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Pod Save The Teachers
by Pod Saves The Teachers
“Pod Save the Teachers” is a dynamic new podcast from the College of Education and Human Services and 107.7 The Bronc at Rider University. Hosted by Dr. Mark Pearcy, “PSTT” is a monthly look at educational issues, faculty and student spotlights, and a focus on our partner districts in New Jersey and around the country. “Pod Save the Teachers” will feature the best practices, the most important topics in and out of the classroom, and questions which drive the debate around education in the U.S.
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Pod Save The Teachers - May 2026
Dr Pearcy brings his children, Katie and Thea Pearcy for their third time on the show! They talk about current college student struggles, from social life, to AI and bring in their experiences from Syracuse and Montclair Universities.
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Pod Save The Teachers - May 2026
Dr Pearcy brings his children, Katie and Thea Pearcy for their third time on the show! They talk about current college student struggles, from social life, to AI and bring in their experiences from Syracuse and Montclair Universities.
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Pod Save The Teachers the Game Show (Music Vs. History)
On this exciting episode Nick Harrison your host mediates a tense battle between Laytin Gil a Music Production major and Matt Burgo a secondary education and History Major.
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Pod Save The Teachers The Game Show (Music Vs. History)
On this exciting episode Nick Harrison your host mediates a tense battle between Laytin Gil a Music Production major and Matt Burgo a secondary education and History Major.
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Pod Save the Teachers (April 2026)
In this month's episode of Pod Save the Teachers, Dr. Mark Pearcy hosts a special episode as he tackles the definition of griping and how it is seen through out both schools and colleges. He is joined by two Secondary Ed and English majors, Kailiei DiFabrizio and Kenneth Gorman, as this month's student spotlights! Later on student producers, Ashley Semmel, Jenna Lubnewski, and Matt Rodrigues join the discussion to settle the teacher gripe once and for all.
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Pod Save the Teachers (April 2026)
In this month's episode of Pod Save the Teachers, Dr. Mark Pearcy hosts a special episode as he tackles the definition of griping and how it is seen through out both schools and colleges. He is joined by two Secondary Ed and English majors, Kailiei DiFabrizio and Kenneth Gorman, as this month's student spotlights! Later on student producers, Ashley Semmel, Jenna Lubnewski, and Matt Rodrigues join the discussion to settle the teacher gripe once and for all.
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Pod Save The Teachers The Game Show (Team Red vs. Team Goofy Goobers)
Pod save the teachers the game show is back for another episode. This time your host Nicholas Harrison mediated a tense battle between Math educators and non-educators. On Team Red, representing the educators, was Jackson Brower and Kaitlyn Angelucci and on Team Goofy Goobers was Lesly Antoine Jr. and Connor Meletta. Let’s see if educators can pull another win on this exciting episode of Pod Save the Teachers the Game Show.
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Pod Save The Teachers The Game Show (Team Red Vs. The Goofy Goobers)
Pod save the teachers the game show is back for another episode. This time your host Nicholas Harrison mediated a tense battle between Math educators and non-educators. On Team Red, representing the educators, was Jackson Brower and Kaitlyn Angelucci and on Team Goofy Goobers was Lesly Antoine Jr. and Connor Meletta. Let’s see if educators can pull another win on this exciting episode of Pod Save the Teachers the Game Show.
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Pod Save the Teachers - March 2026
In this month's episode of Pod Save the Teachers, Dr. Mark Pearcy continues his mission to build the perfect school. He welcomes guest, Terra Joseph, an English professor and the department chair here at Rider University. They explore many topics, like the "canons" of literature and overall literacy within schools. The episode is followed by the student spotlight from our two student producers, future English teachers, Ashley Semmel and Jenna Lubnewski.
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Pod Save the Teachers - March 2026
In this month's episode of Pod Save the Teachers, Dr. Mark Pearcy continues his mission to build the perfect school. He welcomes guest, Terra Joseph, an English professor and the department chair here at Rider University. They explore many topics, like the "canons" of literature and overall literacy within schools. The episode is followed by the student spotlight from our two student producers, future English teachers, Ashley Semmel and Jenna Lubnewski.
