The Out of the Trenches Podcast

Episode #271: AJ Crabhill

AJ Crabill serves as Governance Director at Director of Governance, Council of the Great City Schools (national membership organization of the largest urban school districts) Conservator, DeSoto ISD (small school district on the south side of Dallas). aj works nationwide to focus school boards on student outcomes governance. His book, Great On Their Behalf, published in March, discusses this. He also provides support to schools implementing Student Led Restorative Practices. He supports districts when a school is having challenging w/ its governance.

Find AJ online at www.Greatontheirbehalf.com Twitter, FB, IG: @ajcrabill https://www.ajc7.com/2017/07/bio.html- site with school board related links

Episode #270: Beth Napleton

Chicago-based Beth Napleton is an executive leadership coach, consultant and the owner and founder of Beth Napleton Consulting. She offers senior leaders in education and at mission-driven organizations a clear path to excellence through individual, executive and group coaching experiences. Additionally, she offers busy leaders a container and her expertise so they can expand their capacity in all areas. Beth leverages her extensive experience in education to work with senior leaders in education and mission-driven organizations to help them clear out the “adult problems” that get in the way of student success. Beth is a national award-winning teacher and has been in the education field for over 20 years. She served as Founder and CEO of a small charter school network on the South Side of Chicago that opened in 2013. She is a solo parent who lives in Chicago with her three amazing kids.

Find Beth online: 

Website: www.bethnapleton.com www.leadership.quiz.com also directs to her website.

Social media links: Instagram- @beth.napleton

Facebook- @bethnapletonconsulting

LinkedIn @bethnapleton

Episode #269: Grace Stevens

A former corporate girl, Grace quit VP life to pursue her dream job as a public school teacher. After 20 years in the classroom, she now focuses full-time on helping educators have a more positive teaching experience. Grace combines her signature mantra, "Your energy teaches more than your lesson plans," with two decades of study in behavioral therapy, positive psychology, and NLP to create science-based habits for overwhelmed educators. She has authored three books on teaching including the best-selling Positive Mindset Habits for Teachers and also the One New Habit book series. In addition to being an elementary school teacher for 20 years, she is the author of the popular book Positive Mindset Habits for Teachers.

You can learn more about her on-line courses and coaching at www.GraceStevens.com

Episode #268: Katie Trowbridge

Katie Trowbridge has over two decades of experience as a teacher and mentor. She is President and CEO of Curiosity 2 CREATE, a nonprofit organization focused on helping educators incorporate creative and critical thinking strategies into their existing curricula and build creative classroom environments. Katie is also co-founder of the Creative Thinking Network, an online network to assist teachers in adding creative thinking into their curriculum. Katie has won several Teacher of Excellence and Outstanding Educator awards, has a Master’s in Teaching and a Master’s in Education Administration, and is pursuing her ED.D at Northeastern University in Boston. She currently travels around the nation, speaking at conferences and training educators.

Find Katie online: @thecreativethinking network (has info from experts, lesson plans, etc) Curiosity2create hosts workshops. https://curiosity2create.org and www.creativethinkingnet.com/

Episode #267: Nicole S. Brown

Nicole S. Brown is the author of School Days, Holidays, and All Days That Lie Between, More School Days, Holidays,and All Days That Lie Between, Many More School Days, Holidays,and All Days That Lie Between, Who Do You Love? Love Story in Poetry, Who Do You Love? Love Story in Poetry (clean cut), God's Calling You to Live a Life That's True, All About Slime, All About Slime (clean cut), Trials of a Northeast Louisiana Child, The School of Hard Knocks, Life Support, and The Refusal to Return to Slime, Are You Still in Love With Who?, The Diminishing of Slime, and Wet Dreams.

Nicole is a native of Monroe, LA. Nicole is a Louisiana, Tennessee, Missouri, and Mississippi-certified, K-12 teacher who holds certifications in the following subject areas: Chemistry, Physics, General Science, Music, and Reading. She holds a B.S., in Chemistry Education from the University of Louisiana-Monroe, a MEd in Reading Education from Alcorn State University, and an EdS in Educational Leadership from Delta State University.

