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BustED Pencils

BustED Pencils; Fully Leaded Education Talk is a powerful radio show/podcast dedicated to public education. BustED Pencils is known for its commitment to the hard facts with a humorous twist. Hosts Dr. Tim Slekar and Dr. Johnny Lupinacci cover the “real” issues in education. The show establishes an alternative space and discusses education reform from an entirely progressive perspective. Our approach is funny, edgy, passionate, witty and gritty and features an array of guests. BustED Pencils

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38:30

Top 3 TV Teachers! Producer’s Choice Show

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2025/08/15

It's the second ever BustED Pencils Go To Hollywood today as Drs. Tim Slekar and Johnny Lupinacci guest on the Producer's Choice Show to list their top 3 teachers from television. Host Producer Jakob breaks protocol and actually brings a list of his own, adding to the tension and setting the stage for a competition for the ages! Who is your favorite TV teacher of all time? Contact us to let us know after listening to THIS exciting episode of the Producer's Choice Show! The Producer's Choice Show

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32:19

Small Town Education, Big Time Innovation

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2025/08/13

Tonight on Busted Pencils, we’re talking about what it really takes to rebuild public education for the future—especially in rural America. Our guest, Cory Kulig, is the superintendent of the Eleva-Strum School District in Western Wisconsin and one of the visionary co-founders of LIFToFFS, a groundbreaking initiative that’s uniting educators, communities, and service agencies to reimagine what’s possible for students, teachers, and entire hometowns. From bold experimentation to AI-powered learning

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18:01

School’s (Almost) Back in Session- Homeroom

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2025/08/11

It's that time of year once again. The leaves are changing colors, the pumpkins are plopping out of the ground, and Drs. Tim Slekar and Johnny Lupinacci are about to head back to school. Post your classroom decorations, prepare your lesson plans, and get ready to see those smiling faces head back on into schools all across this great country of ours, because school's (almost) back in session!BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded Education Talk is part of Civic Media. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure

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43:00

Weird Science with Ethan Siegel

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2025/08/09

Drs. Tim Slekar and Johnny Lupinacci might be doctors, sure, but it turns out that they aren't experts in everything. In fact, when it comes to science, they're only tied for the 2nd most knowledgeable people on this show. This week they're joined by top science expert Ethan Siegel to discuss those burning science-based questions that have been wafting around the show for the last few months. How do we confront a troubling trend of doubt in science among the public? What impact do our increasingly

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40:00

Tim and Johnny; Young Teachers, Producer’s Choice Show

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2025/08/08

Today on the Producer's Choice Show host Producer Jakob sits down with two very special guests to talk about those formative experiences as educators that made them the celebrity teachers they are today. Drs. Tim Slekar and Johnny Lupinacci will partially listen to questions about their early teaching experiences, both good and bad, and reflect on the lessons they took with them on their teaching journeys. It's another blast from the past as we visit Tim and Johnny; young teachers on THIS exciting

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Misinformation Super Highway- Class in Session

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2025/08/06

Today Drs. Tim Slekar and Johnny Lupinacci take a look at a inflammatory sounding news headline. Want your student loans forgiven? Just join ICE! That's just ridiculous, but is it really that simple? Not exactly. Tim and Johnny have a bit more information about this subject and can't help but find the headline a bit misleading. Get ready to dig a little deeper beyond the surface and into the core of the issue on THIS Class in Session as we travel down the misinformation super highway!BustED

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23:40

Mr. Rogers Got Canceled

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2025/08/04

It's a sad day when even Mr. Rogers has fallen victim to cancel culture. Who canceled him? Was it the woke mob? The lefties? Joe Biden? Surely it was Obama, right? No, none of those guys. Mr. Rogers is getting canceled by the most sensitive snowflakes of all; MAGA. Today Dr. Tim Slekar and his young ward Producer Jakob talk about Mr. Rogers and the value that public programming for kids brings to America and what stands to be lost. Watch the full clip we played here. "Neighbors are people who

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36:30

Adventures of Young Tim and Johnny, Producer’s Choice...

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2025/08/01

We all know Drs. Tim Slekar and Johnny Lupinacci the educated educators, they're beloved teachers and frequent panel guests on the Producer's Choice Show, but fewer knew Tim and Johnny the STUDENTS. Today on The Producer's Choice Show Producer Jakob is taking his guests back in time to the 1900s to explore their own experiences as students and how those events shaped the educators they grew up to be. Let's explore the adventures of young Tim and Johnny on THIS exciting edition of the Producer's

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22:13

Linda McMahon To The Rescue? Class in Session

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2025/07/30

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has released a new Dear Colleague letter with some guidelines for bringing artificial intelligence into the world of education. But wait a second... didn't Linda say she was boarding up that whole Department of Education thing? Are they back? Is this a genuine new direction for AI? Or what? Linda McMahon to the rescue? This is trippy, man. Drs. Tim Slekar and Johnny Lupinacci are here to discuss.BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded Education Talk is part of Civic

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43:00

Campus Freedom vs. Campus Safety

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2025/07/26

Columbia University has agreed to a $200 million settlement with the Trump administration after facing allegations of failing to curtail antisemitism on their campus. This raises an important question; how should college administrators balance protecting students' rights to speak and be exposed to the widest possible range of ideas without allowing those ideas and expressions to spill over into something ugly? When does expression become dangerous? It's a fine line that must be walked. Is the Trump

