Dave Burgess, of Teach Like a Pirate, is one of the most energetic and positive people you’ll hear. In this inspiring and fun conversation, he gives great practical tools and ideas for how to hook our students into our lessons, helping them buy into the content with joy.

My guest is Amber Harper of The Burned-In Teacher Podcast to help us face and fix our teacher burn-out.

Natalie Vardabasso, a true assessment innovator and host of the #Educrush Podcast speaks with me about how we can move way beyond tests, quizzes and other traditional paradigms of assessing students to find creative and authentic ways for students to express their knowledge, actually understanding where our students are at and how we can move them forward.

Today’s show with wonderful and generous guest, Zack Hartzman of Hey Listen Games, is filled with practical ideas and resources for engaging students through using video games.

Guest Kevin Stoller of Kay-Twelve gives tips for creating better learning environments.

My guest is the incredible Joshua Silverstein, an educator who is also a beatboxer, rapper, comedian and writer.

In this episode my guest is the wonderful and kind, Dr. Sam Fecich, the prolific author and host of the EduMagic podcast.

In the last part of this 3 part series, our panel - Andre Daughty, Stacey Joy, Charity Parsons, Brett Mitchell, Jason Ernest Feldman and Dr. Hattie Mitchell - brings solid ideas for moving forward in trying to eradicate racism in education.

In this second episode of the series, our panel - Andre Daughty, Stacey Joy, Charity Parsons, Brett Mitchell, Jason Ernest Feldman and Dr. Hattie Mitchell, share their powerful and painful stories of personal experiences with racism in education.

Ron Berger, my educational hero, joins me to talk about his new book, We Are Crew: A Teamwork Approach to School Culture and presents some important and beautiful ideas about what education should really be all about.

. Today’s subject is all about Project based learning and how to add extra meaning to an already great approach to learning.

We are tackling some big, possibly controversial ideas today. It’s all about calling into question everything we think about education. While I do that all the time on this show, we are going further this time. I have two incredible guests today, TedX speaker and an educator with Alpha, Mike Yates and Naphtali Bryant, founder of Spark-Ed University.

On today’s show, my guest educator and author Hans Appel, and I discuss how to build a strong school community onsite, but also online. We also talk about how to make learning joyful, experiential learning, going gradeless and much more! On In the Trenches, I’ll be sharing some ideas for creating classroom communities online, as well as in class, and I have a special announcement!

I have a great discussion with Shoshanna Sumka of ISEEN about experiential learning with an added recent interview at the end that includes experiential learning in remote and online class situations.

Host Batsheva Frankel recreates her presentation, "What Do We Mean by 21st Century Education When the 21st Century Changes Dramatically?"

This episode on why kids hate math and what we can do about it features a conversation with John Bianchette from Mathnasium

My guests today, Shannon Green, Vickita Bhatt and Jim Hahn show how, now more than ever, we see the benefits of going gradeless. True educational equity, social justice, decreased anxiety, no cheating, eradication of bullying, and growth mentality are just some of the positive ramifications of providing meaningful feedback in place of the usual letters and numbers.

If you are a parent, teacher or student feeling burnt-out, depressed or overwhelmed, or if you are grieving over what we lost from the past and what won’t be happening now in the future, this episode is for you.

In this episode you will hear from educators around the world- in the UK, Japan, The Netherlands, Israel, Denmark, South Africa and Canada – telling us what’s happening in their part of the world.