The ThoughtStretchers Podcast
Heterodox conversations to stretch your thinking about important issues in education.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 60 minutes
- Episodes
- 425
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Ep. 205 Pedagogical Takeaways From Teaching Autistic Students
Drew Perkins talks with Caitlin Sweetapple, Director of Education at Shrub Oak International School, about teaching and learning with autistic students and what regular education teachers might learn…
Ep. 204 Inquiry, Questions, And Street Epistemology
Drew Perkins talks with Reid Nicewonder about his street epistemology work, inquiry, and questioning.
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Ep. 203 New Virtual Education Resources Available from The White House Historical Association
Drew Perkins talks with Colleen Shogan, Senior Vice President and Director of the David M. Rubenstein Center, about their online digital educational resources for teachers and how they might be help…
Ep. 202 What If We Had A Domestic Student Exchange Program?
Drew Perkins talks with David McCullough about his startup project called The American Exchange Project which aims to help American high school students better understand and empathize with people an…
Ep. 201 The Importance Of Critical Thinking In Navigating The Modern World
Drew Perkins talks with Colin Seale about his new book, Thinking Like a Lawyer: A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students, and the importance of critical thinking to the success of l…
Ep. 200 Teaching With Tech In Coronavirus Times (And Beyond)
Drew Perkins talks with Sarah Gilmore and Katierose Deos of Intechgrate and authors of a new book "Integrating Technology: A School-Wide Framework to Enhance Learning" about effective use of technolo…
Ep. 199 The Intricacies Of Teaching Through Robotics And Coding
Drew Perkins talks with Rikke Paaskesen from KUBO Robotics about the use of robots, robotics, and coding to teach STEM and critical thinking skills.
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Ep. 198 The News Literacy Project
Drew Perkins talks with Suzannah Gonzales and John Silva from the News Literacy Project about their work to empower educators to teach students the skills they need to become smart, active consumers …
Ep. 197 Are We Teaching Reading Wrong By Omitting Knowledge?
Drew Perkins talks with Natalie Wexler about her new book, The Knowledge Gap, which examines what elementary literacy instruction currently looks like, how it evolved to this point — and how it can b…
Ep. 196 Modernizing Our Math Programs
Drew Perkins talks with Kathleen Almy about making our math programs better serve students as they transition from k12 to college and career.
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Ep. 195 Using An All-Feedback-No-Grades Approach To Teaching
The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 195 Using An All-Feedback-No-Grades Approach To Teaching
Drew Perkins talks with Laura Gibbs about her all-feedback-no-grades approach in her teaching.
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Ep. 194 Coming of Age As A Student in Black and White America
Drew Perkins talks with Veda Pendleton about her book which details her journey as a black student from Arkansas attending a primarily white prep school in New England.
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193 Myths We Use To Improve Education
Drew Perkins talks with Jennifer Borgioli Binis about myths and inaccuracies espoused by prominent education voices in pursuit of progress.
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Ep. 192 Using Inquiry To Unpack Charged Topics Like The Holocaust
Drew Perkins talks with Melissa Mott and Tyrone Shaw about Echoes and Reflections and the use of inquiry to teach emotionally and politically charged topics like the Holocaust and social justice issu…
=Ep. 191 Is Critical Thinking A Nonsense Concept?
Drew Perkins talks with Daniel Buck about his recent Areo magazine article titled "Critical Thinking is Nothing Without Knowledge" and how an inquiry-based approach squares with that.
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Ep. 190 Growing Engaged Citizens With Healthy Skepticism Of The News
Drew Perkins talks with Jane Nussbaum, Executive Editor at Junior Scholastic, about healthy skepticism of the news in service of engaged citizenship.
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Ep. 189 Is Our Culture Limiting Females in STEM?
Drew Perkins talks with Chrissy Newell about her work to help promote opportunities for girls and women in STEM.
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Ep. 188 What Might We Learn From Schools Around The World?
Drew Perkins talks with Teru Clavel about her book, World Class: One Mother's Journey Halfway Around the Globe in Search of the Best Education for Her Children.
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Ep. 187 Making Math More Accessible
Drew Perkins talks with Robert Kaplinsky about math teaching and learning and how he thinks about making it more accessible.
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Ep. 186 Are Some Well-Intentioned Anti-Racism Efforts Actually Hurting The Cause?
Drew Perkins talks with Steven Wilson, founder and former CEO of Ascent Charter Schools, about his work and concerns about some anti-racist efforts that might be counter-productive to our shared miss…