Tag Teacher of the Year

Education, Leadership, Principal, School

PMP195: Instruction from a Distance with Jena Nelson

During school closures and remote learning, maintaining connection with students has been an enormous puzzle to solve. When 8th grade teacher Jena Nelson, from Deer Creek Middle School in Edmond, Oklahoma, switched to online delivery, she looked at this new…

William D. Parker
May 21, 2020

Education, Interviews, Leadership, Podcast, School

PMP:045 Shawn Sheehan “Teach Like Me” (Lessons in Risk, Failure and Wow)

In this episode, I sit down with Shawn Sheehan and talk about the lessons from his life, teaching, and advocacy for education. Shawn is the 2016 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year and was a finalist for National Teacher of the…

William D. Parker
December 7, 2016