MindShift Podcast is Back with Season Five!
We’re here just in time to unpack some of the extraordinary circumstances created by emergency distance learning and the COVID-19 pandemic. This season, you’ll hear how teachers and students prioritiz...
7 Juli 20204min
Where Did All These Teen Activists Come From?
Teenagers are demanding to be heard on the issues that matter most to them including climate change, gun control, abortion and immigration. What's different now and what role does public education pla...
29 Okt 201921min
How Art Can Help Center a Student’s Learning Experience
Art has often been relegated as an additional activity in schools. But schools that put art at the center of a child's learning experience through arts integration are seeing kids thrive.
15 Okt 201922min
How Students Would Improve Their School Lunch Experience
Adults have designed how kids eat at school for generations, directing students into single-file lines and seating them at long roll-away tables to eat mass-produced food. This is all about efficiency...
1 Okt 201921min
Teaching 6-Year-Olds About Privilege and Power
Privilege and power play out in the world all around us everyday. And kids notice. First grade teacher Bret Turner has decided not to avoid the difficult conversations and questions his students bring...
17 Sep 201922min
Childhood As ‘Resume Building’: Why Play Needs A Comeback
The kind of free play grown-ups had in previous generations is looked at with nostalgia in today’s era of adult-supervised activities. Children are missing out on the benefits of unstructured play, bu...
3 Sep 201923min
How Can Schools Help Kids With Anxiety?
Anxiety is running rampant in high schools around the country, both rich and poor. The driving factors may be different, but it’s the same lonely, debilitating feeling. It makes it hard for students t...
20 Aug 201926min
MindShift Podcast is Back With Season Four!
We asked what issues matter to you most and we listened. The fourth season of the MindShift podcast dives into the question: How can we bring joy back to learning and teaching?
13 Aug 20194min
