The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast
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The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast
Teaching strategies, classroom management, education reform, educational technology -- if it has something to do with teaching, we're talking about it. Jennifer Gonzalez interviews educators, students, administrators and parents about the psychological and social dynamics of school, trade secrets,...
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265: Growth Discourse: A Framework for Discussing Hard Topics with Students
We're living in a time when having a difference of opinion is a potential minefield of hurt feelings, emotional outbursts, and severed relationships....
264: How Schools Can Support Neurodivergent Teachers
Neurodivergent educators, like those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other forms of cognitive diversity, are essential voices in our schools. They br...
263: Five Skills that Get Students to Take Ownership of Their Learning
If we're doing our jobs right as educators, students will gradually become independent, self-directed learners capable of monitoring, directing, and a...
262: Three Fresh Strategies That Get Students Engaged With Texts
If your teaching requires students to read or work with texts, and things have gotten a little stale in the engagement department, this episode will g...
261: How and Why to Use Concept Maps
Concept maps are graphic organizers or visual representations of knowledge. They're simple, they're low-tech, and they're incredibly powerful tools fo...
260: Seven Teaching Practices that Nurture Student Voice
At a time when test-driven reform has quieted student voices and marginalized perspectives are being pushed aside, we need student voice and agency mo...
259: Making Project-Based Learning Accessible for Everyone
Project-based learning can be a powerful instructional framework, but it is often structured in ways that exclude students who need a different approa...
EduTip 33: Answer more questions with questions.
Answering student questions is faster in the moment, but redirecting is better in the long run. The next time a student asks you a question, pause bef...
258: The Power of Centering Student Exemplars
Sometimes the best instructional materials are sitting right in our classrooms. At a time when AI threatens to make human writing obsolete, using stud...
257: Bringing Joy into Our Schools: A Conversation with Gholdy Muhammad
We're living in troubling times. When you're surrounded by so much chaos and confusion, it can be hard to figure out where to put your focus and energ...
256: Community Supplies in the Classroom: Clearing Up the Confusion
The practice of collecting supplies and distributing them to all students over the school year has become a common practice in elementary schools. Unf...
255: Before You Decorate Your Classroom, Here's a Better Idea
If the thought of decorating your classroom fills you with anxiety, or if you're just ready to try something different, I have good stuff for you. In...
254: Dusting Off an Old Practice to Make Reading Fun Again
As a life-long reader, English teacher Dan Tricarico wanted to bring the love of reading to his high school students, but the constant, irresistible p...
EduTip 32: Don't put kids in Charlie Bucket situations.
Although most teachers understand that not all students have the same home life, sometimes we forget how big those differences can really be, and how...
253: Fully Seen and Fully Known: Teaching that Affirms Disability
Most special education efforts have focused on giving students with disabilities better access to the curriculum — but access alone isn't enough. In t...
EduTip 31: Be the first dork.
If you want to have the kind of classroom where students do more than just sit and listen, it's likely that your plans may include activities that req...
252: Where Discipline Reform Has Gone Wrong (in Some Schools)
While the shift to restorative practices should be improving student behavior, that's not happening in every school. Some teachers say the discipline...
EduTip 30: Do something after formative assessments.
If I give my students an exit slip to check their grasp of a particular skill, and a third of them don't do well, just moving forward with my original...
251: Holding Students Accountable in the Age of AI
Since ChatGPT's arrival in late 2022, the top concern I've heard from teachers is that students will stop doing their own writing and rely entirely on...
EduTip 29: Build relationships with a spreadsheet.
Lots of teachers give students some kind of questionnaire at the beginning of a school year to get to know them, but what do you do with that informat...
250: Nine Easy Ways to Add Retrieval to Your Lessons
Retrieval practice is the act of trying to recall something you learned from memory by doing things like taking a test or using flashcards instead of...
249: A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning
We talk a lot about differentiating instruction, measuring growth, and preparing students for the real world, but how do you actually do that in a sys...
248: Why grammar instruction stinks, and how we can change that
Grammar has never been an especially popular area of study, and teaching it has frustrated many English teachers throughout time. It seems like no mat...
EduTip 28: Add gestures to strengthen learning.
Research shows that adding physical or hand gestures to a learning experience, especially ones that have some meaning to them, can significantly boost...
247: Five Listening Skills That Will Improve All of Your Relationships
This episode is for everyone and anyone. In it, I'll share five techniques that will encourage any person you're talking to to go a little more in-dep...
EduTip 27: Get Better Participation with Icons
If you're doing an activity that requires students or participants to volunteer to participate, this is a fun way to choose them.
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246: How to Keep Teaching Well When DEI is Under Attack
Recent executive orders have launched an attack on teaching for diversity, equity, and inclusion. How do you teach at this precarious time in history...
245: A System for Meeting Absent Students' Needs
You can create the most spectacular lesson plans, but if all of your students aren't in the room when those plans are executed, catching them up can b...
EduTip 26: Give lots of quizzes.
One of the best-kept secrets in teaching is that frequent quizzing leads to better learning. If you can incorporate more ungraded or low-stakes quizze...
244: Three Ways You May Be Cognitively Overloading Your Students
When we make certain choices, often without even realizing it, we can turn a teaching moment from one that should be clear into one that's confusing....
EduTip 25: Use neutral language to keep things cool.
In a classroom that is emotionally "cool," no one is preoccupied with any kind of anger, hurt feelings, anxiety, or fear, and this frees them up to co...
243: Small Changes to Make Your Classroom More Neurodiversity-Affirming
As our understanding of the human mind gets more sophisticated and nuanced, we're learning how to identify neurodivergence, how to appreciate it, and...
EduTip 24: Use "I" statements to promote your teaching ideas.
As you move through your career, you'll discover new ways of doing things that you're excited about — so excited that you want to share them with coll...
242: How to Do a Close Reading Lesson in Any Subject Area
To become skilled readers, our students need reading instruction in all of their classes, not just English language arts. But if other subject-area te...
EduTip 23: Calm an out-of-control class with a notebook.
When student behavior starts driving you bananas, and you feel like you're going to yell, this simple notebook technique can regulate your nervous sys...
241: Six Tech Tools to Try in 2025
It's our annual round-up of tools for educators, and this time along with it, we're announcing the launch of the online version of our Teacher's Guide...
240: When Your Classroom Management Goes Off the Rails
It can happen to the best of us — classroom management deteriorating over time. Don't despair! By figuring out where the problems are, you can turn th...
239: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Multitasking in School
Multitasking isn't great for our brains, it compromises our mental health, and ultimately it doesn't even work, but that doesn't stop many of us from...
238: How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom
For many this week, the discomfort and pain of living side by side with people who see the world so differently from us has hit hard. But this is wher...
237: Curating a More Inclusive Library
Books are one of the most powerful ways to learn about others and about ourselves. But for that learning to happen, we need a wide range of stories th...