Centered Teaching

We discuss current debates over integration that are emerging nation-wide through the battle for integration in New York City's District 3. We also examine the new NYC Chancellor's response to protests over integration, and discuss what it means for NYC schools, what it means about parents in the fight for integraiton, and what the future may hold as our schools become more diverse.

Both national and state governments decry the American educational system compared to others; therefore, we take a long hard look at the American educational system in an international context to understand the differences between the U.S. and the rest of the world. We focus on schooling structure, school investment, school performance, and the connection between education and the labor market.

We discuss why students have aversions to math, where they come from, and what teachers can do to break down these barriers.

We discuss what has and has not changed policywise and discursively since the Parkland shooting and March for Our Lives. After this discussion, our crew tries to unpack the way forward and what teachers can do.

We discuss what teachers can and should do over the summer. With such a draining job during the school year, sometimes teachers don't use their summer in a way that recharges them for the upcoming school year. We want to share our tried and true practices for optimizing that summer time for your health and work!

We discuss the process for end of year reflections for teachers, and how they impact the sustainability of the teaching profession. With the focus on teacher evaluations and students' academic performance, it can be difficult for teachers to find time to look inward. We probe different frameworks to make these reflections as easy as possible and to prepare teachers for continued success.

We discuss effective ways to end the school year with an emphasis on celebrating student accomplishments. We then discuss how to set up students and their families to carry those good feelings through the summer.

We discuss group work in classrooms while trying to highlight best practices that we have seen throughout the city, including heterogeneous and homogeneous groupings. The podcast contains multiple interviews with CPET coaches offering their unique takes. Each take provides a different framework for approaching group work during classwork for the most effective results.

We discuss the relationship between education and technology in the 21st century with a focus the ways technology manifests in classrooms. We then discuss possible strategies for best preparing students for the 21st century.

We discuss the prevalence of school shootings over the last two decades, the commonalities, and why schools have often been sites. We then discuss student responses to the latest shootings, policy debates over action, and how teachers can continue forward in this chaotic climate.

We discuss the difficulties in teaching for early career teachers and the limits of school-based support given the varied and challenging nature of the job. We then explore the nature of CPET's initiative the New Teacher Network, and the ways the Network supports teachers within their first three years.

We discuss the ways in which the digital world is affecting/influencing the educational lives of today's youth and contemplate the role of educators in this everchanging landscape. We also discuss some of the most recognizable changes in education due to the digital age, predict what may come, and speculate on how educators will continue to shape educational opportunities.

We discuss the changes at the Federal Department of Education with a focus on specific policy changes and the broader cultural shift that appears to be happening under the DeVos and Trump regime. We then expand our discussion to include the current national debate over whether or not teachers should be armed.

We discuss the different pressures teachers face, as well as the ways those pressures impact student learning and social-emotional development. We also discuss how teachers can counteract the specific stressors in their lives and their work, and how to make teaching a sustainable profession.

We discuss the different dynamics in education, how they affect the classroom, student identity formation, and the long-term cultural impact of our institutions as they are. From there, we explore the growing consciousness of equity and how this impacts the ways we think about gender considering changing notions of gender identity and the #MeToo movement.

We discuss different spaces of learning and non-traditional pedagogies that expand student learning and the ways students view education. We dive into Literacy Unbound and the potential for theater in the classroom as well as museums as sites for learning.

We discuss the difference between bilingual and bicultural education with an emphasis on what the different pedagogies mean for learners and teachers as well as deconstructing specific pedagogical practices that help students learn best.

We discuss the different forms of school discipline, nationwide trends, and the possible alternatives to traditional forms of discipline in school. With a deep dive into practical classroom experience and the theoretical underpinnings of discipline, our group makes recommendations for moving forward and better serving students.

We discuss how to keep your students talking at the elementary, middle, and high school levels with insight from two of CPET's most experienced coaches, Dr. Cristina Compton and Denise Daniels. Learn how to manage the classroom, support student learning, and let students own the conversation.

We discuss how teachers have long held a place in the American psyche, and how representations of teachers, schools, students, and classrooms have changed in the digital age. We interrogate these media representations and analyze the impacts they have had on schools, students, classrooms, and teachers as well as what this could mean for the profession going forward.