Sean is quitting...teaching that is.  How did a 17-year career come to an end?  Was it the pandemic, was it the riots, did those things have anything to do with it?  Find out today, in THOUGHT LEADERS.

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Leaving the Classroom

Seamus and Sean welcome back Joseph Ciesielski and new guest, Patrick Britton to the studio to ask the questions; What is TFA? Why is it so polarizing? Is TFA effective? Should we be ok with TFA in our schools?

What's With TFA (Teach for America)?

Join Seamus, Sean, Kerrie, and Jacqui as they offer hot takes on education and technology.  They discuss the freedom of teachers and administrators, overuse of iPads in the classroom, student-to-student sexting issues, the state of technology, and the use of Wikipedia as a source.

EdPOP Summer Sessions Raw 2019

Join Seamus and Sean on summer break at the north shore.  Spanish teacher, Ken, and Band teacher, B.J. join the discussion of hot summer topics such as; How much school time should be devoted to testing? The College board is worth billions so why do they get an army of free teachers to proctor their tests? Do new school leaders have new ideas? What's with the Say Yes to Education initiative? EdPOP's summer membership drive and the Teach better Conference. Why do students stay up so late?

Summer Sessions RAW

On our final episode of the semester, we have an exciting announcement about our membership drive,  we discuss DeVos’ comments about class size in Listener Mail, Sean gives his perspectives on making choices in Thought Leaders, Rose Martin joins us to take a look at the Best Practice book on Journal Club, We examine changing the education paradigm through Design Lab’s X-block in our Case Study and Round Table, and continue discussing the hiring process on EdPOP Extras.

S1E5 Full Episode

Seamus announces the end of the EdPOP semester and explains what to expect for EdPOP’s Summer Sessions RAW.  In addition, there is a very exciting announcement about a giveaway with our membership drive!

S1E5 Chapter 1: Faculty Meeting

Seamus invites his wife, Lauren, into the studio to discuss Betsy DeVos’ comments on class size.  They go further by exploring the idea of using biomimicry to better understand the class size debate.

S1E5 Chapter 2: Listener Mail

Sean gives us another fantastic set of thoughts regarding the overuse of data, choices, and keeping fresh as an educator.

S1E5 Chapter 3: Thought Leaders

Friends of the show, Rose Martin, joins Seamus in the studio to play a little game about making ok classroom practices better by reviewing the book, Best Practice, Fourth Edition: Bringing Standards to Life in America's Classrooms by Steven Zemelman, Harvey "Smokey" Daniels, and Arthur Hyde.

S1E5 Chapter 4: Journal Club

Katharine narrates the curious case of principal Eric Juli’s effort to make for authentic learning and learning-by-doing at the high school level.  Hear what X-block is all about and see what generalizes to your practice.

S1E5 Chapter 5: Case Study & Round Table

Seamus and Sean continue their conversation about the hiring process and interview questions.

S1E5 Chapter 6: EdPOP Extras

This month, we dig into getting the best out of your faculty that you inherit, new resume considerations, top 10 takeaways from the book No-Drama Discipline, a case study on creating relevant advisories, making sure we do the math on school bathroom use policies, and what really motivates teachers.

S1E4 Full Episode

Sean joins Seamus in the studio to discuss your best shot of getting the best out of your inherited staff. Afterward, they dissect a strange but potentially helpful list of things to include on one's resume when looking for a position.

S1E4 Chapter 1: Faculty Meeting

Seamus’ son, Pac helps him review his top 10 discipline strategies from the book No-Drama Discipline; The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. and Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.

S1E4 Chapter 2: Journal Club

Katharine narrates our case study of Principal Michelle Perez’s initiatives to create meaningful advisories to lift social-emotional scores at Cleveland School of Science and Medicine.  Later, we once again welcome Sara Kelly from ELA in the roundtable to lend our perspectives on Principal Perez’s advisory efforts.

S1E4 Chapter 3: Case Study and Roundtable

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