Fund for Teachers - The Podcast

Reinterpreting the Indigenous Story

When considering what education looked like for members of Native Tribes of North America, the conversation falls along the timeline of pre- and post-colonization. Prior

Breaking the Mold (and the Polar Ice)

Today's episode is a break from our normally scheduled podcast. Because today's guest is breaking the mold of how Fund for Teachers Fellows' engage their s

Talking About a Revolution

Champion of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, Maximilien Robespierre famously declared, “The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of

Braving the Badlands

President Theodore Roosevelt said, "…a special and peculiar debt of gratitude is owing to the men and women who are engaged in teaching, who are engaged in educating the

Defining Democracy

July has been defined by two stories: the World Cup and America’s 250th anniversary. One has reminded us of what unites people across cultures—the thrill of victory, the

Leveraging the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, United Nations member states adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) designed to end poverty, protect the planet, and create a more prosperous future for

Removing Barriers to Learning Through Language

Reidsville, Georgia, is a small town covering just 7.7 square miles, about an hour west of Savannah. According to Local Observer Daily, it is best known as a quintessenti

Tackling Textile Waste with Creativity

The theme of Earth Day 2026 is “Our Power. Our Planet.” According to earthday.org, this theme is “not a political statement, but a commitment to stewardship, resilience,

Remembering the Holocaust through Power of Place

Eighty-one years ago, on January 27, 1945, the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in occupied Poland—a place where more than one million people w

Performing with Play

As the fall semester speeds into winter break, Amanda Hinrichs’ fifth graders at Hebron Avenue School in Glastonbury, CT, are pretty worked up. They’re stamping their fee

Tilling the Soil - A Thanksgiving Episode

In the midst of the Dust Bowl—an agricultural catastrophe that decimated crops and devastated the livelihoods of thousands of Oklahomans—President Franklin D. Roosevelt w

Returning to Retrieve What Was Forgotten

Rudyard Kipling penned the words, “East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet.” Except in the case of Fund for Teachers Fellows Natasha Alston and Denis

Making the Path by Walking

The Way of St. James, perhaps more commonly known as the Camino de Santiago, has been since the 9th century an ambulatory avenue for reflection. The ancient path that str

The Magna Carta and Fund for Teachers

Winston Churchill said, “We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which through the Magna Carta, the Bill o

Tackling Hard History with Eighth Graders

We’re publishing this podcast on the final day of Black History Month. The 2025 theme was "African Americans and Labor," focusing on the significant role Black people hav

Making a Difference For & With Teachers

Internationally renowned environmentalist Jane Goodall said, "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." In 2015,

Live from Two Fellowships: It's Season 5

Welcome to our fifth season of Fund for Teachers: The Podcast. We launched this platform (after buying and annotating the book “Podcasts for Dummies”) when Covid shut dow

Following a Daughter's Example/Fellowship

Teaching is a family business for this mother and daughter. When Daneé Pinckney was a student, her mom, Gail Bowers-Craig, enrolled in night school to earn a degree in ed

Spies Like Us

Virigina Hall studied at Radcliffe College and Barnard College (the women’s colleges of Harvard and Columbia) and spoke three languages. She served as a consular clerk in

Experiencing WWII Death Camps to Empower Students

A 2022 piece by National Public Radio cited Anne Frank as “the most famous young author of all time,” as her diary, translated into more than 65 languages, is one of the