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#60 – Are You Okay? Building Resilience and Making Time to Care for Yourself
For teachers, it’s easy to put students—their happiness, their emotional well-being, their mental health—first. When it comes to self-care—the practice of taking an active role in protecting one’s own well-being…
Connect With Families
Over the last few years, school was brought into the home and the home was brought into school in a way that was unprecedented. Boundaries have blurred, and educators and…
Accelerate Learning Through Differentiation
As teachers, we are well aware that one size does not fit all in education. We know the value of differentiation and personalized learning plans. We want to meet students…
#67 – Remembering Your Why
In preparation for Thanksgiving, we reached out on social media and asked teachers two questions: Why did you get into education? What is your current “why” that keeps you going…
#66 – The “Art” of Teaching: Infusing Artistic Creation Into Your Classroom
Art isn’t just about drawing. It encompasses so many media, including technology. This week we meet with Nic Hahn, a K–5 Elementary Art Specialist in Minnesota, who shares her experience…
#65 – Using Technology to Amplify Student Voice
In this week’s podcast episode, our team is joined once again by Theren Hayes—a National Board Certified Teacher and PK–12 Instructional Technology Specialist from the Tukwila School District in Washington—to…
Accelerate Learning by Building on Student Assets
The benefits of focusing on assets rather than deficits are profound. When students equate themselves with their deficits and failures, they can easily feel defeated. This can lead to disengagement…
#64 – We Have 1:1 Devices: Now What?
Prior to the pandemic, more and more schools and districts across the United States were shifting to 1:1, meaning they had one device for every single student. As a result…
Accelerate Learning by Maintaining Academic Rigor and Cognitive Complexity
No matter which academic mountain your students are climbing, it’s important that the goals are rigorous and cognitively challenging. For most learning targets, there are rich instructional approaches that you…
#63 – Accelerate Learning With Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning
As we face increasing disruption to our routines of living and learning, the conversation about access to learning has become more prominent across the US. In today’s episode, we explore…
#62 – Relational Capacity to Up the Rigor in Learning
The idea of building relationships has been a frequent topic of conversation in K–12 education over the last few years, especially when thinking about working with communities of color and…
#61 – How to Have Difficult Conversations
Privilege and the role that it plays in our relationships and communication styles implicitly and explicitly impacts how we manage difficult conversations. One of the things we often forget to…
Accelerate Learning by Climbing Mountains
For most mountain climbers, the thrill of the sport comes from conquering the physical and psychological challenges that they face while climbing up a mountain and then being rewarded with…
#59 – Reengaging Students With School
In this week’s episode, we meet with our special guest—a high school History teacher and History Department Chair at New Visions Advanced Math and Science II in the Bronx—Ruben Martinez….