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Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is the podcast by author/producer Rick Whitaker that puts good books to use for their sleep-inducing qualities--books for which suspense is less important than the music of their language. Books read aloud to prove that, good as a book may be, it's perfectly alright to let it lull you to sleep. Let's face it, nowadays getting to sleep can be tricky. So get into bed, turn off the lights, close your eyes, and listen to Read Me to Sleep, Ricky. Please share this nocturna ...
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The Rock Star Principals' Podcast
Dr. Nicholas Indeglio and Mr. Jonathan Ross
Join your hosts, "The Boss" Jon Ross and "The Doctor of Proctors" Nick Indeglio as they discuss everything and anything related to the Principal-ship and Edu-Leadership in K-12 education. The podcast features special guests with prominent roles relevant to principals all over the world. With a unique blend of humor, timely topics, and "real" talk, the "Odd Couple" of Jon Ross and Nick Indeglio "bring it" each episode. Rock out with "twisted steel and school appeal!"
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"On the Sublime" by Friedrich Schiller (1795)
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"On the Sublime" is an essay from Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays INTRODUCING THE DISSERTATION ON THE “CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ANIMAL AND SPIRITUAL MAN.” BY FRIEDRICK (sp) SCHILLER Library Edition NEW YORK: The Publishers Plate Renting Co. Schiller is perhaps best known worldwide as the author of the "Ode to Joy" Beethoven set in the finale of …
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from The Quarterly #5, Spring 1988: William Tester's "Darling"
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The Quarterly was a literary magazine edited by Gordon Lish from 1987 to 1995. (I was Mr. Lish's editorial assistant in the early '90s.) I'll read just one story from the Spring 1988 issue of the journal: "Darling" by Willam Tester. Gordon Lish is an acclaimed author and editor. A former editor at Esquire and Alfred A. Knopf, he is celebrated for h…
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Barry Hannah's "Behold the Husband in His Perfect Agony"
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For the fifth episode of Season Three, host Rick Whitaker reads a strange and disturbing story by Barry Hannah. First published in Esquire Magazine in the summer of 1976, reprinted in the collection All Our Secrets Are the Same: New Fiction from Esquire, again in Hannah’s 1978 book Airships, and a fourth time in Barry Hannah’s 2010 Long, Last, Happ…
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Stories from The Quarterly (Issue 1, Spring 1987)
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The Quarterly was a literary magazine edited by Gordon Lish from 1987 to 1995. (I was Mr. Lish's editorial assistant in the early '90s.) I'll read three stories from the Spring 1987 first issue of the journal: "The Harvest" by Amy Hempel, "Sea Animals" by Tom Spanbauer, and "The Slit" by Yannick Murphy. Gordon Lish is an acclaimed author and editor…
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Bette Howland: "The Life You Gave Me"
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"The Life You Gave Me," Bette Howland's 1983 story from her collection Things to Come and Go published by Knopf and edited by Gordon Lish. Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.com https://readmetosleepricky.com…
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Host Rick Whitaker's selection of aphorisms. Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.com https://readmetosleepricky.comBy Rick Whitaker
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RAYMOND CARVER'S WILL YOU PLEASE BE QUIET, PLEASE?
