Bridge in the Classroom: A Screen-Free Math Game
Going screen-free is an emphasis right now, as is building emotional intelligence. Perhaps that is why bridge is really attractive to some k...
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10 Minute Teacher Podcast with Cool Cat Teacher
Jam-packed with cool classrooms, cool apps, and cool teaching ideas, full-time teacher, Vicki Davis, who blogs as the Cool Cat Teacher, loves to interview awesome teachers and educators from...
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Screen Value, Not Screen Time: Leading Schools in the AI Age
ISTE+ASCD 2026 Board President Dr. Jeremy Owoh explains how his district runs toward AI instead of away from it. He also shares why AI can n...
Grief in the Classroom When Teachers Are Grieving Too
Sometimes we need to talk about hard things, like grief in the classroom. Because real life is hard, and real life is in our classroom every...
Using AI? Keep Teachers in the Driver's Seat
Dr. Patricia Dickenson, author of Smart Teaching in the Age of AI, shows how teachers can use AI to plan and differentiate without losing th...
A Blind Teacher on Truly Seeing Your Students
Kathy Nimmer is the 2026 Helen Keller Achievement Award winner. Her story is so heartwarming that, to celebrate episode 1001, we're airing a...
Celebrating 1,000 Episodes: My Son Turns the Tables on Me!
Thank you so much! It was February 2017 when I took a day off school to "figure out" how to publish this podcast. I started by telling the s...
Productive Struggle: When to Help and When to Hold Back
Productive struggle is the sweet spot between too easy and too hard. Dr. Barbara Blackburn, author of more than 40 books on rigor and motiva...
New Teacher Advice From a 3-Time Teacher of the Year
New teacher advice from a three-time Teacher of the Year. Retired fifth-grade teacher Eric Hall spent 27 years in the classroom, and he says...
Frustrated With AI? Make It Interview You First
Frustrated with AI? Make it interview you first. Dr. Jie Tao of Fairfield University explains why "prompt and pray" gives you brilliant answ...
Expelled 3 Times, Now a School Leader: The Believement Gap
Teacher expectations shape what students believe they can do. Edward DeShazer was suspended more than 30 times and expelled three times. Tod...
Student Mental Health Questions for Teachers: What Am I Missing?
When a student puts their head down, the question you ask next matters. Therapist and former high school teacher Charle Peck shares the one...
Why Kids Can't Stop Moving: The Neuroscience Behind a Student's Need to Move
Why kids can't stop moving, and why some students can't sit still in class: an occupational and physical therapist explains the need behind...
5 Easy Brain Breaks for Your Classroom
NUMBER 2 IN OUR COUNTDOWN OF THE TOP 10 EPISODES OF THE FIRST 1,000. This one goes all the way back to April 2017, when the show was brand n...
5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Grades 6-12
NUMBER 3 IN OUR COUNTDOWN OF THE TOP 10 EPISODES OF THE FIRST 1,000. This one originally aired January 31, 2022 and has been heard 27,058 ti...
Rebound: How Schools Accelerate Learning Recovery
NUMBER 4 IN OUR COUNTDOWN OF THE TOP 10 EPISODES OF THE FIRST 1,000. This one originally aired in December 2021 and has been downloaded 26,8...
AI Literacy for Teachers: Free Lessons, No Expertise Needed
You do not have to be an AI expert to teach AI literacy. Laura Gray says nobody is one — and points to free, ready-to-teach lessons that wor...
Blended Learning Best Practices That Still Hold Up (Recorded 2021) - episode #5 of all time
NUMBER 5 IN OUR COUNTDOWN OF THE TOP 10 EPISODES OF THE FIRST 1,000. This one originally aired in 2021 and has been downloaded more than 25,...
How to Teach Writing with Digital Media
Dr. Sarah Levine taught secondary English in a Chicago public school for ten years, where she founded a youth radio program to make writing...
Neuroscience Research: 5 Ways to Superior Teaching
Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath has lectured at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Melbourne, and has worked with more than 150...
What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?
Mastery learning is the driver's-test rule applied to school: if a student fails the test, they take it again until they pass. Jon Bergmann...