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
#92: Quizizz - Say Goodbye to Worksheets and Crosswords
Jon Corippo @jcorippo talks about one of his favorite tools, Quizizz. He shares how you can use this tool to teach vocabulary and save time for other things!
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#91 16 Things They Don't Tell You About Teaching
There are some things people don't tell you about teaching that I wish teachers could know. Here you go!
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#90 5 Ideas to Build Your Personal Brand This Summer
Every teacher has a brand. Hear five ideas for developing your personal brand from host, Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher based on how she's built her brand for the last eleven years.
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#89 Alan November Shares A Mind Blowing New Idea in Assessment
Alan November @globalearner shares an assessment idea that is gaining steam. First discovered at Harvard, it is making inroads in middle and high schools around the country. In today's tThoughtLeader…
#88 Promoting Academic Discourse in the ESL Classroom
Greetzel Mojica @Mojica_CJUSD talks about how she teaches academic discourse in her sixth grade classroom. Using a recent project on volcanoes as a backdrop, we do a deep dive into how Greetzel empow…
#85 5 Fantastic Peer Feedback Strategies for Your Classroom
Starr Sackstein @MsSacckstein shares 5 strategies for empowering peer review in the classroom. She also is hosting a giveaway contest with her book on assessment.
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#84 Helping Kids in Poverty Succeed
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach @snbeach talks about how to help kids in poverty succeed. We'll also be hosting a giveaway contest with a course on this topic along with 11 other courses.
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#83 App Smashing with Kindergarteners
Carrie Willis @carriewillis18 talks about how kindergarteners in her STEAM lab use their iPads. They use SeeSaw portfolios, green screen videos, and more. She also talks about what the students do an…
#82 iPads in Kindergarten: Creating, Innovating and Learning
Caitlin Arakawa @caitlin_arakawa talks about her first year using iPads in her kindergarten classroom. She shares her mistakes and what she learned. She also give us her favorite hack for making a so…
#81 Learning First, Technology Second #motivationmonday
Liz Kolb @lkolb talks about how we can put learning first and a very important reason technology should be second. C
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#80 5 Ways to Adjust Teaching to How the Brain Learns
Ramona Persaud, director of the film, Grey Matters, talks about how we can teach kids the way the brain learns.
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#79 Building Your School and Personal Brand
Learn the basics for building your school and personal brand from Trish Rubin, co-author of BrandED. Enter the book giveaway on the show notes blog at www.coolcatteacher.com/e79 about 5 hours after t…
#78 A Stress Free Plan for Closing Out Your Classroom
Angela Watson teaches us a stress-free plan for closing out your classroom. See also her 5 Summer Secrets for a Stress free Fall video series - http://cctea.ch/40HW-summer.
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#77 Breakout EDU Digital is Awesome (and Free) #edtech #breakoutedu
Mari Venturino @MsVenturino talks about breakout edu digital for edtech tool Tuesday. These challenges are free! (And perfect activities for team building at the end of the school year.) Learn about …
#76 Understanding the Heart of Dyslexia and Special Needs #MondayMotivation
Melissa Raguet-Schofield @cloth_mother is a Mom of a dyslexic. Today, we travel into the heart of a Mom of a child who struggles. What better motivation can we have as teachers than to empathize with…
#75 5 Essential Questions of Life with Dean James Ryan
Dean James Ryan @deanjimryan, the eleventh Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education gave a speech at graduation that went viral. It is the topic of his book "Wait, What?" and today's conversa…
#74 How Do We Make Homework Worth the Time?
Matt Miller @jmattmiller author of the upcoming book "Ditch that Homework" talks about homework. What does the research say? What is the one area that "homework" helps? Can homework be better? Let's …
#73 Paul Solarz' Student Centered Classroom
Paul Solarz @PaulSolarz has a student-centered classroom. His students do just about everything. No, he's not lazy! The students have purpose and meaning. And Paul is free to just teach! Paul is the …