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Pod Save The Teachers The Game Show (Pride and Prejudice vs. The Beowulf's)
In this episode of Pod Save the Teachers the Game Show, Team Beowulf, staring Joe Georgescu and Aidan Brito, and Team Pride and Prejudice, staring Bekah Hickey and Brian Hall, battle it out. They will fight it out across comunication and trivia challanges to earn a chance to hold the Pearcy Cup. They will answer the question who should teach the future of the world, Teachers or Historians!
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Pod Save The Teachers The Game Show (Pride and Prejudice Vs. The Beowulfs)
In this episode of Pod Save the Teachers the Game Show, Team Beowulf, staring Joe Georgescu and Aidan Brito, and Team Pride and Prejudice, staring Bekah Hickey and Brian Hall, battle it out. They will fight it out across communication and trivia challanges to earn a chance to hold the Pearcy Cup. They will answer the question who should teach the future of the world, Teachers or Historians!
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Pod Save The Teachers - February 2026
Dr. Mark Pearcy interviews HVCHS math teacher Dennis Atkinson, and math education majors Kaitlyn Angelucci and Jackson Brower about math’s place in the “perfect” school.
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Pod Save The Teachers February 2026
Dr. Mark Pearcy interviews HVCHS math teacher Dennis Atkinson, and math education majors Kaitlyn Angelucci and Jackson Brower about math’s place in the “perfect” school.
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Pod Save The Teachers The Game Show (Team Adam Vs. Team Radio)
Pod Save The Teachers in an all new format. Nick Harrison is your host putting two education majors and two non-education majors up against each other in a series of challenges. Who will win the right to hold the Pearcy Cup. Team Adam or Team Radio.
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Pod Save The Teachers The Game Show (Team Adam Vs. Team Radio)
Pod Save The Teachers in an all new format. Nick Harrison is your host putting two education majors and two non-education majors up against each other in a series of challenges. Who will win the right to hold the Pearcy Cup. Team Adam or Team Radio.
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Pod Save The Teachers - January 2026
On this episode Dr. Mark Pearcy talks with guest Anson Smith, the Vice Principal of Hopewell Valley Central High School, about the pros and cons to several ideas for changes to the education system!
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Pod Save the Teachers - December 2025
This month on Pod Save the Teachers Dr. Mark Pearcy and student producers Nick Harrison, Ashley Semmel, and Matt Rodriguez discuss feel good stories in education to warm up for the holidays.
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Pod Save The Teachers November 2025
On this episode Dr. Mark Pearcy discusses AI in the classroom with guest Katy Henderson, an english teacher from Hopewell Valley CHS! Also featuring a student spotlight from Delaney Wiggins!
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Pod Save the Teachers October 2025
This month on Pod save the Teachers features esteemed guest, new president of Rider university, John Loyack. President Loyack tells us about his past and how he plans to lead the future of the university. Joining us as our student spotlight is Delaney Wiggins, who works social media at The Bronc, as this month's student spotlight.
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Pod Save The Teachers September 2025
For this month's episode, Dr. Mark Pearcy talks with the guest, Dr. Chari Cohen, president of the Hepatitis B Foundation, about why vaccines are important and everything we should know. He follows with three transfer student spotlights: Annabell Farr, Skylar Bird, and Emily Nicholson!
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Pod Save The Teachers August 2025
This month Dr. Mark Pearcy and Guest Don Harnum discuss his role as an Athletic Director for Rider.
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Pod Save The Teachers July 2025
This July on Pod Save The Teachers we catch up with Dr. Mark Pearcy on summer break, with guest appearances from Dr. Susan Dougherty and former producer Sophia Caparas.
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Pod Save The Teachers June 2025
In celebration of Father's Day and as a more than two year reunion for the Pearcy family on the show, this week Dr. Mark Pearcy interviews his children Katie and Charlie and discusses how their education has been progressing, and gets their opinions on the state of education across the country.
