Episodes
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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.
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Episode 221: It's Tricky
November 27th, 2024 | Season 5 | 42 mins 52 secs
In this episode, we discuss conducting observations with teacher candidates.
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Episode 220: Hard for Ollie to Say
November 20th, 2024 | Season 5 | 49 mins 8 secs
This week we talk about how we see and interpret the world is a lot about who we are and what our experiences have been all the way down to the data coming from our senses.
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Episode 219: A Conversation about Controversy
November 13th, 2024 | Season 5 | 41 mins 21 secs
In this episode, we discuss the teaching of controversial topics in science.
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Episode 218: Sad Batman
November 6th, 2024 | Season 5 | 46 mins 38 secs
This week we talk about how to answer the question "when does the teacher intervene when a kid's idea is wrong?"
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Episode 217: Assessing the Assessments
October 30th, 2024 | Season 5 | 43 mins 16 secs
In this episode, we discuss the released sample questions for the PA Keystone exam in Biology.
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Episode 216: Gaps and Naps
October 23rd, 2024 | Season 5 | 42 mins 12 secs
In this episode, we revisit gapless explanations.
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Episode 215: CoPilot Failure
October 16th, 2024 | Season 5 | 40 mins 32 secs
This week we talk about failure in science and how we need to think about it in terms of teaching.
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Episode 214: A Phenomenal Episode!
October 9th, 2024 | Season 5 | 48 mins 4 secs
In this episode, we revisit the topic of phenomena and their selection and use in science classes.
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Episode 213: Answering Question #3
October 2nd, 2024 | Season 5 | 48 mins 29 secs
This week we talk about book clubs for professional learning and how to structure them.