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Mr. Clarke After Dark

Welcome to the “Mr. Clarke After Dark” podcast with host Lucas Clarke, an educator determined to move away from recycled professional development and engage in more nuanced, personable, and relevant conversations for learning.Each week, Mr. Clarke unpacks the inner workings of the classroom and learns out loud with educators, politicians, comedians, and other field experts of all shapes, sizes, and burnout levels. Whether they have been in the trenches of their profession for five months or fifty

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63:32

#066 - Dr. Ken Brien | Teacher Status Games and How...

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/10/15

Ken Brien is currently a Professor at the University of New Brunswick with a focus on Educational Leadership, Parental Involvement in Education, and Educational Governance. On the episode, Ken and I discuss Administrative Theory and what that actually means, the crossover between business and educational leadership, the importance of accurately defining your clientele, the unwritten status games in education and how to navigate it, how to know you are ready for Graduate school and what profes...

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29:12

Mr. Clarke Think-Aloud #1

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/10/12

Hello friends, I am trying out a new segment of the podcast here where I do a solo episode to share some thoughts, tips I have learned, stories from school and my new gig, and share some nerdy stuff eventually as well. On this episode I discuss what I am learning in my new Academic Support Teacher role, what I have been doing in the role so far and what I am aiming for it to become, the story of finding the first mouse in my house, the weirdness of being someone's neighbor, an embarrassing ba...

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60:28

#065 - Nancy Chung | Ethical AI, Travel, and The...

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/10/08

Nancy Phung is currently in her 28th year of teaching, is the host of The Schoolyard Podcast, and is based out of California. On the episode, Nancy and I discuss actually enjoying virtual teaching, hating listening to ourselves on the mic, questioning if AI in the classroom is ethical or not and insights onto how to use it effectively in the classroom, BookBag Tours and the unexpected travel opportunities we have both received in teaching, seeing some of her former students get married to one...

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80:35

The Fort McMurray Educational Support Staff Strike &...

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/09/30

Danielle Danis is currently an Educational Assistant and President of CUPE Local 2559 which represents more than 500 members in the Fort McMurray area. Much has taken place with their strike processes over the past six months and in this episode, we go deep into the negotiation timeline, the recent moves made by Danielle Smith to force them back into work, comments made by trusted leaders in the community degrading their position and how they have responded, how the wages for EAs and Custodia...

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62:33

How to Find Media You Can Trust | Carl Azuz

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/09/24

Carl Azuz is most well-known for his years hosting CNN10 and has just recently gone Independent with The World from A to Z with Carl Azuz. On the episode, we discuss him initially starting off with CNN, his punthusiastic personality, making it the goal to not spend too much time on a story in his episodes to help spark opportunities for nuance within his viewers, the difficulty in making extremely emotionally reactive stories objective, the differences between critical thinking and being skep...

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49:24

Reforming Education One Cult at a Time | Jennifer...

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/09/17

Jennifer Gonzalez has been involved in Education both as a teacher and the creator of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast, Blog, and Professional Development hub. On the episode, Jennifer and I discuss her leaving teaching and staying in Education with the origins of Cult of Pedagogy, how her vision for it has developed, gaining National Board Certification and encouraging others to do so, the difficulties of providing specific PD to a general audience, how easy it is to stay the same in your approa...

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63:12

Woodshop Wonder Woman | Brittany Loder

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/09/10

Brittany Loder is a Secondary Humanities and CTS Teacher has been over the profession for more than a decade. On this episode, we discuss assumptions made about female teachers in Trades education and how they are treated, close calls in the shop, the utility of threats, my lack of education in my wood shop career, setting clear expectations in a dangerous environment, why stay teaching trades when you can practice the trade and make way more money, Women Building Futures, why women excel in ...

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74:01

Rapture Fear & Teaching Revelations | Steph McFarland

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/09/03

Steph McFarland is a Secondary Humanities & CTS Teacher who has been in the profession for eighteen years. On this episode, Steph and I discuss our religious upbringing and rapture fear (if you know, you know), how my friends used to pay me to swear, sitting with your first year teacher self, how you can get lost in the busyness of a big school, yearbook creation struggles, being the biggest personality in the room if you teach junior high, feeling zero shame in the creation of my staff s...

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58:25

Do as I Say, Not as I Do | Sobhi Hamed

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/08/25

Sobhi is currently a Vice Principal and has been in the profession for close to a decade. On this episode, we discuss leadership philosophy, the ingredients of a good mentor, what makes educational leadership an art, giving and receiving positive criticism, the ‘do as I say, not as I do’ mentality in teaching, not stressing too much about student tardiness, trying not to helicopter your adult students, the rise of people going to job interviews with a parent, the generalities of educational k...

