The 9th Grade Experience Chris Stuchko

It's hard to believe but summer is quickly coming to an end!

As you gather up your materials, finish up your last-minute summer must-dos, and attempt to find the charger for your Chromebook, tune into this episode that features students handing out practical, bite-sized information on how to best slay your 9th grade year.

We asked students during the 2022-2023 school, ranging from 9th grade year to days before graduation and from Emmaus, Pa, to Mexico about what it takes to be successful in high school.

For all previous episodes of the podcast, go to ⁠www.9thgradeexperience.com.⁠ If you visit the site, you can leave us a voicemail, an email or rate and review of the show.

Musical Credit

Thanks to Eli Heckman, Class of 2025, for providing the music in today's episode!

Education Podcast Network

I am proud to announce that the 9th Grade Experience Podcast has joined the Education Podcast Network (EPN). The passionate hosts of the EPN family are made up of a wide variety of teachers, administrators, and educators who are dedicated to bringing you the best in education-related content. The network covers everything from current events in education, technology, and best practices to the latest editorials and more on a regular basis in high quality. To find out more information about all the great shows, visit ⁠https://www.edupodcastnetwork.com/⁠

It has taken over 100 episodes, but finally the tables have turned on me on my own podcast! Usually I am the one asking students, educators, and others about their time in the first year of high school, but on this episode, Emmaus High School student Connor Miller had the opportunity to ask me what it was like to be a 9th grader at Holy Ghost Prep in Bensalem, Pa., back in the 1990s.

We did this interview as part of a project in which he needed to find an expert in a field for his journalism class during the 2022-2023 school year.

He wanted to focus his podcast on podcasting and asked me to sit down with him and answer a few questions about my own 9th grade experience.

He was curious about class/school size, how I received extra help, the opportunities available to me and if I would go back to teach at my old high school. He did a great job getting me to reflect on parts of my own educational journey that I hadn't thought about in many years.

Hopefully this conversation shows that no matter when you attended high school that many of the issues students encounter as very similar.


For all previous episodes of the podcast, go to www.9thgradeexperience.com. If you visit the site, you can leave us a voicemail, an email or rate and review of the show.

Musical Credit

Thanks to Eli Heckman, Class of 2025, for providing the music in today's episode!

Education Podcast Network

I am proud to announce that the 9th Grade Experience Podcast has joined the Education Podcast Network (EPN). The passionate hosts of the EPN family are made up of a wide variety of teachers, administrators, and educators who are dedicated to bringing you the best in education-related content. The network covers everything from current events in education, technology, and best practices to the latest editorials and more on a regular basis in high quality. To find out more information about all the great shows, visit https://www.edupodcastnetwork.com/

It seems the dream for so many high schoolers today is to become social media famous. With over 30 million videos posted daily to TikTok, the odds of more than just your friends seeing your latest creation is fairly slim.

But what happens when a post beats the algorithm odds and breaks through?

In February 2023, the members of the band visionblur had their viral moment as their cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in their first-ever live performance exploded on the social media app. As of July 2023, the video has garnered more than 1.8 million views and 320,000 likes.

Band members Ez Alexander and June Conrad discuss what it was like to deal with the this quick hit of popularity while trying to build their band. They talk about the making of their band, getting the nerve to play that first gig and what it was like in the hours after the post started gaining momentum.

To learn more about the band, follow them @visionblurband on TikTok

For all previous episodes of the podcast, go to www.9thgradeexperience.com. If you visit the site, you can leave us a voicemail, an email or rate and review of the show.

Musical Credit

Thanks to Eli Heckman, Class of 2025, for providing the music in today's episode!

Also thanks to Visionblur for the use of their logo and the audio clip taken from their TikTok page.

Education Podcast Network

I am proud to announce that the 9th Grade Experience Podcast has joined the Education Podcast Network (EPN). The passionate hosts of the EPN family are made up of a wide variety of teachers, administrators, and educators who are dedicated to bringing you the best in education-related content. The network covers everything from current events in education, technology, and best practices to the latest editorials and more on a regular basis in high quality. To find out more information about all the great shows, visit https://www.edupodcastnetwork.com/

In this special episode recorded live from the Pennsylvania Convention Center at the end of June 2023, we sat down with 37 attendees of the 2023 ISTE Conference, including educators, industry experts, and students, to gather their best tech tips, time management hacks and other strategies to assist with a successful 9th grade experience.


The guests on today's episode come from diverse perspectives from all over the world offering quick, innovative approaches and personal anecdotes about what they feel it takes to excel during your freshman year.

