Educationally Speaking: Recent Episodes
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Educationally Speaking is a program that airs twice monthly and explores various educational topics in Nevada County. Your hosts are Scott Lay, Nevada County Superintendent of Schools, and Kimberly Ewing, Nevada County Superintendent of Schools Arts Coordinator and Seven Hills School middle grade teacher. Airs 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30pm-7pm.
Nevada County Superitendent of Schools Scott Lay speaks with Teachers of the Year, with Jen Lubarsky (Clear Creek School) and Audra Delany (Chicago Park School).
Scott Lay speaks with homeless educational services staff about services provided for Nevada County Schools.
Guests are: Melissa Perrett Student Services Coordinator and Homeless liaison, Charlotte Peterson Homeless education program specialist and Katy Dye,r Case Manager for NCOE.
Scott Lay speaks with Jen Lubarsky, teacher of the year from Clear Creek School and Audry Delaney, teacher of the year at Chicago Park School.
Nevada County Superintendent of Schools, Scott Lay, speaks with Associate Superintendent for Special Education, Eli Gallup, about mental health supports in Nevada County.
Director of School Safety for the Nevada County Superintendent of Schools office talks about the "behind the scenes" work that goes into keeping our students and staff safe. Fires, PSPS, intruder, and Covid are several of the topics that are discussed and what our schools response will be to each event.
Tonight’s guest on Educationally Speaking is Jinnae Anderson, parenting specialist for the Partners Family Resource Centers in western Nevada County.
Nevada County native John Baggett has been an educator for years as teacher, principal and superintendent in Nevada, Placer, and Sacramento counties and member of the Banner Mountain Baggett Boys Bottle Band.
On Educationally Speaking, host Kimberly Ewing invites the Nevada County Library staff to talk about what this summer programs will look like at our libraries, including reading challenges, a Recreation Collection for check out, summer events and activities for everyone in the family. Fun begins June 13 to August 13, 2022. Guests are Jill Davidson, Children's Youth Services Librarian and Ian Boalt, Program and Outreach Librarian.
On Educationally Speaking, host Kimberly Ewing talks with high school students who are winners in the Nevada County Reads county-wide writing contest, along with high school librarian Josie Andrews and local writer Kirsten Casey who were instrumental in the success of this year's high school writing contest.
On Educationally Speaking, hosts Scott Lay and Kimberly Ewing talk with KVMR General Manager, Ali Lightfoot and Coordinator, Kelley Rees about the YOUTH NEWS Corp that is happening at KVMR. Student reporters on the show are: Fiona Baker on Social Justice, Maya Cruz on Mental Health, Liv Des Autels on Environment, and Avary George on Education.
Tonight on Educationally Speaking, hosts Scott W. Lay and Kimberly Ewing invite Executive Director, Melody Easton, of First 5 Nevada County to talk about April being Child Abuse Prevention Month and all that's going on to support that cause.
Tonight on Educationally Speaking, hosts Scott W. Lay and Kimberly Ewing highlight upcoming community events: Schools Job Fair on March 26 and "Raise Them Up" Foster Youth Celebration Day on May 14. Guests include: Sara Cory, Human Resources from NCSoS and Morgan Welty-Geisick with Foster Youth along with event coordinators Skyy and Rose promoting their important community event.
Tonight on Educationally Speaking, hosts Scott W. Lay and Kimberly Ewing talk about Nevada County Reads, a long-standing community literary event with the idea of One Book, One Community. Guests include Sydney Joyce from Nevada County Libraries, Josie Andrews, NUHS Librarian/Teacher, and Logo Art Winner from BRHS, Austin Reyes.
Tonight on Educationally Speaking, hosts Scott W. Lay and Kimberly Ewing talk with Education Leaders Teena Corker, Associate Superintendent of Schools for Education and Carrie Ferrero, STEAM EXPO Lead Teacher in Science & Math, about the upcoming VIRTUAL S.T.E.A.M Science & Arts Competition using the ZFair platform in March, 2022.
Tonight on Educationally Speaking, hosts Scott W. Lay and Kimberly Ewing chat with NUHS's Drama Department Teacher Rob Metcalfe about the challenges and successes with producing a theatre arts play production among COVID surges.
