Episode #144: Merlyna Valentine

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MORE EPISODES Merlyna Mathieu Valentine is an international speaker, author, and consultant. She retired after thirty years having served as a teacher, principal, and executive director in an extraordinarily successful school district in Louisiana. Her transformational leadership as a school principal resulted in her school’s recognition as a “Top Gains” school. Ms. Valentine has received numerous state, national, and international … Read More

Episode #134: Allyson Apsey

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Allyson Apsey has been an educator for more than 23 years; a school leader for nineteen of those years. Despite the fact that she never wanted to set foot in a school again after high school graduation, there is nowhere else she’d rather spend her days than in classrooms. The challenges and delights of being a principal fill her days … Read More

Episode #132: Matthew Bowerman

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Matthew J. Bowerman has always sought to serve others. His career in education has spanned over 23 years, teaching in middle and high school as a Theatre, Special Education, English, and Reading teacher. He is the recipient of an EMMY Award, as well as a CINE Golden Eagle Film Award for Writing/Directing the educational short, “BusSTOP,” addressing the bullying crisis … Read More

Episode #130: Stephanie Rothstein

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Stephanie Rothstein is an Educational Leader focused on making education more collaborative and less competitive. She advocates for modeling the risks we expect of our students and shared about this in her TedX Talk “My Year of Yes to Me” published on Ted.com. In her 18 plus years in education, Stephanie has taught grades 9-12 English, Yearbook, AVID and chaired … Read More

Episode #126: Chuck Moss

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Chuck Moss is the Director of Innovation & Development at Dinwiddie County Public Schools – Dinwiddie, VA; Presenter; Speaker; Chuck has 25 years of experience in education. He has been a teacher, a coach, an assistant principal, a principal, and now a director. His most important role is that of husband and father. Follow Chuck on Twitter: @dcpsmoss IG: @dcpsmoss … Read More