K-12 Greatest Hits: Your shortcut to what works in education
Kids & Family Podcasts
K12 Greatest Hits compiles the most popular conversations on BRN based on listener statistics and editors’ picks. Explore these collection to quickly locate the most compelling and helpful episodes on the topics you care about most. With over 5,000 discussions on BRN, K12 Greatest Hits is your shortcut to some of the best teaching strategies, school leadership practices, and innovative thinking in education — find what works, find it faster.
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K12 Greatest Hits compiles the most popular conversations on BRN based on listener statistics and editors’ picks. Explore these collection to quickly locate the most compelling and helpful episodes on the topics you care about most. With over 5,000 discussions on BRN, K12 Greatest Hits is your shortcut to some of the best teaching strategies, school leadership practices, and innovative thinking in education — find what works, find it faster.
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English
Episodes
Three Overlooked Reasons Why Teaching Is So Exhausting, Two Very Promising Solutions
2/20/2023
Why is teaching still so exhausting after more than two and half years of concentrated attention on teacher wellbeing? Despite the strategies and well-intended efforts, many teachers report being more emotionally and physically tired than ever. Our guests identify the often overlooked reasons and discuss why they are excited about two promising solutions.
Follow on Twitter: @ ClassTechTips @jmattmiller @Waldenkent @bamradionetwork @jonHarper70bd
Benjamin White is a teacher, writer, and...
Duration:00:19:20
Why Some Educators Are Convinced Artificial Intelligence Can Make Teaching Less Stressful
2/12/2023
Millions of schoolchildren walked into their classrooms at the start of the academic year missing one crucial element that should have set them up for success: the prior knowledge they needed to take on a new grade level. In search of answers, we asked education psychologists, technologists, and teachers how artificial intelligence help make learning recovery more effective and less stressful.
Follow on Twitter: @estclairsmith @mrzphd @jonharper70bd @bamradionetwork
Dr. Michelle Zimmerman...
Duration:00:05:07
Why ChatGPT Is Exciting, Scary and Requires Principals to Have Vision and Compassion
2/5/2023
We're hearing more about ChatGPT every day stoking a wide spectrum of emotions. Educators have many questions and principals have a pivotal role to play in helping faculty find answers and manage the impacts.
Follow on Twitter: @JamesBrauer @Eklundteaches @AllysonApsey @DrRachaelGeorge @bamradionetwork @jonHarper70bd
Dr. James Brauer is currently the Director of Graduate Studies and Instructor at Avila University’s School of Education. Previously, he was the founding school leader of Iowa...
Duration:00:25:06
ChatGPT Is Here, We’re Using It, It’s Amazing: 6 Creative Ways to Teach With It Right Now
1/28/2023
Innovative educators are embracing ChatGPT as a transformative tool that can improve teaching and learning, make creating interactive lesson plans more accessible, and unleash a whole new level of student, parent, and community engagement. In this discussion, teachers, tech coaches, and a school superintendent share specific ways they use ChatGPT.
Follow our PLN on Twitter: @KtBkr4, @bryanrbeal,@Mrnavas @Handsoncoding @Latinosincoding
@ideasforteacher @bamradionetwork @jonharper70bd
Kate...
Duration:00:13:36
What Works: 10 Ways To Get Our Students On Task and Back To Learning After the Holidays
1/21/2023
From elementary classrooms to high schools, getting students back to learning after the winter break requires additional attention, intention, and skill. In this discussion, I asked educators to share the most effective strategies they’ve found to reenergize their classrooms and get students back on task after the holidays.
Follow on Twitter: @JYooBrannon @5Silber @thezenteacher @mattwachel , @jonHarper70bd @bamradionetwork
Jennifer Yoo-Brannon is a teacher and instructional coach in El...
Duration:00:17:58
Practical Ways to Rise Above the Barriers to Unfinished Learning
1/11/2023
We can help students surpass the barriers to unfinished learning if we acknowledge the challenges and think differently about how we approach teaching and learning.
