<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teacher Engagement Leader Jessica Solano talks with Michelle Dinwiddie, an ELA teacher from Lake Gibson High. They discuss transformational teaching and how blending socio-emotional learning with intellectual learning benefits students and teachers.

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This podcast episode is made thanks to the generous partnership of Suncoast Credit Union.</span>

Ignite A Campus of Unity and Inclusion

Welcome to The Ignite Project – A Polk County Public Schools podcast made for teachers, by teachers. Teachers of all experience levels need each other’s enthusiasm and passion to fuel an ongoing desire to do what it takes to meet the needs of our students, and that’s what this podcast is all about. Be energized by their enthusiasm to ignite a love for teaching while they challenge others to join them in their work.