All Episodes
BustED Pencils — 482 episodes
Keeping Promises to Public Education
Groundhog Adjacent. PCS#37
Quality Screentime with Britni Walz
Zohran vs Snow Days
Putting Politicians to the Test
Education Trends in January. PCS#36
Gravity, How Does That Work?- Class in Session
Yes, DEI Is Back, Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing
Trust-Based Observations
Who’s Your Hero? PCS#35
MLK Day Thoughts- Class in Session
Teacher Mercenaries- Homeroom
Epidemic of Loneliness
Reacting to Reddit Teaching Advice. PCS#34
Do What You Say- Class in Session
Greenland; From Erik the Red to Donald the Orange
Talking About the Minnesota Fraud Scandal
The Students Are Revolting. PCS #33
A Decade of Emergency- Class in Session
End of Winter Break- Homeroom
Our Predictions for 2026!
Happy New Year! PCS #32
Judging Our 2025 Predictions- Class in Session
Reflecting on 2025- Homeroom
THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS. PCS #31
The History of Santa- Class in Session
Going Nativity- Homeroom
Talking Publicization and Mamdani with Jonathan Gyurko
Favorite Festive Films! PCS #30
TikTok Killed the Video Star? Class in Session
Merry Christmas, Here’s Some Debt! Homeroom
Doctor Schmockter?
To Cram, or Not to Cram? PCS #29
Thriving in a Documentary- Class in Session
The Finals Countdown- Homeroom
Are Our Kids At-Risk?!?
Musing About Music. PCS #28
Oklahoma Student Gets Bad Grade- Class in Session
Water Vapor-in’ in the Boys Room
Gobbling Up the Department of Education
The Thanksgiving Episode. PCS #27
The Republicans Are Right? Class in Session
What the Heck is a Six Seven? Homeroom
Butchering the Department of Education
Are Teachers Lazy? (No) PCS #26
Get Back to Work! Class in Session
Who Can You Trust? Homeroom!
Bringing Education and Democracy Together
Supporting Vets in Education. PCS #25
The Coach-Teacher Connection. Class in Session
Of Tacos and Tuition- Homeroom
Schools Are Closin’ And Times Are A-Changin’
Dick Cheney Retrospective. PCS #24
We Love A.I.celand- Class in Session
SNAPping the Hunger Streak- Homeroom
The 2025 Halloween Spooktacular! Producer’s Choice Show #23
Critique or Hit Piece? Class in Session.
Civic Education- Homeroom
Two-Minute Mile
Star Tim: the Next Johnny-ration. Producer’s Choice Show #22
Fighting For Our Special Educators- Class in Session
Tell Us What You Need- Homeroom
KISS Reading Goodbye? Producer’s Choice Show #21
Regulate 2 Educate- Class in Session
Denmark’s the Spot?- Homeroom
We’re Very Special
All About the Money? Producer’s Choice Show #20
Getting Out of Kids’ Ways- Class in Session
Spooky Season is Upon Us- Homeroom
Harvard Says “Yes Sir”
Producers’ Choice Show. Producer’s Choice Show #19
Shakespeare In Prison- Class in Session
A Massive Education Scoop- Homeroom
A.I. Is Here to Stay
Just A Lil’ Bit of Rebellion. Producer’s Choice Show #18
Count upon your Friends- Class in Session
State of Education- Homeroom
2 Hour Learning Meets 1 Hour Podcasting
Just Watch What You Say. Producer’s Choice Show #17
The Ol’ Randi Rewind- Class in Session
Stop the Scam!- Homeroom
Why Fascists Fear Teachers
Make Peace, Not Culture War. Producer’s Choice Show #16
Can Tim and Johnny Read?- Class in Session
Staying Home, Producer’s Choice Show #15
Johnny’s Bursting to Roast This Dumb Test- Class in Session
Reflections on the Minnesota Shooting- Homeroom
Zero Dollars is a Problem
Parents in Education. Producer’s Choice Show #14
Judging a Chromebook By Its Cover- Class in Session
The Blue Scare Continues in Oklahoma
Tim Makes a New A.I. Friend
Get Back to School Ya Bums! Producer’s Choice Show
Bleeding Edge Technology- Class in Session
Do You Remember Your Homeroom? – Homeroom
BustED Pencilsvania
Top 3 TV Teachers! Producer’s Choice Show
Small Town Education, Big Time Innovation
School’s (Almost) Back in Session- Homeroom
Weird Science with Ethan Siegel
Tim and Johnny; Young Teachers, Producer’s Choice Show
Misinformation Super Highway- Class in Session
Mr. Rogers Got Canceled
Adventures of Young Tim and Johnny, Producer’s Choice Show
Linda McMahon To The Rescue? Class in Session
Campus Freedom vs. Campus Safety
How Can I Become a Teacher? Producer’s Choice Show
In A.I. We Trust?- Class in Session
The Contract on Education- Homeroom
Celebrating Teacher-Doctor Joanna
How Does School Funding Work? Producer’s Choice Show.
