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Hayley Spira-Bauer
Hayley Spira-Bauer is a passionate educator and advocate with guts. She is a trained elementary school teacher and began her career through an alternative certification program called Teach for America but continued onward in the classroom and has taught students ranging from kindergarten through 8th grade. If she had to pick a favorite (but how can one pick a favorite, really?) Hayley will tell you she most enjoyed teaching 5th grade in a middle school for four years helping hundreds of kids to fall in love with reading. During her time in the classroom, Hayley founded a New York City elementary school and eventually began supporting teachers as a school-leader at both the elementary and middle school levels.
Today, in her day job as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Academic Officer at Fullmind, Hayley has her hands on the wheel of education evolution, helping schools across the US expand their reach by recruiting and training top-notch teachers to serve all types of learners. During her time at iTutor.com, Hayley founded the academics team which provides oversight to all education programs on the virtual learning platform and built out extensive, research-based frameworks for student success and teacher growth and development. Under her leadership, Fullmindā€™s instructional design practices successfully garnered favorable feedback from both Johns Hopkins Instructional Design Review Process and Cognia, during the acquisition of accreditation as a Digital Learning Institute in service of students they support all over the United States. Hayley and her team are deeply motivated by this heart work: each day, serving an exponentially greater number of students within school districts nationwide (and eventually the world.) When Hayleyā€™s not hosting her punchy podcast or collaborating with the Fullmind team, she can be found wrangling her two young and busy boys at home with her husband on Long Island, New York.
Show Highlights
- Introduction and acknowledgement of the challenges faced during the pandemic in transitioning to online learning
- Explanation that online learning is meant to supplement traditional schooling, not replace it
- Benefits of online learning for certain populations, such as students and parents with disabilities
- Challenges and solutions for offering advanced placement and specialized courses in rural schools, including teacher sharing between schools
- Challenges and solutions faced in providing IEP services, including struggles with access to professionals like occupational therapists and speech language pathologists
- Curiosity about the availability of these services online
- Appreciation for the personalized support and differentiation offered by virtual learning for diverse learners.
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