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33:21

How Can I Become a Teacher? Producer’s Choice Show

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2025/07/25

Do you like showing people how to do things? Are you the helpful sort? Do you get along well with people that are younger than you? Perhaps, then, you would be a good teacher! But where do you start? Today on the Producer's Choice Show your host Producer Jakob has brought in two experts to answer those questions and more as we start at square one and show how any of us can take our first steps to becoming teachers. How can I become a teacher? Well Drs. Johnny Lupinacci and Tim Slekar are here to

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28:20

In A.I. We Trust?- Class in Session

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2025/07/23

Today Dr. Tim Slekar has come to the show with an article showing that folks are feeling a bit anxious about AI. Does this mean that A.I. is making us anxious, or are people anxious about societal expectations and biases around A.I.? Dr. Johnny Lupinacci has a deeper concern; does A.I. further erode trust in the concept of truth? When an A.I. can generate anything, how do we know what is real and what is fake or misleading? In A.I. we trust? Tough questions call for tough educators, and that's

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14:22

The Contract on Education- Homeroom

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2025/07/21

A dastardly cabal of right-wing activists have come up with a new pitch for President Trump to create sweeping changes to higher education. Their goal? Well, their stated aim is to fight the woke mind virus on university campuses. The real plot? Seems to us like they see potential censorship, closemindedness, and politicization and say "Hey, we want that!" It's a rough time to be a thinking-American as Drs. Tim Slekar and Johnny Lupinacci discuss this new right-wing contract on education.BustED

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43:00

Celebrating Teacher-Doctor Joanna

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2025/07/19

It's a exciting day on BustED Pencils as friend of the show Teacher Joanna joins us once again! But she's not just here as Teacher Joanna, no no no. Now she has become Doctor Joanna! *fanfare* But does that mean Doctor Joanna is leaving teaching behind? Not a chance! So stick with us and enjoy this episode of BustED Pencils as Teacher-Doctor Joanna gets Drs. Tim Slekar and Johnny Lupinacci to stop, regulate and listen because she's back with a brand new invention; emphasizing engagement in

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42:00

How Does School Funding Work? Producer’s Choice Show.

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2025/07/18

Have you ever wondered how exactly public schools are funded? Where does the money come from, and why? Today on the Producer's Choice Show your host Producer Jakob has brought in two experts to answer his questions on this important subject. Drs. Johnny Lupinacci and Tim Slekar bring decades of experience as educators to the table, and boy do they have thoughts on our education system! So grab your textbooks, open to page one, and prepare to find out how school funding works on this episode of the

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29:23

Stop, Regulate and Listen- Johnny’s Back with a Class...

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2025/07/16

Yo Pencil Busters, let's kick it. While Dr. Tim Slekar is out on assignment studying the teaching practices of the uncontacted tribes of the Amazon (or he just couldn't make it to the show today), Dr. Johnny Lupinacci and Producer Jakob are running the show. Do you think that teaching is all about rules and enforcement? Alright, stop. It's about collaborating and listening. Dr. Johnny is back with a Class is in Session, because this concept has grabbed a hold of him tightly. He's thinking about

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12:24

Back to School Already? -Homeroom

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2025/07/14

Dread it, run from it, the school year arrives all the same. Dr. Johnny Lupinacci has already spotted school supplies making their return to stores near him! Is it time to go back to school already??? Not quite, but the clock is ticking! Johnny and Dr. Tim Slekar discuss those latter days of summer when teachers start to sniff the return to class a'percolatin' just beyond the horizon in THIS episode of BustED Pencils! BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded Education Talk is part of Civic Media. Subscribe

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43:00

Small Schools and Big Ideas

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2025/07/12

Today on BustED Pencils, Drs. Tim Slekar and Johnny Lupinacci are joined by a very special guest. Rural Superintendent Mike Beighley of Whitehall School District in western Wisconsin has come to tell us about some exciting changes happening in rural schools. Mike and his organization, Liftoffs Learning, are taking a step back from the business-as-usual approach to education and embarking on a bold journey to reshape how schools approach learning. Mike may not represent the largest school district in

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37:00

MAN vs MACHINES, Producer’s Choice Show

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2025/07/11

Last week on the Producer's Choice Show we had two incredible guests battle to see who could answer the most questions about the 4th of July. Much fun was had. BUT today Producer Jakob is having the tables turned on him as HE is put to the test. Who asks better interview questions? Will it be Producer Jakob and the human team? Or will the AI generated questions prove to be too much to handle? Drs. Johnny Lupinacci and Tim Slekar will field both sets of questions and decide once and for all who wins

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26:56

DARE To Stay Off Chat GPT

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2025/07/09

Today Drs. Timothy Slekar and Johnny Lupinacci discuss a recent article by Tim's favorite A.I. commentator Ethan Mollick. The article dredges up a recent MIT study which found that writing performance appeared to dip in users of A.I. assistants like Chat GPT. What's that all about? Do A.I. robot helpers hurt our ability to think on our own? Yes. But what do we think about that? Find out today on this exciting episode of BustED Pencils and DARE to stay off Chat GPT!BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded

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