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A weekly recap of inspiration and innovation in your schools. Hosted by a panel of education experts, Big Ideas features fun and freewheeling discussion, interviews with influencers, and news items...
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A weekly recap of inspiration and innovation in your schools. Hosted by a panel of education experts, Big Ideas features fun and freewheeling discussion, interviews with influencers, and news items to inform and entertain education professionals and supporters.
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4 FEB 2026 · BIIE 234: Empowering Children, Families, and Educators with Financial Literacy featuring Dr. Darla Bishop
This week, Ryan sits with Dr. Darla Bishop, a former high school educator and the creator of the multilingual financial literacy platform Piggy Bank Pathways. Dr. Bishop shares how she became interested in financial literacy, “Madeline’s Money Adventure” (a children’s book Dr. Bishop co-wrote with her daughter Madeline), teaching financial literacy to children, families, and educators via Piggy Bank Pathways, and lots more. Tune in!
You can find out more about our guest’s work by visiting https://www.darlabishop.com/and http://piggybankpathways.org/.
Don’t just listen, join the conversation! Tweet us at @AcademicaMedia or with the hashtag #BigIdeasInEducation with questions or new topics you want to see discussed.
Host: Ryan Kairalla (@ryankair)
Producer: Laura Blanco
5 GEN 2026 · BIIE 233: Increasing Drug Awareness in School with Rachael Bischel
This week, Ryan sits with Rachael Bischel, the Program Manager of Victoria’s Voice, a foundation founded by David and Jackie Siegel after losing their 18-year-old daughter, Victoria, to a drug overdose. Rachael shares the mission of Victoria’s Voice, Florida state holidays that bring awareness to fentanyl and drug overdose, communication in the school setting, best and least effective intervention methods in reducing substance abuse, and more. Tune in!
Don’t just listen, join the conversation! Tweet us at @AcademicaMedia or with the hashtag #BigIdeasInEducation with questions or new topics you want to see discussed.
Host: Ryan Kairalla (@ryankair)
Producer: Laura Blanco
1 DIC 2025 · BIIE 232: Effective Strategies for Principals to Succeed featuring Jorge Rivas
This week, Ryan sits with Jorge Rivas, a longtime educator and current principal at the Cornerstone Charter Academy in Central Florida. Jorge is the author of the book “Principals Matter: Highly Effective Leadership Strategies”, which came out earlier this year. Jorge shares his extensive experience in the education field of nearly 40 years as a teacher, counselor, director, supervisor, assistant principal, and principal, discussing how education has changed, the importance of principals, myths of what makes a school leader effective, his book, advice for early-career educators, and more. Tune in!
You can find Jorge’s book, “Principals Matter: Highly Effective Leadership Strategies,” on Amazon.
Don’t just listen, join the conversation! Tweet us at @AcademicaMedia or with the hashtag #BigIdeasInEducation with questions or new topics you want to see discussed.
Host: Ryan Kairalla (@ryankair)
Producer: Laura Blanco
3 NOV 2025 · BIIE 231: The Growth of Microschools with David K. Richards
This week, Ryan sits with David K. Richards, a nationally recognized education leader and the founder and CEO of Changemaker EDU, a growing network of microschools and an incubator for school founders across the country. Microschools are small schools that vary in funding and location, have an enrollment of 5 to 150 students, and foster a close-knit environment via experiential learning. David discusses growth, myths, traditional education settings vs. microschools, Changemaker EDU’s work, and more. Tune in!
You can find out more about our guest’s work by visiting http://changemakereducation.com/
Don’t just listen, join the conversation! Tweet us at @AcademicaMedia or with the hashtag #BigIdeasInEducation with questions or new topics you want to see discussed.
Host: Ryan Kairalla (@ryankair)
Producer: Laura Blanco
6 OTT 2025 · Big Ideas In Education, Ep. 230: What is ESTEAM® and How It Can Energize the Classroom with Scott Mann
This week, Ryan sits with Scott Mann, the Director of Education and Training at VentureLab, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating the next generation of diverse innovators and changemakers through entrepreneurial learning. ESTEAM®, a version of STEAM learning that infuses entrepreneurship, allows students to employ an entrepreneurial mindset in their classwork, projects, and homework. Ryan and Scott discuss the value of entrepreneurship in ESTEAM®, examples, student success stories, Scott’s presentation at the Out-of-School-Time Initiatives Conference, VentureLab in the classroom, advice, and more. Tune in!
