This episode’s topic couldn’t be timelier. I have a really enlightening conversation with my guest, Carter Weinstein, who as a high school senior wrote a book to help teens dealing with anxiety, and also to help parents and teachers understand what it’s like for teens to experience anxiety. I thought this would be a a helpful way to honor Mental Health month. We talk about his book and also what factors in education are causing or exacerbating so many mental health issues for students, and what we can do to fix them. Carter also does a great job playing The 5-Minute Game Show. Please remember to vote for your favorite Fauxmercials with this ballot. Contact and Resources: Conquering Fear: One Teen's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety Website: www.carterweinsteinbook.com Instagram: @carterweinsteinbook Facebook: Conquering Fear: One Teen's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety I want to thank Carter Weinstein. And thank you all for listening and caring about education. Please rate and subscribe to this podcast so others can find it!

Since every episode starts with a fauxmercial - a commercial parody about fake educational products we wish were real - So New Lens Ed. and The Arete Institute are honoring these made-up commercials with a real awards show- The Fauxsies. Vote for all your favorites in different categories and enter the raffle to win some great prizes! You can find the ballot here: https://tinyurl.com/FauxsieAwardBallot Or Overthrowing Education The Fauxsies will be broadcast live in August of 2022.

My special guest is an educational tech expert, IT superstar and STEAM teacher, Yossie Frankel (and he’s also my husband!). I finally get to record a conversation about one of the most important changes we should make in education: Cross-curricular subject blending. Yossie and I chat about why it’s so important and how to do it seamlessly (including PBL).  And find out about what Yossie calls, “The Westly Crusher Effect”, my new acronym for all subject blending, and how Yossie’s augmented reality prediction is similar to a Korean Drama plot. Then we play the 5-Minute Game Show that combines fake educational products, puns and famous 80’s movies. Lastly, we make a special announcement – The Fauxsy Awards- a tribute to Overthrowing Education’s commercial parodies will be held in August. Listen for more details on how to vote. My special thanks to Yossie for this episode and all the wonderful ways he makes my life better (It’s our 18th wedding anniversary this week!). Links and resources: PBL Works Catlin Tucker, Blended Learning expert Looking to learn more about how to incorporate and integrate cross-curricular learning, great tech tools and/or PBL with customized workshops, courses, or coaching? NewLensEd. Overthrowing Education swag

In honor of May being Mental Health Awareness Month, I invited longtime educator and author, Deborah Farmer Kris as my guest to offer organic and meaningful ways to integrate SEL through cultivating awe, generating play-based learning and other seamless paths. This is also a great episode for parents, so please pass it on! And you won’t want to miss Deborah’s victorious The 5-Minute Game Show. My special thanks to Deborah Farmer Kris for being my guest and to Yossie Frankel for once again lending his awesome announcer voice for the Edu-Play-Arama fauxmercial. Don’t forget to check out the Overthrowing Education merch! Resources and Links: Parenthood365 I Love You All the Time You Have Feelings All the Time Mindshift PBS Kids Hadley Hooper’s Illustrated Picture Books Free Spirit Press Michelle Borba - Thrivers

In this episode, the tables are turned.  I was a guest on Shane Lawrence’s The Ed Podcast and we talked about so many important ways that we can begin to really overthrow education for the better including inquiry and game-based learning, authentic creative assessments and why I compare traditional education to a rotary phone and what it’s going to take to upgrade to a smart phone (metaphorically speaking). When Shane interviewed me, it was at the beginning of 2020 and it aired on March 5th of 2020 (Cue ominous music). Needless to say, much has changed since then. You know many about the big changes, but I also update you on what’s up with me. Lastly, I’ve got a really fun and exciting announcement coming up in May about the fauxmercials. So, stay tuned! I want to especially thank Shane Lawrence for lending me this episode and his voice for the fauxmercial! And also thank Yossie Frankel for lending his voice as well.   Links and Resources: The Ed Podcast Shane’s Twitter: @theedpodcast New Lens Ed. – See my workshop, courses and more. My Twitter @BatshevaFrankel Lenses of Questioning Self-Paced Course Qualia: The School for Deeper Learning

