, Dr. Culver serves as a consultant with expertise in kindness, culture and understanding Gen Z/Gen A, and as an adjunct professor at Oklahoma City University, teaching future teachers and leaders. He is well known for his high-energy, passionate, engaging, and motivational professional development. Participants call him “engaging, charismatic, dynamic, and enthusiastic.” He has his pulse on today’s generation. He is focused on spreading kindness, improving mindset, cultivating culture, and educating about Gen Z/A.

Find Chris online: www.orangesparrow.org • christopher@orangepsparrow.org Follow Chris on social media | @DrChrisCulver X, FB, IG, Tik Tok

Episode #348a: Dr. Laurie Barron

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Dr. Laurie Barron is the superintendent of the Evergreen School District in Kalispell, Montana, and was named 2021 Montana Superintendent of the Year. She has been a high school English teacher and coach, a middle school assistant principal, a middle school principal, and a part-time assistant professor. A National Board–certified teacher, she was 2012 Georgia Principal of the Year and 2013 MetLife/NASSP National Middle Level Principal of the Year. Barron is a coauthor of the books What Parents Need to Know About Common Core and Other College-and Career-Ready Standards and Middle School: A Place to Belong and Become and has authored numerous articles. She is also a speaker who provides motivation and professional learning to teachers and administrators throughout the United States.

Find Laurie online: https://www.evergreensd50.com/page/superintendents-office

Episode #348: Dr. Debbie Zacarian

Dr. Debbie Zacarian is known for her expertise in strengths-based leadership, policy analysis, instructional practices, and partnerships with culturally and linguistically diverse student and family populations. With over three decades of combined experience as a district administrator, university faculty member, and educational service agency leader, she founded Zacarian & Associates and has been providing consulting and professional development throughout the United States.

She has written many books (including top- and best-selling) and more than 100 journal articles as well as district and state policies focused on leadership, strategic planning and analysis, and instructional practices with diverse learners- including multilingual learners and students living with adversity.

Find Debbie online: www.zacarianconsulting.com

Episode #346: Joe Davis

Joe Davis is the author of The Generous Leader: 7 Ways to Give of Yourself for Everyone’s Gain. Joe is a Managing Director and Senior Partner at the Boston Consulting Group. He is a former Head of BCG in North America and member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He oversaw BCG’s operations in the US, Canada and Mexico and was recognized as one of the Top 25 Consultants of the year in 2011. He has 4 children and 8 grandchildren. Board chair of the Center for Inclusion and Equity.

Find Joe online? www.JoeDavis.com  LinkedIn, FB @JoeDavis

Episode #346: Debra Armstrong

Debra Armstrong is an Educator, Trainer, and Coach (ETC) dedicated to guiding professionals and small business owners on their journeys to achieve professional growth and business success. With years of experience, she has honed the art of personalized coaching, offering tailored solutions that fit her clients' unique needs, goals, and personalities.

Find Debra online: www.nexxtlevelcareers.com LinkedIn: @debraarmstrong

Episode #345: Dr. Rick Hess

Rick Hess is a scholar, author, and educator. Pens “Rick Hess Straight Up” for Education Week and “Old School with Rick Hess” for Education Next. Senior contributor to Forbes, executive editor of Education Next, contributing editor to National Review, and author of books including A Search for Common Ground and The Great School Rethink. Dr. Hess started his career as a high school social studies teacher. He has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, Rice University, Johns Hopkins University, and Harvard University. He is also the senior founding fellow of the Public Education Foundation’s Leadership Institute of Nevada.

Find Rick online: Twitter/X: @rickhess99

Website: https://www.aei.org/profile/frederick-m-hess/

Read Rick's weekly policy brief via his profile page.

Episode #344: Rob Owen

For over 20 years as a school principal, educator, author, and coach, Rob Owen has seen the deep impact that stress and burnout have on teachers. After a life-changing car accident at 17, Rob found healing through  Tai Chi and Qigong, practices that became central to both his personal and professional life. Now, he shares these mindful practices through Move 2 Focus, helping educators and students—especially those with ADHD and anxiety—find calm, focus, and emotional balance in the classroom and beyond.

Find Rob online:  https://www.instagram.com/move_2_focus/   https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertowen2019/   

https://move2focus.com/

https://teacherstress.coach/

This link will direct listeners to a teacher stress test (10 questions) and 3-day mini course that will offer free lessons in Tai Chi and Qigong for the classroom - for both teacher and students.

Episode #343: Dr. Shelby Kretz

 Dr. Shelby Kretz is the creator of Little Justice Leaders, an organization that provides social justice education resources for educators and families. Shelby earned her Ph.D. in Education from UCLA, and her research explores social justice education at the elementary school level. Over the past decade, Shelby has worked with thousands of parents, teachers, and school leaders to bring social justice education to elementary aged kids.

Find Shelby online:

Get her free guide for talking to kids about difficult current events! https://view.flodesk.com/pages/621d377d78ab99224ea6dddc

https://littlejusticeleaders.com/

https://www.facebook.com/littlejusticeleaders

https://twitter.com/justiceleaders

https://www.pinterest.com/littlejusticeleaders/

https://youtube.com/@littlejusticeleaders

https://www.instagram.com/littlejusticeleaders/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/34228617/admin/feed/posts/

https://tiktok.com/@littlejusticeleaders

Episode #342: Scotty Aemis

Scotty Aemis is passionate about helping parents navigate childhood trauma. After he and his wife adopted two children, they found themselves learning everything they could about helping their children thrive. Everything that felt instinctively “right” was actually not helpful for children trying to heal from trauma. That set him on a journey to develop his PSR (Positive Safe Relationships) Approach toparenting. It’s helpful for all children and parents, but especially those navigating childhood trauma. Find Scotty online:

He has a number of free resources on his website, a free Facebook Group, and a bestselling book available. Lakeside collaborative he works for offers training.

Find Scotty online:

https://www.childtraumasherpa.com/

https://www.instagram.com/childtraumasherpa/

https://www.facebook.com/childtraumasherpa

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1002238933611804

He has a number of free resources on his website, a free Facebook Group, and a bestselling book available. Lakeside collaborative he works for offers training.