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Read Me to Sleep, Ricky's host, Rick Whitaker, reads Raymond Carver's 1964 story "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" With music by Brad Garton. Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.com https://readmetosleepricky.com…
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Season Three of Read Me To Sleep, Ricky features the short story, beginning with two by Katherine Mansfield (1880-1923) read by your host, Rick Whitaker. Both are from her 1922 collection The Garden Party: "Life of Ma Parker" and "The Singing Lesson" with music from The Fairy Queen (1692) by Henry Purcell. Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky i…
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"School Days" is from Richard Howard's 2008 collection of poetry Without Saying. A distinguished poet, critic and translator, Richard Howard held a unique place in contemporary American letters. Howard was credited with introducing modern French fiction—particularly examples of the Nouveau Roman—to the American public; his translation of Charles Ba…
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Read Me to Sleep, Ricky's host Rick Whitaker reads his own selection of aphorisms by Americans: Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Jane Jacobs, Mencken, Santayana, and Aaron Haspel. Music: Frederic Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" Variations Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New …
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The Lady with the Dog, a story by Anton Chekhov
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In tonight's episode of Read Me to Sleep, Ricky, host Rick Whitaker reads a classic love story by the Russian master Anton Chekhov. Published in 1899, translated by Constance Garnett. Music: Tchaikovsky's "Souvenir de Florence," second movement Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contac…
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Special Preview: Rick and Nick's Excellent EdVenture Episode 9
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While you patiently wait for new episodes of the Rock Star Principals Podcast, please enjoy another special preview of Rick and Nick's Excellent EdVenture. Episode 9 features talk about the Search Institute's Developmental Assets, Letting Go to Move Forward, Favorite Jedi, and much much more. Please subscribe and listen to this excellent new FREE e…
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Flowers of Evil: Richard Howard's translation of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal
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Poet and translator par excellence Richard Howard, who was a dear friend, died March 31, 2022 at 92. His 1982 translation of Baudelaire's masterpiece, Les Fleurs du Mal, won the National Book Award. Read here by Rick Whitaker With affectionate thanks to David Alexander Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced…
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Read Me to Sleep, Ricky's host, Rick Whitaker, reads his selection of Blaise Pascal's Pensees interposed with J.S. Bach's Little Preludes and Italian Concerto. Pianist: Glenn Gould Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.com https://readmetosleepricky.com…
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Special Preview: Rick and Nick's Excellent EdVenture Episode 4
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While you're waiting for the Rock Star Principals to return to the airwaves with new content, Dr. Nick invites you to "pass the time" listening to one of his other educational podcasts titled, "Rick and Nick's Excellent EdVenture." Today we provide a full episode of the Excellent EdVenture. The description is below. We encourage you to subscribe an…
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Lojong (Tib. བློ་སྦྱོང་,Wylie: blo sbyong) is a mind training practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition based on a set of aphorisms formulated in Tibet in the 12th century by Chekawa Yeshe Dorje. The practice involves refining and purifying one's motivations and attitudes. The fifty-nine or so slogans that form the root text of the mind training p…
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Read Me to Sleep, Ricky's host Rick Whitaker reads John Gardner's 1971 monster novel GRENDEL (in lower-than-usual monster voice). Music by Brad Garton. Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.com https://readmetosleepricky.com…
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Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story: The Graphic Novel: Alessandro, Brian, Carroll, Michael, White, Edmund, Karash, Igor: 9781603095082: Amazon.com: Books Edmund Valentine White III (born 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and an essayist on literary and social topics. Since 1999 he has been a professor at Princeton Unive…
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Love Elegies: Mark Scott's 'A Bedroom Occupation'
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Read Me to Sleep, Ricky host Rick Whitaker reads a selection from Mark Scott's 2007 collection A Bedroom Occupation. "... the most heart-breaking love poetry since that other Empire fell." --Richard Howard "Is that afterglow or is the house on fire? Scott's work and writing have an almost narcotic power." --David Rakoff "These letters from a self-d…
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Read Me to Sleep, Ricky host Rick Whitaker reads new translations of songs composed 800 years ago. Troubadours were well-known secular entertainers whose songs explored love and politics, mostly love, and mostly "distant love." Troubadours were active during the High Middle Ages, 1100-1350. The word troubadour arose from the Occitan language. Occit…
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James Joyce's "The Dead" with guest artist Carmela Marner
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Read Me to Sleep, Ricky host Rick Whitaker is joined by actress Carmela Marner for a reading of James Joyce's classic story "The Dead." In her 1987 review of John Huston's film based on the James Joyce story, Pauline Kael wrote, 'The announcement that John Huston was making a movie of James Joyce’s “The Dead” raised the question “Why?” What could i…
