Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEduTip 20: Don't give out your slides.
Many teachers give out copies of their slides as a supplement to a lecture or presentation, but this practice leads to terrible slides and ultimately…
3 years, 1 month ago
204: Authentic Group Discussions with the Real Talk Strategy
After years of listening to shallow, perfunctory student discussions, ELA teacher Jessica Cannata found a way to make those conversations more natura…
3 years, 1 month ago
203: What Happens When Two Schools Experience the Street Data Process?
In episode 178, we learned about an approach to school change called Street Data. I believed so strongly in this methodology that I asked the two aut…
3 years, 2 months ago
EduTip 19: Help students learn each other's names.
The time students spend in your classroom may be the only opportunity they have all day to engage with other humans in any meaningful way. And it's s…
3 years, 2 months ago
202: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2023
A messaging platform that translates messages into any language, a daily curation of current events, the one everyone's talking about that writes ess…
3 years, 2 months ago
201: How to Build Psychological Safety in Professional Development
Learning requires us to be vulnerable, and in order to do that, we need to feel safe. In this episode, I talk with Elena Aguilar, author of The PD Bo…
3 years, 3 months ago
200: Ten Ways to Give a Better Lecture
Two factors have given lectures a bad name: overuse and poor execution. In this episode we'll deal with both of these issues, considering when a lect…
3 years, 4 months ago
199: How to Personalize Instruction with Seminars
Offering small group mini-lessons that students only sign up for if they are interested is another great way to offer personalized instruction. Autho…
3 years, 5 months ago
198: Where to Find Real History in the Anti-CRT Era
We are living in a time where a segment of the population is working as hard as it can to keep our students ignorant of history. Dozens of states are…
3 years, 5 months ago
EduTip 18: Avoid assignments that are TOO open-ended.
While it's true that student choice has a lot of value, it's possible to give so much choice in an assignment that it kind of backfires. When a task …
3 years, 6 months ago