Season 1

Grey Nakayama has been a High School math teacher, working with advanced levels of Math, for 26 years. She is an enthusiastic cheerleader for ClassCalc, saying that it has made both her and her students lives easier and learning better. …

Elizabeth Yarnell devotes her passion for story, movie-making and engaging the most reluctant learners to a tool that can bring life and excitement into pretty much any content area and topic. Resources: Connect to Digistars Make a Movie Workshop See …

Tamara Speidel, principal of Buffalo Trail Elementary School in Cherry Creek Schools uses Class Composer to guarantee that every student has other students like them in their class each year. She loves Class Composer for its ability to help guarantee …

Darnell Jenkins shares how he uses Figure Math to engage high school students with different learning styles as they become more proficient in not only solving equations, but also exploring, collaborating, creating and evaluating math together. Resourc...

Teresa Gonzalez shares how SEL Adventures supported the turn around of a challenging class, and helped students learn how they learn best through the motivation of this online game. Resources: Connect to SEL Adventures

David VanSicklen, Advanced Learning Specialist in the Middleton Cross Plains School District in Madison, WI, shares his affinity for the app Seesaw for younger elementary students. He says Seesaw has "unlimited possibilities." Resources: Connect to Se...

Sonja Herring from Cresthill Middle School in Douglas County, Colorado shares how she uses TCI's Geography Alive's Map Labs to make geography learning active, relevant and engaging for middle school learners. Resources: Connect to TCI's Social Studies ...

Kathy Zaleski shares how she uses Connection Circles to build community in her classroom, which she learned from the Longmont Community Justice Center. She discusses how restorative practices are alternatives to traditional discipline, and shares the fo...

Today on the show we veer away from discussion of a curriculum product to focus instead on a teaching strategy. Learn from Emily Fields in Douglas County, Colorado, how and why she uses Socratic Seminar to teach critical reading & …

Chris Miraglia discusses how he uses Flipgrid in his middle school social studies classroom to give students a voice, and engage 75% of the students who wouldn't normally participate in a classroom discussion. Resources: Connect to Flipgrid

Ashley Cooksey, a school librarian in Arkansas, shares the way that implementing codeSpark in an elementary library taught her how to code right alongside the students, paving the way to her current role as an Instructional Technology Coach and an …

Diane Sweeney from Diane Sweeney Consulting shares how school systems can use the coaching cycles in Student-Centered Coaching to support a successful curriculum implementation.

Serri Mills shares how she found AVID, and found students' stories about AVID so compelling, that she brought it to her entire elementary school and became a "Truly Changed Teacher" as a result.

Rebecca Sklepovich, Director of Curriculum and Instruction at the Denver School of Science and Technology at Green Valley Ranch, shares what she has learned about running a successful curriculum adoption, including how to research and what to look for wh...

Sarah Noble shares how her use of the Facing History and Ourselves curriculum helps her tackle tough issues of race and racism in the classroom, to make sure she doesn't alienate students when reading canonical texts that include dehumanizing language. …

John Nolan from the Alameda Unified School District shares how E.L. Achieve's Constructing Meaning has helped him, for the very first time in his long teaching career, feel like he is EFFECTIVELY meeting his ELL students' English-learning needs. Resour...

John Damaso, English Teacher at Brophy Prep College Prep in Phoenix, shares about how he supports students' vocabulary growth through Membean's individualized instruction, and just how much his students have embraced this online learning program. Resou...

Joe Adrian, veteran teacher in Leander ISD in Austin, TX, shares about how he found AVID early in his career, and has brought it with him to every school and district he's worked, and why.

Roger Chow, former Director of Curriculum and Instruction for Tacoma Public Schools and Executive Director of Secondary Education for Pueblo Public Schools, shares how Read Right helped struggling readers in his districts catch up with the students readi...

Arrupe Jesuit High School Chemistry and Physics teacher, Stephan Graham, shares how he facilitates students' ownership of their learning using the Particle Modeling Curriculum developed by the American Modeling Teachers Association at modelinginstruction...

Tara Gilboa, former Spanish Teacher in Boulder Valley School District, shares how she first discovered Organic World Language in college, and how the OWL approach transforms second language classrooms into lively communities world-wide. Resources: Conn...

Elizabeth Gordon from Stober Elementary in Jefferson County, Colorado shares how she found SHINE from Inside the Greenhouse to address the fourth grade science standards about fossil fuels through a movement-based curriculum that results in a play in a d...

Kelly Yrarrazaval, Counselor from Willard Intermediate School in Santa Ana, California, addresses how Beat The Odds helps her address social emotional learning while also having fun. Resources: Connect to Beat the Odds

Tiffany Syariff shares how Great Mind's Wit and Wisdom has brought deeper reading and writing skills into her classrooms and how her students love the texts and have noticeably improved their writing. Resources: Connect to Great Mind's Wit and Wisdom

Teacher Dave Hancock shares how these step-by-step writing units make writing and revising so concrete for students and easy to implement for teachers. These are sequenced in a way that scaffolds learning in simple, doable chunks. Resources: Connect...

Kodi Kelly, HS teacher in Westminster Colorado, shares how Kagan Cooperative Learning increases engagement, mindfullness, cooperation and deeper thinking with her students.