{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fucet-podcast.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fucet-elements-lindsey-larsen-Mrd9ks_v","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":" UCET Elements: Lindsey Larsen","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1fab3659-c10b-4c44-9cb2-b658c2b7fa0f/d511967b-8a13-44b8-98b3-7b9e4f70e465/add-a-heading-2.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"In this episode of the UCET Podcast, host Kiera Beddes continues a special series on Utah educators’ essential elements of education and interviews Lindsey, a fourth-year special education teacher in Granite School District and a current Utah Teacher Fellow. Lindsey shares her second-career path from educational and school secretary roles into teaching, inspired by special education teachers during COVID, and explains how the Utah Teacher Fellows program supports teacher leadership and retention. She describes her classroom’s essential element as a hybrid approach that balances direct, textbook-based instruction with individualized online curriculum and assessment, emphasizing that analog and technology-based methods work best together. Connecting to the UCET Elements theme, she identifies most with “Amplify,” focusing on building confidence and helping special education students find and share their voices, especially through writing and supportive tools. Lindsey also reflects on how technology has changed teaching post-COVID, noting that creativity, enthusiasm, relevance, and connection remain timeless, and that technology should enhance—not replace—the teacher’s role. The episode closes with an invitation to the UCET Conference on March 16–17 at the Salt Palace."}