Episode 128: Rebecca Galli

Rebecca Galli is the author of "Rethinking Possible: A Memoir of Resilience" (2017) and "Morning Fuel: Daily Inspirations to Stretch Your Mind Before Starting Your Day" (2024). She has faced unimaginable challenges including the death of her brother at a young age, her son’s degenerative disease and subsequent death, her daughter’s autism, navigating life as a mother of multiple children with special needs, and her own permanent paralysis following a divorce. Despite all of these trials she has learned to live each day with intention and positivity. In 2000 the Baltimore Sun published her first column about playing soccer with her son from the wheelchair that launched her “From Where I Sit” newspaper column.

Episode 120: Kellie Skweres

Kellie Skweres, Teacher Support Liaison for Pittsburgh Public Schools, is a member of the district’s Office of Professional Learning. She has served in her current position for over ten years, facilitating and managing New Teacher Induction. In her more than 25 years in Public Education, she has also worked as an Instructional Teacher Leader, Curriculum Coach, Curriculum Writer, Intervention Specialist and classroom teacher for Elementary, Middle, and High School.

In addition to her current role, Kellie also works as a Racial Equity Affiliate, providing educators foundational skills to engage in conversations around race and racism and their impact on students.

Her most recent project focuses on supporting new teachers through mentorship. She has developed, implemented and is currently facilitating the professional learning of current District mentors and providing systemic approaches of support within and across schools as they engage in this work.

Kellie is a wife of twenty-seven years and mom of four children, two boys and two girls. She resides in Lincoln Place –the same town she grew up in as a child—with her two dogs and three cats. In her spare time, she loves to take walks in the woods and drink coffee on her deck.