Planning Period Podcast

This is a special episode this week, as I just spent the last 5 days or so in San Antonio, Texas for ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education annual conference. This is Mecca for EdTech, and I have been lucky enough to attend 3 years now.My guest for this week’s episode is Toby Hurst. He is a friend of mine from the same school. We were both able to attend this conference together, and through interviews with him, I was able to capture his experience at ISTE as a first-time

In this episode of the Planning Period Podcast, I interview Gretchen Bridgers of the Always a Lesson Podcast. Gretchen has been a great help to me during my podcast journey, but is also an informed and intelligent educator. Her podcast is all about giving an uplifting message to teachers, and she does not disappoint in this episode.We talk a lot about support, both how there isn't enough, and the ways in which we hope it gets better. Gretchen also gives some excellent advice for how to support

In this episode of the Planning Period Podcast, I interview David Knuffke, the Curriculum Associate for Science and Technology for the Secondary Level in Deerpark, NY (what a mouthful!). David and I have some really interesting discussions about the pressures put on teachers, things like union pressures, district and legal pressures, as well as external social pressures. We also talk about why we don't have more controversial discussions on EdChat, and of course, he answers my three questions.I also

In this episode of the Planning Period Podcast, I interview Assistant Principal, former dean and history teacher, Nicole Mutters. Nicole is a great friend of mine, and we have some equally great discussions about instructional practice. We cover topics such as individualized learning, differentiation, measuring on standard mastery, and more.I do have to apologize for the audio quality. Nicole sounds completely normal (and she says all the profound and interesting things anyways), but my microphone

Episode 3 already. Not sure why, but this feels like a milestone to me. Sure, it's only 3 episodes, but still.Anyways, on this week's episode I interview a good friend of mine, Michael Coleman. We teach Alternative Certification classes to adults together, and he's an excellent Social Sciences teacher. He is also a tech-centric teacher, so not surprisingly, much of our conversation focuses in on educational technology and technology integration. We talk about specific platforms, as well as the

In this second episode of the show, I sit down with Kristen Iannuzzi. She is one of the most powerfully passionate educators I have ever met. She is a former district teacher of the year, chair on the ECET2 committee for our district, and just all around a ball of awesome.Kristen and I cover a few different topics, be a lot of our conversation centers on why young educators don't last, and what can be done about it. We talk about advancing in this career and all the goods and bads therein.You can

In my first episode of the Planning Period Podcast, I interview Jay Cvetko, a veteran teacher now teaching Economics at my school. In this interview we talk about education currently lacking a clearly defined goal, monitoring students, and how we can, or can we, effectively measure teacher performance.Big questions:What is the biggest problem facing education?What is something you do you think all teachers should do?Who is the best teacher you've ever had?Like what you're hearing? Write a review on