Breaking down hot educational and therapeutic topics by experts who help children, adolescents, and families. Hosted by Craig Selinger, CEO of Brooklyn Letters and Themba Tutors. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/craig-selinger7/support
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Seminars at Steamboat was founded in 2003 to bring experts on a wide range of public policy topics to the Steamboat community. The seminars are non-partisan and free to the public. The typical format is a 45-to-50-minute presentation followed by a question and answer session. Seminar topics have included the economy, foreign affairs, national security, immigration reform, health care, the media, drugs and sports, the environment, climate change, education, the 9-11 Commission and more.
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Nancy Gibbs: "Policy Issues Driving the 2024 Presidential Election"
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Nancy Reid Gibbs is an author, speaker, presidential historian and commentator on politics and values in the United States. She joined TIME magazine as a part-time fact checker in 1983 and rose to become its Editor-in-Chief in 2013, the first woman to hold the position. She was one of the most published writers in the history of the magazine and wr…
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Andrew Selee: "Root Causes of Immigration Issues at Our Southern Border"
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When Andrew Selee became president of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) in 2018, his predecessor noted that Selee “has a distinguished track record not only as a serious policy scholar but a leader who has thought deeply about think tank strategy and administration.” Those qualities are especially apt for the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpar…
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Nathaniel Keohane: "Climate Change - Status, Outlook, Impacts and Viable Actions"
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Nathaniel Keohane has been called “one of the most original thinkers and inspirational leaders in the climate community.” He is president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), an independent, non-partisan, nonprofit organization known nationally and internationally for its effectiveness in bringing stakeholders together to develop …
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W. Craig Fugate: “Disaster Preparation and Management in the Face of a Changing Climate”
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Craig Fugate is the former administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), during which time he organized recovery efforts for a record eighty-seven disasters in 2011 alone. Before that, as director of the Florida Emergency Management Division, he coordinated the state’s response to Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne (th…
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Heather J. Tanana, J.D.: "Colorado River in Crisis: Learning From the Past to Protect the Future"
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Heather Tanana is highly trained in environmental law and public health, and as a member of the Navajo Nation is dedicated to promoting indigenous rights. She has been asked to contribute to the water chapter for the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), which will analyze the effects of global change on th…
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Matthew Rojansky: "Russia, Ukraine and Beyond – Challenges for the U.S."
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Matthew Rojansky is one of the country’s pre-eminent Russia scholars. In early 2022 he became President and CEO of the U.S.-Russia Foundation, a private grant-making foundation established to promote the development of the private sector and the rule of law in Russia. Since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, he has leveraged his deep knowledge base, exte…
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Wendy Weiser: "Elections on the Brink: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go to Ensure Fairness and Integrity"
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Wendy Weiser directs the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan think tank and public interest law center that works to revitalize, reform, and defend systems of democracy and justice. Her program focuses on voting rights and elections, money in politics and ethics, redistricting and representation, …
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Jamie Metzl: "R/Evolution: Recasting Life in an Age of Radical Biotechnology"
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Jamie Metzl “R/Evolution: Recasting Life in an Age of Radical Biotechnology” Technology Futurist, Geopolitics Expert, Entrepreneur, Sci-Fi Novelist Jamie Metzl is one of the world’s leading technology and healthcare futurists and author of the non-fiction bestseller, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity. He has appeared re…
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Seminars at Steamboat: Christopher Ptomey
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American notions of liberty, property, and the role of government have shaped where we live, who succeeds, and what we must to do to achieve a new ‘American Dream’. Part of that dream for many families is a home of their own. Christopher Ptomey is the Executive Director of the Urban Land Institute’s Terwilliger Center for Housing, which works to pr…
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Cryptocurrencies have come of age holding the potential for faster and cheaper financial transactions than traditional payment models, creating alternative decentralized asset markets and driving significant innovation via the underlying networks that they run on. However, valid concerns exist and range from criminal activities such as money launde…
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Seminars at Steamboat: Dr. Scott Kennedy
