The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast
Teaching strategies, classroom management, education reform, educational technology -- if it has something to do with teaching, we're talking about it. Jennifer Gonzalez interviews educators, students, administrators and parents about the psychological and social dynamics of school, trade secrets, and other juicy things you'll never learn in a textbook. For more fantastic resources for teachers, visit http://www.cultofpedagogy.com.
239: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Multitasking in School
238: How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom
237: Curating a More Inclusive Library
236: Five Conditions for Getting Formative Assessment Right
235: Making School Better for Gender-Expansive Kids
234: Four Fun Classroom Games to Add to Your Toolbox
233: Meeting the Core Human Needs of a Teacher
232: How Metacognition Can Optimize Learning
231: Teaching Executive Functions to All Students
Summer 2024 Update: What I'm Working On Over the Break
230: What is a Semantic Pulse Survey, and Why Should You Try it?
229: Not Just for Math: A Tiered System of Learning Supports for Any Subject
228: A Conversation About School Choice
227: Two Effective Ways to Teach Annotation
226: Yes, Your School Librarian Can Do That (and More)
225: Two Programs with Fresh Solutions to the Teacher Shortage
224: Some Thoughts on Teachers Crying in the Classroom
223: Why Students Give You the Blank Stare, and What to Do About It
222: Building Better Collaboration Between Families and Schools
221: The Photography Project That Showed Teachers Through a New Lens
220: What do we do about standardized tests?
219: Eight Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2024
218: How to Help Students Without Being a Savior
217: How to Talk about Race in Your Classroom
216: Your Teachers Need a Win
215: Seventeen Tweaks That Make a Big Difference in Group Work
214: Nothing's Going to Change My Mind: How Unconditional Positive Regard Transforms Classrooms
213: Using Learning Stories for Student Reflection
212: Untangling the Debate Over Reading Instruction
211: Supporting Intermediate English Learners in Every Subject
210: Integrating Arab Narratives Across the Curriculum
209: Unpacking Trauma-Informed Teaching
208: What Is the Secret Sauce for Deeper Learning?
207: The Youth Boxing Club That Is Changing Lives: Jamyle Cannon and The Bloc
EduTip 22: Stop asking questions to the whole room.
206: The Thinking Classroom: An Interview with Peter Liljedahl
EduTip 21: Bring some drama with an anticipatory set.
205: How to Use ChatGPT as an Example Machine
EduTip 20: Don't give out your slides.
204: Authentic Group Discussions with the Real Talk Strategy
203: What Happens When Two Schools Experience the Street Data Process?
EduTip 19: Help students learn each other's names.
202: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2023
201: How to Build Psychological Safety in Professional Development
200: Ten Ways to Give a Better Lecture
199: How to Personalize Instruction with Seminars
198: Where to Find Real History in the Anti-CRT Era
EduTip 18: Avoid assignments that are TOO open-ended.
197: How to Leverage Multisensory Learning in Your Classroom
EduTip 17: Repeat audience questions.
196: Four Models for Doing Blended Learning in Your Classroom
195: Five Fantastic Ideas for Collaboration Projects
EduTip 16: Do a smooth first read.
194: Finding the Funk: 3 Ways to Add Culturally Responsive Critical Thinking to Your Lessons
EduTip 15: Set aside time to set norms.
193: Creating Language-Affirming Classrooms for Code-Switching Students
EduTip 14: Find teachable moments in the downtime.
192: How to Use Backward Chaining to Differentiate Instruction
EduTip 13: Add novelty to boost learning.
191: In Support of Trans Athlete Inclusion in Women's Sports
190: Why so many teachers are leaving, and why others stay.
EduTip 12: Model EVERYTHING.
189: Eight Principles for Supporting Students with ADHD
EduTip 11: Replace general praise with something specific.
188: Uncovering Your Implicit Biases: An Exercise for Teachers
EduTip 10: Use music to buffer "silent" activities.
187: Contrasting Cases: A Simple Strategy for Deep Understanding
EduTip 9: Use an antiseptic bounce to prevent off-task behavior.
186: Using Gallery Walks for Peer Feedback
185: How Teachers Can Support Arab-American Students
184: Lessons that Build Students' Media and News Literacy
EduTip 8: Don't take anything personally.
183: Six Tech Tools to Try in 2022
EduTip 7: Stop popcorn reading.
182: Eight Ways to Grow Students' Vocabulary
EduTip 6: Try a tiered activity for simple differentiation.
181: Teachers are being silenced. What can be done about it?
EduTip 5: Use huddles to communicate during group work.
180: Make Units More Inspiring with Vision Boards
EduTip 4: Hold off on most feedback until AFTER a task is done.
