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Prom? Canceled. Graduation? Online. High Schoolers Share Their Worlds With Us
Season 5 Episode 2
Seniors missed out on prom, signing yearbooks, sharing the news of college acceptances with friends and teachers in person, and walking across the gr…
5 years, 10 months ago
How Learning Emotional Skills Can Help Boys Become Men
Season 5 Episode 1
When Ashanti Branch started the Ever Forward Club, he was a high school math teacher trying to figure out why the young men in his classes weren’t su…
5 years, 10 months ago
MindShift Podcast is Back with Season Five!
Season 5 Episode 1
We’re here just in time to unpack some of the extraordinary circumstances created by emergency distance learning and the COVID-19 pandemic. This seas…
5 years, 11 months ago
Where Did All These Teen Activists Come From?
Season 4 Episode 6
Teenagers are demanding to be heard on the issues that matter most to them including climate change, gun control, abortion and immigration. What's di…
6 years, 7 months ago
How Art Can Help Center a Student’s Learning Experience
Season 2 Episode 5
Art has often been relegated as an additional activity in schools. But schools that put art at the center of a child's learning experience through ar…
6 years, 7 months ago
How Students Would Improve Their School Lunch Experience
Season 4 Episode 4
Adults have designed how kids eat at school for generations, directing students into single-file lines and seating them at long roll-away tables to e…
6 years, 8 months ago
Teaching Six Year Olds About Privilege and Power
Season 4 Episode 3
Privilege and power play out in the world all around us everyday. And kids notice. First grade teacher Bret Turner has decided not to avoid the diffi…
6 years, 8 months ago
Why Free Play Needs A Comeback
Season 4 Episode 2
The kind of free play grown-ups had in previous generations is looked at with nostalgia in today’s era of adult-supervised activities. Children are m…
6 years, 9 months ago
Teen Anxiety: How Schools Can Help
Season 4 Episode 1
Anxiety is running rampant in high schools around the country, both rich and poor. The driving factors may be different, but it’s the same lonely, de…
6 years, 9 months ago
Preview Season Four of the MindShift Podcast
Season 4
We asked what issues matter to you most and we listened. The fourth season of the MindShift podcast dives into the question: How can we bring joy bac…
6 years, 9 months ago