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All of the Above Podcast — 326 episodes
America 250… What Would We Do If School Were in Session Today?
The (Many) High Costs of Summer Camp
Most Americans Support Educating Undocumented Kids And CA Community Colleges Quietly Go More and More Online
UC System Debates Bringing Back the SAT Amidst Growing Math Skills Crisis
What Makes A Good Teacher? Surprisingly, Dems and Repubs Agree
Florida Unleashes Conservative History Curriculum Focused On “FACTs”
Test Scores Show A “Generation-Long Decline.” Is The Sky Falling?
Cell Phone Bans Are Here… But Does The Data Show They Work?
They Got Money For War But Can’t Feed The Poor… or Protect Libraries
So Much for Chromebooks -- Los Angeles Moves to Limit Screen Time in Schools
Parents Sue Big Ed Tech and States Push the “Success Sequence”
Is Grade Inflation a Problem? And Conversion Therapy Returns
Cesar Chavez’s Legacy Shattered, Social Media Addiction Damages, and Melania’s Robots are Coming for Teachers’ Jobs
Did A 4 Day School Week Doom Oregon Students’ Scores?
Parents Trust Grades More Than Test Scores… Are They Right?
Supreme Court Backs Conservative Christian Effort to Overturn Gender Disclosure Ruling
Impending Teacher Strikes And A New Rule Threatens to Cut College Majors That Don’t Make Money
Student Walkouts, Kicking Undocumented Kids Out of School, and the Cesspool of Misinformation Online
Are Students “Quiet Quitting” School?
Trump Admin Drops Appeal on “Dear Colleague Letter” and New Research Shows Lasting Effects of ICE Terrorism on Children
ICE Terrorism in Minnesota Hits Home and School
A Teacher-less, AI Instructed School Gains Interest as Elite College Alumni Can’t Get Jobs, Replaced by AI
Free Reign on Discrimination in Schools as DOJ Guts Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Latest Casualty of the Anti DEI Hysteria: White Men
Almost 40% of Students at Stanford are Disabled. What’s Happening with Gen Z?
Are Male Teachers Going Out of Style?
ICE terrorism hurts student learning… and water is wet
While the USDOE Trolls us Online, Voters in Colorado Say Tax the Rich to Feed the Kids
Turning School into Shopping at Amazon, and the Continued Gaslighting of Educators About Antisemitism
Cops pull guns on Black student: AI said his bag of chips was a gun
Those who can’t do, teach…right?
AI Is Eroding Student-Teacher Trust
A Dose of Their Own Medicine: CO District Sued for Book Bans
Trump & McMahon Put Nail in the Coffin of USDOE
Cash for Attendance: Good Look, or Nah?
Teacher Pay Penalty Hits Record High
White Affirmative Action: The Classic Learning Test Gains Traction
USC Doubles Down on Legacy and Donor Admits, Violating New CA Law
Dumber by Design: Faculty Prepare for An Exodus from the South
Amidst the Chilling Effect: Educator Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Weaponization of a Killing w/Gerardo Muñoz
Normalizing the Not Normal: Vaccine Denial, Dismantling Public Ed, and Armed Drones in Schools
Mpls School Shooting, Ten Commandments in TX Schools, and the Fallout from Mahmoud Begins
The BOY Episode - Starting the School Year with Resilience and Trepidation w/Genevieve DeBose
The War on Ethnic Studies Continues, and Takes a Detour Through Palestine
Adulting 101, and do Experienced Teachers Continue to Get Better?
Happy Fascist Friday!
The Kids Aint Reading… Does It Matter?
What’s the Purpose of High School?
College Board Says “No Racism Here” as it Ends Racial Identification for Key Scholarship Program
Should We Bring Back the Zero? Equitable Grading Today, and Trump Takes Two Ls This Week
News Roundup! Confederates Confederating, Newsom Fails Ethnic Studies, Linda Drops Ball on Student Loan Payments, and Should College Students Go To Class??
