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. 185 Presenting Content To Students In A World Of Biased Media
Drew Perkins talks with Dan Cogan-Drew and Matthew Gross of Newsela about the challenges and their processes in providing balanced and non-biased content for teachers and students.
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Ep. 184 Nurturing Curiosity And Inquiry In Academia
Drew Perkins talks with Megan Gafford, adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Denver, about how she engages teaching, writing, and art through inquiry and curiosity on some of the most contr…
Ep. 183 Developing Kindness, Character And Honesty In Today's Learners
The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 183 Developing Kindness, Character And Honesty In Today's Learners
Drew Perkins talks with Houston Kraft about his work with Character Strong to develop SEL skills in stu…
Ep. 182 Using The Element Of Surprise In Feedback To Build A Growth Mindset
Drew Perkins talks with Dr. Michael Rousell about his research and work with using feedback that includes the element of surprise to help stimulate more of a growth mindset.
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Ep. 181 What Video Content Should Children Be Exposed To?
Drew Perkins talks with Brenda Bisner, Senior Vice-President of Content at Kidoodle.TV, about her work to provide safe video streaming content.
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Ep. 180 Rethinking Academic Credits For Digital Natives
Drew Perkins talks with Nadav Zeimer about his idea to offer digital natives a set crowdsourced standards and academic credits.
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Ep. 179 Lesson Study And Growing A Culture Of Teaching And Learning
Drew Perkins talks with Vicki Collet about her new book and how the process of Lesson Study can improve the culture of teaching and learning.
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Ep. 178 Can We Improve Public Discussion Through Letter Writing?
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How Educators Can Help People Have Impossible Conversations
Drew Perkins talks with James Lindsay about his new book with Peter Boghossian, How To Have Impossible Conversations, social justice, and critical race theory.
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Ep. 176 How PBL Works At The University Level
Drew Perkins talks with Kris Wobbe and Mia Dubosarsky from Worcester Polytechnic Institute about how they use PBL and STEM to help prepare their students at the post-secondary level in addition to pr…
Ep. 175 Are Good Intentions But Bad Ideas Growing Fragile Students?
Drew Perkins talks with Jonathan Haidt, Social Psychologist, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business, and author about his most recent book with Greg Lukiano…
Ep. 174 How Might We Build A Better Transcript?
Drew Perkins talks with Ben Rein, Senior Director of Outreach and Partnerships at Mastery Transcript Consortium, about their work to remake the transcript into a more useful and meaningful tool for s…
Ep. 173 How Can We Prepare Teachers For Deeper Learning?
Drew Perkins talks with Maria Hyler of the Learning Policy Institute about their new book and research on preparing teachers to shift their teaching to support deeper learning.
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Ep. 172 The Complexity Of Shortcomings In Education
Drew Perkins talks with Glenn Loury, economist, academic, author, and professor at Brown University, to get his thinking on education topics like school choice and competition and social justice issu…
Ep. 171 Inspiring Collective Action In Students Around Economic Challenges
Drew Perkins talks with Hilary Allen, Senior Associate at Net Impact and Community Manager of the Up To Us Competition, about their work to help inspire college students to take collective action aro…
Ep. 170 The Theory Of Enchantment And Connecting To Humans
Drew Perkins talks with Chloé Valdary about her Theory of Enchantment work and how it might help answer this question: What is the psychology of connection and can we use that psychology to heal and …
Ep. 169 Revisiting Mindfulness, Meditation, Awareness
Drew Perkins talks with Susan Kaiser Greenland about how mindfulness, meditation, and awareness can help students be more successful learners.
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Ep. 168 PBL Reflections With 3 Middle School Teachers
Drew Perkins talks with three teachers from The Berkeley School, Vanessa DeNino, Tanya Madrid-Campbell, and Jeff Sandler, about their experience and reflections from a recent project-based learning u…
Ep. 167 Why "Anti-Bullying" Is A Problem And What Works Better
Drew Perkins talks with school psychologist Izzy Kalman about his work to help bullied kids better deal with their aggressors and why the "anti-bullying" movement is not helping.
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Ep. 166 Deeper Learning Of Math Concepts Through Social Constructivism
Drew Perkins talks with Jennifer Chang Wathall about her concept-based curriculum and instruction and book and how we can use social constructivist teaching to teach math for deeper learning. *note -…