This is the first totally new episode in about 10 months. What could get me to put aside my other work to make sure this episode gets out? Only something as important as the death of critical thinking in our education system and how it has especially played out this school year of 2023-24 would make me drop everything to make sure to get this out.  

Please open your mind and heart while listening to this episode. 

I want to thank Distant Cousins, one of my favorite bands, for their incredible music that opens and closes my show. Give them a listen!

Want to get in touch with me? 

IG: @batsheva.frankel

X: @batshevafrankel

website: batshevafrankel.com

In this encore of the 4th episode in the series on AI in education, my guest, Matt Miller and I discuss the issues we need to consider as well as some very practical ideas for using ChatGPT and other really cool AI in our classes. Matt has been digging deep into this subject and brings so much wisdom and insight into our conversation.

Matt shares some great resources to explore in the links below. And he also plays a fun version of The 5-Minute Game Show called “ChatGPT, Google or Me?”

I’d like to thank my awesome guest Matt Miller and my fauxmercial helpers including my award-winning Voice Actor friend, Eli Schiff as the announcer and Jakey Schiff, Yossie and Tuvia Frankel.

This is a great time to buy any burned-out or otherwise deserving teacher friend or colleague some Overthrowing Education Swag. Or buy some for yourself. You totally deserve it!

Links and Resources:

ChatGPT, Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence in Education

Tons of great resources and classes: DitchThatTextbook.com

Get on Matt’s email list to get all kinds of amazing resources: DitchThatTextbook.com/join

Classroom videos to use in class TODAY:  Teachflix

This project provides you with research-based teaching practices you can use in class tomorrow to save time AND teach better: EfficienTEACH.com

Jump into the Overthrowing Education archives with me in this encore episode!

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. Jared and I discuss ways to take what he has learned from his experiences there and mine working for another non-traditional school, Arete Preparatory Academy , and apply them to other, more traditional school situations.

Special thanks to guest Jared Magee, and also Yossie Frankel for joining me on today’s fauxmercial!

Check out all of things we spoke about on this episode:

The school's website
The Winchendon School

A (literal) product of ColLABs
The Little Elf Cutter from Mr. Bryan Perla

Prose's (Jared’s podcast) Official Website
Prose

@Mr.JaredMagee¸ @winchendon_brooklyn

@MrJaredMagee

Veteran educator Lacrecia Terrance co-produced and co-hosts with me our 3 part series with a prestigious panel of guest for what many may call tough conversations on racism. With all that is happening, as a global pandemic has further peeled back the cover on generations of systemic inequities rooted in racism, we feel these conversations are a crucial part of moving education forward for all.  In this first episode we will be defining the issues - what do we mean when we talk about racism in education?  Our panel includes Stacy Joy, Charity Parsons, Andre Daughty, Jason Ernest Feldman, Dr. Hattie Mitchell and Brett Mitchell who discuss what racism looks like in education, what the pervasive issues are and why this isn’t just a moment but a movement.

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. I was so grateful to get this opportunity to speak with and learn from Ron and learn how we can all work together to “get everyone to the top of the mountain.”

My very special thanks to Ron and to Yossie Frankel for his voice work on this episodes fauxmercial.

Today’s subject is all about making meaning with project-based learning . My guest today is the passionate and entertaining Ben Talsma from Blue Apple Teacher. Ben also co-wrote the fauxmercial “Empower-Mints” with me. This parody of the old Mento commercials features the very talented musician Robby Helperin of Spotlight Music, giving us his cheesy best, and Eli Schiff, who is one of my favorite voice actors. After my initial interview with Ben, he nails The 5-Minute Game Show, and then I bring him back for a few more minutes to update us on what is happening now to accommodate the various modalities of learning that this fall is challenging us with.

We are tackling some big, possibly controversial ideas in this episode. 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. My two incredible guests are, TedX speaker and an educator with Alpha, Mike Yates and Naphtali Bryant, founder of Spark-Ed University. We have a great, sometimes radical, and totally entertaining look at how to reinvent school. And they slay The 5-Minute Game Show. But first, I address an issue that is on so many parents’ minds as they try to figure out what is best for their kids this school year. More parents than ever are considering homeschooling - but are overwhelmed. It’s time to shift paradigms!

