Educviii With Dr. Jefferson

EDUCVIII with Dr. Jefferson is the talk show that makes the connections between research, policies, and practitioners that are too often missing from the American education system.

K-12 Education

Update frequency: every 4 days
Episodes: 71
Years Active: 2014 - 2015

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Final Exam-Educviii: Final Exam

From Common Core to Singapore Math, robotics to creative writing, student athletes, ADHD and many other topics, we've covered a lot of ground on this program over the past 14 months. Dr. Jefferson …

Wed 04 Mar 2015

Improving Schools-Educviii: Author Karin Chenoweth

Karin Chenoweth is author of How It's Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools , which examines in detail how eight high-poverty and high-minority schools have achieved academic success. It…

Wed 18 Feb 2015

Improving Schools-Educviii: Dr. Deborah Brennan

Dr. Brennan is an experienced educator & advocate for quality education for all students. She is passionate about equity in education both for students of poverty and gifted students. She has two M…

Wed 18 Feb 2015

African American Literature and Education-African American Education: Dr. Darius D. Prier

Darius Prier is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership, School of Education, Duquesne University. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership…

Wed 04 Feb 2015

African American Literature and Education-African American Literature: Janet Cheatham Bell

Janet Cheatham Bell is a writer, editor and independent scholar, who has pursued her dream of creating and publishing books since 1986. Her first title Famous Black Quotations and some not so famous …

Wed 04 Feb 2015

The Political Classroom-Educviii: Adeola Tella-Williams

Adeola Tella-Williams has been teaching for over 15 years. She began teaching in East New York (Brooklyn); left Brooklyn and taught in Japan for one semester. Upon returning to the states, she land…

Wed 21 Jan 2015

The Political Classroom-Educviii: Dr. Paula McAvoy

Dr. Paula McAvoy is co-author of The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education. She is an Associate Program Officer at the Spencer Foundation. She earned her doctorate in philo…

Wed 21 Jan 2015

The Exploratorium-Educviii: Mike Petrich of the Exploratorium

Creativity is the type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. This is one of the philosophies that the Exploratorium was built on. Mike Petrich, Director of …

Wed 07 Jan 2015

STEM-Educviii: Gary Hoachlander

Mr. Hoachlander is President of ConnectEd California, which provides students and teachers with an online forum where they can access integrated curriculum units, media tools, and industry profession…

Thu 18 Dec 2014

STEM-Educviii: Arthur Registre

Mr. Registre is Director of Science for the Uniondale school district in New York. He discusses the importance of teaching science, and why STEM based education should be a priority in public schools…

Thu 18 Dec 2014

The Importance of Movement-Educvii: Wendy L. Ostroff

Wendy Ostroff has been developing curriculum on children's learning for the past 15 years in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University; in the Department of Education and Chil…

Wed 10 Dec 2014

The Importance of Movement-Educvii: Linnea Lyding

Dr. Linnea J. Lyding is an assistant professor and the interim department chair of the Education Department at Arizona Christian University (ACU). Based on her knowledge of the complexity of classro…

Wed 10 Dec 2014

Challenges First Year Principals Face-Educvii: Jennifer Bumford

Ms. Bumford is an experienced principal who has taken on the challenge of a new school in a neighboring district. She will discuss how she is adapting to her new situation.

Thu 20 Nov 2014

Challenges First Year Principals Face-Educvii: Bryan Bruno

Bryan Bruno has been an educator for eighteen years; thirteen as a teacher, four as an assistant principal, and now principal of the California Avenue School in Uniondale, New York. He will discuss …

Thu 20 Nov 2014

Instruction That Works-Educviii: Instruction that Works

Dr. Jefferson discusses two articles highlighting instruction that works: Strategies that Make Learning Last by Daniel T. Willingham, and Reading Rules, What Not to Do by Richard L. Allington

Wed 05 Nov 2014

Instruction That Works-Educviii: Dr. Henry L. Roediger II

Henry L. Roediger, III (nicknamed Roddy) is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He graduated with a B.A in Psychology from Washington & L…

Wed 05 Nov 2014

Family and Community Involvement-Educviii: Angela Zimmerman on Family Involvement

For more than 30 years, Angela Zimmerman has been a champion for youth, family and community development. From early learning and education to community group homes to juvenile detention to local non…

Tue 21 Oct 2014

The Safe Passage Project-Educviii: Safe Passage Project

A legal group is training hundreds of pro-bono attorneys to help undocumented kids from Central America. Our guest is Claire Thomas, the staff attorney for the Safe Passage Project, which is traini…

Wed 15 Oct 2014

The Safe Passage Project-Educviii: School Health Update with Sylvia Kallich, RN.

Flu season is here, and we also have the threat of Enterovirus. Sylvia explains how illnesses can spread through schools and what you can do to keep your children healthy.