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

Look, we’re not going to sugarcoat it.  Your first few years of teaching are TOUGH. It’s the beginning of a new career and it takes some time to find your footing. Don’t even get us started on the co…

Well hey there podcast besties! It’s been a hot minute, but we are back in action for season three and could not be more excited! Lately we’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be brave. As …

In this week's episode, we take a look back at the first year of Brave New Teaching & reflect a bit as we move forward to the end of this school year. We've learned, grown, and changed in surprising …

This week's episode is a walk-through of the absolute best formative assessment you'll ever give your students. It asks students to synthesize their understanding of content, explain that understandi…

This week's episode takes more of our listener questions - this time about grading, the most enticing of all education topics - and answers them with philosophies, routines, and practices we employ i…

This week's episode answers some listener questions about curriculum planning, specifically backwards planning. Here are some of our best tips, strategies, and habits to make backwards planning succe…

This week we have another unit recap, this time from Marie, talking through her unit where she teaches two Shakespeare plays... and not just any two plays - Hamlet & Macbeth! In one unit. Over the co…

We are back at it with another episode about Shakespeare, and this time we talk through some of the most commonly taught plays and the essential questions we explore when we teach them in our own cla…

This week's episode is a re-run of one of our most-listened-to episodes - #16 "To Find Supplemental Texts." We've had so many conversations with colleagues and fellow teachers lately about how so muc…

This week marks nearly one year to the day that lockdown from the COVID-19 virus began. On this episode, we hear from educators from all over about what they wish their communities, school boards, fa…

This week Amanda had the pleasure of interviewing Betsy Potash from Spark Creativity. Their conversation centers on hexagonal thinking, and you'll want a pen and notepad handy for this one - so many …

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This week's episode is all about the Bard! We took listener questions about Shakespeare - planning, teaching, assessing, and more - and answered them in the nerdiest teacher way we could! PLUS a big …

This week on the podcast, Marie is sharing her 3 best secrets for creating a unique culture and community among each class of students we have - EVEN THROUGH VIRTUAL LEARNING! Enjoy!

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This week's episode tackles the two big grading myths we teachers believe, and it gives you some great tips and strategies along the way for saving your time and energy. Grab a notebook and a pen, be…

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Today, we bring you yet another exciting COLLABISODE with liste…

It's time for another episode in our series celebrating diverse voices - in celebration of Black History Month starting February 1, we have some author suggestions and teaching ideas for bringing you…

You asked and we delivered! These are a few of our favorite things - from tried and true weeknight dinners to our favorite novels to teach to seniors... This is an eclectic bunch of tips and favorite…

This week we are all about pacing - not so much pacing a curricular calendar or even a unit, though... Let's talk about how to pace a single class period, from bell to bell.  Now, we can say goodbye …

Welcome to Season 2!!! We are so excited to continue this podcast with our AMAZING listeners and community! 

This week's episode is a timely one as we look ahead to the year that is just beginning, b…