Jacob Johnson, aka Grade Slayer shares his continuing journey on going gradeless and gives help for any teacher who wants to start. This is my fourth episode that deals specifically with going gradeless or ungrading and each episode adds a different dimension which brings more to the conversation- one of the most important conversations in education right now. And of course, at the end of our discussion, Jacob is subjected to The 5-Minute Game Show. The fauxmercial is a parody of those old record compilations commercials, and the incredibly talented Barbara Heller was kind enough to record the songs for me. And she actually recorded longer versions and even made-up some verses. Unfortunately, the fauxmercial was already getting long so I had to edit them down. However, Barb has such a stellar voice that I knew I had to put the long, unedited version at the end of the podcast. My special thanks to Jacob Johnson and to my fauxmercial helpers, Barbara Heller, Yossie Frankel and writer and Assistant Producer, Eve Hirschman. Don’t forget to check out the Overthrowing Education swag on the website. Links and Resources: Jacob on Twitter Ungrading blog post by Susan D. Blum Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) by Susan D. Blum Can Skateboarding Save Our Schools? TedX talk by Dr. Tae

On this episode I welcome back amazing educator and author, Matt Miller. After this episode, check out his appearance way back on episode 10. He is truly one of the best resources for teachers out there, and he again shares some of his wisdom, techniques, and tech tools to take your teaching to the next level no matter where you are in your career or what you’re teaching. Check the links below for great resources! Please share this podcast with every educator and parent you know! And don’t forget to order your Overthrowing Education swag. I’d like to give special thanks to Matt Miller for joining me again, and to Rabbi Yonah Bookstein and Yossie Frankel for lending their voices to the Levelevator fauxmercial.   Links and Resources: Ditch That Textbook site Ditch That Textbook courses Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit My guest blog for Matt, 10 Amazing Assessment Ideas Matt’s books

Shane Lawrence, veteran educator, and the long-time host of The Ed Podcast shares some wisdom he has learned and gained from all of the educators on his podcast over hundreds of episodes as well as his students. It covers both bigger picture and  lot of practical ideas. Because Shane teaches, among other things, film studies and film production we talk about ways to incorporate filmmaking into any subject, and after our interview, I share more ways to use video making in your class. Also, you won’t want to miss the film-themed The 5-Minute Game Show written by associate producer, Eve Hirschman, because Shane totally nails it!   Links and Contact Information: Shane's Twitter and Instagram: @theedpodcast Shane's Email: theedpodcast@gmail.com The Ed Podcast Episode 134 on The Ed Podcast with Batsheva  Batsheva@newlensed.com New Lens Ed. Shop for Overthrowing Education swag 

For this series, on each mini-episode, I share one quick idea that can be applied to any subject. Some of them you may have already mastered, or maybe just tried once, or hadn’t even thought about yet.   Today’s DISCOVER assessment idea is a riff on a really fun improv game called Sports Announcers. Need help getting started? Wanna share something cool your students have done? Any questions? DM me on Twitter @BatshevaFrankel or IG @Batsheva.Frankel See New Lens Ed. for more information about great assessments.  

On this episode I have an incredibly insightful and super practical conversation with veteran educator and author Katie White. Perhaps if every educator put student-self assessment in the easy to implement way Katie describes, we would raise the level of learning %100, as well as raising the level of joy in learning for students. I want to welcome back my new associate producer, Eve Hirschman to the show. If you are a long-time listener or you’ve dug back into older episodes, which I highly recommend, you might remember that Eve wrote and co-wrote some of the early fauxmercials and game shows. I was finally able to coax her back to take on even more behind the scenes work along with writing. In fact, in this episode, she wrote the Right Track fauxmercial and The 5-Minute Game. Links and Resources: Contact Katie: Twitter: @KatieWhite426 Instagram: @softedgedlearning Email: k.white@sasktel.net Website: www.kwhiteconsulting.com Books available on Amazon: Softening the Edges: Assessment Practices that Honor K-12 Teacher and Learners Unlocked: Assessment as the Key to Everyday Creativity in the Classroom Student Self-Assessment: Data Notebooks, Portfolios and Other Tools to Advance Learning Katie’s new book: Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Assessment and Grading by Nicole Dimich, Cassandra Erkens, Jadi Miller, Tom Schimmer and Katie White (released April 2022, available for pre-order) Overthrowing Education Swag Shop Find out more about Batsheva’s Lenses of Questioning online - at your own pace- course.