179: Teachers are barely hanging on. Here's what they need.
EduTip 3: Distract the Distractor
178: Street Data: A Pathway Toward Equitable, Anti-Racist Schools
EduTip 2: Don't yell at another teacher's class.
177: How to Find, Read, and Use Academic Research
EduTip 1: Don't make them read and listen at the same time.
176: Suicide Prevention: What Teachers Can Do
175: Introducing the HyperRubric
174: Why You Should Bring Podcasts Into Your Classroom
173: How ELA and Special Ed Collaboration Can Produce Great Student Writing
172: The Importance of Maslow's Fourth Tier
171: Does Your School Need a Literacy Check-up?
170: No More Easy Button: A Suggested Approach to Post-Pandemic Teaching
169: Revolution School: When "Reimagining School" Actually Happens
168: Mistake Analysis
167: How to Co-Construct Success Criteria with Students
166: UDL as a Key to Equity
165: Setting Up Mastery-Based Grading in Your Classroom
164: The Elegance of the Gray Area
163: It's Time to Give Classroom Jobs Another Try
163: It's Time to Give Classroom Jobs Another Try
162: Up-Down-Both-Why: A Funds of Feeling Approach to Literature
161: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2021
160: Fire Up Your Students with a Campaign Unit
159: Connecting Students in a Disconnected World
158: How to Create a Self-Paced Classroom
157: What's Possible with Green Screens in the Classroom
156: Subversion: An Essential Tool of the Master Teacher
155: How to Teach When Everyone's Scattered
154: Hexagonal Thinking: A Colorful Tool for Discussion
153: Four Laws of Learning
152: Creating Moments of Genuine Connection Online
151: Historically Responsive Literacy: An Equity-Centered Approach to Curriculum
150: A Few Creative Ways to Use Student Blogs
149: Nine Ways Online Teaching Should Be Different from Face-to-Face
148: Backward Design: The Basics
147: Why White Students Need Multicultural and Social Justice Education
146: Reopening School: What it Might Look Like
145: Flash Feedback: More Meaningful Feedback in Less Time
144: Making Great Screencast Videos
143: To Teach Social-Emotional Learning, Start with Yourself
142: Distance Learning: A Collection of Resources for Teachers
141: Getting Rid of "I Don't Know" in Your Classroom
140: Nine Ways to be More Inclusive of Diverse Students
139: How to Create a Project Based Learning Lesson
138: Making Cooperative Learning Work Better
137: How Afterschool Staff Can Take Your Class to the Next Level
136: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2020
135: The Time I Made a Fart Sound During a Test
134: Repairing Harm: A Better Alternative to Punishment
133: How One Makerspace is Meeting Students' Social-Emotional Needs
132: How to Spot Dyslexia, and What to Do Next
131: How World Language Teaching Has Evolved
130: Tips for Starting a Podcast
129: Let's Make Better Slideshows
128: When You Get Nothing But Crickets
127: A Few Ideas for Dealing with Late Work
126: Student-Created Graphic Novels
125: Think Twice Before Doing Another Historical Simulation
124: A Closer Look at Open Educational Resources
123: Four Research-Based Strategies All Teachers Should Be Using
122: A Simple Trick for Success with One-Pagers
121: Is that Higher-Order Task Really Higher Order?
120: How One District Learned to Talk About Race
119: "We're a Family" and Other School Norms that Can Cause Burnout
118: To Boost Learning, Just Add Movement
117: Five Ways to Improve Your Rubrics
116: Mastery Learning with Khan Academy
115: Time to Take a Look at Your Dress Code
114: Let's Give Our Teaching Language a Makeover
113: Global School Play Day: One Day. Nothing But Play.
112: Six Tech Tools to Try in 2019
111: Teaching Note-Taking with Stations
110: Ten Ways Educators Can Take Action in Pursuit of Equity
109: Get Students Talking with Ongoing Conversations
108: To Learn, Students Need to DO Something
107: The Best Ways to Use Leveled Texts
107: The Best Ways to Use Leveled Texts
107: The Best Ways to Use Leveled Texts
106: The Danger of Teacher Nostalgia
105: Voice of Witness: Bring the Power of Oral History to Your Classroom
104: What the Research Says About Note-Taking
103: Deeper Class Discussions with the TQE Method
102: A Look Inside a Teacher Fellowship Program
101: A Step-by-Step Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing
100: Lessons in Personhood
99: Quality-Check Your Tech: 6 Strategies
98: Improving the Way We Teach About Slavery
97: The Principal's Pet: A Cautionary Tale
96: What's the Point of a Makerspace?
