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The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast — 313 episodes
278: How to Create an Assessment Plan
277: How to Plan a Unit of Instruction
276: A Classroom Ritual for Peer Affirmations
275: Three Fresh Ideas for Structuring Professional Development
274: Why School in Denmark is Better, and What We Can Learn from Them
273: The Art of Classroom Timing: 10 Ways to Fit it All In
272: The Replacement Skills Approach: Teaching Behavior Instead of Managing It
271: Meet Ellis: Your On-Demand Classroom Companion
270: Eight Ways to Squeeze Writing Instruction Into a Few Minutes
269: Bringing the Power of Debate to Math Class
268: What is a Warm Demander?
267: How Inquiry-Based Freewriting Can Deepen Student Writing
266: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2026
265: Growth Discourse: A Framework for Discussing Hard Topics with Students
264: How Schools Can Support Neurodivergent Teachers
263: Five Skills that Get Students to Take Ownership of Their Learning
262: Three Fresh Strategies That Get Students Engaged With Texts
261: How and Why to Use Concept Maps
260: Seven Teaching Practices that Nurture Student Voice
259: Making Project-Based Learning Accessible for Everyone
EduTip 33: Answer more questions with questions.
258: The Power of Centering Student Exemplars
257: Bringing Joy into Our Schools: A Conversation with Gholdy Muhammad
256: Community Supplies in the Classroom: Clearing Up the Confusion
255: Before You Decorate Your Classroom, Here's a Better Idea
254: Dusting Off an Old Practice to Make Reading Fun Again
EduTip 32: Don't put kids in Charlie Bucket situations.
253: Fully Seen and Fully Known: Teaching that Affirms Disability
EduTip 31: Be the first dork.
252: Where Discipline Reform Has Gone Wrong (in Some Schools)
EduTip 30: Do something after formative assessments.
251: Holding Students Accountable in the Age of AI
EduTip 29: Build relationships with a spreadsheet.
250: Nine Easy Ways to Add Retrieval to Your Lessons
249: A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning
248: Why grammar instruction stinks, and how we can change that
EduTip 28: Add gestures to strengthen learning.
247: Five Listening Skills That Will Improve All of Your Relationships
EduTip 27: Get Better Participation with Icons
246: How to Keep Teaching Well When DEI is Under Attack
245: A System for Meeting Absent Students' Needs
EduTip 26: Give lots of quizzes.
244: Three Ways You May Be Cognitively Overloading Your Students
EduTip 25: Use neutral language to keep things cool.
243: Small Changes to Make Your Classroom More Neurodiversity-Affirming
EduTip 24: Use "I" statements to promote your teaching ideas.
242: How to Do a Close Reading Lesson in Any Subject Area
EduTip 23: Calm an out-of-control class with a notebook.
241: Six Tech Tools to Try in 2025
240: When Your Classroom Management Goes Off the Rails
239: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Multitasking in School
238: How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom
237: Curating a More Inclusive Library
236: Five Conditions for Getting Formative Assessment Right
235: Making School Better for Gender-Expansive Kids
234: Four Fun Classroom Games to Add to Your Toolbox
233: Meeting the Core Human Needs of a Teacher
232: How Metacognition Can Optimize Learning
231: Teaching Executive Functions to All Students
Summer 2024 Update: What I'm Working On Over the Break
230: What is a Semantic Pulse Survey, and Why Should You Try it?
229: Not Just for Math: A Tiered System of Learning Supports for Any Subject
228: A Conversation About School Choice
227: Two Effective Ways to Teach Annotation
226: Yes, Your School Librarian Can Do That (and More)
225: Two Programs with Fresh Solutions to the Teacher Shortage
224: Some Thoughts on Teachers Crying in the Classroom
223: Why Students Give You the Blank Stare, and What to Do About It
222: Building Better Collaboration Between Families and Schools
221: The Photography Project That Showed Teachers Through a New Lens
220: What do we do about standardized tests?
