Episode 15: The Hidden Curriculum: Refugee High
In his 1968 classic, Life in Schools , Philip Jackson coined the phrase “the hidden curriculum” , the implicit rules, values, norms, and beh...
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15 episodesEpisode 14: Inauguration Poetry
Amanda Gorman electrified the audience at President Biden’s inauguration in January with her poem “The Hill We Climb.” Many have commented o...
Episode 13: Minding the Media: Digital and Media Literacy
More of our lives are spent on screens each year. At the same time we are living in an era of divisive partisanship with unprecedented assau...
Episode 12: Getting a Read on Dyslexia
In this episode we hear three stories of people with dyslexia who overcame their struggles through explicit reading instruction, their own h...
Episode 11: Distance "Learning" in the Time of COVID-19
In this episode we’ll focus on schools in the time of the Covid-19 Pandemic. We’ll discuss the effects of social distancing, the adjustment...
Facing History and Ourselves
Episode 10: In this episode we consider the ways in which history influences our present lives — both our national history but also our own...
Freshman Year: The Make or Break Year
Episode 9: Freshman, rookie, newbie. How can schools help students make the difficult transition to 9th grade, often leaving behind the smal...
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Episode 8: In this episode we’ll consider the vital link between schools and their surrounding communities, and the “institutional mourning”...
Why Teach?
Interviews with two teachers (April Peet Voss and Ryan Reece) and teacher educator, Dr. Sonia Nieto
Neurodiversity
In this episode we'll consider neurodiversity, a term signifying the amazing range of human brains, minds, and abilities -- abilities that a...
Fail Better
We consider growth mindset, interviewing teacher Charles Logan, and researchers Chris Seals and Kyla Haimovitz.
Where Have All the Teachers Gone?
In this episode we'll consider the national teacher shortage and the reasons why so many teachers are leaving the profession.
The Secret Lives of Teachers
Episode 3 : According to Frank McCourt ( Teacher Man ), teachers are always wearing a "mask," a professional persona in the classroom. And s...
Politics in the Classroom
A discussion of politics inside and outside of the classroom, featuring Bill Ayers and Jashen Edwards
A Lesson on Kindness
A Lesson on Kindness. Classroom teacher and writer Tamara Jaffe-Notier tells a story about her experience teaching the poem Kindness by Naom...