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DissectEd
by Michaela Keegan Jedele
On the DissectEd podcast, we discuss various topics in education and drill down, or dissect them, so that the audience can have a better understanding of the topic/issue. Each week, we will talk with expert teachers, administrators and students to get their take on what's important and what's needed currently and looking ahead in the field of education. Whether you're an educator, leader or someone simply interested in education, this podcast is for you!
Episodes
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Why it's important to follow the path meant for you instead of the path others expect you to follow
I just took a new position as Assistant Principal at Central High School in Providence, RI. You might be wondering, "But Michaela, I thought you were teaching? Wait, weren't you a principal at one point? Don't you run your own business now? I can't keep up!" Two positions have made my heart...
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How to create your ideal classroom culture with our teacher panel
When it comes to professional development, most (if not all) learning is best done educator to educator. Our 5 panelists are teachers from around the country (and Canada!), and they each share their authentic approach to building a strong classroom culture that keeps them and their students...
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Season 4 Ep 4: How Feeling Connected to Your Students Makes Teaching Joyful with Vanessa Drew
If connecting with students comes easily to you, you probably understand how those connections can be what gets you through stressful days and how fun teaching can be. If connecting and building relationships with students is challenging for you, I encourage you to listen to what Vanessa Drew…
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Helping Teachers Become Burned-IN instead of Burnt-OUT with teacher burnout coach Amber Harper
Amber is a full-time Kindergarten teacher and Teacher Burnout Coach. After struggling with burnout for most of her teaching career, in 2016 Amber created Burned-In Teacher. Using her podcast, book, and online course and community, she coaches teachers through her 8 step BURNED-IN process to help...
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Shutting our doors and doing what's best for students with Chad Pettit
Spend some time with Chat Pettit, and you'll understand why he's one of America's favorite TikTok Teachers. I met Chad on TikTok (you know, my new favorite place to hang out), and I was immediately drawn to his genuine take on the teaching profession, mental health and, of course, his humor. The...
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Create the Year YOU Want to Teach Next Year: DissectEd Summer Series
Wow! What a crazy couple of years for educators! Phew...almost everyone is out and can relax, reflect and get ready to have a fantastic next school year! Our summer series is focused on how to create the teaching year YOU want. To attend our free, live, virtual summer event "Self-Taught: How to...
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Uvalde, TX: One Week Later
This week's episode features commentary by yours truly. The approach to this episode is intentional. It's not a fiery, explosive commentary on all the things that went wrong. Rather, I use the experiences I've had as a teacher, assistant principal and principal to talk about what we need to...
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Body positivity, getting healthy and supporting our students and ourselves on the heels of the pandemic with former teacher turned wellness coach Stephanie Lueras
I talk with Stephanie Lueras about the challenges we watched our students grapple with this past school year, especially around knowing what is expected in school and some of the underlying causes of those challenges. I love how she said that we have a generation of students who are going to…
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Psychological Safety: Your team can't function (well) without it - and what that means for education with Ron Reich
It crushed me to arrive at the realization that I needed to leave my first role as principal after only 4 years. It wasn't until recently that I realized that what would have kept me in it would have been a work environment that was psychologically safe for me. Ron Reich joins us to talk about…
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Reducing Stress and Anxiety through EFT Tapping with Lauren Fonvielle
As an expert in the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)/ Tapping, Lauren offers a fresh perspective on what is keeping people feeling stuck both physically (with chronic pain) and emotionally stuck. Our underlying beliefs and emotions—whether or not we're aware of them—can affect our happiness in...
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Teachers: You ARE Enough, with Daryl Williams
Have you ever had a school year when you questioned whether or not you should continue teaching? Oh, this year? lol... It's true that there are a lot of teachers who are challenged more this year than ever before, and it's also true that there are some teachers who are thriving or who have...
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Teachers on Tik Tok: Leaders in Professional Development? A conversation with high school science teacher Tim Cifelli-Volmer on using the social media app to help (and entertain) other teachers.
Veteran teacher Tim Cifelli-Volmer (or @astroruhroh on TikTok) talks about what brought him into education and what has kept him joyful and motivated. He shares that comedic sarcasm, for him, has served as his most effective classroom management tool and shares advice for teachers who may be...
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Bonus Episode: How you can help Ukraine with Alisa Kay, Ukrainian-born entrepreneur
Alisa Kay is from Ukraine. While she, along with most of her family members live in England, most of her immediate family members happened to be in Ukraine the day the Russian invasion began. Alisa, who I met in our digital entrepreneur mentoring program, acted quickly by starting a fundraiser so...
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Season 2 Recap: The Leadership Required to Make it Through the Crisis in Education
Season 1, which began in July 2021, focused on what teachers can do to keep themselves from burning out and by October, it was clear that teachers could not manage this alone. And while this has always been true and while good leadership has always been important, the last two years have shown us...
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Leadership During Times of Crisis with Glenn Parker
4 Types of Positive Influence Leaders Supportive - You can do it Teacher - identifies and brings out your strengths Motivating - helps you find your true north, your purpose Role Model - Provides an example, “Oh, this is how you’re supposed to act” Walk the talk Back of the book - self assessment...
