This is truly inspirational! Roy Juarez shares with us his journey and insight into book, Homeless by Choice: A Memoir of Love, Hate, and Forgiveness.

An interview with educator and author of the poem-Identity, and his educator wife, share their heartfelt thoughts and experience as American teachers. Listen and share your thoughts.

This interview is an eye opener about high quality programs for linguistically and culturally diverse students. Listen to Dr. Pinkos and share your thoughts.

Dr. Benitez and Dr. Fernandez are two influential educators who speak about higher education with us. Listen and share your thoughts.

Listen to a renowned and charismatic leader and veteran. She passionately speaks about the importance of family engagement.

Dr. Pedraza’s interview informs us that it’s a good idea to have action oriented education in schools to succeed in home, school and life.

Did you know Ethnic Studies contributes to values, healing, empowerment and well-being? Listen to this dialogue and learn about issues with intersectionality. An interview with Dr. Angela Valenzuela, Dr. Abdín Noboa-Rios and Dr. Tony Baez. Raising awareness about leadership, advocacy in education. Ethnic studies and its importance.…

In this interview our focus is on leadership development education. Marisa is a national leading expert, President of Mpowerment.

Did you know research shows that dual language works well? “Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, it is also opening our mind and learning another way to think about things.” – Flora LewisResearch shows that native language is the best tool by which learning is communicated. Students need to be recogniz…

Carlos Jiménez Flores is a storyteller, poet, author and photographer. A Puerto Rican, born in Chicago, he struggled to assimilate into North American culture. he spent his early childhood in Puerto Rico and learned he was born in Chicago when his family returned on his eighth birthday. A product of divorce, living in poverty, English as a second l…

Listen to Dr. Azcoitia speak about the education challenges and being innovative. Did you know that many students in our public schools feel like they don’t belong? Did you know that all students need to be recognized by the assets they bring in order to feel at home in school and learn with ease? I have news for you listeners, some educators do no…

“Conversations about schools involve the power of Will, focus, and commitment.” Ronald R Edmonds Did you know there are dual language public schools teaching in English and a second language? Did you know there are Magnet Schools that specialize in one area and they have criteria for entrance? I wonder Do all students have access to these Magnet Sc…

Welcome to our listeners in the north, south, east, and west. We are EDUCA K16 Podcast bringing distinguished guests with a wealth of knowledge and expertise to cultivate curiosity and provide educational advice and best practices to move the education conversation momentum forward. The pandemic took us to distance learning-more and more students a…

Did you know that student achievement and family engagement are related?-Welcome to our listeners in the north, south, east, and west. We are EDUCA K16 Podcast bringing distinguished guests with a wealth of knowledge and expertise to cultivate curiosity and provide educational advice and best practices to move the education conversation momentum fo…

Listen to Tony Baez as we learn about the resolutions and motions presented to the MIlwaukee Public School Board. All have been adopted and are now policy. From Testing to Bilingual Task Force Resolutions, Mr. Baez works tirelessly to transform how MPS engages in learning. The focus of Tony’s work has been advocacy and the transformation of learnin…

We must work diligently from the inside. Did you know that connecting students as active participants of the communities is an important part of their education? Join our distinguished guest, Tony Baez who has been in education at various levels at different times. We tap into his insights and experiences. There is puzzlement why since the mid 60s …

Did you know education is a reflection of a society? We are igniting a call to action. Data Trends -Are Latinos represented? We are speaking about Latino attainment in education and beyond. Be part of the conversation. She speaks with us about her story. Dr. López was a high school dropout. How did she turn it around? In her early 30’s she was told…

Did you know that if we want to see the future of the country, we can look at the bottom of the population pyramid -students who are 5 yrs or below and that percentage is what will show up in greater numbers in the near future projections? Learn about ethnic groups and their growth rates... 1 in 3 students are Latinx today. We need to understand hi…

Latino growth data is way higher. This is significant to our education conversation today. Welcome to Educa K16, an educational podcast with the vision to raise awareness on providing high quality education via our public education system in the United States -we exist as a call to action to inspire our listeners’ involvement and to walk along with…

Introduction of book author, Dr. Noboa Rios and a focus on what’s to come. Stay tuned weekly.