A Slice with 'Dice
by Corey Alderdice
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Who Gets to Excel?
About this podcast
A Slice with ’Dice is a weekly podcast exploring leadership, talent development, and the human side of high-performing systems. Drawing on decades of experience in gifted education and public leadership, host Corey Alderdice examines how institutions identify potential, navigate change, and create cultures where people can thrive. Each episode blends thoughtful reflection with practical insight for educators, leaders, and anyone interested in how talent and transformation intersect in real-world settings.
Episodes
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- Who Gets to Excel? · 10 min · Season 5 Episode 21Who gets to excel depends partly on whom our schools choose to see. Turning overlooked potential into achievement requires intentional choices—and a commitment that continues…
- Talent Is More Broadly Distributed Than Opportunity · 9 min · Season 5 Episode 20A student’s accomplishments tell us what they’ve had the chance to demonstrate. How much potential remains beyond what we can see? Corey Alderdice, a national voice on talent and…
- Rethinking Reach, Target, and Safety Schools · 11 min · Season 5 Episode 19Families often sort colleges into reach, target, and safety categories based more on reputation and instinct than evidence. But those labels aren't judgments about the colleges…
- Why One Campus Isn’t Enough · 10 min · Season 5 Episode 18Some of America’s leading universities are outgrowing the idea of calling just one city home. Their expanding campus networks are redrawing the map of higher education—and the…
- Before Colleges Evaluate the Student, They Evaluate the School · 8 min · Season 5 Episode 17Students and families often obsess over acceptance rates, GPAs, and test scores as though college admissions exists on one giant national leaderboard. But before admissions…
- The Messy Middle (Class) of College Costs · 11 min · Season 5 Episode 16Families earning $200,000 a year are increasingly being told they qualify for significant college financial aid. That’s both a sign of progress in expanding access — and a…
- A Major Question About Undergraduate Minors · 14 min · Season 5 Episode 15The undergraduate minor once served a simple purpose: it gave students a structured way to develop depth beyond their primary field of study. As universities move toward more…
- A "Minor" Quarrel Over Gender Studies at UALR · 13 min · Season 5 Episode 14A political fight over an optional Gender Studies minor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock raises questions that go well beyond one program or one campus. When…
- I Like My School. I Just Don’t Trust Public Education. · 9 min · Season 5 Episode 13It is possible to like the school your child attends and still distrust public education. A new Gallup survey reveals the gap between local confidence and national…
- (Encore) First Month Finished: A Gifted Parent’s Moment to Connect · 6 min · Season 5 Episode 12The first month of school is often when the shine wears off and students begin carrying the real weight of routines, expectations, and belonging. For gifted students, the most…
- What the National Merit List Can—and Can’t—Tell Us · 10 min · Season 5 Episode 11The annual National Merit Semifinalist list offers plenty to celebrate—but far less certainty than we sometimes attach to it. Geographic patterns can reveal real differences in…
- Seeing the Whole School (Part 5): Proximity and Purpose in Practice · 28 min · Season 5 Episode 10A school is always larger than the part of it we see most clearly. In the capstone episode of the series, the invitation to “see the whole school” becomes a concrete framework…
- “Guy-Fi” Lit and the Joy of Reading Again · 15 min · Season 5 Episode 9What if the next big reading trend isn’t a formal genre at all, but a certain kind of story built around competence, camaraderie, irreverence, and a surprising amount of heart?…
- Seeing the Whole School (Part 4): The Work of Translation · 22 minHealthy schools do not choose between the work closest to students and the work that sustains the institution. They learn how to translate between them within the Proximity and…
- Don't Mistake Uncertainty for Inability (Or, Morte Vampir Morte) · 8 min · Season 5 Episode 7Uncertainty has a way of disguising itself as a verdict. At the beginning of a new semester—or any unfamiliar season—the fact that we do not yet know what comes next can make us…
- Seeing the Whole School (Part 3): The Work Beyond the Classroom · 24 min · Season 5 Episode 6The work that sustains a school is not always the work people see first. Sometimes the relationships, resources, trust, and stewardship that make student opportunity possible are…
- Michigan's Plan to Give Students Time to Land · 10 min · Season 5 Episode 5The first semester of college asks students to master far more than academics alone. What if giving them a little room to land could ultimately prepare them to reach even higher?…
- Seeing the Whole School (Part 2): The Work Closest to Students · 19 min · Season 5 Episode 4Some truths about a school can only be learned through daily proximity to students. They live in the classroom, the hallway, the advising conversation, the residence hall, the…
- The Most Telling New Product in Higher Education · 10 min · Season 5 Episode 3A Facebook advertisement for a legal subscription service for college students seems like an oddly specific product—until you realize it makes perfect sense. Sometimes the newest…
- Seeing the Whole School (Part 1): The Work Outside Our View · 18 min · Season 5 Episode 2Every person in a school sees something real. But no one sees the whole school alone. Corey Alderdice, a national voice in talent and transformation, opens the Seeing the Whole…