Follow our PLN on Twitter: @SarahDSparks @playyay @d4griffin3 @ideasforteacher @poweroficu @bamradionetwork @jonharper70bd
BreAnn Fennell is a 1st, 2nd, 3rd-grade looping teacher in Ashland, Ohio. She obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in education from Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. She is a Training and...
Duration:00:12:45
How Helping Students Get One Percent Better Accelerates Learning and Reduces Stress
1/3/2023
Our guests agree there are better ways to think about and help our students accelerate learning in the wake of the COVID Pandemic. They share their stories about using the one percent better principle, combined with celebrating small wins to reduce stress and increase learning.
Follow our PLN on Twitter: @FerraroOnAir @GaskellMGaskell @bamradionetwork @jonHarper70bd.
Erin Geary teaches high school English in New York. She researches the power of non-carceral classrooms and has an upcoming...
Duration:00:16:10
Holiday Buzz, Holiday Break: Balancing School Work and Holiday Traditions for All Students
12/19/2022
It’s that time of the school year when we have to balance the excitement of the holiday season, the various traditions of all our students, and the schoolwork we still need to get done.
Follow on Twitter: @LAMBradley @ideasforteacher @sgthomas1973 @bamradionetwork @jonHarper70bd.
Laura Bradley: After 30 years teaching middle school English, Design Lab and Broadcast Media, Lauara is now an Educational Technology Teacher on Special Assignment, supporting K-12 students and teachers in...
Duration:00:14:17
What Do You See When You Look at Education Through a Gratitude Lens?
12/4/2022
This week millions of teachers and school leaders will turn our attention to gratitude. In the spirit of the season, I’ve invited a group of educators to talk with me about what silver linings they see in education today that make them feel grateful.
Follow on Twitter: @LainieRowell @sgthomas1973 @5Silber @ideasforteacher @kylehamstra @bamradionetwork @jonHarper70bd
Lainie Rowell is an educator, international consultant, writer, podcaster, and TEDx speaker. She is the lead author of...
Duration:00:13:14
An Educator's Guide to What's Changing at Twitter Now That Elon Musk Owns the Platform That Connects Many Teachers and School Leaders
10/28/2022
Twitter chats sparked the connected educator movement and gave many educators support and a voice. But Twitter gave a megaphone to all voices and movements raising questions about free speech and the limits of what we should be able to say on social media. It turns out that free speech is not as free as many of us believe, and though we have the right to speak, we don’t have a right to be heard. These are two of several discoveries we found among our misunderstandings about our freedom to...
Duration:00:59:08
Why We’re Rethinking Student Engagement for the New School Year
9/7/2022
Though student engagement has always been essential to teaching and learning, the pandemic has impacted students in ways that raise questions about what it takes to engage students this term. In this episode, we invited a panel of educators to share their updated thinking on student engagement in a post-pandemic classroom.
Resources: Flipped Learning Global Initiative (FLGI)
Follow our PLN on Twitter: @AngelaMaiers @jaymctighe @curriculumblog @MsRandazzo @ideasforteacher @bamradionetwork...
Duration:00:19:17
Our Students Feel It Too: A Practical Guide to Creating a Calm Climate for Learning During Very Stressful Times
8/27/2022
A calm classroom with students on task is what we all want. In this discussion, two teachers, two psychologists, and a school superintendent unanimously agree that current events outside of the classroom are impacting our ability to reach and teach our students. What follows is a refreshingly honest and insightful discussion about what it takes to create a calm climate for learning during exceptionally stressful times. The result is a practical guide for every educator and school...
Duration:00:20:05
This Year, a Positive School Culture Is Everything: Here’s How an Entire School District Created One Step-by-Step
8/14/2022
Illinois’s largest elementary school district has an exceptionally positive school culture and the receipts to prove it. In this episode, we talk with the superintendent about the step-by-step process they used to build theirs, based on the Happiness Advantage. Stanford University researchers placed this school district in the top two percent of all schools in America in student growth.