They Cheatin! Bombshell Piece Reveals Extent and Cost of College ChatGPT Use
HVAC Systems and Student Achievement, Plus the Latest in Right-Wing Shenanigans
This Week in Education in Fascist America… The Resistance Gains (A Little) Momentum
Throwback! AOTA Show on Flip the Script KPFK 90.7 with Vida Starr in 2019
The Wickedness Continues from DC, and Lessons on Privatization from Kanye’s School - Passing Period #153
Feds Begin Effort to Force of Outing LGBTQ+ Students, and Trojan Horse Attack Against Ethnic Studies in CA - Passing Period #152
Trump and McMahon Come Off The Third Rope On Public Education - Passing Period #151
Republicans Gut USDOE And Let Us Know Everyone Is NOT Welcome Here - Passing Period #150
#117 - The DEI Backlash w/ Joe Truss! (REPOST)
More Right Wing Shenanigans and AI replacing College Counselors… What Could Go Wrong? - Passing Period #149
Racist Federal Lawsuit Accuses UC of Admitting too Many Black and Brown Students - Passing Period #148
#117 - The DEI Backlash w/Joe Truss!
NAEP Scores, Insane Executive Orders, and an Attempt to Kick Undocumented Kids out of School - Passing Period #147
Trumpism in Education, Week 1 - Passing Period #146
AOTA Special: Interview with Jesse Hagopian, author of the new book Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education
Los Angeles Fires Update: Community and Schools - Passing Period #144
New Ed Laws in CA and AR Federal Judge Blocks Draconian Book Bans - Passing Period #143
#116 - Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education w/ Jesse Hagopian!
Colleges Write Off Rural Students and Cut Majors, Programs - Passing Period #142
Recess For The Win And Pro Wrestling Comes to Public Ed - Passing Period #141
Unification of Church and State: Updates From the Front Lines of the Battle for Public Education - Passing Period #140
The End of Education As We Know It… Or Not - Passing Period #139
Rich Kids Buy Their Way Into USC and Black and Brown Educators Plan to Leave LA Schools - Passing Period #138
#115 - College Uncovered w/ Kirk Carapezza of GBH News!
Novels Are Disappearing From School… Should We Bring Them Back? - Passing Period #137
Teacher Strikes Work, and New Efforts to Fix Math Identity - Passing Period #136
Another School Shooting in America, and Menstrual Ed (almost) Comes to CA - Passing Period #135
Turns Out America’s Schools Are Safer Than Ever - Passing Period #134
Gov. Newsome Urges Schools to Ban Cell Phones in Class Now - Passing Period #133
TItle IX Changes Are Here… Sort Of. And Bold Ideas for Addressing Chronic Absenteeism - Passing Period #132
Give Em Cash And The School Calendar - Passing Period #131
Student Behaviors Hit the Headlines - Passing Period #130
Integration of Church and State, Coming to a School Near You - Passing Period #129
Periods and Personal Finance Coming to CA High Schools - Passing Period #128
Survey Shows Broad AAPI Support for Teaching About Racism and History - Passing Period #127
#114 - Fighting Back Against the Attacks on Public Education w/ Dr. Heather Harding!
The Confederacy is Back in Style in Virginia - Passing Period #126
#113 - The Promise and Dangers of A.I. in Education with Priten Shah!
Campus Uprisings and the Age Old Question: to Become an Administrator, or Not to Become an Administrator? - Passing Period #125
USC and Ronny D, Leading the Way In White Supremacist Nonsense This Week - Passing Period #124
#112 - The Way Forward for PLCs with Dr. Anthony Muhammad!
The Benefits of Black Teachers and Chicago Reverses Course on Per Pupil Funding - Passing Period #123
Data Shows Benefits of Reading Banned Books, and Learning Loss = $31 Trillion - Passing Period #122
Is Erasing School Attendance Zones the Path to Liberation, or the New Tool to Undermine Public Education? - Passing Period #121
Childhood in Gaza, Black Hair in TX Schools, and the Right Wing Chilling Effect on Teachers- Passing Period #120
“Surprising” Data about Emergency Credentialed Teachers and Teacher Mental Health - Passing Period #119
Double Dose of Dartmouth - Unionized Athletes and Bringing Back the SAT - Passing Period #118
$2B CA Settlement To Address Learning Loss Is A Good Thing, Right? - Passing Period #117
Fewer Cops in Schools… For Now - Passing Period #116
Sending Homeless Students “Home” in CA - Passing Period #115
New Years Ed News Roundup: Harvard Pres, AI, Cops Banning Books, and Ed Dept Resignation Over Gaza - Passing Period #114
AI and DEI: Oklahoma Bans DEI in Schools, and Stanford Study Says AI Doesn’t Increase Cheating - Passing Period #113
#111 - Justice, Hope, and Teaching Fiercely w/ Kass and Cornelius Minor!