Stop, Regulate and Listen- Johnny’s Back with a Class is in Session
Back to School Already? -Homeroom
Small Schools and Big Ideas
MAN vs MACHINES, Producer’s Choice Show
DARE To Stay Off Chat GPT
Buttons, How Do They Work?- Homeroom
Big Bill Bummer
4th of July Spectacular, Producer’s Choice Show
Lumberjacks of All Trades- Class in Session
The Kids Aren’t Alright- Homeroom
Confederacy of Accreditation
BustED Pencils Goes To Hollywood! Producer’s Choice Show
Academic Freedom v. Decency- CiS
Tim’s Brainrot- Homeroom
Bringing Democracy to the Democrats
Build-A-Department, Producer’s Choice Show
Where All The Students?- Class in Session
It’s Like DEI, But For Republicans- Homeroom
Put Your D*mn Phones Down
Learnin’ Round the World! Producer’s Choice Show
How to Teach in Tough Times- Class in Session
Locals Standing Up For Kids- Homeroom
Foreign Students Are Our Domestic Strength
Who Are You People? Producer’s Choice Show
Tim’s Long March- CiS
Trump’s Bloody Mental Cuts- Homeroom
Can You Sue an A.I. for Blackmailing You?
The Producer’s Choice Show with Jakob
Schools Are Our Communities- Class in Session
The Spirit of Memorial Day- Homeroom
Tim Brings Us Back to Earth
Esports Without The ‘E’- Hurdles and Home Runs
10,000 Foot View of Higher Education- CiS
Withering Branches- Homeroom
Make Learn, Not War
Coaching IS Teaching- Hurdles and Home Runs
Near and Far- Class in Session
Feeding Hungary Kids- Homeroom
Budget Shenanigans in Madison
WIAA, NIL, OMG! with Jimmie Kaska- Hurdles and Home Runs
Outside Perspective on Education- Class in Session
Unchartered Waters-Homeroom
Johnny Henry vs the Teaching Machine
Alex’s Orange Chicken- Hurdles and Home Runs
The Emp-A.I.-re (Empire?) Strikes Back- Class in Session
Stairw-A.I. to Heaven? with Britni Walz
Tim the Professor Hater- Class in Session
Our Schools, Our Choice-Homeroom
Talk About It Saturday, with Teacher Hallie
One to NIL, with Jimmie Kaska- Hurdles and Home Runs
Getting an A1 Education- Class in Session
Everyone is Welcome-Homeroom
Diversity is American
Pucks or Strikes- Hurdles and Home Runs
A Hill to DEI On- Class in Session
This Is Not Ok(lahoma)- Homeroom
An Educated Educator goes on to more Education!
