Winter Wrap-Up 02: Overcoming adversity in the classroom

02/03/23 • 29 min

While we’re hard at work producing the exciting third season of Science Connections: The Podcast, we’re continuing to share some of our favorite conversations from our first two seasons. This time we’re revisiting a popular episode from season 1: Overcoming adversity in the classroom featuring Joe McCormick, director of engineering at Splitspot.

Hear Joe’s story about losing his vision at a young age, gaining new support and community, and paying thanks to the educators whose flexibility helped him along his journey to becoming a software engineer.

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Winter Wrap-Up 01: Community and joy within K-8 science instruction

While we gear up for the next season of Science Connections: The Podcast, we're revisiting some of our favorite conversations from past seasons!
In this episode, we join Eric Cross as he sits down with physicist and science education specialist, Desiré Whitmore. Listen in as Desiré explains her work at the Exploratorium, a public learning laboratory. Eric and Desiré discuss finding passion in science, the importance of meeting students we’re they’re at, and K–8 science instruction with real-life connections. Desiré chats with Eric about her work on supporting the science of teaching science content at the Exploratorium museum.

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Winter Wrap-Up 03: Supporting students with a creative twist, feat. Shad Lacefield

Listen to the last episode in our Winter Wrap-Up!
In this conversation from season 1, Eric sits down with Shad Lacefield, 2021 Kentucky Science Teacher of the Year. Shad shares his experience teaching during the first year of the pandemic, which included dressing up in over 100 costumes to create unique and engaging online learning experiences for his students. Shad also explains ways he connects with his students to celebrate student success, as well as large-scale efforts he leads within his school to cultivate the love of learning science content.