SupportED Learning Podcast

Dr. Joe

On a mission to speak with global education experts on how we can revolutionize the education system, especially in the dawn of AI.

  1. 1d ago

    Episode 77 - Apprenticeship Advocate: The Four-Year Degree Is a Financial Trap for Most Students - Ryan Craig

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Ryan Craig, managing director at Achieve Partners and author of A New U and Apprentice Nation, to unpack why the four-year college degree is no longer the safe bet most families assume it is. Dr. Joe and Ryan discuss the “great misalignment” between what colleges produce and what employers actually need, the four specific scenarios where college still delivers strong ROI, why entry-level jobs now require experience that new graduates don’t have, how apprenticeships are expanding beyond the building trades into tech, healthcare, and finance, and what AI is about to do to internships and junior-level positions. This episode is especially useful for parents of high schoolers weighing the college decision, families concerned about student debt and return on investment, educators rethinking career and technical education pathways, and anyone curious about the earn-and-learn alternatives gaining ground across the economy. 📲 Connect with them: https://www.achievepartners.com Newsletter: https://www.alchemy.works 📲 Learn more about us: https://supportedtutoring.com/ Facebook: Dr. Joe Instagram: @dr_joe_ap_exams Book a call: supportedtutoring.com/book-call-youtube Thanks for tuning in to the SupportED Learning Podcast with Dr. Joe. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe for more insights on education, critical thinking, and AI integration in learning. Visit our website at supportedtutoring.com Remember to share this podcast with fellow parents and educators who are passionate about reimagining education for tomorrow's world. Until next time, keep supporting learning!

  2. 3d ago

    Episode 76 - Beverly Hills Tutoring Founder: 100 Hours Of Tutoring Will Not Help Your Kid - Mariya Pasheva

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Mariya Pasheva, founder and CEO of Tutor Coach America, a Beverly Hills education agency working across K-12 tutoring, standardized test prep, executive function coaching, and support for neurodivergent learners. Dr. Joe and Mariya discuss why she treats academic struggle as two problems rather than one, content knowledge and psychological readiness, and why most families only ever pay for the first, how test anxiety is frequently a preparation and organization problem rather than a mindset problem, what tutors most often get wrong when working with students who have ADHD or dyslexia, why she believes buying more tutoring hours is the wrong measure of value, the simple diagnostic she gives parents of observing one ordinary week before intervening, and why she considers it a failure if a student still needs her. This episode is especially useful for parents of bright students who are falling behind, families of neurodivergent learners, and anyone deciding whether to hire a tutor. 📲 Connect with them: https://tutorcoachamerica.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tutorcoachamerica/ 📲 Learn more about us: https://supportedtutoring.com/ Facebook: Dr. Joe Instagram: @dr_joe_ap_exams Book a call: supportedtutoring.com/book-call-youtube Thanks for tuning in to the SupportED Learning Podcast with Dr. Joe. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe for more insights on education, critical thinking, and AI integration in learning. Visit our website at supportedtutoring.com Remember to share this podcast with fellow parents and educators who are passionate about reimagining education for tomorrow's world. Until next time, keep supporting learning!

  3. Oct 9

    Episode 75 - InGenius Prep CEO: Only Two Things Matter - Joel Butterly

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Joel Butterly, co-founder and CEO of InGenius Prep, a Yale Law and Dartmouth graduate who built his firm around a large team of former admissions officers from schools including Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. Dr. Joe and Joel discuss his argument that roughly 70 to 80% of an admissions decision comes down to just two variables and why most of what families worry about is noise, how institutional priorities quietly determine outcomes and why an applicant’s intended major can dramatically change their odds at a given school, what holistic admissions actually means when one reader handles well over a thousand applications a cycle, why colleges want well-rounded classes rather than well-rounded students and what that means for how a teenager should spend their time, when in a student’s career planning actually pays off, and why he believes much of his own industry delivers no measurable value. This episode is especially useful for parents of eighth through tenth graders planning ahead, families evaluating college consultants, and anyone trying to understand why strong students get rejected. 📲 Connect with them: https://ingeniusprep.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Ingeniusprep 📲 Learn more about us: https://supportedtutoring.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drjoeAP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr_joe_ap_exams/ Thanks for tuning in to the SupportED Learning Podcast with Dr. Joe. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe for more insights on education, critical thinking, and AI integration in learning. Visit our website at supportedtutoring.com Remember to share this podcast with fellow parents and educators who are passionate about reimagining education for tomorrow's world. Until next time, keep supporting learning!

