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
#72 Using Google Keep and Evernote to Collaborate and Organize
Crystal Koenig @Supermtvtr talks about Google Keep. She uses it to organize her students, clubs, and so many things. She'll share her tips and tricks and even when she decides to use Evernote instead…
#71 Energizing Yourself for Great Teaching #MondayMotivation
Take care of yourself, teachers. Today, Mark Eichenlaub @MarkWEichenlaub and I discuss a very important person in your classroom - YOU!
You'll find the show notes, transcript, and bio of our guest at…
#70 5 Simple Ways to Improve Physical Education w/ Edtech
Jarrod Robinson, the PE Geek, helps us learn how to use technology in physical education. Lots of fun ideas! Show notes will be available at www.coolcatteacher.com/e70 approximately 5 hours after th…
#69 Helping Kids Who Hate Math Learn It
Dan Meyer gives us tips and advice for helping kids who hate math learn to love it using his 3 Act Math approach. The show notes will go live at http://www.coolcatteacher.com/e69 approximately five h…
#68 Wonderful Word Problem Breakthroughs
Kitty Tripp shares a breakthrough she's had with helping her students solve word problems. Teach them to become a director! If you're preparing students to take a test or just teaching math, this is …
#67 Game Based Learning and Twine
Matt Farber talks about game-based learning in his classroom and a new tool he loves: Twine. We're also hosting a giveaway contest of his new book Game Based Learning version 2.
As Matt discusses Gam…
#66 How to Make it to the End of the School Year #MondayMotivation
Today I share a post I wrote several years a go that tends to be shared like crazy this time of year. I hope it encourages you to finish well. Here's the link to the blog post: http://www.coolcattea…
#65 5 Mistakes that Hurt Standardized Test Scores
Dr. Brad Johnson talks about the mistakes schools make that hurt their standardized test scores. You might be surprised that sometimes the things schools do may have the opposite impact of what they …
#64 Fast Problem Solving and Innovation with Hack Learning
Mark Barnes @markbarnes19 discusses a popular method of problem-solving: Hack Learning. Instead of a 5-year plan, this model helps educators improve on a daily and more short term basis. He gives exa…
#63 Teaching CyberSecurity to Empower Students and Schools to Be Safe
David Raymond is part of equipping Virginia high school students to defend themselves from cyber attacks. With knowledge in digital forensics and current technology, the Virginia Cyber Range is worki…
#62 Special Needs #edtech treasure chest with Jennifer Cronk
Jennifer Cronk helps us empower those with special needs. She shares her treasure chest of favorite edech tools for those with special needs. This show is a must-listen for special needs teachers.
I…
#61 Combatting Emotional Fatigue: A Teacher's occupational Hazard
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life" Mary Oliver. Joan Flaherty, the author of Rest and An Approach to Rejuvenating our Teaching and Ourselves, talks about how w…
#60 5 Easy Brain Breaks for Your Classroom
Want to help students learn and be more refreshed. Students need breaks too. That is why brain breaks are becoming so popular. Teacher Rob Donatelli @DTown_MrD talks about the Brain Breaks phenomenon…
#59 Tips for Successful Digital Parenting
How much time on devices is too long? Should kids put up their smartphones and talk to each other and parents sometimes? Are we using technology too much as parents?
Today, for Thought Leader Thursd…
#58 How the African STEP Dance Ignited Kids at Ron Clark Academy
African Step, based on the African Gumboot Dance, has an American version with a competition. Junior Bernadin @JBernadin is one of the STEP coaches at 3-time national champion winning Ron Clark Acade…
#57 Richard Byrne's Most Exciting #Edtech Tools
Richard Byrne @rmbyrne discusses the edtech tools he's most excited about today. From video tools, creation tools, to app creation, you'll hear about the tools and ideas that Richard is most excited …
#56 Motivating Special Needs Breakthroughs #mondaymotivation #spedchat
Empowering special needs students with technologies is one of the greatest ways to motivate and ignite their learning. Jennifer Cronk @jenniferacronk shares two tearful but joyful stories of people w…
#55 5 Things Every Digital Citizen Should Know with Alice Chen
Digital citizenship is a challenge. In today's episode, Alice Chen shares five things every student should know about digital citizenship.
A full transcript of this show and the show notes are availa…
#54 8 Tips for Classroom Procedures (in a Computer Lab)
Classroom management can be a challenge in any classroom. In this episode, I share my secrets and tips for managing my computer lab classroom. I hope it helps.
#53 Social Emotional Learning for Special Needs with Puppets #spedchat
Karen McCallum is a special ed elementary teacher in Alberta, Canda. She has specialized in special education and behavior support programming. Today she tells a heartwarming but powerful story about…