Writing Worlds Where Readers Find Friends with Claribel A. Ortega
What happens when a reader's first friends are characters in a book? Author Claribel A. Ortega joins Tricia to talk about the Witchlings ser...
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Shifting Our Schools - Education : Technology : Leadership
Shifting Our Schools is a weekly podcast produced by the Eduro Learning Podcast Network and hosted by Jeff Utecht. Shifting Our Schools is geared towards educators, school leaders, ed tech c...
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Googly Eyes, Big Feelings, and Asking for Help with Christy Mandin
What can picture books teach us about helping children feel heard—and learning to ask for help ourselves? Author and illustrator Christy Man...
What Horror Teaches Us About Grief and Belonging—with Ryan La Sala
What can a horror novel teach us about friendship—and why might surviving together be its most hopeful message? Author Ryan La Sala joins Tr...
Building a Firm Around People Who Need an Advocate
What does it take to build a firm around the needs of people facing some of life's most difficult circumstances? Tricia welcomes the founder...
When Should Students Use AI? Let Them Design a Game
What if your next assessment asked students to pitch a board game—and explain when they chose to use AI? In this episode, Tricia Friedman ex...
From Research to Collective Action: Dr. Camille Busette on Healthcare Advocacy
What happens when the cost of healthcare forces someone to delay a doctor's visit, skip a prescription, or take on debt? Tricia Friedman wel...
Beyond Screen-Time Bans: Student Safety in the Age of AI
School districts are reaching a turning point in how they manage classroom technology. After years of rapid device adoption and policies tha...
Why the World Has Always Been Weird — and Why That Matters
Uncle John's All-Knowing Bathroom Reader, Curiosity, and the Weirdness of Human History Brian Boone joins the show to talk about why the wor...
From Super Bowl Champion to Literacy Champion | Malcolm Mitchell
What if readers and writers received the same attention, celebration, and investment as star athletes? In this episode, Tricia speaks with S...
Never Underestimate a Young Reader
What do young people understand that adults mistakenly believe they have hidden from them? Award-winning author Tiffany D. Jackson returns t...
The Humanoid Robot, the Headlines, and What Really Happened
When Salamanca City Central School District announced plans to bring a humanoid robot into its robotics program, the story quickly became so...
Game Design Could Transform Assessment in the AI Era
What if students didn't simply complete an assessment—but designed an experience for someone else? In this episode of Shifting Schools, Tric...
What will be your anchor for wellness this school year?
The beginning of a school year often arrives with a familiar message: do more, organize more, and somehow become a brand-new person before t...
Lisa Gardner on Creativity and Curiosity
What can ELA teachers learn from a bestselling suspense novelist who begins writing without knowing who the villain is? In this episode of S...
How to Raise a Reader from Birth with Sandra Magsamen
What can a board book offer a baby who cannot yet speak or even hold it independently? Award-winning author, illustrator, and art therapist...
Who Gets to Lead? Expanding Student Voice with Rachel Thrash
When schools picture a student leader, they often imagine the confident speaker, the high achiever, or the student who already understands h...
How do we teach students to sit with evidence longer?
What happens when historical research uncovers a truth you are not sure you want to know? In this episode of Shifting Schools , Tricia speak...
How Nolan's Odyssey and Cover Songs Help Us Talk About AI
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey just earned nearly $300 million retelling a 3,000-year-old story — so what actually separates imitation from tra...
Ted Lasso's Cristo Fernández: Fútbol Is Life, and It's Never Too Late to Dream
You know him as Dani Rojas on Ted Lasso. He's also a professional footballer with El Paso Locomotive FC, a filmmaker, and now the author of...
When Students Go After Real Problems
When Alex Campbell set out to teach sociology through true crime, he wasn't trying to catch a murderer. He was trying to make the stakes rea...