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The Teacher Think-Aloud Podcast — 93 episodes

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E85 - Summer Reading List 2026: Books That Challenge How We See the World, Teaching, and Ourselves

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E84 - AI in ELT: Building Critical AI Literacy and Leading with Pedagogy (with Rachel Toncelli & Ilka Kostka)

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E83 – Task-Based Language Teaching: Moving from Tasks to Transformation (with Dr. Linh Phung)

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E82 – Grammar That Sticks: The NUFU Framework (with Audrea Gold)

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5 for 5 - E66 Relaunch - “Being a native speaker isn’t a qualification" (with Meri Maroutian)

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5 for 5 - E56 Relaunch - Building a Sustainable PD Practice (with Yulia Kharchenko)

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5 for 5 - E44 Relaunch - Global citizenship: Opening the view to the possible (with Brantley Turner)

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5 for 5 - E34 Relaunch - Trauma-sensitive teaching (with Sherry MacKay)

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5 for 5 - E14 Relaunch - Representation: More than just a stock photo

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E81 – The Monolingual Bias: Advocacy for English Language Teachers (with Lillian Ardell)

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E80 – Algorithms, Echo Chambers, and Critical Thinking in the English Language Classroom (with Andrea Collados)

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E79 — 2026 Friends of the Podcast: Back to Basics

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E78 — Training the Trainers: Building the Next Generation of Teacher Educators (with Tabitha Kidwell)

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E77 - Ellii Dilemmas: Sparking Real Dialogue in the ELT Classroom (with Ben Buckwold & Tara Benwell)

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E76 - Unpacking the Lexical Approach (with Erin O’Byrne)

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E75 - Generative AI in Education: A Teacher’s Guide (with Sara Davila)

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E74 - Foundations of Reflective Practice with the DIESOL Podcast, Part 2

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E73 - Foundations of Reflective Practice with the DIESOL Podcast, Part 1

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E72 – Greening ELT: Addressing Sustainability in the English Language Classroom (with Harry Waters)

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E71 - From English Language Teaching to Instructional Design (with Sharon Tjaden-Burkes)

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E70 - Summer Reading Special: Stories That Cross Borders

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E69 - Digital Hallways: Creating connection in the online classroom (with Bob Nguyen)

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E68 - Backpacks, Bandwidth & Burnout: The Realities of Being an ELT Digital Nomad (with Emily Bryson)

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E67 - TESOL 2025 Special

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E66 - "Being a native speaker isn’t a qualification" (with Meri Maroutian)

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E65 - "The world comes to TESOL!" (with Dr. Debra Suarez)

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E64 - Soft Skills, Strong Impact: Supporting Multilingual Healthcare Professionals (with Shweta Ramkumar)

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E63 - 2024 End-of-Year Reflection

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E62 - Raising Multilingual Children: From Myths to Reality (with Anna Burt)

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E61 – Travel with Purpose: Teaching and volunteering around the world (with Aileen Hale)

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E60 - From teaching to materials writing: a chat with Ellii (with Ben Buckwold & Tara Benwell)

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E59 - Silence, SEL, and English language teaching (with Luis Javier Pentón Herrera)

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E58 - “Turning problems into opportunities” in community ESL programs (with Eric Trader)

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E57 - English for Networking: more than a transaction (with Angela Tribus Ramos)

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E56 - Building a sustainable PD practice (with Yulia Kharchenko)

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E55 - “My pedagogy is my protest”: LGBTQIA+ inclusion in the language classroom (with Kim Carroll)

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E54 - 2024 TESOL Special: Maximizing Your Conference Experience (VIDEO EPISODE 🎥)

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E53 - Teachers as Advocates: You can do it too! (with Rosemary Colón)

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E52 - The Power of Podcasting for Language Learning (with Anna Ayrapetyan)

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E51 - Friends of the Podcast 2024: AI in ELT (VIDEO EPISODE 🎥)

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E50 - State of the Podcast: a reflection, with 2023 bloopers!

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E49 - YouTube for English language teaching (with Amy Joy Rovirosa)

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E48 - Bring your teaching alive with ChatGPT (with Jeff McIlvenna)

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E47 - CLIL and team teaching: sweetening the pill (with Ekaterina Pipia)

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E46 - Challenging inequities toward multilingual teachers (with Alex Tang & Carine Saucillo)

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E45 - PD in a post-pandemic world

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E44 - Global citizenship: Opening the view to the possible (with Brantley Turner)

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E43 - Culture through stories (with Dustin Steichmann from Sandman Stories Presents)

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E42 - Stop hovering! (with Miriam Plotinsky)

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E41- Media Literacy 102: Disinformation, propaganda, and conspiracies... oh my!

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E40 - TESOL Special 2023! (VIDEO EPISODE 🎥)

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E39 - Media Literacy 101: Bias and perspective-taking

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E38 - Incorporating music in ELT (with Heather and Ece of English as a Singing Language)

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E37 - Friends of the Podcast! (VIDEO EPISODE 🎥)

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Blooper Reel 2022

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E36 - Equity in assessment: A human approach (with Albert Shaheen)

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E35 - Be brave enough to say ‘I don’t know’ (with Lina Jurkunas)

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E34 - Trauma-sensitive teaching (with Sherry MacKay)

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E33 - "Long live the rubric!"

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E32 - “We’re nearly in 2023” - communicative approaches to grammar teaching (with Amir Houssein Khoobru)

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E31 - "The beauty of assessment"

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E30 - Drama in the classroom: beyond the role play (with Richard Silberg)

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E29 - Top 10 TED Talks for Teaching

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E28 - A holistic approach to PD (with Ramin Yazdanpanah)

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E27 - Why we ♥ project-based learning

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E26 - What can we learn from teachers?

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E25 - Handling conflict in the classroom (with guest Joe Voigts!)

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E24 - Like. Share. Post.

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E23 - The good, the bad, and the ugly of performance reviews

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E22 - Make reviewing fun again!

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E21 - Addressing current events in the classroom

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E20 - TESOL Special 2022!

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E19 - The why and the how of peer review

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E18 - Book Review: Race, Empire, & English Language Teaching

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E17 - The benefits of formal TESOL training

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E16 - It's OK to just exist

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Blooper Reel 2021!

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E15 - So you've lost your zest for teaching

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E14 - Representation: More than just a stock photo

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E13 - The Delicate Dance of English

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E12 - Words, words, words

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E11 - You, me & ICC

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E10 - Keep it simple, stupid

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E09 - Things they never tell new teachers

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E08 - Sometimes you plan, sometimes you don't

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E07 - Building Rapport on Day 1

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E06 - Teaching & PD through the pandemic

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E05 - Correct me if you can

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E04 - To err is human

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E03 - Sorry, what's your question?!

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E02 - Shut up and let them talk!

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E01 - What is reflective pedagogy?

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E0 - Pilot - A podcast is born!