Episodes
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Episode 237: Golden Days?
March 26th, 2025 | Season 5 | 48 mins 35 secs
In this episode, we discuss when the "golden age" of education was.
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Episode 236: Life Gets in the Way
March 19th, 2025 | Season 5 | 38 mins 51 secs
This week we talk about relabeling practice with new teaching terms and how it is like what happens with students in science classrooms.
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Episode 235: Grouped Together
March 5th, 2025 | Season 5 | 49 mins 2 secs
In this episode, we talk about grouping in classroom environments.
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Episode 234: Fast and Furious DOGE
February 26th, 2025 | Season 5 | 43 mins 16 secs
This week we talk about the firings and threats around defunding NSF, NIH, and capping indirect costs to Universities.
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Episode 233: Don't Be a Tourist
February 19th, 2025 | Season 5 | 40 mins 19 secs
In this episode, we revisit the topic of artificial intelligence and discuss how it is being integrated into classwork.
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Episode 232: Face Full of Morning Ollie
February 12th, 2025 | Season 5 | 42 mins 47 secs
This week we talk about the keynote I am delivering at Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference (PETE&C) STEELS Summit.
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Episode 231: Heading Home
February 5th, 2025 | Season 5 | 44 mins 46 secs
In this episode, we discuss homework.
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Episode 230: Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich
January 29th, 2025 | Season 5 | 38 mins 33 secs
This week we negotiate the meaning of negotiation of meaning and what kind of talk that means.
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Episode 229: In Your Left Earhole
January 22nd, 2025 | Season 5 | 53 mins
This week we talk about how leaders learn to be leaders and what the challenges are for leaders who don't have training.
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Episode 228: Sticky Certifications
January 15th, 2025 | Season 5 | 49 mins 23 secs
In this episode, we discuss science certifications in PA.
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Episode 227: Talking Teachers
January 8th, 2025 | Season 5 | 33 mins 8 secs
In this episode, we try to talk about our favorite fictional science teachers.
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Episode 226: Caste(ing) Faculty
January 1st, 2025 | Season 5 | 43 mins 7 secs
This week we talk about the relationship between tenure track and teaching/clinical/non-tenure track faculty.
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Episode 225: Grades and Grace
December 25th, 2024 | Season 5 | 53 mins 19 secs
In this episode, we discuss student situations where grace may be needed.
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Episode 224: Fear of Social Death
December 18th, 2024 | Season 5 | 42 mins 46 secs
This week we talk about the tension between knowing you need to let people talk through their own thinking and the fact that all learning opportunities have time constraints.
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Episode 223: Conferencing about Conferences
December 11th, 2024 | Season 5 | 47 mins 36 secs
In this episode, we discuss an upcoming conference presentation.
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Episode 222: Written Bold Predictions
December 4th, 2024 | Season 5 | 49 mins 27 secs
This week we talk about what the Department of Education does and what it means if it is weakened or eliminated.