219: Eight Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2024
218: How to Help Students Without Being a Savior
217: How to Talk about Race in Your Classroom
216: Your Teachers Need a Win
215: Seventeen Tweaks That Make a Big Difference in Group Work
214: Nothing's Going to Change My Mind: How Unconditional Positive Regard Transforms Classrooms
213: Using Learning Stories for Student Reflection
212: Untangling the Debate Over Reading Instruction
211: Supporting Intermediate English Learners in Every Subject
210: Integrating Arab Narratives Across the Curriculum
209: Unpacking Trauma-Informed Teaching
208: What Is the Secret Sauce for Deeper Learning?
207: The Youth Boxing Club That Is Changing Lives: Jamyle Cannon and The Bloc
EduTip 22: Stop asking questions to the whole room.
206: The Thinking Classroom: An Interview with Peter Liljedahl
EduTip 21: Bring some drama with an anticipatory set.
205: How to Use ChatGPT as an Example Machine
EduTip 20: Don't give out your slides.
204: Authentic Group Discussions with the Real Talk Strategy
203: What Happens When Two Schools Experience the Street Data Process?
EduTip 19: Help students learn each other's names.
202: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2023
201: How to Build Psychological Safety in Professional Development
200: Ten Ways to Give a Better Lecture
199: How to Personalize Instruction with Seminars
198: Where to Find Real History in the Anti-CRT Era
EduTip 18: Avoid assignments that are TOO open-ended.
197: How to Leverage Multisensory Learning in Your Classroom
EduTip 17: Repeat audience questions.
196: Four Models for Doing Blended Learning in Your Classroom
195: Five Fantastic Ideas for Collaboration Projects
EduTip 16: Do a smooth first read.
194: Finding the Funk: 3 Ways to Add Culturally Responsive Critical Thinking to Your Lessons
EduTip 15: Set aside time to set norms.
193: Creating Language-Affirming Classrooms for Code-Switching Students
EduTip 14: Find teachable moments in the downtime.
192: How to Use Backward Chaining to Differentiate Instruction
EduTip 13: Add novelty to boost learning.
191: In Support of Trans Athlete Inclusion in Women's Sports
190: Why so many teachers are leaving, and why others stay.
EduTip 12: Model EVERYTHING.
189: Eight Principles for Supporting Students with ADHD
EduTip 11: Replace general praise with something specific.
188: Uncovering Your Implicit Biases: An Exercise for Teachers
EduTip 10: Use music to buffer "silent" activities.
187: Contrasting Cases: A Simple Strategy for Deep Understanding
EduTip 9: Use an antiseptic bounce to prevent off-task behavior.
186: Using Gallery Walks for Peer Feedback
185: How Teachers Can Support Arab-American Students
184: Lessons that Build Students' Media and News Literacy
EduTip 8: Don't take anything personally.
183: Six Tech Tools to Try in 2022
EduTip 7: Stop popcorn reading.
182: Eight Ways to Grow Students' Vocabulary
EduTip 6: Try a tiered activity for simple differentiation.
181: Teachers are being silenced. What can be done about it?
EduTip 5: Use huddles to communicate during group work.
180: Make Units More Inspiring with Vision Boards
EduTip 4: Hold off on most feedback until AFTER a task is done.
179: Teachers are barely hanging on. Here's what they need.
EduTip 3: Distract the Distractor
178: Street Data: A Pathway Toward Equitable, Anti-Racist Schools
EduTip 2: Don't yell at another teacher's class.
177: How to Find, Read, and Use Academic Research
EduTip 1: Don't make them read and listen at the same time.
176: Suicide Prevention: What Teachers Can Do
175: Introducing the HyperRubric
174: Why You Should Bring Podcasts Into Your Classroom
173: How ELA and Special Ed Collaboration Can Produce Great Student Writing
172: The Importance of Maslow's Fourth Tier
171: Does Your School Need a Literacy Check-up?