95: Twelve Ways Teachers Can Build Their Emotional Resilience
94: How accurate are your grades?
93: Eight Things I Know for Sure About Middle School Kids
92: Frickin' Packets
91: Twelve Ways to Upgrade Your Classroom Design
90: OMG Becky. PD is Getting SO MUCH BETTER.
90: OMG Becky. PD has gotten SO MUCH BETTER.
89: Restorative Justice in School: An Overview
88: Are you a curator or a dumper?
87: Moving from Feedback to Feedforward
86: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2018
85: The Magic of Validation
84: How to Stop Killing the Love of Reading w/Pernille Ripp
83: What is an Innovation Class?
82: Making School a Safe Place for LGBTQ Students
81: The Great and Powerful Graphic Organizer
80: When Students Won't Stop Talking
79: Retrieval Practice: The Most Powerful Learning Strategy You're Not Using
78: Four Misconceptions About Culturally Responsive Teaching
77: What Teachers Want Administrators to Know
76: When Your School is Short on Tech
75: Making the Most of a 90-Minute Block Class
74: How to Deal with Student Grammar Errors
73: How One Teacher Started an Urban Gardening Revolution
72: What is an educator mastermind, and why should you join one?
71: Why It's So Hard for Teachers to Take Care of Themselves
70: How HyperDocs Can Transform Your Teaching
69: Three Surprising Reasons Students Don't Get into Top Colleges
68: Twelve Ways to Support English Learners in the Mainstream Classroom
67: What to Do on Lame Duck School Days
66: Why Curation Should be Your Next Class Project
65: Five Ways College Teachers Can Improve Their Instruction
64: Four Ways Teachers Can Support Students of Color
63: Teaching Students to Avoid Plagiarism
62: 21st Century Learning at the Apollo School
61: Seven Systems that Work for Outside-the-Box Learners
60: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2017
59: Runaway Youth: How Teachers Can Help
58: Six Powerful Learning Strategies You MUST Share with Students
57: Nine Simple Solutions for Common Teaching Problems
56: Creating a Welcoming Classroom for Special Ed Students
55: Your Top 10 Genius Hour Questions Answered
54: Is Your Lesson a Grecian Urn?
53: How to Approach Your Teaching Like a Master Chef
52: Is Your Classroom Academically Safe?
51: CommonLit's Online Library of Free Texts
50: Using Playlists to Differentiate Instruction
49: How Dialogue Journals Build Teacher-Student Relationships
48: Implementing a Classroom Management Plan that Works
47: Black Girls and School: We Can Do Better
46: The Gut-Level Teacher Reflection
45: Ten Ways to Sabotage Your Classroom Management
44: Bring Podcasts Into Your Classroom with Listen Current
43: How to Make Better Use of Twitter
42: Kindergarten Redshirting
41: Student-Made E-Books
40: How to Stop Yelling at Your Students
39: How to Plan Outstanding Tech Training for Teachers
38: The Library that Increased Student Use by 1,000 Percent
37: How to Motivate Students: Five Questions for Teachers
36: How I Teach Argumentative Writing
35: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2016
34: Starting a Teaching Job in the Middle of the School Year
33: Five Powerful Ways to Save Time as a Teacher
32: How and Why We Should Let Our Students Fail
31: The Power of Being a Dork
30: How One Teacher Manages a Self-Paced Class
29: Four Things I've Learned About Teaching from CrossFit
28: Class Discussion Strategies
27: Interview with an Instructional Coach, Part 2
26: Interview with an Instructional Coach, Part 1
25: When a Student Hates You
24: Five Teaching Practices I'm Kicking to the Curb
23: How We Say Our Students' Names...and Why It Matters
22: Three Hacks that Solve Big School Problems
21: Make It Stick Author Peter Brown
20: Dogfooding
19: Goal-Setting for Teachers
18: How Ordinary Teachers Become Activists
17: Tools that Help Students Follow their Passions
16: Job Interview Advice for Teachers
15: A Teacher's Coming Out Story
14: Seven Easy Ways to Support Student Writing in Any Content Area
13: Could You Teach Without Grades?
12: How Your Nonverbals Impact Your Teaching
11: Avoiding the "Wait 'Till Your Father Gets Home" Trap
10: In Praise of Think-Pair-Share
9: How to Connect with Your Students
8: Talking about Race in the Classroom with José Vilson
7: Should You Give Timed Math Tests?
6: Our First Call-In Advice Show!
5: What is 20 Percent Time? A Conversation with A.J. Juliani
4: What the Mother of a Child with Autism Wants Teachers to Know
3: The Montessori Method
2: Why One Teacher Left the Profession