The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast

257: Bringing Joy into Our Schools: A Conversation with Gholdy Muhammad

256: Community Supplies in the Classroom: Clearing Up the Confusion

255: Before You Decorate Your Classroom, Here's a Better Idea

254: Dusting Off an Old Practice to Make Reading Fun Again

EduTip 32: Don't put kids in Charlie Bucket situations.

253: Fully Seen and Fully Known: Teaching that Affirms Disability

EduTip 31: Be the first dork.

252: Where Discipline Reform Has Gone Wrong (in Some Schools)

EduTip 30: Do something after formative assessments.

251: Holding Students Accountable in the Age of AI

EduTip 29: Build relationships with a spreadsheet.

250: Nine Easy Ways to Add Retrieval to Your Lessons

249: A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning

248: Why grammar instruction stinks, and how we can change that

EduTip 28: Add gestures to strengthen learning.

247: Five Listening Skills That Will Improve All of Your Relationships

EduTip 27: Get Better Participation with Icons

246: How to Keep Teaching Well When DEI is Under Attack

245: A System for Meeting Absent Students' Needs

EduTip 26: Give lots of quizzes.

244: Three Ways You May Be Cognitively Overloading Your Students

EduTip 25: Use neutral language to keep things cool.

243: Small Changes to Make Your Classroom More Neurodiversity-Affirming

EduTip 24: Use "I" statements to promote your teaching ideas.

242: How to Do a Close Reading Lesson in Any Subject Area

EduTip 23: Calm an out-of-control class with a notebook.

241: Six Tech Tools to Try in 2025

240: When Your Classroom Management Goes Off the Rails

239: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Multitasking in School

238: How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom

237: Curating a More Inclusive Library

236: Five Conditions for Getting Formative Assessment Right

235: Making School Better for Gender-Expansive Kids

234: Four Fun Classroom Games to Add to Your Toolbox

233: Meeting the Core Human Needs of a Teacher

232: How Metacognition Can Optimize Learning

231: Teaching Executive Functions to All Students

Summer 2024 Update: What I'm Working On Over the Break

230: What is a Semantic Pulse Survey, and Why Should You Try it?

229: Not Just for Math: A Tiered System of Learning Supports for Any Subject

228: A Conversation About School Choice

227: Two Effective Ways to Teach Annotation

226: Yes, Your School Librarian Can Do That (and More)

225: Two Programs with Fresh Solutions to the Teacher Shortage

224: Some Thoughts on Teachers Crying in the Classroom

223: Why Students Give You the Blank Stare, and What to Do About It

222: Building Better Collaboration Between Families and Schools

221: The Photography Project That Showed Teachers Through a New Lens

220: What do we do about standardized tests?

219: Eight Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2024