  4. Oct 5

    Episode 74 - ex-UPenn Admissions Officer: Why Your Kid's Perfect Application Gets Rejected - Jayson Weingarten

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Jayson Weingarten, senior consultant at Ivy Coach and a former assistant director of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania, where he evaluated thousands of applications and took part in the confidential committee deliberations behind Ivy League decisions. Dr. Joe and Jayson discuss how applications actually move through reading and selection and why most receive only single-digit minutes of attention, why one individual reader often becomes a student's sole advocate in committee, why Ivy Coach argues for a well-lopsided applicant rather than a well-rounded one and what a genuine singular hook looks like in practice, how early decision helps strategic applicants and does nothing for unqualified ones, why being described as hard working in a recommendation letter can work against a student, and why the phrase passion project is among the clearest signals of an over-engineered application. This episode is especially useful for families targeting highly selective schools, parents of students building activity profiles, and anyone trying to understand what actually happens after the application is submitted. 📲 Connect with them: https://www.ivycoach.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Ivycoach 📲 Learn more about us: https://supportedtutoring.com/ Facebook: Dr. Joe Instagram: @dr_joe_ap_exams Thanks for tuning in to the SupportED Learning Podcast with Dr. Joe. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe for more insights on education, critical thinking, and AI integration in learning. Visit our website at supportedtutoring.com Remember to share this podcast with fellow parents and educators who are passionate about reimagining education for tomorrow's world. Until next time, keep supporting learning!

  5. Oct 1

    Episode 73 - Founder Of HECA, 30 Years Advising: Student-First Match Beats Prestige - Cyndy McDonald

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Cyndy McDonald, certified educational planner, founder of the Higher Education Consultants Association, instructor in UCLA Extension's College Counseling Cehttps://www.instagram.com/dr_joe_ap_exams/?hl=enrtificate program, and creator of the first college planning software. Dr. Joe and Cyndy discuss why she describes families and colleges as speaking two different languages and what it takes to translate between them, how she developed her student-first match approach using surveys and self-reflection rather than rankings, why families should begin the conversation as early as sixth grade rather than junior year, what distinguishes a genuinely good educational consultant from a mediocre one and the single question families should use to tell the difference, how overburdened school counselors leave families uninformed and misinformed, and why she considers course rigor the most important thing a ninth or tenth grader can focus on. This episode is especially useful for first-generation families, parents of younger high schoolers planning ahead, anyone considering hiring a college consultant, and school counselors and independent consultants in the field. 📲 Connect with them: https://www.cyndymcdonald.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CyndyMcDonaldsChannel Email: Cyndy@cyndymcdonald.com 📲 Learn more about us: https://supportedtutoring.com/ Facebook: Dr. Joe Instagram: @dr_joe_ap_exams  Thanks for tuning in to the SupportED Learning Podcast with Dr. Joe. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe for more insights on education, critical thinking, and AI integration in learning. Visit our website at supportedtutoring.com Remember to share this podcast with fellow parents and educators who are passionate about reimagining education for tomorrow's world. Until next time, keep supporting learning!

