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
Deepening Learning With The 4 Question Method
Drew Perkins talks with Jon Basset and Gary Shiffman about their 4 Question Method, and accompanying book, to engage students in deeper learning of history and social studies.
The Role Of Tutoring In Bridging Learning Gaps
Drew Perkins talks with Max Roach, founder of the JonAyves Learning Club, about tutoring and bridging the learning gap for children’s education post-pandemic.
How SEL For Teachers Could Help With Burnout
Drew Perkins talks with Lorea Martinez about her newly developed professional development, Growing Your HEART Skills, to help build SEL skills in educator adults.
Making Americans: Immigrant Education
Drew Perkins talks with teacher and author, Jessica Lander, about her new book, Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education.
Improving Teacher Learning
Drew Perkins talks with Stacey Alicea and Heather Hill of RPPL The Research Partnership for Professional Learning) about their research brief, Building Better PL: How to Strengthen Teacher Learning…
Differentiated Mentoring and Coaching
Drew Perkins talks with Vicki Collet about her new book, Differentiated Mentoring and Coaching in Education.
A Pro-Human Approach To Tolerance And Racism In Education
Drew Perkins talks with Dana Stangel-Plowe and Kobi Nelson about the pro-human approach of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism.
'Reading Wars' Panel Discussion
Drew Perkins talks with Emily Hanford, Natalie Wexler, Micki Ray, and Kate Winn in this first ever TeachThought Podcast Live! panel discussion on the 'Reading Wars'.Our panelists:
Exploring Culturally Responsive Teaching
Drew Perkins talks with Danielle Ross, educator and co-author of Culture to the Max! Culturally Responsive Teaching and Practice.
Educational Leadership In Trying Times
Drew Perkins talks with Ronn Nozoe, Chief Executive Officer of NASSP, about leading and learning as we emerge from the past few years of turmoil in our country.
How Teaching And Learning Happens
Drew Perkins talks with Paul Kirschner about the roles of explicit instruction and inquiry in the context of cognitive science and his recent (co-authored) books, How Teaching Happens and How Learnin…
Improving Healthy Emotional Processing
Drew Perkins talks with Nadine Levitt, founder of Emotion Wonderland, about her work to help students build emotional intelligence.
Restarting The Engines Of Quality Teaching
Drew Perkins talks with Lynette Guastaferro, CEO of Teaching Matters, about supporting teachers facing a growing set of significant and multiple challenges.
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How The Culture Wars Are Reshaping Literature Teaching
Drew Perkins talks with Deborah Appleman, author of Literature and the New Culture Wars: Triggers, Cancel Culture, and the Teacher’s Dilemma.
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Adaptable And Practical Teaching Strategies
Drew Perkins talks with Jonathan Davis and Maureen Connelly about their new book, the first in a series, titled Adaptable Teaching: 30 Practical Strategies for All School Contexts.
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Reporting The Reading Wars
Drew Perkins talks with Mandy McLaren, investigative reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal, about her 5 piece report, Between The Lines: An Investigation Into Why Kentucky's Kids Can't Read.
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PBL Or Direct/Explicit Instruction, What Works?
Drew Perkins talks with Zach Groshell, instructional coach and podcast host, about project-based learning and direct/explicit instruction and the importance of doing what works to help students learn…
"Sprinkling Magic" To Engage Students
Drew Perkins talks with CJ Reynolds about his book, TTeach Your Class Off: The Real Rap Guide to Teaching.
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Innovating Through Thematic Project-Based Learning
Drew Perkins talks with Paul Romani, co-founder of Pear Tree Education and School, about their progressive education model and school.
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Creating A Critical Thinking Curriculum
Drew Perkins talks with Will Reusch and Zach Cresswell about the Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines curriculum they've created and are piloting with funding through Heterodox Academy.
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