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A math teacher and a professional learning pro bring a blast of fresh air to educators everywhere, every week! Here's what makes this teaching podcast different: We have big ideas about educ...

What are the habits we know that enable teachers to be effective no matter the environment? And how do we build and sustain professional and...

Today, Jacob is joined by an Alaskan and a Texan: Moon McCarley, Principal at Nondalton School and District Testing Coordinator for The Lake...

Robyn & Sarah, a mother & daughter teaching duo, stop by to chat with Jacob about what each generation has learned from the other, what’s be...

For this episode, we're once again joined by Dr. Chase Nordengren, principal research lead for Effective Instructional Strategies at NW...

“Professional learning should be intensive, collaborative, job-embedded, and data-driven.” Jacob hops from the host’s chair to the hot seat...

Kailey & Jacob are joined by two educators and NWEA content specialists who have thought a lot about how to improves student experiences in...

Get ready for a blast of youthful energy and insight in this one-of-a-kind episode of The Continuing Educator! Join Kailey and Jacob as they...

Send your back-to-school tips as a voice memo to social.media@nwea.org — we’ll play them on air. Lots of great teaching stories and tips in...

Kailey chats with actor, comedian, and NWEA professional learning lead consultant Nicholas Joe about how, why, and when teachers get laughs...

What a great crowd for our first live show! After discussing their Georgia roots, Jacob and Kailey chat with their guests about choosing the...

This was a fun one... because we got to talk to you, our listeners! In this episode: We see how Mr. Potato head can motivate students, one a...

As a teacher, Misty Hodge wondered: Who makes these assessments I give my students? Are these companies listening to the teachers who use th...

Melissa Lim is a Technology Integration Specialist at Portland Public Schools, but she sees herself first and foremost as a teacher, not an...

The science of reading is both a body of research and movement in literacy education. How do we keep those two things connected when they’re...

The elusive practice of classroom differentiation has historically had lots of “shouldas” and “couldas” from experts, but it's always b...

What’s it like in classrooms right now? The only way to know is to ask a teacher, so we sat down with a first-grade elementary teacher and a...

We're back for Season 4! Yes, *we* — on this episode, Jacob Bruno interviews our new co-host, Kailey Rhodes, about how to establish a r...

Thanks for listening! Please rate & review The Continuing Educator on your favorite podcast platform. Season 4 is coming in 2023. In this bo...

The ALA defines digital literacy as "the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicat...

“The essence of family literacy is that parents are supported as the first teachers of their children.” Family Literacy is the idea that lon...

On this episode, we explore literacy instruction, the science of reading, early childhood literacy, and the differences between skills-focus...

Let’s take a trip to where it all begins, at least academically, with early literacy and numeracy. On this episode, early learning experts D...

For episode 4, we head to Las Vegas and the nation’s fifth largest school district. NWEA and Clark County School District are longtime partn...

“For many, learning mathematics leads to perceiving the subject as a collection of procedures that are disconnected from any big picture. It...

Welcome to Season 3 of The Continuing Educator, a professional learning podcast for K-12 educators produced by NWEA. This season, we are bri...

For our final episode on student agency, we thought it was time to help our students set some better goals. So, we brought in Chase Nordengr...

How do we as educators ensure that the empowering intent of assessment remains front and center, while helping students built self-efficacy...

General education teachers aren’t often provided the training they need to effectively reach children with disabilities in their classroom,...

Our education system had been failing our emergent bilingual students since long before the pandemic. How can teachers better serve the emer...

In this conversation, we venture into the domain specific ways we, as educators, can empower students within our classrooms. How is building...

At the heart of student agency is engaging students directly in their learning in ways that provide them choice points, skill in navigating...

Welcome to season 2 of The Continuing Educator! Teachers have tremendously complex jobs and a constantly shifting ecosystem of expectations,...

Shifting to grading for learning can have a powerful impact on your students, and whether you’re just beginning or you’re digging deeper int...

Since the advent of online gradebooks, we’ve put the tools in students’ and parents’ hands to regularly view their learning progress. But wh...

Grading for learning requires reconsideration of several practices deeply entrenched in tradition, and one of those is the opportunity for s...

Traditional grading practices typically incorporate non-learning measures such as behavior and effort into an average. Yet by mixing achieve...

To successfully create the conditions where grading for learning practices may thrive, consider first the importance of ensuring student-cen...

Let's begin our journey towards better grading practices! Grades have remained a fundamental component of our education system for over...