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Ethical Schools — 244 episodes · page 1 of 3
Ethics in early childhood classrooms: A framework for educators
Play-In: Early childhood education needs more play
Educating for The World We Want: Learning to Citizen with The Brotherhood Sister Sol
What teens deserve: A creative out-of-school program
Educating for The World We Want: Learning to Citizen with Green School Bali
Literature as identity-affirming, teaching as liberatory
Upskilling teachers: Elements of social justice-focused teaching
Global Conversations: Nature, Place, and Education, Salon #3
School Choice: Who Does the Choosing?
Global Conversations: Nature, Place, and Education, Salon #2
Trump cutbacks and policies: stripping minority student protections
Global Conversations: Nature, Place, and Education
Pop culture literacies: Engaging students in critical analysis
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Pragmatism in the classroom: Lessons from Dewey, Maxine Greene, and Eleanor Duckworth
The pioneers: Democracy front and center (Part Two)
The pioneers: Democracy front and center (Part One)
Technology and ethics: AI and the classroom
Climate justice: A transformational education and engagement project
Teachers as Interpreters: Listening to Every Student
Hip Hop in the classroom: Reaching students where they are
Challenging credentialism: An alternative vision of education (Encore)
Mobile Creativity Labs: Scaling STEAM Across India
Resilience: Preparing Children to Weather Traumatic Events
Marygrove School: Place- and project-based teaching and learning
Honesty: What it means and how to teach it
Creating democratic learning environments: Educators in conversation
Teaching from core values: Practical wisdom at the crossroads of philosophy, education, and teacher ed
Historical accuracy and nuance: Teaching African American studies in Kentucky
Successful Teaching Careers: Empowering Non-Traditional Candidates
“The hate level is unreal”: fighting book bans and protecting librarians
NYC high school surveys: Disparities in student stress and support
Middle schoolers as scholars: Critical participatory action research
Equity by design: residency-focused teacher education
Supporting Black and Indigenous educators: Creatively developing community in Washington state
Going deep: Student-directed learning in Performance Standards Consortium schools
Rebuilding the Black teacher pipeline: Advancing justice and academic outcomes
High stakes: Teaching to the tests in K-12
SATs and the illusion of fairness
Early intervention: Model assessment center reduces youth arrests
What Would YOU do? Walling Out or Welcoming In?
Elevating undervalued professionals: Support for substitute teachers
Enriching student life: Art for all
Solving teacher shortages: It’s not just pay (Encore)
What’s real and who/what matters: Sentientism in schools
Climate change education: Meeting NJ’s mandate hands-on
Celebrating students’ “superpowers”: What tests can’t measure
Cultivating layups, confidence, and community
Inquiry and interpretation: Learning US history from primary sources (Encore)
Creating the conditions: Sustaining “caring for” education
Solving chronic absence: A whole-school approach (Encore)
Developing public communication skills: Speech and debate team
Experiential learning: Where human history and nature connect
Cultural responsiveness: is music optional? (Encore)
The “Name Game”: racialization in a suburban high school (Encore)
What Would YOU Do?
Paying it forward: a peer-staffed program for navigating college admissions
Solving teacher shortages: It’s not just pay
Opening up: Recreating schools as a community
Surveillance in school: Invasive technology, junk science
Inquiry and interpretation: Learning US history from primary sources
School district battles: Protecting education from bans
Critiquing the “science of reading” movement: Teaching reading is “both/and”
“Parents’ rights” campaigns: Targeting school books and curricula
Towards the school you want to see: Plan, Act, Reflect, Repeat
Challenging credentialism: An alternative vision of education
Restorative Justice: Cultivating cohesive communities
Intersections: Supporting Black LGBTQIA+ students
ChatGTP: Cheating optimizer or force for teaching transformation?
Climate anxiety: a generational plague
Norman Fruchter on the pioneering alternative high school he and colleagues built in Newark in the 1970s (Encore)
Gender and sexually diverse students: Creating comfortable schools (Encore)
Climate education: not just for science class (Encore)
Undocumented students: Keeping secrets, navigating obstacles
Practicing ethics: Case studies (Encore)
Recruiting teachers of color: What works
Cultural responsiveness: is music optional?
The purpose of education: Educating for a solutionary future?
Early childhood classes: Crucial (and endangered) developmental support
Reimagining the school system: Centering children, families, and teachers
Technology: What’s hype and what helps
Going public: Education scholars as policy advocates
Looping: It’s all about the relationships
Descriptive inquiry: Teachers talking about hard subjects
Holistic education: Joy, wellness, and rigor (Encore)
Evolving demographics: Rural schools in transition
Solving chronic absence: A whole-school approach
The attack on public education: Will public schools survive? (Encore)
Translanguaging: Inviting the whole child into the classroom
Challenging censorship: Student journalists fight back
School behind bars: Meeting the needs of traumatized kids
Students speak up: NYC Youth Agenda
Why Geoffrey Canada is wrong: Defending schools as democratic spaces
Supporting student civic activism: Social studies on steroids (Encore)
Abolitionist education: Creating liberatory spaces (Encore)
Gender and sexually diverse students: Creating comfortable schools
Indigenous erasure: The battle for inclusive state standards in South Dakota
Students doing original research: Project-based learning in Ohio (Encore)
National Sex Ed Standards: Equity and expanded comfort zones
Dismantling bias in schools: A multiyear model