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Pod Save The Teachers May 2025
Dr. Mark Pearcy is back from study abroad in Scandinavia with today's guests Erica Spence-Umstead and Skye Chernoblisky. On this episode they talk about their international experience.
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Pod Save The Teachers April 2025
On this episode of Pod Save The Teachers, we begin with a student spotlight on Ethan Elkin-Handelman, then Dr. Mark Pearcy, Ethan, and producers Ashley Semmel and Matthew Rodrigues discuss the effects of smartphones and social media on today's students.
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Pod Save The Teachers March 2025
Dr. Mark Pearcy talks to Jesse Ambriz, and Sarah Burdick, who teach at Fisher Middle School to get inside experience about their classroom and on their styles of teaching. Along with that there is a special student spotlight from Jacob Hubbs.
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Pod Save the Teachers February 2025
This week on Pod Save the Teachers Dr. Mark Pearcy sits down with Shane Conto and Amy Atkinson from the Academic Success Center at Rider to talk about studying, tutoring, and test anxiety in a world where test anxiety seems to be getting more and more common. We then followed that up with a wonderful student spotlight with this weeks guest Jenna Lubnewski.
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Pod Save The Teachers January 2025
In this episode Dr. Mark Pearcy is back again to discuss the best and worst ideas in education with student producers Matthew Rodrigues, Jay Roberson, and Nicholas Harrison. He then follows that up with a student spotlight with this months guest, Bekah Hickey.
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Pod Save The Teachers December 2024
In this months episode of Pod Save The Teachers Dr. Mark Pearcy and guest Dr. Tracey Garrett discuss strategies to manage different parts of the classroom. You can also meet our new PSTT student producer Ashley Semmel in our student spotlight!
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Pod Save The Teachers November 2024
This week on Pod Save The Teachers, Dr.Pearcy explores all the facets of what being a dean is like with Dean Jeannine Dingus-Eason. This episode also has a special appearance from our new student producers Matt Rodrigues and Ciara Khan.
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Pod Save The Teachers September 2024
In this episode of Pod Save The Teachers, Dr. Mark Pearcy discusses Rider University's student teaching abroad program. He is joined by Dr. Diane Giannola, the facilitator of the program, and Jeff Applegate, a graduate student for secondary English education who studied in Turku, Finland last spring semester!
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Pod Save The Teachers August 2024
This episode on Pod Save The Teachers Dr. Pearcy and the student producers decide the quintessential slang word for Gen Z in the Great Slang Exploder Tournament!
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Pod Save The Teachers July 2024
From pre-service to veteran perspectives, this month on Pod Save The Teachers, Dr. Mark Pearcy talks about the art of classroom management with teachers from Ewing High School, Victoria Burd and Christina Caldwell! Also joining him for student spotlight is Maddie McGreevy, current Rider education student!
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Pod Save The Teachers June 2024
This month on Pod Save The Teachers, Dr. Mark Pearcy dives into the vital topic of special education with fellow Rider professor Dr. Diane Giannola! Joining her is Rowan Mickley, a Rider student studying elementary and special education. For our student spotlight, we welcome back student producer Jay Roberson, who discusses their future endeavors in the field of special education!
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Pod Save The Teachers May 2024
On this month’s episode of Pod Save The Teachers Dr. Pearcy discusses the transformative experience student teachers go through while working in the classroom full time. Rider alumnae and past Pod Save The Teachers producers Vanessa Rivera and Aubree Prendergast share their experiences student teaching in middle and high school during their last semester at Rider. Vanessa and Aubree also discuss their future in education, with opportunities leading them all the way to Spain. Current Pod Save The Teachers producers Sophia Caparas and Jay Roberson look forward to their experience student teaching and the concerns that come with it.
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Pod Save The Teachers April 2024
This month on Pod Save The Teachers, Dr. Mark Pearcy talks with Dr. Sarah Perry, a professor of the Westminster Choir College, about the importance of music education! Our student spotlight guest is Jasmin Villatoro, a passionate music education student!
