School athletics leadership, told by practitioners.
Educational AD Podcast follows athletic directors, coaches, and school-sports professionals through the work behind programs, facilities, schedules, surveys, ticketing, culture, and community trust. Episodes are friendly and direct, with guests often tracing the path from playing or coaching into broader leadership.
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Educational AD Podcast is a long-running professional-development show centered on school-based athletics. It is built around interviews with athletic directors, coaches, and people working near the athletic office. The format is familiar and steady. Guests are introduced through their background, school, or organization, then asked to tell the story of how they arrived in the work. That origin-story shape gives the show a practical archive of career paths. Jim Maciejewski's episode, for example, moves from coaching baseball at Mauldin H.S. into the organizational appeal of becoming an athletic director. Colton Eisenberg's conversation brings in the player-to-coach transition and the harder realities of the transfer portal. Brooke Brewer's Wednesday Wisdom appearance widens the frame, treating athletics as a strategic entry point for campus storytelling, community use, and institutional engagement. Tech Tuesday and Toolbox Extra episodes point toward the tools athletic departments actually use. Scheduling, rosters, results, facility management, eligibility, ticketing, surveys, score tables, social media, fundraising, and video boards all show up as part of the job. The show can be sponsor-heavy. Still, those reads reveal the same operational focus that drives the interviews: saving time, raising money, telling a better school story, and serving coaches, parents, students, and community members. Its warmth comes from practitioner-to-practitioner conversation. Its value comes from repetition in the best sense, because different guests keep returning to leadership, communication, culture, facilities, and the move from coaching one team to supporting a whole department. The pacing is measured. The language is plain. Episodes often feel like hallway conversations after an athletics conference session, with enough background to understand the person and enough process to borrow an idea. It is not a theory show. It is a bench of examples for people trying to make school athletics work better.
Made for: Designed for athletic directors, coaches, principals, and school athletics staff who want practical examples from peers. It also suits people moving from coaching into department leadership.
What sets it apart: The show pairs career-story interviews with the operational details of running school athletics. Its recurring segments keep the focus on tools, leadership habits, community engagement, and department systems.
Being an Athletic Director today is as challenging as it is rewarding and our Podcast is here to help! Jake von Scherrer, CMAA and longtime AD from Florida visits with some of the top school based ADs and Coaches in the country as they share their stories along with Best Practices to help YOU better serve your students, your teams, your coaches, and your community! THIS - is the Educational AD Podcast!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes the hidden work of school athletics administration concrete through career stories, operational detail, and questions aimed at practical use.
Educational AD Podcast turns school athletics into a continuing education course in leadership, operations, and career development. Jake von Scherrer uses an academic interview format with athletic directors, coaches, and industry guests, asking how they entered their roles,…
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A coach's move into athletic administration, grounded in scheduling, systems, and the daily work of a school department.
This Educational AD Podcast episode follows Jim Maciejewski from assistant coach under Coach Waddell to head baseball coach and then athletic director, and the strength of the conversation is how plainly he talks through that shift.
A clear look at the portal, the coaching turn, and the pull of Division I life.
The Educational AD Podcast gives Colton Isenberg room for a plainspoken look at what the transfer portal can feel like when the outcome is not the one a player wanted.
A playing career and early coaching lessons give servant leadership a personal, practical shape.
Leadership comes through the long way around in this episode, as a former Wisconsin lacrosse football player looks back on being an undersized quarterback and then moving quickly into college coaching at Mankato State.
A practical case for using athletics to serve the whole campus.
This conversation makes a clear case for treating athletics as strategy rather than as a standalone activity. It moves most effectively when it shifts from game-day thinking to campus storytelling: using sports to engage the community, tell the institution's story, and present…
A gym-floor segment that cares more about what lies under the maple.
Tech Tuesday keeps its attention on what sits under the maple: the layers and systems beneath the surface. The Action Floors segment clearly establishes the company as an MFMA member, founded in Mercer, Wisconsin, with maple and synthetic flooring systems and a recurring "who's…
A grounded look at helping student participation grow into shared leadership.
Student leadership develops through meetings, expectations, and a slow handoff of responsibility in this Toolbox Extra. The conversation follows a student group built with Thomas, starting with what participants wanted and moving toward a setup where students help lead meetings,…
A calm look at how an AD learns the job one surprise at a time.
Cory Adland's conversation with the Educational AD Podcast stays close to the work, and that is where it lands best. The opening stretch leans into office reality: a superintendent walking him into the job, a second-day question about homecoming, and the slow realization that…
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The episode opens with sponsor shout-outs for Sideline Interactive and Huddle.
This episode features a promotional segment for sponsors of the Educational AD Podcast, highlighting tools and services for athletic directors in schools.
This episode features sponsor shout-outs for Athletic Surveys, Hometown, and Ohio University's online masters program, highlighting tools and resources for athletic administrators to improve school programs and community engagement.
This episode of Tech Tuesday on the Educational Lady Podcast features Roger Cassem, CAA of MVP Awards, discussing technology in educational athletics, with sponsor shout-outs to Sideline Interactive, Athletic Surveys, and Hometown.
This episode features sponsor shoutouts for companies like Sideline Interactive, Huddle, and Beacon Creative that support athletic directors and schools with sports technology and content creation services.
After sponsor shout-outs, the conversation shifts to the transfer portal.
Mike Dernan tells Educational AD Podcast's Tech Tuesday that athletic leaders are judged by an external scoreboard and an internal scoreboard of values.
The Wednesday Wisdom guest returns for a practical conversation about athletics as a strategy.
Tech Tuesday opens with sponsor shout-outs before turning to a representative from Action Floors.
This episode promotes sponsors offering tools and services for educational athletics, including Athletic Surveys, Hometown, and Booster Hub.
This episode of the Toolbox Extra on the Educational AD Podcast features sponsor shout-outs for Home Campus, Athletic Surveys, and Ohio University's online master's in athletic administration, highlighting tools and education for athletic administrators.
This episode of the Educational AD Podcast features sponsors offering resources for athletic directors, including K-12 Sports Tech, Gipper, and Athletic Surveys, aimed at enhancing leadership and program management.
This episode features sponsor shout-outs for companies that provide tools and platforms to help athletic directors manage and organize school sports programs.
This episode promotes sponsors like Sideline Interactive, Huddle, and Booster Hub, highlighting their tools for athletic directors and school sports programs.