My guest on this episode is Clement Townsend who has been helping schools and teachers integrate media arts into their programs and lessons for years. Clement and I discuss how we can integrate media arts into all of our subjects.

On today’s show, I have a really insightful and inspiring conversation with master educator and author, Tara Martin. She digs deep in talking about her motivations for creating her books, Be R.E.A.L. Educate from the Heart and Cannonball In, and she shares so much wisdom for all educators.

In this episode, I have the hilarious, charming, passionate educator and professional comedian, Joe Dombrowski. We talk about not only why teaching with humor and playfulness is crucial for deeper learning, but also how to make it happen in your classes and lessons, even if you don’t consider yourself naturally funny.

Prolific author and passionate educator, Starr Sackstein, is my guest again, this time for a great conversation about why and how to go gradeless and move beyond tests and quizzes for better assessments.

Long-time educator Jared Magee, from the very cool The Winchendon School, shares what Impact Learning is, why it’s important, and how to make it happen for all educators.

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.

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.

. 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!

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

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.

Liz Vogel of Facing History and Ourselves helps us deal with today’s challenges using history to inform and inspire.

In this powerful episode, 12 educators in the trenches share their challenges, tips, tools and words of inspiration during this challenging time of a shut-down schools and distance learning. This is a double-sized episode that is filled with not-to-be-missed dispatches from all over the US (and one from Canada) representing all different communities and the difficulties they are facing along with the creative approaches these passionate educators are using.

Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris discuss many important issues relating to bettering education and why teachers will not be replaced by robots. 

Author and Blended Learning specialist Catlin Tucker makes a second appearance on this episode discussing her new book, “Balance with Blended Learning” and great ways to engage students in their learning process while helping teachers bring balance to their lives.

Nick Covington and Chris McNutt are fun, passionate advocators for great education. In this episode, we discuss the importance of human centered learning and what they are doing with The Human Restoration Project, a fantastic free resource for educators.