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  • Relating to Kids Through Storytelling with Jerry Kolber

    Relating to Kids Through Storytelling with Jerry Kolber
    2025/02/04
    In this conversation, self-described "bad student" Jerry Kolber shares insights from his work producing kid friendly media and how good storytelling can help teachers connect with students. Jerry is co-founder of Atomic Entertainment which produces kid-friendly programming like Brain Games and the podcast Who Smarted.
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    21 分
  • Using the Arts for a Classroom Culture of Care with Maggie Broderick

    Using the Arts for a Classroom Culture of Care with Maggie Broderick
    2025/01/14
    Dr. Maggie Brodkerick shares her past experiences as a music teacher and her current work as a professor to tell how teachers can create a culture of caring in their classrooms-while also maintaining academic rigor. Many students are sometimes not connected to teachers or other students for a variety of reasons, but teachers can integrate the arts and social emotional learning to reach and engage all students.
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    31 分
  • Empowering Youth and Youth Voice with Sydney Guerette

    Empowering Youth and Youth Voice with Sydney Guerette
    2024/12/10
    While still a teenager, Sydney Guerette founded a nonprofit where youth run the show solving problems within their communities and promoting mental health. In this conversation Sydney and Scott Lee discuss how she got started on this journey and how educators and caring adults can support youth who are making a difference in their communities.
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    31 分
  • Connecting Students Through Music Workshop with Amy Richter

    Connecting Students Through Music Workshop with Amy Richter
    2024/11/12
    Amy Richter founder of Music Workshop shares how music education can be transformative experience for students. In this conversation, Amy shares that funding cuts at her children's school meant no more music education. She decided to take action and find a solution by founding the non-profit Music Workshop. Now Music Workshop is available to 6 million students around the world and it is completely free! Listen as Amy shares her story and how how music education impacts students.
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    24 分
  • The Epidemic of Financial Illiteracy with Vince Shorb

    The Epidemic of Financial Illiteracy with Vince Shorb
    2024/10/22
    This episode features a conversation with Vince Shorb, CEO of the National Financial Educators Council. In this wide-ranging conversation we discuss the problems many K-12 educators face in developing a quality personal finance program at all grade levels and Vince shares his ideas for improving outcomes and implementing serious reform initiatives.
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    43 分
  • So Is It a Science? with Nancy E. Bailey

    So Is It a Science? with Nancy E. Bailey
    2024/10/01
    Education researcher and advocate Dr. Nancy E. Bailey shares why educators should be concerned about literacy programs that claim to be based on the "Science of Reading". While there is no consensus on what the term "Science of Reading" means, many reading programs may only meet the literacy needs of some students. In this conversation we discuss what to look for and what issues to be wary of in selecting and using literacy programs in schools.
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    42 分
  • A Different Global Perspective with James Dittes

    A Different Global Perspective with James Dittes
    2024/09/10
    Our friend James Dittes returns to share his latest experiences with teaching internationally. When we first met James in 2020 he had started an exchange program with his class and a school in Germany. Since our last conversation, James has taken on a new adventure and now teaches English in an international school in Turkey. In this conversation he shares how he approaches teaching in a new country and shares some stories about his classroom.
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    37 分
  • It's Not Just Music-It's Sound! with Hayes Greenfield

    It's Not Just Music-It's Sound! with Hayes Greenfield
    2024/06/12
    Hayes Greenfield is a jazz musician, composer, and teaching artist. In this episode he shares the importance of not just music-but sound and how teaching students about sound can enhance social emotional learning and student attention.
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    45 分