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How Play Builds Belonging and Resilience with Elizabeth Cushing

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ISTE 2026: Inside the iSTAR Writing Tool

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Lessons from Dozens of Charter School Visits with Nanette Merrill

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ISTE 2026: Ready to Lead with AI with Kip Glazer

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ISTE 2026: Practical Tools for Teacher Collaboration with Kevin Donohue

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ISTE 2026: Inside Thinkering's Mission to Empower Teachers with Evin Schwartz

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ISTE 2026: Building a Reading Culture with Dr. Erin Bailey

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Coaching and Leadership Studios with Kate O'Connell

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ISTE 2026: ClassVR's Vision for VR in Education

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ISTE 2026: Rethinking Career Readiness with Jamie Candee

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ISTE 2026: Hugging Porcupines with Mike Anderson

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ISTE 2026: Reaching Kids Who Don't Fit in the Box with Pete Hall

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Building Iowa's Charter School Movement from Scratch with Mike Huguelet

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Burn the Script with Jo Lein

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Rejection Proof Career with Jason Leshowitz

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Life Ready Students with Glenn Robbins

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Listening to Students to Transform School Culture with Amy Fast

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Let the Learners Lead with Rachael Thrash

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Small Schools, Big Vision with Scott Bess

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Making Mondays the Best Day of the Week with Jonathon Wennstrom

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The Nonlinear Path with Bill Knous

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Addition Through Subtraction with Robert Dillon

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Developing Teacher Leaders with Kyle Palmer

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Building Relationships That Outlast Leadership Transitions with Danny Bauer

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Read to Lead with Kimberly Miles

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Unleash Aliveness with Alisha De Lorenzo

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Better Together with Derek Cantrell

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The Science of Kindness with Dr. Chris Culver

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Instructional Coherence with Dr. Gene Kerns

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Executive Functions for Every K-3 Classroom with Mitch Weathers & Sarah Oberle

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How to Lead Change Without Leaving Your Team Behind with Dr. Kristilynn Turney

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Supporting School Leaders Through the Daily Grind with Marie Bordeleau

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The 3 Keys to Leading Every Human with Nick Pretasky

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Becoming an Innovative Leader with Brad Gustafson

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Jethro's Dissertation - How Principals who Use AI for Innovation Create Cognitive Equity

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A New Era of Transformative Principal with Mike Caldwell

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Building Accountability Through Key Responsibility Areas with Will Parker

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Learning Through Video Games at Alpha School with Benny

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The Power of Principal Self-Efficacy with Stan Koterba

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Reject the Premise, Part 8 with Danny Bauer

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Supporting Students and Families with ADHD with Mike Goldstein

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The Jethro 2025 Episode

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Run the School Before It Runs You with Rich Czyz

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Reject the Premise, Part 6 with Danny Bauer

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Building Stronger, More Connected School Communities with Ben Downey

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Helping Educators Grow Through Technology and Community with Mike Caldwell

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AI Exposed the Lie of Schools, Let's Focus on Learning Again

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How to Get a Wealthy Brain Even If You’re Not with Michael Toth

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Designing Different with Adrian Ireland

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Building Futures: Transition Services and Real-Life Skills with Joel Lavin

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Helping Kids Find Purposeful Direction with Tyler Lafferty

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Using Technology to Build Relationships And Help Kids Love Reading with Brandon Cardet-Hernandez

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Peacefully Productive Kids with Hilda Guerrero

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Leading Change that Lasts with Dr. Kelly Hastings

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Throwbacks: Elephants Fighting with Naphtali Hoff

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Reject the Premise, Part 4 with Danny Bauer

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Education Test Kitchen

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Practical AI with Derek Crager

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Being vs. Doing with Dr. Chad Dumas

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Coaching Over Evaluation with K.C. Knudson

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How to Stop Sounding Like Every Other School with Kristian Golick

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Building Sustainable Systems in Schools with Patrick Mongrain

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Hope Out of the Pandemic with Derek Mitchell

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AI Standards and Cybersecurity Education for Kids with Sam Bourgeois

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The Role of Coaching in Dissertation Success with Dr. Jayne Lammers

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The (New) Age of Software in Schools

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The Importance of Literacy with Erin Bailey

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Early Mental Health Intervention with Barb Solish

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Literacy in Mental Health and Reading with Barb Solish and Dr. Erin Bailey

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Can I go to the Bathroom? And Other Asinine Questions with Bobby Canosa-Carr

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Brave on Purpose with Samantha Hamilton

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When Coaches do the Evaluations on Teachers With Dr. Sarah Ranney

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Reject the Premise Part 2

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The Evolution of Trust-Based Observations with Craig Randall

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Generative Instruction with Linda Berberich, PhD.

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Everyone is an Education Journalist with Charles Sosnik

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The SchoolX Book Study with Shenita Perry

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A Doctorate in Character Education with Melinda Bier

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Stop Wasting Teacher Time: Local Curriculum Empowers Real Learning with Emily Makelky

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Using AI Layering to Create Hyper-Localized Curriculum with Brent Zirkel

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Building Trust Through Formative Supervision with Dr. Valerie Dehombreux

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School Improvement Through Integrated Special Education with Dr. Kate Anderson Foley

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Future Serious School with Will Richardson

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Creating Equitable Classrooms with Mike Cronley

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Streamlining Feedback to Teachers with Observation Co-Pilot with Adam Geller

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Big Impact Mixer

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From Conflict to Collaboration with Dr. Robert Feirsen and Dr Seth Weitzman - From the Vault

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Three Factors that Led to the Mississippi Miracle in Child Literacy with Dr. Trish Stoll

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Improving Your School Branding with John Mihalyo

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Beta Testers Wanted

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LinkedLeaders with Mike Caldwell

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Five Principles of Educator Professionalism with Dr. Nason Lollar

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How to get 100% of 3rd Graders Proficient in Reading with Dr. Layne Dillard

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Creating Transition Programs that are Beneficial to Students with Disabilities with Joel Lavin

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Creating Impact with from Your Vision with Dr. Sandy Breece

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How Kahoot! Is Changing the Game with Meira Koponen

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Innovative Strategies for Navigating School Leadership Roadblocks with Marcela Andres

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What We Show Them with Kevin Stoller Transformative Principal 639

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The Power of ICU with Garett Cook

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The Future of AI is Authenticity with Erik Francis Transformative Principal 637