As school’s are still debating, at least in most places, about whether to or how to safely open schools, and many have already committed to beginning the school year remotely, we know that there will be so many challenges ahead no matter what route a school takes.  One of the biggest challenges, that many are not even considering with everything else to think about, is how to connect with our students, create a strong positive school culture and build a classroom community whether in a masked/physically distant classroom situation, where large groups cannot congregate in school, or in an online/remote situation. On today’s show, my guest, educator and author Hans Appel, and I discuss how to build a strong school community onsite, and also online. We also talk about making learning joyful, experiential learning, going gradeless, honoring student voice and much more! On In the Trenches, I share 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. After our talk, Shoshanna bravely conquers a really hard The 5-Minute Game Show. Then, on In the Trenches, I talk about a way to provide experiential learning opportunities for your online students or at home kids. You’ll hear about how my 15-year old son helped me solve a problem I have been thinking about for years: How to turn an amazing experiential lesson that I have been doing with my classes and my PD workshops for over 20 years into a meaningful online experience.

Host Batsheva Frankel recreates her presentation, "What Do We Mean by 21st Century Education When the 21st Century Changes Dramatically?" In this talk, given on June 10, 2020 for the site, Hopes, Dreams, Journey (connecting parents with information, tools, resources and providers of services to help their children succeed and thrive), Batsheva lays out some of  the skills, knowledge and systemic changes that need to be promoted in order to adequately prepare our students for the increasingly shifting present, as well as the unknowable future. View the presentation with all its fun visuals here.

This episode on why kids hate math and what we can do about it features a conversation with John Bianchette of Mathnasium from January 2020 with a recent additional talk to reflect the radical changes that have taken place since then. In the Trenches I trace my journey from hating math as a student and defining myself as “I’m not a math person” in adulthood to finally realizing that I actually enjoy math because of the math teachers at Arete Preparatory Academy. I’ll share some of their tips and tools that transform students, too. Also, The 5-Minute Game Show features a musical parody game you won’t want to miss.

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. Any school can do it, and my guests give practical tips and tools for how.

Two special guests join me in this inspiring episode - Marie Kueny of the Compassionate Educators podcast, and grief coach, Kaley Zeitouni.  They are here to help us deal with everything that is going on, and all the things that no longer are.  So 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.

Even before the extreme challenges of pandemic teaching, my guest, Amber Harper of The Burned-In Teacher Podcast was a valuable resource for helping with the very real problem of teacher burn-out that affects most teachers even multiple times in a career. But now, with everything educators have been through trying to teach in 2020, Amber’s Burned-In Teacher approach is a true remedy where she gives solid tools and advice on what to do when you’re feeling burnt-out. And then Amber plays a fun The 5-Minute Game Show, where the clues are Haikus.

Thank you so much to my wonderful guest, Amber Harper, and to my fauxmercial actors Dr. Shindale Seale, who has been an In the Trenches guest on past episodes, and of course, my husband, Yossie Frankel

Links for Amber:

www.burnedinteacher.com

www.burnedinteacher.com/burnoutquiz

Twitter, IG @burnedinteacher

Facebook: facebook.com/burnedinteacher

support@burnedinteacher.com

Shows we love that we mentioned:

The Great British Baking Show

Sugar Rush

The Kids Baking Championship

Project Runway

Nailed It

In this episode you will hear from educators around the world- in the United Kingdom, Japan, The Netherlands, Israel, Denmark, South Africa and Canada – telling us what’s happening in their part of the world. These global educators share not only how they are coping, but also how they are growing, inspiring us with wisdom and hope.

