In Conversation: A Parkside Podcast is a monthly series exploring what it truly takes to support children with language-based learning differences. Hosted by Parkside educators, each episode features candid conversations with classroom teachers, speech-language and occupational therapists, parents, alumni, and field experts. Together, we dig into best practices, common challenges, and the everyday wins that help students thrive—academically, socially, and emotionally—through a whole-child, integrated model.
In Conversation: A Parkside Podcast
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In Conversation: A Parkside Podcast is a monthly series exploring what it truly takes to support children with language-based learning differences. Hosted by Parkside educators, each episode features candid conversations with classroom teachers, speech-language and occupational therapists, parents, alumni, and field experts. Together, we dig into best practices, common challenges, and the everyday wins that help students thrive—academically, socially, and emotionally—through a whole-child, integrated model.
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June 11, 2026
This Is Who We Are: The Class of 2026
<p>In the season finale of In Conversation, host Andie Levinger sits down with six members of The Parkside School’s Class of 2026 — and then looks back on the whole season with Jessica Scovel.</p><p>The season began with co-founders Leslie Thorne and Albina Miller describing the school they set out to build four decades ago: a community rooted in collaboration, creative problem-solving, and care for the whole child. It moved through the voices of teachers and a parent. And it ends, fittingly, with the graduates themselves.</p><p>They talk about Parkside Singers and the cast of Matilda, about teaching themselves animation on YouTube and piano scales by ear. About the deep breaths that steady them, and the reading that once felt impossible and now doesn’t. They describe exactly what they’ll need from their next teachers — and how to ask for it. And they reflect, with real tenderness, on friendship, forgiveness, and second chances.</p><p>Listening to them, Jessica kept a running list of words: positive, confident, creative, humorous, courageous, spiritual, forgiving, philosophical, self-aware, earnest, hopeful. As she puts it, this is who we are — and these remarkable young people are about to go out into the world and show it.</p>
May 28, 2026
One Day at a Time: A Father's Journey
<p>In this episode of In Conversation: A Parkside Podcast, host Andie Levinger sits down with Parkside parent Adam Francique for a moving and deeply honest conversation about parenting his son, AJ, who is about to graduate and begin a new chapter in middle school.</p><p>Adam — a born-and-raised New Yorker, marathon runner, and graphic designer — shares AJ's journey from a little boy whose first teacher meetup happened on a stoop during the pandemic to a confident young man who reads novels aloud, excels at math, and serves as a student ambassador welcoming prospective families. Along the way, Adam speaks openly about navigating the turning-five process and the New York City special education landscape as a single father, and about the people, resources, and community that carried him through.</p><p>The conversation touches on the power of a strong parent-school partnership, the importance of teaching a child to advocate for himself, and Adam's commitment to paying forward the guidance he received to families just beginning their own journeys. </p>
April 30, 2026
Connection Before Correction: Celebrating OT Month with the Parkside OT Team
<p>April is Occupational Therapy Month, and host Andie Levinger is joined by all four members of The Parkside School's OT department — Christine Yen, Abby Chirokas, Leah Bataille, and Sophie Norris — for a wide-ranging conversation about the profession they love and the work they do every day with our students.</p><p>The team shares how each of them found their way to OT (some as early as high school, some after a first career), how they describe this often-misunderstood field to friends and family, and the specialties they're each drawn to — from assistive technology and handwriting development to trauma-informed practice and the polyvagal theory. They unpack what makes school-based OT at Parkside distinct, why task analysis is one of the profession's superpowers, and how working alongside teachers, social workers, and speech therapists allows them to see the whole child.</p><p>Along the way, you'll hear about beloved go-to activities (the hot dog swing, bubble mountain, balloon tapping, obstacle courses), simple regulation strategies families can try at home, and a moving story from Leah about how a daily movement break became the foundation of a student's whole school year. The episode closes with a Fast Five and a reflection from Andie on how an OT lens shapes her own work in admissions and placement.</p><p>A warm, generous, and informative listen — and a fitting tribute to a department that lives by connection before correction.</p>
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