Tonight on Educationally Speaking, hosts Scott W. Lay and Kimberly Ewing discuss a new Restorative Practice Program happening in local high schools called R.A.Y.S. Restorative Accountable Youth Solutions. Guests include Director of program, Marlene Mahurin, Program Coordinator, Steve Hansen, and two high school trained facilitators, Kaylie and Lyric.
Tonight on Educationally Speaking, hosts Scott W. Lay and Kimberly Ewing chat with founder of the Bicycle Recycle Project in Nevada City School District, Steve Davis, and the current teacher of bike program, Ben Preston and how he's moving project forward. Industrial Arts in the middle schools is beginning to take hold with elective programs and these two teachers share how their program started and continues to evolve.
Tonight on Educationally Speaking, hosts Scott W. Lay and Kimberly Ewing chat with Kelly Moreno from the Twin Ridges Elementary School District, discussing the new programs at the school sites and happenings going on up on the Ridge and at their one-room schoolhouse in the little town of Washington.
Tonight's Educationally Speaking hosts Scott W. Lay and Kimberly Ewing talk with school principals from Ready Springs, Chrissy McKeown, Deer Creek, Robin Black and Seven Hills, Sam Schug about their Maker Spaces and STEAM projects going on at their schools. Student guests on the show are Koa, Willem, Lilja from Deer Creek, Xander & Lev from Seven Hills, and Seamus, Bella, and Alexis from Ready Springs, along with coordinator Ben Davis.
Tonight on Educationally Speaking, Scott Lay talks with county-wide Geography Tournament Coordinator, Dan Zeiser, and several 7th grade winners from this Fall's Geography Tournament. Some of the student guests are Gilbert, Jason, Xanian from Seven Hills Middle School and tournament winner, Ella from Magnolia.
Tonight on Educationally Speaking, host Scott Lay talks with community volunteers Doug and Shirley Moon and state park ranger Matt Green about the restoration of Bridgeport Covered Bridge and the Reopening Celebration.
On tonight's Educationally Speaking, hosts Scott W. Lay and Kimberly Ewing, chat with SAEL high school's Director Erica Crane and teacher Dale Berry about their partnership with Bear Yuba Land Trust.
Tonight on Educationally Speaking, host Scott W. Lay speaks with Director Michael Martin and 3rd grade teacher Robert Pegg about Yuba River Charter School's happenings on campus this Fall.
Educationally Speaking highlights the local arts education program Artists in Schools which reaches nearly 1000 elementary school children with its push-in professional visual artists as teachers in classrooms. Tonight's guests from Artists in Schools include Brian Buckley, founder of local AIS program, Nancy Schaefer, a veteran Teaching Artist with program, a brand new Teaching Artist with AIS, Brooke Mathews, and Sarah White, a Grass Valley school district classroom teacher who has been involved with Artists in Schools for years.
Scott Lay Nevada Co Superintendent of Schools and Kimberly Ewing Nevada Co Arts Coordinator speak with Director of School Safety Chris Espedal and Health Data Analyst Sarah Svendsen regarding National Preparedness Week with a focus on wildfire's and COVID's impact on keeping schools open and students in class.
Educationally Speaking chats with Nevada Joint Union High School District's Superintendent, Brett Mc Fadden and Assistant Superintendent, Dan Frisella about this Fall's high school educational program updates regarding COVID-19 protocols and good news about schedules.
Nevada Co Superintendent of Schools, Scott Lay, speaks with Sara Cory, Human Resources Tech, about the job fair coming up this Saturday at the Nevada County Office of Education and with Nancy Harris from the US Forest Service on the US Capitol Christmas Tree Project Nevada County connection.
NJUHSD Superintendent Brett McFadden and Nevada Union's principal Kelly Rhoden discuss the ins and outs of reopening high schools with distance learning and hybrid models for students and staff alike.
Nevada City Rancheria Tribal Spokesperson Shelly Covert joins the discussion to share about the newly printed Nisenan Children's Book, 'Ani'to'o'pek Beteyim Paiyom. The book was created in partnership with Nevada County Library and made possible through an IMLS grant. Tune in for this informative panel discussion that includes Shelly's interview about the Nisenan language.
This week’s episode we meet the new Superintendent of Union Hill School District, Andy Parsons, and learn what it’s like to lead in these challenging times. We also discuss the issues with schools reopening in August and discuss some of the pressures they face.