Learning to teach better with Dr. John Staley as we discuss the power of professional organizations to learn about, support, and promote good teaching. Enjoy! Click here to subscribe via your favorite podcast provider. Links Shop the Amidon Planet Store (to get yourself a t-shirt, hoodie, or coffee cup) or the Amidon Planet Read more…
Learning to teach better with Dr. Amanda Jansen, as we discuss her book, Rough Draft Math: Revising to Learn. Enjoy! Click here to subscribe via your favorite podcast provider. Links Dr. Amanda Jansen’s professional website Curtis, K., Lindo, K., & Jansen, A. (2021). Discourse Can Create a Learning Culture, Mathematics Teacher: Read more…
Learning to teach better by sharing some learnings from 2020, a word of the year for 2021, and a discussion with Matthew Mifflin about his new single, Out of the Clouds. Enjoy! Stream ‘Out of the Clouds’ on your preferred music service. Click here to subscribe via your favorite podcast provider. Read more…
Learning to teach better by talking with Shane Been, Assistant Principal at Sauk Prairie High School, about teaching over the past (almost) 20 years (or ever since we started teaching high school mathematics together at Sauk Prairie High School. This is another episode in the Reflect Series that started at Read more…
Learning to teach better by learning how to care for our mental health with Pat Ward of Pat Ward Counseling. Pat shares insight and resources (see below) in navigating these “unprecedented times” that he has gained through his 10 years of being a local pastor and a trained mental health Read more…
Learning to teach better with Dr. Rick Balkin, Professor of Leadership & Counselor Education at the University of Mississippi, as we discuss his new book Practicing Forgiveness: A Path Toward Healing. Enjoy! Click here to subscribe via your favorite podcast provider. Links Purchase Practicing Forgiveness: A Path Toward Healing by Dr. Read more…
…the only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it – and then dismantle it. Ibram X. Kendi Learning to teach better with Dr. Linda Angotti, Emerita Professor in Music Education from Kent State University as we discuss the featured book, How to Be an Antiracist by Read more…
On this episode of the podcast I was joined by Lo Alaman, Artist and Creative Minister at The Woodlands United Methodist Church – Harvest Campus. Better yet he is a friend and former youth minister to my oldest son and an outstanding person to talk to for this podcast. This is Read more…
Education is design for learning Halverson & Halverson During our current circumstances with COVID-19 a shift has happened with regard to technology and the way we view technologically mediated interactions. In other words, a Zoom meeting minus the 30 minute commute is not so bad. But why pick Zoom? Why Read more…
It is not light that is needed, but fire. Frederick Douglass More and more I am convinced that the most powerful lever for change is our schools and our teachers. Systemic change can be catalyzed through the actions of teachers and students as they attempt to shape the world into Read more…