Today I speak with Liz Vogel from Facing History and Ourselves who gives us a snapshot of how to use history to strengthen our students and help them become true up-standers. As this episode comes out on April 19th, 2020, most of us have been hunkered down in our homes, dealing with distance learning and lots of other issues right now.  One thing that is always a problem whenever troubling times arise whether it’s a health crisis or a financial crisis – or in this case both – is the rise of hate – racism, Jew-hatred, xenophobia and so on.  It’s been rising to scary levels even before the Covid 19 pandemic, and now we are seeing it grow so much worse.  And when the extent of the financial repercussions become clear, we are at risk for seeing an even more intense rise in identity-based hate speech and hate crimes.  So, how do we as educators and parents help our students and kids make great choices and combat any potential problems?  Listen and find out!

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.

The Best part is that this episode can be viewed as well at OverthrowingEducation.com. And I highly recommend watching because you can see the people who spoke with me. It’s amazing to see them as they tell their stories. And here’s the thing – just as there is a huge technological disparity that impacts how our students are able to access their learning right now, the video portion of this episodes shows the challenges of various WiFi connections, devices and so forth because some are clearer and smoother than others. I’m usually really picky when I edit my episodes, but this episode is very raw and real.  

And I added some bonuses as well.  I’m bringing back some of my favorite fauxmercials, one of which I fully animated. 

Also, I’m doing something a little different for the The 5-minute Game Show.  Instead of playing a game with my guest, because I had so many special guests today, this game show is strictly for you, the audience.  So play along, and then submit your answers to join@overthrowingeducation.com

In this incredibly challenging time of new realities every day, I have put together a special episode with Educational Tech expert Dr. Monica Burns and long-time awesome home school mom Kelila Sicilano who started OURSandYRS: Our Online Village They each bring lots of sage advice, tools, tips and strategies for helping educators and parents figure this out and try to make it work. Please share this episode with everyone you know! And go to www.overthrowingeducation.com for tons of great resources.

Two of my previous guests, Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris and I discuss digital pedagogy, bettering education, and why teachers will not be replaced by robots.  However, In the Trenches, we have my 14-year old computer wiz son explaining why they just might be. Jesse and Sean play a super fun The 5-Minute Game Show after their interview. And I do want to give a shout out to all the great educators on twitter who inspired my Robo-Helper commercial by answering my question: What are school-related tasks you resent that take you away from actual teaching?

If you want a quick taste of what's in store for you on Overthrowing Education, here it is!

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.  Then we play a challenging and fun round of The 5-Minute Game Show.  In the Trenches, an Arete Preparatory Academy senior explains Symposium, a unique approach to “finals”. 

Nick Covington and Chris McNutt are fun, passionate advocators for great education.  We discuss the importance of human centered learning and what they are doing with The Human Restoration Project, a fantastic free resource for educators.  Then they compete with each other in a nerdy throw-down during The 5-Minute Game Show.  And on In the Trenches today, we have a mystery guest! Our fauxmercial stars this week are Barbara Heller, Elliot Schiff, Jill Moray and Yossie Frankel.

Melissa Tomlinson a public education advocate leader in BATS –the Badass Teachers Association and I discuss the problems with standardized testing and other important issues. Then on In the Trenches, Christi Gambil tells how Arete Preparatory Academy found a great alternative to traditional standardized testing.  Lastly, Teacher2Teacher prompted a follow up to our previous “Be the Match” episode with practical ideas for teachers to help their fellow teachers take on new techniques or innovative approaches. 

Mark Taylor, host of the podcast Education on Fire, among others, discusses how all of us can make a positive impact on education. As Mark demonstrates, it only takes one match to light up a dark room, so today we are focusing on how to be that match.  Because Mark  is from the UK.  The 5-Minute Game Show is totally UK based.  Then on In the Trenches we hear from two parents and a student sharing strategies that students and parents can do to be the match. Our "sponsor" today in our fauxmercial is "Teachers' Helper"

Jump into the Overthrowing Education archives with me in this encore episode!

This episode explores why kids hate math and what we can do about it featuring a conversation with John Bianchette of Mathnasium from January 2020 with a recent additional talk to reflect the radical changes that have taken place since then.

In the Trenches, I trace my journey from hating math as a student and defining myself as “I’m not a math person” in adulthood to finally realizing that I actually enjoy math because of the math teachers at Areté Preparatory Academy. I’ll share some of their tips and tools that transform students, too.

