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How to Build Confidence and Connection to Math (Susan Midlarsky)

In this episode, I talk with educator and author Susan Midlarsky about her book The Art of Learning Math: A Manual for Success . We explore how math can be more than numbers—how it can help students see patterns in life, solv...

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June 24, 2025

How to Build Confidence and Connection to Math (Susan Midlarsky)

In this episode, I talk with educator and author Susan Midlarsky about her book The Art of Learning Math: A Manual for Success . We explore how math can be more than numbers—how it can help students see patterns in life, solv...

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June 23, 2025

How AI Chat Bots Can Increase Student Creativity (Ken Kahn)

In this episode of the podcast, we chat with a pioneer in the AI space - Dr. Ken Kahn. Ken walks us through the amazing ways we can increase student creativity through the use of high-powered AI chat bots, not reduce it. We d...

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June 17, 2025

How to Raise a Citizen (Lindsey Cormack)

Drama critic George Jean-Nathan once said that "Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." Although 47% of all young people eligible to cast a ballot in the 2024 presidential election did so, 53% did not. Ho...

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June 10, 2025

How to Support New Educators (Jenn David-Lang and Kim Marshall)

In this episode of the podcast, we speak with authors Jenn David-Lang, the Main Idea, and Kim Marshall, the Marshall Memo, about their work in curating the "best of" resources available to educators - particularly leaders wor...

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June 3, 2025

How to Prioritize Learning Strategies Not Preferences (John Hattie)

In this latest episode of the Have a Life Teaching Podcast, we chat with education researcher John Hattie - professor at the University of Melbourne. We discuss, despite evidence suggesting it is ineffective, the continued pr...

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May 27, 2025

How to Prioritize Your Teaching Day (Ellen Linnihan)

We waste so much time as educators during the working day. If we are not chatting with colleagues during our prep periods, we are often using many of our precious minutes in our prep periods planning how we will use our prep ...

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