Building Resilient Students

Dr. Taryn Morgan is Vice President of Athletic and Personal Development at IMG Academy, and she moderated a group of panelists for an EdWeek Webinar titled Building Resilient Students (recording here). Like most webinars, we ran out of time for deeper Q&A, so we chose to record a podcast conversation where I could ask for her expertise and dig deeper into some of the ideas presented in the webinar.

Our semester-long hiatus is over! We’ve missed you, friends, and we wanted to check in this spring. We’ve both been busy with many things—both in our work here in the Education department at Dordt University, and in other things we also get to do. In this episode, Abby shares about her adventures in school leadership, and Dave shares about his adventures traveling all over the place. We talk about things we are continuing to learn even as we teach, the fun things we got to do this year, and a fair bit about the role of AI in education today (which is one of Dave’s favorite topics to talk about lately!) We hope that this episode is also an encouragement to you, dear listeners, as we draw toward the end of this academic year. And don’t worry; we plan to get back on a more regular recording schedule in the fall!

Professional Development Opportunities

• In this episode, Dave mentioned a professional development opportunity he is leading through the Center for the Advancement of Christian Education. "Teach Like a Human" is a year-long professional development plan that schools can use to be better prepared for the joys and concerns of teaching, learning, and leading in the age of AI. More information is available here: https://cace.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/CACE_AI_PD_Info_Sheet.pdf
• We always love hearing from you, dear listeners. You can drop us a line at hallwayconvospod@gmail.com.
• Hallway Conversations is sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Christian Education. You can learn more about the good work CACE is doing at https://cace.org/