In this episode, host Lindsay Persohn shares reflections on Season 4, a preview of Season 5, updates on the team's research around scholarly podcasting, and gratitude for support and collaborations with team members.
Stay connected with us on social media for the latest updates. Thank you for being part of our Classroom Caffeine community, and we can’t wait to share Season Five with you!
In this episode, host Lindsay Persohn shares reflections on Season 4, a preview of Season 5, updates on the team's research around scholarly podcasting, and gratitude for support and collaborations with team members.
Stay connected with us on social media for the latest updates. Thank you for being part of our Classroom Caffeine community, and we can’t wait to share Season Five with you!
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Education research has a problem. The work of brilliant education researchers often doesn't reach the practice of brilliant teachers. Classroom Caffeine is here to help. In each episode, I talk with a top education researcher or expert educator about what they have learned from their research and experiences. So pour a cup of your favorite drink and join me, your host, lindsay Persaud, for Classroom Caffeine research to energize your teaching practice. Hello Classroom Caffeine listeners. This is one of those episodes where it's just me wrapping up season four and looking ahead to season five of the show.
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Season four included episodes from Stephanie Lemley, robert Patron, katherine Compton-Lilley, pamela Mason, elena Forzani, michael Spikes, hiller Spires, brad Robinson, emily Lemieux, tiffany Boyd, christina Dobbs and Meg Jones. One strong theme in season four was an expansion of how we might think of literacies. I talked with guests about disciplinary literacies, including areas like agricultural literacies, media literacies, climate literacies and artificial intelligence. We talked about approaches to literacy and, in particular, re-examining how a diverse range of literacies are valued, or, maybe more appropriately, undervalued, in schools. We talked about these things in critical and inclusive ways. Members of the team, including Stephanie Branson and Leah Berger, presented with me at the Literacy Research Association Conference in Atlanta, georgia, and due to weather delays. I did not make it to the American Educational Research Association Conference in Philadelphia, pennsylvania, but Leah and Stephanie both represented the show very well at our sessions there. Most recently, leah and I presented the brand new EPOD or Education Podcasting Conference in London, england. There we were able to connect with a really diverse group of scholars and practitioners who are largely from fields like broadcasting and even advertising, as well as, of course, higher education.
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This year our team has published a multiple case study of podcasting, and particularly scholarly podcasting in innovative higher education. We'll post a link to that open access publication in the show notes. Stephanie and I also have a single case study of classroom caffeine that is currently in press with Publishing Research Quarterly. Once that is available and in print, we will put that on our publications page as well. Stephanie and I also have a scoping review of scholarly podcasting that's currently in peer review. Leah and I are finishing up a content analysis of past Classroom Caffeine episodes and what I think we're learning from this is that there are some really significant messages that come from the field of literacy research that are not always informing the world of politics around education and sending many messages about what is positive and most productive in instruction. We have a couple other things in the works that are in the peer review process right now that are in the peer review process. Right now we have a manuscript related to our pilot iteration of our pod clubs, as well as a chapter that we are drafting to submit for the EPOD conference proceedings book.
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Speaking of pod clubs, we will be hosting a virtual pod club beginning in late August. This will happen online live synchronously every other Wednesday evening, eastern. So a pod club is a lot like a book club, except rather than a print text as the shared text for those conversations, we will be using podcast episodes. We want to facilitate interest-driven and tailored professional learning for teachers through podcasts as the shared texts. So if you or someone you know might be interested in participating in our virtual pod clubs, we'll post the flyer in the show notes. Follow our social media page, where we will post updates about our pod clubs as well about our pod clubs as well. Our upcoming virtual pod clubs are partially sponsored by the University of South Florida David C Anshun Center for the Advancement of Teaching. We are very grateful to the Anshun Center for their support in coordinating our virtual pod clubs, promoting them as well as providing some financial support, we are also using our pod club work as a foundation for reorganizing our website into self-directed and self-paced micro professional learning opportunities, so stay tuned for that.
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I also want to express my gratitude for philanthropic support through the University of South Florida's Women in Leadership and Philanthropy. University of South Florida's Women in Leadership and Philanthropy. Last year, I think, I shared with you that I was awarded their Dr Kathleen Moore Faculty Excellence Award. The funding that came with that award we used to employ Abaya Valuru, who became our marketing specialist for the show. She is the reason why we have a branded presence now on Instagram and Facebook. She also developed our newsletter known as the Espresso Shot. You can subscribe for the newsletter through our website and, of course, you're always welcome to follow us on Instagram and Facebook. We're also grateful to the University of South Florida Sarasota Manatee Campus Office of Research for partial seed funding for the Pod Club pilot, as well as the multiple case study that was recently published in Innovative Higher Education. I would be remiss if I did not express my gratitude to the USF College of Education for supporting Leah's work on this show and several well, maybe many other collaborative projects. One of my goals is to always offer Classroom Caffeine without paywalls or advertisements. So production costs for the show, including our podcast hosting website, buzzsprout, and our website hosting, which is through Squarespace, as well as the web domain name fees, are all funded by me personally, and that, again, is to keep you, our listeners, from ever having to pay to hear from the exceptional scholars in the field of literacy that are featured on the show.
