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The Future of Public Education is a Community School feat. Kelly McMahon, Jitu Brown, Angelia Ebner, and Dave Greenberg
Episode 192
This conversation started 2 years ago, when I ran into Kelly McMahon at a summer conference. Kelly’s a kindergarten teacher at Hoover Community Schoo…
1 day, 6 hours ago
The Promise (and Persistent Myths) of Montessori Education w/ Andrew Faulstich, Dr. Ayize Sabater, and Kelly Jonelis
Episode 191
Montessori schools are some of the few that wear their pedagogy on their signage: Cottontail Creek Montessori School. Montessori Children’s House. Ac…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Spring Break 2026: HRP Summer Book Club & Montessori Mythbusting
This summer, HRP is reading Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for the End of the World As We Know It, by Ginie Servant-Miklos, and we’re in…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Reanimating the Art of Teaching w/ Gary Stager
Episode 190
There’s a quote from the great conservationist John Muir that goes, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything els…
1 month, 1 week ago
What Prison Can Teach Us About School w/ Jennifer Berkshire
Episode 189
Tomorrow, I’ll be trading Iowa for a couple days in Los Angeles, where the HRP team will be presenting for the third year at LearningInspirEd’s Stude…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Making School Meaningful w/ Lauren Porosoff
Episode 188
Whether it was during her nearly two decades as a middle school humanities teacher or as diversity coordinator or grade-level team leader, my guest t…
2 months, 1 week ago
From Meritocracy to Human Interdependence: Redefining the Purpose of Education w/ Yong Zhao
Episode 187
In a 2021 interview, Michael Sandel, author of the book The Tyranny of Merit argues that if merit can be understood as competence, a good thing to be…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Changing My Mind About Schools (and Everything Else) w/ Diane Ravitch
Episode 186
“This is a book about my life, about admitting ‘I was wrong,’ and about how important it is to say it out loud,” is how our guest today, Diane Ravitc…
3 months, 1 week ago
Why Fascists Fear Teachers w/ Randi Weingarten
Episode 185
HRP is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3), and the views expressed by our guests are their own and do not constitute an endorsement.
“Who’s the most dangerous pe…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Crash Course Social Studies Education w/ Raoul Meyer
Episode 184
If you’ve taught or attended a high school course in the last decade, you’ve probably watched a Crash Course video. Their dozens of playlists on topi…
4 months, 1 week ago