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The voice of the American Consortium for Equity in Education at ace-ed.org | Host Larry Jacobs facilitates rich discussions with innovative educators, thought leaders, authors and the leaders within the education industry to promote equity, access and opportunity for every student in every school.
Jethro: Welcome everybody
to EduTalk Radio.
I am Jethro Jones, founder of
the B Podcast Network, of which
EduTalk Radio is a member.
we are excited for David Cicero to
be part of the network, and he's
going to be hosting EduTalk Radio,
and we are really excited about it.
So David, welcome to your own show.
That's gonna be yours as soon
as we finish this episode
David: Yeah, it's exciting.
Thank you so much, Jethro.
I am, ecstatic to be, taking over.
I just wanna say that, I, I understand
that, Larry built something here that
people across education genuinely
trust, and I'm so grateful for the
opportunity to step into that role
and continue the conversation, and
help schools understand what's working
and, just have meaningful discussions.
So, I'm so happy to be here and,
and, and hit the ground running
Jethro: Yeah, and Larry did build
something amazing, and when he decided
he was going to retire, we were very
excited to be able to keep his show
alive honestly, all of this back
catalog that people still listen to on
a regular basis just going to disappear.
Like, literally, the company he was
hosting it with was going out of
business a month after he retired, and
we were like, "We cannot let this great
body of work, over 4,000 episodes,
David: Yeah
Jethro: which is what was gonna happen.
And so we're grateful to him for creating
something awesome, and it's taken us a
while, but we have finally found someone
that we think is going to be a great host.
And, you have podcasting experience.
Tell us a little bit about your
overall background and why you're
excited to take on this new project
David: Yeah, absolutely.
so I'm a career educator.
I started, in education over 16
years ago as a high school math
teacher in Phoenix, Arizona.
I currently live in West Michigan.
We can get into how that, uh, how
that journey took place another time.
But then I moved into, educational
technologies where I spent, the lastâ¦
over the last decade or so, helping
schools implement technology, helping
schools understand the value of
educational technologies, and just
overall focused on student outcomes.
my podcasting experience, actually,
a, a number of years ago, I
created the Adventum podcast,
and, that ran for two years.
I know I did more than an episode a
month because it ran during COVID,
where I did a couple specialty
series, for families at home.
but I just really, really love this idea
of sort of investigative journalism in
education, and just elevating voices
of experts, and having these great
discussions that help, teachers and
education leaders think about education
in new ways and what's going on in
the classroom, what purpose schools
and districts serve in the community.
and, and hopefully helping guide this
humongous ship to make incremental
progress, to just lifting student
voices, lifting family voices, and
just driving people to success, right?
so I'm, I'm, I'm really excited
to bring some of that to, to, to
this platform this audience as well
Jethro: Yeah, that's great.
And, I'm excited because Ross
said that you did a great job.
Ross is the co-founder of the Bee
Podcast Network, he said you did a
great job, and he really enjoyed, how
you approached that and, recommended
you for this with high marks.
So I'm excited to be able to learn
from you and for you to share
all the great things that you do,
which also means that, EduTalk is
again officially open for guests.
So how should people get ahold of you
so that they can be part of the show?
What's the best way to do that?
David: Yeah.
I mean, the best way is, simply by email,
which is, dciceroedutalk@gmail.com.
You shoot me over an email,
we'll get the discussion going.
and, and we'd, we'd love to, to
continue conversations around,
innovation, e-education in general.
shoot me an email.
We will reach back out to you
as soon as possible and see
what we can, we can get lined up
Jethro: Yeah, and, I'm really excited
about this because you're gonna be
able to connect with people that
not connected to because of your
experience and your connections already.
And that's one of the things that's
really fun for me is how broad, how
many people there are who are doing
great, things in education, both within
education and outside or peripheral to
it, and it's gonna be awesome to hear all
the great people you're gonna chat with
David: Yeah.
So I've been giving a lot of thought
to kind of the direction to, to move
forward from here, and I, I'm, I'm
really interested in having these
sort of deep conversations about what
education is really trying to accomplish,
and kind of staying away a little
bit from isolated topics or trends.
You know, I think that, a lot of education
conversations become very fragmented.
you know, one about just AI, or one about
staffing, or another about assessment.
Really, what I wanna kind of bring
to light is, you know, how do we
improve student outcomes overall?
How do we make schools more
responsive to individual students?
how do we turn educational
vision into classroom reality?
Now, these individual topics contribute
to that, I'm looking for people to talk
to and hunting down guests who are just
doing, you know, interesting things and
finding insight in nuanced practices,
and I wanna bring those to light.
hopefully listeners can walk away
with, you know, walk away inspired,
walk away with new ideas that they
can go and share with their colleagues
and, you know, help ripple down,
down into the classroom as well.
So I'm super excited to, to have some
great conversations, and just continue
to help educators make an impact.
Jethro: Yeah, that's great, man.
I'm excited.
So you're interested, reach out.
uh,
you can also reach out to
edutalk@bpodcast.network
and, David will get those emails as well.
Now, one thing that I like to
ask kinda put you on the spot
David: I know that right now, what
I'm especially interested in, so
whoever's listening out there, if,
if, if you've, if you want to, have a
discussion around this, let me know.
I'm especially interested right now
in questions around humanity and
learning in the age of AI, right?
I've been thinking about, you know,
how students learn, how students
consume information and reuse
it, and, you know, how AI in the
classroom and AI being a part of
teaching and learning affects that.
I think it's a absolutely essential
discussion to have, as we sort to,
sort of start to, you know, integrate
AI into teaching and learning.
And so, I'm 100% open to, to having some,
some lively conversations about that.
So if, if that's in your wheelhouse,
shoot me an email and we will,
connect and see what we can do
Jethro: Excellent.
That sounds very good.
I'm looking forward to
the future of EduTalk.
This is gonna be great, and David,
you are gonna be awesome at this.
Looking forward to it.
Thanks so much, everybody, for
listening and, we look forward to
having you join us in the future.
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And if somebody sent it over to
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and subscribe, to the whole thing
so that you can get all these great
episodes that David will be producing.
Thanks so much, David
David: Thanks, Jethro.
Talk to you all soon