NASDTEC Podcasts

2022 Annual Conference B-4: National Update on the Teacher Shortage and Vision Planning for the Future

Kelly Coash-Johnson, Executive Director, American Association of School Personnel Administrators

2022 Annual Conference B-2: Licensure, huh? What is it good for?

Mischel Miller, Director of Teacher Licensure and AccreditationScott Gordon, General Counsel Kansas State Department of Education

2022 Annual Conference A-4: NASDTEC Interactive—Discussion of Educator Preparation Issues

Becky PitkinJamie Boyd

2022 Annual Conference A-3: Co-Teaching During COVID-19: Innovation and Collaboration to Improve Teacher Candidate Outcomes

Lucy Bush, Associate Professor of Education/Assistant Dean Mercer UniversityKara Cowdrick, Adjunct Professor of Education, Mercer University/Elementary ESOL Teacher, Gwinnett

2022 Annual Conference A-2: Culturally Responsive Data Literacy: What is it and how to Reflect the Concept in State Standards

Ellen Mandinach, Senior Research ScientistSaroja Warner, Director for Talent Development and DiversityWestEd

2022 Annual Conference A-1: Clinical & New Teacher Mentoring – A Statewide PLC Approach Using COVID Relief Funds

Colleen O’Neil, Associate Commissioner, Educator TalentMary Bivens, Executive Director, Educator Workforce DevelopmentColorado Department of Education

What‘s Going On in North Dakota Dr. Meghan Salyers and Dr. Becky Pitkin

Dr. Meghan Salyers, the Director of Student Teaching & Accreditation in the College of Education at the University of Mary discusses the use of the Model Code of Ethics for Educators in their teacher preparation program.  
Meghan Salyers and Becky Pitkin can be reached at msalyers@umary.edu and rpitkin@nd.gov.

What‘s Going On in Nevada with Mike Arakawa

Our guest in this episode is Mike Arakawa from Nevada. Mr. Arakawa works in the Nevada Department of Education where he serves as the Chief Compliance Investigator. In our discussion, Mr. Arakawa talks about Nevada’s use of the Statewide Central Registry to identify applicants who have had an allegation of child abuse or neglect substantiated against them.
Mr. Arakawa can be reached through email at marakawa@doe.nv.gov.