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Pod Save The Teachers March 2024
This month for Pod Save The Teachers Dr. Mark Pearcy discusses the trending epidemic of banning books across American schools with high school English teacher Johanna Claps! Our student spotlight features junior English major Talia Hincks!
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Pod Save The Teachers February 2024
This month on Pod Save The Teachers Dr. Mark Pearcy talks with Dr. Susan Dougherty about the most recent debate in Education. This month for Student Spotlight we meet our new Student Producers Jay Roberson, Sophia Caparas, and Nick Harrison.
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Pod Save The Teachers January 2024
This month on Pod Save The Teachers Dr. Mark Pearcy highlights the Hopewell Valley Regional School District with special guests Rebecca Mora, Dr. Rosetta Treece, and former HVCHS student, Gianluca Procaccini.
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Pod Save The Teachers December 2023
This month Dr. Pearcy does a district spotlight with Hamilton School District! Dr. Pearcy speaks with Superintendent Dr. Scott Rocco and our student Spotlight is Dr. Rashaan Monroe, who is the Principal of Klockner Elementary School!
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Pod Save The Teachers November 2023
This month on Pod Save The Teachers, Dr. Pearcy talks with Leah Rodriguez about transitioning teachers out of the classroom and into administration. For our student spotlight, three sophomore History Education majors, Amanda Aoun, Katelin Hornsby, and Mitchell Meyer, join Dr. Pearcy.
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Pod Save The Teachers October 2023
This month on Pod Save The Teachers, Dr. Pearcy chats with Sean Demarest, Ben Sczepanik, Juli Ezzo, and Michael Tomasulo about early career teaching and life after graduation.
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Pod Save The Teachers September 2023
On this month’s episode of Pod Save The Teachers, we celebrate our One Year Anniversary with special guest Dr. Mark Pearcy! Student producers, Vanessa Rivera and Aubree Prendergast take over and turn the tables on Dr. Pearcy himself. This month’s student spotlight features Cassidy Petrone, Elementary and Middle School English Education major.
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Pod Save The Teachers August 2023
This month on Pod Save The Teachers, Dr. Mark Pearcy speaks with Erica Spence-Umstead about student teaching! Our student spotlight is a Rider alum Courtney James, who speaks about her experiences as a first year teacher!
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Pod Save The Teachers July 2023
This month on Pod Save The Teachers, Dr. Mark Pearcy speaks with Kimberly Algeo from the Office of International Education here at Rider University about studying abroad! We have a guest all the way from Spain as our student spotlight, Antonio Fernández Martín.
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Pod Save The Teachers June 2023
This month on Pod Save The Teachers, Dr. Mark Pearcy discusses history education in schools today with Rider’s own Professor Ken Boardman and Mr. Mike Jackson. During the Student Spotlight, Dr. Pearcy talks to History Education students Patrick Luckie and Brandon Lopez.
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Pod Save The Teachers May 2023
This month on Pod Save The Teachers, Dr. Mark Pearcy discusses entering and staying in the teaching profession with Jonathan Garr from the Camden Education Fund. This special Student Spotlight Features surprise special guests Katie and Charlie.
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Pod Save The Teachers April 2023
This month on Pod Save The Teachers, Dr. Mark Pearcy discusses STEM in schools with Ms. Kelly Lee. The Student Spotlight will be featuring a Junior STEM Education Major, Tiffany Corcoran.
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Pod Save The Teachers March 2023
This month for Pod Save The Teachers Dr. Mark Pearcy discusses the diversity of the LGBTQIA+ communities within school with Dr. Erica Ryan. The student spotlight will be featuring a sophomore education student, Jay Roberson!
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
“Pod Save the Teachers” is a dynamic new podcast from the College of Education and Human Services and 107.7 The Bronc at Rider University. Hosted by Dr. Mark Pearcy, “PSTT” is a monthly look at educational issues, faculty and student spotlights, and a focus on our partner districts in New Jersey and around the country. “Pod Save the Teachers” will feature the best practices, the most important topics in and out of the classroom, and questions which drive the debate around education in the U.S.
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