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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the pre-eminent master of the aphorism in the second half of the 19th century. Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) was one of the greatest of all pianists and his compositions were mostly for solo piano, and most were shorter than ten minutes. For this episode of Read Me to Sleep, Ricky, your host Rick Whitaker reads his own sel…
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Michel Foucault's "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison"
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A reading by host Rick Whitaker of the opening pages of Michel Foucault's 1975 magnum opus Surveiller et Punir: Naissance de la prison translated by Alan Sheridan as Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison published in 1977 by Pantheon Books. "On 2 March 1757 Damiens the regicide was condemned 'to make the amende honorable before the main do…
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The second installment of Herman Melville's leviathan novel Moby Dick read by host Rick Whitaker with music by Brad Garton. Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.com https://readmetosleepricky.comBy Rick Whitaker
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Read Me to Sleep, Ricky host Rick Whitaker reads "On a Winded Civilization," an essay by the Romanian writer E.M. Cioran (1911-1995) from his 1956 collection The Temptation to Exist. The introduction to the English-language edition translated (from the French) by Richard Howard is by Susan Sontag, who wrote: "Cioran's subject: on being a mind, a co…
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The first episode of Read Me to Sleep Ricky's second season is a reading by host Rick Whitaker from his own 2013 novel An Honest Ghost. "Like an Italian micromosaic, whose infinitesimal ceramic tesserae generate an unearthly glow just by being in close proximity to each other, Rick Whitaker's An Honest Ghost is both narrative and objet, a singular …
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Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
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For the 17th episode of Read Me to Sleep, Ricky, host Rick Whitaker reads excerpts from Elizabeth Hardwick's 1979 novel Sleepless Nights. "A brilliant night in New York City. It is Saturday and people with debts are going to restaurants, jumping in taxi-cabs, careening from West to East by way of the underpass through the Park."--- Support the show…
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Camp Cataract, a story by Jane Bowles
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Episode 16 of Read Me to Sleep, Ricky features a 1949 story, Camp Cataract, by Jane Bowles (1917-1973) read by your host, Rick Whitaker. Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.com https://readmetosleepricky.comBy Rick Whitaker
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In this new episode of Read Me to Sleep, Ricky host Rick Whitaker reads Christopher Coe's 1987 short debut novel I Look Divine, first published by Knopf and edited by Gordon Lish. Coe was a classmate at Columbia of Amy Hempel, David Leavitt, and Anderson Ferrell. His second and last book was the novel Such Times. He died of AIDS at 39 in 1994. For …
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"Call me Ishmael." The greatest of American novels, by Herman Melville. Part One: in which Ishmael and Queequog lie abed and together and are married. Support the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.com https://readmetosleepricky.com…
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Confusion, a novella by Stefan Zweig
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Rick Whitaker, host of Read Me to Sleep, Ricky, reads Stefan Zweig's 1927 novella "Confusion." A bewildered young man in Berlin is sent by his father to a university in a small town. There, a brilliant lecture awakens in him a passion for learning—as well as a peculiarly intense fascination with the professor who gave the talk. The student grows cl…
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Ronald Firbank's "The Flower Beneath the Foot"
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Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank was born in 1886, the son of Sir Thomas Firbank, MP, and Lady Firbank. He had an older brother, a younger brother, and a sister. At the age of ten Firbank went briefly to Uppingham School, and then on to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1907. In 1909 he left Cambridge without taking a degr…
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Herland is a utopian novel written in 1915 by American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It describes a society of women who bear children without men, an ideal social order free of war, conflict, and domination. It was first published in monthly installments in 1915 in a magazine edited and written by Gilman. It was followed by its sequel, With H…
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For the tenth episode of "Read Me to Sleep, Ricky," a reading of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1867 translation of Dante's Italian poem "Inferno," introducing American readers to the work of a much-loved poet. Dante's "Divine Comedy" went on to also include "Purgatory" and "Paradise," and Longfellow translated all three. His elaborate and often awkw…
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Tonight, a reading from Leaves of Grass by the supreme American poet, Walt Whitman. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rick-whitaker/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rick-whitaker/supportSupport the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.com https…
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A reading of two short stories by James Joyce from "Dubliners," his only collection of short fictions, published in 1914. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rick-whitaker/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rick-whitaker/supportSupport the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. …