Christianity and Big Oil Intrude on Science Textbooks, and Silencing Teachers on Palestine - Passing Period #112
The Growing Importance of College, and CA Now Requires Teaching Kids to Recognize Fake News - Passing Period #111
#110 - The Palestinian Experience in U.S. Schools Today w/ Dr. Sawsan Jaber!
#109 - School leadership in today’s climate w/ UCLA’s Dr. Tonikiaa Orange!
How We Talk About Palestine and Israel in School, and a New Law Requiring Cursive Instruction in CA - Passing Period #110
Palestine, Israel, the Manufactured Controversy Around Ethnic Studies, and Where We Go From Here - Passing Period #109
#108 - Dope teaching and doctoral work w/ LaMar Timmons-Long!
Virginia “compromise” shows us what we really get from bending to right wing intrusions into public education - Passing Period #108
#107 - Unearthing joy amid troubling times w/ Dr. Gholdy Muhammad!!
Should Kids be Punished for Following Dangerous Social Media Accounts? - Passing Period #107
UC Profs Clap Back and Teachers Forced to Choose Between District Policy and State Law - Passing Period #106
Toxic Equity and the CA Gov (sort of) Supports Ethnic Studies - Passing Period #105
Self-Inflicted Wounds: Principal Autonomy and Conditions for Success - Passing Period #104
White Supremacist Historical Fantasies and a “Crisis” of Teacher Quality? - Passing Period #103
A week of right wing insanity, and what we should do about it - Passing Period #102
#106 - Certification, Credentialing, and Finding Community w/ Dr. Christopher Davis!
The Best Way to Teach - Passing Period #101
#105 - Preparing Teachers for Ethnic Studies w/ Dr. Jason Kim-Seda!
#104 - Gen Z Enters the Teaching Profession w/ Bryant Odega!
#103 - Avoiding Burnout with Rebekah Shoaf and Meredith Matson!
Pride Month Protest and Mentoring for New Teachers - Passing Period #100
#102 - Ethnic Studies in High Schools w/ Dr. Theresa Montaño and Lupe Cardona!
SURPRISE!!! Studies Show More Funding Improves Student Outcomes - Passing Period #99
Bulletproof Whiteboards and Civil Rights Complaints - Passing Period #98
Civics Scores Are No Bueno, and Debating Teacher Pay in High Poverty Schools - Passing Period #97
Celebrations and Hidden Problems with College Decision Day 2023 - Passing Period #96
#101 - Larry Ferlazzo on boosting student motivation!
Bumps in teacher prep program enrollment could mean good news…maybe? - Passing Period #95
Community College Exodus- Passing Period #94
Episode 100!! - An educator’s view from Florida w/ Lorena Germán
LAUSD strike yields new contract, and the Texas war on marginalized communities in school continues - Passing Period #93
#99 - Equity gaps in extracurricular education w/ Dr. Charli Kemp!!
3 year pandemic anniversary and LGBTQ families deciding to not attend college in states with repressive laws - Passing Period #92
AOTA goes international! And a remedy for the teen mental health crisis? - Passing Period #91
BHM Shenanigans, and 230,000 Missing Kids from American Schools - Passing Period #90
#98 - Truly Terrific Teaching Today with CA Teacher of the Year Jason Torres-Rangel!
And everybody knows about Ron Desantis, goddam! - Passing Period #89
Caucasity on Level 10: Florida Bans AP African American History - Passing Period #88
Disturbing Teen Suicide Data and Down Goes Another Colonizer in CA - Passing Period #87
2023 New Year’s Resolutions for Education - Passing Period #86
Media Literacy in the Kinder-Garden State - Passing Period #85
#97 - Federal Funding and the Legacy of Inequity w/ Dr. Abdul-Khaliq!
This Mfer Right Here - Passing Period #84
#96 - Advancing Kindergarten Dopeness w/ Tayo Enna!!
