Brave New Teaching: A Podcast for High School and Middle School Teachers

As teachers, we all know what happens when it starts getting warm outside. You’ve reached that point in the year where classroom management starts to get a little dicey. Yes, this always happens befo…

One of the most frequently asked questions that we get from you is some version of, “what books do you suggest using?”. Well, you asked and we listened! Today, we have our top recommendations of book…

Are you ready to nerd out with us today on argument and rhetoric? I hope so, because we are really digging in! We’re discussing the potential for viewing poetry as an argument, and looking at poetry …

We love hearing from you about which topics would be helpful for us to cover on the podcast! A recent popular request is the topic of classroom management. So today, Marie is sharing her 3 C’s of beh…

It’s me, Marie, and I’m solo-hosting today’s episode! Today I’m telling you a story that I think you’ll appreciate as teachers. It’s a story of how I made a little oopsie and broke my students’ brain…

It's time for unpopular opinions part two! We love producing a mix of niche content as well as teacher life, and we’re excited to share the latter today! If you haven’t listened to part one, head to …

What’s March without March Madness, right? Well my friends, it’s time for not just March Madness, but Poetry March Madness! This is Amanda coming at you solo this week, and I am going to walk you thr…

If you read the title of this episode, you may or may not know what this episode is about or if you want to listen! We say this because most people have different definitions of what text pairings an…

A lot of the feedback we get about Shakespeare-related content is that you feel like it’s just too much. It feels hard, and you don’t want to do it. We totally get that, and we’ve been there. But tha…

Are you ready to nerd out with us? Today’s episode will be focused on one of our favorite topics, Shakespeare. We’ve done multiple episodes on Shakespeare, so it’s safe to say that we’re obsessed! Th…

Today is part two of our episodes focused on what to do when our kids don’t read at home. If you missed last week’s episode, you’re going to want to head over to episode 85 and listen to that one fir…

If your students aren't reading their novels at home, the first thing you need to do is take a deep breath. The second thing is to remember that in a unit of study, there are so many things for kids …

This episode will be a continuation of last week’s episode where we had Jolene Heinemann join us as a guest to talk about choice reading. Choice reading is so important because it truly helps compart…

Observing fellow teachers is so beneficial and such a great way to collect new and inspiring ideas to take back to your classroom. Amanda was able to do this recently when she went into the classroom…

Have you seen those “unpopular opinion” posts all over social media lately? There are so many different topics people have been sharing so we decided to get your feedback on your unpopular opinions a…

We’re kicking off season four with one of the topics that we get the most requests for, and that is all things related to essential questions. You want to know how to best write them and use them, so…

Today's episode is a re-run of one of our favorites. Grab your pen and paper because you may want to take notes on the magic that happens in this episode. We’re doing a LIVE essential question worksh…

2021 is coming to a close and it's the perfect time to share our top 9 from this year. We're listing our 3 favorite things that we have in common as well as each of our favorite book, resource, and r…