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Behavior
Mike and Miles discuss behavior from their points of view in a classroom. Find practical ways to connect to your students- have expectations, praise often, celebrate accomplishments, and be vulnerable.
Classroom Culture Podcast
Mike and Miles dive deep into the meaning and importance of classroom culture. From the looks, sounds, feels, smells, and even tastes of a classroom, teachers shape their students’ learning experiences. The classroom as a vessel is a model of the teacher’s expectations, thus significantly impacting teaching and learning.
Know Thyself
Who are you as a teacher? How does your persona including your strengths and culture play into leading a classroom? Explore the power of self-reflection as Mike and Miles discuss the importance of shaping your teaching persona to fit the needs of your students.
The Student Who Won’t
What do you do with/for a student who has no more interest in school? Mike and Miles discuss ways to connect with difficult students who seem impossible to motivate. They discuss possible reasons for student apathy and ways to give hope to struggling students.
Worksheets!
Mike and Miles start and end with some humor about worksheets, but the depth of their conversation encourages originality and creativity. Ditch the worksheets and packets so you can engage students in original thought and collaborative learning.
Strategies to Get It Done: Homework and Downtime
Miles and Mike bring to light the amount of downtime in a typical school day. With only a limited exposure to meaningful learning, they dig into what teaching and learning may look like to students. Also, the concept of homework is discussed as it takes on a new look for our kids.
Strategies to Get It Done: Differentiation
Mike and Miles dive into how to differentiate your classroom. Listen as they discuss real example and non-examples of what differentiation is. Mike and Miles welcome educators into a mindset of growth and mastery as they discuss the ideal educational setup.
Strategies to Get it Done: Wanting to Read!
Mike and Miles discuss the highly talked about business of reading. Reading is an essential life skill, therefore it is essential that students are excited to practice and hopefully love to read. What makes kids love (or hate to read)?
Strategies to Get it Done: Don’t Sit Down
Mike and Miles discuss how while teaching, one should not sit down! For reasons of engagement, assessment, and planning, it is essential to up and around your students. Listen as Mike and Miles give classroom strategies to keep your kids engaged.
Strategies to Get it Done: Math Word Problems
Miles and Mike embark on a series of podcasts designed to tackle real issues in classrooms and schools. The first episode focuses on word problems in math. Too often we see students with success in math fact fluency but lack the application of those skills. This episode gives insight and strategies to get it done!
The Heart of a Teacher
Mike and Miles discuss the soft side of being a teacher and a role model. They remind educators that their whole selves are on display for their students. There is an essence and power of teaching that influences children for the rest of their lives.
In and Out of Education
Mike and Miles welcome their amazing guest, Wilma Dunkle, who discusses her journey within public education. Wilma was a passionate teacher who positively impacted many lives. She talks about the strengths and needs in our schools, her interesting background growing up with non-public schools, and her life experiences that guided her away from teaching.
Relentless Optimism
Miles and Mike discuss the level of service involved in being a teacher or school worker. Success for students cannot be an option- it must be the only option. The two talk about how to remain optimistic when sometimes others are not. Being supportive for students and for one another is essential for all students…
Parents and the School
Mike and Miles discuss how parents can communicate effectively with schools to best utilize all of the resources available to them. They talk about parent advocacy, positive two-way communication, things parents should expect from their schools. Quick Links from the episode You, Your Child, and School: Navigate Your Way to the Best Education Students and…
Principal Interview
In this different format, Miles asks Mike several questions based on his leadership style at the building level. Mike gets in depth with what he considers the essentials in leading a school community to success.
Is it Really That Bad?
Mike and Miles look at the state of education in the U.S. They explore how there is little historical change in student outcomes across 50 years of teaching and learning. The great things that schools are doing with and for kids are often overshadowed by number or grade assigned by the results of a standardized…
Strategies to Get it Done
Mike and Miles discuss their ideal school including how they would approach curriculum and instruction. Learning is geared toward the learners interests all the while addressing standards and academic growth. This episode touches upon the need to focus on the school’s community vs. the successes of other schools.
The Great School
Mike and Miles discuss their ideal school including how they would approach curriculum and instruction. Learning is geared toward the learners interests all the while addressing standards and academic growth. This episode touches upon the need to focus on the school’s community vs. the successes of other schools
The Best Lessons
Mike and Miles discuss the mindset of creating amazing lessons in classrooms. The discussion goes from personal examples to shaping a school systems tailored to the needs of students.
How Can I Help You?
Miles and Mike discuss how helping students, staff, and parents is the best way to realize goals within school systems. The two discuss best practice in providing the best support for students despite the concepts of fair and equal.
What’s the Goal ?
What’s the goal podcast and blog post where Mike and Miles explore what the goal of education is and should be.
School Lunch
What’s the problem with school lunch? Everything or nothing depending on how you choose to look at the issue. We’ve chosen to think about food in school and what we provide to our children each day that they come to school. As they say, you are what you eat. But what are we giving to…
Grades are Fake
We know grades are fake. If we can admit they’re fake, then we have the chance to get to someplace better for students, teachers, families, and everyone else. To start, we have to admit that grades are fake. No you say? Grades aren’t fake. I received them my whole life. My kids bring them home…
School is Out! 