Podcast Episodes
Back to Search212: Untangling the Debate Over Reading Instruction
When it comes to teaching kids how to read, what is the big debate about? And what does research say we should be doing? In this episode, literacy ex…
2 years, 7 months ago
211: Supporting Intermediate English Learners in Every Subject
Students who have learned enough English to do well socially may still need scaffolding to thrive academically. In this episode, I talk with Tan Huyn…
2 years, 10 months ago
210: Integrating Arab Narratives Across the Curriculum
Positive, accurate representations of Arab voices and contributions are largely missing from our classrooms. In this episode, four educators — Sawsan…
2 years, 10 months ago
209: Unpacking Trauma-Informed Teaching
Trauma-informed teaching has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, and my guest, Alex Shevrin Venet, is a wonderful guide to help us better unde…
2 years, 11 months ago
208: What Is the Secret Sauce for Deeper Learning?
Do you ever feel like you're just marching through your content, trying to get it done? Like your students are just regurgitating it back, but not re…
2 years, 11 months ago
207: The Youth Boxing Club That Is Changing Lives: Jamyle Cannon and The Bloc
The core activity of this after-school program is boxing, but it offers so much more to students. In this episode, I talk with Jamyle Cannon, executi…
3 years ago
EduTip 22: Stop asking questions to the whole room.
When we ask a broad question to a large group — students, an audience, attendees at a meeting — we often get nothing in response. Plenty of the peopl…
3 years ago
206: The Thinking Classroom: An Interview with Peter Liljedahl
In too many classrooms, our students aren't really thinking. What they're doing instead is more like mimicking, and my guest Peter Liljedahl is deter…
3 years ago
EduTip 21: Bring some drama with an anticipatory set.
Anticipatory sets — quick preludes to your lessons — are a creative way to get students interested in what's to come. They are not an absolute necess…
3 years, 1 month ago
205: How to Use ChatGPT as an Example Machine
To learn any concept well, students need to experience multiple, varied examples of that concept, and coming up with those examples can be a time-con…
3 years, 1 month ago