The ThoughtStretchers Podcast

Drew Perkins talks with three teachers from The Berkeley School, Vanessa DeNino, Tanya Madrid-Campbell, and Jeff Sandler, about their experience and reflections from a recent project-based learning unit they implemented with their students. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: The Berkeley School web site, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Video: Project-Based Learning - 8th Grade Authors and Illustrators Ron Berger Brain Rules Project Zero The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 144 Creating Cultures Of Thinking And Intellectual Character w/ Ron Ritchhart  

Drew Perkins talks with school psychologist Izzy Kalman about his work to help bullied kids better deal with their aggressors and why the "anti-bullying" movement is not helping. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Bullies2Buddies.com Izzy Kalman on Psychology Today How to Bullyproof Your Child – New York Times

Drew Perkins talks with Jennifer Chang Wathall about her concept-based curriculum and instruction and book and how we can use social constructivist teaching to teach math for deeper learning. *note -Jennifer would like to thank the co-authors she collaborated with in writing the Oxford University Press IB Diploma books.  Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Jennifer Chang Wathall's web site @JenniferWathall Jennifer Gonzalez: Cult of Pedagogy The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 162 What Do We Really Mean By “Deeper Thinking And Learning”?

Drew Perkins talks with Janet Tran, Director of Learning and Leadership at the Reagan Institute, about their work to host productive bipartisan conversations about better education policy.  Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Reagan Institute Summit on Education (RISE) DuFour: In Praise of American Educators: And How They Can Become Even Better Listen to Ep. 34 Growing Better Professional Learning Communities With Dr. Richard DuFour Spectrym News Better Angels Learning in Landscapes of Practice: Boundaries, identity, and knowledgeability in practice-based learning Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action  

Drew Perkins talks with Michelle Montgomery of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and student Eric Chai of High Technology High School from the champion MathWorks Math Modeling (M3) Challenge team. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: MathWorks Math Modeling (M3) Challenge web site and on Facebook mathworks.com Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Drew Perkins talks with Kevin Vanzant, history instructor at Tennessee State University, about how he's adjusted his teaching to better engage his introductory history class students. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Kevin Vanzant @ Tennessee State University Quillette: A Professor Speaks Out: How ‘New Left’ Orthodoxy Is Failing a New Generation of History Students The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 115 Let’s Talk About What School Could Be (with Ted Dintersmith) 4 Key Takeaways From “What School Could Be” (Ted Dintersmith's book) The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 154 Depolarizing America Through Inquiry And Critical Thinking The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 162 What Do We Really Mean By “Deeper Thinking And Learning”? Better Angels Heterodox Academy Chloé Valdary @ The New York Times *Also published at TeachThought.com Listen and subscribe on: iTunes Stitcher Podbean PodcastLand YouTube Also available on Google Music for subscribers! Thank You For Listening! Thanks so much for joining us again. Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it. Also, please leave an honest review for The TeachThought Podcast! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and we read each and every one of them. If you have any questions please email us at grow@teachthought.com! Don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates.

Drew Perkins talks with Dr. Tim Simpson about classical and constructivist education and how both rely heavily on inquiry in order to get to deeper thinking and learning.  Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Tim Simpson - Morehead State University Michael Polanyi - Polanyi Society The Tacit Dimension - Michael Polanyi Harry Broudy - The Uses of Schooling Contemporary Perspectives on C. S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man Polanyi and the Secular Age: The Promise of Broudy’s “Allusionary Store” Harry S. Broudy, “Tacit Knowing and the Uses of Schooling”  

 Drew Perkins talks with Colin Seale about his work as founder and CEO of ThinkLaw to help schools teach critical thinking to students. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: ThinkLaw.us @thinkLawUS ThinkLaw on Facebook @ColinESeale Larchmont Charter School  

Drew Perkins talks with Irshad Manjji about her new book and how we might better navigate the landscape of labels in the context of social justice and equity. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: irshadmanji.com @IrshadManji, Facebook, Instagram Book - DON'T LABEL ME: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times Deeya Khan

Drew Perkins talks with neuroscientist and author Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath about his new book and work the science of learning.  Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: @JCHorvath https://www.lmeglobal.net/ Book: Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights From Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science