Ed's Not Dead Podcast - Not Your Average Education Podcast

Mar 21, 2018

Welcome to a very special Ed's (Not) Dead short, where we will be focusing on the March 14th "MARCH FOR OUR LIVES" protest. We felt that it was an important enough event and potentially a watershed moment in not only addressing school shootings but also in student activism, that we wanted to hear what participants had...

Mar 20, 2018

How do you implement standards based grading within the constraints of the performance / letter-grade system?

"Become totally evidentiary..."

"Spend...time determining, what is excellent, almost excellent?"

"Am I going to separate out behavior, from mastery?"

Mar 19, 2018

Show Notes:

During today's show, we debrief Betsy DeVos' terribly embarrassing interview on 60 Minutes during our first segment.

• What are the impacts of having an education secretary with such little experience and investment in and around public schools?

In our second segment, we have Tara García Mathewson from The...

Mar 5, 2018

Show Notes:

During today's show, we discuss the Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS shooting during our first segment.

• Despite all the noise on this issue, as educators, how do you think we should improve what we do to keep students and staff safe in our schools?

We discuss the major points in the case, who is on each side,...