Finding Common Ground in Education

About Finding Common Ground in Education

A REALISTIC GUIDE TO FINDING COMMON GROUND IN EDUCATION BETWEEN ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS In today’s world, it is becoming difficult to make any significant change at the national and state levels. We are constantly facing experts whose job it is to hijack agendas and movements of change. Therefore, the only way to make real and actual change is in our school communities. This progressive format shares a down-to-earth approach that both authors feel is being sidestepped in communities all over the country. It is our hope that this podcast will help facilitate tough conversations and bring the focus back to what is most important for both sides to understand in order for public education-The students. This content is a collection of conversations, research, debates, and discussions between two childhood friends who grew up together in Youngstown, Ohio. As graduates of the class of 1989 from Austintown Fitch High School, they parted ways with the goal to meet again soon to teach and coach together in the same school district. Even though life prevented them from working in the same brick and mortar building for the last 25 years, technology made them successful long-distance colleagues. As their career paths pushed them in different directions, they found themselves on opposite sides of the current educational model. One a school district superintendent in California and the other a Union president in Ohio. Not only would their positions put them on opposite sides of the education debates, so would the politics of the states they resided in over the last two decades as California primarily falling on the left side of the political spectrum and Ohio standing firmly on the right side of the aisle.

Publisher

Finding Common Ground in Education

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Sept 2023

Latest episode

24 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 39 episodes have a transcript.

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   24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Season 4, Episode #47: Teachers and Administrators United Like Never Before?

   Host Dave and Guest Dean explore how teachers and administrators unite against financial pressures threatening public education programs and staff.

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   18 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Season 3, Episode #39: Preparing for the administrator interview

   Host Dave and Dean guide Nadia through administrative interview preparation, offering insights from both teacher and administrator viewpoints.

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   18 Nov 2025

   SEASON 3, EPISODE #38: Recognizing outstanding people in education.

   In this podcast, Dave and Dean reinforce the process of celebrating staff members who have done great things in their careers and how we’ve celebrated their accomplishments.  This episode reinforces the path to finding common ground must be paved with celebrating the opposite side of the aisle.

Inside a recent episode

Season 4, Episode #47: Teachers and Administrators United Like Never Before?

Published 24 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] We're in a time, obviously, where everyone is feeling incredible pressure from increased prices everywhere, inflation. Our country is not in a great place economically. That's not a political statement. That's a fact. Everyone is spending more money and things cost more. we've had declining enrollment for the last probably decade, and it hasn't been massive, but it's been declining. So your revenue is decreasing and your costs are increasing, and so our four-year forecast says that we're deficit spending. Now, we've been fortunate to have some reserves, but now we have some new leadership positions that are full, and we frankly have some people that are looking at spreadsheets and not people, which frustrates me as a union president. […]

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