Midterm Election Implications for Education - Passing Period #83
#95 - Exploring Community Schools with Emily Grijalva!
NAEP scores, halloween candy, and the OGs of racism get told to stop policing Black hair in school - Passing Period #82
#94 - History Standards, Reconstruction, and Teaching the Truth with Mimi Eisen!
Progress, and lots of room to improve in how CA districts serve LGBTQ+ youth - Passing Period #81
Transforming School Environments with Green Space - Passing Period #80
Nothing Dystopian to See Here - Passing Period #79
New “Learning Loss” Data, And, What We Should Do About It - Passing Period #78
Student loan relief, sort of, and the media fails horribly on coverage of Mpls effort to protect teachers of color - Passing Period #77
Looming Exodus of Principals, Student Loan Payment Cliff Draws Near - Passing Period #76
Teachers told to keep silent, CA gives kids college savings accounts - Passing Period #75
#93 - Title IX and the Fight for Gender Equity in Schools w/ Kim Turner!
Soldiers in Class, HS Grads, and Other Solutions to the Teacher Shortage - Passing Period #74
Betsy’s Talking Reckless… Again - Passing Period #73
Does it matter that 1 in 5 CA teachers aren’t fully credentialed? - Passing Period #72
#92 - Humanizing Education w/ Chris McNutt and Nick Covington!
We done slipped… the Supreme Court takes us back decades - Passing Period #71
40 Years of Undocumented Student Rights in Schools - Passing Period #70
Universal Pre-K, Universally Good… Right? - Passing Period #69
Uvalde, the insanity of Ted Cruz, and the real story of the 2021-22 school year - Passing Period #68
AOTA Live from Education Evolving’s Student Centered Learning for Equity Conference - Passing Period #67
School Board Battlegrounds Lead to Mass Exodus - Passing Period #66
#91 - Recruitment and retention of educators of color w/ Mikisha Nation and James Barnett!
Is the Court Coming for Public Schools? - Passing Period #65
#90 - A Joyous and Just Education for All w/ NTOY Juliana Urtubey!
Happy Confederate Heritage Month… Wait, WTF?!?!??! - Passing Period #64
#89 - Law Professor Yvette Butler and the Never-Ending CRT Panic!
The Weaponization of Data: Preparing for the June 2022 Narrative - Passing Period #63
#88 - Is it time to de-track our schools? Featuring Dr. Eric Toshalis!!
What We Wish We’d Gotten, And A Word of Advice To Newbies - Passing Period #62
#87 - Pilot Schools and Innovation w/ Dr. Cynthia Gonzalez!!
A Bad Week for White Nationalist Bigots Who Hate Education - Passing Period #61
#86 - Liz Kleinrock on Antibias and Antiracist Work in Schools!
Chaos in SFUSD - Equity, Wokeness, and Divisive Racial Politics - Passing Period #60
Teacher Eval & Accountability: Will We Repeat the Sins of the Past? - Passing Period #59
#85 - The Faith-Based Case for Educational Justice ft. Zakiya Jackson!
Get ‘Em and Keep ‘Em: Solutions to the Teacher Shortage - Passing Period #58
Florida, and the Battle for the Soul of Public Education - Passing Period #57
#84 - Schooling for Democracy w/ Dr. Annamarie Francois!
May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor - Passing Period #56
Holiday Break News Roundup - Passing Period #55
Omicron, TikTok, and School. Good Grief. - Passing Period #54
Students Act Out… But Didn’t We Know This Was Coming? - Passing Period #53
Billionaire Bloomberg Declares War on Public Schools - Passing Period #52
#83 - Examining Educational Technology and Equity w/ Ken Shelton!
NH Goes Nazi, Puts Bounty on Teachers for Teaching Truthful History - Passing Period #51
#82 - A Whole School Approach to Humanizing Schools w/ Michael Essien!
Survey Shows 34% of Whites Lie About Race on College Apps - Passing Period #50
#81 - Ethnic Studies in K-12: The Growth and Controversy w/ Roxana Dueñas!
Educators Need Relief, Not More Pressure - Passing Period #49
Yo...where the subs at?? - Passing Period #48
Mental Health, Ethnic Studies For All, Free Tampons, The CA Liberal Education Apocalypse is Here! - Passing Period #47
#80 - Decolonizing Education w/ Carolyn Roberts!
