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Teaching Better Together
by Terry Schmalz and Miranda Bailey
🎙️ Teaching Better Together is where real educators talk honestly about what works—and what doesn’t—in today’s classrooms. Hosted by retired principal Terry Schmalz and teacher Miranda Bailey, the podcast features educators sharing strategies, struggles, and success stories. From classroom management to creativity, tech, and teacher wellness, each episode offers practical ideas and inspiration. If you care about education, growth, and better learning, this show is for you. 🤝📚 Because when educators share, listen, and learn from each other… we teach better. Together 🤝🍎
Episodes
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Surviving Year One 😅 - Ep 8
What’s it really like to be a first-year teacher? 🍎 From lesson plans and classroom management to exhaustion 😴, unexpected challenges, and those breakthrough moments that make it all worth it 🌟—two new teachers get real about their first year in education. The wins. The mistakes. The things...
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🇺🇸 Making History Matter: Engaging Today’s Students with Lisa Moot 📚✨
Nationally award-winning Grand Junction High School history teacher Lisa Moot joins Teaching Better Together to share her best practices for making history meaningful, relevant, and memorable. She explores the art of engaging today’s students and offers insights into the passion, creativity, and...
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Leading Through Change: A Conversation with D51 Superintendent Dr. Brian Hill (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our conversation with District 51 Superintendent Dr. Brian Hill, educators Terry Schmalz and Miranda Bailey continue their discussion about leadership, education, and the future of schools in Western Colorado. Dr. Hill shares his thoughts on one of education's biggest challenges...
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🎙️ Leading Through Change | D51 Superintendent Dr. Brian Hill on Phones, Funding & the Future of D51
In this episode, educators Terry Schmalz & Miranda Bailey interview Dr. Brian Hill of D51 in Western Colorado. Hill shares his journey in education, discusses the district's student cell phone policy update, explores the challenges of school funding, explains his decision-making process, and...
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✍️🤖Prompted to Learn: How students are using AI—and what they really think about it in the classroom
🎧 Episode 4: Student Voices on AI 🤖🎓 In this episode of Teaching Better Together, hosts Terry Schmalz and Miranda Bailey sit down with Central High School seniors Nic Pinnt and Pedro Medina for an honest, insightful conversation about artificial intelligence in today’s classrooms. Both...
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The Future of Learning: AI in D51 Classrooms 🚀🧠
What happens when artificial intelligence rolls into the classroom? 🤖📓 In this episode, we sit down with D51 Instructional Coach and Magic School Bus Fellow Vanessa Moore to explore how District 51 is navigating the fast-moving world of AI in education. Vanessa shares a thoughtful,...
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From Crayons to Cap & Gown
From Crayons to Cap & Gown Everything I Needed to Learn, I Learned in Kindergarten What do high school seniors really remember about their earliest years of school? In this episode, we sit down with Zoe Clingaman and Quinn Seeman to reflect on their memories of kindergarten and elementary...
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Where Learning Begins: Kindergarten Wisdom with Ms. Shannon Koppenhafer 🌱
Say hello to The Kindergarten Whisperer herself — Shannon Koppenhafer! 🍎✨ We had the BEST time talking all things Kinder education: 💛 How to nurture curiosity in our tiniest learners 🎨 Why play, creativity, and movement matter more than ever 🧠 Practical strategies to support emotional +...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
🎙️ Teaching Better Together is where real educators talk honestly about what works—and what doesn’t—in today’s classrooms. Hosted by retired principal Terry Schmalz and teacher Miranda Bailey, the podcast features educators sharing strategies, struggles, and success stories. From classroom management to creativity, tech, and teacher wellness, each episode offers practical ideas and inspiration. If you care about education, growth, and better learning, this show is for you. 🤝📚 Because when educators share, listen, and learn from each other… we teach better. Together 🤝🍎
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Terry Schmalz and Miranda Bailey
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