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Principals Teaching Classes: I weigh in
An article published in Education Week about teachers pushing for principals and other administrators to spend time teaching classes is circulating again, and as more and more articles are also going around about the stress of these pandemic school years on school leaders, I give my perspective.…
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The typical DEI and antiracism trainings aren’t working: Here’s what we need instead with Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis
“We all make mistakes, and we all learn.” This is the mindset we need to stay in in order to be the educators and leaders we need to be to make true systemic and equitable change. Dr. Dennis explains what is meant by the phrase “power majority” and why that’s the lens we need to use to determine...
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Positive Influence Leadership with Glenn and Michael Parker
Do you think that outstanding leaders only come out of fancy, expensive Ivy League School programs? Think again. While this is something I’ve known for over 25 years, Glenn and Michael Parker, a father-son duo who have had successful careers in leading highly successful companies and have…
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Pause and Reflect: The importance of community and making sure our adults feel supported, valued, needed and connected
A healthy school community or culture is one where ALL people in that community feel supported, valued, needed, challenged, connected and effective. Today, I am going to focus on the adults in our school communities and how to make sure they feel supported, valued, needed, and connected. These…
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Season 2 Episode 12: The 3 Reasons Students Misbehave (and our role as educators) with Dr. Rick Chromey
On today’s episode, Dr. Rick Chromey explains that students misbehave for three reasons: Belonging Boredom Beliefs And he gives a spectacular apology about being proactive versus reactive when it comes to classroom management and students. He’s engaging, he’s spot on, and he has an incredible...
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How to address conflict in the workplace with conflict resolution coach Jerry Fu
As educators, we are pretty good at handling conflict between students, but what happens when we experience conflict with other adults? That’s a lot more challenging. Luckily, we have conflict resolution coach Jerry Fu with us today to give us tips on how to handle conflict in the workplace.…
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Do business and emotions mix? Heck, yeah! Bringing humanity back into education with Identity Archaeologist Josh Zepess
I had so much fun interviewing Identity Archaeologist Josh Zepess. I think this episode was just what we needed right now. Josh takes us through his own journey as a learner, high performing professional in the corporate world and how he discovered what led him to say, "this isn't what I do; it's...
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It's not about your position; it's about your perspective: A conversation with high school student Antonia M. on what needs to change in public education for it to be more equitable
A couple of weeks ago, a friend and former colleague posted on social media that she had a student who had a lot to say about the systemic challenges in our education system and what needed to change. I was surprised that no one had responded back, since student voice is THE most prominent and...
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2021: Rejecting Burnout, Taking Care of Ourselves and Leading the Necessary Way
Wow! What a wild 6 months! Not only because we have a growing podcast (sweet!) but because…education in the post-not post pandemic reality. Everyone uses this break in different ways: disconnect completely (good for you!), planning for January (don’t go too wild with that!) and holistically...
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Education is THE most fulfilling profession, and we are DRAINING our teachers' and principals' tanks
I'm worried. Not for myself but for our teachers and principals. I know you're reading the headlines. So why does it feel like no one is listening? Today, I cover: What teachers and principals need more and less of (hint: meetings fall into the "less of" category) Ask you to put me in contact…
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The critical leadership (and other) skills we needed to learn but weren’t taught, with Mark Herschberg, author of “The Career Toolkit”
Season 2 Episode 6: The critical leadership (and other) skills we needed to learn but weren’t taught, with Mark Herschberg, author of “The Career Toolkit” Leadership. Communication. Networking. Team building. These are all skills needed in the 21st century workforce. It’s 2021, so why aren’t…
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Is effective leadership really as simple as The Golden Rule? Yep! With Dom Brightmon
Dominique "Dom" Brightmon, DTM is an award-winning speaker and certified member with the John Maxwell Team. He is the bestselling author of "Going North!: Tips & Techniques to Advance Yourself", "Stay the Course: The Elite Performer's 7 Secret Keys to Sustainable Success" and contributing author...
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Let’s talk (more) about this year with veteran HS art educator Whitney
One of the most frequent challenges I hear teachers talk about this year is their students’ mental health. One of the hardest things for teachers is that they often feel the pain their students feel because they are empathetic. I noticed this myself during the 2nd week of this school year. I was...
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Superintendent and Chief Problem Solver, Mr. Cloyd Garth, Jr. on prioritizing the mental, physical and spiritual needs of his entire staff
Hazlehurst, Mississippi Superintendent Cloyd Garth, Jr talks with us about the burnout educators are experiencing right now and how he gets himself and his staff through it. He believes that this burnout is unlike anything he's ever seen before and reminds us that educators actually typically...
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Here is what teachers really need right now, and how we can work together to help
I am thrilled to kick off the season with today’s guest, Beth Pandolpho. She authored an opinion piece in Education Week about a month ago where she identified the unique struggles teachers are facing this school year and outlined some pretty simple solutions school districts could implement now...
