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Rural Matters

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Rural Matters is a biweekly, 30-minute podcast about rural education, business, and health. The podcast’s mission is to increase awareness, inform discussion, and expand the dialogue on the most important issues facing rural stakeholders every day. Guests on the podcast include rural education decision-makers, rural business owners and entrepreneurs, and rural health care representatives. The National Rural Education Association and the Center for Rural Affairs are marketing partners.

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00:33:52

Red Truck Bakery & Rural Entrepreneurship with Brian...

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2018/10/12

Michelle chats with Brian Noyes, the founder and baker-in-chief of Red Truck Bakery, one of the most nationally acclaimed bakeries in the United States, about his journey from journalist to the Culinary Institute of America to his first sales vehicle (literally) — a red truck — to his two shops in rural Virginia to an incredible review in The New York Times, to his new book, The Red Truck Bakery Cookbook, published by Clarkson Potter/Penguin Random House. Find out how Tommy Hilfinger, tuna

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00:40:28

Computer Science & STEM in Rural Areas, with Anthony...

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2018/10/01

Michelle chats with Anthony Owen, chief state STEM officer and state director of computer education in the Arkansas Department of Education; Angela Hemingway, executive director of the Idaho STEM Action Center; and Kathleen Schofield, executive director of STEM2 Hub, about computer science and STEM programs in rural communities. Computer science and STEM education enables communities to keep students involved in their local rural areas in Arkansas, according to Owen. Hemingway notes that Idaho also

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00:33:41

Rural Health and Hospital Closures with Alan Morgan,...

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2018/09/10

New host Michelle Rathman examines the state of rural health and the complex issue of rural hospital closures with Alan Morgan, Chief Executive Officer of the National Rural Health Association (NRHA). According to Rathman and the NRHA, about 60 million people are served by rural health care providers, running the gamut from the elderly to young families. Amid the pressures and challenges in rural health, Morgan notes there is some good news – increased innovation and a lot of new models and

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00:33:11

Rural Superintendents with Dan Domenech, Jule Walker...

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2018/08/24

In her last episode as host, Mara chats about rural school leadership with Dan Domenech, executive director of AASA, the School Superintendent Association; Jule Walker, deputy state superintendent of operations for the Montana Office of Public Instruction; and Jerome Puyau, superintendent of Vermilion Parish School District in Louisiana. Domenech noted that this year AASA is focusing on professional development for rural superintendents, who comprise a majority of superintendents in the country

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00:33:37

Michael Adcock & Telehealth in Rural Mississippi

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2018/08/09

Mara chats with Michael Adcock, executive director of the Center for Telehealth at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) about using technology to connect patients and providers in rural areas. The Center has been providing telehealth services for 15 years and is one of the two Telehealth Centers of Excellence in the United States. Starting with providing emergency services, moving on to mental health, the program now offers more than 35 medical specialty services in more than 200

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00:31:50

Victoria Bernhardt & Data Evaluation & Deployment

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2018/07/26

Mara chats with Victoria Bernhardt, Executive Director Education for the Future, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to building learning capacity and the deployment of data for all students. Bernhardt is author of Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement, published by Routledge. Rural schools have particular interests in data deployment and analysis. For example, Bernhardt notes, when school leaders analyze certain data, they can determine whether students’ career preparation is really

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00:31:16

Candace Williams & the Rural Community Alliance

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2018/07/19

Mara chats with Candace Williams, executive director of Rural Community Alliance (RCA), a non-profit which organizes rural communities in the state, from Delight, Arkansas, where RCA just wrapped up its annual conference. Begun in 2002, RCA was birthed after legislative efforts to consolidate smaller school districts, but has expanded into rural economic development projects within the state to try to make rural Arkansas thrive. Among the issues facing rural Arkansas are school closures,

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00:28:13

Rural Health Issues with Karen Barber & Jim Kendrick

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2018/06/25

Mara chats with Karen Barber, CEO of Yoakum Community Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Texas, and Jim Kendrick, president and CEO of Community Hospital Corporation, a non-profit whose mission for 22 years has been sustaining health care in rural markets. In rural markets, it is often difficult to recruit enough physicians to serve the community, says Kendrick. Barber notes that her facility recently had to close their labor and delivery department as a result of an aging population,

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00:39:50

Rural Myths with Kai Schafft

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2018/06/05

Our new host, Mara Casey Tieken, author of Why Rural Schools Matter, chats with Kai Schafft, associate professor of education and director of the Center on Rural Education and Communities at Penn State University, and associate editor of the Journal of Research in Rural Education about five specific rural myths. Myth #1: Rural voters are more conservative than urban voters. A close analysis of 2016 election finds a more complex situation, in which many—though not all—rural communities and small

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00:26:44

STEM Education in Rural America

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2018/05/21

John chats with Sheila Boyington, CEO of Learning Blade; Lori Langdon, a computer teacher at Springboro Intermediate School in Ohio; and Jan Miller, Dean of the College of Education and an assistant Professor at the University of West Alabama about STEM education in rural school districts. Boyington talks about how Learning Blade, which includes an online learning program whose platform focuses, in part, on supporting underrepresented students. The program includes various STEM topics, including