170: No More Easy Button: A Suggested Approach to Post-Pandemic Teaching
169: Revolution School: When "Reimagining School" Actually Happens
168: Mistake Analysis
167: How to Co-Construct Success Criteria with Students
166: UDL as a Key to Equity
165: Setting Up Mastery-Based Grading in Your Classroom
164: The Elegance of the Gray Area
163: It's Time to Give Classroom Jobs Another Try
162: Up-Down-Both-Why: A Funds of Feeling Approach to Literature
161: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2021
160: Fire Up Your Students with a Campaign Unit
159: Connecting Students in a Disconnected World
158: How to Create a Self-Paced Classroom
157: What's Possible with Green Screens in the Classroom
156: Subversion: An Essential Tool of the Master Teacher
155: How to Teach When Everyone's Scattered
154: Hexagonal Thinking: A Colorful Tool for Discussion
153: Four Laws of Learning
152: Creating Moments of Genuine Connection Online
151: Historically Responsive Literacy: An Equity-Centered Approach to Curriculum
150: A Few Creative Ways to Use Student Blogs
149: Nine Ways Online Teaching Should Be Different from Face-to-Face
148: Backward Design: The Basics
147: Why White Students Need Multicultural and Social Justice Education
146: Reopening School: What it Might Look Like
145: Flash Feedback: More Meaningful Feedback in Less Time
144: Making Great Screencast Videos
143: To Teach Social-Emotional Learning, Start with Yourself
142: Distance Learning: A Collection of Resources for Teachers
141: Getting Rid of "I Don't Know" in Your Classroom
140: Nine Ways to be More Inclusive of Diverse Students
139: How to Create a Project Based Learning Lesson
138: Making Cooperative Learning Work Better
137: How Afterschool Staff Can Take Your Class to the Next Level
136: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2020
135: The Time I Made a Fart Sound During a Test
134: Repairing Harm: A Better Alternative to Punishment
133: How One Makerspace is Meeting Students' Social-Emotional Needs
132: How to Spot Dyslexia, and What to Do Next
131: How World Language Teaching Has Evolved
130: Tips for Starting a Podcast
129: Let's Make Better Slideshows
128: When You Get Nothing But Crickets
127: A Few Ideas for Dealing with Late Work
126: Student-Created Graphic Novels
125: Think Twice Before Doing Another Historical Simulation
124: A Closer Look at Open Educational Resources
123: Four Research-Based Strategies All Teachers Should Be Using
122: A Simple Trick for Success with One-Pagers
121: Is that Higher-Order Task Really Higher Order?
120: How One District Learned to Talk About Race
119: "We're a Family" and Other School Norms that Can Cause Burnout
118: To Boost Learning, Just Add Movement
117: Five Ways to Improve Your Rubrics
116: Mastery Learning with Khan Academy
115: Time to Take a Look at Your Dress Code
114: Let's Give Our Teaching Language a Makeover
113: Global School Play Day: One Day. Nothing But Play.
112: Six Tech Tools to Try in 2019
111: Teaching Note-Taking with Stations
110: Ten Ways Educators Can Take Action in Pursuit of Equity
109: Get Students Talking with Ongoing Conversations
108: To Learn, Students Need to DO Something
107: The Best Ways to Use Leveled Texts
106: The Danger of Teacher Nostalgia
105: Voice of Witness: Bring the Power of Oral History to Your Classroom
104: What the Research Says About Note-Taking
103: Deeper Class Discussions with the TQE Method
102: A Look Inside a Teacher Fellowship Program
101: A Step-by-Step Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing
100: Lessons in Personhood
99: Quality-Check Your Tech: 6 Strategies
98: Improving the Way We Teach About Slavery
97: The Principal's Pet: A Cautionary Tale
96: What's the Point of a Makerspace?
95: Twelve Ways Teachers Can Build Their Emotional Resilience
94: How accurate are your grades?
93: Eight Things I Know for Sure About Middle School Kids
92: Frickin' Packets
91: Twelve Ways to Upgrade Your Classroom Design
90: OMG Becky. PD is Getting SO MUCH BETTER.
90: OMG Becky. PD has gotten SO MUCH BETTER.
89: Restorative Justice in School: An Overview
88: Are you a curator or a dumper?
87: Moving from Feedback to Feedforward
86: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2018
85: The Magic of Validation
84: How to Stop Killing the Love of Reading w/Pernille Ripp
83: What is an Innovation Class?