Also, The 5-Minute Game Show features a musical parody game you won’t want to miss. It features amazing voice impressionist and artist Barbara Heller.

Today’s Fauxmercial, Math-o-matic, features Yossie, Tuvia and me.

www.mathnasium.com

https://www.mathnasium.com/mathnasium-at-home   

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-bianchette-52404a40/ 

https://www.facebook.com/mathnasium  

https://twitter.com/mathnasium

https://www.instagram.com/mathnasium/

Long time educator, attorney and judge, Karen Steinhauser and I discuss how to acknowledge and deal with implicit bias in ourselves, in our classrooms, and in the world around us. On In the Trenches, Dr. Shindale Seale, professor and diversity consultant, talks about the potential connections between implicit bias and microaggression and how to answer them.

Amazing educator and author Matt Miller (Ditch That Textbook) and host Batsheva Frankel discuss the whys and hows of student buy-in and engagement. After the interview, enjoy Matt’s valiant efforts playing a very challenging The 5-Minute Game Show. Former 8th grade student, Naomi T. joins us In the Trenches for the first in a series of students describing their ideal school and education.

Today’s episode examines the importance of differentiated learning and offers tips and tools with expert educators and authors, Angie Ridgeway and Nate Ridgeway, the dynamic mother and son duo who wrote, Don't Ditch That Tech: Differentiation in A Digital World with Matt Miller. The Five-Minute Game Show was quite a challenge this week, but they pulled off a win! I am the “guest” on In the Trenches sharing messages from frustrated parents, and celebrating the many educators whose great examples in differentiated learning can inspire us.

Special thanks to Antero, Anna, Max, Eamon, Rachel and Laura Honegger

Big thanks to the fauxmercial stars, Ben Elterman as TAC and Spencer Krull as Worksheet.

Special thanks to Chloe, Eve -who also wrote the “Listen” fauxmercial, and actors/voice over artists extraordinaire Barbara Heller and Elliot Schiff!!

Blended Learning expert, Catlin Tucker converses with me about the why’s and how’s of Blended Learning. Then we play The 5-Minute Game Show Flippin’ Fictional Schools. Our In The Trenches segment features some food for thought from Rabbi Doctor Reb Mimi Feigelson. Then we honor a few teachers in Teacher Shout Outs.

Our Fauxmercial sponser is “Blend It” - and special thanks to Linda Korn - composer, vocalist and musical director of the spot, and Amy Ritz and Karen Holender for the wonderful vocals!

Sean Michael Morris talks about the importance of Critical Pedagogy and why schools should not be transaction-based. Then we play my 5-Minute Game Show, Fictional Schools for Fictional Folks. Our In The Trenches features Zoe Greene, who was an 8th grader when I talked to her about her science fair project, “Why My Mom Can’t Get a Date,” which analyzed the algorithms of dating apps. She tells parents and teachers how to advocate for the changes you want in schools. And our “sponsor” is Fix Tape (A parody of Flex Tape)

In this episode we start a new segment called “Teacher Shouts Outs”. This is an opportunity to give a special thanks to the teachers that have impacted our lives in positive ways.

We start with a conversation filled with practical tools about games and gamification with educator, author and expert Jon Cassie of Game Level Learn. Then play along as Jon is subjected to The Five Minute Game Show where he has to determine whether the unusual games describes are Fact or Fantasy. Then listen to Micaela Blie’s awesome story(Grand Slam winner on The Moth) about her gamified Oregon Trail lesson on In the Trenches. This episode is “sponsored” by Edu-Gamerama - a fake product we wish was real.

Jump into the Overthrowing Education archives with me in this encore episode!

Engaging educator, author and speaker Antero Garcia discusses how cell phones and games can be used effectively in a class, as well as other important issues surrounding cell use, games and technology. And then Antero nails The 5-Minute Game Show! The fauxmerical parody, “TAC vs. Worksheet” starts us off and we finish with students from St. Mary’s High School in Owen Sound, Ontario sharing the ideas they came up with after analyzing an “anti-cell phone for teens” article on the In the Trenches segment.

