All Episodes
Middle School Walk & Talk — 72 episodes
Perfectly Prepared for Imperfect Systems with Guest Rashad Anderson
The Reframe: AI as a Support for Culturally Grounded Instruction with Guest Adam Whitaker
Creating Neurodiversity Affirming Schools with Guest Emily Kircher Morris
The Art and Impact of Quality Questioning with Guest Connie Hamilton
Kind of Obsessed with Executive Functioning with Guest Glenn Whitman
Exactly Where I Need to Be with Guest Vernicca Wynter
Finding Your Voice Between the Echoes: A Student’s Reflection on Middle School with Guest Brody Cunningham
Do Schools Kill Curiosity? With Guest Braydon Giles
Stop Asking Kids What They Want to Be When They Grow Up with Guest Julie Lammers
Middle School is a Lot Like the Hero’s Journey with Guest Chris Balme
AI for Creativity, Community, and Critical Thinking? Is it Possible? with Guest Jordan Mroziak
Dust Off the Mission: Building Trust and Accountability in Middle Schools with Guest Jen Cort
Mess Up, Own Up, Rise Up: Navigating the New Middle Schooler with Guest Jack Berckemeyer
Keep It Simple Stupid: Intentionality and Empathy for the New School Year
Why Don't We Just Ask Them? A Conversation about the Modern Middle School Experience with Real Middle School Students
"Start with the End in Mind" - The 2024-2025 Year in Review
Not Just a Piece of Them, The Whole of Them with guest Kwame Sarfo-Mensah
Ditching "Divide and Conquer": A Refreshing Blueprint for Middle School Leadership with Guests Bryan Rickert and Katie Laird
Avoiding Firefighter Syndrome with Guest Darrin Peppard
Defining What "It" Is: Managing our Mental Models with guest Clay Cook
The Power of Putting Yourself in Another's Shoes with guests Gabby Ferguson and Kristen Engle
Managing Student Boredom and Teacher Frustration: We're Replacing Knees When We Need an Appendectomy with Guest Katie Powell
Change the Way you Look at Things to See a Different Picture with guest Don Parker
Transforming Trauma into Teaching with guests Molly Mee, Dara Yin, and Thaisan Nguon
Revisiting the Interview Chair with guest Jimmy Casas
Productive Noise: Elevating Student Voice in Middle School with guest Sandy Cameli
You Can Only Go Halfway: The Role of Trusted Adults in Middle School with guest Brooklyn Raney
Winning Screen Time - It's more than "put the phone down...put the phone down...put the phone down" with guest Patrick Green
Students Sound Off on the Modern Middle School Experience
Financial Literacy Ed - Its More Than Balancing the Checkbook
Back to School Trends 2024: Beeping at you all day long
Emerging AI Trends for the Middle School Educator with Special Guests from the AMLE Teacher Leaders Committee
When Kids Don't Know How to Attribute Success or Failure, They Make Up Reasons with special guest Miriam Plotinsky
Middle School is a Lot About Finding Yourself with Special Guests Students Laila Hayes and Gabriela Berrios Ortiz
We are So Done Pivoting with Special Guest Kelly Coash-Johnson
Back to Mental Health Basics with Special Guest Anitra Warrior
The False Dichotomy of College or No College with Special Guest Jean Eddy
The Most Brilliant Use of 60 Seconds with Special Guest Laurie Barron
Learning Doesn’t Stop at the School Door with Special Guest Autumn Rivera
The Misunderstood Middle with Special Guest Kevin Armstrong
Leave the Gun, Take the Cannolis. Empowering Teachers to Drive Student Participation with Special Guests Bill and Persida Himmele.
Middle School is a People Business with Special Guest Dr. Daryl Williams
This is So Awkward - Seeing the Humanity in Puberty with Special Guests Cara Natterson & Vanessa Kroll Bennett
Kids are Kids, No Matter Where They Learn
A Shamed Brain Can’t Learn with Special Guest Jen Cort
There are Always Going to be Haters with Special Guest Sameer Hinduja
Kids on Edge
What do we really believe? Supporting Ourselves and Supporting our Students with Guest Rick Wormeli
You Wouldn't Teach Sharks in the Grasslands with Special Guests Cornelius Minor and Kass Minor
Reimagining School Discipline with Special Guests Nathan Maynard and Dr. Belinda George
Operationalizing Kindness with Special Guest Houston Kraft
Why Advisory?
Team Passion Project - Getting to Know the Middle School Winners of the Solve Together Contest
Kids are in Beta
Ask Three Times
Resilience is Teachable with Special Guest Michele Borba
One Trusted Adult with special guest Brooklyn Raney
How are kids feeling right now? Let's ask them!
"It's Chemistry, Not Character!" with special guest Ned Johnson
Forward Is a Pace: Normalizing the Challenges of this School Year
Cultivating a Culture of Belonging with Phillip Marcus
The Extended Mind with Annie Murphy Paul
OMG We Made It!!
Transitioning into Summer and the Iceberg Exercise
Supporting Students Struggling Socially
How long is too long for adolescents to begin transitioning back to in-person school?
Let's Talk About Race
The Addiction Inoculation with Special Guest Jessica Lahey
The Most Dangerous Part of the Climb is the Descent: Pacing and Recovery as the Vaccine Rolls Out
Addressing the Violence at the U.S. Capitol with Students
Addressing Students' FOMO and Social Isolation during COVID Disruption
Talking with Students About the Election