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Seminar: U.S.-China Strategic Competition China’s economic competitiveness and international ambitions often pose a direct challenge to the United States and its global interests. Dr. Kennedy’s long experience in China and his expertise in economics and global governance inform his unique insights into the public policy implications of this strateg…
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Seminars at Steamboat: William Galston
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Seminar: Deeply Divided & Closely Divided: Why the Temperature has Been Rising in American Politics The substantive disagreements between the political parties have been deepening for half a century. In the late 1980s, moreover, we entered an era of closely contested elections in which control of Congress and the White House has shifted back and fo…
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Seminars at Steamboat: Camille Busette
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Camille Busette, PhD is the Director of the Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion Initiative, Brookings Intitution’s cross-program initiative focused on issues of equity, racial justice and economic mobility for low-income communities and communities of color. Busette is a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies with affiliated appointments in Economic Studi…
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Seminars at Steamboat: Eric Edelman
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Ambassador Eric Edelman served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republics of Finland and Turkey in the Clinton and Bush Administrations and was Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs. He has been Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary of State, special assistant to Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and spec…
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John D. Leshy is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. He was Solicitor (General Counsel) of the Interior Department throughout the Clinton Administration. Earlier, he was counsel to the Chair of the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, a law professor at Ari…
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Maya MacGuineas is the president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Her areas of expertise include budget, tax and economic policy. As a leading budget expert and a political independent, she has worked closely with members of both parties and serves as a trusted resource on Capitol Hill. She testifies regularly before Co…
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Seminars at Steamboat: Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo
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Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering and the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. An epidemiologi…
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The Foreign Intelligence Threat to the U.S.: Russia, China and Other Bad ActorsJames Bruce, Ph.D., is a former senior executive officer at CIA, an adjunct researcher and former Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown and Florida Atlantic Universities. He also taught as an adjunct at Columbia and Am…
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Teaching Democracy: Civics and Civility in the Classroom and Beyond Originally from the South Side of Chicago, Deval Patrick came to Massachusetts at the age of 14, when he was awarded a scholarship to Milton Academy through the Boston-based organization A Better Chance. After Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he clerked for a federal appella…
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What is a Neuropsychological Evaluation and how can it be performed remotely by a psychologist?
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Dr. A Jordan Wright, Ph.D., ABAP, Faculty and Director, Center for Counseling and Community Wellbeing New York University, specializes in psychological assessment (including learning disabilities and ADHD) and is the author of five books on psychological assessment, discusses online neuropsychological assessments. He answers common questions about …
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Despite her accolades and accomplishments, Dr. Jane, internationally renowned for adoption medicine, openly discusses her obstacles throughout her career. Resiliency is the key to her success.
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Dr. Jane Aronson, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, Director of International Pediatric Health Services, PLLC, Founder and former CEO of Worldwide Orphans 1997-2019, and Director of Global Behavioral Health Network for Children and Young People, who is also known internationally as the Orphan Doctor, reflects on …
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Literacy and the Brain: What You Need to Know.
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Dr. Jan Wasowicz is an ASHA-certified, IL-licensed, and FL-licensed speech-language pathologist with 35+ years of experience as a language, literacy, and learning specialist working with students who have language-based reading, writing, and spelling difficulties and disorders. She has taught numerous university-level courses and is frequently invi…
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Academy Award winner, Peggy Stern, discusses SuperDville, a media channel for students 7-12 years of age with dyslexia and learning issues.
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Academy Award winner, Peggy Stern, who produces and directs documentaries, who struggled with dyslexia as a child, discusses how she created SuperDville, a media channel for students 7-12 years of age with dyslexia and learning issues. The SuperDville curriculum was developed by seminal researchers, therapists, and educators, and stars actual stude…
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Micro-schooling and Equity for All Students: Prenda is the Game Changer.
