By Larry Jacobs Monday’s Podcast was with Jacksonville-area Social Studies Chair Daniel Tobias-Flint of West Side High School who also is the historian for The Round Canopy Parachuting Team; i.e., people who willingly leap out of airplanes while the airplane
Category: Podcast Afterthoughts
Throw Away Your Red Pencil
By Larry Jacobs On February 28, I did a podcast with a returning guest Patti West-Smith from Turnitin, a company known for it’s plagiarism-fighting tools, but really it’s the integrity of the entire education process that matters to them. You can
Selling SEL: The Need for Sharper, Kinder Brains From Pre-K Onward
By Larry Jacobs Social and emotional learning came up on two podcasts that I did today. UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development is pushing SEL training worldwide because they believe from the data that neuroscience proves
Keep Reading Selling SEL: The Need for Sharper, Kinder Brains From Pre-K Onward
Easy as 1, 2… FREE! No More Under-Resourced Schools
By Larry Jacobs It’s all about equity & access. Always is! Getting great educational resources into schools means opening tons of opportunities for every K-12 student ,and there’s nothing worse than an under-resourced school in an ‘education by zip code’
Keep Reading Easy as 1, 2… FREE! No More Under-Resourced Schools
‘MAUS’ Trap: Schools & Books
By Larry Jacobs My podcast with Ms. Jennisen Lucas, Cody WY school librarian and national President of AASL, touched on the controversy surrounding ‘MAUS,” the graphic novel that depicts the Holocaust as mice (Jewish people) vs. cats (Nazis), which was banned from McMinn
Video Gaming Clubs & Social-Emotional Learning
By Larry Jacobs There’s great stuff going on in K-12 education these days. Yeah, there is! If you watch the news, all we hear about in education these days is the crazy stuff. We see parents and administrators who scream
Wanna Be a Superintendent of Schools?
By Larry Jacobs Well, it ain’t as easy as it used to be. Superintendents are quitting in huge numbers these days from all sorts of pandemic pressures. Back when I was a kid, when we wore togas to school and
Special Ed Needs Money & Educators
By Larry Jacobs When Joseph Heller wrote CATCH 22, he never thought it’d apply to special education in 2022, did he? It does. My standing line is that all special education teachers are going to heaven. How’d you like to
Full STEAM Ahead in KCMO
By Larry Jacobs In Kansas City, Missouri, there’s an independent school called The Barstow School that’s working with KC’s Center School District, a district made up mostly of Black and Brown students, according to their delightful superintendent, Dr. Yolanda Cargile.
Great Voices for Pre K-12 Education
By Larry Jacobs Wanna hear some great thoughts by great teachers? Listen to Chris Gleason, a music teacher who is an instrumental music educator at Patrick Marsh Middle School in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. He is the 2017 Wisconsin Teacher of