Find Nicole online: https://www.facebook.com/outstandingauthornicolesbrown

Facebook Fanpage https://www.facebook.com/authornicole.brown

Personal Facebook https://www.tiktok.com/@authornicolesbrown

TikTok https://www.instagram.com/authornicolesbrown

Instagram https://www.tumblr.com/authornicolesbrown

Tumblr https://twitter.com/NikkisSecret

Twitter https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4066097.Nicole_S_Brown

Good Reads https://www.youtube.com/@NikkisSecret/Videos YouTube authornicolesbrown.yolasite.com etsy.com/shop/PoetryatBest w/ all her books and swag https://www.amazon.com/Nicole-S-Brown/e/B005Z51AK4%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

 

Episode #266: Kyle Hill

Kyle Hill is a District Special Education Resource Lead/Founder of RechargED Family. He is an award winning educator who has worked in special education for 25 years in the state of Delaware. His first 20 years teaching was as a special education teacher in an elementary school, but since, he has been working as a district-wide Resource Lead, in an attempt to help teachers and paraeducators support all the students within their diverse classrooms. His role involves academic and behavioral support, overseeing first year teacher mentor programs, and leading all special education intervention curriculum programs for the entire school district.

Find Kyle online: Twitter: https://twitter.com/rechargedfamily

IG: https://www.instagram.com/rechargedfamily

FB: https://www.facebook.com/kylehillcr/

Website: https://www.rechargedfamily.com/

 

Episode #265:Natalie Vardabasso

Natalie is an Education Consultant, Speaker, Podcast Host who has served as a high school and middle school teacher, instructional coach, and assessment lead in a K-12 context where she lead her community through assessment and grading transformation. Her mission is to reimagine education through a liberating praxis and she is currently doing that as a full-time consultant, host of the #EduCrush podcast and by founding a program called the Empowerment Ecosystem that helps the “middle children” of education to step into their power as visionary catalysts.

Find Natalie online on Twitter: @natabasso IG: @natabasso

Website: www.solutiontree.com

Episode #264: Bobby Pollicino

Bobby Pollicino is the Head of Upper School at Bullis School in Potomac, MD. He has served as a school administrator for over 15 years, also in dean of students and assistant principal roles. He has taught high school courses in science, leadership, and public speaking while also serving as a varsity assistant soccer coach and varsity head lacrosse coach. Bobby’s academic leadership career is grounded in a healthy interest in leadership which has led to conferences with Stanley King Institute, Garnder, Carney Leadership Institute, and a fellowship with Leadership+Design. Bobby has presented for local and national organizations on topics including meeting culture, digital wellness and hiring practices. A native of Upstate New York, Bobby attributes many of his life lessons to observing the work ethic and commitment of his parents and older brother. He played high school and college lacrosse, winning a National Championship at the collegiate level. He has used many leadership lessons passed on from his high school and college coaches. When not working or studying leadership, he spends time with his wife and three children. He has coached all three in various youth sports over the years. Bobby also enjoys running and cycling as well as training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. He strives to be a better husband, father, leader, and person every day. A graduate of Washington College and William and Mary. Bobby lives with his family in Poolesville, MD.

Find Bobby online: https://bobbypollicino.com/ 

 Twitter, LinkedIn: @bobbypollicino

 

 

Episode#263: Jason Reagin

Jason Reagin is the host of Design Cast, MYP Coordinator and MS Curriculum Coach who has been in education for 25 years; 19 years of which have been in IB schools. The majority of my career has been overseas in international schools. It is this international experience that has sparked his excitement in curriculum implementation & leadership. With a passion for curriculum it is no surprise that his ultimate goal is to further his experience in curriculum and instructional development within international schools.

Find Jason online: https://twitter.com/diskon4no Twitter @designcast

IG: @discon4no FB: https://www.facebook.com/WJasonReagin

Website: https://zaap.bio/diskon4no

Episode # 262: Elijah Carbajal

Elijah Carbajal is a teacher who followed in the footsteps of teachers in his family. He has served as an educator in the state of New Mexico since 2014 and is currently a Title I Reading Interventionist. He is the author of the book A Place They Love and the host of The Shut Up and Teach Podcast. Elijah works hard to make school and his classroom a place that students love! He loves to spend time with his wife, Tracey (an educator, artist and entrepreneur) and his cat, Nala.

Find Elijah online: www.shutupandteachedu.com for links to his podcast, to book him for speaking- he has merch connected to both podcasts. Twitter, IG, TicTok @carbaeli @elijahcarbal on Fb