Cultivating Excellence Podcast
Cultivating Excellence Podcast
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Cultivating Excellence is the podcast for professional parents who are passionate about their children's education, success, and happiness. Your host, Dr. Rebecca Resnik, Licensed Psychologist, brings you some of the 'best and brightest' experts from psychology and education for lively conversations about raising kids in an age that is increasingly complex and competitive.
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The show focuses on key topics such as giftedness assessments, competitive college admissions, and effective learning strategies, with episodes providing expert insights on IQ testing for giftedness, achieving mastery in academics through innovative tutoring approaches, and navigating standardized testing for college acceptance.
Cultivating Excellence is the podcast for professional parents who are passionate about their children’s education, success, and happiness. Your host, Dr. Rebecca Resnik, Licensed Psychologist, brings you some of the ‘best and brightest’ experts from psychology and education for lively conversations about raising kids in an age that is increasingly complex and competitive.
Raising kind, confident, and prepared kids has never felt more urgent.
In this episode of the Cultivating Excellence podcast, Danny Vogelman, Head of School at the Washington Episcopal School in Bethesda, Maryland, discusses the importance of intentionally educating the whole child in a post-pandemic world. He shares why kindness must be directly taught and modeled with the same care as academics, starting with the adults who shape school culture. Danny explains how confidence grows through emotionally safe environments that encourage developmentally appropriate risk-taking and resilience. He also highlights how a balanced approach to academic rigor, real-world experiences, and non-academic elements, such as recess, executive functioning, and joyful learning, prepares students for life beyond the classroom.
Tune in to learn how schools can help students thrive, not just academically, but as whole individuals.
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