10 Minute Teacher Podcast with Cool Cat Teacher

Blended Learning Best Practices That Still Hold Up (Recorded 2021) - episode #5 of all time

NUMBER 5 IN OUR COUNTDOWN OF THE TOP 10 EPISODES OF THE FIRST 1,000. This one originally aired in 2021 and has been downloaded more than 25,000 times — the fifth most-lis

How to Teach Writing with Digital Media

Dr. Sarah Levine taught secondary English in a Chicago public school for ten years, where she founded a youth radio program to make writing feel real to her students. She

Neuroscience Research: 5 Ways to Superior Teaching

Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath has lectured at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Melbourne, and has worked with more than 150 schools around the world. In

What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

Mastery learning is the driver's-test rule applied to school: if a student fails the test, they take it again until they pass. Jon Bergmann teaches that way, full time, i

Engage Every Learner: 8 Timeless Classroom Principles #9 Episode (updated for 2026)

Eight ways to engage every learner — recorded in 2021, and every principle still works. This was #9 in our all-time top 10 countdown, and it isn't a ten-minute episode: i

Are You an Upset Teacher? How to Understand What Is Wrong (#10 of all time)

This is #10 in the Top 10 of the First 1,000 — a countdown of the ten most-downloaded episodes in the history of the 10 Minute Teacher, running weekdays through September

AI in Schools: Stop AI Detection, Start Learning Detection

AI with intention. AI with integrity. Is it possible? Tony Frontier, author of AI with Intention, is talking about how we value learning in the age of AI. He shares the l

Academic Integrity: What 22 Confessions Taught a Teacher

Tim Plaehn is a teacher who writes about honor codes. In his writing class last April, he believed he had two students he knew used AI. So, he gave the whole class an opp

How to Build Your Own Data Dashboard: No Coding Required

A.J. Juliani has been leading cohorts of educators and administrators to learn how to build data dashboards that improve student learning. I love how he focuses on the hu

Teaching Creativity: 4 Ideas Every Subject Can Use

Teaching creativity is not an "extra" that is just for art, theater, or woodshop. As teachers, we can learn how the four branches of creativity are applied in math, scien

Student Personal Branding Without Social Media

We all have a reputation, whether we build it intentionally or not. One of my son's favorite assignments from middle school was when a teacher asked him to draw a coat of

AI and Academic Honesty: The Second Crisis in Schools

Honesty. We need to be honest about where we are in education. Whether authentic, true, genuine learning is happening should be the question for all of us in education. N

Teaching Autistic Learners: Listen, Believe, Then Act

Wow, this is a sensitive topic. And remember that every person with autism has a different experience. But Claire O'Neill is a teacher and she's telling her story of scho

AI Agents Explained: What Teachers Need to Know

I find this conversation interesting because it tells a story from when ChatGPT was released about how a college student responded to it. Zach Kinzler was a junior in col

Teacher Burnout: Go 10% Slower and Get Your Joy Back

When you're busy, it can be impossible to see the smoke. The smoke of your own burnout. As a teacher, for so much of my career, I've been busy. There have been seasons wh

Chronic Absenteeism: How to Get Kids Back in School — Episode 974

Chronic absenteeism doesn't get fixed by counting absences. It gets fixed by asking why. Dr. Leah Marsh is Assistant Principal at Niles Middle School in Ohio and one of

Principals and AI: 7 in 10 Are Already In

Only 18% of principals say they feel very confident about leading AI this school year — but 7 in 10 schools are already immersed in figuring it out. SPONSORED: Ellis, a p

What Happens to Your Student's IEP After High School? - Episode 972

Your student has an IEP all the way through high school. Then they graduate — and it doesn't go with them. Dr. Toby Tomlinson Baker was diagnosed with a learning disabili

Free Teacher-Facing AI for Behavior and Learning

Most teachers reaching for AI to help with a struggling student are reaching for the wrong kind of AI. General-purpose chat tools pull from the open internet, they were n

Teaching Kids Boundaries: What to Say in the Moment — Episode 970

Boundaries are not a heavy conversation you need a degree to have. They are small, repeated moments — and the right words handed to a child before they need them. Ashley