For the American Dream, with Randi Weingarten- Class in Session
The Trajectory Shift from COVID, 5 years in- Homeroom
Assistant Instructors (AI) in Rural WI Schools, with Britni Walz
Sounds of Spring- Hurdles and Home Runs
Amplify THIS Educator by electing her to School Board! Class in Session
Declining Expectations- Homeroom
“Sprinter” Sports- Free Throws and Face Offs
PETE: Personalizing Training- Class in Session, with Luis Garcia
Suing for Students- Homeroom
Public Good vs. Public Goods in Higher Ed, with Jonathan Gyurko
Becoming- Free Throws and Face Offs, with WSU Hockey Social Media
Rebranding Humanities Majors- Class In Session, with Jon Marcus
Focus on the Effects- Homeroom
Advocating for public schools, now and always!
Playoffs Galore- Free Throws and Face Offs, with Chad Holmes
Dear Colleague Letters- Class in Session
When did equity become harmful?- Homeroom
Ed Tech- honoring teacher labor and student individuality
Creativity and Connections- Free Throws and Face Offs
Class in Session- Otus: Giving Data a Good Name, with Chris Hull
Learn About How You Learn
Growing, Learning, and Eating Good- with 100 Gardens
Free Throws and Face Offs- Change Abounds, with Jimmie Kaska
Class in Session- Opt OUT of testing and IN to education, with Lacey Slekar
Homeroom- The Nation’s Report Card
Radical Literacy Scholarship, with Paul Thomas
Class In Session- Complex Literacy, with Nancy Carlsson-Paige
Homeroom- Consider the Source
Schools OUGHT TO BE Safe Spaces, for everyone
Free Throws and Face Offs- Battling Bugs and Bruises
Class in Session- Schools, not Wargrounds, with Randi Weingarten
Homeroom- Checking In Amidst the Chaos
Free Throws and Face Offs- It Doesn’t End Here, with Jeff Matczak
Class In Session- Overcoming Math Anxiety, with Aditya Nagrath
Homeroom- Unity
UnDesto AI- bridging the gap on artificial intelligence
Free Throws and Face Offs- Just Be Yourself, with Jimmie Kaska
Class In Session- Healthy Tension, with Heidi Siwak
Homeroom- a momentous confluence of observances
Making the Work More Rewarding, with Jason Buccheri
FT+FO: Balanced on a Skate’s Edge, with Kane Paxton
Class In Session: Individuation and Pluralization with Dr. Howard Gardner
Homeroom: Education reform? Reform your expectations!
Listening For The Music
Class In Session- From BustED to Business: The Nrdy Byrd Way
Homeroom: Jimmy Carter’s Educational Legacy
How Schools Are Designed to Fail, with Ira David Socol
Free Throws and Face Offs: Meshing Together, with Brian Brandt
Class In Session: Looking Ahead to 2025
Homeroom: A Look Back at 2024
Class In Session: Academic Inclusiveness (AI), with Anshul Sonak
Democratizing, with Brian Gonzalez
Free Throws and Face Offs: Bouncing Back, with Chad Holmes
Reinvesting In Our Future
A Moment for Thought
Not just an educated educator, a Super Teacher!
A Race Between Fear and Hope
Battling Bathroom Bigotry
Dealing for Our Public Schools
Connecting the Pieces
Naming THIS Moment: Contradiction
A Moment to Breathe
Between Schooling and Educating
Kudos Champions!
Let Teacher Lead the Charge!
What’s the problem here?
Naming the Moment
Kids These Days! (they’re really great!!!)
Cabinetry 101
Accreditation Alarm: guard our democracy
Meet Khanmigo, a friendly learning toolbox!
Referenda Review: the lights are STAYING ON!
Welcome to the Democracy Indoctrination Station
For Our Democracy
More than Pretty Pedagogies
Something Greater than Oneself
We’re Nearly There
Hey, How Are You?
Refs on Referenda
Emotion Literacy- it’s about empowerment not management
We need Genuine Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence
Great College Teaching: it’s worth it!
Healthy Changes, Real Football
All In This Together
Public funds come with strings. Accept them or remain private.
Meet your new intern, they’re learning fast
Measuring What Matters
It’s Official: we love our officials!
Honesty- it just makes good sense
To drill or not to drill…
To be called “Coach”
Biologic Diversity- it makes life interesting!
