Podcasts: Sup with the Sup
Episode 82: Visiting Mathew Wheatley’s AP US Government Students
This week, Wendy had the opportunity to visit Matt Wheatley’s AP U.S. Government class at Timpview High School, where the students asked lots of really great questions about everything from the Tinker Case, to all sorts of things about Department of Education, funding, how we prioritize money in the school district– it was a really great opportunity. So tune in to hear students ask their questions. It was a great day to be in the classroom!
Episode 81: Elementary Music Program and Choral Festival
Welcome everyone to the next episode of Provo City School District’s What’s Up With The Sup’ podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau. I have three guests with me for our episode this week. Elementary Kodály music teachers Juliana Gylseth from Spring Creek, Kayla Spurlock from Franklin, and Logan McKinney from Westridge.
PCSD Annual Choral Festival https://youtu.be/mirUIVVUkhY
Episode 80 – Civil Rights Unit with Teacher Jeremy Stevenson
Welcome everyone to the next episode of Provo City School District’s What’s Up with the ‘Sup podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau. For today’s episode, I visited with a social studies teacher at Timpview High School, Jeremy Stevenson, to talk about the Civil Rights Movement, as it is one of the topics both of us love to teach.
Episode 79: Love the Bus Month with Dusty Carlsen
Welcome everyone to the next episode of Provo City School District’s What’s Up With The Sup’ podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau. February is Love The Bus month and today I get to ride on a school bus. I will be riding along with one of our drivers, Dusty Carlson, as she drives from our transportation building to pick up students at Provo High School.
We will talk about her experience as a bus driver and a little bit about bus safety. But first, here are our updates.
Episode 78 – CTE with Shannon Quan
Welcome everyone to the next episode of Provo City School District’s What’s Up With The Sup Podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau. Career and Technical Education, otherwise known as CTE, is recognized during the month of February. Today, I am visiting with Shannon Quan, a CTE teacher at Provo High School.
Episode 77: Bill Sprunger, 6th Grade Provost Teacher
Welcome, everyone, to the next episode of Provo City School District’s What’s Up With The Sup’ Podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau, and we are trying something new today. We have a fun episode that I’m super excited about. In our district, we have so many excellent employees who also have talents or hobbies they pursue outside of the classroom. And today I am visiting with one of these teachers, Bill Sprunger, who teaches sixth grade at Provost Elementary School, is also a talented musician in a bluegrass band, and has performed all across the country. So we are so excited to talk with him today.
Episode 76: Counselor Appreciation Week with Pahoran Marquez
Welcome everyone to this week’s episode of Provo City School District’s What’s Up With The Sup’ Podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau, and this week is National School Counselor Appreciation Week. So for today’s episode, I wanted to speak with one of our amazing school counselors. I am joined by Pahoran Marquez, the lead school counselor at Provo High School, and he’s going to talk about the many roles a school counselor plays and how they help our students every day.
Episode 75 New Board Member, Emily Harrison
Welcome everyone to the next episode of Provo City School District’s What’s Up with the Sup’ podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau. This week I was able to visit with our newest school board member, Emily Harrison. It was great to get to know more about her and to learn about why she is so excited to serve on our Board of Education.
Episode 74: Revisiting 1st-Year Teachers
For our episode this week, we decided to drop by Edgemont Elementary School to check in with our first year teachers. I visited with fifth grade teacher Janessa Castaneda and kindergarten teacher Cecilia Amezquita about how the year is going and what they have learned.
Episode 73: Wasatch Grand Opening
Welcome, everyone, to the next episode of Provo City School District’s What’s Up With The Sup’ podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau. We have an exciting episode this week. This past Wednesday was the first day of school at our brand new Wasatch Elementary School. I visited the school on Wednesday morning to talk to students, parents and employees about their thoughts and excitement about finally being in the new building.
But before we hear from them, here are our updates.
Episode 72 – District Electronic Devices Policy
Board Members Jennifer Partridge and Gina Hales join Wendy in this episode to discuss the purpose of the policy, and the process that the board followed to develop the new policy.
Episode 71: Happy Holidays!
Welcome everyone to the next episode of Provo City School District’s What’s Up with the ‘Sup podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau, and this week’s podcast drops on our last day of school before heading off on our winter break. In this episode, we will hear from employees that work in our district office, and we ask them to share their favorite holiday tradition with us.
Episode 70: Provo CAPS
Welcome everyone to the next episode of Provo City School District’s What’s Up With The Sup’ podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau. This week, I am joined by Riley Forreston, a junior from Timpview High School, Parker Rivera, a junior from Provo High School, and Shiv Patel, a senior from Provo High School.
They are students in our CAPS program, and we discussed the program itself and the specific project that they worked on this semester.
But first, let’s go over our updates.
Episode 69 – Edgemont Elementary’s National Blue Ribbon Award
Wendy Dau: Welcome everyone to the next episode of Provo City School District’s What’s Up with the ‘Sup podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau. This week I am visiting with Harmony Kartchner, principal of Edgemont Elementary. Edgemont was recently recognized as a national Blue Ribbon school and we are going to talk about what that means.
But first, let’s review our updates.
Episode 68: Happy Thanksgiving
Welcome everyone to the next episode of Provo City School District’s What’s Up With The Sup’ podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau. I hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving break. In celebration of the season, we asked several individuals around the district what they are grateful for. We hope you will enjoy listening in and taking a moment to reflect on the things we can all be thankful for.
Episode 66: Timpview FCCLA
Welcome, everyone, to the next episode of Provo City School District’s What’s Up With The Sup’ podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau. Today we are talking with Rachel Rue, who is a junior, Edna Carabantes, who is a senior, and Dayton Ferris, who is a senior. They are all FCCLA officers from Timpview High School.
Episode 65 – Native American Heritage Month with Meredith Lam
Welcome everyone to the next episode of Provo City School District’s What’s Up With The ‘Sup podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau. The month of November is recognized as Native American Heritage Month. In honor of that, I am excited to visit with Meredith Lam, the district’s Title VI Coordinator.
Episode 64: Strategic Plan Part 2
Welcome everyone to the next episode of Provo City School District’s, What’s Up with the Sup’ podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau, as many of you know, the district recently finalized its work on a new strategic plan. On last week’s episode, you heard the first part of my discussion about the strategic plan with our school board president, Rebecca Nielsen and Vice President Jennifer Partridge. The episode this week is part two of that discussion. As a reminder, you can view the strategic plan by visiting the front page of the district website at provo.edu. It will be the first thing that appears. But before we hear from them, here are our updates.
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