The final 10 minutes of the episode features a longer conversation with Shaurya Sinha and Joseph Tay, sophomores at Stanford University, talking about their 9th grade experiences in their home countries, the idea and dream of coming to college in the United States, and what they are hoping to do in the field of Artificial Intelligence.Here is a list of the guest on today's show (arranged by the order of their appearance)


Teachers
Carl Hooker, Author Ready, Set, Fail and Keynote Speaker
Rachelle Denne Poth, Riverview Junior/Senior High School
Matthew X Joseph, CEO X-Factor Education
Lauren Zeznanski - Chestnut Ridge School District, Fishertown, Pa.
Gwynn Moore - Aurora, CO, Aurora Frontier P-8
Jen Dawson - CDW
Chris Aviles - Spectrum Industries, Inc
Christopher Eide - Trumbull High School
Paige Littlefield - University of Oklahoma
Danielle Cowden - Crosstown High Memphis TN
Dr. Laura McCusker - Lincoln IU 12 @mccusker105
Alexis Albertie - The New School Atlanta, Ga. @tnsatlanta
Andre Simon - The New School Atlanta, Ga.
Erin Cummings - Chester County IU @ErinC_CCIU
Lauren Young - Beloved Community New Orleans, La.
Anthony Iacobucci - TRECA Digital Academy Marion, OH
Stephanie Howell - Pickerington Local School District Carroll, OH
Eric Guise - Hopewell Valley Central High, Newtown Pa
Daniel Nemerow - Gainesville High School (Va.)
Scott Nunes - Canva for Education
Eric Verlander - USD 457 Garden City, KS
Giovanna Salas-Wert, Abington HS
Karima Chandler, Charter School of Wilmington
Ariana Ciamaricone, Charter School of Wilmington
Nicky Acevedo, Vivacity Tech PBC
Brandon Main, Milwaukee Public Schools
Kerry Parrish, Crystal Lake Central High School D155

Students
Keerthi Viijay and Riya Shah, STEAM Team Co-creators
Simone Sibley and Jacob Deysher, Brandywine Heights High School
Ana Camila Lopez Jonguitud, Cumbres International School Cancun
Mariela Casteleyro, Highlands International School Mexico
Camila Zamora, Highlands International School Mexico
Atara Goldstein, The Frisch School
Ari Katz, The Frisch School
Shaurya Sinha and Joseph Tay, Stanford University

For all previous episodes of the podcast, go to www.9thgradeexperience.com. If you visit the site, you can leave us a voicemail, an email or rate and review of the show.

Musical Credit

Thanks to Eli Heckman, Class of 2025, for providing the music in today's episode!

Education Podcast Network

I am proud to announce that the 9th Grade Experience Podcast has joined the Education Podcast Network (EPN). The passionate hosts of the EPN family are made up of a wide variety of teachers, administrators, and educators who are dedicated to bringing you the best in education-related content. The network covers everything from current events in education, technology, and best practices to the latest editorials and more on a regular basis in high quality. To find out more information about all the great shows, visit https://www.edupodcastnetwork.com/

It has been almost six months since his last appearance, so we could not close out the 2022-2023 school year without having Cole Stuchko appear one more time on the podcast to reflect on his 9th grade campaign.

Cole has been busy since December finishing up the basketball season, taking midterm exams, trying out and making the varsity tennis team and completing the year with final exam preparation. In this episode he talks about the importance of starting the year off strong to make the end of your first year easier and making sure you complete each assignment that is assigned in class. He talks about the challenge of being the only freshman on the tennis team and how he was able to feel comfortable with established upperclassmen. We finish the episode with some great tips for upcoming freshman to make the most of their school year.

For all previous episodes of the podcast, go to www.9thgradeexperience.com. If you visit the site, you can leave us a voicemail, an email or a rate and review of the show.

Musical Credit

Thanks to Eli Heckman, Class of 2025, for providing the music in today's episode!

Education Podcast Network

I am proud to announce that the 9th Grade Experience Podcast has joined the Education Podcast Network (EPN). The passionate hosts of the EPN family are made up of a wide variety of teachers, administrators, and educators who are dedicated to bringing you the best in education-related content. The network covers everything from current events in education, technology, and best practices to the latest editorials and more on a regular basis in high quality. To find out more information about all the great shows, visit https://www.edupodcastnetwork.com/

Rosemary Lamparella, the current S.T.E.P. teacher at Emmaus High School, sees in her daily work the importance of helping students adapt, grow, and change to build the skills necessary to become members of a school and local community.

Even though May was Mental Health Awareness Month, she knows the social and emotional challenges high school students face can present throughout the year, even as we approach the summer vacation and strives to provide students the knowledge and support to assist them with their personal development.

In this episode, Ms. Lamparella explores the connection between Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) and better outcomes. She describes the seven factors associated with PCEs and gives actionable steps to take incorporate them into your daily routine.


Topics from this episode include


Her 9th grade experience in a small school with fewer than 100 students in her entire class
Her career shift into education
The definition of resiliency
How Positive Childhood Experiences can shape your future success
The importance of creating a good vocabulary around your feelings and emotions
Identifying the need to practice and develop skills in different areas of your everyday life
The connection between volunteering and gratitude
Why a 15 minute conversation per day with a parent can make a big difference

To learn more about Positive Childhood Experiences, go to PACEs Connection https://www.pacesconnection.com/


Education Podcast Network

I am proud to announce that the 9th Grade Experience Podcast has joined the Education Podcast Network (EPN). The passionate hosts of the EPN family are made up of a wide variety of teachers, administrators, and educators who are dedicated to bringing you the best in education-related content. The network covers everything from current events in education, technology, and best practices to the latest editorials and more on a regular basis in high quality. To find out more information about all the great shows, visit https://www.edupodcastnetwork.com/

Musical Credit

Thanks to Eli Heckman, Class of 2025, for providing the music in today's episode!