They Banned Sesame Street. Seriously - Passing Period #46
#79 - Supporting Arab and Muslim Students feat. Dr. Sawsan Jaber!
We’re Trying To Keep The Kids ALIVE!! - Passing Period #45
#78 - Textured Teaching and Overcoming Backlash w/ Lorena Germán
#TeachTruth Special - Passing Period #44
Rolling the Dice with the Health of America’s Children - Passing Period #43
#77 - Teaching the Truth Amid Culture Wars and Backlash w/ Jesse Hagopian
As the Delta Variant Rages, What About School This Fall? - Passing Period #42
#76 - Supporting Indigenous Students w/ Dr. Valeriah Big Eagle
What If They Don’t Come Back Though? - Passing Period #41
#75 - School Leadership in the Wake of Multiple Traumas w/ Yusuf Abdullah
Down Goes Crespi. Now Let’s Change Em All - Passing Period #40
#74 - Dope Educators Share Their Key Takeaways from the 2020/2021 School Year!
The Best Defense is a Good Offense: The CRT Madness Continues - Passing Period #39
#73 - Centering Bilingual Latinx Students w/ Drs. Carla España & Luz Yadira Herrera
They Got White Nationalists Teaching Elementary Now! - Passing Period #38
#72 - Advancing Racial Literacies in Education w/ Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
Massive CA Settlement KOs SAT and ACT Tests - Passing Period #37
#71 - Dave Zirin and the Intersection of Sports, Education, and Justice
Is “Black Lives Matter” Protected Speech, or Grounds for Discipline? - Passing Period #36
#70 - Arts & Music Education During and After the Pandemic w/ Ben Shepard
A Week of Repeated Trauma - Passing Period #35
#69 - Racial Equity Work in Schools w/ Joe Truss
Cameras in Classrooms… Forever? - Passing Period #34
#68 - Boosting STEM Outcomes for Students of Color w/ Caia Brown
Ethnic Studies in CA Schools, At Long Last - Passing Period #33
#67 - Teaching Elementary Amid Pandemic and Reopening Politics w/ Meghann Seril
To Integrate, or Not to Integrate - Passing Period #32
#66 - Black Families and the School System w/ Tonikiaa Orange and Tunette Powell
The N Word Means What?!?!?! - Passing Period #31
#65 - Building a Revolutionary School Culture w/ Amen Rahh
Black History Month Insanity, Again - Passing Period #30
#64 - Education Policy, Re-openings, & Segregation w/ Robert Cotto, Jr
Dreaming Big: School in the Spring and Summer of 2021 - Passing Period #29
Big Bucks Behind Reopening - Passing Period #28
Goodbye 2020, hello white nationalist coup??? - Passing Period #27
#63 - College Sports, Higher Education, and Justice w/ Dr. Comeaux
#62 - SEL in the Era of Pandemic Schooling w/ David Adams
Purple and Red: The Push to Reopen Schools in 2021 - Passing Period #26
#61 - COVID School Year Halftime Report
#60 - Los Angeles’ Newest Board Member and the Fight for Justice
Bye Bye Betsy: Her Awful Record and What’s Next for Education - Passing Period #25
Election Aftermath: What it Means for Education - Passing Period #24
#59 - De-centering whiteness in Educator Training w/ Dr. V
Should Students Vote? - Passing Period #23
#58 - Cultivating Genius w/ Dr. Gholdy Muhammad
The Boogeyman Done Took All the Kindergarteners - Passing Period #22
#57 - Anti-racism in the Science Classroom w/ Dr. Terence Keel
The 1776 Commission: When Fascism Comes to School - Passing Period #21
#56 - Un-American, test-optional, algorithm-graded, low-morale madness!!
