386: Strengthening Executive Function Skills for Children with Dr. Lynne Kenney
Dr. Lynne Kenney is the nation’s leading pediatric psychologist in the development of classroom cognitive-physical activity programs for students grades K-8. Dr. Kenney develops curriculum, programming, and activities to improve children’s cognition through coordinative cognitive-motor movement, executive function skill-building strategies, and social-emotional learning.
Dr. Kenney is a pediatric psychologist on the Language & Cognition Team at Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment of Dyslexia, Scottsdale, Arizona. She has advanced fellowship training in forensic psychology and developmental pediatric psychology from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Harbor-UCLA/UCLA Medical School.
As an international educator, researcher, and author, Dr. Kenney is dedicated to improving the trajectory of children’s learning, particularly in high-need, low-income communities.
Website
Social Media Information
@drlynnekenney (X, FB, Instagram)
Resources Mentioned
Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) https://nape.org.uk/
SEND Conference Friday 26th April – Hybrid event
London School of Public Relations – www.lspr-education.com/podcasting-course/
Delivered by Mark Taylor.
The 1-day Essentials of Podcasting Certificated short course is highly practical and packed full of useful information to get you on the road to producing your own professional podcasts. The Podcasting course will help you to create, edit, deliver and promote your podcast. The course also provides useful tips and tricks from industry experts on producing professional and effective results.
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385: A Gobblegark’s Guide To Your Brilliant Neurodivergent Brain with Suzanne Robertshaw
A Gobblegark’s Guide To Your Brilliant Neurodivergent Brain is Suzanne Robertshaw’s new book.
Suzanne has been a teacher for 23 years. She has worked as a SENCO, supporting students with learning differences since 2015. She feels passionate about the positives of being neurodivergent which she regularly promotes on her Instagram page – @teachingwithadifference.
Suzanne has spoken at several teaching conferences and regularly trains teachers about how to support students with learning differences. She has a Postgraduate cert in Dyslexia Research and Practice and has also worked as an ADHD consultant and dyslexia tutor, helping lots of families. Her work over the years with amazing, young people who have brilliant brains inspired this book.
A Gobblegark’s Guide To Your Brilliant Neurodivergent Brain is quite a magical book. You’ll meet caterpillars and gobblegarks and best of all? You’ll see how fantastic being neurodivergent is! Win keys by completing some challenges along the way, each one leading you closer to the treasure and to knowing a bit more about yourself and your brain. Built-in breaktimes ensure that you won’t get overwhelmed.
Afterall, it can be tiring investigating your brain, making your way through a maze, and finding out how to use the strengths of your brain and understand yourself!
Downloadable worksheets let you truly make this book your own because you can go back to activities as many times as you need, or do them in different ways, (and of course skip the ones you don’t!). Let’s make our brilliant brains even more amazing with this Gobblegark Guide!
Website
www.suzannerobertshawauthor.my.canva.site
Social Media Information
Instagram – @teachingwithadifference
Resources Mentioned
Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) https://nape.org.uk/
SEND Conference Friday 26th April – Hybrid event
London School of Public Relations – www.lspr-education.com/podcasting-course/
Delivered by Mark Taylor.
The 1-day Essentials of Podcasting Certificated short course is highly practical and packed full of useful information to get you on the road to producing your own professional podcasts. The Podcasting course will help you to create, edit, deliver and promote your podcast. The course also provides useful tips and tricks from industry experts on producing professional and effective results.
Support the show at www.educationonfire.com/support
Have you seen our live shows on YouTube? www.EducationOnFire.com/youtube
384: A new innovation to support your college searching journey with Troove
Dave has lived and worked around the world, and is now based in Burlington Vermont with his wife and two Golden Retrievers. Their 3 “kids” have now graduated from college, but it was his experience with them on their college journeys that started his innovator’s brain cranking on what became Troove.
Having worked in admissions through grad school, he was amazed by how little technology and the internet had impacted the college search and admissions process. And even more, he was dismayed to discover how often students were transferring or dropping out altogether.
In early 2020, this led directly to his founding Troove, a 2-sided, AI powered platform to help students discover their passions, people, and place based on the real experiences of recent alumni and current higher education students.
