De Facto Leaders

Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan

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On the De Facto Leaders podcast, host Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan helps pediatric therapists and educators become better leaders, so they can make a bigger impact with their services. With over 15 years of experience supporting school-age kids with diverse learning needs, Dr. Karen shares up-to-date evidence-based practices, her own experiences and guest interviews designed to help clinicians, teachers, and aspiring school leaders feel more confident in the way they serve their students and clients. She’ll cover a range of topics designed to help you support students' emotional and academic growth and set kids up for success in adulthood, including how to...

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Recent episodes

  • Why Lowering School Expectations Makes Demand Avoidance Worse (And What To Do Instead)Oct 21, 2026 · 18 min
  • Using Math Play to Build Language and Executive Functioning (with Clarence Ames)Oct 7, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min
  • Five Executive Functioning Skills That Define Your Intervention FrameworkSep 23, 2026 · 16 min
  • Executive Functioning Defined, Beyond Just "Being Organized"Sep 9, 2026 · 20 min
  • Five External Signs of Executive Dysfunction That Show Up At SchoolAug 26, 2026 · 25 min
  • You don’t need “buy in” from teachers to get executive functioning support into classrooms.Aug 12, 2026 · 35 min
  • Working on "regulation", but seeing students get more dysregulated? Here's why that's happening.Jul 29, 2026 · 24 min
  • Still trying to do social skills intervention with a 20-minute social skills group? Do this instead.Jul 15, 2026 · 17 min
  • The Impact of Overaccommodation in K–12 on Independence in College and Beyond (with Jill Fahy)Jul 1, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min
  • Helping Kids and the Adults Supporting Them Understand How the Brain Learns to Read (with Lori Josephson)Jun 24, 2026 · 52 min

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