Podcasts: Sup with the Sup
Episode 87: Teacher Appreciation with Spencer Tuinei
Welcome everyone to the next episode of Provo City School District’s What’s up with the Sup’ podcast. I am Superintendent Wendy Dau. Next week is Teacher Appreciation Week, and for this episode, I am joined by a member of our communications department, Spencer Tuinei. Spencer spends a lot of time in our school’s getting to know teachers, and he highlights all of the great things that they are doing.
Episode 86: Child Nutrition with Tammy Horger and Debbie Phang
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. For this episode. I am visiting with two amazing employees from our Child Nutrition department. Tammy Horger is our child nutrition director, and Debbie Phang, who is our district’s dietician. We are going to highlight the great work our child nutrition department does to provide healthy and delicious meals for our students, as well as discuss a recent taste- testing event they held to try out new recipes.
Episode 85: History with Instructional Coach and Teacher Bobby Dayley
This week I am joined by Provo High Instructional Coach and History Teacher Bobby Dayley. I visited his history class recently and wanted to bring him in on the podcast for a follow-up conversation. His class was focusing on a specific instructional strategy that students use in AVID classes where students are using primary source documents, and they were discussing the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Episode 84: Utah Legislation with Board Members Teri McCabe and Jennifer Partridge
This week I am joined by School Board President Jennifer Partridge and board member Teri McCabe, and we are going to have a discussion about recent Utah legislation that was passed.
Episode 83: PEA Association with Christy Giblon and Mark Halls
📍 📍 📍 This week I am joined by Christy Giblon and Mark Halls. Christy is a teacher at Shoreline Middle School and is also the president of the Provo Education Association.
Mark Halls is the UniServ director that is tied to the Provo Education Association. They’re here to talk about the relationship between the association and the school district, as well as to discuss some of the priorities for our teachers as we negotiate our budget for the coming year.
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.
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