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Dr. Dixie Keys, Students Discuss New Curriculum Create@State Podcast

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Johnathan Reaves, KASU News

This is A-State Connections on KASU.  I’m Johnathan Reaves. This is the weekly segment called “A-State Connections and Create@State: Making Connections That Count”.  In this interview, I spoke with Dr. Dixie Keys.  She is a Professor of Middle Level Education.  She came to the studios with her students Olivia Peeler, Jennifer Reves, and Lindsey Hart.  Keys taught Peeler, Reves, and Hart how to develop a new curriculum.  The students participated in a round table about their development of digital text sets during the National Council of Teachers of English conference in Houston in November.  KASU News Director Johnathan Reaves started the interview by asking Dr. Keys about the new curriculum.  Click on the Listen button for the entire interivew.

To hear more interviews like this one, you can subscribe to the Create@ State Podcast at the Create@State podcast page on KASU.org. It is also available on iTunes or Google Play, or you can listen on the NPR app.  Please tell others about the Create@State Podcast, also leave us a review.  We would love to hear from you.  You’re listening to A-State Connections on KASU.

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.