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Making Math & History Come Alive

Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Dr Spencer Striker, Professor of Digital Media Design at Northwestern University in Qatar. They discuss how A.I. can be used in creative ways to dramatize historical events and provide background information to difficult...

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Human Contact Skills vs. A.I.

Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Life Skills Educator, Career Coach, and Creator of the Hope Skills Program, Bob Wolf. They discuss, among other things, how the education system can better prepare students to be career ready. Here’s a hint: chat bots...

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Strategies to Build Confident Readers

Celebrating 60 years of “Reading is Fundamental”, Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Sheila Robitaille, veteran educator and Professional Development Manager at 3P Learning. They discuss the growing literacy problem among young readers and some strategies...

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Lighting A Path To Safety

In a time of increasing active threats on school campuses, Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Ernest Williams, CEO of Go to Green, an emergency platform designed to lead people away from danger and to safety during an active threat, about ways to use...

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Employability Skills Gap

Kevin speaks with Patty Alper, Founder of the Teach to Work Foundation and Creator of Project-Based Mentoring, about how to close the employability skills gap currently experienced between college graduates and employers. Part of the solution: provide...

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Beating The Summer Slide

Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Dr. Dani Peloquin, Director of Instruction at Fusion Academy, about ways to spark curiosity in children to prevent summer learning loss.

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Impact of Teacher Unions

Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Dr. Melissa Lyon, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at SUNY Albany, about a recent study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute regarding the declining strength of...

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Options for the Visually Impaired

Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Molly E. Eagan, Chief Executive Officer of VISIONS - Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired, about vision rehabilitation and other options the visually impaired have to enable them to have an acceptable quality of...

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Important Federal Student Loan Changes

Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Jon Marcus, Senior Higher Education Reporter, and Meredith Kolodner, Senior Investigative Reporter, both of the Hechinger Report, to share and clarify the information they researched about changes to the amounts and...

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Alternatives To Screens

Over the past year the search term "how to reduce screen time" is up more than 900%. As such, Kevin Boston-Hill provides some alternatives that parents can explore to get their children to put their phones and tablets down. First, he speaks with Past...

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Rethinking Teaching & Learning with Guided Inquiry

As an option to increasing both student engagement and academic rigor, Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Dr. Leslie Maniotes, internationally recognized educator, author, professional learning facilitator, and co-creator of Guided Inquiry Design - a...

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Check the Box - Prostate Cancer Screening

Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman, and Chief Philanthropy Officer of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, Lori Tessel, about how important it is to have prostate cancer screening. Those who get screened and...

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How a Small School Can Help Big Systems

Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Stuart Grauer, award-winning educator, and author of the book, “The Way to Pancho’s Kitchen - A Trail Guide for Small School Leaders”. Their conversation covers different ways to revamp education and how to replicate the...

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Cuts to SNAP Benefits Hurt Students and Communities

Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Senior Program Officer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Jamie Bussel, about how students and families can adapt to the cuts to SNAP benefits, which lead to poor nutrition and negatively impacts mental health. The...

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Great Neck takes on the World in Robotics

Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with members of the Rebel Robotics team from Great Neck South High School and their coach as they prepare for the world championships of the FIRST Robotics Competition. The team shows how collaboration is the key to their...

Strategizing Your Future

Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Andre Early, Strategic Executive, Leadership Development Practitioner and Founder of the Early Impact Empowerment Group, about HOW students and early-career professionals can prepare themselves for success in the field of...

Combating Student AI use with Writing

In a discussion to combat the use of AI by students, Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with educator, author, and technology specialist Mindy Bingham about the shift of many educators to writing and workbooks to show a student’s mastery. They also discuss how...

Getting Students to Care About their Digital Footprint

Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Christine Elgersma, Senior Editor of Learning Content Strategy at Common Sense Media, about how parents and caregivers can help students of all ages curate their digital footprint and think about the repercussions of...

"Do No Harm" Provision of the "Big Beautiful Bill"

Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Ryan Quinn, Education and Policy Reporter for “Inside Higher Ed,” about the “Do No Harm” provision of the “Big Beautiful Bill” that calls for the elimination of federal student aid for any college degree that cannot show...

Dyslexia Road Map

Kevin Boston-Hill speaks with Certified Academic Language Therapist and Dyslexia Therapist, Faye Bankler Casell about diagnosis and treatment options available to parents and caregivers regarding their children with dyslexia. They discuss home...