The ThoughtStretchers Education Podcast

The ThoughtStretchers Education Podcast delivers thoughtful heterodox conversations to stretch your thinking about important issues in education.

A School Focused On Intellectual Virtues? 04/24/2024

A School Focused On Intellectual Virtues? talks with Jacquie Bryant, Founding Principal of a public middle school called Intellectual Virtues Academy. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/30972898

Sorting The Evidence For Direct Instruction And Inquiry 04/17/2024

Sorting The Evidence For Direct Instruction And Inquiry talks with Dylan Wiliam about the evidence and support for different instructional approaches including direct instruction and inquiry-based learning. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/30873853

Is Higher Education A Bait And Switch? 04/10/2024

Is Higher Education A Bait And Switch? talks with Bill Coplin about his new book, The Path to Equity: Inclusion in the Kingdom of Liberal Arts, which calls for a shift in liberal arts education to a more practical and less academic approach. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/30770823

Reading Instruction, Evidence And Neuroscience 04/03/2024

Reading Instruction, Evidence And Neuroscience This episode features the archived audio from a March 27, 2024, Event titled Reading Instruction: Evidence & Neuroscience. talked with Dr. Karen Gazith, Christie Biggerstaff, and Sonya Thomas. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/30664408

The Side Effects Of School 03/27/2024

The Side Effects Of School hosted this ThoughtStretchers Education Community discussion on February 25th, 2024 with clinical psychologist, Naomi Fisher and the Executive Director of the Adolescent Flourishing Initiative at The University of Austin, Michael Strong. We discussed this question: "Does traditional schooling lead to poor mental health for students?" /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/30568303

Inside The Teachers' Lounge Film 03/20/2024

Inside The Teachers' Lounge Film talks with Ilker Çatak about his Oscar-nominated film, The Teachers' Lounge, about schools as a microcosm of society and of ourselves. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/30459033

Understanding Antiracist School Leadership 03/13/2024

Understanding Antiracist School Leadership talks with author and educator, Daman Harris, about his work and book, The Antiracist School Leader. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/30357403

DEI in K12 Education 03/06/2024

DEI in K12 Education The ThoughtStretchers Education Podcast: DEI in K12 Education talks with Yunga Webb, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at North Country School, about DEI and their unique school approach. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/30258018

Healthy Parent Activism Or Partisan Warfare? 02/28/2024

Healthy Parent Activism Or Partisan Warfare? talks with author Laura Pappano about her book, School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/30151878

Navigating Education As An Elected State Representative And Teacher 02/22/2024

Navigating Education As An Elected State Representative And Teacher talks with Tina Bojanowski about the tensions and impact of her work as a teacher and an elected state representative for Louisville, KY. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/30068598

Teaching For Intellectual Virtues 02/14/2024

Teaching For Intellectual Virtues talks with author and professor Jason Baehr about his book, Deep in Thought: A Practical Guide to Teaching for Intellectual Virtues and the Intellectual Virtues Academy /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/29959243

Dispatch From A 19 Y/O Female Education Entrepreneur 02/07/2024

Dispatch From A 19 Y/O Female Education Entrepreneur talks with Stanford student and education entrepreneur, Sofie Roux, about her work to provide education in underdeveloped countries. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/29847043

Optimizing AI In Education 02/01/2024

Optimizing AI In Education talks with Dmitry Shapiro, Founder and CEO of YouAi, about their artificial intelligence platform and how educators can make the most of AI. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/29733463

Creating Cultures Of Thinking 01/24/2024

Creating Cultures Of Thinking talks with Ron Ritchhart about his new book, Cultures of Thinking in Action: 10 Mindsets to Transform our Teaching and Students' Learning. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/29632248

STEM, PBL, Guided Discovery Learning? 01/17/2024

STEM, PBL, Guided Discovery Learning? talks with Jason McKenna, Author, Teacher, Speaker, and experienced STEM Education and Ed Tech Leader, about his use of 'Guided Discovery Learning'. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/29533693

Empowering Children Through Early Literacy 01/10/2024

Empowering Children Through Early Literacy talks with Spencer Russell, the founder of Toddlers CAN Read, about applying the 'Science of Reading' to teaching young children to read. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/29431068

Structured Schooling And Parenting Or Let Grow? 01/03/2024

Structured Schooling And Parenting Or Let Grow? talks with research professor, Peter Gray, about the importance of children's play and more self-directed learning in the well-being of kids. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/29327613

Teachers Taking Charge Of Their PD 12/29/2023

Teachers Taking Charge Of Their PD talks with 2023 Vermont Principal of the Year, Chris Young, about his school's “action research” PD program. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/29273168

Race, Bias, Tribalism, And Education 12/20/2023

Race, Bias, Tribalism, And Education talks with education activist Chris Stewart about their differences and agreements on race, bias, tribalism, and education. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/29176273

Improving Interventions for Dyslexic And Struggling Learners 12/13/2023

Improving Interventions for Dyslexic And Struggling Learners talks with Professor of School Psychology, Andrew Shanock, about improving collaboration between school psychologists and speech-language pathologists to serve dyslexic and struggling students better. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/29060683

Adolescent Flourishing Through Socratic Inquiry 12/06/2023

Adolescent Flourishing Through Socratic Inquiry talks with Michael Strong, Executive Director of the Adolescent Flourishing Initiative at the University of Austin, about the power of engaging with adolescents through Socratic inquiry. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/28958933

A Dispatch From An Education And Politics Journalist 11/29/2023

A Dispatch From An Education And Politics Journalist talks with Olivia Krauth about her experience as an education and politics journalist for the Louisville Courier-Journal and the state of journalism. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/28852688

A Toolkit For Open Inquiry 11/21/2023

A Toolkit For Open Inquiry talks with Sarah Hartman-Caverly and Craig Gibson about their Open Inquiry Toolkit, a two-pronged approach that develops intellectual virtues and promotes awareness of cognitive biases. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/28740088

Would Improving Open Enrollment Help Students? 11/17/2023

Would Improving Open Enrollment Help Students? talks with Jude Schwalbach, policy analyst with the Reason Foundation, about open enrollment rules, school choice and competition, and how that might help students. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/28693503

Has Illiberal Leftism Corroded HS Debate? 11/08/2023

Has Illiberal Leftism Corroded HS Debate? talks with James Fishback about Incubate Debate, his startup in response to the ideological corrosion of the traditional high school debate organization. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/28559618

A Dispatch From The 2024 Principal Of The Year 11/03/2023

A Dispatch From The 2024 Principal Of The Year talks with Andy Farley, NASSP Principal of the Year, about the learning and wellness of students and educators. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/28509611

Science, Truth, And Trust 10/25/2023

Science, Truth, And Trust talks with Nick Dirks, President and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences, about today’s challenges in higher education, bias in science and academia, and questions related to trust in science and the authority of experts/expertise. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/28424774

Essential Teaching Techniques 10/19/2023

Essential Teaching Techniques talks with Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli about their book, Teaching WalkThrus: Visual Step-by-Step Guides to Essential Teaching Techniques Paperback. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/28361165

A Simple But Effective Fix For Anxious Kids 10/12/2023

A Simple But Effective Fix For Anxious Kids talks with Lenore Skenazy (her second appearance) about a promising new study showing what works in helping kids be less anxious and more independent. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/28294505

A Culture Of Conversation On Contentious Issues 10/04/2023

A Culture Of Conversation On Contentious Issues talks with Ilana Redstone and Elisheva Avishai, Co-Directors of the Mill Institute, about their work to increase the diversity of thought, ideas, and approaches in K12 spaces. /episode/index/show/teachthought/id/28224977

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