Anette reads an article Celebrate Education, an effort to promote educational attainment in the Texas Panhandle that partnered with Panhandle Twenty/20 and others. May the big skies of the Texas Panhandle inspire you!
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Anette visits with Patti Everitt about charter schools in Texas. They explore how charters operate and are funded in Texas, the systems and protocols in place to approve them, and the increasingly concerning growth in number of charters and tax dollars spent on them. Patti Everitt is a consultant on state education policy with a focus on the impact of charter schools on public education. She collaborates with many statewide education organizations, school districts, and parent groups to increase understanding about how charter schools operate and to make charter schools more transparent.
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Seventeen years ago, Panhandle Twenty/20 officially launched in a community event attended by several hundred community leaders and others. Today, Dr. Russell Lowery-Hart serves as guest-host to interview Anette about those beginnings, and the journey they have been on together since. Special intro from an incredibly relevant blogpost written by Seth Godin.
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Anette shares her recent op-ed about what she considers overreach by the current commissioner of the Texas Education Agency. First picked up by the newspaper in Denton, this editorial then got highlighted by Diane Ravitch on her blog. Links to the CRPE Report and Texas Tribune interview provided, and Anette strongly encourages public ed advocates to become acquainted with this information. Photo courtesy of Cowgirls and Cowboys in the West.
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Anette visits with her friend, America Adame, who shares her inspiring story of how education and hard work helped her move out of poverty and into success. Anette first met America when she was a single mom of two young children while taking 21 hours of coursework in summer school at Amarillo College. America is an amazing young lady, so please enjoy her honesty in sharing her journey so far.
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Anette met Dr. Peter Hammer, the A. Alfred Taubman Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law Schoo. Hammer has taught at Wayne Law since 2003 and is the director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne Law. The Keith Center is dedicated to promoting the educational, economic and political empowerment of under-represented communities in urban areas and to ensuring that the phrase “equal justice under law” applies to all members of society.
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Anette's sound and video magician son, Darwin Carlisle, talks all about the importance of sound and storytelling through podcasting in this episode. Check out his knowledge here, and his work at First Class Reels.
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In another Summer Short, Anette visits the ghost town of Oil Hill, Kansas, where her grandmother had once lived. Enjoy!
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In another Summer Short, Anette explores the wonders of nature, a lifelong passion of hers! Enjoy!
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For this week's Summer Short, Anette shares a bit of Texas history about the namesake of her street, and about the use of practicing a podcast using 60 second recordings!
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This summer short brings you sounds and mental images of Mother Nature's fireworks in honor of the Fourth of July holiday! Anette enjoys sharing the sounds of a thunderstorm from her front porch in Amarillo, Texas! Enjoy!
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Yes, she knows she is long past 40 years old, but after 40 podcast episodes, Anette decided it was time to provide an overview! She attempts to categorize the various podcasts, though that is a challenge, as there is so much overlap! She has had the opportunity to interview an amazing variety of leaders in education, policy, and more, but is more amazed to call these folks her friends. Listen up to learn about some things you may have missed, and also for Anette's political endorsement on the primary runoff for Congressional District 13. Enjoy! And if you wonder what the image is, Anette mentions it at the very beginning!
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For Father's Day, all three boys interview their dad about learning, reading, his favorites (of many things), and rehash their childhood story time around the bedroom "campfire." Walker leads the conversation with their dad, Taylor Carlisle, and Darwin and Everett join in. Get some book recommendations, medical perspective, the story characters he told the boys about, and find out what he thought of his teacher, Miss Tipton! Lots of love, laughs, and fun listening. Enjoy!
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Anette has a conversation with her inspirational friend and educator, Glenda Moore, about Glenda's passion for children, education, and helping others, including folks in war-torn Ukraine. Glenda is an educator and missionary. Glenda has given her heart to education, children, and the war on poverty. She not only is an assistant principal by day, she also runs a nonprofit to raise money for the funds to care for orphans and for the elderly and disabled that live in the active war zone there. Kind House Ukraine Bakery, KHUB saves lives with the aid of medicine, food, and coal to heat the homes that have not had electricity, running water, or gas since the war began in 2014. In the winter of 2018-2019 KHUB heated nineteen homes, this past winter, 2019-202, they heated thirty-three homes.
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This time around, Anette interviews Mark Nair, entrepreneur, innovator, and chair of Business Systems and Emerging Technology at Amarillo College where he teaches economics and technology. You may remember Episode #20, where Mark interviewed Anette about running in the primaries. This discussion focuses on teaching college students economics and Swift coding, the move to online learning, even before COVID-19, and the intersection of education, economics, innovation, and the future.
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Anette visits with Ann Beeson, CEO of Every Texan. While Anette currently serves on the board, she has worked with this organization for years, though it now has a new name! Learn more about the skills and passion friend and fellow native Texan Ann Beeson brings to the state in this discussion. Ann Beeson is CEO of Every Texan, formerly known as the Center for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP). Ann embraces creative strategies to champion policy changes that improve people’s lives. A renowned social justice lawyer, former philanthropy executive, and frequent public speaker, Beeson joined Every Texan in 2013.
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Anette visits with Todd McLees about the future of work, lifelong learning, education, and more. They met when Todd presented at the Amarillo College General Assembly in January, and, boy, has the world changed since then! Yet Todd's insight and examples on disruption are even more relevant and important now, in light of COVID-19's impact on society, learning, and work, than ever before.
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Listen to Anette's conversation with Maria Xenidou, one of her podcast coaches, fellow podcaster, and now friend. Maria and Anette connected over their shared interest in education, lifelong learning, and on how the future of education may evolve. After twenty years of her international corporate career in product development, technology, innovation, and marketing, Maria advises enterprises on their growth strategy through marketing, innovation, mergers and acquisitions. She is also the host of Impact Learning, a podcast that guides students and professionals to design their learning journey and build the life they want. Together with her guests, Maria explores the future of learning through the stories of those who are disrupting how we learn, live and work today and in the future.
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