Follow on Twitter: @sparvell @MicrosoftEDU @bamradionetwork @Jonharper70bd @drf4331 @Andy_DuRoss
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Duration:00:17:19
A Deeper Look at the Emotional Inner Life of Teaching: The 16 Emotions We’ve Overlooked
8/10/2022
The emerging emotional science is clear, we often oversimplify how we discuss the emotional experience of teaching and the emotional inner life of teachers. In this episode, we explore two models that reframe what we often simplistically label as burnout and offer a new lens for discussing what those of us who teach are experiencing right now and what we need as we look to the school year ahead.
Follow on Twitter: @JYooBrannon @kevinleichtman @bamradionetwork @jonHarper70bd
Dr. James L....
Duration:00:19:14
Four-Day School Weeks Are Coming Faster Than We Thought: What Do You Need to Know in Advance?
7/24/2022
The four-day school week is not new, but the speed at which schools are adopting the model is breathtaking. Largely driven by the difficulty in attracting and retaining teachers, school districts are making the leap at increasingly rapid rates. In this episode we ask, what do teachers and school leaders need to consider ahead of time to be prepared?
Follow on Twitter: @sgthomas1973 @bamradionetwork @jonharper70bd @DocSig @askpang
Dr. Robert Sigrist currently serves as the Assistant...
Duration:00:19:29
Two Teachers, a Lawyer and a Couple of Talk Show Hosts Walk Into a Bar, the Conversation Was...
4/30/2022
We invited the authors of three books written to teach us how to talk with people we disagree with on just about everything. Each shared with us their framework for navigating difficult discussions with difficult people in school, at work, and in life. This episode is the first in a series aimed and learning how to talk about those sensitive social, cultural, and civic issues we simply can’t ignore. This informed and candid discussion left us with a roadmap for the episodes ahead on...
Duration:00:37:20
When Student Behavior Disrupts Learning, and You’ve Done All You Know How to Do, Consider This….
4/19/2022
Across the nation, at all levels, educators are reporting a rise in troublesome student behaviors. The list of causes is wide and deep, but the first professionals expected to manage student behavior are classroom teachers. This episode takes an unvarnished look at the new genre of student behavior challenges and how some educators are handling them.
Follow on Twitter: @jaimedonally@JorgeDoesPBL @bamradionetwork @jonharper70bd @msdarasavage
Dara Laws Savage is a 26-year educator from the...
Duration:00:11:52
How Teachers Are Managing the Rapid Stream of Small (and Big) Decisions We Make Daily
3/12/2022
In this episode, we pause to examine the seemingly endless minor and high-stakes decisions that we need to make in our classrooms every day. Listen in as we identify ways to manage the decision fatigue that some feel.
Follow on Twitter: @katyfarber @Non_Toxic_Kids @dubioseducator @drchriscip @Jonharper70bd @bamradionetwork
Dr. Katy Farber is a classroom educator and writer from Vermont. She has written and co-authored several books about education, including Why Great Teachers Quit and How...
Duration:00:13:35
Navigating Sensitive Cultural, Social and Civc Discussions 101: Identify the Right People
2/5/2022
There’s so much we urgently need to talk about, mask mandates, transgender issues, race relations, growing incivility, threats to our democracy, but so little we can safely discuss in mixed company. Increasingly, what starts out as a cordial and benign conversation can get weird quickly. In this second episode, we talk about why the way we often manage difficult conversations is no longer sustainable and how to identify the right people with whom we can talk through the difficult cultural,...
Duration:00:17:41
Sustaining Emotional Energy and Resilience During an Extremely Tough School Year: What Works, What Doesn’t?
1/26/2022
As we all push through another exceptionally challenging school year, we pause to talk about proven ways to sustain our emotional energy and resilience. Join us as we separate what works from what doesn’t.
Follow on Twitter: @brightmorningtm @a_rebora @ascd @ILascd @MASCD @iowaASCD @TXASCD @ASCDConf @scASCD @bamradionetwork @jonharper70bd
Elena Aguilar, a widely known expert on instructional coaching, is the president of Bright Morning Consulting, a speaker and presenter, and the author of...
Duration:00:11:06