Special thanks to Antero, Anna, Max, Eamon, Rachel and Laura Honegger

Big thanks to the fauxmercial stars, Ben Elterman as TAC and Spencer Krull as Worksheet. And the fauxmercial music used is called Kat and Tanner by Twin Musicom which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/

Educator and writer Jesse Strommel explains the whys and hows of Ungrading. Afterwards, he plays a special edition of Two Truths and a Lie in our 5 Minute Game Show. Then hear middle school teacher Leora Smith’s funny story about the perils of grading as we go In the Trenches. This episode is “sponsored” by Grades Be Gone (A product we wish was real!)

In this short trailer episode, host Batsheva Frankel tells you what you can expect from this edgy, entertaining and informative show.  This show hopes to transform education, while making you laugh.

Don't forget to subscribe to this podcast!

Watch the Overthrowing Education Trailer

Jump into the Overthrowing Education archives with me in this encore episode!

Blended Learning expert, Catlin Tucker converses with me about the why’s and how’s of Blended Learning. Then we play The 5-Minute Game Show Flippin’ Fictional Schools. Our In The Trenches segment features some food for thought from Rabbi Doctor Reb Mimi Feigelson. Then we honor a few teachers in Teacher Shout Outs.

More special thanks to Catlin Tucker, Reb Mimi, our announcer, Yossie Frankel and Distant Cousins for our theme song.

Our Fauxmercial sponsor is “Blend It” - and special thanks to Linda Korn - composer, vocalist and musical director of the spot, and Amy Ritz and Karen Holender for the wonderful vocals!

Special Thanks to our guests Jon Cassie and Micaela Blie (and check out a great interview with her on our episode, “From Blah to Hazzah”).

Our Edu-Gamerama Fauxmercial actors are , Yossie Frankel (Also our announcer) and Batsheva Frankel.

And thanks to the wonderful band Distant Cousins for our theme song, Raise it Up.

This is kind of a bittersweet episode for me. I was blessed to get the job of my dreams, and I couldn’t be happier, but it means I’ll be wrapping things up for this podcast. After 4 amazing years, this will be my last new episode.  I’m going to give everyone a chance to catch up by rereleasing older episodes.

I’ve been thinking about what I would want to say in this last episode. What are some magical words of wisdom I can leave you with?  Then I decided that the best way to end this run is to chat with the person who helped me start the podcast and continued to sponsor and support it for the last 4 years, Jim Hahn. In this conversation we talk about our “origin story”, how education has changed for better and for worse during this time, how long it takes a bowl of Cheetos to burn and a lot more.

I feel so lucky to have had this opportunity to chat with over 120 incredible educators, students, and parents in these last 4 years. I’ve learned so much from all of them, and I’ve made some friendships that I truly cherish. I’ve also given away a lot of mugs!! I’ve been embraced by the “edupodster” community who are just the best, and I feel grateful that this show is part of the Education Podcast Network. I’m so thankful for all the talented voice actors who’ve helped me with my fauxmercials including Eli Schiff, Barbara Heller, Jill Moray, Spencer Krull, Ben Elterman, Karen Hollender, most of the Bookstein family, and my family Rivi, Tuvia and my awesome husband, announcer, and the builder of my recording booth, Yossie Frankel. And also those that helped write and produce some of the fauxmercials like Joshua Silverstein, Ben Talsma, Noah King and Eve Hirschman. And for my musical helpers Linda Leah Korn, Robby Helperin, Casey Arillaga and Barbara Heller, and for my theme music – Raise it Up, I thank the wonderful Distant Cousins.

I really want to thank you, the listeners for sharing this continuing journey in bettering education for our students!

Please stay in touch with me at Batsheva@overthrowingeducation.com I’d love to hear from you. And this is a great time to get your Overthrowing Education swag. Who knows, maybe one day those mugs will become a collector’s item.

In this episode, my guest, Crystal Frommert, and I have a great conversation about something that challenges new and veteran teachers alike: How to have better conversations with our students’ parents and/or guardians in order to make connections and ensure collaboration that will really enhance our work with their kids.

