About Lifelong Learning Defined Podcast for Self Improvement
The Lifelong Learning Defined Podcast with Dr. Jorge Valenzuela helps schools strengthen instruction and leaders navigate conflict. Through conversations with educators, school leaders, and experts, we explore evidence-based teaching, instructional innovation, project-based learning, leadership, and personal growth. Our Leading Through Conflict LIVE series with Michelle Moore tackles relationships, emotional acuity, and real-life challenges. Each episode offers practical insights to help you improve learning, build stronger relationships, and lead with confidence and purpose.
Innovation isn't about using more technology. It's about creating better learning experiences.
In this episode of the Lifelong Learning Defined podcast, Dr. Jorge Valenzuela sits down with Ashley Reed, TLIS, Director of Technology & Innovation at Temple Beth Am, to discuss the importance of trust, psychological safety, and meaningful instructional innovation.
Ashley shares insights from her leadership journey, including how schools can support educators through change, build stronger professional relationships, and create environments where teachers feel comfortable experimenting, learning, and growing.
The conversation also explores the importance of balancing technology with effective teaching practices. AI and digital tools can support learning when they add clear value, but meaningful instruction also depends on discussion, collaboration, hands-on experiences, and human connection.
At its heart, this episode is about leadership, school culture, and creating the conditions for educators and students to thrive.
Because meaningful innovation starts with people, not tools.
Hosted by Dr. Jorge Valenzuela | Lifelong Learning Defined Podcast
14 Oct 2026
S5 E2: The Risk Worth Taking: Finding the Courage to Take the Leap | Michelle Moore
In this Season 5 live conversation, Dr. Jorge Valenzuela and Michelle Moore explore the risk worth taking. They talk about the fears that keep people from moving forward, why we stay in situations we’ve outgrown, and what risk looks like in careers, relationships, and friendships. They also consider how to tell a wise risk from an impulsive decision—and how to take one small step when the full leap feels too big.
2 Oct 2026
S5 E1 | Create Your Own Luck with Dr. Jeremy Owoh
Season 5 begins with Dr. Jeremy Owoh, Superintendent of Jacksonville North Pulaski School District, President of the ISTE+ASCD Board of Directors, and author of Create Your Own Luck: How Leaders Leverage the Intersection of Preparation and Opportunity.
Jeremy joins Dr. Jorge Valenzuela to discuss his journey from the classroom to the superintendent’s office, the challenges facing today’s school leaders, and what it takes to create meaningful transformation across a school system.
They explore the alignment of curriculum, instruction, and technology; the growing role of AI in schools; what leaders should look for when they enter classrooms; and why technology should support—not become the centerpiece of—teaching and learning.
Jeremy also explains what it means to “create your own luck,” how preparation and opportunity intersect, and what educators can do to position themselves for the next stage of their careers.
A conversation about leadership, preparation, opportunity, and keeping teaching and learning at the center of educational innovation.
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