Within the Scanlan Center for School Mental Health, University of Iowa College of Education professors Kari Vogelgesang and Mark McDermott have begun co-hosting their own podcast to discuss topics related to teacher wellness and challenges in education.
The “EDUcation Unscripted and Xplored” podcast aired its first two episodes in January and is available on the Scanlan Center for School Mental Health website, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.
The first episode, “Why We’re Going Off-Script: Who We Are And Why This Matters,” was released on Jan. 7, and the second episode, “Literacy as a Wellness Predictor: How Reading Skills Shape Lifelong Outcomes,” was released on Jan. 30. Both episodes were around 35 minutes long.
The first episode served as the introduction to the podcast, where the co-hosts discussed the evolving process of education and their perspectives of how their teaching careers changed over time.