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So what's coming up in season five? We have several returning guests who continue to do really influential work in the field, and we'll also hear from voices that are possibly familiar from other venues. So you'll hear from Rob Tierney and David Pearson. In fact, they will kick us off in our first episode with a conversation about a recent publication that they wrote in response to conversations around the science of reading. We also have Margaret Vaughn and Dixie Massey coming for a returning episode about some new work that they're producing together, and you'll also hear from Jennifer Saravallo. You will also hear from guests like the book whisperer herself, donalyn Miller, as well as Donna Scanlon, who has done a lot of work in the area of supporting students with reading difficulties and dyslexia. We'll feature Diana Townsend, who talks about word knowledge and vocabulary for a very wide audience of students, and we have Dr Mary Ellen Vogt, who has been in the field of literacy for decades. She's a member of the Reading Hall of Fame and shares just a really wonderful conversation about her work. So, while it won't be the only topic of conversation, many of season five episodes do focus on understanding the current debates around the science of reading. Guests offer research findings, experiences and advice to help contextualize the current swing in the instructional and political pendulum.
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I hope you'll tune in and talk about the show with your colleagues and others who are interested in literacy and literacy education. So, as always, I want to extend my sincerest thanks and appreciation to the Classroom Caffeine team. Leah Berger is a doctoral student in literacy studies and I call her research assistant extraordinaire, who supports research and production of the show, as well as many other projects. I'm forever grateful to Dr Stephanie Branson, who is an assistant professor of literacy studies at Northern Arizona University, for her continuous website development and updates. And, of course, I am grateful to Leah, stephanie and Kristen Guerin, who's a doctoral candidate and research assistant in literacy studies at USF, for their research collaborations. The show probably would not have gotten off the ground without Dr Chaba Oshaf, who is an assistant professor of instruction at the University of South Florida. He's also the host and producer of Pilgrim, of the Metaverse and Spearheads so many other cool projects.
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I want to extend my thanks to Abaya Valuru, who is a master's student in marketing in the Mooma College of Business, for working diligently as our marketing support for Classroom Caffeine. I'm also grateful to a larger team of podcasters and researchers, particularly our research assistant and doctoral student in anthropology at the University of South Florida. Emma Abel Selby, who has kept a couple of large projects moving along in big collaborations with folks like Dr Raina LaTorno, who's the director of the Florida Center for Nursing and assistant professor in the College of Nursing at USF. She's also the creator and host of Frontline Nursing. Jessica Semprich, who is the University Academic Affairs Librarian for the USF Sarasota Manatee campus and also a doctoral candidate in the College of Education. Tom Wolfe, who's editor in chief of University Communications and Marketing Department at USF, as well as a host of Inside USF podcast. Matt Torrance, associate librarian for the School of Geosciences, college of Marine Science and the Patel College of Global Sustainability, and also the host of the Calling Earth podcast. Jason Bozar, who's our digital scholarship and publishing librarian at the University of South Florida. Bozar, who's our digital scholarship and publishing librarian at the University of South Florida. Allison Semulevich, who is an academic affairs librarian at the University of South Florida and also the co-host of the podcast Faculty on Tap. And Audrey Holtzman, director of Marketing for the College of Nursing and the producer of Trailblazing Nursing hosted by College of Nursing Dean Dr Usha Menon.
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I want to invite you, our listeners, to engage with us on social media. Specifically, our Instagram presence has improved tremendously with the support of Abaya and our Classroom Caffeine Facebook page. Follow us there, as well as Twitter at Classroom Caffeine. And, of course, I want to thank you, our listeners, for making this show a success. Season five saw several landmark occasions. We currently have more than 25,000 downloads for the show and it has been heard in over 100 countries around the world. So thank you for listening, thank you for talking about what you hear and thank you for the work that you do with children every day. Stay tuned. We look forward to engaging with you during season five For the good of all students.
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Classroom Caffeine aims to energize education, research and practice. If this show gives you things to think about, help us spread the word. Talk to your colleagues and educator friends about what you hear. You can support the show by subscribing, liking and reviewing this podcast through your podcast provider. Visit classroomcaffeinecom, where you can subscribe to receive our short monthly newsletter, the Espresso Shot. On our website, you can also learn more about each guest, find transcripts for our episodes, explore topics using our drop-down menu of tags, request an episode topic or potential guest. Support our research through our listener survey or learn more about the research we're doing on our publications page. Connect with us on social media through Instagram, facebook and Twitter. We would love to hear from you. Special thanks to the Classroom Caffeine team Leah Berger, abaya Valuru, stephanie Branson and Shaba Oshfath. As always, I raise my mug to you teachers. Thanks for joining me.