  6. Sep 26

    Episode 72 - Certified Financial Planner: Your Family Actually Qualifies for Aid - Ann Garcia

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Ann Garcia, certified financial planner, wealth advisor at the Mather Group, and author of How to Pay for College, known to many families as The College Financial Lady. Dr. Joe and Ann discuss why nearly every family qualifies for some form of aid and how to identify which scholarships a student is actually eligible for, how to read a financial aid award letter and separate genuine grant money from loans and work study repackaged as aid, why families miss Parent PLUS loans buried in their package, how to use the 75th percentile data on collegedata.com to find schools likely to offer merit money, practical ways to start and grow a 529 even on a tight budget, and why she considers chasing prestige at any price one of the most damaging financial decisions American families make. This episode is especially useful for families earning too much for traditional need-based aid but facing an eighty thousand dollar sticker price, parents of younger children starting to save, and anyone about to compare award letters. 📲 Connect with them: https://howtopayforcollege.com/about Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@howtopayforcollege 📲 Learn more about us: https://supportedtutoring.com/ Facebook: Dr. Joe Instagram: @dr_joe_ap_exams  Thanks for tuning in to the SupportED Learning Podcast with Dr. Joe. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe for more insights on education, critical thinking, and AI integration in learning. Visit our website at supportedtutoring.com Remember to share this podcast with fellow parents and educators who are passionate about reimagining education for tomorrow's world. Until next time, keep supporting learning!

  7. Sep 23

    Episode 71 - SAT Tutor With 275K Followers: Stop Sending Your Kid My Videos - Daniel Ryave

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Daniel Ryave, founder of SAT Prep Tutor Daniel, who taught high school sophomores in Togo as a Peace Corps volunteer and earned a master's in public policy at Carnegie Mellon before building a following of more than 275,000 students across social platforms. Dr. Joe and Daniel discuss how the digital SAT's adaptivity works at the module level rather than question by question and why landing in the easier second module limits a student's possible score, how to build an effective study plan using only free resources like Khan Academy and the College Board question bank, why doing 20 to 30 questions a day with careful review beats doing a hundred, how test anxiety tends to affect both the least and most prepared students, why he is strongly opposed to AI-generated practice questions, and what he wishes parents would stop doing. This episode is especially useful for students starting prep from scratch, families who can't afford expensive programs, and parents who suspect they may be adding to their child's stress. 📲 Connect with them: https://satpreptutordaniel.wordpress.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SATpreptutor Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@satpreptutor 📲 Learn more about us: https://supportedtutoring.com/ Facebook: Dr. Joe Instagram: @dr_joe_ap_exams  Thanks for tuning in to the SupportED Learning Podcast with Dr. Joe. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe for more insights on education, critical thinking, and AI integration in learning. Visit our website at supportedtutoring.com Remember to share this podcast with fellow parents and educators who are passionate about reimagining education for tomorrow's world. Until next time, keep supporting learning!

  8. Sep 21

    Episode 70 - UWorld College Readiness Director: Practice Tests Teach You Nothing - Philip Bates

    Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the SupportED Learning Podcast, Dr. Joe sits down with Philip Bates, director of college readiness at UWorld and a former teacher and principal who led elementary, junior high, and high school campuses before moving into educational technology. Dr. Joe and Philip discuss why taking practice test after practice test is an inefficient way to prepare and what immediate feedback does instead, why roughly half of an AP exam is essay-based and why students consistently overrate their own writing, what genuine classroom rigor looks like compared to simply assigning more content, why executive function skills have to be explicitly taught rather than assumed, how families should evaluate the crowded market of free resources and paid tutoring, and how he coached his own high school senior to a significant SAT improvement using short daily sessions and an error log. 📲 Connect with them: https://www.uworld.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UWorldofficial 📲 Learn more about us: https://supportedtutoring.com/ Facebook: Dr. Joe Instagram: @dr_joe_ap_exams  Thanks for tuning in to the SupportED Learning Podcast with Dr. Joe. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe for more insights on education, critical thinking, and AI integration in learning. Visit our website at supportedtutoring.com Remember to share this podcast with fellow parents and educators who are passionate about reimagining education for tomorrow's world. Until next time, keep supporting learning!

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On a mission to speak with global education experts on how we can revolutionize the education system, especially in the dawn of AI.

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    Dr. Joe
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
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    76
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