Podcast Episodes

60: Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals to the Classroom with Dr. Jennifer Williams, Julia Fliss, and Nick Covington

Episode 60

This episode is all about the Sustainable Development Goals, with some specific questions surrounding their implementation. If you're not familiar, the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted in 2…

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago

59: What's Up With School Lunch? w/ Jennifer E. Gaddis

Episode 59

I’ve always been perplexed by school lunch. It’s sort of taken as a part of school: a fairly bland looking, processed, mess that students deal with during the school day. Michael Moore in Where to In…

Published on 6 years ago

Bonus: Summit: Connecting with Students for Greater Well-Being w/ Monte Syrie

Join Monte Syrie - a proponent of student relationships who operates a daily educational reflective blog at LetsChangeEducation.com. Monte serves as an adjunct professor of education at Eastern Washi…

Published on 6 years ago

58: Student Government and a Democratic Education w/ Carla Marschall & StuVoice, Merrit Jones

Episode 58

We often think of democratic education as student government - where students are sadly often pigeon-held into a glorified party planning committee with very little power. But what if things could be…

Published on 6 years, 1 month ago

Bonus: Summit: Self-Assessment, Gradeless Learning, and Teacher Well-Being w/ Starr Sackstein

This is an audio version of our Summit on October 27th,, 2019.

Starr Sackstein, NBCT is author of many titles including Hacking Assessment, Peer Feedback in the Classroom: Empowering Students to Be th…

Published on 6 years, 1 month ago

57: EdSpace.Live w/ Michael J. Crawford

Episode 57

In this episode, Chris sits down with Michael J Crawford, co-founder of EdSpace Live, a new social media platform aimed at helping teachers connect in a more meaningful way than Twitter, Instagram, o…

Published on 6 years, 2 months ago

56: Listen to Students (feat. Ayush Chopra, Cody Lees, & Meghan Kestner)

Episode 56

In this podcast, we're focused on student voice: how to engage students, what it means to share power with students, and the possibilities that can occur when we truly let students speak.

It's obvious…

Published on 6 years, 2 months ago

Bonus: Summit: Humanizing Mathematics w/ Sunil Singh

This is an audio version of our Summit on September 22nd, 2019.

Sunil Singh is author of Pi of Life and co-author of Math Recess: Playful Learning in an Age of Disruption, whose expert focus is on rev…

Published on 6 years, 2 months ago

55: Experimental Higher Education w/ Goddard College (Bernard Bull and Kumari Patricia Younce)

Episode 55

In this podcast, we're speaking with Goddard College, a private college in Plainfield, Vermont with additional campuses in Port Townsend and Seattle, Washington. Goddard is a heavily progressive scho…

Published on 6 years, 3 months ago

54: Making the Switch to Ungrading (feat. Abigail French, Dr. Susan Blum, and Dr. Laura Gibbs)

Episode 54

Today, we're deep diving into ungrading. In episode 5, we looked at the gradeless movement and the pedagogy that surrounds it, and now we're looking at how it's incorporated, and the non-academic ben…

Published on 6 years, 3 months ago