10 Minute Teacher Podcast with Cool Cat Teacher
A teacher podcast for busy educators—about 10 minutes, every week. Stay current on artificial intelligence in education (plain English), edtech, and what matters in the classroom: culture, instruction, assessment, digital health and wellness, and more. Simple ideas you can use right away.
Hosted by AP Computer Science teacher Vicki Davis (Cool Cat Teacher)—author and longtime edtech blogger—this teaching podcast features best-selling teachers, researchers, and in-the-classroom administrators sharing practical strategies that connect with today’s students.
Follow the 10 Minute Teacher—the podcast for teachers and school leaders—for weekly, classroom-ready tips.
Show notes & resources: https://coolcatteacher.com/podcast
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 12 minutes
- Episodes
- 913
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
171 Purpose-Full Education #MotivationMonday
Dr. Amy Fast, author of It's the Mission, Not the Mandates, talks about how to regain the purpose of education in schools. From making your school mission move from the letterhead to what we do in sc…
170 5 Ways to Add Morning Meetings to Special Ed Classrooms
Dr. Felicia Durden shares methods behind having a powerful morning meeting in special education classrooms. From routine to celebrations, we talk about how to start the day well in special education …
169 Bullying and Cyberbullying: The Things You Need to Know
Anne Collier helps us understand the statistics on bullying and cyberbullying. We talk about targets, those who bully and how to respond when helping those embroiled in this situation
168 Making Google Masters for Kids of All Ages
Lee Ann Yonker helped start the #MiniGoogleMasters movement in her school in K-3rd grade, demonstrating littles can be tech savvy too! Now having moved to 5th grade, Mrs. Yonker is continuing her tec…
167 6 Tech Treasures for Special Ed Teachers (K-6) #edtech #spedchat
Special ed teacher Melissa Mann shares six of her favorite edtech tools for the special education classroom. From collecting data to parent communications to taking care of yourself, Melissa has some…
166 How to Make Your Teaching Something Special #SomethingSpecialEDU
Rushton Hurley, author of Making Your Teaching Something Special: 50 Ways to Become a Better Teacher, gives us ideas to build rapport, review for tests, and improve our teaching that will help us be …
165: 5 Things That Happen When We empower Students
AJ Juliani, author of Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning talks about the empowerment of students. How teachers can be the “guide on the ride” and help students find their passions…
#164 Leading Project Based Learning
Erin Murphy, the co-author of Hacking Project Based Learning, talks about leading project-based learning. She discusses principal-teacher relationships, evaluations, and common mistakes made in PBL i…
#163 Inventionland: A Transformational Design Course
Curriculum Specialist Mandi Figlioli is excited about her school’s adoption of the Inventionland design and protoyping course. Mandi talks about how the course is structured, gives a story of how stu…
#162 Minecraft in the classroom
Jeff Geargardt, uses Minecraft EDU to teach students lessons as he works with cross-disciplinary teaching. He’ll share a science lesson how he had students “living on Mars” in Minecraft. He’ll share …
#161 Motivating Ourselves to a More Epic Classroom
Trevor Muir crafts his classroom around a story. He uses the “hero’s journey” to make his classroom more epic. Enjoy!
Sponsor: Book Creator. Previously on the 10-Minute T…
#160 5 Ways to Integrate Mindfulness into the Classroom
Teacher Beth Maloney helps students set goals for behavior and other techniques that improve Social Emotional Learning and student success. Learn 5 tips for integrating mindfulness into your classroo…
#159 What Great Teachers Do
Global Teacher Prize finalist Joe Fatheree talks about what great teachers do. He shares his observations and also his hopes for improving the profession.
Sponsor: Kids D…
#158 Research Schools: What Are They and How Do They Work?
Aaron Marvel talks about research schools. Modeled like a “teaching hospital” - these schools have researchers and educators working hand-in-hand. Learn how they work, why more schools don’t use them…
#157 Top Tech Tools for Kids Who Struggle to Read and Write #spedchat
Dr. Brian Friedlander discusses the top tech tools for kids who struggle to read and write. From voice dictation to word suggestion and more, this podcast talks about the practical tools that will he…
#156 Leadership, Vision & Problem Solving in Education #MondayMotivation
Superintendent Dr. Baron Davis talks about involving the community, solving problems, handling stress, and casting a vision.
Sponsor: Kids Discover Online is hosting a …
#155 5 Ways to Flip Your Classroom
Keith “Hip” Hughes has a massive following on his YouTube channel http://youtube.com/hiphughes. Today, he shares his technique for flipping the classroom in engaging, powerful ways.
#154 Not “Just” a teacher
Briana Hodges @edutechtastic shares her story of finding her voice and how a mentor (Carl Hooker) encouraged her to speak and be more. You’ll never say “just a teacher” again.
#153 Integrating the Arts into EVERY Subject
The graphic, performing, and theater arts are powerful allies for math, writing, and every subject you teach. As 2007 State Teacher of the Year in Rhode Island, Catherine Davis-Hayes is passionate ab…
#152 Classroom Videos: How-to Tips and Tricks
Simply put, Tim Betts @mrbettsclass rocks YouTube history. As a certified YouTube educational channel, he’s one of those that history teachers will love! But he also teaches us how to do this with st…