Thanks for listening to my guests and I over these last few years! It's been a wild ride, and I'm grateful to have had this opportunity! While this is the end of Beyond the Venue Podcast, it's certainly not the end of my podcasting career!

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Cassy and Joey met as doctoral students in Quant 2 in the Fall of 2020. Their friendship grew from a mutual passion for student engagement, community building, and professional development. Once I joined the doctoral student squad, they gave me an incredible opportunity to be able to bring my hospitality skills and values in to the College of Education and Human Development. Our relationship is a prime example of where I have found myself - surrounded by folks from completely different life paths but coming together to form a community and learn and grow from one another. For anyone curious about what life is like as an assessment nerd, educational psychologist, experiential educator, or dissertation defender, this episode is for you!

Additional Topics Include:

• The Limitation of Jobs for Dramaturgs
• Finding Clarity through Research
• Complex Dynamic Systems and the DSMRI
• How to Build Community and Engagement
• The Importance of Taking Care of your Mental Health
• Avoid Social Comparisons!

Thanks so much for listening, and enjoy the following episode “Reimagining Hospitality in Education 408 with Cassy Pressimone Beckowski & Joey Eisman”!

About the Guests:
Cassy Pressimone Beckowski is the Director of Assessment & Continuous Improvement at Gwynedd Mercy University. In May 2024, she graduated from Temple University with her PhD in Policy and Organizational Studies: Higher Education. During her time at Temple, she worked in the Office of the Provost to support university reaccreditation, strategic planning, and assessment; she also supported faculty research and graduate student engagement in the College of Education and Human Development. Additionally, Cassy has over 15 years’ higher education experience as a faculty fellow, instructor, and learning support specialist. Cassy is a passionate advocate for equitable student success; her research interests include first-generation college student success, institutional mission and culture, and engaging pedagogy. Her work has appeared at national conferences and in peer-reviewed journals. Outside of work, Cassy is a mom of two as well as an avid distance runner, voracious reader, and occasional wedding singer.

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Joseph I. Eisman is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education and an adjunct faculty member at the College of Education and Human at Temple University. His research explores the relationships between empathy, emotion, motivation, identity, and creativity in educational contexts using complex dynamic systems theories. He also consults with educational organizations, including camps and after school programs to explore ways to meaningful consider the social, mental, and emotional wellbeing of their staff and participants. Eisman received his PhD at Temple University, and he holds an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University, and BS from the University of Michigan.

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This episode has been produced in association with Gal Co Productions.

Sabina is one of the many incredible faculty members in the College of Education and Human Development at Temple University. Her glowing reputation preceded her as we finally had a chance to meet this past Spring. Our relationship is a prime example of where I have found myself - surrounded by folks from completely different life paths but coming together to form a community and learn and grow from one another. For anyone curious about what life is like as an associate professor who is passionate about researching the “skill and will” of reading, working with multilingual learners, and bringing her theatrical nature to the classroom and beyond, this episode is for you!

Additional Topics Include:

• The Original Vanessa from Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights (fun fact!)
• Literacy as a Space for Social Justice and Empowerment
• Starting Small to Impact Changes on a Bigger Scale
• Podcasts as Professional Development
• Strategies for Engagement and Interaction in an Asynchronous Class
• Advice for Graduate Students
• The Beauty of Bringing the Outside in(to a venue)

Thanks so much for listening, and enjoy the following episode, Equity in Literacy: A Multimodal Approach for Multilingual Learners 407 with Dr. Sabina Rak Neugebauer!

About the Guest:
Dr. Sabina Rak Neugebauer, Associate Professor of Literacy
Dr. Sabina Rak Neugebauer is an associate professor of literacy in the College of Education and Human Development at Temple University. Dr. Neugebauer’s research focuses on the language and literacy development of students in urban elementary and middle schools. Her work explores two aspects of efficacious reading: vocabulary and reading motivation. She investigates these two facets of reading at three complementary levels of analysis (individual, classroom and school context) to more comprehensively identify ways to support students in achieving equitable educational outcomes. Her scholarship identifies prominent sources of reading differences between individuals, evaluates classroom practices that empower student success, and designs assessments to help schools increase their use of evidence-based programs school-wide.

Dr. Neugebauer’s research has been supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, Spencer Foundation, and U.S. Department of Education to improve the schooling experiences of multilingual students. She is the recipient of the Outstanding Early Career Scholar Award from AERA’s Division C, Learning and Instruction, and the International Literacy Association’s Elva Knight award. She is an associate editor for the Elementary School Journal and her work has been featured in journals including the Journal of Educational Psychology, Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Literacy Research and the Reading Teacher. She is a coauthor of Interventions for Reading Problems: Designing and Evaluating Effective Strategies, published by Guilford Press, and Indigenous Knowledge and Education: Sites of Struggle, Strength and Survivance, published by Harvard Educational Publishing Group. Her recent book is titled Reimagining Language Instruction: New Approaches to Promoting Equity published by Teachers College Press.

She received her doctorate from Harvard University & her BA from Wesleyan University. She has served as a reading interventionist & collaborated with urban schools in the US and in Latin America to develop multilingual, multi-tiered, & digital reading programs.

To learn more about Sabina’s research, view her publications here.

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This episode has been produced in association with Gal Co Productions.