The Out of the Trenches Podcast

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. 

Episode #341: Renes Lophanor

Renes Lophanor is a multilingual (speaks English, Haitian Creole, French, German, Spanish and Slovak) author and certified teacher (Spanish/French at secondary ages 11-18) with over two decades of experience in education. Has also taught music, drama, art. He is a musician and performs every weekend. He is the author of I Still Love Teaching Despite Having All The Reasons In The World To Quit: Observations Of The Education System. Find Renes online: https://reneslophanor.com/

https://www.facebook.com/bbwi.renes/         also on FB/IG        https://www.youtube.com/@renesbbwi - his music life

https://www.linkedin.com/in/renes-l-468a94/   

 

Episode #340: Mike Anderson

Mike Anderson has been an educator for many years. A classroom teacher for 15 years, he has also coached swim teams, worked in preschools, and taught university graduate-level classes. In 2004, Anderson was awarded a national Milken Educator Award, and in 2005, he was a finalist for New Hampshire Teacher of the Year. Now an independent education consultant, Anderson works with schools in rural, urban, and suburban settings across the United States and beyond. A bestselling author, he has written nine books about great teaching and learning. In 2020, Anderson was awarded the Outstanding Educational Leader Award by NHASCD for his work as a consultant. Find Mike online: Linkedin at   / mike-anderson-37953512  

X/Twitter at @balancedteacher www.leadinggreatlearning.com you can connect with the courses he’s developed Here's a link to his newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/leadinggreatlearning/back-to-school-reminders?e=5503dc48f7

Episode #339: Kass Minor

Kass Minor is the co-founder of The Minor Collective, which fosters sustainable equity in schools. Author of Teaching Fiercely: Spreading Joy & Justice in Our Schools (ASCD). Bio: Kass Minor is an inclusive educator and author who is deeply involved in local, inquiry-based teacher research and school community development.

She is the author of Teaching Fiercely: Spreading Joy and Justice in Our Schools and the co-founder and Chief Strategist of The Minor Collective, a community-based organization designed to foster sustainable equity and literacy in schools. While she has worked in numerous capacities in partnerships with universities and school districts, classroom teacher has been her most coveted role. Her pedagogy is centered in joy from the communities that surround her and motivated by the idea that every adult can teach, and every student can learn. Teacherhood, paired with motherhood, has driven her love of information sharing, redefining who gets to be a knower in the fiery world we live in today. Find Kass online: Purchase Teaching Fiercely: Spreading Joy and Justice in Our Schools on Amazon.

Follow her on X, IG @mskass1 @theminorcollectove Website: www.kassandcorn.com  She has a quarterly newsletter.

Episode #338: Dr. Mark Windschitl

Mark Windschitl is a professor of Science Teaching and Learning at the University of Washington. His research interests deal with the early career development of science teachers—in particular, their trajectories toward ambitious and equitable pedagogy. He is the lead author of Ambitious Science Teaching (Harvard Ed Press), along with Jessica Thompson and Melissa Braaten. His research has appeared in The American Educational Research Journal, Teachers College Record, Cognition and Instruction, Phi Delta Kappan, Science Education, and in white papers commissioned by the National Research Council and the National Academy of Science. He's been PI on multiple Noyce Teaching Scholars and Research grants and have supported teachers in that program in their transitions to urban schools. He has also administrated the Annenberg Fellowship program, known as the Rhodes Scholarships of Teaching— for teacher candidates at the UW. He's a recipient of the AERA Presidential Award for Best Review of Research, the co-author of the chapter on Science Teaching in the new AERA Handbook of Research on Teaching, and a member of the National Research Council Committee on Strengthening and Sustaining Teachers.

Find Mark online: companion website to book: www.climate-change-educator.org if you don’t have the book, resources are still there. It's an incredible source of information & data teachers can use to focus on. Also go to Mark Windschitl | UW College of Education

Episode #337: Steve Bollar

Steve Bollar, a.k.a. Stand Tall Steve, is an educational thought leader, former Superintendent of Schools, principal, author and a school culture and motivation expert. He is known for his quick wit, creative thought, and humorous personality.

Find Steve online: LinkedIN, FB, Tiktok, YouTube @standtallsteve IG @stevenbollar