Episodes

On this week’s show we invite two guests to talk about social emotional learning at the elementary level. Becky Laus Principal of Barlow Mountain Elementary and Jill Katkocin Principal of Scotland Ele

In this week’s show we welcome back Aaron Crook, Ridgefield Public School’s Director of nursing services. He gives us an update on the state of Connecticut’s new guidelines for its in school Covid pol

Joining us on week’s show is Physics & Robotics teacher Michael Murphy and 11th Grader Heather Wallace. We chat about RHS’s robotics courses and the robotics club. There are a lot of cool things going

Joining me on this week’s podcast is Terence Houlihan, Ridgefield High School’s Head of the Counseling Department. We discuss the shift away from the term guidance counselor to school counselor and w

In this week’s episode we get to talk to Eileen Stewart, the head coordinator of the Student Life Office (or SLO) at Ridgefield High School. We talk about all the amazing things that this department h

Ridgefield Tiger Talk is back for its third season! Today we talk to Dane Street, Ridgefield High School’s Athletic Director about this year’s sports Covid protocols, the work being done at Tiger Holl

Happy summer everyone! This is our final podcast for the school year and we are super excited to have Dr. Susie Da Silva the Superintendent of Schools, Cory Gillette the Assistant Superintendent, and Dr. Elizabeth Hannaway the Assistant Superintendent ...

In today’s podcast we’ll talk about a really cool event happening Friday, June 4th that has both visual art and music. Joining us is Teresa Ringkamp, Shane Peters, and Andrew Clavi. They tell us about the Scotts Ridge Visual and Performing Arts Festiva...

Last sports update for the school year! On today’s show we welcome back Dane Street, the Athletic Director for Ridgefield High School. We discuss all the current happenings for spring sports, how the athletics department is navigating the changing Covi...

In today’s podcast we welcome back three RHS music teachers George Beratis, Kevin Haines, and Michael McNamara. We talk about all the extraordinary things the high school music department has done while addressing this year’s challenges.

In today’s podcast we are excited to talk to some of the hard-working members in RPS’s RISE program. Joining us will be Anthony Showah, Anthony Spinelli, Christina Cipriano, and Taylor Leach. They will talk about the amazing effort that goes into meeti...

Recently students from Ridgefield High School attended (virtually) The United Nations International School’s conference on Covid’s impact across different nations. On today show we talk to sophomores Cora Fitzgerald and Jeremy Haber who both attended t...

Getting ready for summer fun! In today’s show we welcome Cory Gillette Assistant Superintendent and Dr. Elizabeth Hannaway Assistant Superintendent of Special Services. We talk about Ridgefield Public School’s exciting new Bridge Program.

April 19th is a big day for Ridgefield, we are inviting all students at all grades to come back in full! In today’s show we welcome Dr. Susie Da Silva Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Elizabeth Hannaway Assistant Superintendent of Special Services,

We have a very inventive show for you today. Megan LiVolsi, Magda Fincham, and Sarah Pettitt join the show today to talk about the invention convention, how it was started at Branchville Elementary School, the amazing opportunities that it provides our...

On today show we have Emily Shiller and Janine Johnson from Scotts Ridge Middle School’s Library Learning Commons (or LLC for short). We talk about all the cool things students can do in a middle school LLC,

In this episode we welcome three East Ridge Middle School Music teachers to the show. Hillary Brown, Rebecca Merrick, and Shane Peters join us as we talk about modifications that they had to make to their music programs this year,

We are excited to have Allison Anderson on this week’s episode. Allison is an elementary art teacher at Barlow Mountain and Scotland Elementary Schools. She helped bring the Memory Project to our Schools. We talk about art enrichment of elementary age ...

We have a very interesting “once in a 43-year” show today! If you haven’t heard a time capsule has been recovered from Ridgebury Elementary School that was buried in 1977. We talk with Jamie Palladino principal of Ridgebury Elementary School and Melind...

In this week’s show we welcome back to the podcast Dane Street the Athletics Director for Ridgefield High School. Dane gives us an update on the current happenings in Winter sports, all of the accomplishments of this year’s Fall sports,

Joining us on this week’s episode is Steven Anton. He is a Math, Computer Science and Engineering teacher at Ridgefield High School. We talk about what students learn in a computer programming class, useful skills that can go with you to any occupation...

In this week’s episode we learn about Ridgefield’s remarkable preschool program. Joining me to talk about all the great stuff that they do is Christina Salvestrini, Tara Dore, Holly Mackey, and Alexandra Lipitz.

In this week’s episode Ridgefield High School’s Art Department Head Michael Rivera brings on two students to talk about their art experiences. Ryder Dadasovich, a sophomore who has been exploring photography and film making, and Beatrice Altopp,

We have an exciting show for you. In this episode we talk to Claire Griffin and Gianna Greco. Two science research students from Ridgefield High School who have been spending the past three years studying the genetic modification tool known as CRISPR.