Division in Sac City Schools - Passing Period #20
#55 - Anti-racism in the ELA Classroom w/ Julia E. Torres and Geneviève DeBose
A Dangerous Time To Be An Educator - Passing Period #19
#54 - Math, Racial Justice, & Teacher Leadership w/ José Luis Vilson
Imagining What’s Possible as a New Year Begins - Passing Period #18
#53 - Asian Americans, Education, and the Fight for Justice w/ Dr. Hsieh
The Racial Divide: To Reopen, or Not to Reopen? - Passing Period #17
#52 - Anti-Racist Schooling in Minneapolis
The Day the Schools All Closed… Again - Passing Period #16
#51 - Too Dope Teachers and the Fight for Educational Justice
Teachers, Textbooks, and Race - Passing Period #15
THAT was a wild school year...now what?? Reflecting on this moment in education w/ Geneviève DeBose, Chavonne Taylor, and Alyssa Solis - S3E24
What a week! LGBTQ+ rights, DACA ruling, reopening school, and district statements on BLM
S3E23 - We feel therefore we learn: The neuroscience of learning w/Dr. Immordino-Yang
Woke-ish? Districts and institutions respond to mass uprising - Passing Period #13
Educating for Black Lives: George Floyd, police violence, and mass uprisings - Passing Period #12
S3E22 - Equity in the time of COVID w/Joe Truss
S3E21 - The Future of Teacher Prep Programs w/Dr. Emma Hipolito
S3E20 - Getting To & Through: Students of Color in College
S3E19 - Diversifying the Teacher Workforce w/Travis Bristol and Micia Mosely
S3E18 - Distance Learning and English Language Learners w/Larry Ferlazzo
S3E17 - Leading Through Crisis with Principal Kafele
S3E16 - College Board COVID-19 Calamity? AP Testing During the Coronavirus Shutdown
S3E15 - That's not the way I learned it! Math at home during the COVID-19 shutdown
S3E14 - Grading During the COVID-19 Shutdowns
S3E13 - Is the School Year Over?
S3E12 - The Student Engagement Conundrum
The Day The Schools All Closed - Passing Period #11
Down Goes Bloomberg! Down Goes Bloomberg! - Passing Period #10
S3E11 - Rethinking Professional Development
RISE-ing to the Challenge w/Erin Whalen - Passing Period #9
From RJ to GSA, the journey to educational justice w/Emily Grijalva - Passing Period #8
S3E10 -Serving our LGBTQ+ Youth ft. Emily Grijalva and Erin Whalen
The Gentrifiers are Coming!!! - Passing Period #7
S3E9 - The Teacher's Dilemma: Should I stay or should I go?
Teaching in a time of absolute insanity - Passing Period #6
S3E8 - Teaching History as the World Burns w/Leo Glaze
S3E7 - Year in Review: The Best of AOTA 2019
Are we running out of teachers? - Passing Period #5
S3E6 - How does your identity impact your teaching?
Trump Tweeting Teacher - Passing Period #4
S3E5 - To Suspend, Or Not To Suspend?
Unbearable Betsy Bets Big - Passing Period #3
S3E4 - Surviving the Low Points
Are we raising Harvey Weinsteins? - Passing Period #2
S3E3 - Your Favorite Teacher
Stop Hatin’ on the Hijab - Passing Period #1
S3E2 - Grading Practices
S3E1 - The Language of Education
S2E18 - Building a Culture of Literacy
S2E17 - Headlines Galore!
S2E16 - The Pledge of Allegiance in Schools
S2E15 - Teach for America
S2E14 - (Re)Segregation: A Segregation Story
S2E13 - It's All About the Kids... Or Is It?
S2E12 - The Principalship
S2E11 - Separate and Unequal, Again
S2E10 - Trauma Informed Care
S2E9 - "She had like zero idea how to teach us..."
S2E8 - The Path Towards Becoming an Educator
S2E7 - The Teacher vs. Administrator Dynamic
S2E6 - The Pressure of Going to College
S2E5 - Transforming Struggling Schools
S2E4 - Student Perspectives on School Dress Codes
S2E3 - School Choice Driving Segregation
S2E2 - Students "Ghosting" Teachers
S2E1 - The Standards Debate
S1E8 - Dress Codes and School Uniforms
S1E7 - Supporting Students in Foster Care
S1E6 - Keeping our Schools Safe
S1E5 - A Look Back (6 months of AOTA!)
S1E4 - Technology and Modern Schooling
S1E3 - Examining College Access for All
S1E2 - Ethnic Studies
S1E1 - Politics in the Classroom