I love learning new things from my guests, and I certainly got some tips and ideas from Crystal that I wish I had known earlier. But it’s never too late!

And if you love Ted Lasso as much as Crystal and I do, you’ll have a blast playing my Ted Lasso themed The 5-Minute Game Show!

I want to thank my special guest, Crystal Frommert and my fauxmercial helper today, Yossie Frankel.

Please make sure to subscribe to and review Overthrowing Education if you haven’t already.

Links and Resources:

www.crystalfrommert.com

When Calling Parents Isn’t Your Calling

Find Crystal on LinkedIn, Twitter, and now Threads

You can now find me on BlueSky @BatshevaFrankel

Teaching Like Ted Lasso Podcast

Lots of great essays from Crystal on Edutopia

After a long, tough school year, I figured we could all use a good laugh. In this encore interview in Episode 45 from April of 2021, I interview the one and only Mr. D, Joe Dombrowski the educator and comedian who performs around the country and whose videos have gone viral. We talk about the importance of using humor when teaching, and how to do it, even if you don’t think you’re funny. I also share a taste of how I recently used humor to connect with students. This is the perfect summer episode: Learn a little something and laugh a lot.

I want to thank my special guest, Joe Dombrowski, and my fellow education podcasters who helped with my fauxmercial today: Charles Williams, Host of The Counter Narrative Podcast, and Shane Lawrence of The Ed Podcast and Unprofessional Development, and of course, Yossie Frankel.

I can watch this a million times and still laugh: https://youtu.be/RwnBAHtc1D0

Joe’s first appearance on Ellen: https://youtu.be/SqoJMbLRNjc

See more of Joe’s great video’s and listen to his podcast: https://www.mrdtimes3.com/

Find Joe on Twitter: @MrDtimes3

My guest today, passionate educator and prolific author Connie Hamilton, is returning for her 3rd time. Her first visit was in Episode 53: Asking and Getting Students to Ask Great Questions, one of the most episodes so far. Another popular visit was in Episode 53 when I had Connie and Starr Sackstein talking about hacking homework.

Today, however, I chatted with Connie about her new book Hacking Group Work. She shares wisdom and really practical ideas and tools for all teachers. I’m a veteran educator of over 25 years, and you can hear in the interview that I learned a lot from her!  

Connie also shares her smarts on the 5-Minute Game Show!  It’s a great one to play along with and yell out answers to in your car, or wherever you listen.

I want to give special thanks to Connie Hamilton and the super talented Eli Schiff for helping me with the Great Group Dynamics fauxmercial.

If you haven’t already, please subscribe and rate and review this podcast to help others find it so that we can all make education as great as possible and actually change what’s possible!

Links and Resources:

Twitter: @conniehamilton

website: conniehamilton.org

This encore episode is a favorite of mine, but maybe I'm just partial. Here is the description from the original version:

Is it possible that Robots/AI will replace teachers someday? II first examined this question in an episode in early 2020. My guests said no, but my son, 14 at the time, predicted much of what we are seeing now with the explosion of growth in Artificial Intelligence. So, I brought my son, now almost 18,  back on the show to give his reflections on his past predictions and update us again. Is it inevitable that teachers will become obsolete? What can we do to make sure that we, as real live educators, are irreplaceable? 

What do you think? What do your students think? Let me know on the platform formerly known as Twitter @overthrowinged. 

I want to thank Tuvia for indulging me and coming back on with his updated reflections, and a special shout out to the amazing voice over artist Eli Schiff for playing the male teacher and Robo-Helper on the fauxmercial. I also want to thank all the teachers who originally let me know what tasks they dread that they would love to outsource to a robot which were reflected in Robo-Helper 

Make someone’s day with cool Overthrowing Education swag!

What happens when a veteran teacher working as a professional learning consultant during the last 4 years returns to the classroom? What’s happening in the classroom now that was different than a few years ago? Spoiler Alert: A lot.

