Ed's Not Dead News! New season, new episode ready for you! Episode 1 of season 6 drops tomorrow, 1st thing in the AM! Season 6 starts strong with unpacking the teacher shortage, awkward quizzes, and a great discussion w/ Scott Joftus
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Peter Crable
Robert Dodd
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Mailbag Episode - Re-Upload!
New special episode! Listener Mailbag for the new year! Sorry if you're seeing this twice on your feed - fixing errors from initial post.
TAKE 2: Special Episode - Listener Mailbag!
TAKE 2: It's time for YOUR questions! We picked a whole boot load of questions that you had on your mind about education, schools, edpolicy, the super bowl, and more! Listen and enjoy AND happy new year! #snowmicron
Please Hang Up and Text Me (412)
Casey Siddons, Robby Dodd, and Peter Crable breakdown the implications for schools regarding Erica Dhawan's new piece: Why the hybrid workforce of the future depends on the geriatric millennial
Siddons then takes on the interview with Sebastian Turbot, who is the CEO and Chief Curator of eko6, a Canada-based consultancy that guides governments, cities, businesses and civil-society in creating engaging platforms that turn ideas into action.
Creating Learning Ecosystems with Gregg Behr (411)
For our 1st episode as a media partner with the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), we bring on Gregg Behr, who was recently featured on their panel for "How to Build a Learning Ecosystem (https://fb.watch/5oiyeDhZpj/).
Gregg is the founder and co-chair of Remake Learning and is also the author of "When You Wonder, You're Learning" Mister Rogers' Enduring Lessons for Raising Creative, Curious, Caring Kids (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306874733?tag=hacboogrosit-20)
Pandemic Pass - Edu Policy & Boards of Ed (107)
New Pandemic Pass episode is up! For the penultimate episode of the Pandemic Pass series, Siddons sit down with Lynne Harris, who is a newly elected board of education member in the 14th largest school district in the nation - Montgomery County Public Schools, right outside the DC Metro Area.
They talk about how boards of education could be rethinking education and what our local school systems should be prioritizing upon return to face to face instruction.
Education Policy IS Housing Policy - The Sequel (w/ Dan Reed) 408
New episode of Ed's Not Dead for your ears! The dudes discuss what to do re: guns on students' Zoom classroom? Where is the line between students' privacy, and the safety and well-being of others?
* We also talk w/ Dan Reed from www.justupthepike.com to talk about the impact of housing policy & zoning laws on education & the opportunity gaps that students face across the country.
Pandemic Pass - The Takeaway - Grading/Assessment/Equity w Joe Feldman (PART 2 - 106)
For this third part of The Takeaway, Casey chats with Joe Feldman, author of Grading for Equity. They discuss how grading practices impact the opportunity gaps that our students of color and our English language learners experience and what he hopes to see in terms of practices on grading and equitable outcomes and about what our schools should look like upon return.
Check out Joe's book:
https://www.amazon.com/Grading-Equity-Matters-Transform-Classrooms/dp/1506391575
Pandemic Pass - The Takeaway - Grading/Assessment/Equity w Rick Wormeli (PART 1 - 106)
For this next part of The Takeaway, part of the Pandemic Pass series, I bring in the incredible Rick Wormeli. This is Part 1 of 2 on this topic. Rick is the foremost voice on what it means to be an effective teacher, and my go to source for research and beliefs on grading and assessment. Rick takes us through what he hopes will be a major change to our school systems practices on grading and assessment, and what our schools will look like upon return. We also discuss how teachers must shift their thinking on teaching: relying on pedagogy over personality, and we chat about the ethical enterprise of what we do!
Elmore Forevermore (407)
New Episode of END is up! Pete, Robby, and Casey discuss the passing of the controversial education figure Richard Elmore who once said: "I do not believe in the institutional structure of public schooling anymore". Is this to be believed? https://t.co/ioIk5ltc58
This is intertwined with a piece by Valerie Strauss in the WAPO about how 2 cities in very different states handled the return to school: https://tinyurl.com/m53twsd9
We also welcome Dr. Daryl Howard and Phillip Yarbrough from the BOND Project (http://bondeducators.org) about how to diversify the teaching force!
Pandemic Pass - The Way Out PART 2 (104)
For part 2 of Episode 4 of #PandemicPass, I meet with one of our local state delegates, Jheanelle Wilkins. Jheanelle and I talk about how the state should respond - what legislation should be pursued next, the revolutionary and exciting Black Agenda from the first African American Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, Adrienne Jones, and what should states and localities be doing to attract and retain a more diverse teaching force.
Pandemic Pass - The Way Out - PART 1 (104)
New Episode of #PandemicPass! It's a a #ThreeParter! How exactly do we get out of this mess? Part 1 of Episode 4 of #PandemicPass is w/ Congressman Bobby Scott - Chair of the Ed and Labor committee in the HoR. The 30,000 foot view of how we recover. We talk the CARES Act, the impact on HBCUs, and what else Congress should be doing to help.
Pandemic Pass - Parents and COVID 103 (PART 2)
This is pt 2 of ep 3 of #PandemicPass, an Ed's Not Dead and Pulp Education production - Siddons chats with Dr. Umut Ozek, Principal Researcher with the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research Program at the American Institutes for Research. You can find him on Twitter @uozek
We talk about his experience as a parent - first hand in dealing with the pandemic at home with his own children and about how he views these challenges from his perspective as an immigration and education researcher.
Pandemic Pass - Students and COVID (102)
For episode 2 of Pandemic Pass, I talk to three college students and a high school student about their experiences - Adriana Quinonez, Lupe Lazaro, and Alexia Ferraro all of whom are freshmen at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. For the 2nd part, I speak with Nichele Washington, a senior at John F. Kennedy High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. For both parts, we discuss the challenges and the ups and downs of how this pandemic has impacted them and shaped their world views.
Pandemic Pass - Where are we now? (101)
Episode 1 seeks to determine our baseline - where are we now as an education system? Pandemic Pass host Casey Siddons sits down with Des Moines Iowa Public School superintendent, Dr. Thomas Ahart who has been at the helm of DMPS since 2012 and has provided exceptional leadership throughout the COVID19 crisis.
He was featured in the WAPO this past fall for his navigation of DMPS in a state governed by a close ally of the now former president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/09/08/iowa-schools-coronavirus-lawsuit/
Trailer - Welcome to Pandemic Pass (100)
New Side Pod Alert!
Join us for Pandemic Pass, a new side podcast by the Ed's Not Dead team. Casey Siddons looks for how education will emerge from the pandemic by talking to parents, teachers, students, ed policy makers, and politicians that will lead our way out of this crisis.
Siddons takes listeners to all corners of the US through interviews and discussions on what is most important to them.
Through his own experience as a classroom teacher, department chair, teacher coach, edu-blogger, and leader and teacher of teachers, Siddons attempts to dissect how public education is suffering under this pandemic, and what it will take to rebuild our public education system.
How Will Schools Return? (310)
