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(recorded December 11, 2025)

Episode Sponsor: Insight Financial Services

Join Marc, Rachel, and our guests:

Kevin Johnson, Director of Technology at Fife School District and ACPE Board Member

and

Leigh Anne Scherer, Director of Technology & Information Services in the North Clackamas School District

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We chat this episode about technology purchases, levies, long-range planning, replacement cycles, and paying for it all. We also dither on future tech K-12 shifts to the as-a-service model. What comes next?

*Oh, and Kevin and Marci look forward to seeing how many impalements per show there are on Chicago Fire. Noted.

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(recorded December 4, 2025)

Episode Sponsor: Magic School AI

Join Marc, Rachel, and our guest Kris Hagel, CIO at Peninsula School District.

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We chat this episode about AI. We focus first on the people change that Kris has led in PSD the past four years. And then we settle into a broad-ranging tech and human-focused conversation about AI and its impacts in our lives, schools, and the world.

*Oh, and Marc is mean to Claire Danes, but we're so happy about his successful surgery that we're only slightly mean back to him. Defend Claire Danes.

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(recorded October 14, 2025)

Episode Sponsor: Advanced Classroom Technologies

Join Marc and Rachel for this Season Two opener, with guests:

Owen Craig, Director of Technology at Nooksack Valley School District
and
Matthew Ross, Director of Technology at Napavine School District

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We chat this episode about Esports. Owen and Marc both end up tearing up. Owen and Matthew bring us up to speed on the esports domain, WSSEA in Washington, invisible careers, creating spaces and connection for students, and inspiring each of us to dream.

*Oh, and Matthew will know when esports has made it when the teams have cheerleaders. Brilliant, visible measure of success.