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56:48

Side Hustle Specialist | Sobhi Hamed

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/08/25

Sobhi Hamed is currently a Vice Principal and has been in the profession for close to a decade. On this episode, we start deep going into how he has grown in his relationship with his children, how he has negotiated professional development with spending time with family, giving up extra-curriculars in pursuing higher positions, the beauty of watching your kids experiencing new things, email addiction, teacher side-hustles, tense conflicts with students, being a relationship building legend, ...

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12:47

Season 2 Preview! | Yours Truly - New Episodes August...

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/08/20

Hello friends!! It has been a wild summer so far and just checking in with an update for the future of the show, the variety of guests you should expect to see, an update on my new gig, some of my favorite guests over the past year, the troubles with creating a podcast for teachers, incorporating the audience more, who I will be launching season two with, and, much more! Thank you for tuning in and I hope you are as excited as I am for new episodes coming August 27th!Thoughts shared on the po...

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51:05

Retirement, Cat Cuddling, and Setting Boundaries |...

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/06/25

Jessica Hawk (@myteacherface) has been in the profession for more than thirty years and has recently retired this past WEEK! On this episode, Jessica and I discuss her future as a cat cuddler, choosing to not have children, how the nightmares from her first year of teaching still haunt her, how teachers guilt one another, cutting down the mental load on her students, setting boundaries with her school, GoGuardian, how to retain teachers, and, much more. Thoughts shared on the podcast are...

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42:26

Authenticity Over Appropriation | Daniele Boleli

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/06/18

Daniele Boleli is a History Professor based out of Los Angeles, California and is the host of the History on Fire Podcast. Daniele has also made several appearances on the Joe Rogan Experience and has worked closely with esteemed historical podcaster Dan Carlin. On top of that, he is also the holder of the greatest accent of all time. On this episode, Daniele and I discuss the oddities of personally connecting to history, the silliness of cultural rivalries, how he formulates his history podc...

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39:11

Implementing Behavior Systems | Mandy Grass

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/06/10

Mandy Grass is a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst and hosts the popular social media parenting page @thefamilybehaviorist on Instagram. On this episode, Mandy and I discuss wholeheartedly supporting rewards for kids, the symptoms of ADHD in undiagnosed adults, the importance of tiered interventions, visual schedules and reinforcement systems for children with ADHD, the disconnect between teachers and parents over creating consistency at home and in the classroom and how to handle the awkward...

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54:25

Racism, The Ku Klux Klan, and Productive Conversation...

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/06/04

Daryl Davis is a Musician and is commonly known for his efforts combatting racism by engaging members of the Ku Klux Klan and inadvertently convincing hundreds of members to leave and denounce the organization as well as other forms of political and racial extremism. On the episode, Daryl and I discuss his pursuit to answer how people are able to hate people they do not know, his initial experiences learning what racism, fostering harmony in society, how some members he would sit with had nev...

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71:34

Cookies & Comedy | Episode #53 - Andrea Caspari Spears

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/05/28

Andrea Caspari Spears (@caspariland) is a Teacher and Stand-Up Comedian who has been in the profession for more than twenty years and is a regular on the Bored Teachers Comedy Tour. On the episode, Andrea and I discuss the horrors of corporate gigs and doing comedy for people eating cookies and drinking orange juice, getting involved with Bored Teachers, believing you can be funny, crushing on Robin Williams, performing in front of five thousand teachers, the public hunger for live entertainm...

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52:57

Avoiding Confrontation | Episode #52 - Jason Hamilton

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/05/21

Jason Hamilton is currently in his first year in the profession and he is currently teaching Jr. High Social Studies and is one of the main coaches for the hockey program at his school. On this episode, Jason and I discuss reading our dad’s energy which contributed to our chill personas, not wanting to do labor jobs, his experience working as a labourer and thinking hell no, the trade of passion for pay in some jobs, not really wanting to hang out with your work friends after seeing them all ...

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58:59

What is Evil? | Episode #51 - Dr. Evil Academic...

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/05/14

Cathryn van Kassel is an Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies at Texas Christian University. Her research focuses on how different conceptualizations of evil function in the context of education within and beyond the classroom, with a keen interest in youth conceptualizations as well as a variety of understandings from philosophy, psychology, and social theory. She is particularly enthusiastic about interpretations of evil that implicate ordinary people to uplift pursuits of justice. On ...

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62:52

Site Wife Life & The Francis Five | Episode #50 -...

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/05/07

Mindy Francis is the definition of Jane of all trades and is currently working in her 23rd job as an Educational Assistant. More importantly, she is the mother of five wonderful children of whom I have had the pleasure of teaching a few. On this episode, we discuss her starting her own podcast Site Wife, cultivating a close family, student mental health and how being in Education helps her understand her own kids better, leaving the Mormon church and the challenges that came with it, how she ...

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58:38

Controversy in the Classroom | Episode #49 - Dr....

Mr. Clarke After Dark ·

2024/04/30

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