Home Grown: Transforming Teaching from the Ground Up Keep Indiana Learning

Join facilitators Christy Berger, Brooke Lawson as they talk about best practices for ending the school year on a positive note!

Jennifer Gonzalez is a National Board Certified Teacher with over 10 years of classroom experience. Most of this time was spent teaching middle school language arts, and the rest was at the college level, where she trained pre-service teachers for the classroom. In 2013, she created the website Cult of Pedagogy, where she now works full-time to help teachers of all subjects and grade levels practice and perfect the art of teaching.

During this episode we will hear from school counselors who have stepped up in a big way to lead comprehensive school counseling in their school or district. It doesn’t take an admin license to be a school leader, and these school counselors will share about their journey and approach to developing school counseling programs that are meeting the needs of all students.

 Brittany Tinkler is a Milken Award winner, a certified project-based learning trainer, co-chair of the professional development arm of the Indiana Council of Teachers of Mathematics, ICTM, and a second grade teacher at Rosa Parks Elementary where she puts all of her expertise into action.  Listen as she shares her experiences that led to her being a champion for struggling students.

Join facilitators Christy Berger, Brooke Lawson and special guest Dr. Connie Poston,  as they share strategies in response to the question from a current high school counselor on how to integrate SEL at the high school level.  

During this episode, Amanda Culhan and Samantha Vidal will be speaking to Indiana’s most recent school counseling award recipients, presented at the ISCA Conference this past November. Some of Indiana’s finest school counselors will be sharing program components and ways in which they celebrate and advocate for the profession during national school counseling week, celebrated during the first week of February.