I share my journey back into classroom teaching, at a time when so many teachers can’t wait to get out (and who can blame them?). So, while I confess a bunch of stuff, I also rant (and who can blame me?).

Also, in today’s fauxmercial – A film noir detective parody – I actually play both roles. Check it out!

For transformative professional learning check out New Lens Ed.

Welcome to the 100th episode of Overthrowing Education! 

On today’s episode, I have the awesome privilege of chatting with 5 inspiring high school students – Pauline, Drizzle, Ella, Fahmi, and Katie and their equally inspiring teacher, Stacie Oliver. We mostly talk undgrading. Obviously, this is a topic I am passionate about, and I noticed in the Edu Twittersphere a teacher, Stacie, who was posting about her journey with her students about ungrading. I was impressed not only by Stacie, but also with her students whose work and reflections she sometimes posted.

I realized that with all of my episodes, and there are lots of good ones, about going gradeless and ungrading, they were mostly from the teacher’s point of view. So, I reached out to Stacie to see if I could have her and her students on to tell us about their adventures in ungrading. And also play The 5-Minute Game Show, of course!

I’d love to do this for 100 more episodes, at least and continue bringing passionate, creative and inspiring voices of educators and students, so please subscribe if you haven’t yet, and tell friends and colleagues to as well. And if you find yourself wanting an OE mug, t-shirt or tote bag here’s the Swag Shop.

Check out John Atkinson’s clever and funny cartoons including the ones that I used for The 5-Minute Game Show.

I want to thank my special guests Katie, Fahmi, Ella, Drizzle, Pauline and Stacie Oliver. Also, I’d like to thank the wonderful Barbara Heller who sang all the songs on the UnGradist Hits fauxmercial.

As I get ready for my 100th episode celebration, I thought it would be great to look back at my very first episode from August of 2019. I featured educator of excellence Jesse Stommel and we discussed Ungrading (of course!). 

My show was so different in the beginning, and I've streamlined it quite a bit since my earlier episodes. I originally had a feature called In the Trenches, and my guest on this episode was Leora Smith.  

I also had something I called Tirades, Tips and Tools. I don't think this 2-minute segment lasted more than 2-3 episodes. It was a good idea, but kind of redundant.  

I initiated my first fauxmercial which is called Grades-Be-Gone and of course, Jesse and I played the first The 5-Minute Game Show based on Two Truths and a Lie.

Even though the show has grown quite a bit 98 episodes after this one, I think that for the most part, it holds up. What do you think?

It is the 99th episode of Overthrowing Education and today’s topic is one I’ve haven’t addressed on the show yet, so I’ve brought on Sharon Duncan, who works extensively with gifted students and their families. And I also bring back innovative educator Jim Hahn, the founder of Qualia: The School for Deeper Learning and Arete Preparatory Academy before that. Last time Jim joined me with the co-founder of Qualia, Jon Cassie on episode 77. And of course, Qualia is also the sponsor of this show. When a school sponsors a podcast called Overthrowing Education that tells you a lot about how amazing that school is.

In our conversation, Sharon defines the various kinds of gifted students, and she also helps us understand how to best help them in our classes and schools. Jim continues to share some amazing ways to engage not only gifted students, but also curious students. And actually, these are things we can do to awaken curiosity in all of our students.

And that’s about it. I’d like to thank my guests today, Sharon Duncan and Jim Hahn, and my fauxmercial helping family Yossie and Tuvia Frankel.

My guest today is Lindsay Lyons. We talk about what a culturally responsive sustaining classroom is, as well as why and how to make it happen, especially through PBL. She shares a lot of practical ideas and resources. Then Lindsay knocks it out of the park playing a literature focused The 5-Minute Game Show.

I want to thank my guest today, Lindsay Lyons, and for help with the fauxmercial - Shane Lawrence, who is now on the podcast Unprofessional Development, and also Shane’s daughter.

Resources and links:

Lindsay's

 Website

 YouTube

Twitter 

https://extras.lindsaybethlyons.com/overthrowsurvey https://extras.lindsaybethlyons.com/overthrowcircle

https://extras.lindsaybethlyons.com/overthrowplanne