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Kaity Broadbent, Head of Learning from Prenda, discusses micro-schooling! Kaity is an ardent believer in equity and Prenda's approach to learning. Prenda believes students of different ages can learn collaboratively at their own pace. Flexibility helps students learn through fun engaging activities. Finding each child's internal drive, allowing aut…
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Dr. Mukherjee Discusses her Evolution from India to New York City as a Neuropsychologist who Helps Families Overcome Challenges
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Preetika Mukherjee, who grew up in India, is a pediatric neuropsychologist in private practice in New York City. She specializes in neuropsychological evaluations of children and adolescents. In India, she received her master's in Applied Clinical Psychology. Knowing that she wanted to advance her studies in understanding human behavior, she studie…
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Netiquette in a Virtual Pedagogical World
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Due to a sudden pandemic, a new set of online social norms are being established between educators/therapists and their students/clients. Netiquette is acceptable online behaviors within a network of individuals. Sharon Baum, a NY licensed speech-language pathologist, explains netiquette and its connection to social-emotional learning while virtual…
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Progressive Education for Middle and High School Students
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Patty is a Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn resident, mother of three girls, helps her hustler husband run one of their local businesses, a restaurant, and is the Math Department Head at a Manhattan public school, The Institute for Collaborative Education, 6th-12th grades. Come learn about progressive education, portfolio-based approaches, and how to enco…
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1st Week of all Remote Learning for the 2020-21 School Year: A Middle Schooler Chimes in
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James, a Brooklyn middle school student, discusses his first week of all remote learning from the comfort of his home. Come learn what James enjoys about his online learning setup, what he misses from being physically at school, and what he predicts will happen to his online curriculum as the school year progresses. He also offers several suggestio…
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Mental Health While Parenting During a Pandemic
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Fara Jones, MA, LCSW is a Psychotherapist and Creative Arts Therapist. During this podcast, she discusses how the pandemic is impacting our mental health and provides suggestions for how to best care for ourselves. COVID-19 is best understood through understanding the stages of grief. Acceptance helps us deal with loss. We need to learn to adapt to…
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The Language of Writing and Language-Based Learning Disabilities
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Language is all about being able to communicate expressively and effectively not only through sounds but also through listening, reading, and writing. And for many children who struggle with language, this can lead to further issues with literacy, such as learning to write as well as peers. Watch this video with Dr. Anthony Koutsoftas, Ph.D., CCC-S…
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Approximately 32 million adults in the United States can't read. How can we help?
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Lavinia Mancuso, native New Yorker, teacher, principal, and currently Executive Director of Everyone Reading, joins us to discuss her favorite topic- literacy! She explains why students are still illiterate in the US, and how we can solve this problem. Here are some of her tips: Parents and teachers must teach the five pillars of literacy and tackl…
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What You Need to Know About Students' Rights of Children with Learning Disabilities
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In many instances, learning disabilities are invisible. What many consider as typical behaviors, such as acting out or lack of focus, could turn out to be warning signs of underlying learning or attention difficulties. We have seen parents get caught off-guard when their child is diagnosed with a learning disability, and the process of seeking assi…
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Hearing your child talk for the first time is one of the most magical moments of parenthood. In this episode of the Craig Selinger Podcast, Dr. Michelle Macroy-Higgins, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, speech-language pathologist and associate professor of the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Program at Hunter College, New York, talks about how to diagnose a…
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Founder of The Lang School Talks About Twice Exceptional Students
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In this episode of the Craig Selinger Podcast, Micaela Bracamonte, founder of the first 2e (Twice Exceptional) friendly school in New York City talks about how The Lang School started sixteen years ago when her son was diagnosed as 2e at the age of four. She discusses the evolution of the Lang School and how it incorporates social-emotional learnin…
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Dr. Deara Espinoza, author of Bubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere!, discusses five ways to engage students, based on her doctorate research at the University of Southern California - Los Angeles. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/craig-selinger7/support
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