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Tonight I'll read Emily Post's original book, "Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home" published 100 years ago in August 1922. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rick-whitaker/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rick-whitaker/supportSupport the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and p…
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A reading of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 story of female hysteria The Yellow Wallpaper. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rick-whitaker/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rick-whitaker/supportSupport the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.c…
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In this episode I read Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1844 essay "Experience." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rick-whitaker/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rick-whitaker/supportSupport the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City. Contact: rickawhitaker@gmail.com https://readmetosle…
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A reading aloud by host Rick Whitaker of Oscar Wilde's famous 1897-8 poem written after his release from prison--in what was called Reading Gaol. It was first published anonymously, with just the name "C.3.3." (Cell block C, landing 3, cell 3). Wilde, having been convicted of "gross indecency," was largely persona non grata after his sentence, and …
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Dorothy Parker's "Men I'm Not Married To"
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Tonight I'll read aloud Dorothy Parker's medium-funny, short book of 1922 "Men I'm Not Married To." With music by Brad Garton. We hope this will put you right to sleep. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rick-whitaker/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rick-whitaker/supportSupport the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted b…
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Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
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In the second episode of Read Me to Sleep, Ricky, I'll read from Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1922 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rick-whitaker/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rick-whitaker/supportSupport the show Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is hosted by Rick Whitaker and produced in New York City…
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"Geography and Plays" by Gertrude Stein, published in 1922.
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Tonight I’ll be reading aloud from Gertrude Stein’s 1922 collection Geography and Plays. Following an earnest introduction by Sherwood Anderson, the experimental texts by Stein include Susie Asado, Ada, Miss Furr and Miss Skeene, A Collection, France, Americans, Italians, Ladies' Voices, and many many more. So get into bed, turn off the lights, clo…
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Read Me to Sleep, Ricky is the new podcast by Rick Whitaker that uses good books for their musical language and sleep-inducing qualities read aloud to prove that good as the book may be there is no need to hear its ending and perfectly alright to let it lull you to sleep. Getting to sleep can be tricky. So go to bed and listen to Read Me to Sleep, …
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Episode 140: The Rock Star Principals' Podcast
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Episode 140 of "The Rock Star Principals' Podcast" is brought to you by Lexia Learning. Lots of hectic excitement and zany energy along with the usual dose of Edu-Awesomeness this week with RSP as the boys record while Nick is driving and Jon is in his office using a phone recording app: The 11 P's of Rock Star Principal Leadership: Pragmatism Movi…
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Episode 139: The Rock Star Principals' Podcast
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The Rock Star Principals are back and once again brought to you by Lexia Learning! In this week's episode, Jon and Nick bring you two awesome segments discussing: Leadership Lessons from "Yellowstone" Kevin Costner's Leadership Quotes "You can't teach toughness. You're either born a willow or you're born an oak." "There's once constant in life: you…
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Episode 138: The Rock Star Principal's Podcast
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The Rock Star Principals, Jon and Nick, are thrilled to be back on the airwaves! Episode 138 is sponsored by Lexia Learning (lexialearning.com) and "brings it" with three awesome segments: "Getting Up to Speed" The boys talk about the incredibly unique 2020-2021 school year, challenges, opportunities for success, and the uncharted future ahead. A W…
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The Rock Star Principals, Jon and Nick, interview the NASSP Principal of the Year, Richard Gordon, who is from the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Richard is the principal of Paul Robeson High School in Philadelphia. You don't want to miss this 43 minute conversation where Richard demonstrates his passion, dedication, and determination to see e…
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Episode 136: The Rock Star Principals' Podcast
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The Rock Stars discuss "toxic positivity" and drop some educational leadership wisdom along the way. Mike Indeglio visits to lend his perspective to the topic as well. This is a timely topic just in time for Election Day!
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Episode 135: The Rock Star Principals' Podcast
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Elementary school students returned to their buildings in the Downingtown Area School District for the first time in 226 days. Jon and Nick were on hand with Melanie Susi to help with the big day. The three of them discuss some big picture observations from that big first day.
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