The Educator Pineapple Podcast

Renewing Teacher Preparation with Karen DeMoss explores her journey from professor to international teacher to leading work around re-imagining teacher support, residency models, and shifting the teacher preparation paradigm for the public good as the Executive Director of Prepared to Teach – a program within Bank Street College of Education.

Digital Equity with Kristina Ishmael explores her journey from preschool teacher in Omaha Nebraska, to Digital Learning Specialist, and then Deputy Director of the Office of Ed Tech where she executes the office mission of developing national ed tech policy that enables everywhere, all the time learning by pushing the envelope around digital equity and opportunity at scale.

The Admiral Squad with Marlon Styles & Kee Edwards explores their journey from classroom teacher to system level leaders in Middletown City Schools as well as their work designing, building, and launching The Admiral Squad - a program focused on inspiring more black males to enter and stay in the education profession.

Designing Schools with Sabba Quidwai explores her journey from classroom teacher to education executive at Apple to launching her own company, and moving her dissertation to a documentary in order to better illustrate what design thinking truly looks like in action. Sabba continues to focus her work on designing schools that give young people the mindset and skills to thrive in the future.

Blended Learning with Liz Arney explores her journey from classroom teacher to EdTech author to consultant, her experiences with blended learning in 2013 vs. 2022, and the power of concrete systems, structures, and supports to ensure students are able to leverage technology in effective and impactful ways in the classroom and beyond.

Strength-Based Data Literacy with Dr. Rebekah Kim explores her journey from teacher to system-level leader to completing her doctoral studies in building and fostering data literacy in K-12 public education. Kim also examines how that research is now beginning to bridge the gap between equity and data literacy both for her district and nationally.

Digital Transformation with Jean-Claude Brizard explores how he first started in education, the three layers of transformation (classroom, school system, and policy), the power of whole-child supports, and specific examples of how schools and systems are leveraging technology in effective and equitable ways to build stronger connections between students, teachers, content, and community