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00:35:44

New Tech Network with Lydia Dobyns & Matt Swenson

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2018/05/07

John chats with Lydia Dobyns, president and CEO of New Tech Network, which has about 200 K-12 schools in 28 states, and Matthew Swenson, assistant principal at Cross County (New Tech) High School in Cherry Valley, Arkansas. New Tech Network’s mission to reimagine schools using four basic pillars that apply in their two models, one for elementary, and for the secondary level: culture that empowers students; project-based learning; embedded use of technology, and schoolwide learning outcomes, both

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00:29:21

Rural Education in Kentucky with Garris Stroud

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2018/04/24

John chats with Garris Stroud, a seventh-grade science teacher in Greenville, Kentucky, which is clearly on the rural spectrum (“where any day you can see deer, turkey and other wildlife right outside your window”). Stroud is a 2017-2018 Kentucky State Teacher Fellow who writes a blog, called Kentuckyschooltalk.org, and also writes for Education Post, the sponsor of this episode of Rural Matters. Stroud notes that, in general, there’s more poverty in rural areas, and that the “equity” issue is very

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00:29:47

Rural Education Week & Harvard Graduate School of...

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2018/04/16

This special episode was recorded immediately following Rural Education Week, a weeklong series of events on rural issues, developed by graduate students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. John chats with three of those students — Julia Cunningham, Morgan Christopher, and Elizabeth, Castro — talking about many of the issues discussed during the week, including advancing rural education; new opportunities and challenges; diversity; identity; and arts

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00:32:47

Jessica Golden (FRS), Josh Seidemann (NTCA) & Broadband

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2018/03/30

John chats with Jessica Golden, Executive Director of the Foundation for Rural Service, and Josh Seidemann, a policy specialist at the NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association, which represents about 850 community-based broadband providers who started as telephone companies and now offer broadband, Internet and wireless services to rural communities. These broadband communities are more sociologically driven and “go where others don’t or won’t go” in representing almost 40 percent of the land mass of

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00:24:39

Swarthmore’s Andrew Moe & College Access

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2018/03/17

John talks with Andrew Moe, Associate Dean of Admissions and Director of Access & Programming at Swarthmore College, about the importance of providing access to and inclusion of rural students on college campuses, including Swarthmore. Geographic diversity and the rural perspective are extremely significant in providing additional viewpoints and perspectives, according to Moe. Many rural schools do not offer advanced STEM courses. In addition, Moe says, in many rural schools there’s less access to

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00:35:40

Rob Mahaffey of the Rural School and Community Trust

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2018/03/03

John talks with Rob Mahaffey, Executive Director of the Rural School and Community Trust, which recently signed a partnership agreement with AASA, the School Superintendents Association. Sixty percent of AASA members represent small or rural school districts. John and Rob discussed a variety of important rural education issues, including the U.S. Department of Education's preliminary report on what actions can be taken to improve how it considers the unique needs of rural schools and rural school

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00:27:29

Dickenson County Coalition & Issues

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2018/02/19

John talks with Selena Culbertson (prevention coordinator at Dickenson County Behavioral Health Services), Seth Baker (Commonwealth attorney), Jason Dotson (from the recovery community), and Amy Duncan (VA Office of the Attorney General), all of whom are members of the Dickenson County Community Partners for Prevention Coalition. Dickenson County, in southwestern Virginia, is first in the state and sixth in the country in overdose deaths from opioids and related drugs. The coalition is pushing out

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00:29:08

Transmission Lines & Renewables with CFRA’s Katie...

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2018/01/26

John chats up Katie Rock and Lu Nelsen, policy associates with the Center for Rural Affairs in Iowa and Nebraska, respectively. One focus of the discussion was a recent study published by the Center, called Generation & Delivery: The Economic Impact of Transmission Infrastructure in Rural Counties (www.cfra.org/GenerationAndDelivery). The report looks at how various states have managed finances and tax revenues dealing with expansion of transmission capabilities and the burgeoning power of

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00:34:20

OSRC—Making a Difference in Rural Education

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2018/01/12

John has a lively discussion with two representatives from the Ohio Small and Rural Collaborative — Ryan Rismiller, at-large representative for OSRC and a high school principal at the Graham Local Schools, and Kirk Koennecke. executive director of OSRC and superintendent of the Graham Local Schools. More than two-thirds of the schools in Ohio are considered “rural,” with a host of challenges, including broadband, hunger, and generational poverty. The collaborative started as a small, nonpartisan

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00:22:45

The Virtual High School with Jim Dachos

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2017/12/19

John has a lively discussion with Jim Dachos, director of education partnerships at The Virtual High School (VHS), a non-profit organization in Massachusetts. VHS works with more than 700 schools and has a catalogue of about 200 courses, which includes AP offerings and courses for middle schools. The VHS model differs from competitors in several ways: The organization collaborates with rural schools by freeing up teachers to provide online instruction, and, in return, providing discounts to schools

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