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Season 2 Trailer
You heard the Season 1 Recap two weeks ago. Now it's time to listen to the Season 2 trailer, because Season 2 launches NEXT WEEK!
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Season 1 Recap (Self Care) and Season 2 Preview (Creating CHANGE)
Season 1 of DissectEd covered burnout and why and how not to wear it as a badge of honor. It also covered, for lack of a better phrase, "self care" tips and the agency we as educators and school-based leaders have to combat stress and work in nutrition and exercise. Well, Season 2 is pivoting to...
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Intentions, Mindset, Exercise, Diet, Sleep with Amanda Lurz
Amanda Lurz is a Life and Transformation Coach whose work centers on helping people to discover their personal power to heal their lives. She is a 15-year registered nurse, a wife of 18 years, and mother of 2 teenagers. Her passion is helping people to understand the integrated nature of their...
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"How to take care of yourself when you don't have the time or energy" with Health and Life Coach Jaclyn Ricchio Stover
Self care. This phrase is overused and under executed in our education bubble. Have you found yourself wondering how in the world you’re going to even make it through the day, never mind meal prep and fit in working out or get a massage or see your therapist? Of course you have, because you’re in...
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I'll Never Quit: A conversation with college freshman Owen M.
In this episode, we hear from Eastern Connecticut State University freshman Owen M., I was lucky to have Owen as a student last year, and he takes us through what it has been like to start college and how he has navigated high school and college with a learning disability. If you know Owen, you...
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The Power of our Youth with Bob Houghtaling
On this episode, we pivot to the most important topic and stakeholders in education: students. As the Director of the East Greenwich, RI Drug Program put it, “Kids are experts at one thing that adults will never be experts at. Kids are experts at being kids. I have to acknowledge that kids are...
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Career Coach Jackie Ross on Career Development, Dealing with Overwhelm and Job Crafting to Improve our Job Satisfaction
On this episode of DissectEd, Life Coach, motivational speaker and author Jackie Ross discusses personal and professional development once we've entered our careers. She gives very specific tips on how to deal with overwhelm in our jobs, how to communicate our needs with our supervisors and how…
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Jodi Womack: What we can/MUST do to take care of ourselves
"How are you?" "I'm good" might be one of the biggest lies we tell, at least sometimes. Especially in the education space but in plenty of other areas, both professional and personal, we put the needs of others before our own. And while there is beauty and value in that, what we can have a hard...
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College and the World Beyond with Dave Jose
Preparing students for life after high school has traditionally focused on preparing them for college. In this episode, Director of College and Careers for Blackstone Valley Prep, an intentionally diverse public charter school in Rhode Island, talks us through how he and his team intentionally...
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Professional Skydiver Melanie Curtis talks Leading with Love and Taking Risks
In this episode I talk with certified life coach, author, speaker and professional skydiver, Melanie Curtis. She is a passionate entrepreneur, influencer and activist. As a leader and known voice in both skydiving and personal development, Melanie has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Thrive...
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How to Have a Flawless School Opening Day, Week, Month!
In this episode, you will meet Tim Howarth, Dean at Blackstone Valley Prep High School, an intentionally diverse charter school in Rhode Island. Tim is an operations guru, and each year, he is tasked with making school opening even better than the last, even during a pandemic. As you can see from...
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What's Happening?! The mass exodus of teachers and principals: giving a voice to the voiceless
Recent studies revealed that over 50% of teachers and administrators intend to leave their role as soon as they can. What's behind this? Today's episode brings the experience of the school principal to the forefront, because each year, excellent principals choose to leave the role. You'll hear my...
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Workplace Burnout pt. 3: Roundtable Conclusion
On this episode, we conclude our roundtable conversation about burnout. You'll remember Debbi, Justin, Jermaine, Jonathan and Kristen from part 2 last week. The roundtable format allowed more perspectives and experiences with burnout to be shared and discussed, creating more opportunities for...
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Workplace Burnout pt. 2: Roundtable with educators, administrators and business leaders
Jermaine Sharpe joins me again to co-facilitate a roundtable discussion on workplace burnout. As we enjoy summer, we know that a school year which will be challenging in a new way will be here soon, and it will be as important as ever to protect ourselves as a workforce and communicate to…
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Burnout: Not our Badge of Honor
In this episode, you will be introduced to a longtime friend and successful business leader, Jermaine Sharpe. After he recently posted on IG about burnout, I knew it was time to tackle this expanding problem among our workforce. This episode is the first in a series that will examine the impact...
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Introducing DissectEd
In this episode you will be introduced to DissectEd and its host, Dr. Michaela Keegan Jedele. You'll learn what makes this education podcast different from others and what to expect on upcoming episodes.
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On the DissectEd podcast, we discuss various topics in education and drill down, or dissect them, so that the audience can have a better understanding of the topic/issue. Each week, we will talk with expert teachers, administrators and students to get their take on what's important and what's needed currently and looking ahead in the field of education. Whether you're an educator, leader or someone simply interested in education, this podcast is for you!
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