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July 18, 2025

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This week on the podcast, I’m joined by journalist Dana Seith, co-creator of the bold new storytelling card game Tell Me a Story — made in collaboration with The Bitter Southerner, We’re not just talking games — we’re talking transformation. In this episode, we unpack: - The five essential elements…

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July 18, 2025

How Educators Can Share Their Voice

The other day, I was speaking with a colleague with whom I co-moderated a LinkedIn Live event, a year or two ago, on supporting multilingual students. She told me that, recently, someone reached out to her from across the country for support. I was so excited by this. I also…

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July 18, 2025

How to Teach Elementary Students 5 Math Superpowers

Do You Know What the Superpower Understandings in Math Are? Recently, I wrote an article for ASCD about modeling Math through a gradual release framework. A common way through which to do this is to teach Math conceptually, representationally, and then abstractly (CRA Framework). However, there are other frameworks that…

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July 18, 2025

How to Infuse the Arts in Core Content Learning

Earlier in the second season of this podcast, we had as a guest Bo Stjerne Thomsen of LEGO Education discussing the importance of play in creative learning. In this episode, we continue our look at creativity in learning by discussing how to infuse art in the four core -content areas.…

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July 18, 2025

How to Conduct Walkthroughs Using Graphic Tools

Brak Rosenshine first published his Principles of Instruction in 2010 through the International Academy of Education (IAE) as part of their Educational Practices Series (booklet No. 21). Taking his years of research, Rosenshine paired down what good teachers do to obtain good academic outcomes: review, chunk information, question, model, guide…

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July 18, 2025

Integrating MLLs into STEM

Per our next guest on the podcast, MLL/STEM specialist Darlyne de Haan, there are over 900K high school MLL students in the USA - a large number of these students living in poverty (2014). While Algebra and other STEM classes can catapult students into lucrative STEM careers, still, only a…

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July 18, 2025

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How Should You Dress as A Teacher? Watch This Video! Dress codes are not going away any time soon. Research indicates that how teachers dress impacts the perception that others have of their professionalism. Teachers don't just work with children but adults, too! At the same time, dress codes can…

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July 4, 2025

Is AI Hijacking Our Students’ Minds?

In this compelling video episode of the Have a Life Teaching Podcast, I sit down with AI strategist Kaylene P. Jones and cyber risk expert Robin Carolissen to unpack how the rise of AI and digital devices is rewiring the way students think, feel, and behave. We explore: The biggest…

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March 7, 2025

How to Teach the Hard Present - Election Processes (Jeremy Kaplan)

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March 7, 2025

How to Teach Students About Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship (Tevan Asaturi)

Increasingly, financial literacy standards are being adopted across school districts and states. Join me and my guest Tevan Asaturi, Founder and CEO of Money Mastery University, as we discuss the need to teach financial literacy across K-16 - particularly in middle school, high school, and beyond - both as a…

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March 7, 2025

How to Coach Teachers and School Leaders as an External Consultant (Gene Tavernetti)

There are times when school systems need to rely on external support to improve instruction and student outcomes. While external consultants often bring a wealth of knowledge and experience in what works in schools, it can be difficult to gain the trust of educators in that many educators are suspicious…

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March 7, 2025

The Four Building Blocks of Teaching (Gretchen Bridgers)

Join me and my guest Gretchen Bridgers and I as we discuss her latest book - Always a Lesson. In it, and in our conversation, Gretchen discusses the four building blocks of teaching that must be considered, in order, for teaching to be successful. These blocks, or'bricks", include lesson design,…

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March 7, 2025

Designing Assessments in Five Steps (Nicole Dimich)

Assessment of student learning is critical if we are to get a true sense of what students know and can do before, during, and after teaching. Join me and my next guest, Nicole Dimich, as we discuss her book - Design in Five. We discuss five steps for creating more…

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March 7, 2025

Using Questioning to Maximize Student Engagement (Erik Francis)

In this episode, I am joined by Erik Francis, author of the new book Inquiring Minds Want to Learn. In our conversation, we discuss not only how to use questioning as a form of assessment but, perhaps more importantly, as a tool for maximizing student interest and engagement in learning.…

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March 7, 2025

Teaching the Hard Present Like Politics (Jeremy Kaplan)

Given the contentious nature of this election season and the accompanying polarization, humanities teachers could be forgiven for not wanting to teach the election process. Yet, if we onlt teach the past, including hard pasts like slavery, then we never prepare students for the hard present which can help them…

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March 7, 2025

Helping Children Process Grief (Lindsay Schambach)

Did you know that November is Children's Grief Awareness Month? Or, that 1/12 U.S. children will experience the death of a parent or sibling by age 18? Grief is a normal part of life, and schools must find ways to support students experiencing it. Join my next guest - Lindsay…

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March 7, 2025

Planning for the Unexpected in Schools (Geri Parscale and Darcy Kraus)

Did you know that two out of every three students will experience a traumatic event before they reach the age of 16? Trying to be clearheaded during a crisis is difficult. As such, schools must therefore be prepared to address the unexpected before the unexpected happens. But how to prepare…

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March 7, 2025

Using Historical Objects in Your Teaching (Leslie Hayes)

In this episode, we are joined by Leslie Hayes, Vice-President of Education at the New York Historical Society. Hayes discusses how even the simplest item - a Dunkin Doughnuts Coffee Cup for example - can unleash deep and engaging student conversation on what everyday items tell us about the cultures…

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March 7, 2025

What Makes a Great City School (Tracey Quarles and Michael Casserly)

Urban schools are vitially important for ensuring the strength of our overall economy as well as the growth of democracy says Michael Casserly, former executive director and current senior consultant of the Council of Great City Schools, on this week's podcast. On this episode, Casserly discusses his new book -…

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March 7, 2025

What Defines School Leadership in the 21st Century (David Gaston)

Leadership within 21st Century schools should be different from what those of us in Generation X or before experienced of our school leaders says my next podcast guest, David Gaston. Gaston is founder and CEO of Gaston Educational Consulting LLC and a former district superintendent in Charles City, Virginia. He…

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March 7, 2025

Assessing Learning through Digital Projects (John Arthur)

In this episode, we chat with John Arthur, former Utah teacher of the year, current 6th grade teacher in Salt Lake City, and author of the new book "The Digital Projects Playbook." Join us here as we discuss not only the benefits of project based learning, a topic we also…

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March 7, 2025

How Teachers Can Use Research to Improve Their Teaching (Nathaniel Hansford)

Knowing research can help us to determine if what others may be telling us to do in our teaching is in the best interest of us and our students. So says, Nathaniel Hansford, a teacher in Canada and author of the book "The Scientific Principles of Teaching", In this episode,…

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March 7, 2025

How and Why to Teach the Holocaust in the 21st Century (Dahme, Modigliani, Clark, Pawlowski)

How and Why Still Teach the Holocaust? After all, it has been 80 years since the liberation of the concentration camps and end of WWII. Unfortunately, the answer to this question is very simple. Look at the world around us where hate and prejudice continue to thrive. As such, I…

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March 7, 2025

Increasing Math Discussion in Early Primary Classrooms (Chepina Rumsey and Jody Guarino)

Too often, we think of early primary learners as empty recepticles to be filled. However, this is when creativity and ingenuity is most unfettered and/or non self-conscious. How then can we draw out what early primary students already know and think about Math? How might we get students to make…

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