Teachers, in their ongoing work, must reconcile their roles, histories, communities, and identities. This may be of even greater relevance as we approach the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation…
It’s 2021 – what’s news with you? Maggie Macintosh knows! The Free Press Education reporter talks with me about the relationship between reporter and subjects, what people are interested in reading a…
This conversation with Michael Fullan packs a lot of big ideas relating to the nature and necessity of change (post-COVID and in general) and the role of technology going forward.
I reach Rebecca from her home (which is not a school but is a place of learning) to talk about her switch from working in the public school system to home schooling. There's lots of talk about what t…
We're back! Who better to join me than Ellen Bees, middle school teacher and Queen of Data on EduTwitter. We talk about the pandemic (how could we not?), classrooms of the past, present, and future, …
President of the Manitoba Teachers Society James Bedford talks with me about the recent WE scandal, the presence of WE in schools, the 2017 MTS decision to not support WE, and what all that means for…
Tara has a great Youtube channel, and you should all check that out! As that loads, you can listen to this! I talk to Tara McLauchlan about graphic novels, what high school literacy can or should loo…
In a digital conversation, as is the way things go now, Michelle Arnaud talks with me about her experiences teaching in the inner-city, teaching Indigenous perspectives, what remote teaching looks li…
As we come to the end of the year, I chat with Jen Watt on the occasion of her podcast, Schools of Well-Being. She talks with me about what wellness, well-being, and well-making might look like in th…
Graphic novelist and former teacher Gene Luen Yang talks with me James Naismith and Historica Moments, finding your footing in your first years as a teacher, a pivotal moment that shifted his teachin…
It is a fact that I was trying to find someone who teaches phys. ed to come on the podcast for a long time. Between not knowing a lot of gym people and gym people being busy…it took awhile. But here …
I had two reasons to talk to Tim Callahan. First, he wrote about his Five Core Principles of Virtual Learning: something we ought to be thinking about as digital teaching seems like it might be aroun…
In this episode, Joel Westheimer joins me to talk about what education means in pandemic times, citizenship, assessment and standardization - you know, all the fun stuff.
As we start wondering what school needs to look like and how we can get there, I speak with Didier Jourdan, holder of the UNESCO chair and WHO collaborating center for Global Health & Education, and …
In another episode recorded back when things were normal, I talk with Marika Schalla! She tells her story of becoming a teacher, and in doing so, shares many lessons for how teachers can support thei…
I talk with Geoff Krall about active caring his role as a coach, the context for teachers where he is, active caring remotely and otherwise, best remote math practices (if such a thing exists), and w…
Remember life three months ago? What a simpler time! You might wonder why we don't talk about the anxiety of living in a pandemic. Take a stroll with me back in time to what was approximately the 100…