E94 | ARSA episode with Emily Sankey & Amber Morrow
In this special episode of The Rural Scoop, host Ty White interviews Emily Sankey and Amber Morrow during the ARSA Resilient Rural Conference. Emily and Amber, passionate advocates for rural education, discuss their work providing free, innovative curriculum and tools to Title I and tribal school...
E96 | ARSA episode with Rachel Willis
In this special episode of The Rural Scoop, host Ty White interviews Rachel Willis from Wickenburg High School during the ARSA Resilient Rural Conference. Rachel shares her journey as a fourth-generation teacher, reflecting on how her parents' dedication to education shaped her own teaching philo...
E95 | ARSA episode with Ildi Laczko-Kerr
In this special episode of The Rural Scoop, host Ty White interviews Ildi Laczko-Kerr, founder and CEO of Ribbit Learning, during the ARSA Resilient Rural Conference. Ildi shares how Ribbit Learning delivers scalable instructional coaching specifically designed for rural educators, emphasizing ac...
E98 | ARSA episode with Robert Di Bacco
In this special episode of The Rural Scoop, host Ty White interviews Robert Di Bacco, co-founder of Rivet Learning, at the ARSA Resilient Rural Conference. Robert shares how Rivet Learning is revolutionizing instructional coaching by providing educators with choice and agency in selecting their o...
E97 | ARSA episode with Rikkie Jensen
In this special episode of The Rural Scoop, host Ty White interviews Rikkie Jensen, a Teacher of Distinction from Chino Valley, Arizona, during the ARSA Resilient Rural Conference. Rikkie shares her experiences growing up in Duncan, Arizona, and how her background in both rural and urban educatio...
E99 | ARSA episode with Erick Francis
In this special episode of The Rural Scoop, host Ty White interviews author, educator, and presenter Erick Francis during the ARSA Resilient Rural Conference. Erick discusses his passion for supporting rural education, emphasizing the importance of providing equitable access to professional devel...
Faith in The Fire. Ty White's Journey Through Divorce, Single Motherhood & Breast Cancer
In this powerful and faith-centered episode, Ty White opens up about one of the most difficult years of her life. Facing a painful divorce, becoming a single mother to two young daughters (one born premature), and receiving a breast cancer diagnosis that tested her faith to its core.
Ty shares th...
Hoops Preview with Matthew Hatfield of Virginia Preps
This morning I’m joined by Matthew Hatfield of Virginia Preps to break down the 2025–26 high school basketball season. We start with Petersburg High, its new coach Ty White, and how the program is handling a national schedule. From there, we run through all 12 VHSL classifications (six boys and s...
She Has Already Won 6 National Titles — But Says the Real Journey Starts Now
Errin Mackridge was told after the 2024 UCI World Championships that she was an embarrassment to South Africa. She was 17, racing at her first Worlds, and she didn't finish. The people who said it weren't racing. They were typing.
She has six national titles now. Four on the mountain bike, t...
The First South African Woman to Medal at Mountain Bike Worlds
In September 2025, Tyler Jacobs became the first South African woman to ever win a medal at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships short track race. Three years earlier, she was getting dropped by her dad and her brothers on Sunday rides and crying about having to go.
Tyler is 21. She rid...
