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How Autism Affects Family Life | Ep.52 Mar 11, 2019

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A disability can affect entire families in ways that are not yet well understood. While much has been done to understand how people as individuals are impacted, some researchers are now starting to look at how a single diagnosis or a disability can spread outward, to impact the lives of everyone in a family.

The Social Emotional Sides Of Teaching | Ep.51 Feb 26, 2019

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As an award-wining teacher, Benjamin Walker is interested putting what he calls the “human side of the child first,” which means caring about their social and emotional well-being, as well as their academic performance.

When Academic Advising Gets Personal | Ep.50 Feb 13, 2019

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Planning for the future can be fun and exciting, but it can also be intimidating and overwhelming. Sometimes it’s all of these things at once, especially for college students, who are continually plotting a course into the unknown.

But that is where Ashleigh Dubois comes in. As a Miami graduate with a degree in family studies, Ashleigh is now an academic advisor at Northeast Lakeview College. She is also a recent recipient of the prestigious 18 of the Last 9 Award, which honors Miami alumni who have made outstanding contributions to their field.

School Decline | Episode 49 Jan 29, 2019

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When we talk about struggling schools, or schools in decline, we often talk only about the challenges of certain schools in certain neighborhoods. But Meredith Wronowski, Miami University visiting assistant professor of educational leadership, is exploring this idea of school decline in a much broader way.

Critical Literacy | Episode 48 Jan 17, 2019

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Hear from Katherine Batchelor about how critical literacy can help future teachers take a step back, and get a clearer look at a bigger cultural picture. And she’ll also talk about some new research that helping students see the world in new and sometimes eye-opening ways.

Urban Cohort Inspires Radical Empathy and Social Change | Episode 47 Jan 02, 2019

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Empowerment is for everyone. This idea is championed by those who take action, get involved, and try to make a difference. And at Miami, these ideals are embodied by a program called the Urban Cohort. And what makes this program so unique is how it’s grounded in community life in very, very real ways.

Amid A Teenage E-Cigarette Epidemic | Episode 46 Dec 17, 2018

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Electronic cigarettes are spreading like a wave across this country. Just three years after hitting the market, e-cigarettes are being used by teenagers almost everywhere. Even the FDA has recently called it an epidemic.

Comic Books Promote Public Health | Episode 45 Dec 03, 2018

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Even though we have a better understanding of what’s healthy. And what’s not. Improving public health is still tremendously difficult. Because changing attitudes and behaviors is never easy. After all, how do you get people to first pay attention to accurate and relevant information, and then actually get them to do something about it? So in this episode, we’ll hear about how a local community is making a calculated and creative public health initiative to try and communicate the right message, to the right audience, at the right time.

How Fifth-Grade Students Became Citizen Activists | Episode 44 Nov 19, 2018

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Back when Brian Schultz was a 5th-grade teacher in a struggling urban school, he asked his students to name some issues they could address through a class project. But when his students decided that they really needed was a whole new school building, no one could have predicted how the project would have unfolded from there. But their efforts soon attracted national media attention and, eventually, even inspired a book called Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way, which now in its 2nd edition. Brian Schultz is now a Miami University professor of teacher education, and today he’s here to talk about this incredible project, the new edition of his book, the lasting impact it’s had on some of this students, and more.

Bringing More Diversity to the World of Robotics - with Katie Henry | Episode 43 Nov 06, 2018

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What do you know about building a robot? It’s not a subject that most people would claim to know a lot about. And even despite the growing opportunities across many engineering and computer science-related fields today, there are still many barriers that prevent so many people -- especially younger students who come from families or schools that lack the proper resources – from learning about robotics, and why that’s now so important. But this is exactly what one former teacher is working very hard to change.

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