You can find out more about our guest’s work by visiting venturelab.org
Don’t just listen, join the conversation! Tweet us at @AcademicaMedia or with the hashtag #BigIdeasInEducation with questions or new topics you want to see discussed.
Host: Ryan Kairalla (@ryankair)
Producer: Laura Blanco
1 SET 2025 · BIIE 229: Managing Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom and Beyond with Gerry White
This week, Ryan sits with Gerry White, the Dean of Academic Technology at ECPI University and the founder of MyTutorPlus. They discuss Gerry’s view of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across education and a variety of careers, positive uses for AI in education, areas to be cautious, advice for teachers who integrate AI into the classroom, job trends, and more. Tune in!
You can find out more about our guest’s work by visiting gerrywhite.tech and http://gerrywhite.substack.com/.
Don’t just listen, join the conversation! Tweet us at @AcademicaMedia or with the hashtag #BigIdeasInEducation with questions or new topics you want to see discussed.
Host: Ryan Kairalla (@ryankair)
Producer: Laura Blanco
4 AGO 2025 · BIIE 228: Teacher Recruitment, Retention, and Data Analytics with Emily Chase Coleman
This week, Ryan sits with Emily Chase Coleman, the co-founder and CEO of HAI Analytics, a renowned education consulting firm. They discuss factors in K-12 teacher and administration turnover, how turnover affects schools financially, solutions, the impact of artificial intelligence on data analytics, and more. Tune in!
You can learn more about our guest’s work at haianalytics.com
Don’t just listen, join the conversation! Tweet us at @AcademicaMedia or with the hashtag #BigIdeasInEducation with questions or new topics you want to see discussed.
Host: Ryan Kairalla (@ryankair)
Producer: Laura Blanco
7 LUG 2025 · BIIE 227: Today’s Education Field and Advice with Dr. Jodi Blinco
This week, Ryan sits with Dr. Jodi Blinco, the founder of The U School and a sought-after education consultant and leader. They discuss challenges facing schools today and staying resilient, cultivating an effective staff and minimizing turnover, her mantra “controlling the controllables,” advice for young education professionals, and more. Tune in!
Don’t just listen, join the conversation! Tweet us at @AcademicaMedia or with the hashtag #BigIdeasInEducation with questions or new topics you want to see discussed.
Host: Ryan Kairalla (@ryankair)
Producer: Laura Blanco
2 GIU 2025 · BIIE 226: Mentorship for K-12 Students with Jermaine Myrie
This week, Ryan sits with Jermaine Myrie, the CEO of MENTOR, a national nonprofit that focuses on fueling high-quality relationship-centered practices for young people and uniting, expanding, and strengthening the mentoring movement. They discuss examples of effective K-12 mentorship, impacts on student outcomes, internal and external mentors, school involvement, MENTOR celebrating its 35th anniversary, and lots more. Tune in!
You can find out more about our guest by visiting mentoring.org
Don’t just listen, join the conversation! Tweet us at @AcademicaMedia or with the hashtag #BigIdeasInEducation with questions or new topics you want to see discussed.
Host: Ryan Kairalla (@ryankair)
Producer: Laura Blanco
5 MAG 2025 · BIIE 225: K-12 Risk Management and Insurance with Jonathan Schreter
This week, Ryan sits with Jonathan Schreter, the Executive Vice President at IMA Financial Group and a leading insurance broker for charter and independent K-12 schools. Jonathan is also a Certified Insurance Counselor with the National Alliance for Insurance Education and Resource. They discuss why insurance is a must-have for charter and independent K-12s, making sense of insurance and risk management terms, advice for those filling out applications, defining risk pools and JPAs, insuring unique offerings, virtual schools, and homeschool programs, and lots more. Tune in!
You can find out more about our guest’s work at imacorp.com
Don’t just listen, join the conversation! Tweet us at @AcademicaMedia or with the hashtag #BigIdeasInEducation with questions or new topics you want to see discussed.
Host: Ryan Kairalla (@ryankair)
Producer: Laura Blanco
A weekly recap of inspiration and innovation in your schools. Hosted by a panel of education experts, Big Ideas features fun and freewheeling discussion, interviews with influencers, and news items...
mostra di più
A weekly recap of inspiration and innovation in your schools. Hosted by a panel of education experts, Big Ideas features fun and freewheeling discussion, interviews with influencers, and news items to inform and entertain education professionals and supporters.
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