Leecoschools Edcast (lee County, Alabama)

Show Notes: In this episode, we chat with Dr. Karen Landers from the Alabama Department of Public Health. She tells us about her awesome career, about vaccines, and dispels some common misconceptions surrounding this amazing scientific breakthrough. Alabama Department of Public Health - http://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - https://www.cdc.gov/ Marshall Islands TB Elimination Project - https://www.migrantclinician.org/blog/2018/sep/tb-elimination-unprecedented-efforts-marshall-islands-will-have-downstream-effects.htm World Health Organization Stats for Marshall Islands - https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/136940/ccsbrief_mhl_en.pdf;jsessionid=035FE2504DA37E4F10D5E3A599EF4E1E?sequence=1 History of Vaccine Development - https://vaccine-safety-training.org/history-of-vaccine-development.html Timeline of Vaccines - https://www.historyofvaccines.org/timeline#EVT_100852 The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur - https://www.amazon.com/Va

Show Notes: In this episode, we chat with our second repeat guest, Thomas Ashbaugh, to give us an update on Lee County's game to help incentivize reading: Read2Mine. Take a listen to hear all of the really cool things Thomas has added to the game for this coming school year and to hear about the significant increase in reading that took place last year with this program in place. Pay to Win Games - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-to-play Accelerated Reader Book Finder - http://www.arbookfind.com/UserType.aspx Renaissance Place/Accelerated Reader - https://hosted23.renlearn.com/711559/ Minetest - https://www.minetest.net/ Read 2 Mine Tutorial Video - https://youtu.be/0cAQBfddK3Y Read 2 Mine Crafting Tutorial Page - http://mine.lee.k12.al.us/crafting.html Intro and Outro music: Sunny Day by Audiobinger is licensed under an Attribution-Noncommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode). Transition music: Trebek's Lament by Learning Music is licensed under an Attribution-Noncomm

Show Notes: In this episode, we chat with Señora Zulaica Konz-Gonzalez who is a Spanish Teacher at Smiths Station High School. She is Smiths High’s 2018-19 Teacher of the Year and Lee County’s 2018-19 Secondary Teacher of the Year. She shares her teaching philosophy, her experiences learning English, and gives us a glimpse of the magic that has earned her 3 Teacher of the Year honors from 2 different school systems without giving away too many state secrets. Colorín Colorado, a bilingual site for educators and families of ELL students: http://www.colorincolorado.org/ Duolingo: Learn Spanish, French and other languages for free: https://www.duolingo.com/ The Power of the Telenovela - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/the-power-of-the-telenovela Telenovelas Provide Platform for Public Health Messages - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/encrucijadas-public-health-and-telenovelas-at-a-crossroads Soap Operas as Teaching Tools - https://www.theglobalist.com/soap-operas-health-aids-teaching-tools/ 4 Ways to Suppor