Howard Zinn and the case for Rethinking History
WIAA- creating rules and guidelines to fit student athletes’ needs
Feature: Nancy Carlsson-Paige
Homeroom 9/22: how do we keep moving forward?
First Downs and Friday Night Lights
Privateers: how vouchers steal from public schools
Busted Pencils Homeroom
Educated Educators for Educating Educators
Publicization- privatization’s more wholesome foil
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for Aug 31
Stay Tuned…
What’s in these schools? Just our kids and the future.
[Doing it for] The Cause
In This Educator Exodus, Let Our Teachers Grow
Breaking news: poverty *might* affect educational outcomes
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for Aug 24
Busting up the DNC
Taking a Look at Truth, Hacksaws and Checkbooks
Talking Truth with Professor Sarah Stitzlein
Back to School: Building Community
Transgender Justice in the Classroom
Creating Belonging
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for Aug 10
Thank goodness it’s Friday, that’s nothing trivial!
The Right to be a Uuuman*, A Social Studies Lesson
Move aside August Anxieties, we’re being joyful!
Harris-Walz: Make America Joyful Again
Beyond “Weird”
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for Aug 3
TG- and I can’t emphasize this enough- IBPF
Teaching In Times of Crisis
Zipping Up the WPEN Summer Summit
How are the children?
Do you feel the Kam-ergy?
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for Jul 27
Unity, not Uniformity
It is time to push each other forward, not down.
Summer Days, Drifting Away…
There’s no comparison, it’s only contrast
Thank you President Biden. What’s next?
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for Jul 20
Busted Pencils Gets Risque- or uh, Risky?
Between Fear and Hope, Between Anger and Aspiration
Educator, Regulate Thyself
The Roots of Standardized Testing in Eugenics
Community Schools: For the Common Good
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for Jul 13
Democracy: In Action!
We DO want to talk about it, not gonna tiptoe around it!
Beautifully Critical, Critically Beautiful
It’s Complicated- let’s talk about it and teach the complexities
Combating Textbook Tyranny (Or was it Tieranny?)
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for Jul 6
Are great teachers born that way? We don’t think so.
Educated Educators: A Day in the Life
An Experience Is Worth 1000 Lecture Slides (Probably More)
Tee-ranny? Tie-ranny? However you pronounce it, let’s not have it
Educated Educators: Democracy Warriors
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for Jun 29
They Didn’t Talk Education, So We Are
Grow Your Own Teacher- Yeah, It’s a Thing
Keep College Costs In Range with Collinge
ACUE: Educating Educators
Here’s A Radical Idea: Let’s Fund Public Education
Wrapping Up A Commanding Week
The Real World Enters the Classroom
Juneteenth Plans and Consulting Fees
Horace Mann and the Vision of Public Schools
Milwaukee’s Precarious Schools
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for Jun 15
Friday Fun-damentals!
The End of Education? It Doesn’t Exist!
Live from the Minocqua Brewing Company Taproom!
Rethinking Pencils-
Testing Education: What Have All Those Tests Done to Education?
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for Jun 8
Welcome To the Breakdown (Of the Week)
What Does Learning Really Look Like?
Regulating in 3…2…1…
What Does it Mean for a School to Be Public?
You Can’t Teach ‘Em Like You Used To
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for Jun 1
The Civics of It All
It’s Time for a Civics Lesson
Emotions Are Complicated-Let’s Talk About Them!
F Your Feelings? Naw! F WITH Your Feelings!
Values and Theory and Practice- Oh My!
Combating the Voucher Vultures
Mindfulness or Mindless Compliance?
1st Amendment? Or A 2nd Rate Excuse?
State of the School Systems
What Kind of Educator are YOU?
Artificial Intelligence- Artificial, or Intelligent?
Educator Wellness, Not Just Performance
Let’s Get Real!
Getting Assessments Right
Reflecting on Schools Shootings. Again.
Slaying Goliath with Dr. Diane Ravitch
Moms and Grads!
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for May 4
Back in The Saddle!
Live from the Minocqua Taproom!
