WESTPORT, Conn. — Peggy Bud and Tamara Jacobson have more than 60 years of combined experience in education. They have served as educators, administrators, and consultants. Together they wrote the books, Navigating Special Education, The Power of Building Positive Parent Educator Partnerships and Conversations Lead to Consensus, with the goal of connecting parents and educators to create positive learning scenarios.
Now, the pair is teaming with Verso Studios at The Westport Library for a new community contributed podcast, Ask the Educators.
Ask the Educators debuts today with three 15-minute episodes. New episodes will drop bi-weekly (episode #4 will arrive April 30).
The podcast will be available on the Verso Studios podcast page, through regular podcast distributors such as Apple and Spotify, and also through the Ask the Educators Substack and on the Navigating Special Education website.
“We are proud to announce the release of the Ask the Educators podcast, which supports our mission of empowering parents and educators to build lasting partnerships,” Bud and Jacobson said. “Through the collaboration with Verso Studios, Ask the Educators provides parents, teachers, and administrators with insights on placing the child at the center of the conversation.”
The purpose of the Ask the Educators podcast is to build a common language between parents and educators, with each episode taking a deep dive into relevant 21st century topics, including effective communication and the IEP, building partnerships, empathy and grief, and the 5-C Model of Communication.
Through animated conversations, Bud and Jacobson provide listeners with tools to foster conversations, collaboration, cooperation, and compromise as the path to consensus.
Verso Studios is the media arm of The Westport Library. The Library created the Verso Studios Community Producer Partnership initiative in keeping with the studio’s mission to produce content with the community.
Ask the Educators with Peggy Bud and Tamara Jacobson
Verso Studios Contributed Partnership Podcast
Verso Studios Podcasts: https://westportlibrary.org/community-partner-podcasts/
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5kD09zp5xVgElFuBgM6AiP?si=5ec9a7ed58864efaListen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ask-the-educators/id1808749722
For more on Peggy Bud: https://www.peggybud.com/about-peggy/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-bud-8404b524/
For more on Tamara Jacobson: https://tamaraljacobson.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamara-l-jacobson/
Navigating Special Education: https://www.navigatingspecialeducation.com/