The ThoughtStretchers Podcast

Drew Perkins talks with Travis Hardy, Director, Programs & Partnerships at Empatico, about their efforts to connect students around the world in ways that highlights our shared humanity.  Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: empatico.org expedition.empatico.org Empatico on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest Visit wegrowteachers.com for more info on our workshops and services.  

Drew Perkins talks with Jonathan Marks, conservative political theorist and professor, about his new book, Let's Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Book: Let's Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education @marksjo1 Jonathan at Commentary Magazine Visit wegrowteachers.com for info on our workshops and services.

Kath Murdoch, an inquiry teaching and learning expert, discusses clarifying misconceptions about inquiry learning. Topics include writing children's books through an inquiry lens, collaborative planning, fostering curiosity, flipping Bloom's Taxonomy, teaching inquiry skills, and the availability of 'The Wonder of Winsome' book.

Drew Perkins talks with educational psychologists Claire McGuiggan and Peter D'Lima about their project called Not The Easy Way, which helps children learn how to face life's challenges in ways that can empower them. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: nottheeasyway.org On Instagram, Twitter, YouTube Visit wegrowteachers.com for more info on our workshops and services.

Drew Perkins talks with world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Wendy Suzuki about her new book, Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion wendysuzuki.com goodanxiety.com Visit wegrowteachers.com for more info on our workshops and services.

Drew Perkins talks with historian Stewart Burns about the life and legacy of educator and civil rights leader Bob Moses. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Union Institute and University Institute for Social Justice (TISJ) at Union Institute & University Algebra Project Young People’s Project (extension of Algebra Project, led by its student alums) Laura Visser-Maessen, Robert Parris Moses (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2016) Barbara Ransby: Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2003) Charles M. Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Univ. of California Press, 1997) Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb Jr., Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project (Beacon Press, 2001) Robert P. Moses et al, Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools (Beacon Press, 2010) Stewart Burns, To the Mountaintop (bio of MLK, 2004, 2018), winner of Wilbur Award (first published by HarperCollins in 2004) Visit wegrowteachers.com for more info on our workshops and services.

Drew Perkins talks with Andrea Keith. Executive Director of Moral Courage Ed and Let Grow, about building independence and resilience and the ability to navigate disagreement and discord productively in children and students. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: moralcourage-ed.org letgrow.org @IrshadManji Visit wegrowteachers.com for more info on our workshops and services.

Drew Perkins talks with Stanley Litow, professor, creator of the P TECH program a new model for high school and college that has been replicated across the US and globally, and author of Breaking Barriers which details the P-TECH model. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: ptech.org Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway From High School to College to Career stanlitow.com Visit wegrowteachers.com for more information on our workshops and services.

Drew Perkins talks with Tom Woelper, Founding Head of the New England Innovation Academy School, about the process and thinking behind their launch. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: neiacademy.org @twoelper Tom Woelper on LinkedIn Me and White Supremacy Visit wegrowteachers.com for more info on our workshops and services. 

Drew Perkins talks with Lenore Skenazy, author of Free Range Kids, about how the overly structured and protected approaches to parenting and education are limiting the potential of children and ways we can course correct for greater growth. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Freerangekids.com Buy the book: Free Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow Letgrow.org Free chapter for educators from Free Range Kids Let Grow School Programs Visit wegrowteachers.com for information on our workshops and services.