Hosted by Bethany Nelson · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 20 episodes
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This podcast is about the mess we've made of teaching and learning - part information, part rant, and mostly ideas for change; positive, radical, practical, useful ideas for positive, radical, practical, useful change. This is my shoulder to the wheel of the thing I care about.Thanks to Jaylikethealphabet for the use of the song "Bread"Keep up with the conversation:Instagram & TikTok: @educationclusterf_ck
Bethany Nelson hosts Education: a Clusterf_ck in Need of Repair, a education show with 20 episodes published.
This episode, part rant and part philosophy, considers the role of teachers and education in helping kids decide who they want to be and how we help them get there. Not as futureastronauts, sports stars, or influencers,
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This episode was inspired by an article on education in which the words child, student, and teacher were conspicuously absent, replaced by discussion of politics, data and money. What happens to schools when people becom
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Welcome to the looooong awaited return of Education:A Clusterfuck in Need of Repair. Season 2, Episode 1: The Phoenix is about where we are as educators in this most perilous of times. About where I am. It’s about the mo
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The big news about this episode, Off Script: Skin in the Game, is that I’m speaking extemporaneously- no script. We’ll see how it went. And I’m announcing a break until mid-September- a classic summer break from teaching
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This episode completes our exploration of the role of agency, for both teachers and students, as a component of constructivist teaching. With a focus on WHY to do it, HOW to do it, and WHAT stands in the way of doing it,
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Episode 15: Agency, Achievement, more Agency, More Achievement, and so on… Jesse Bastarache returns to the podcast to talk about her theatre class for students with substantial learning needs. By acknowledging and encour
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Episode 14: No One’s the Boss of Me, continues the exploration of constructivism, but through the overlapping lenses of agency, fear and me. Using my experiences as a student, a teacher, and a teacher of teachers to expl
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Making Meaning, One Brick at a Time looks at the importance of the meaning we make from every experience we have and every idea that we come across. Helping students use their own meaning making orientation in schools ca
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Years ago, I toured the Francis W. Parker Charter School when I was looking into creating a school based on constructivist learning, child centered education and multiple intelligences approaches to curriculum. I was tou
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Welcome to Episode 11 of Education: A Clusterfuck in Need of Repair. This episode, Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose: The Hidden Gems of School Leadership, is the third in a 3 episode sequence on School based leadership. pri
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Welcometo Episode 10 of Education: A Clusterfuck in Need of Repair. This episode, Voices from the Field, is the second in a 3 episode sequence on School based leadership- principals, assistant principals, department head
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This episode, At the Heart of the Job: Community and Leadership, explores the establishment and maintenance of community as THE important element in school leadership. What is the actual value added of shared effort and
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On Sunday, January 12, a group of 15 teachers joined me for our first ever Zoom Salon. We talked about the things they know- teaching, learning and education. Entitled Sunday Salon: Educators in Search of Repairs, this e
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This Episode: On a Need to Know Basis, shares the behavior management strategies offered by some listeners, and is a brief reflection on some of the things I’ve learned from teachers over the first 6 episodes. Most impor
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Episode 6 brings our 3 episode arc on Behavior Management to a (temporary) conclusion. Schools talk about student behavior, and behavior management, as though they are a stand alone component of classroom function, an ic
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This episode continues the exploration of kid behavior in schools from Episode #4, and suggests strategies for improving it. Not by creating ever more draconian punishments, but by working with what we know about how hum
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Bad kids or bad schools? This episode explores the roots of kid behavior, not as a manifestation of the child, but as the result of the child interacting with the environment of schooling. Why does it seem to be getting
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Jesse Bastarache, a high school teacher in Waltham MA, shares effective strategies for integrating Social Emotional Learning into her high school theatre curriculum, and reflects on its impact on the students in her clas
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Who decides what we know about education? Right now, it's politicians and mass media who skip depth in favor of catch phrases, facile explanations and assigning blame. If we want to change education, we need to reclaim t
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Trigger warning: explicit language and mention of the disaster Titanic. An introduction to the podcast and "why's" - why this, why now, why me.
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