The Teachthought Podcast

Drew Perkins talks with Dan Cogan-Drew and Matthew Gross of Newsela about the challenges and their processes in providing balanced and non-biased content for teachers and students. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Newsela.com @Newsela, Facebook, Instagram @dcogandrew @matthew_gross

Drew Perkins talks with Megan Gafford, adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Denver, about how she engages teaching, writing, and art through inquiry and curiosity on some of the most controversial topics. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: megangafford.com Quillette: Experiments in Nurturing Classroom Curiosity Megan on Twitter, and Instagram Nick Bostrom Glenn Loury podcast How To Have Impossible Conversations Richard Feynman: The Value of Science Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind Steven Pinker:Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress Heterodox Academy

The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 183 Developing Kindness, Character And Honesty In Today's Learners Drew Perkins talks with Houston Kraft about his work with Character Strong to develop SEL skills in students and schools. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: CharacterStrong.com @careacter, Instagram, Facebook

Drew Perkins talks with Dr. Michael Rousell about his research and work with using feedback that includes the element of surprise to help stimulate more of a growth mindset. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: michaelrousell.com @rousellm, Facebook, LinkedIn Surprise! How Your Brain Secretly Changes Your Beliefs | Michael Rousell | TEDxSalem

Drew Perkins talks with Brenda Bisner, Senior Vice-President of Content at Kidoodle.TV, about her work to provide safe video streaming content. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Kidoodle.tv @kidoodleTV Brenda Bisner on LinkedIn content@kidoddle.tv The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 175 Are Good Intentions But Bad Ideas Growing Fragile Students?

Drew Perkins talks with Nadav Zeimer about his idea to offer digital natives a set crowdsourced standards and academic credits. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: TheBig.net @nzeimer The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 174 How Might We Build A Better Transcript? The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 93 Recognizing Learning And Growth With Open Badges The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 123 Moving Education from Post-Modern to Metamodern Cal Newport: Digital Minimalism

Drew Perkins talks with Vicki Collet about her new book and how the process of Lesson Study can improve the culture of teaching and learning.  Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: vickicollet.com Book: Collaborative Lesson Study: ReVisioning Teacher Professional Development Collaborative Lesson Study Book Club on Facebook Vicki's blog: mycoachescouch.blogspot.com Vicki on Facebook, and Twitter: @vscollet The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 34 Growing Better Professional Learning Communities With Dr. Richard DuFour (Part 1 Of 2)  

Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: letter.wiki Impossible Conversations contest Areo: Let’s Change the Nature of Public Discussion: An Introduction to Letter Audio version of this article Review of Impossible Conversations book Iona Italia on Areo @IonaItalia ionaitalia.com Two for Teach Podcast The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 177 How Educators Can Help People Have Impossible Conversations

Drew Perkins talks with James Lindsay about his new book with Peter Boghossian, How To Have Impossible Conversations, social justice, and critical race theory.  Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Book: How To Have Impossible Conversations @conceptualjames @HPluckrose Areo Magazine @MikeNayna and his YouTube channel newdiscourses.com

Drew Perkins talks with Kris Wobbe and Mia Dubosarsky from Worcester Polytechnic Institute about how they use PBL and STEM to help prepare their students at the post-secondary level in addition to pre-k through 12. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: WPI Center for Project-Based Learning book, Project-Based Learning in the First Year WPI’s project-based curriculum STEM Education Center Seeds of STEM (preschool curriculum) Strategic STEM Integration program STEM Educator Certificate Course (bottom of page)

Drew Perkins talks with Jonathan Haidt, Social Psychologist, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business, and author about his most recent book with Greg Lukianoff, Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.  Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: thecoddling.com Google Doc: Is there an increase in adolescent mood disorders? @JonHaidt openmindplatform.org letgrow.org righteousmind.com

Drew Perkins talks with Ben Rein, Senior Director of Outreach and Partnerships at Mastery Transcript Consortium, about their work to remake the transcript into a more useful and meaningful tool for schools and students. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: mastery.org @MastTranscript facebook.com/MasteryTranscript/ Ben Rein: rein@mastery.org Thomas Guskey

Drew Perkins talks with Maria Hyler of the Learning Policy Institute about their new book and research on preparing teachers to shift their teaching to support deeper learning. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Learning Policy Institute @LPI_Learning Book: Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 162 What Do We Really Mean By “Deeper Thinking And Learning”?

Drew Perkins talks with Glenn Loury, economist, academic, author, and professor at Brown University, to get his thinking on education topics like school choice and competition and social justice issues like racial equality. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: glennloury.com @GlennLoury bloggingheads.tv - The Glenn Show Heather Mac Donald  

Drew Perkins talks with Hilary Allen, Senior Associate at Net Impact and Community Manager of the Up To Us Competition, about their work to help inspire college students to take collective action around our nation's economic challenges. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Net Impact Up To Us, @uptousnews, Instagram National Issues Forums Better Angels - The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 154 Depolarizing America Through Inquiry And Critical Thinking The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 170 The Theory Of Enchantment And Connecting To Humans The Swamp

Drew Perkins talks with Chloé Valdary about her Theory of Enchantment work and how it might help answer this question: What is the psychology of connection and can we use that psychology to heal and navigate the conflicts we inevitably have with each other and with ourselves?  Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: TheoryOfEnchantment.com, @enchanttheory, Facebook, Instagram,  @cvaldary theory-of-enchantment.teachable.com Glen Loury The Breakfast Club Killer Mike Blackish A Different World David Foster Wallace - This Is Water - Full version-David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech  

Drew Perkins talks with Susan Kaiser Greenland about how mindfulness, meditation, and awareness can help students be more successful learners.  Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: susankaisergreenland.com, email newsletter Susan's books on Amazon Susan on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook Sam Harris Waking Up The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 65 Using Mindfulness And Meditation To Help Children Manage Stress And Be More Compassionate Visit The TeachThought Podcast Page teachthought.com/category/podcast

Drew Perkins talks with three teachers from The Berkeley School, Vanessa DeNino, Tanya Madrid-Campbell, and Jeff Sandler, about their experience and reflections from a recent project-based learning unit they implemented with their students. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: The Berkeley School web site, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Video: Project-Based Learning - 8th Grade Authors and Illustrators Ron Berger Brain Rules Project Zero The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 144 Creating Cultures Of Thinking And Intellectual Character w/ Ron Ritchhart  

Drew Perkins talks with school psychologist Izzy Kalman about his work to help bullied kids better deal with their aggressors and why the "anti-bullying" movement is not helping. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Bullies2Buddies.com Izzy Kalman on Psychology Today How to Bullyproof Your Child – New York Times

Drew Perkins talks with Jennifer Chang Wathall about her concept-based curriculum and instruction and book and how we can use social constructivist teaching to teach math for deeper learning. *note -Jennifer would like to thank the co-authors she collaborated with in writing the Oxford University Press IB Diploma books.  Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Jennifer Chang Wathall's web site @JenniferWathall Jennifer Gonzalez: Cult of Pedagogy The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 162 What Do We Really Mean By “Deeper Thinking And Learning”?