Busting Pencils Together
Keeping Tennessee Safe with Rep. Gloria Johnson
Conflict from Classroom to Countries
Tennessee Arms Teachers
Revisiting Title 9
Debunking “School Choice”
A Replay of Mrs K
Weekend Wrap Up
Tim and Anya, Anya and Tim!
Nothing Stops Bust-ED Pencils
Okay, Mrs. K!
Ensuring Charter Accountability
Accountability In Private Schools
A Case Against AI In K12
Preferred Materials? Get For Real-ial!
Holding Charters Accountable
Bored By School Boards
Is Education the new Punk Rock? with Martin Atkins
After The Election
Grow Your Own Teachers?
What Would Matt Damon’s Mom Say?
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for Mar 30
T.G.AI.Friday & Where You CAN Say Gay
AI-cademia with John Warner
Billionaires Buying Education
Say Yes to MPS & The Battle for Public Education
The Myth of One-Size-Fits-All Education
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for Mar 23
Weekly Wrap Up
No Nonsense with Nancy
Educators Rev-Amplified!
Trending Educator News
Dr. Kumashiro, Academic Hero
Good news out of Florida???
Direct From Congress, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
Educators, Reunited!
Closing Doors Meant to Open Doors
Overloaded with Alfie Kohn
Tim takes the President to task
The Future is … Here?
Who Cares? We Do
Democratic Values
Parental Rights and Parental Wrongs
Chaplains in Schools
Public School Appreciation (or Depreciation?) Week
Hungry for Change
Weekly Best of Busted Pencils for Feb 24
The Calculator to AI Pipeline
Demystifying Test Scores: Unveiling the Pernicious Predictability
An A+ Surplus Gets an F in Equity
Native Lands, State Profits
We Can’t Vouch for Voucher Schools
Democracy rests on public schools
Schools and their Purpose with Rodney D. Pierce
Testing the Standards of Standardized Testing
AI in the Classroom and Beyond
Unraveling Schools Boards
Referend-what?
Caller Joann Joins the Show!
Educators, Amplified!
Unmasking the Special Education Shortage with Dr. Kimber Wilkerson
Welfare to the Wealthy?
Black History Month
Loan Forgiveness with Alan Collinge
First of Many Mondays
BustED Pencils – All day, every day!
Stealing, Sampling, or Something Else?
Plagued by Plagiarism
What 2024 Will Bring
Chalk Dust to Gold Dust
You’ve Jingled Your Last Bell
Ai, Oh My
Voicemails and Running For Office
STOP Moms for Liberty – Round 2!
Stopping Moms for Liberty with Liz Mikitarian
Educational Freedom with Marla Kilfoyle and NFPE
Indigenous Ways of Knowing
What’s Driving the System?
A Generation at Risk
How To Save Wisconsin Education
Pursuing Parallel Possibilities with Dr. Ethan Siegel
10+ Years of Damage To Our Schools w/ Dr. Nancy Bailey
Redefining Education Against Prager U’s Best Efforts
Back-To-School Wishes
The Statement of Leaving
To Begin the World Over Again
Modern Monetary Theory with guest Steven D. Grumbine of Real Progressives
Somewhere in between
The Student Loan Episode
Forgive then forget
45 million strong
We just want to talk about it
Florida just ruined school for everyone
Learning loss? Maybe…
A three year head start
A sad state of affairs
Here we go, again.
Boys Night!
Teaching History in Hostile Times
Don’t take the brown ChatGBT
Filling the void
Planting the seeds
Script Flipped, you can’t teach us anymore
Resolution : FAILED
Prognostication Station
2022 wrap party! BYOBustedPencils
Turing the world of AI
Bring out the teachers
Two forces for good put their heads together
It’s not to be forgiven, it’s to be cancelled
Has student debt cancellation been cancelled?
Who’s taking the heat for ‘learning loss’?
The Finishing Touch (Oct. 18)
What is school for? (Oct. 4)
How to become a teacher; a new method
Teacher Shortages and The Will to Fix It
BustED Data
The report card talk (Sept. 6)
BustED Pencils
Welcome to the machine…