Dave Hurwitt is an innovator. Over the course of his career, he’s led the development and launch of new products and services – from toothpicks to wind turbines – that have generated well over $1 billion in sales.
If you have a large, front loading washing machine in your house, that was Dave and his team at Whirlpool. They re-envisioned the traditional, small European washer for the US market and took front loaders from 1% of the market to over 50% today, saving billions of dollars in electricity and water consumption in the process.
Website
Social Media Information
Instagram: www.instagram.com/troove.me/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/www.troove.me
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/trooveme/
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@trooveit
Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) https://nape.org.uk/
SEND Conference Friday 26th April – Hybrid event
London School of Public Relations – www.lspr-education.com/podcasting-course/
Delivered by Mark Taylor.
The 1-day Essentials of Podcasting Certificated short course is highly practical and packed full of useful information to get you on the road to producing your own professional podcasts. The Podcasting course will help you to create, edit, deliver and promote your podcast. The course also provides useful tips and tricks from industry experts on producing professional and effective results.
Support the show at www.educationonfire.com/support
Have you seen our live shows on YouTube? www.EducationOnFire.com/youtube
383: No child too hungry to learn with Magic Breakfast
Magic Breakfast is a registered charity providing healthy breakfasts to children and young people in the UK who arrive at school too hungry to learn, and expert support to their schools.
Over 200,000 children and young people are on roll at Primary, Secondary, ASL / Special Educational Needs Schools and Pupil Referral Units that the charity works with, in disadvantaged areas of Scotland and England.
Providing breakfast ensures that children start their school day with the energy and nutrition they need to be able to make the most of their morning lessons. Magic Breakfast also undertakes research, and campaigns for long-term solutions to end hunger as a barrier to learning.
Website
Social Media Information
Insta: @magicbreky
FB: @magicbreakfastuk
Twitter: @magic_breakfast
LinkedIn: @ Magic Breakfast
Follow us, tag us and use the hashtag #NoChildTooHungryToLearn
Resources Mentioned
Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) https://nape.org.uk/
SEND Conference Friday 26th April – Hybrid event
London School of Public Relations – www.lspr-education.com/podcasting-course/
Delivered by Mark Taylor.
The 1-day Essentials of Podcasting Certificated short course is highly practical and packed full of useful information to get you on the road to producing your own professional podcasts. The Podcasting course will help you to create, edit, deliver and promote your podcast. The course also provides useful tips and tricks from industry experts on producing professional and effective results.
Support the show at www.educationonfire.com/support
Have you seen our live shows on YouTube? www.EducationOnFire.com/youtube
382: NASA STEM educator Jason Dietrich
Jason Dietrich is a highly motivated, certified NASA STEM educator with more than four years of teaching experience seeking to influence and engage students to participate in STEM career pathways.
He is interested in increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM as well as building a solid foundation for STEM literacy. In this technology-based society, he seeks to build computational literacy and develop critical thinkers capable of analyzing and integrating data to formulate solutions to complex real-world problems through the use of innovative and differentiated instructional methods. Jason is experienced in training and professional development, global education policy and methods, statistical analysis, curriculum development, and assessment strategies.
In addition, he has been mentored by a current Virginia Space Flight Academy (VASFA) STEM Engagement Specialist and has authored a NASA application design to identify hidden barriers to STEM engagement. Jason is eager to promote and use STEM engagement activities through NASA’s missions to inspire a diverse future STEM workforce.
Website
Social Media Information
www.facebook.com/VaSpaceFlightAcademy
www.instagram.com/vaspaceflightacademy/
Twitter: @VaSpaceAcademy
Resources Mentioned
Show Sponsor – National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) https://nape.org.uk/
SEND Conference Friday 26th April – Hybrid event
London School of Public Relations – www.lspr-education.com/podcasting-course/
Delivered by Mark Taylor.
The 1-day Essentials of Podcasting Certificated short course is highly practical and packed full of useful information to get you on the road to producing your own professional podcasts. The Podcasting course will help you to create, edit, deliver and promote your podcast. The course also provides useful tips and tricks from industry experts on producing professional and effective results.