82: Making School a Safe Place for LGBTQ Students
81: The Great and Powerful Graphic Organizer
80: When Students Won't Stop Talking
79: Retrieval Practice: The Most Powerful Learning Strategy You're Not Using
78: Four Misconceptions About Culturally Responsive Teaching
77: What Teachers Want Administrators to Know
76: When Your School is Short on Tech
75: Making the Most of a 90-Minute Block Class
74: How to Deal with Student Grammar Errors
73: How One Teacher Started an Urban Gardening Revolution
72: What is an educator mastermind, and why should you join one?
71: Why It's So Hard for Teachers to Take Care of Themselves
70: How HyperDocs Can Transform Your Teaching
69: Three Surprising Reasons Students Don't Get into Top Colleges
68: Twelve Ways to Support English Learners in the Mainstream Classroom
67: What to Do on Lame Duck School Days
66: Why Curation Should be Your Next Class Project
65: Five Ways College Teachers Can Improve Their Instruction
64: Four Ways Teachers Can Support Students of Color
63: Teaching Students to Avoid Plagiarism
62: 21st Century Learning at the Apollo School
61: Seven Systems that Work for Outside-the-Box Learners
60: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2017
59: Runaway Youth: How Teachers Can Help
58: Six Powerful Learning Strategies You MUST Share with Students
57: Nine Simple Solutions for Common Teaching Problems
56: Creating a Welcoming Classroom for Special Ed Students
55: Your Top 10 Genius Hour Questions Answered
54: Is Your Lesson a Grecian Urn?
53: How to Approach Your Teaching Like a Master Chef
52: Is Your Classroom Academically Safe?
51: CommonLit's Online Library of Free Texts
50: Using Playlists to Differentiate Instruction
49: How Dialogue Journals Build Teacher-Student Relationships
48: Implementing a Classroom Management Plan that Works
47: Black Girls and School: We Can Do Better
46: The Gut-Level Teacher Reflection
45: Ten Ways to Sabotage Your Classroom Management
44: Bring Podcasts Into Your Classroom with Listen Current
43: How to Make Better Use of Twitter
42: Kindergarten Redshirting
41: Student-Made E-Books
40: How to Stop Yelling at Your Students
39: How to Plan Outstanding Tech Training for Teachers
38: The Library that Increased Student Use by 1,000 Percent
37: How to Motivate Students: Five Questions for Teachers
36: How I Teach Argumentative Writing
35: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2016
34: Starting a Teaching Job in the Middle of the School Year
33: Five Powerful Ways to Save Time as a Teacher
32: How and Why We Should Let Our Students Fail
31: The Power of Being a Dork
30: How One Teacher Manages a Self-Paced Class
29: Four Things I've Learned About Teaching from CrossFit
28: Class Discussion Strategies
27: Interview with an Instructional Coach, Part 2
26: Interview with an Instructional Coach, Part 1
25: When a Student Hates You
24: Five Teaching Practices I'm Kicking to the Curb
23: How We Say Our Students' Names...and Why It Matters
22: Three Hacks that Solve Big School Problems
21: Make It Stick Author Peter Brown
20: Dogfooding
19: Goal-Setting for Teachers
18: How Ordinary Teachers Become Activists
17: Tools that Help Students Follow their Passions
16: Job Interview Advice for Teachers
15: A Teacher's Coming Out Story
14: Seven Easy Ways to Support Student Writing in Any Content Area
13: Could You Teach Without Grades?
12: How Your Nonverbals Impact Your Teaching
11: Avoiding the "Wait 'Till Your Father Gets Home" Trap
10: In Praise of Think-Pair-Share
9: How to Connect with Your Students
8: Talking about Race in the Classroom with José Vilson
7: Should You Give Timed Math Tests?
6: Our First Call-In Advice Show!
5: What is 20 Percent Time? A Conversation with A.J. Juliani
4: What the Mother of a Child with Autism Wants Teachers to Know
3: The Montessori Method
2: Why One Teacher Left the Profession
1: Best Practices for Teaching English Learners